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KVM web-based interface on CentOS
by Georghy 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Hi everyone, I'm configuring a KVM server and I wanna find a Web-based interface to manage my Virtual Machine like on VMware server someone knows one ? -- Cordialement, / Greetings, Georghy FUSCO

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bogus error message from yum update for gmime and gmime-sharp
by ken 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

When I do "yum update gmime gmime-sharp" I get: ... --> Missing Dependency: gmime = 2.2.10-5.el5.centos is needed by package gmime-sharp-2.2.10-5.el5.centos.i386 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: gmime = 2.2.10-5.el5.centos is needed by package gmime-sharp-2.2.10-5.el5.centos.i386 (installed) ... But both of these are already installed: # rpm -q gmime gmime-sharp gmime-2.2.10-5.el5.centos gmime-sharp-2.2.10-5.el5.centos So: # package-cleanup --problems Setting up yum Reading local RPM database Processing all local requires No problems found Running the above "yum update ..." again yields the same bogus error messages. I've had problems with these two packages before. Why can't yum understand rpm for them? Thanks for the wisdom. -- Find research and analysis on US healthcare, health insurance, and health policy at: <http://healthpolicydaily.blogspot.com/>

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VNC Server
by Fernando Xavier 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Hi, I´m trying to set up VCN server in Centos. I got the connection but no KDE windows, only a black window. Any idea? My xstartup is : #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey xterm -geometry 80+24+10+10 -ls -title .$VNCDESTOP Desktop. & startkde & Regards Fernando

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Problem updating VM
by Chris Geldenhuis 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

Hi, I am trying to bring one of my CentOS 5 VMs up to date. I have run: yum clean all yum update yum yum clean all yum update python* rpm* yum clean all without any problems or error messages. Now when I try to run yum update, I get the following: [root@tusker ~]# yum update There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: No module named cElementTree Please install a package which provides this module, or verify that the module is installed correctly. It's possible that the above module doesn't match the current version of Python, which is: 2.4.3 (#1, Sep 3 2009, 15:37:37) [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)] If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to the yum faq at: http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq I then downloaded the python-clementtree package from dags site and tried to install it and get: [root@tusker ~]# rpm -i ./python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm warning: ./python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6 error: Failed dependencies: python-elementtree conflicts with python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64 yet when I query the package I get: [root@tusker ~]# rpm -q python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm package python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm is not installed and when I try to remove it I get: [root@tusker ~]# rpm -e ./python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.i386.rpm error: package ./python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.i386.rpm is not installed I have tried rebuilding the rpm database with no result. Any suggestions? TIA ChrisG

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Cobbler or manual set up for local repo
by john maclean 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

Chaps, Is cobbler overkill or is it simpler to set up a local repo and rsync it with a mirror? -- John Maclean 07739 171 531 MSc (DIC) Enterprise Linux Systems Engineer

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replacement for start-stop-daemon on CentOS
by Timothy Kesten 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

Hi Folks, I'd like to use "start-stop-daemon" on my centos-machine. I know , it's debian-like. But I can't find "startproc" on my machine nor in the repos. What is the CentOS-replacement for "start-stop-daemon"? Thx Timothy P.S. I found a start-stop-daemon.c script - but how to compile it? gcc start-stop-daemon.c ends in much errors.

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change owner
by cahit Eyigünlü 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

i have downloaded files with root to a user's folder but now he is not able to delete some of them because owner is root how could i change the owner of all folders and subfolders and files under a directory

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Query RPM file %post section
by Tronn Wærdahl 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

Hi I have a .rpm file, in the file there is some commands in the %post section, how can I query the rpm file so it display the commands in %post section. Tronn

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NFS freeze when transmitting big files
by Niki Kovacs 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

