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increase harddisk diskspace Failed to suspend LogVol00
by Manu 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Hi, I want to increase my harddisk space and receive the following error # lvextend -l +323 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 Extending logical volume LogVol00 to 48.97 GB device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument Failed to suspend LogVol00 Can you help me please? # fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 54.7 GB, 54759997440 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6657 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 14 5221 41833260 8e Linux LVM #pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hda2 VG Name VolGroup00 PV Size 50.00 GB / not usable 31.81 MB Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 1599 Free PE 323 Allocated PE 1276 PV UUID OcT323-L3sk-r2dX-2qlC-lNuL-slEj-gJF0Ql # vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name VolGroup00 System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 8 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 2 Open LV 2 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 49.97 GB PE Size 32.00 MB Total PE 1599 Alloc PE / Size 1276 / 39.88 GB Free PE / Size 323 / 10.09 GB VG UUID AeMGtt-Ieic-q0JQ-91LC-38Am-HCD5-sO4tle # lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 VG Name VolGroup00 LV UUID FC0PHC-NNNS-ZRTB-HVCx-gGKg-f3vk-5qzbn1 LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 38.88 GB Current LE 1244 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 VG Name VolGroup00 LV UUID cnhEpj-deSS-3nPr-lVfE-mzZ4-4dLH-tTqzQR LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 1.00 GB Current LE 32 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:1

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Grep: show me this line and the next N lines?
by Dotan Cohen 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Can grep show the matching lines and the next N lines after a match? For instance, I have a config file wit hthe following text: [Tag h1] foreground=#2e5a03 underline=double indent=0 weight=PANGO_WEIGHT_BOLD scale=2.25 I would ideally grep on "[Tag h1]" and have grep display the match and the next 5 lines so that I see all the content of the h1 section. Can this be done? Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com

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Problem changing server on a LAN
by Timothy Murphy 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

I'm having great difficulty trying to change server on my home LAN. At present 192.168.2.2 is my server, running CentOS-5.6 and connecting to an ADSL modem. I want to change server to another CentOS machine, 192.168.2.5 . The problem is that I cannot get the computers on the system to forget the old server, even when it is completely disconnected, and the new server is connected to the modem. It seems extraordinarily difficult to get rid of the link to the old server. Even when all the machines are re-booted they still want to give 192.168.2.2 as their default gateway. Is this a problem often met in this kind of situation? I'm wondering if it would be simpler to give the old address to the new server? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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/etc/security/limits.conf : rss
by Christophe Caron 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Hello, I run CentOS 5.6 on a Dell PowerEdge R815 with 256 GB of RAM. We use Sun Grid Engine to schedule jobs on this node. I want to limit the memory usage about 150 GB per process. So i use the /etc/security/limits.conf configuration file. I test this configuration with some tools with a lower GB limit (about 2 or 4 GB), and it works ! But, at least one process (oases - a bioinformatics tool) bypass this limitation and use always 240 GB of memory (the last run) !! /etc/security/limits.conf ... # * hard rss 150000000 * soft rss 150000000 # * hard as 150000000 * soft as 150000000 # ... # uname -r 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5.centos.plus Any idea ? Thanks -- Christophe Caron Station Biologique - Service Informatique et Génomique christophe.caron(a)sb-roscoff.fr Place Georges Teissier - 29680 Roscoff tél: +33 (0)2 98 29 25 43 / tél: +33 (0)6 07 83 54 77 fax: +33 (0)2 98 29 23 24 Analysis and Bioinformatics for Marine Sciences Platform http://abims.sb-roscoff.fr/

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php 5.3 packages
by Jakub Jedelsky 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Hi all, I want to install php 5.3 (php53-* packages) on customer's server with Centos 5.6 but I see that there is only a few packages. Is there any repo with compatibile packages (for php 5.1 I we can usually use rpforge)? Thnaks, JJ

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Bastille-linux
by Bob Hepple 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Has anyone got Bastille-linux running on Centos-5.6? http://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net claims RHEL5 support but I ran into problems running it on a Centos 5.6 test system. First I had to "ln -s /usr/lib64/Bastille /usr/lib" just to get it to run at all. Then I tried faking /etc/redhat-release with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 ... but I get this (why would it want "HPSpecific.pm" !!!???: [root@slice244:sting ~]# bastille --assessnobrowser ERROR: Couldn't determine Red Hat version! Setting to 9! ERROR: Couldn't determine Red Hat version! Setting to 9! NOTE: Using audit user interface module. Can't locate Bastille/API/HPSpecific.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl//5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/ /usr/lib/Bastille /opt/sec_mgmt/bastille/lib /opt/sec_mgmt/bastille/lib/API /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8) at /usr/lib/Bastille/IOLoader.pm line 8. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/Bastille/IOLoader.pm line 8. Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/InteractiveBastille line 414. Trying to force with "--os RHEL5" just gives the usage message!!! <winge> doncha just hate that? wouldn't hurt the developer to tell you what's actually wrong rather than just the blummin usage message!!! </winge> Usage: bastille [ -b | -c | -x ] [ --os <version>] [ -f <alternate config> ] bastille [-r | -l | -h | --assess | --assessnobrowser ] -b : use a saved config file to apply changes directly to system -c : use the Curses (non-X11) GUI, not available on HP-UX -h : this help -f : populate answers with alternate configuration file -r : revert Bastille changes to original file versions (pre-Bastille) -l : list the standard config file(s) (if any) that matches the last run config --os version : ask all questions for the given operating system version. e.g. --os HP-UX11.11 -x : use the Perl/Tk (X11) GUI --assess / -a : run Bastille in assessment mode, generating a report and displaying it in a browser --assessnobrowser : run Bastille in assessment mode, generating a report with no browser TIA -- Bob Hepple <bhepple(a)promptu.com> ph: 07-5584-5908 Fx: 07-5575-9550

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Eliminating duplicate photos
by Timothy Murphy 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

I've seen fslint and fdupes recommended for this in CentOS, but neither seem to be available as packages. Is anyone using either under CentOS-5.6? It seems that they are available in the rpmfusion-free repository, but as far as I can see this is not functioning with CentOS at present. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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Trying to understand USB HD configuration
by Todd Cary 04 Jun '11

04 Jun '11

I am trying to understand how my USB drive is setup in Centos 5.5 -- especially since I made a mistake of backing up to it when it was not turned on. The USB drive is accessed as /media/disk. However, when I did a backup WITHOUT the drive turned on, the data was put into the directory, /media/disk. Now, when I turn on the USB drive (it is self-mounted in 5.5), the USB drive has been assigned "disk-1" -- understood. What I am missing is the "table" that contains the information pointing to USB drive, disk-1. I would like to reset the table so that "disk" is the USB drive and delete the data that is now on my main drive. Hopefully I have explained the situation properly. Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com

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Unable to mount Centos 5.6 Server via nfs4 - Operation Not Permitted - MADNESS!
by RILINDO FOSTER 04 Jun '11

