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Rendering farm?
by Scott Ehrlich 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

I received at least one email suggesting a Windows-based rendering farm - likely to consist of a few rack systems all running 64-bit Windows. I read an article on Tomshardware which gave some decent insight. What can list participants offer on this concept? I don't care _how_ the resource is implemented - virtual machine, cluster, etc. I just want to get the most resources for the money, and permit the users to get the results they need, when and how they need it. If a desktop solution can be implemented in multiuser farm environment, that would be great. Just provide links/resources to help me get better educated. Who knows, maybe others on the list would benefit from the discussion and results, too. If it makes most sense to migrate the money from a single desktop to a transparently available farm that does the same job the desktop could have done, and considering the farm is expandable, then I'm all for it, as would be the money people! Insights and educated welcome! Scott

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Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2
by Eduardo Silvestre 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hello z00dax, any update about this issue? As i can see, in centos 5.3 the version of php still 5.1.6. Did you have any ETA to php 5.2.0 be moved to release repo? I need upgrade to new php version to support "DateTime" function. Regards, --- Eduardo Silvestre nfsi telecom, lda. eduardo.silvestre(a)nfsi.pt Tel. (+351) 21 949 2300 - Fax (+351) 21 949 2301 http://www.nfsi.pt/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karanbir Singh" <mail-lists(a)karan.org> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:20:26 AM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2 Eduardo Silvestre wrote: > Hello guys, > > i need to know where i can find php version 5.2? > At the moment, php-5.2 for CentOS-5 is in the c5-testing repo, soon to be moved into the c5-webstack repo. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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10 Year old IT Infrastructure
by Shawn Everett 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hi Guys, I have a client who hopes to keep their server another 5 years making it 10 years old at that time. At this point there are no plans to add new infrastructure or a new server to the mix. Their business model is fairly static. I'd like to see them upgrade. Can anyone suggest specific reasons why running a business on 10 year old equipment is a bad thing? Specific arguments I can think of would be: - Hard/Impossible to find replacement hardware - Lack of support for both H/W and S/W - Possibly unable to run current versions of CentOS - Higher probability of hardware failures over time - Performance bottlenecks Any other thoughts? Shawn

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can't update python ?!@#@?
by cornel panceac 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

is this a known issue? # yum update py\* Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: download.srv.ro * updates: download.srv.ro * addons: download.srv.ro * extras: download.srv.ro Skipping security plugin, no data Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies Skipping security plugin, no data --> Running transaction check ---> Package python.i386 0:2.4.3-24.el5_3.6 set to be updated Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 145, in main (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 647, in buildTransaction (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 704, in resolveDeps for po, dep in self._checkFileRequires(): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 939, in _checkFileRequires if not self.tsInfo.getOldProvides(filename) and not self.tsInfo.getNewProvides(filename): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.py", line 414, in getNewProvides for pkg, hits in self.pkgSack.getProvides(name, flag, version).iteritems(): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 300, in getProvides return self._computeAggregateDictResult("getProvides", name, flags, version) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 470, in _computeAggregateDictResult sackResult = apply(method, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 861, in getProvides return self._search("provides", name, flags, version) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 43, in newFunc return func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 837, in _search for pkg in self.searchFiles(name, strict=True): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 43, in newFunc return func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 586, in searchFiles self._sql_pkgKey2po(rep, cur, pkgs) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 470, in _sql_pkgKey2po pkg = self._packageByKey(repo, ob['pkgKey']) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 413, in _packageByKey po = self.pc(repo, cur.fetchone()) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 68, in __init__ self._read_db_obj(db_obj) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 94, in _read_db_obj setattr(self, item, _share_data(db_obj[item])) TypeError: unsubscriptable object -- Linux counter #213090