Hi, I have one old spare PC, a PIII with 128 MB RAM, that I use as a spare file server. I have a headless CentOS 5 install on it, and a 2 terabyte external USB harddisk. The machine is in my basement (because it's quite loud), and I'm using what's called "CPL" here (Courant Porteur), which is basically Ethernet over 220V power lines. It's much slower than normally cabled Ethernet, but it works OK. I setup an NFS server on this machine, with the big 2TB storage on the external disk. On the first floor, on my main PC, I setup a consistent mounting of the NFS shares in /etc/fstab, and it works. Now here's the problem. Some of the files are quite big, usually movie files that can make up to 4 GB. More often than not, when I cut/paste such a file from my local harddisk to the server, it's quite slow (understandably, due to the slow CPL connection), but then the operation freezes in the middle, the cursor is unresponsive, even [Ctrl+Alt+Backspace] doesn't work, and I have to do a hard reboot. Now I wonder what this phenomenon can be due to. Some strange bottleneck effect due to either lack of RAM to the server or the slow network or both? Any ideas? Niki

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Need sys_call_table exported
by jAi juNo 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

Hi, As part of over writing some system calls, I need to export the sys_call_table. Please let me know how to do this in centos 5.4 . Thanks, Jai

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encoding
by cahit Eyigünlü 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

hello i have copied some sites from another server to cent os but i have faced with that non latin chars in sites seems like -> " ? " firstly i think it is an sql problem or encoding but i see that file manager see file names like : VBULLET�N4 r�tbe and i decide to create a folder with the same non latin char ü şşşüüüiiiğğğıııı it worked so how could i repair this copied fle names end file encodings because it has problems also while reading by php and publishing the same thanks

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root privilleges momentarily
by Georghy 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

Hi guys, I'm searching for a way to have root privileges momentarily like on ubuntu with the sudo <user> <command> I tried su - <command> and su -l root <command> on my CentOS server but it doesn't work how should I do ? sorry for the disturbance I'm new in RH Linux distro -- Cordialement, / Greetings, Georghy FUSCO

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partition woes (mapper/isw_bdihgcgahe_Volume0p2)
by aurfalien＠gmail.com 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

Hi, I found 2 identical drives lying around and put them into a system. When booting from a Centos 5.x installer, and when being presented with the formatting option (disk druid), it says I have 1 volume of; mamapper/isw_bdihgcgahe_Volume0p2 I can't seem to get rid of it. I have 2 physical disks but disk druid is seeing 1 volume thats the same size as one of the 2 identical drives. I've tried everything from yanking the 2nd drive, installing Centos with 1 drive, then installing the second drive and doing; dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb ... to even installing diff OS's like Ubuntu and Windows which see 2 individual disks where I repartition/reformat the drives. Seems as though I can't truly re write a part of the master boot record or some other area. I'm pretty feeble with this crap so can any one help me get a clue on what to do? These drives may have been in some hard ware raided system of the past, am unsure and no one here knows. This is really driving me crazy!!!!! - aurf

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wxwidgets RPM for Centos?
by fred smith 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Anyone know of a wxwidgets RPM for Centos 5? Thanks! -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ------------------------------- Romans 5:8 (niv) ------------------------------

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downgrade
by mattias 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

i no i can upgrade centos the new version but can i downgrade?

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Watching a file using auditd
by Yungwei Chen 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Hi, I am using auditd to monitor files for changes (read and write actually). I found that when auditd is running, it will correctly report files that are read, but will not report changes to a file that is being monitored. But if I stop auditd and load audit rules using auditctl, it will work as expected. Here's the audit rule: -w /tmp/audit-test -p rw -k __monitored__ What am I missing here? Thanks.

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centos + ldap + syncrepl (push vs pull)
by aurfalien＠gmail.com 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Hi, From what I gather, OpenLDAP on Centos 5.x pulls LDAP changes from central LDAP server to a secondary LDAP server. So in other words, you can have your second LDAP server pull the db based on either; type=refreshOnly which mean the pull interval will happen when ever you specify or; type=refreshAndPersist which mean after a pull, keep the pipe open for any changes made. Now in Ubuntu one can have there primary LDAP push the changes to all the secondaries. Can I somehow enable push in Centos OpenLDAP because pull seems pretty lame in this case. I tried but to no avail. Hope the answer isn't "Son, thats just the way it iz". - aurf