04 Jun '11

After getting a reasonably configured NFS4 setup working on my Scientific Linux server, I spent a majority of my evening trying to do the same with my Centos 5 box, with fruitless results. Most attempts to mount that server returns the following message: [root@sl01 log]# mount -t nfs4 192.168.15.200:/opt/company_data /mnt mount.nfs4: Operation not permitted As nearest as I can tell, I was able to setup the ports correctly in /etc/sysconfig/nfs [root@centos sysconfig]# grep -v \# nfs RQUOTAD_PORT=875 LOCKD_TCPPORT=32803 LOCKD_UDPPORT=32769 MOUNTD_PORT=892 STATD_PORT=662 As well as my /etc/services file: # Local services rquotad 875/tcp lockd 32803/tcp lockd 32769/tcp mountd 892/tcp statd 662/tcp rquotad 875/udp lockd 32803/udp lockd 32769/udp mountd 892/udp statd 662/udp [root@centos sy rpcinfo -p seems fine (although I understand that is not relevent with nfs4) [root@centos sysconfig]# rpcinfo -p program vers proto port 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper 100024 1 udp 662 status 100024 1 tcp 662 status 100011 1 udp 875 rquotad 100011 2 udp 875 rquotad 100011 1 tcp 875 rquotad 100011 2 tcp 875 rquotad 100003 2 udp 2049 nfs 100003 3 udp 2049 nfs 100003 4 udp 2049 nfs 100021 1 udp 32769 nlockmgr 100021 3 udp 32769 nlockmgr 100021 4 udp 32769 nlockmgr 100021 1 tcp 32803 nlockmgr 100021 3 tcp 32803 nlockmgr 100021 4 tcp 32803 nlockmgr 100003 2 tcp 2049 nfs 100003 3 tcp 2049 nfs 100003 4 tcp 2049 nfs 100005 1 udp 892 mountd 100005 1 tcp 892 mountd 100005 2 udp 892 mountd 100005 2 tcp 892 mountd 100005 3 udp 892 mountd 100005 3 tcp 892 mountd And services are running: [root@centos sysconfig]# service nfs status rpc.mountd (pid 6321) is running... nfsd (pid 6318 6317 6316 6315 6314 6313 6312 6311) is running... rpc.rquotad (pid 6306) is running... [root@centos sysconfig]# service nfslock status rpc.statd (pid 6248) is running... [root@centos sysconfig]# service portmap status portmap (pid 6210) is running... And firewall is open both ways: [root@centos sysconfig]# iptables -n -L | grep -E '(2049|111|32759|32803|662|875|892)' ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:111 ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:2049 ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:2049 ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:875 ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:875 ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:875 ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:892 ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:662 ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:32803 ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:32803 ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:662 ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:892 ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:111 ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:111 ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:111 ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:2049 ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:2049 ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:32803 ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:32803 ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:662 ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:662 ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:892 ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:875 ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:875 I am about to mount via NFS3, so that part I know works. Is there a known problem with NFS4 on Centos (or Red Hat) 5? Or am I missing something someplace? - Rilindo

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fdupes
by Scott Robbins 04 Jun '11

04 Jun '11

Sorry, accidentally deleted the previous message so have to write this as new, rather than reply. At any rate, my CentOS 5.6 installation shows fdupes as available through rpmforge. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Angel: Acathla turned to stone, as demons sometimes do, and was buried where neither man nor demon would want to look...unless, of course, they're putting up low-rent housing.

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Re: [CentOS] ClearOS rebuild
by Ian Murray 04 Jun '11

04 Jun '11

> > This week's FLOSS Weekly interview is about ClearOS (audio/video at > http://twit.tv/floss168) Apparently they have taken the CentOS > developer's frequently given advice to go away and do it yourself and > will have a 'ClearOS core' release that is their own rebuild from Red > Hat sources that will be the base for the ClearOS enterprise > distribution instead of relying on CentOS as they have before. Thanks for the link. It makes interesting listening because there are claims that they tried to engage with the CentOS devs to offer support and resourcing, but that relationship was not forthcoming... so they intend to build (as I see it) a direct competitor distribution (i.e. "binary compatible"). Also interestingly, apparently they have recruited help from the SME/Contribs people, so I don't know if that means SME will die because it had precious little resources to start with (and now those resources work for the competition) or SME will still carry on and be rebased on Clear Core. Also stated in the audio is that this was all a direct response to the uncertainties around CentOS. So, it is interesting to see how this is all going to pan out.

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Re: [CentOS] ClearOS rebuild
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 04 Jun '11

04 Jun '11

Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Friday 03 June 2011 16:21:35 Les Mikesell wrote: >> On 6/3/2011 8:57 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: <snip> > So what? Red Hat created a community by beeing free in both senses, and then decided to go commercial at some point. And that hurt the feelings of some minor number of hard-nosed community members. Is that what you are talking about? > > I was around at the time of Red Hat going commercial. I heard about that, <snip> I'm having some problems with the way the conversation is going. RedHat *was* a company; to me, the RHEL was aimed as a wedge, to get into corporate America. For that matter, who started offering their distro of RHEL around then? Why, the same company that offered this new o/s on their brand new product, the IBM PC in 1980: IBM. RedHat, at least, has not taken the path to the Dark Side, as the Other Company did.... mark

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How to set selinux policy "allow httpd_t unconfined_t:shm { unix_read unix_write }; " using an seboolean? (How to get a new seboolean?)
by Aleksey Tsalolikhin 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Hi. I'm trying to get OTRS running on CentOS 5.5 with SELinux enabled, and audit.log / audit2allow tell me I need to add the local policy: #============= httpd_t ============== allow httpd_t unconfined_t:shm { unix_read unix_write }; which I think will allow the httpd access to read and write from shared memory? Is that right? What are the risks involved in opening this? I notice it is denied by the default policy. To simplify configuration management, I would prefer to make this setting using /usr/sbin/setseebool, but I don't see an sebool that deals with shm... How do I request one? (And whom do I ask?) Thanks, -at

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Good book on Linux Admin (Centos 5.5)
by Todd Cary 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

My Admin books are out of date, so I need a new one that contains info about the Linux as in Centos 5.5. I am a "Sunday user"; not one earning a living as an Admin. Recommendations welcomed.... Todd P.S. Current book is "Linux System Administration, Second Edition", by Vicki Stanfield and Roderick W. Smith (Sybex) -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 76, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CESA-2011:0833 Important CentOS 5 i386 kernel Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CESA-2011:0833 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 kernel Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 23:49:24 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:0833 Important CentOS 5 i386 kernel Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110531234924.GA28245(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:0833 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0833.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: dd9aaf9970310600e859b46946b7f2a9 kernel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.i686.rpm 2ed708da836e1463cf46d45e775b592f kernel-debug-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.i686.rpm 026860be5dfce20b21e2aba9f0ea59f7 kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.i686.rpm 408b0d828757b191e35750e4fd3621f3 kernel-devel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.i686.rpm 282d172ca2498e818c6b0570b4ce76b6 kernel-doc-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.noarch.rpm e4acc41b003cf8763c3e277f019581e2 kernel-headers-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.i386.rpm 862d7e1a4118811ae3713dc85ca6b464 kernel-PAE-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.i686.rpm 983ae820419d6e29a0ebb60b77e1193c kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.i686.rpm 259a7846a7325f6815dd91c97e844f8b kernel-xen-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.i686.rpm d5c9e8eb90ab59159cd215ce5e6ffe91 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.i686.rpm Source: 252810602106f6c4851bc3f1c0012a97 kernel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 23:49:25 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:0833 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 kernel Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110531234925.GA28262(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:0833 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0833.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 480a23019f26117cfa6b6bda82c52daa kernel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.x86_64.rpm 0e1756f4c61922ff525768041e93491d kernel-debug-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.x86_64.rpm cdddbc8cb4d0e968326966a84ed8a73c kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.x86_64.rpm 99073c45aab701116866e699c03f0a6f kernel-devel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.x86_64.rpm 131f7868962dc062e16db305980fb97f kernel-doc-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.noarch.rpm 43cf8bb7ece8d55fe6b1dfa08c5591ac kernel-headers-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.x86_64.rpm faee8065fe0158d2d35e55c03141f5b1 kernel-xen-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.x86_64.rpm c569a871fc3b2b84973c45f8d3d58cef kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.x86_64.rpm Source: 252810602106f6c4851bc3f1c0012a97 kernel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 76, Issue 2 **********************************************

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How to format a USB drive?
by Todd Cary 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

I have a usb drive, /media/disk and I want to reformat it. There are several questions that come up: How can I determine the current format? Do I use the mkfs command? Many thanks... Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com

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Restarting a Perl-script (socket daemon) from /etc/inittab
by Alexander Farber 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