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SVN hell!
by Guy Boisvert 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hi! I'm trying to install SVN on a latest version of CentOS (5.3). I just did: yum install subversion yum install mod_dav_svn Then i edited /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf and here is the content: ======================== <Location /svn> DAV svn SVNParentPath /var/www/svn # Limit write permission to list of valid users. <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT> # Require SSL connection for password protection. # SSLRequireSSL AuthType Basic AuthName "SVN 1" AuthUserFile /etc/svn/svn-auth-conf Require valid-user </LimitExcept> </Location> After, i did: ============= mkdir -p //var/www/svn/applitv svnadmin create /var/www/svn/applitv svn mkdir file://localhost/var/www/svn/applitv/trunk -m "create" svn mkdir file://localhost/var/www/svn/applitv/branches -m "create" svn mkdir file://localhost/var/www/svn/applitv/tags -m "create" chown -R apache:apache /var/www/svn Finally, i created the AUTH file: ================================= htpasswd -cm /etc/svn/svn-auth-conf user1 htpasswd -m /etc/svn/svn-auth-conf user2 I use the following URL to connect to the server: ================================================= http://10.0.4.32/svn/applitv And i receive the following response: ===================================== This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. − <D:error> <C:error/> <m:human-readable errcode="13"> Could not open the requested SVN filesystem </m:human-readable> </D:error> In the log /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf, i have: ===================================================== [Sun Oct 11 15:48:39 2009] [error] [client 10.0.2.98] (20014)Internal error: Can't open file '/var/www/svn/applitv/format': Permission denied [Sun Oct 11 15:48:39 2009] [error] [client 10.0.2.98] Could not fetch resource information. [500, #0] [Sun Oct 11 15:48:39 2009] [error] [client 10.0.2.98] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #13] [Sun Oct 11 15:48:39 2009] [error] [client 10.0.2.98] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #13] [Sun Oct 11 15:48:39 2009] [error] [client 10.0.2.98] Could not fetch resource information. [403, #0] [Sun Oct 11 15:48:39 2009] [error] [client 10.0.2.98] (2)No such file or directory: The URI does not contain the name of a repository. [403, #190001] What i find very strange is this: ================================= [root@svn mnt]# ll /var/www/svn/applitv/format -r--r--r-- 1 apache apache 2 Oct 11 11:40 /var/www/svn/applitv/format The "format" file (which contains the value "5") is readable. I searched a lot on Google but i still can't figure out what's going on. Any help would be appreciated! MISC INFOS: =========== [root@svn www]# uname -a Linux svn.[removed].com 2.6.18-164.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 04:47:32 EDT 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux (Guest running under Xen CentOS X64 Host) [root@svn www]# cat /etc/issue CentOS release 5.3 (Final) httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.2 mod_dav_svn-1.4.2-4.el5_3.1 Thanks! Guy Boisvert, ing. IngTegration inc.

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Launch applications on GNOME startup ?
by Niki Kovacs 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hi, I just installed and configured Conky, and I'd like to automatically launch it whenever I start a GNOME session. I expected to see some sort of Preferences>Launch Applications on Startup, some user-specific equivalent of rc.local, but there doesn't seem to be such an entry. Any suggestions? Niki

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Resolv.conf with multiple adaptors on multiple networks
by ML 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hi All, I did a clean install of CentOS 5.3 yesterday. During setup I activated both adapters on startup. etho is my public IP and eth1 is my private/internal IP. It did not let me specify nameservers though. So I know this is resolv.conf. I know I put in: nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx But how do I put in nameservers for specific networks? Example, I want my public IP to resolve to the comcast name-servers top get out to things like Google. I want internal to default to my internal DNS once I have it setup. -Jason

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Cant map Apache DAV network place to network drive
by Neil Aggarwal 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hello: I have set up a DAV file system on my apache server using these directives in ssl.conf: Alias /files /var/www/files <Directory /var/www/files> Dav On AuthType Basic AuthName "Filesystem access" AuthUserFile /var/www/files.passwd require valid-user Options Indexes </Directory> On my client machine (Windows XP SP3), I am able to add the https location as a network place. But, when I go to map the network place as a network drive, I can browse to the network place and see the folders, but the OK button is always greyed out. Is there something wrong in my Apache config or is Windows being obtuse? Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, fire, or other disaster? If so, ask about our geographically redundant database system.

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RSync Issues
by ML 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

Hi All, Rsyncing to a USB drive. I am in single user mode. I am doing: rsync -avx --stats --progress --ignore-existing --exclude 'home/backup/ data' / /mnt/sdb2/ But I dont see if ignoring existing. A previous rsync stalled and now it seems to be copying them again rather than ignoring them. Does anyone have thoughts? -ML

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(no subject)
by ferwis＠volny.cz 10 Oct '09

10 Oct '09

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GPT?
by ML 10 Oct '09

10 Oct '09

Hi All, I had a few 320gb sata drives that had OS X on them. Before that they were Windows for testing. I put them in an IBM eServer 335 and now trying to install CentOS 5.3 I get to the partition -> Create custom. I take sda and create a swap and a software raid partition. Same with sdb I then click Raid, mount at / and Raid1 (Mirroring) I try to proceed and I get: boot partition is on a disk using GPT partitioning scheme but this machine cannot boot using GPT. I have never seen this before. Advice? -Jason