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Enlightenment E17 on CentOS 5.x ?
by Niki Kovacs 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Hi, Anyone knows how to install E17 on CentOS 5 ? Maybe there are packages on some third party repo out there ? I thought about building it from Fedora SRPMS, but before giving this a spin, I thought I'd rather ask first. AFAIK, the CentOS-based Yellow Dog distribution uses E17 as main window manager / desktop environment. I remember having tried out Enlightenment - I think it was in 2007 or so - on Slackware and I've been pretty stunned by how less system resources it consumed while looking impressive at the same time. Cheers, Niki

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copy source of ftp
by cahit Eyigünlü 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

how could i copy all content of a ftp directory from ftp via console to cent os 5.4

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adding users on multiple servers
by Bazy 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Hello folks, Unfortunately I have to add 2 users on 200 servers that do not have centralized authentication or sudo or the same room password. I tried doing this with expect and "su -" but the script fails or acts funny. Please advise me or tell me where I need to look... Thanks and regards, Bazy

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Could not retrieve mirror list while using yum command
by Jatin Davey 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Hi I wanted to download and install the net-snmp package. Usually on my other CentOS boxes i use the following command to do it: yum install net-snmp I was able to successfully install net-snmp on 4 of my CentOS boxes but not on one of them. It reports me the following error message: [root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum install net-snmp Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Determining fastest mirrors Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base Other output that can be some use is : [root@localhost yum.repos.d]# ls CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Media.repo Can someone please let me know what the issue is ? and how to get it working ? Thanks Jatin

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Release 6?
by MHR 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Since 5.5 is now out from Red Hat and most likely our amazing CentOS team has already jumped on that, is there any word on Release 6? IIRC it's already a year out of date (base was supposed to be Fedora 10), so I have to wonder. I didn't see anything jump out at me on the Red Hat site, so - anyone? Thanks. mhr

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System and Server Status help ?
by Roland RoLaNd 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

dear all, i can't count the times that webmin came to my rescue. whenever i face a dead end in doing something through CLI i always turn to webmin.. though at the moment i wanna learn how to do things through cli instead of relying on webmin as i said.. especially "System and Server Status" theres a module that supports such a thing where i can set monitors that checks specific services or directories or... and reports the output.. so i wanna do this through command line.. any help ? i've checked crontab -l and it doesnt list anything that i've set in webmin so where is it and how to do it through cli ? _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969

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Looking for an application that simplifies tracking installed packages.
by Yungwei Chen 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hi, As the number of hosts increases, it's getting harder to keep track of what packages have been installed on each host using yum or rpm. So I am wondering if there's an existing application that helps you keep track of what packages installed on each host. Thanks.

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New Newsletter release public
by Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hey As you all might know the new Newsletter is now online [1]. I just want to thank all the people that have helped and contributed again. This is what makes the C in CentOS :) Cheers Didi [1] http://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter/Latest -- Hoffmann Geerd-Dietger http://contact.ribalba.de

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testing
by William Warren 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Having list issues..sorry.

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CUPS and virtual interfaces
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

I've got a server with multiple virtual interfaces. Now, I only want CUPS to advertise on *one* - eth0, not eth0:1 or eth0:gad.... Looking at the CUPS manual, and cuppsd.conf man page, I see BrowseAllow, but the entries are not clear enough for me to understand what they mean. (Yeah, I know the docs are better than they were - read ESR's rant about it from a few years ago.) Specifically, I *think* I'd like to use BrowseAllow @IF, but I can't figure out if that should be BrowseAllow @IF(eth0) or BrowseAllow @IF(hostname) Also, if it's interface name, and there are multiple virtual interfaces on eth0, and I use the first of the two lines, above, will that *not* also apply to the VIs on eth0? mark