Hello fellow CentOS sysadmins, I run a small multiplayer card game with around 500 users at peak times. The client is in Flash and the server is in Perl. The Perl server binds to port 8080, i.e. only 1 instance of it can be started (important detail). The Perl server poll()s TCP-sockets and forks only once - at the startup by calling this method: sub daemonize { die "Can not fork: $!\n" unless defined (my $child = fork()); # the parent should die exit 0 if $child; setsid(); open(STDIN, '</dev/null'); open(STDOUT, '>/tmp/pref.txt'); open(STDERR, '>&STDOUT'); chdir('/'); umask(0); } It runs on CentOS 5.6 Linux / 64 bit, PostgreSQL 8.4.8 and Perl 5.8.8. Because my budget is small and I had enough troubles already, I want to use as little additional software as possible - so that I can change hosters or reinstall my cheapo server quickly. That is why I for example just log to /tmp/pref.txt instead of installing syslog-ng. And that is why I'd like to use /etc/inittab for restarting my Perl daemon. My Perl daemon runs mostly stable, but approx. once a week it can crash with a May 29 11:06:46 myhost kernel: pref.pl[3113]: segfault at 00007fffa21e6fd8 rip 0000003cce274460 rsp 00007fffa21e6fd0 error 6 Since I'm tired of restarting the server manually, I've tried to add it to the /etc/inittab: pref:3:respawn:/bin/su -c '/usr/local/pref/pref.pl' nobody (and I've added a nightly cronjob to "pkill pref.pl" in the hope to refresh perl this way). Unfortunately this does not work as expected - in the /var/log/messages I see that the script is being started again and again every 5 mins: Jun 2 18:55:56 myhost init: Id "pref" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes What am I doing wrong here? I was hoping to being able to use /etc/inittab here, because I remember using it for a similar situation at work few years ago (also with a Perl daemon) and it worked well then... Thank you! Alex P.S. I've also posted my question at http://serverfault.com/questions/276428/restarting-a-perl-script-socket-dae…

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[SOLVED] Re: Capturing ftp reponses
by James B. Byrne 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

On Thu, June 2, 2011 15:23, James B. Byrne wrote: > > However, the first line that I find in the logging file is the > results of the dir command following the user command. Can someone > tell me how I can capture and log the initial response to the ftp > connection? I since discovered that to capture remote host responses one must specify the -v (verbose) option to the ftp client: $ ftp -v host.domain.tld -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Capturing ftp reponses
by James B. Byrne 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

I am writing a script to automatically connect via ftp from a CentOS-5 host to one of our older (non-*nix OS) systems. The only common protocol that the remote host supports is ftp. What I want to do is to capture the initial response that comes back from that host before the user credentials are passed and log this information. I cannot seem to hit upon the right set of redirects to make this happen. In my script I invoke ftp thus: ftp -un "$TARGET_HOST" << EOS >> ${LOGGING_FILE} 2>&1 user $LOGON dir quit EOS When I connect to the host via ftp interactively from a session then I see this: Connected to host.domain.tld. 220 HP ARPA FTP Server [A0012H15] (C) Hewlett-Packard Co. 2000 [PASV SUPPORT] Remote system type is MPE/iX. However, the first line that I find in the logging file is the results of the dir command following the user command. Can someone tell me how I can capture and log the initial response to the ftp connection? Thanks, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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ClearOS rebuild
by Les Mikesell 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

This week's FLOSS Weekly interview is about ClearOS (audio/video at http://twit.tv/floss168) Apparently they have taken the CentOS developer's frequently given advice to go away and do it yourself and will have a 'ClearOS core' release that is their own rebuild from Red Hat sources that will be the base for the ClearOS enterprise distribution instead of relying on CentOS as they have before. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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nfs webroot 403's
by Tim Dunphy 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

hello list!! the reason I'm writing you guys today is that I'm looking to solve an issue I am having with apache on a centos 5.5 box. The situation is this.. I am sharing the webroot for a few sites in a test environment on an NFS share. This is the share: nas2:/mnt/store/web 1.4T 225G 1021G 19% /var/www Everything that is shared from this location on a server called simply web1 403's no matter what document you hit. On another web sever called web2 the opposite is true. Every document you share is correctly served. The error log is located here: ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/jokefire.com-error_log" Yet when I try to generate some activity in the logs by hitting pages nothing turns up in that log. Everything looks correct with httpd -S on both servers. web1: [root@VIRTCENT07:/var/www/html/example.com] #httpd -S [Wed Jun 01 22:14:16 2011] [warn] module php5_module is already loaded, skipping Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/html/example.com/jokefire/project_files] does not exist Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/html/example.com/store] does not exist VirtualHost configuration: wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers: _default_:443 VIRTCENT07.summitnjhome.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:81) *:80 is a NameVirtualHost default server blog.example.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/blog.conf:1) port 80 namevhost blog.example.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/blog.conf:1) port 80 namevhost example.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/jfprod.conf:1) port 80 namevhost example.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/jokefire.conf:1) port 80 namevhost store.example.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/store.conf:1) port 80 namevhost wiki.example.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/wiki.conf:1) Syntax OK web2: [root@VIRTCENT08:~] #httpd -S [Wed Jun 01 21:58:04 2011] [warn] module php5_module is already loaded, skipping Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/html/example.com/jokefire/project_files] does not exist VirtualHost configuration: wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers: _default_:443 VIRTCENT08.testlab.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:81) *:80 is a NameVirtualHost default server blog.example.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/blog.conf:1) port 80 namevhost blog.example.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/blog.conf:1) port 80 namevhost example.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/jfprod.conf:1) port 80 namevhost example.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/jokefire.conf:1) port 80 namevhost store.example.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/store.conf:1) port 80 namevhost wiki.example.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/wiki.conf:1) Syntax OK Here is a listing of the webroot which is identical on both boxes because (as I've mentioned) it lives on an NFS share. [root@VIRTCENT07:/var/www/html/jokefire.com] #ls -l total 15814 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root apache 36 May 30 00:11 blog -> /var/www/html/jokefire.com/wordpress drwxr-xr-x 2 root apache 512 May 31 23:50 bluethundr -rw-r--r-- 1 root apache 0 May 29 09:00 check.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root apache 16 May 29 09:00 forums -> /var/www2/phpBB3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root apache 3 Jun 1 21:19 hi.html -rw-r--r-- 1 root apache 3 Jun 1 21:51 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 root apache 2764167 May 30 00:07 latest.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x 14 root apache 1024 May 29 10:08 mediawiki-1.16.5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root apache 13235937 May 5 01:37 mediawiki-1.16.5.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x 2 root apache 512 May 29 18:42 mkdir drwxr-xr-x 6 root apache 512 May 29 18:52 smarty drwxr-xr-x 4 root apache 512 Feb 11 16:44 Smarty-3.0.7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root apache 135613 Feb 11 17:09 Smarty-3.0.7.tar.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root apache 17 May 30 01:11 store -> /var/www2/magento lrwxrwxrwx 1 root apache 43 May 29 09:03 wiki -> /var/www/html/jokefire.com/mediawiki-1.16.5 drwxr-xr-x 5 apache apache 1024 May 30 01:09 wordpress I'd certainly appreciate any tips you might have. I'm really ripping my hair out over this one! tim

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about postfix
by Alejandro Loayza 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

Hi, Thank you all at first. I've downloaded and installed postfix from CentosPlus couse i needed the MySql support version of postfix, but i need to know if i've could have problems if any new version it's been released from the official mirror of the same pack, how can i handle the updates, witch the best way?. Thank you so much again.