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choppy audio playback
by ken 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Oh, wise Centaurs, On the last install (Suse) I was running on this old notebook (Dell i600m) the audio worked fine. Specifically, Realplayer and onsite players (like you get at NPR and other sites) and youtube played just fine. But with this current install (CentOS 5.3, fully updated) all of those sources just mentioned play choppy. It's like an echo so severe that it's impossible to make out what's being said or played. Oddly, piping "festival" into "play" works fine as does using "play" on wav files. Realplay (Gold 11) plays mp3 files just fine too. Anybody else experiencing audio torture? lspci -vv says I have: .... 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH 4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 011e Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Step ping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort - <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 5 Region 0: I/O ports at b800 [size=256] Region 1: I/O ports at bc40 [size=64] Region 2: Memory at f4fff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] Region 3: Memory at f4fff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3h ot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- .... -- War is a failure of the imagination. --William Blake

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disk I/O problems and Solutions
by Alan McKay 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hey folks, CentOS / PostgreSQL shop over here. I'm hitting 3 of my favorite lists with this, so here's hoping that the BCC trick is the right way to do it :-) We've just discovered thanks to a new Munin plugin http://blogs.amd.co.at/robe/2008/12/graphing-linux-disk-io-statistics-with-… that our production DB is completely maxing out in I/O for about a 3 hour stretch from 6am til 9am This is "device utilization" as per the last graph at the above link. Load went down for a while but is now between 70% and 95% sustained. We've only had this plugin going for less than a day so I don't really have any more data going back further. But we've suspected a disk issue for some time - just have not been able to prove it. Our system IBM 3650 - quad 2Ghz e5405 Xeon 8K SAS RAID Controller 6 x 300G 15K/RPM SAS Drives /dev/sda - 2 drives configured as a RAID 1 for 300G for the OS /dev/sdb - 3 drives configured as RAID5 for 600G for the DB 1 drive as a global hot spare /dev/sdb is the one that is maxing out. We need to have a very serious look at fixing this situation. But we don't have the money to be experimenting with solutions that won't solve our problem. And our budget is fairly limited. Is there a public library somewhere of disk subsystems and their performance figures? Done with some semblance of a standard benchmark? One benchmark I am partial to is this one : http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PgCon_2009/Greg_Smith_Hardware_Benchmarking… One thing I am thinking of in the immediate term is taking the RAID5 + hot spare and converting it to RAID10 with the same amount of storage. Will that perform much better? In general we are planning to move away from RAID5 toward RAID10. We also have on order an external IBM array (don't have the exact name on hand but model number was 3000) with 12 drive bays. We ordered it with just 4 x SATAII drives, and were going to put it on a different system as a RAID10. These are just 7200 RPM drives - the goal was cheaper storage because the SAS drives are about twice as much per drive, and it is only a 300G drive versus the 1T SATA2 drives. IIRC the SATA2 drives are about $200 each and the SAS 300G drives about $500 each. So I have 2 thoughts with this 12 disk array. 1 is to fill it up with 12 x cheap SATA2 drives and hope that even though the spin-rate is a lot slower, that the fact that it has more drives will make it perform better. But somehow I am doubtful about that. The other thought is to bite the bullet and fill it up with 300G SAS drives. any thoughts here? recommendations on what to do with a tight budget? It could be the answer is that I just have to go back to the bean counters and tell them we have no choice but to start spending some real money. But on what? And how do I prove that this is the only choice? -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"

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steps to add a new physical disk to existing LVM setup in new centos box?
by Jerry Queirolo 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Not a centos specific question here, but if anyone can save me from shooting myself in the foot would appreciate any pointers.... I have an older centos 4.7 box that I recently replaced with a newer one running centos 5.3. I'd like to add the hard disk from the older one to the newer one before I scrap it for good. I don't care about the data on it, would just like the extra drive on the newer one for my home lan usage. The disk layout on the older one is a 2 partition (/boot and /) with / being a logical volume. Laying out what I think I need to do looks like this : 1. yank old drive and cable up to newer system, expecting this 2nd drive to now be /dev/sdb on the new box 2. pvcreate /dev/sdb1 3. vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sdb1 (VolGroup00 is the volume group name on both system, pretty much default installs in both cases) 3. lvextend -l+100% /dev/VolGroup00 4. resize2fs / The disk in the old system looks like : [root@cow ~]# fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 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 14946 119949322+ 8e Linux LVM [root@cow ~]# fdisk -l -u /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders, total 240121728 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 63 208844 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 208845 240107489 119949322+ 8e Linux LVM [root@cow ~]# pvscan PV /dev/hda2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [114.38 GB / 32.00 MB free] Total: 1 [114.38 GB] / in use: 1 [114.38 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] [root@cow ~]# vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2 [root@cow ~]# lvscan ACTIVE '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' [113.84 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01' [512.00 MB] inherit I'm curious if my 1-4 seem sane, or if I'll need to cfdisk and nuke the existing partitions on the disk once in the newer system, or if pvcreate will do what I need. If there is a preferred method to my madness, and you can save me from shooting a hole in my foot, appeciate any comments. Thanks in Advance, Jerry Queirolo