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Unable to get software using Yum
by Jatin Davey 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hi I am new to CentOS and been into Linux for about 3 months now. I first started off with fedora and also trying my hands on CentOS now. Basically i used yum to download softwares on the fedora box. I mainly require the snmp agent for my linux boxes so as to test my network management product. On some of the CentOS boxes the following command worked for me : yum install net-snmp it installed the snmp agent for me but on others i am finding it hard to install. Basically , this is what i get : [root@centos-64-xxx ~]# yum install net-snmp Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.nyi.net * updates: mirror.nyi.net * addons: centos.corenetworks.net * extras: centos.corenetworks.net ftp://mirror.nyi.net/centos/5.3/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] timed out Trying other mirror. http://centos.corenetworks.net/5.3/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. http://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/CentOS/5.3/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/centos/5.3/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not found Trying other mirror. http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/CentOS/5.3/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. http://mirror.icpl.org/centos/5.3/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. http://mirror.newnanutilities.org/pub/centos/5.3/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.…: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. http://mirror.unl.edu/centos/5.3/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. http://mirrors.bluehost.com/centos/5.3/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. base | 1.3 kB 00:00 http://www.cyberuse.com/centos/5.3/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for base: Damaged repomd.xml file Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: base. Please verify its path and try again This is what i found in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory: [root@centos-64-xxxx ~]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ [root@centos-64-xxxx yum.repos.d]# ls CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Media.repo [root@centos-64-xxxx yum.repos.d]# Can some one please help me in this regard. Thanks Jatin

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Newsletter release
by Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hey Could everyone please proofread and add last changes to the Newsletter[1]. Cheers Didi [1] http://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter/1002 -- Hoffmann Geerd-Dietger http://contact.ribalba.de

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RHEL 5.5 released
by Pasi Kärkkäinen 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hello list, "[rhelv5-list] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 GA Announcement": https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-list/2010-March/msg00147.html And: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5/html/Release_… And yes, CentOS team does know about this, and is working on CentOS 5.5. Please be patient :) -- Pasi

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C5 XEN domain not startable
by Dave Stevens 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Hi, I have a Centos 5 box with dom0 and several domUs and one of them is not runnable. I ran updates several days ago and the update included a kernel update so I used virt-manager to reboot. But it won't book. It shows as not running and when I try to run it I get a dialog box with this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 498, in run_domain vm.startup() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 573, in startup self.vm.create() File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 287, in create if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self) libvirtError: Unknown failure I don't know what to do about this. Anyone have ideas? Dave -- "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Krishnamurti

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OT rpmbuild looping
by JohnS 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Any one aware of some type of looping macro for rpmbuild instead of creating an outside script to loop on something like rpmbuild -b[STAGE]. Or anything like a Debugger Stepthrough John

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IBM Touchscreen
by Janez Kosmrlj 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Hi, i have some old IBM USB touchscreens, that insist on not working correctly under CentOS. I tried to use the 3m driver and the elousb driver, but none of them work. The touch part works out of the box witohut any drivers, but i can't find a way to calibrate them The y axis is inverted and the X axis is a bit off. Here is the output form lsusb: Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0596:0001 MicroTouch Systems, Inc. Touchscreen We also have some new models from IBM and they work with elousb driver. We also have some 3m monitors which work with the 3m drivers. Regards, Janez

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selinux on xen virtual machines
by lhecking＠users.sourceforge.net 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

I rebuilt my xen host with the 64-bit OS and am in the process of recreating the guests, both 32 and 64 bit. I use a kickstart installation with virt-install, and so far none of the installation attempts has completed. Anaconda indicates installation should take about 2-3 minutes, but when it comes to installation of selinux policies, it just sits there, and I have no idea what it's doing. No progress 15 minutes later, and it doesn't make a difference whether I disable or not selinux in the kickstart configuration. What's the best thing to do in this situation? CentOS 5.4 with all current updates. --------------------------------------------------------------- This message and any attachments may contain Cypress (or its subsidiaries) confidential information. If it has been received in error, please advise the sender and immediately delete this message. ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Disable specific LUN on a SCSI bus
by Lorenzo Quatrini 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Hi all, do you know if there is a way at boot time do disable specific LUN's on a SCSI bus of a particular controller? I'm trying to write an udev rule, but it seems that the system ignores the "vendor" model/name of the controller... For example: I want to disable /dev/sdb; so I gather some information with udevinfo -a -p /sys/block/sdb and I try to use them to write /etc/udev/rules.d/10-custom.rules ID=="?:0:1:0", BUS=="scsi", DRIVER=="sd", SYSFS{model}=="DDYS-T36950N ", SYSFS{vendor}=="IBM ", OPTIONS="ignore_device", OPTIONS+="last_rule" I put the "?" on the ID field because I know that the order of the controller can change (a kernel update could trigger the switch); also I tried with and without the spaces at the end of vendor and model: no change Where am I wrong? It is a different way of doing this? TIA Ciao Lorenzo