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virt-install hell: how to *force* a local CD-ROM install?
by Robert Heller 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

I have a CentOS 5.6 system with a AMD Sempron(tm) Processor LE-1300 (which does not provide hardware virtualization support, so I can't use the --cdrom option) and I am *trying* to install FC15 as a guest O/S using a local FC15 DVD-ROM image. Everything work until the installer *insists* on firing up the network to get the repo data, etc. I have a *dial-up* Internet connection and this is a *desktop* machine and is thus pretty much anchored where it is. I have googled this, but it seems no one uses local DVD images. (Of cource *everyone* in the world, except for rural America, has broadband.) I was able to install FC15 on a old IDE disk connected via a USB port after booting a burned copy of the DVD. *Everything* needed to install the *minimual* system I want to install is there on the DVD, but I can't seem to get the FC15 installer to believe that. I *don't* want or need the updates at this time (maybe later). Oh, and the virt-viewer is chopping off the right third of the graphical display. Is there any way to fix that? It would let me resize the viewer window and does not provide scroll bars, etc. Or is the FC15 installer having a stupid idea of the virtual machine virtual monitor size? Can *that* be changed (the virtual machine's virtual monitor size)? The command line I am using is: sudo virt-install --name=fc15guest --ram=1024 --os-type=linux \ --os-variant=fedora12 \ --location=/distrocds/Fedora/Fedora-15-x86_64-DVD.iso \ --disk="path=/dev/sauron/fc15guest" -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller(a)deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 76, Issue 1
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CESA-2011:0844 Low CentOS 5 x86_64 apr Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CESA-2011:0844 Low CentOS 5 i386 apr Update (Karanbir Singh) 3. CESA-2011:0843 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 postfix Update (Karanbir Singh) 4. CESA-2011:0843 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 postfix Update (Karanbir Singh) 5. CESA-2011:0838 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 gimp Update (Karanbir Singh) 6. CESA-2011:0838 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 gimp Update (Karanbir Singh) 7. CESA-2011:0845 Important CentOS 5 i386 bind97 Update (Karanbir Singh) 8. CESA-2011:0845 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 bind97 Update (Karanbir Singh) 9. CESA-2011:0841 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 systemtap Update (Karanbir Singh) 10. CESA-2011:0841 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 systemtap Update (Karanbir Singh) 11. CESA-2011:0837 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 gimp - security update (Tru Huynh) 12. CESA-2011:0837 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 gimp - security update (Tru Huynh) 13. CESA-2011:0843 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 postfix - security update (Tru Huynh) 14. CESA-2011:0843 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 postfix - security update (Tru Huynh) 15. CESA-2011:0844 Low CentOS 4 i386 apr - security update (Tru Huynh) 16. CESA-2011:0844 Low CentOS 4 x86_64 apr - security update (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 16:57:35 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:0844 Low CentOS 5 x86_64 apr Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110531165735.GA27023(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:0844 Low Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0844.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 9a426fa964ee1e7d3ec17d994d2152a8 apr-1.2.7-11.el5_6.5.i386.rpm 8e8982a0e41fe45645c4df3843cf0034 apr-1.2.7-11.el5_6.5.x86_64.rpm fd093c0de0e0b4af356dc1479be2ca9a apr-devel-1.2.7-11.el5_6.5.i386.rpm a997860505935b4a980228abc6062657 apr-devel-1.2.7-11.el5_6.5.x86_64.rpm 15e58888755a96edf26f3628ee0f6ea9 apr-docs-1.2.7-11.el5_6.5.x86_64.rpm Source: 296d9207bd6235631c0ec5e4e4dc461b apr-1.2.7-11.el5_6.5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 16:57:35 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:0844 Low CentOS 5 i386 apr Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110531165735.GA27010(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:0844 Low Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0844.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 50728b1395cbb6627f31ffb8b72008ca apr-1.2.7-11.el5_6.5.i386.rpm 22f4f6b0751bef1374bc458c9ec8cc97 apr-devel-1.2.7-11.el5_6.5.i386.rpm 17af8b0f55a8316763bb7a40d65450d2 apr-docs-1.2.7-11.el5_6.5.i386.rpm Source: 296d9207bd6235631c0ec5e4e4dc461b apr-1.2.7-11.el5_6.5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 16:58:29 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:0843 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 postfix Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110531165829.GA27106(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:0843 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0843.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 319aaf53f010aac99d7e0fef54d71ab1 postfix-2.3.3-2.3.el5_6.i386.rpm 45effcf862055244a85b07abf166ec73 postfix-pflogsumm-2.3.3-2.3.el5_6.i386.rpm Source: cfcd179e3370c39ef50e804275cff5b4 postfix-2.3.3-2.3.el5_6.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 16:58:29 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:0843 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 postfix Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110531165829.GA27119(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:0843 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0843.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: d958e9333d6434c137b076cbc451b53a postfix-2.3.3-2.3.el5_6.x86_64.rpm 560622383370f4b836f25f93143e6797 postfix-pflogsumm-2.3.3-2.3.el5_6.x86_64.rpm Source: cfcd179e3370c39ef50e804275cff5b4 postfix-2.3.3-2.3.el5_6.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 17:02:44 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:0838 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 gimp Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110531170244.GA27226(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:0838 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0838.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 792c1e1451c5ffd44a1433468f5de4d1 gimp-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_6.2.i386.rpm b4714adce71949e2d8aab75faf3ddc95 gimp-devel-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_6.2.i386.rpm 4dfb9adccc0df3e26de49268b4490338 gimp-libs-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_6.2.i386.rpm Source: d798c046c91b96869fb9a180e1535ea6 gimp-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_6.2.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 17:02:44 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:0838 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 gimp Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110531170244.GA27239(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:0838 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0838.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 6a3f1279a505d09231328c91b6e50ca9 gimp-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_6.2.x86_64.rpm 60653c1ba1a1c214b40cfa56a2c1ef1f gimp-devel-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_6.2.i386.rpm cb199d97c1c15748856b973f71915e25 gimp-devel-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_6.2.x86_64.rpm d4cd23be81a41d5326cd11802d68e70f gimp-libs-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_6.2.i386.rpm e205cb4f7040ccbba57a2b5ca84f7908 gimp-libs-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_6.2.x86_64.rpm Source: d798c046c91b96869fb9a180e1535ea6 gimp-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_6.2.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 17:03:46 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:0845 Important CentOS 5 i386 bind97 Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110531170346.GA27355(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:0845 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0845.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 4e6d76072aecaf10915ac06f4b23d64b bind97-9.7.0-6.P2.el5_6.2.i386.rpm 84578b9937dfba05957e805a4fbff75f bind97-chroot-9.7.0-6.P2.el5_6.2.i386.rpm 70132389ee23fdd9fe21b40b2dd0e2af bind97-devel-9.7.0-6.P2.el5_6.2.i386.rpm 71ac56687fb2114e0d7a9ec9b7037d6e bind97-libs-9.7.0-6.P2.el5_6.2.i386.rpm 3618b09d08fffdffc36bd73ae4b71f82 bind97-utils-9.7.0-6.P2.el5_6.2.i386.rpm Source: abdcc5b5ba8488eee1c658298d762206 bind97-9.7.0-6.P2.el5_6.2.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 17:03:46 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:0845 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 bind97 Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110531170346.GA27368(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:0845 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0845.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 4902031bb6fa1680e03ec382a71a18e2 bind97-9.7.0-6.P2.el5_6.2.x86_64.rpm 38ac149903a7ac5dc277ddb78defe65d bind97-chroot-9.7.0-6.P2.el5_6.2.x86_64.rpm 5445cf7a745ad8c3db82e8e0e9584c0c bind97-devel-9.7.0-6.P2.el5_6.2.i386.rpm ac89dabae80635e4f8d31227aa55f7b2 bind97-devel-9.7.0-6.P2.el5_6.2.x86_64.rpm 90e2ddfe97bda0d05f2af09ebb078840 bind97-libs-9.7.0-6.P2.el5_6.2.i386.rpm 3ebacd603a6de782068ed3510a02c74b bind97-libs-9.7.0-6.P2.el5_6.2.x86_64.rpm 334ad47744c6c1b6d1d1454de68870f2 bind97-utils-9.7.0-6.P2.el5_6.2.x86_64.rpm Source: abdcc5b5ba8488eee1c658298d762206 bind97-9.7.0-6.P2.el5_6.2.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 17:05:06 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:0841 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 systemtap Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110531170506.GA27495(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:0841 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0841.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 8fc023ebcbe854b114e1a9958fac592c systemtap-1.3-4.el5_6.1.i386.rpm b5b59e469df1b771c9c4ebbf5e2b2c1f systemtap-client-1.3-4.el5_6.1.i386.rpm 0c6b30bcb78816e53b064c5c19d4fbda systemtap-initscript-1.3-4.el5_6.1.i386.rpm 40525e6bfd827ab0c314bbf49fdad68a systemtap-runtime-1.3-4.el5_6.1.i386.rpm 955210bad57d18088df0b37ff71b58d1 systemtap-sdt-devel-1.3-4.el5_6.1.i386.rpm 0ce44ba806df92b605e9a7c24d2679ad systemtap-server-1.3-4.el5_6.1.i386.rpm f4df65c5f9a47d497b4b4678c2dd0f45 systemtap-testsuite-1.3-4.el5_6.1.i386.rpm Source: c2ce3d8ab3c08d41140a6463e69cfa83 systemtap-1.3-4.el5_6.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 17:05:06 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:0841 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 systemtap Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110531170506.GA27508(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:0841 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0841.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: b54ca69dafb511732d0c7e66e200ab73 systemtap-1.3-4.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm f3fc4cf41a6f40cf838baa725759c2c2 systemtap-client-1.3-4.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm 1af6c1485660174a0f185ab635479194 systemtap-initscript-1.3-4.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm 63f4fe55a67d0c05a5bf0ffaf724c63b systemtap-runtime-1.3-4.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm 2e23078f1d2892433037a4f2fb51dc13 systemtap-sdt-devel-1.3-4.el5_6.1.i386.rpm 0250bc580d0c80890f0cd4ad0bf0c614 systemtap-sdt-devel-1.3-4.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm 82e44641c71e2be6a32431ce0cde0a55 systemtap-server-1.3-4.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm 905eb25f2eb236e264dd91640ba91a64 systemtap-testsuite-1.3-4.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm Source: c2ce3d8ab3c08d41140a6463e69cfa83 systemtap-1.3-4.el5_6.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:26:39 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:0837 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 gimp - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110601122639.GA14638(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2011:0837 gimp security update for CentOS 4 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0837.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/gimp-2.0.5-7.0.7.el4.1.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/gimp-devel-2.0.5-7.0.7.el4.1.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/gimp-2.0.5-7.0.7.el4.1.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-4 i386 installations by running the command: yum update gimp\* Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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BIND9 - automatic zone definition replication to slave
by Martin Šťastný 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Hello, I have simple question - is there a way to automatically replicate zone definition (not zone itself - this is easy) to slave server using BIND9? Is it BIND built-in or are there prebuilt scripts? Or I have to write that script on my own (started by Cron, transfer file with zone names, create conf file and finallly restart BIND?)? Thank you in advance