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Bare Metal vs virtualization
by Scott Ehrlich 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hello to all: I know this list is generally Linux-only, but I figured I'd try to gain wisdom from those with hard-core Windows needs, too. I was recently pricing out a high-end desktop system for a user who will doing a lot of CAD, Matlab, SolidWorks, and other apps that will utilize a lot of number crunching and video. The quote for the desktop (64-bit Vista is likely), which included 12 GB RAM, two 1 TB SATA hard drives, a high-end NVidia 3D video card, and two Intel quad-core 3.3 Ghz processors, was about $15k. An approval manager asked if the money could be better spent towards a cluster for others to use. This user's needs are for Windows-based apps. The open question, then, is can the results the user needs be derived from a high-end Windows cluster or virtual environment that is multi-user capable and runs Windows-based apps, or do they need bare metal for true results and performance? I awaiting an answer on this from the user. In the meantime, for those who may have been faced with this, too, what have you discovered/learned? Thanks. Scott

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Web server in a sandbox?
by Anne Wilson 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

I'd like to understand better the sysadmin aspects of running a wiki. I don't have, and don't intend to at this stage, a web server, but I do have spare capacity on my LAN server box, where I'd like to install MediaWiki. I found this article: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/documentation-guide/en_US/sn-sandbox-setup.ht… Would it be straightforward to follow those instructions on a CentOS5 box? Anything I should be aware of? Remember that this is a whole new ballgame for me. Is it likely to meet my needs? Any recommended reading that takes it right from step1 - assuming no special knowledge? Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase

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DNS is confusing! (I really need some help understanding!)
by ML 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

OK, I am confused and DNS is the reason. So, Comcast, 13 public IP's bound to my modem. Each public IP has a DNS name from comcast (they assign it automatically) like: 173.13.167.209 --> 173-13-167-209-sfba.hfc.comcastbusiness.net I created a DNS entry at GoDaddy for 173.13.167.209 that is 'inhouse.theindiecompanyllc.com' When eth0 is alive, I see that it tells me my name is 173-13-167-209-sfba.hfc.comcastbusiness.net since I am using a comcast DNS Server. So if I setup my own internal caching name server for 173.13.167.209 then I have a third name or can I just use the GoDaddy DNS entry I gave it? Do I then set my systems to use my local name server for their information and not Comcast? How does that effect internet browsing where I dont have entries for google.com, etc in my local name server? Lastly, If I have two NICS (one is 173.13.167.209 and second private internal IP) For my local name server I would have two entries, one for public and one for the private card so I can do something like 'inhouse.local' and get intranet or ssh inhouse.local, etc correct? I see that Paul Heinlin put out a DNS tutorial here: http://www.madboa.com/geek/soho-bind/ Paul, I appreciate this! -ML

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Ping Is Broken
by Rob Townley 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

i am hoping this attachment gets through. It deals with bug in ping that made it very difficult to set up a system with two gateways.

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Unexpected Enconsistency
by vijay shanker 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi Linux geeks; I have just shipped from windows to linux. I am setting up a linuxa server with centos. now after 5 to 6 normal startups shutdown; now this problem has come up. I am not able to get any relevant link any where. /mote: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck manually can any body please tell me what is this. and how to solve the problem. I have executed above given command fsck -p . But again on restart i am getting same problem. what to do. Regards, Vijay Shanker Dubey Ph: +91-9818311884

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 56, Issue 3
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