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very strange
by cahit Eyigünlü 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

i have 2 servers in a datacenter and each of them has 2 virtual machines one is linux the other is windows of wirtual machines. when i want to transfer my ip addresses between theese servers , for ex: let me say main server 1' guest windows : A main server 1' guest CentOs: B main server 2' guest windows : C main server 1' guest CentOs: D when i handle an ip of any computers ip in network from A or C it directly handles, no matter where the ip routed from cisco router :D but when i want to handle any computers ip in network from B or D it never get the ip from other source :D how this could happen :)

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Define HTTP proxy system-wide (Squid and Squidguard) ?
by Niki Kovacs 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Hi, I'm currently configuring Squid and Squidguard for filtering web access in a public computer room. So far, everything works fine. I know how to configure Firefox to use a proxy, but there's no way to protect that configuration, e. g. a more knowledgeable user might circumvent this configuration. Is there some way to configure an HTTP proxy system-wide? Cheers from the sunny South of France, Niki

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Re: [CentOS] mounting gfs partition hangs
by sandra-llistes 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Hi, I'm not a GFS expert either :-) In fact, I erased all the configuration of the cluster and try to do it again from scratch with luci/ricci configuration tools (perhaps I did something wrong last time) mount -vv gives the following information: [root@node1 gfs]# mount -t gfs -vv /dev/home2/home2 /home2 /sbin/mount.gfs: mount /dev/mapper/home2-home2 /home2 /sbin/mount.gfs: parse_opts: opts = "rw" /sbin/mount.gfs: clear flag 1 for "rw", flags = 0 /sbin/mount.gfs: parse_opts: flags = 0 /sbin/mount.gfs: parse_opts: extra = "" /sbin/mount.gfs: parse_opts: hostdata = "" /sbin/mount.gfs: parse_opts: lockproto = "" /sbin/mount.gfs: parse_opts: locktable = "" /sbin/mount.gfs: message to gfs_controld: asking to join mountgroup: /sbin/mount.gfs: write "join /home2 gfs lock_dlm gfs-test:gfs-data rw /dev/mapper/home2-home2" ... And hangs at that point (On the other node it happens the same) I tried it turning off the local firewalls on the nodes and they reached each other without problem with pings. Also, there are no more firewalls between them. The new configuration is more simple: [root@node1 gfs]# more /etc/cluster/cluster.conf <?xml version="1.0"?> <cluster alias="gfs-test" config_version="6" name="gfs-test"> <fence_daemon clean_start="0" post_fail_delay="0" post_join_delay="3"/> <clusternodes> <clusternode name="node1.fib.upc.es" nodeid="1" votes="1"> <fence> <method name="1"> <device name="test" nodename="node1.fib.upc.es"/> </method> </fence> </clusternode> <clusternode name="node2.fib.upc.es" nodeid="2" votes="1"> <fence> <method name="1"> <device name="test" nodename="node2.fib.upc.es"/> <device name="test" nodename="node2.fib.upc.es"/> </method> </fence> </clusternode> </clusternodes> <cman expected_votes="1" two_node="1"/> <fencedevices> <fencedevice agent="fence_manual" name="test"/> </fencedevices> <rm> <failoverdomains/> <resources> <clusterfs device="/dev/home2/home2" force_unmount="0" fsid="3280" fstype="gfs" mountpoint="/home2" name="home" self_fence="0"/> </resources> </rm> </cluster> Finally, I reformatted /dev/home2/home2 with the following command that gave no errors but it doesn't affect the final result: gfs_mkfs -O -j 3 -p lock_dlm -t gfs-test:gfs-data /dev/home2/home2 Thanks, Sandra PD: I append an strace but I can't see anything useful. [root@node1 gfs]# strace mount /home2 execve("/bin/mount", ["mount", "/home2"], [/* 17 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x9874000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=26154, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 26154, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7f51000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libblkid.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300 O\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=38620, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f50000 mmap2(0x4f0000, 40000, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x4f0000 mmap2(0x4f9000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x8) = 0x4f9000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libuuid.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\340\316V\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=15704, ...}) = 0 mmap2(0x56c000, 12792, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x56c000 mmap2(0x56f000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x3) = 0x56f000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libselinux.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0000\245T\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=93508, ...}) = 0 mmap2(0x547000, 97112, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x547000 mmap2(0x55d000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x15) = 0x55d000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\340_8\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1611564, ...}) = 0 mmap2(0x370000, 1328580, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x370000 mmap2(0x4af000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x13f) = 0x4af000 mmap2(0x4b2000, 9668, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4b2000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300\220M\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0555, st_size=98576, ...