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the tag Obsoletes: in spec files
by Philippe Naudin 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

How exactly to use the tag "Obsoletes:" in a spec file ? I need to offer texlive to users on Centos-5.6, so I packaged it (based on a Mandriva src.rpm), and that works. But I want rpm to *replace* tetex by texlive, instead of just adding texlive, when users do a : $ yum install texlive (we have a local repo here). So I added this line in texlive.spec : Obsoletes: tetex and of course I rebuilt the package, and (of course) that just don't work, despite tetex is listed among the Obsoleted packages : $ rpm -qp --obsoletes texlive-20110312-0phn.x86_64.rpm dvi2tty <= 5.3.1 jadetex kpathsea <= 20100722 kpathsea-devel <= 20100722 kpathsea-static-devel <= 20100722 pdfjam <= 1.21 ps2eps <= 1.64 tetex tetex-context tetex-devel tetex-dvipdfm tetex-dvips tetex-dvilj tetex-latex tetex-mfwin tetex-texi2html tetex-usrlocal tetex-xdvi etc... (tetex is the CentOS one : tetex-3.0-33.8.el5_5.6) Can someone explain me why this fails, and eventually an other way to solve this problem ? Thanks, -- Philippe

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 75, Issue 10
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 31 May '11

31 May '11

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CEBA-2011:0830 CentOS 5 i386 vsftpd FASTTRACK Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CEBA-2011:0830 CentOS 5 x86_64 vsftpd FASTTRACK Update (Karanbir Singh) 3. CEEA-RHEA-2011:0828 CentOS 5 x86_64 talk FASTTRACK Update (Karanbir Singh) 4. CEEA-RHEA-2011:0828 CentOS 5 i386 talk FASTTRACK Update (Karanbir Singh) 5. CEBA-RHBA-2011:0829 CentOS 5 i386 system-config-netboot FASTTRACK Update (Karanbir Singh) 6. CEBA-RHBA-2011:0829 CentOS 5 x86_64 system-config-netboot FASTTRACK Update (Karanbir Singh) 7. CEBA-RHBA-2011:0827 CentOS 5 i386 xinetd FASTTRACK Update (Karanbir Singh) 8. CEBA-RHBA-2011:0827 CentOS 5 x86_64 xinetd FASTTRACK Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 21:19:45 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:0830 CentOS 5 i386 vsftpd FASTTRACK Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110530211945.GA10335(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:0830 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0830.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 93ebb6f3b7ebfcde83504322d19b3daf vsftpd-2.0.5-21.el5.i386.rpm Source: 37504a3d550e99ffe4bc33e34e5be587 vsftpd-2.0.5-21.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 21:19:45 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:0830 CentOS 5 x86_64 vsftpd FASTTRACK Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110530211945.GA10348(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:0830 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0830.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 133947aae67f0b2d704e25165ad8aef0 vsftpd-2.0.5-21.el5.x86_64.rpm Source: 37504a3d550e99ffe4bc33e34e5be587 vsftpd-2.0.5-21.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 21:22:33 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEEA-RHEA-2011:0828 CentOS 5 x86_64 talk FASTTRACK Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110530212233.GA10641(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Enhancement Advisory RHEA-2011:0828 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-0828.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 0db3888c8fcc72733387622b8817ba9f talk-0.17-31.el5.x86_64.rpm 79533414aa4112ef3166731c68293505 talk-server-0.17-31.el5.x86_64.rpm Source: bba2f7ce41e19e53dc46f6403dc5485f talk-0.17-31.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 21:22:33 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEEA-RHEA-2011:0828 CentOS 5 i386 talk FASTTRACK Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110530212233.GA10626(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Enhancement Advisory RHEA-2011:0828 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-0828.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 22aa01d45827408695ce9549e9e18d25 talk-0.17-31.el5.i386.rpm 4a5d147f025f09c08d4bfeb39d6ef8ee talk-server-0.17-31.el5.i386.rpm Source: bba2f7ce41e19e53dc46f6403dc5485f talk-0.17-31.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 21:23:56 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-RHBA-2011:0829 CentOS 5 i386 system-config-netboot FASTTRACK Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110530212356.GA10821(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory RHBA-2011:0829 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0829.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: b4528c339381ef0833a922261ff6b0a4 system-config-netboot-0.1.45.1-3.el5.noarch.rpm 0cd556c3e564204010e635e1f16ee3aa system-config-netboot-cmd-0.1.45.1-3.el5.noarch.rpm Source: ae8290fd1fd7deacdd5acd134ce6c560 system-config-netboot-0.1.45.1-3.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 21:23:56 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-RHBA-2011:0829 CentOS 5 x86_64 system-config-netboot FASTTRACK Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110530212356.GA10834(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory RHBA-2011:0829 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0829.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: e7aaa791b488f1e558d9b9be5895d3ee system-config-netboot-0.1.45.1-3.el5.noarch.rpm d0f449029d2b1d2dc190e05df8d238c5 system-config-netboot-cmd-0.1.45.1-3.el5.noarch.rpm Source: ae8290fd1fd7deacdd5acd134ce6c560 system-config-netboot-0.1.45.1-3.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 21:26:52 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-RHBA-2011:0827 CentOS 5 i386 xinetd FASTTRACK Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110530212652.GA11062(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory RHBA-2011:0827 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0827.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: dc57d934dd8dfb1861ebf9995c870cc3 xinetd-2.3.14-13.el5.i386.rpm Source: c6a1fd77e5b76a3303e01abdeee1a400 xinetd-2.3.14-13.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 21:26:52 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-RHBA-2011:0827 CentOS 5 x86_64 xinetd FASTTRACK Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110530212652.GA11077(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory RHBA-2011:0827 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0827.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 7a46b7003785ea9680b55f285ad7a171 xinetd-2.3.14-13.el5.x86_64.rpm Source: c6a1fd77e5b76a3303e01abdeee1a400 xinetd-2.3.14-13.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 75, Issue 10 ***********************************************