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-2009:1490 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 squirrelmail - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2009:1490 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 squirrelmail - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2009:1484 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 postgresql Update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2009:1484 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 postgresql Update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2009:1490 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 squirrelmail Update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2009:1490 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 squirrelmail Update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 22:55:32 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1490 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 squirrelmail - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20091008205532.GA19494(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1490 squirrelmail security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1490.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/squirrelmail-1.4.8-16.el3.centos.1.noarch.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/squirrelmail-1.4.8-16.el3.centos.1.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update squirrelmail Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows
by Majian 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Yeah! I agree you ! If you install CentOS in Windows , you firstly backup the important data to some place in case of the machine is crashed;Then you can start to install CentOS by the useful tool which called grub-for-docs. That tool is to build to grub for CentOS and Windows .You can search it by Googling. Gook Luck! And hope this can help you! On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu(a)orgfarm.uu.se>wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf > >Of Frank Thommen > >Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:27 PM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows > > > >> I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with > >> Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? > >> Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this > >> well without me doing some magic, or so? > > > >The installer will handle this perfectly if you select the correct > >partition for your CentOS installation :-) > > With that said, make sure you have a backup of the important stuff on the > Windows-partitions. > > -- > /Sorin > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
by Marcelo M. Garcia 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf >> Of Matt >> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 11:29 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user >> >> Thats my thought as well. Ubuntu desktop and CentOS for servers. >> Just wandering if anyone is using the 'Ubuntu Server Edition's'? They >> seem appealing but CentOS is what I am used too on servers now. >> Thought about loading it up on a box to just try though. > > Not using, but I've tried it in a LAMP-configuration couple of years ago. > Stability seems ok, but personally I don't like the sudo this and sudo that > and sudo everywhere. Besides, it felt somehow clunky. CentOS seemed slim, > slick and fast compared at the time, so CentOS is what I got stuck with (in > an endearing sense of course). > > HTH. Hi Sorin You can "sudo bash" and you will have a root terminal. In it, you can set the root password for root. Regards mg.

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Is fr.centos.org dead ?
by Niki Kovacs 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi, What's wrong with fr.centos.org? Any news? Site's been dead for quite some time now. Niki

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how to turn off "update info" on /var/log/messages
by mcclnx mcc 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

we have CENTOS 5.3 on DELL server. This server is inside firewall and it continue get error messages on /var/log/messages: error getting update info: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: base. Please verify its path and try again anyone know how to turn off it? Thanks. ___________________________________________________ 您的生活即時通－溝通、娛樂、生活、工作一次搞定！ http://messenger.yahoo.com.tw/

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My doubts with apache server on centos installation
by vijay shanker 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi Linux geeks, I have just started to setup a production server with centos; and moved from windows server to centos. My first encounter with this great linux distro is good. I am not able to understand what is the point of having scattered folders for apache server installation. when i see the /etc/httpd folder; it has only conf folder and links to logs, module and , run. As i have been working on Windows where all these files are stored in a single installation folder. So, this makes me quite confused to start with. Can anyone tell me what is the idea behind using such a installation pattern. Now i am going to install java, I have two options via RPM and other is extracting the distro and use it. i have a feeling if i use first option, all the folders like jre and jdk will be palced any where. Not to be found. Please tell me or point to any relevant link. so i can go ahead without any doubt over this issue. -- Regards, Vijay Shanker

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/etc/inittab not loaded properly
by ahmad riza h nst 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

hi, im new here. we have servers with centos 4. yesterday one of it crash and cold rebooted. reboot process run well until finally we found that some of /etc/inittab configurations doesn't loaded properly, like no virtual terminal available and svscanboot not executed. i assumed that these configurations not loaded: # Run gettys in standard runlevels 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 # Run xdm in runlevel 5 x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon SV:123456:respawn:/command/svscanboot clearly this is not normal and how to fix it ? please help! thank you. -- http://blog.rizahnst.org

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OT: What's wrong with RAID5
by Fajar Priyanto 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi all, Sorry for the OT. I've got an IBM N3300-A10 NAS. It runs Data Ontap 7.2.5.1. The problem is, from the docs it says that it only supports either RAID-DP or RAID4. What I want to achieve is Max Storage Capacity, so I change it from RAID-DP to RAID4, but with RAID4, the maximum disk in a RAID Group decrease from 14 to 7. In the end, either using RAID-DP or RAID4, the capacity is the same. Now, why RAID5 is not supported? I believe using RAID5, I can get more storage capacity, can't I? I also notice with some onboard RAID controller, they only support either RAID0, RAID1, or RAID1+0. No RAID5. What's wrong with RAID5, is there any technical limitation with RAID5? Thanks.

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how can i configure linux as ppp
by chloe K 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi My DSL modem has problem. I would like to use linux as ppp. How can I configure it? Thank you __________________________________________________________________ Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com

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Desktop apps, OO and Scribus
by lhecking＠users.sourceforge.net 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

I just came across a user who tried to view a Word document on a CentOS5 machine, and it seems that desktop, firefox etc. are trying to view it with Scribus instead of OpenOffice. This needs to change. Is there a system-wide setting for it? On the older, RHEL3 systems we used to have mozplugger, but it's not available in the standard CentOS repositories or rpmforge. What are we supposed to use now? I have one CentOS box here that has mozplugger installed, but I don't know where that came from, it's not in the yum log files.