}) = 0 mmap2(0x4d6000, 95648, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x4d6000 mmap2(0x4ec000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x16) = 0x4ec000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0PzK\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=16428, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f4f000 mmap2(0x4b7000, 12408, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x4b7000 mmap2(0x4b9000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1) = 0x4b9000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libsepol.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20\37P\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=245376, ...}) = 0 mmap2(0x4ff000, 285024, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x4ff000 mmap2(0x53a000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x3b) = 0x53a000 mmap2(0x53b000, 39264, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x53b000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/librt.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\200(V\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=44060, ...}) = 0 mmap2(0x561000, 33324, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x561000 mmap2(0x568000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x6) = 0x568000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0@\30L\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=129716, ...}) = 0 mmap2(0x4bd000, 90596, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x4bd000 mmap2(0x4d0000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x13) = 0x4d0000 mmap2(0x4d2000, 4580, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4d2000 close(3) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f4e000 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f4d000 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7f4d710, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 mprotect(0x4af000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x367000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x4b9000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x568000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x4d0000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0xb7f51000, 26154) = 0 set_tid_address(0xb7f4d758) = 3702 set_robust_list(0xb7f4d760, 0xc) = 0 futex(0xbfb40774, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGRTMIN, {0x4c13d0, [], SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGRT_1, {0x4c12e0, [], SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [RTMIN RT_1], NULL, 8) = 0 getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=10240*1024, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="node1.fib.upc.es", ...}) = 0 access("/etc/selinux/", F_OK) = 0 brk(0) = 0x9874000 brk(0x9895000) = 0x9895000 open("/etc/selinux/config", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=448, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f57000 read(3, "# This file controls the state o"..., 4096) = 448 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0xb7f57000, 4096) = 0 open("/proc/mounts", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f57000 read(3, "rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0\n/dev/root"..., 4096) = 744 close(3) = 0 munmap(0xb7f57000, 4096) = 0 open("/selinux/mls", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 read(3, "1", 19) = 1 close(3) = 0 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/setrans/.setrans-unix"...}, 110) = 0 sendmsg(3, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(5)=[{"\1\0\0\0", 4}, {"\1\0\0\0", 4}, {"\1\0\0\0", 4}, {"\0", 1}, {"\0", 1}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 14 readv(3, [{"\1\0\0\0", 4}, {"\1\0\0\0", 4}, {"\0\0\0\0", 4}], 3) = 12 readv(3, [{"\0", 1}], 1) = 1 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=56430448, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 2097152, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7d4d000 close(3) = 0 umask(022) = 022 open("/dev/null", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 close(3) = 0 getuid32() = 0 geteuid32() = 0 getgid32() = 0 getegid32() = 0 prctl(0x3, 0, 0, 0, 0) = 1 open("/etc/blkid/blkid.tab", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=972, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY) fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=972, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f57000 _llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 read(3, "<device DEVNO=\"0xfd03\" TIME=\"126"..., 4096) = 972 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0xb7f57000, 4096) = 0 getuid32() = 0 geteuid32() = 0 lstat64("/etc/mtab", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=446, ...}) = 0 readlink("/home2", 0xbfb3e637, 4096) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) umask(077) = 022 open("/etc/fstab", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 umask(022) = 077 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1178, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f57000 read(3, "/dev/system/root / "..., 4096) = 1178 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0xb7f57000, 4096) = 0 stat64("/sbin/mount.gfs", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=41368, ...}) = 0 clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7f4d758) = 3703 wait4(-1, 0xbfb4028c, 0, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)