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[CentOS 5.5] Program/method to test integrity of the system/packages
by giggzounet 31 May '11

31 May '11

Hi, we have a cluster. The master has CentOS 5.5 on it. At the moment it crashes randomly...perhaps a hardware problem...no idea. But to eliminate a software problem I would like to test the integrity of the system or of the installed package. Is it a way to check if the binary installed by binary.rpm is the good one ? with md5sum or something else ? Thx a lot, Guillaume

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Getting the return value of the last command run
by Dotan Cohen 31 May '11

31 May '11

All commands return a value, usually 0 if run properly. For instance, try: $ ls && echo "done" $ lsd && echo "done" The echo command is only executed if the ls command exited successfully. If one did not add the echo command with the && after a command, how can he determine if the command exited successfully? I have a particularly troubling script that gives does not mention if it exits successfully or not. I could modify it (and probably will some day) but in general I'd like to know the answer to this question as a learning experience. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com

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scheduling differences between CentOS 4 and CentOS 5?
by Matt Garman 30 May '11

30 May '11

We have several latency-sensitive "pipeline"-style programs that have a measurable performance degredation when run on CentOS 5.x versus CentOS 4.x. By "pipeline" program, I mean one that has multiple threads. The mutiple threads work on shared data. Between each thread, there is a queue. So thread A gets data, pushes into Qab, thread B pulls from Qab, does some processing, then pushes into Qbc, thread C pulls from Qbc, etc. The initial data is from the network (generated by a 3rd party). We basically measure the time from when the data is received to when the last thread performs its task. In our application, we see an increase of anywhere from 20 to 50 microseconds when moving from CentOS 4 to CentOS 5. I have used a few methods of profiling our application, and determined that the added latency on CentOS 5 comes from queue operations (in particular, popping). However, I can improve performance on CentOS 5 (to be the same as CentOS 4) by using taskset to bind the program to a subset of the available cores. So it appers to me, between CentOS 4 and 5, there was some change (presumably to the kernel) that caused threads to be scheduled differently (and this difference is suboptimal for our application). While I can "solve" this problem with taskset, my preference is to not have to do this. I'm hoping there's some kind of kernel tunable (or maybe collection of tunables) whose default was changed between versions. Anyone have any experience with this? Perhaps some more areas to investigate? Thanks, Matt

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Re: [CentOS] Where is the Centos Linux 5.5 kernel syscall handler for mmap?
by Keith Roberts 30 May '11

30 May '11

Hi. Sorry for the late reply, but I did not get the message that was archived. I stumbled upon it here: http://osdir.com/ml/centos/2011-05/msg01193.html All I got was this message: I am out of the office until 06/11/2011. I will be out of the office starting 5/27/2011 and will not return until 6/12/2011. I will respond to your message when I return. Note: This is an automated response to your message "CentOS Digest, Vol 76, Issue 28" sent on 5/28/2011 9:00:02 AM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away. In response to your question: "Thank you for your suggestion about doing a grep of the source code. We found mmap.S in ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386. We looked in mmap.S and found a lot of assembly code. Could you please tell us if any of the assembly code call the kernel syscall handler for mmap.s? Also, we ran make for the kernel Makefile and we obtained the following result shown below. Could you please suggest us how to fix the kernel Makeconfig so that it skips over libc_pic.os? Thank you for your help." May I suggest you join the LKML? http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/ I'm sure they are alot more knowledgeable concerning things like tweaking the internals of the Linux kernel. HTH Kind Regards, Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [CentOS] OT: Why VM?
by James B. Byrne 30 May '11

30 May '11

On Fri, May 27, 2011 14:36, Jack Bailey wrote: > There are lots of good reasons to virtualize. > > http://www.vmware.com/virtualization/why-virtualize.html > > Jack > As it turns out, that was one of the net resources I had in mind when I described what I found as mostly puff and smoke. This is what this site claims as advantages to VM: > Top 5 Reasons to Adopt Virtualization Software > 1. Get more out of your existing resources: Pool common > infrastructure resources and break the legacy one application > to one server model with server consolidation. I have difficulty with this statement on so many levels that it is hard to know where to begin. Perhaps the most egregious is the mindless equating of server with host. What measurable benefits accrue to a firm from 'breaking the legacy', whatever that means. > 2. Reduce data center costs by reducing your physical > infrastructure and improving your server to admin ratio: > Fewer servers and related IT hardware means reduced real > estate and reduced power and cooling requirements. Better > management tools let you improve your server to admin ratio > so personnel requirements are reduced as well. Personally, my experience is that, if anything, running multiple systems on a vm host measurably increases the administrative burden per host. For one thing, you now have multiple instances to update and to keep secure whereas before you had one OS to worry about. If we had tens or hundreds or thousands of servers then yes, I can see the benefits. We, however, do not deal with equipment on that scale. > 3. Increase availability of hardware and applications for > improved business continuity: Securely backup and migrate > entire virtual environments with no interruption in service. > Eliminate planned downtime and recover immediately from > unplanned issues. I suppose that moving VM instances as file systems provides a real value by eliminating the setup and configuration required to get bare metal to flash up in a usable fashion. This is in fact the only area that I see a real advantage to VM over bare metal installs. > 4. Gain operational flexibility: Respond to market changes with > dynamic resource management, faster server provisioning and > improved desktop and application deployment. I have no idea how deploying VMs to a company's desktop workstations could possibly benefit the firm., > 5. Improve desktop manageability and security: Deploy, manage > and monitor secure desktop environments that users can access > locally or remotely, with or without a network connection, on > almost any standard desktop, laptop or tablet PC. Again, how is this accomplished and what are the advantages over a single OS install? None of the above claims have anything to do with VM per se as far as I can see. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp & /var/ partition
by Keith Roberts 30 May '11

30 May '11

Has anyone actually used a SSD in a Centos setup? My little experiment with a s/h WD drive for /tmp and SWAP partitions kicked the bucket on Wednesday, when the poor WD drive caught the click-of-death. It was a s/h drive to start with and lasted about 4 months. But that was without the /var/log/ partition being written to it, as I mounted that back onto /var/log from the original drive. So I had to install another (WD) drive, and repartion it and rebuild my RPM package database, from the backed-up Packages file. That seems to be all OK now. I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to use a new SSD for moving all the disk i/o to, that Linux likes to do so often. Plus putting SWAP onto a decent SSD should speed things up somewhat. Here's a short video of a laptop fitted with a SSD drive booting macOS, compared to a similar laptop booting from the standard HDD. The laptop with the SSD boots and loads some apps in 28 seconds. The other one takes twice as long. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Mercury_Extreme_Pro_6G/?utm_source=t… Kind Regards, Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------

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PHP Source
by Ron Young 30 May '11

30 May '11

I have a pressing need to compile a utility called odbtp into php on my new 64 bit machine with an AMD chip that is currently running CentOS 5.6. Where can I find the source files for the CentOS recommended versions of php. I have searched the CentOS and related repository sites and can find php in several places but not the source files. Thanks in advance. Regards, Ron Young 919-621-9015 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronhyoung +++++++++++++++++++ Little tiny dreams require little tiny thoughts and little tiny steps. Great big dreams require great big thoughts and little tiny steps. +++++++++++++++++++ *Kosh*: The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.