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Cloning Centos server with RSync - what to exclude?
by Bob Puff＠NLE 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hi all, I have a few CentOS servers that I want to mirror live, to be standby spares. The "spare" machines could be either a different machine (with a different motherboard), or a VM in Vmware server. I've used rsync in the past, which works well for doing it while the machine is live. However, I want the destination to be running different hardware, and have a different IP address assigned to the nic. My goal is to rsync everything -except- the files that pertain to the network interface, and the file system mount points. My process is this: 1. Install Centos on "spare" machine, configure for proper ethernet. 2. Rsync from live to spare, excluding files pertaining to NIC and FS. Then if it needs to go live, I simply change the IP address, and I'm off and running. The question is: what do I exclude? I know /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/, /etc/fstab, and /etc/modules*, but what else? I think there may be some stuff in /var also that deals with raid, etc. The live computer is running software raid, while the backup will not. Bob

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[offtopic] idea status.net
by lostson 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hey all I was sitting here thinking about things and I came up with an idea that sounded, at least in my head, like a good one. There has been a boom in things like twitter and brainbird and social networking setups in general. I was wondering if the project or anyone would be interested in setting up a status.net server specifically for the CentOS project ? Why? you ask, well here are some of my reasons. 1) a central hub for all things centos, updates, wiki updates various messages from the dev team and whatever else 2) We could create groups much like in irc centos, social, devs, and many others 3) another outlet to get questions answered besides forums mailing lists or irc. 4) Quick collaboration between parties interested in CentOS Some other questions would be Where could we get this hosted ? What would we call it ? (centosuniverse - lame but hey) Would this be viable for the CentOS project ? I have noticed with brainbird you can go over the 140 character limit which may also be a good idea 140 can limit you in some ways. I also thought this would be a good way to create a community outlet. It is after all easier to post a quick 140 char message about what is going on than to compose a whole email or forum post. I've seen several websites and communities starting to use this as a outlet for their projects. So the ultimate question is (poor HHG2G reference there) - Would this work and would it be wise to persue this option ? I would volunteer to do the leg work to get things going and help anywhere I can of course. But would others like to collaborate on this as well ? Here is a link to Status.net http://status.net/ For further reading on the subject of the server side of it anyway. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org CentOS - it's not just for servers ya know...

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Linux CD Stores
by ML 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

HI All, It seems that the days of ordering burned CD's of distros has faded. People just have fast internet now. I recall a number of times that I ordered Slackware CD's or others because it was just easier than downloading and burning myself. I am actually planning on ordering CentOS 5.4 media when available to support the project. Does anyone think these store make any money? (Linux CD Mall, Linux CD Shop, Linux Central...etc) I see a number of them (like Mad Tux) dont exist anymore. Wouldn't someone selling a set for a few dollars plus shipping clean up? Opinions, please. -ML

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 56, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

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-2009:1485 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 postgresql - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2009:1485 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 postgresql - security update (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 23:13:30 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1485 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 postgresql - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20091007211330.GB29860(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1485 postgresql security update for CentOS 3 x86_64: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1485.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: updates/x86_64/RPMS/rh-postgresql-7.3.21-2.x86_64.rpm updates/x86_64/RPMS/rh-postgresql-contrib-7.3.21-2.x86_64.rpm updates/x86_64/RPMS/rh-postgresql-devel-7.3.21-2.x86_64.rpm updates/x86_64/RPMS/rh-postgresql-docs-7.3.21-2.x86_64.rpm updates/x86_64/RPMS/rh-postgresql-jdbc-7.3.21-2.x86_64.rpm updates/x86_64/RPMS/rh-postgresql-libs-7.3.21-2.x86_64.rpm updates/x86_64/RPMS/rh-postgresql-pl-7.3.21-2.x86_64.rpm updates/x86_64/RPMS/rh-postgresql-python-7.3.21-2.x86_64.rpm updates/x86_64/RPMS/rh-postgresql-server-7.3.21-2.x86_64.rpm updates/x86_64/RPMS/rh-postgresql-tcl-7.3.21-2.x86_64.rpm updates/x86_64/RPMS/rh-postgresql-test-7.3.21-2.x86_64.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/rh-postgresql-7.3.21-2.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 x86_64 installations by running the command: yum update rh-postgresql\* Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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Re: [CentOS] GnuPG for CentOS 5.3?
by Dick Roth 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf >> Of Dick Roth >> Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 12:44 PM >> To: CentOS List >> Subject: [CentOS] GnuPG for CentOS 5.3? >> >> Good Morning-- >> >> I'm looking to shore up security in my system and with communications. >> Can you point me to the proper version of GnuPG for CentOS 5.3 (Final)? > > root@mach003 ~/ [0]# yum list gnupg* > [...] > Installed Packages > gnupg.i386 1.4.5-14 > installed > Available Packages > gnupg2.i386 2.0.9-1.el5 > epel > > The 1.4.5-14-version is the default installed AFAIK. If you want something > newer you'll have to look further, eg to the epel repo. > > IMO the default install of gpg is good enough. Remember, you break it, you > get to keep the pieces. > > Is this for use with Evolution or Thinderbird? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanks to all who responded. I'll be using Thunderbird. Dick -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin 1755