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Keyboard problems on Centos 5.4
by Darmath 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

I installed CentOS 5.4on a WMWare Server virtual machine that's running on win7. Everything seems to work fine except I get a shit load of error messages from the console along the lines of when I type on the keyboard: atkbd.c Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x81 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x81 on isa0060/serio0). *atkbd*.*c*: Use '*setkeycodes* e059 <*keycode*>' to make it known. NB: the code's change and there doesn't seem to be any particular codes Is this because i'm running centos on the VM? Any ideas how i go about actually fixing this? I've had Centos dual booted with winxp on this same hardware previously without any problems. Being unfamilar (having not used Centos much) I don't really have any idea where to start to resolve this.

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VMware server 2 - Strange behaviour
by Georghy 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Hi everyone, I recently install VMware on a server using PAE kernel everything was great until I use vmware server everytime i'm connecting to the vmware server web interface after few seconds, the client loose server connection (server shows a loading page) I can't access to my VM till I log on the server run /etc/init.d/vmware restart I try to connect to the server again but connection still fails I try /etc/init.d/vmware stop /etc/init.d/vmware start then it respond me : Starting VMware services: Virtual machine monitor [FAIL] Virtual machine communication interface [ OK ] VM communication interface socket family: [FAIL] Virtual ethernet [FAIL] Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ OK ] I retry /etc/init.d/vmware start VMware Server is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command: /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl. I try /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl but it doesn't work until I reboot I do reboot but connection fails again and I have to do the same thing above. what should I do to make thing working. /All help greatly/ appreciated -- Cordialement, / Greetings, Georghy FUSCO

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yum to use different bind address
by Agnello George 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Hi Is there a way i can use a diffent bind-addresss in yum . Thanks -- Regards Agnello D'souza

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San boot failure after upgrade to latest
by Kwan Lowe 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Hello All: Had an issue after upgrading to the latest CentOS kernel from kernel-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 to kernel-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 on an IBM HS21 blade with SAN boot. Upgrade went fine, but after rebooting the system was unable to find /boot even though it was mounted. The reboot displayed an error with fsck.ext3 that /dev/mapper/mpath0p1 was not found, which was the /boot volume. I reverted to the old kernel and it booted fine. At first I tried rebuilding the initrd to include the multipath modules, but this had no effect. I ended up just re-labeling all the ext3 filesystems and the changing the /boot line in fstab from the /dev/mapper/mpath0p1 device to LABEL=/boot. This resolved the issue. Any idea why the latest kernel did not see the /boot volume when specified as /dev/mapper/mpath0p1?

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Frank Brodbeck ist außer Haus.
by Frank.Brodbeck＠klingel.de 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Ich werde ab 30.03.2010 nicht im Büro sein. Ich kehre zurück am 31.03.2010. Ich werde Ihre Nachricht nach meiner Rückkehr beantworten.

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anybody with Remote-Anything experience?
by Boris Epstein 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Hello listmates, Has anyone got any experience running Remote-Anything ( http://remote-anything.com/ ) under Linux as a client (i.e., connecting from a Linux box t oa Windows box with a view of controlling the latter)? Is it even possible? If the answer to this last question is "yes" how does one do that? Thanks in advance. Boris.

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bruteforce protection howto
by Vadkan Jozsef 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Two pc's: 1 - router 2 - logger Situation: someone tries to bruteforce into a server, and the logger get's a log about it [e.g.: ssh login failed]. What's the best method to ban that ip [what is bruteforcig a server] what was logged on the logger? I need to ban the ip on the router pc. How can i send the bad ip to the router, to ban it? Just run a cronjob, and e.g.: scp the list of ip's from the logger to the router, then ban the ip from the list on the router pc? Or is there any "offical" method for this? I'm just asking for docs/howtos.. :\ to get started.. Thank you!