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local repo
by Jerry Geis 30 May '11

30 May '11

Hi all, When I am installing I use kickstart and have a line like: repo --name=Updates --baseurl=http://192.168.1.14/centos/5.6/updates/x86_64/ and that works great for installing the OS. After that the machine reboots and I have it automatically go into additional installations running scripts. These installations do "yum install XXX". However, its no longer using my above repo its using the mirrorlist (as expected). My questions are : 1) I dont see a way in yum to say "use this repo to install", is there a way to point to my server in the office and dont do the mirrorlist. 2) Do I just drop a file called CentOS-office in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory that looks like this and it will be used first instead of the mirrorlist: [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base mirrorlist=http://192.168.1.14/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os #baseurl=http://192.168.1.14/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates mirrorlist=http://192.168.1.14/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates #baseurl=http://192.168.1.14/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 I dont want to mess anything up and I want additional package installs in the office to go faster in the office. I can remove the file when I am done installing. Is there a better way or is this the way to do it? jerry

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OT: Why VM?
by James B. Byrne 30 May '11

30 May '11

I have been working off and on with Xen and KVM on a couple of test hosts for that past year or so and while now everything seems to function as expected, more or less, I find myself asking the question: Why? We run our own servers at our own sites for our own purposes. We do not, with a few small exceptions, host alien domains. So, while rapidly provisioning or dynamically expanding a client's vm might be very attractive to a public hosting provider that is not our business model at all. Why would a small company not in the public hosting business choose to employ VM technology? What are the benefits over operating several individual small form factor servers or blades instead? I am curious because what I can find on the net respecting VM use cases, outside of for public providers or application testing, seems to me mostly puff and smoke. This might be considered OT but since CentOS is what we use it seems to me best that I ask here to start. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Re: [CentOS] Where is the Centos Linux 5.5 kernel syscall handler for mmap? (Keith Roberts)
by Frank Chang 29 May '11

29 May '11

Keith Roberts, Thank you for your suggestion about doing a grep of the source code. We found mmap.S in ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386. We looked in mmap.S and found a lot of assembly code. Could you please tell us if any of the assembly code call the kernel syscall handler for mmap.s? Also, we ran make for the kernel Makefile and we obtained the following result shown below. Could you please suggest us how to fix the kernel Makeconfig so that it skips over libc_pic.os? Thank you for your help. gcc -shared -static-libgcc -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-z,defs -Wl, -dynamic-linker=/home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/lib/ld-linux.so.2 -B/home/frankc/DQTTest5/csu/ -Wl, --version-script=/home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc.map -Wl,-soname=libc.so.6 -Wl,-z,combreloc -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--hash-style=both -nostdlib -nostartfiles -e __libc_main -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5 -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5/math -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5/elf -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5/dlfcn -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5/nss -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5/nis -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5/rt -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5/resolv -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5/crypt -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5/nptl -Wl, -rpath-link=/home/frankc/DQTTest5:/home/frankc/DQTTest5/math:/home/frankc/DQTTest5/elf: /home/frankc/DQTTest5/dlfcn:/home/frankc/DQTTest5/nss:/home/frankc/DQTTest5/nis: /home/frankc/DQTTest5/rt:/home/frankc/DQTTest5/resolv:/home/frankc/DQTTest5/crypt: /home/frankc/DQTTest5/nptl -o /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc.so -T /home/frankc/DQTTest5/shlib.lds /home/frankc/DQTTest5/csu/abi-note.o /home/frankc/DQTTest5/elf/soinit.os /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os / home/frankc/DQTTest5/elf/sofini.os /home/frankc/DQTTest5/elf/interp.os /home/frankc/DQTTest5/elf/ld.so -lgcc /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os: In function `__libc_fork': /home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/posix/../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/../fork.c:79: undefined reference to `__sync_bool_compare_and_swap_4' /home/frankc/DQTTest5/ gcc -shared -static-libgcc -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-z,defs -Wl, -dynamic-linker=/home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/lib/ld-linux.so.2 -B/home/frankc/DQTTest5/csu/ -Wl, --version-script=/home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc.map -Wl,-soname=libc.so.6 -Wl,-z,combreloc -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--hash-style=both -nostdlib -nostartfiles -e __libc_main -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5 -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5/math -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5/elf -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5/dlfcn -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5/nss -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5/nis -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5/rt -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5/resolv -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5/crypt -L/home/frankc/DQTTest5/nptl -Wl, -rpath-link=/home/frankc/DQTTest5:/home/frankc/DQTTest5/math:/home/frankc/DQTTest5/elf: /home/frankc/DQTTest5/dlfcn:/home/frankc/DQTTest5/nss:/home/frankc/DQTTest5/nis: /home/frankc/DQTTest5/rt:/home/frankc/DQTTest5/resolv:/home/frankc/DQTTest5/crypt: /home/frankc/DQTTest5/nptl -o /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc.so -T /home/frankc/DQTTest5/shlib.lds /home/frankc/DQTTest5/csu/abi-note.o /home/frankc/DQTTest5/elf/soinit.os /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os / home/frankc/DQTTest5/elf/sofini.os /home/frankc/DQTTest5/elf/interp.os /home/frankc/DQTTest5/elf/ld.so -lgcc /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os: In function `__libc_fork': /home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/posix/../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/../fork.c:79: undefined reference to `__sync_bool_compare_and_swap_4' /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os: In function `__nscd_drop_map_ref': /home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/nscd/nscd-client.h:320: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4' /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os: In function `nscd_getpw_r': /home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/nscd/nscd_getpw_r.c:232: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4' /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os: In function `__nscd_drop_map_ref': /home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/nscd/nscd-client.h:320: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4' /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os: In function `nscd_getgr_r': /home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/nscd/nscd_getgr_r.c:321: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4' /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os: In function `__nscd_drop_map_ref': /home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/nscd/nscd-client.h:320: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4' /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os:/home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/nscd/nscd_gethst_r.c:400: more undefined references to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4' follow /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os: In function `__nscd_get_map_ref': /home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/nscd/nscd_helper.c:431: undefined reference to `__sync_val_compare_and_swap_4' /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os: In function `*__GI___libc_freeres': /home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/malloc/set-freeres.c:39: undefined reference to `__sync_bool_compare_and_swap_4' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status : In function `__nscd_drop_map_ref': /home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/nscd/nscd-client.h:320: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4' /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os: In function `nscd_getpw_r': /home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/nscd/nscd_getpw_r.c:232: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4' /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os: In function `__nscd_drop_map_ref': /home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/nscd/nscd-client.h:320: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4' /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os: In function `nscd_getgr_r': /home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/nscd/nscd_getgr_r.c:321: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4' /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os: In function `__nscd_drop_map_ref': /home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/nscd/nscd-client.h:320: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4' /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os:/home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/nscd/nscd_gethst_r.c:400: more undefined references to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4' follow /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os: In function `__nscd_get_map_ref': /home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/nscd/nscd_helper.c:431: undefined reference to `__sync_val_compare_and_swap_4' /home/frankc/DQTTest5/libc_pic.os: In function `*__GI___libc_freeres': /home/frankc/DQT1/glibc-2.9/malloc/set-freeres.c:39: undefined reference to `__sync_bool_compare_and_swap_4' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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AUTO: Ott, Jerry is out of the office. (returning 06/11/2011)
by JOtt＠semtech.com 28 May '11

28 May '11

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Where is the Centos Linux 5.5 kernel syscall handler for mmap?
by Frank Chang 28 May '11

28 May '11

Good evening, We are using Centos Linux Release 5.5 x86_32. We wondering where the kernel syscall handler for mmap in Centos Linux 5.5 distribution is located(for example /usr/xxx/....)? Would any programmers or operating system administrators have this information? Thank you.