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tgtadm and exported iscsi volumes
by Joseph L. Casale 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Out of haste I decided for the first time not to pull down and compile iet to export a single volume to a windows machine so I just used tgtd. Well, much more time later than otherwise would be the case had I used iet, when I mount the volume on the windows ini, it can't find and install a driver? WTF? This have anything to do with the tgtd being a tech preview:) Anybody seen this b4? jlc

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pbond0: received packet with own address as source address
by aurfalien＠gmail.com 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hi all, I've been seeing this message fill my logs; pbond0: received packet with own address as source address I've tried; ip set link pbond0 down ip set link pbond0 arp off ip set link pbond0 up in /etc/systcl net.ipv4.conf.bond0.arp_ignore = 8 net.ipv4.conf.bond0.arp_announce = 2 I've 2 physycal nics bonded in mode0 called bond0. Are these messages benign and to be ignored? - aurf

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Re: [CentOS] Bond Issues
by nate 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Joseph L. Casale wrote: > 802.3ad info > LACP rate: slow Just a thought but try changing the lacp rate to fast? http://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/question/static/linux-ethernet-bonding-drive… lacp_rate Option specifying the rate in which we'll ask our link partner to transmit LACPDU packets in 802.3ad mode. Possible values are: slow or 0 Request partner to transmit LACPDUs every 30 seconds fast or 1 Request partner to transmit LACPDUs every 1 second The default is slow. nate

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Broadcom chips: TOE or no TOE?
by Florin Andrei 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Last time I checked (but that was a while ago) TOE (TCP Offloading Engine) was not supported very well, at least not with Broadcom chips. Did anything change in that regard recently? More specifically, the chip I'm looking at is Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709 and the distribution is 5.3 Any luck with proprietary drivers? Any problems those drivers may cause with bonding? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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CentOS for non-tech user
by Anne Wilson 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop. He needs are small. She has been used to Mozilla for both mail and browsing, so equivalents there are not a problem. She needs grip and lame, for her mp3s - again no problem. In fact the only problem I can see is that gwenview doesn't appear to have the kipi-plugins. I can see libkipi listed, but no plugins, and a pbone search didn't find it for me. Perhaps it's available from a repo that I don't have? This is the tool of choice for me, for photo-printing. I think I've covered the areas that she's interested in. Can anyone point out any other things I should consider? Once I have the system set up as she needs I shall set up cron jobs to keep her up to date. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase

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Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows
by cornel panceac 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

2009/9/29 Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu(a)orgfarm.uu.se> > >-----Original Message----- > >From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf > >Of Frank Thommen > >Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:27 PM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows > > > >> I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with > >> Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? > >> Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this > >> well without me doing some magic, or so? > > > >The installer will handle this perfectly if you select the correct > >partition for your CentOS installation :-) > usually, you need at least two partitions: one for / and one for swap. best is to setup first a small /boot partition. i'm sure somewhere there are some docs about it :) > > With that said, make sure you have a backup of the important stuff on the > Windows-partitions. > > -- > /Sorin > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Linux counter #213090

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bind question, please help
by adrian kok 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hi I don't know how to let the dns as zone and also enquriy in local network please help if this. the outside and inside can use this server to enquiry zone, but can't enquriy non zone. but how can I let it enquiry non zone restrict in local network. Thank you allow-query { any; }; recursion no; Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [CentOS] Bring up Networking in Single User Mode
by R.C. Prince 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

I believe he's onto something there...routable addresses would be 172.16.254.81 thru 172.16.254.94 on 28 bits...and there's that pesky rule about having your gateway on the same subnet as the node. :) ------Original Message------ From: Eduardo Grosclaude Sender: centos-bounces(a)centos.org To: CentOS mailing list ReplyTo: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Bring up Networking in Single User Mode Sent: Oct 7, 2009 1:35 PM On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:28 PM, ML <mailinglists(a)mailnewsrss.com> wrote: > Nate, > >> ifconfig ethX IP_ADDRESS netmask NETMASK >> route add default gw IP_OF_GATEWAY > > OK, so I was correct, > > I am doing > > ifconfig eth0 172.16.254.80 netmask 255.255.255.240 > route add default gw 172.16.254.1 > > I am getting Network is unreachable. That's correct. Write down 80, 1 and 240 in binary. With a /28 mask, your IP address and your gateway are in different subnets. -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