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SATA Switch
by Matt 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Does anyone know of a front panel SATA switch? I would like to have one drive with 'Windows 7' and another with linux on my PC but do not want them on the same drive. Matt

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aide updated packages
by ceejay cervantes 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Any news on the latest aide package? Current version of aide on CentOS 5 is aide-0.13.1-4.el5. This version of aide produces the following message on /var/log/messages "aide: Libgcrypt warning: missing initialization - please fix the application" when executed. Upstream already has released aide-0.13.1-6.el5 last January. I only see this version on the CentOS5 testing repo http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/SRPMS/ regards, Ceejay Get your preferred Email name! Now you can @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com. http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/

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Image viewer refuses to print TIF graphics
by MHR 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

I'm not sure if it's just the TIFs or if that related at all, since I have had some luck in printing these before, but recently the image viewer (eog - the Eye of GNOME, v 2.16.0.1) has responded to a print command on certain TIFs with nothing. Nothing shows up in the spool queue for the printer, and, although the printer (a Brother 2140 laser printer) heats up, it doesn't print anything at all. Now, this is better than it printing hundreds of pages with indecipherable gobbledygook on them, but I'd really prefer the image itself. Any ideas on what it might be? My "standard" solution is to use either tiff2pdf or Adobe Photoshop Elements (in my virtual WIndows box) to convert them to PDFs, which then print just fine, but that's a real annoyance - tiff2pdf routinely generates enormous PDF files, and it takes a while to bring the XP VM out of hibernation, log in, open APE and run the conversion. Other alternatives welcome.... mhr

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VMWare vs. KVM - recommendations?
by MHR 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Okay, I'm being noisy today. I have VMWare Server 1.0.8 installed on my CentOS desktop, and it runs my XP and CentOS guests just fine, though I don't use them much. I'm considering moving to either VMWare Server 2.0 or switching to KVM instead, mainly because VMWS 1 is now obsolete and also because its limitations on video configurations is really annoying - I have a 22" 1680x1050 LCD monitor, hoping to upgrade sometime in the not-too-distant future to a 23 or 24" display with full HD (1920x1080), but VMWS 1 does not support any wide-screen configurations at all. I tend to use on-screen real estate to maximum benefit, and the 1152x864 maximum useful size I have now is just too small for me, so I'm thinking maybe it's time to upgrade to something newer/better. I've seen some of the horror stories about problems with VMWare 2.0, which is not at all encouraging, and I've taken a look at the Red Hat Virtualization guides (the 5.4 one that's online in html only) and also a PDF version for 5.2 that I found somewhere, and it _looks_ complicated. (One of the main benefits of VMWare Server that I really liked was that it is fairly easy to use and relatively low maintenance, if it works, and 1.0.8 works just fine, except for the screen issue.) OTOH, the built-in nature of KVM is really appealing, and if it works as well as other features of CentOS/RH/Linux, it would be nice to be able to avoid the separate upgrade and re-build-the-drivers-vmware-config.pl annoyance every time a new kernel comes along. I'm a big fan of well-integrated software, especially in this area (virtualization). One question I had that overrides most other considerations is how to transfer my existing XP VM over to whichever new underlying system I choose - is that even possible, or do I have to go through all the reinstallation pain yet another time? If I have to go that route, I'll probably opt for kvm and take that plunge so I can do it once and never again (ok, that was not supposed to be funny... :-). Recommendations? Thanks, as always. Mark Hull-Richter Expert CentOS/Linux C/shell Software Developer Registered Linux User #472807 - sign up at http://counter.li.org/

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AR 9.3+ vs. savable fill-in PDFs on CentOS
by MHR 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

I've tried reporting this to Adobe, but they are remarkably deaf to such an enormous market of free software users. At least as of AR 9.3, including the latest 9.3.1, I have been unable to view or work with the savable fill-in PDFs that I've pulled off the web in the last couple of months. I have no trouble at all with them in my Windows virtual machine, but the Linux version starts up, displays the window/frame outline, then crashes and dies silently. Since Adobe doesn't provide any useful channel of communications for support to users of its free products, even though they are essentially ubiquitous and somewhat essential (for things like this), apparently their recent breakthrough in the area of supporting Linux systems does not include actually supporting Linux systems users. So, since I have made that enormous leap of logic, I wonder, is anyone else experiencing this problem? Yes, I know all about evince - use it most of the time, but it does not handle the fill-in PDFs or the ones where you can save the filled-in values. Any other options? Thanks. mhr

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