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CentOS 5.5 x64, HP ProLiant Microserver and eSATA
by Andy Holt 27 May '11

27 May '11

Hello all. Not sure how many people here also frequent the CentOS forums, so apologies for the 'cross post'. I know some here are using CentOS on HP's ProLiant Microserver, so if anyone's tried eSATA on their box, please let me know. Perhaps best to reply over at the forum - https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=3… Thanks Andy

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calendar
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 27 May '11

27 May '11

Folks, My manager's asked me about something that can run on our CentOS boxes that can connect to an (bleah!) Exchange server's calendar. It doesn't look like Lightening can, and from some googling, it appears that Evolution claims to, but.... It's got to be able to set dates, etc. Can Evolution? Any other suggestions? mark

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Initial 6.0 trees in QA
by Paul Heinlein 27 May '11

27 May '11

In case you didn't see it, the initial CentOS 6 trees have been released to QA: http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/node/81 -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein(a)madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/

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securing ldap with tls and security
by David Mehler 27 May '11

27 May '11

Hello, I'm trying to set up a centos 5.3 machine to do authentication via openldap. I've got it working, I'm not sure if I have it 100% right, but I can use ldapsearch to query the directory, use finger, id, chown, and other utilities with ldap usernames and groups, log in via ssh as an ldap user and if it's a new user automatically have the home directory created. Having got this far if anyone with a working ldap authentication system could give my config a sanity check let me know. My goal now is to get tls encryption going so that usernames and passwords aren't sent in the clear. I'm using self-signed certificates for now. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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hi CentOS
by tronnw＠gmail.com 27 May '11

27 May '11

Hello CentOS it took a few days before i got the hang of it http://email.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=email&zu=http://c…

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Good network printer/scanner for Centos/Linux
by Eero Volotinen 26 May '11

26 May '11

Hi List, I am looking for good multifunction (fax, scanner, ..) color network laser printer for Linux, any ideas? specs: - Linux, Windows and OSX support on printer and also on scanner. - A4 papersize http://multi.gnt.lt/Pages/brochures/HP/CM2320MFP-ENG.pdf ? thanks, -- Eero

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yum check-updates script not working correctly
by brian 26 May '11

26 May '11

Hi all... A few weeks ago, I installed (and configured) the three recommended scripts to run yum update check via cron.daily on my CentOS 5.6 server (a Dell 2650). Although it is clearly configured to "check only", it appears to be updating, instead. Has something (environmentally?) changed between the version of CentOS under which those scripts were originally authored and version 5.6, or do I have something (and please, tell me what!) mis-configured somewhere?? Every couple of days (when there are updates, obviously) I'll see something like this in my Logwatch report: --------------------- yum Begin ------------------------ Packages Updated: nss_ldap-253-37.el5_6.1.i386 poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_6.17.i386 ksh-20100202-1.el5_6.5.i386 poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_6.17.i386 ---------------------- yum End ------------------------- The scripts are set up as follows: in /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron: --------------------- yum.cron -------------------------- #!/bin/sh # Pull in sysconfig settings . /etc/sysconfig/yum-check if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/yum ]; then if [ ${CHECKONLY} = "yes" ];then /usr/bin/yum-check fi else /usr/bin/yum -R 10 -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y update fi ---------------------------------------------------------- in /etc/sysconfig/yum-check: ---------------------- yum-check ------------------------- # yes sets yum to check for updates and mail only if patches are available # no does enable autoupdate if /var/lock/subsys/yum is available CHECKONLY="yes" # defaults to root, leave empty if .forward/alias in place for root MAILTO="" # Set to yes for debugging only! You'll get a mail for each run! CHECKWRK="no" # Seconds to randomize startup, if running from cron to balance load RANGE="3600" ---------------------------------------------------------- and, in /usr/bin/yum-check: ---------------------- yum-check ------------------------- #!/bin/sh # # Name: yum-check # Author: Michael Heiming - 2005-03-11 # Function: Run from cron to check for yum updates # and mail results # Version: 0.7 (initial) # 2005-03-12 0.8 randomize startup (cron only) # Config: /etc/sysconfig/yum # Pull in sysconfig settings . /etc/sysconfig/yum-check maila=${MAILTO:=root} yumdat="/tmp/yum-check-update.$$" yumb="/usr/bin/yum" # wait a random interval if there is not a controlling terminal, # for load management if ! [ -t ] then num=$RANDOM let "num %= ${RANGE:=1}" sleep $num fi rm -f ${yumdat%%[0-9]*}* $yumb check-update >& $yumdat yumstatus="$?" case $yumstatus in 100) cat $yumdat |\ mail -s "Alert ${HOSTNAME} updates available!" $maila exit 0 ;; 0) # Only send mail if debug is turned on if [ ${CHECKWRK} = "yes" ];then cat $yumdat |\ mail -s "Yum check succeeded ${HOSTNAME} zero patches available." $maila fi exit 0 ;; *) # Unexpected yum return status (echo "Undefined, yum return status: ${yumstatus}" && \ [ -e "${yumdat}" ] && cat "${yumdat}" )|\ mail -s "Alert ${HOSTNAME} problems running yum." $maila esac [ -e "${yumdat}" ] && rm ${yumdat} ----------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [CentOS] Good network printer/scanner for Centos/Linux
by cornel panceac 26 May '11

26 May '11

2011/5/26 Kenneth Porter <shiva(a)sewingwitch.com> > On Thursday, May 26, 2011 7:43 PM +0300 Eero Volotinen > <eero.volotinen(a)iki.fi> wrote: > > > - Linux, Windows and OSX support on printer and also on scanner. > > The scanner part is tough. I'd love to see some good support for Epson. > I've got a Perfection 4180 connected by USB and an 11x17 network scanner, > but currently I do all my scanning through Windows. > > > the canon scan lide i've used so far worked perfectly in linux. of course, they're not the best scanners out there but they are ok for my ocasional scanning jobs.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 75, Issue 9
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 26 May '11

26 May '11

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CEBA-2011:0825 CentOS 5 x86_64 numactl Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CEBA-2011:0825 CentOS 5 i386 numactl Update (Karanbir Singh) 3. CEBA-2011:0823 CentOS 5 i386 shadow-utils Update (Karanbir Singh) 4. CEBA-2011:0823 CentOS 5 x86_64 shadow-utils Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 21:44:07 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:0825 CentOS 5 x86_64 numactl Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110525214407.GA19608(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:0825 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0825.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: e639e64f2584c7d9d450a4cc19cb56dd numactl-0.9.8-12.el5_6.i386.rpm 19049844fdffec608ee3a5dc69c3a47f numactl-0.9.8-12.el5_6.x86_64.rpm 0a25ca25abf3ddf9489ea43ad50c0cea numactl-devel-0.9.8-12.el5_6.i386.rpm a5cd3e8842e3904d7ef3c781f4da8e7c numactl-devel-0.9.8-12.el5_6.x86_64.rpm Source: 04ba7c6d28010f7766f804efab0b1e88 numactl-0.9.8-12.el5_6.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 21:44:07 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:0825 CentOS 5 i386 numactl Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110525214407.GA19591(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:0825 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0825.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 6e9805b07c044e8370765a8a8d44055e numactl-0.9.8-12.el5_6.i386.rpm a58f1a250b5fc931077931a7e45b6331 numactl-devel-0.9.8-12.el5_6.i386.rpm Source: 04ba7c6d28010f7766f804efab0b1e88 numactl-0.9.8-12.el5_6.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 21:48:42 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:0823 CentOS 5 i386 shadow-utils Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110525214842.GA19697(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:0823 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0823.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: d54ee9def3fe49af20b602c3e6530bb3 shadow-utils-4.0.17-18.el5_6.1.i386.rpm Source: 81cb38b0d9c2ae8bb68c83cfbc405304 shadow-utils-4.0.17-18.el5_6.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 21:48:42 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:0823 CentOS 5 x86_64 shadow-utils Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110525214842.GA19711(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:0823 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0823.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 83014a59441dfb6793261d98c939982e shadow-utils-4.0.17-18.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm Source: 81cb38b0d9c2ae8bb68c83cfbc405304 shadow-utils-4.0.17-18.el5_6.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 75, Issue 9 **********************************************

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Desktopsearch "Recoll" for CentOS 5.5 64bit
by Timothy Kesten 26 May '11

26 May '11

Hi Folks, is there a rpm-package for desktopsearch "recoll" for CentOS 5.5 64bit If yes - where is it? I've tried fedora-packages from http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/download.html#rpms but got much dependencies-errors Thx Timothy

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CentOS 5.6 PHP 5.3 and SquirrelMail
by John Hinton 25 May '11

25 May '11

OK, so I did an upgrade to PHP 5.3 on one of my servers. I noticed the uninstall of php also removed SquirrelMail and it won't install under PHP 5.3. Has anybody worked this out with a good RPM or repo solution? -- John Hinton 877-777-1407 ext 502 http://www.ew3d.com Comprehensive Online Solutions

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