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DNS Serving - Why my own?
by ML 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

HI All, Can anyone explain why I might want to run my own DNS Server in-house? I have a comcast business circuit and use their DNS servers and when I need entries, I use GoDaddy where I buy my domains. Best, -ML

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Failing Hard Disk?
by Stewart Williams 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hi All, I am fairly certain that this disk is failing in my server, and I am replacing it straight away anyway. However, I'd appreciate the views of the list just to be sure as I value your opinion(s). I got these errors, once only so far, in /var/log/messages. This disk has / on it. Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000001 Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: cmd 60/f8:00:b9:1e:71/00:00:14:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 126976 in Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: res 41/40:00:40:1f:71/a0:00:14:00:00/00 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F> Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: error: { UNC } Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: cmd 60/08:08:b1:1f:71/00:00:14:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 4096 in Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: res 41/04:f8:40:1f:71/00:00:14:00:00/00 Emask 0x1 (device error) Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: error: { ABRT } Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: cmd 60/00:10:b9:1f:71/01:00:14:00:00/40 tag 2 ncq 131072 in Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: res 41/04:f8:40:1f:71/00:00:14:00:00/00 Emask 0x1 (device error) Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Oct 5 08:34:53 server1 kernel: ata1.00: error: { ABRT } Oct 5 08:34:54 server1 kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 Oct 5 08:34:58 server1 kernel: ata1: EH complete Oct 5 08:35:02 server1 kernel: SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) Oct 5 08:35:06 server1 kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Oct 5 08:35:13 server1 kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through I am also getting these errors every 30 minutes: Oct 5 06:22:06 server1 smartd[3118]: Device: /dev/sda, 12 Offline uncorrectable sectors Below is the smart selftest log: smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: GB0250C8045 Serial Number: 9SF0H82R Firmware Version: HPG2 User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 4a Local Time is: Tue Oct 6 18:58:31 2009 BST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 121) The previous self-test completed having the read element of the test failed. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 625) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 58) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 3) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x103f) SCT Status supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 062 061 044 Pre-fail Always - 173060773 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 099 099 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 17 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 089 089 036 Pre-fail Always - 243 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 074 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 27793554 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 094 094 000 Old_age Always - 5695 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 17 184 Unknown_Attribute 0x0033 100 100 003 Pre-fail Always - 0 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1 188 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 071 064 045 Old_age Always - 29 (Lifetime Min/Max 18/36) 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 029 040 000 Old_age Always - 29 (0 9 0 0) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 038 026 000 Old_age Always - 173060773 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0033 089 089 036 Pre-fail Always - 243 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 24 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 ATA Error Count: 1 CR = Command Register [HEX] FR = Features Register [HEX] SC = Sector Count Register [HEX] SN = Sector Number Register [HEX] CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX] CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX] DH = Device/Head Register [HEX] DC = Device Command Register [HEX] ER = Error register [HEX] ST = Status register [HEX] Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes, SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days. Error 1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 5660 hours (235 days + 20 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 51 00 ff ff ff 0f Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- 60 00 f8 ff ff ff 4f 00 36d+00:05:49.464 READ FPDMA QUEUED 60 00 00 ff ff ff 4f 00 36d+00:05:49.438 READ FPDMA QUEUED 61 00 08 59 d0 09 40 00 36d+00:05:49.430 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 61 00 18 41 d0 09 40 00 36d+00:05:49.417 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 60 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 36d+00:05:48.810 READ FPDMA QUEUED SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 5689 526673 # 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 5685 526673 SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. Thanks for any advice in advance.

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Disc layout advice
by Joseph L. Casale 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

I have a DAS w/ 6 750Gb and 6 1Tb discs I am setting up using Linux raid. The controller is a POS so each disc is exported as an R0 single volume. I used a parted and fdisk script to create 1 max size partition labeled as Linux Raid Autodetect and created the first r6 array w/ mdadm. I normally create and mark partitions as raid or lvm so people know what's going on. The first md array is obviously too large for fdisk and parted doesn't create lvm partitions does it? Should I just pvcreate the raw /dev/md0 and not worry about creating an lvm partition on it, or should/(can?) I? Thanks! jlc

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Re: [CentOS] How fast?
by Kevin Krieser 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

On Oct 6, 2009, at 2:23 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf >> Of Paul Heinlein >> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 12:35 AM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] How fast? >> >> The bigger issue is ensuring that an older computer has enough disk >> space to house a modern distro and enough RAM to run modern kernels >> -- >> and even then you can tighten things up if you're willing to work >> with >> a speciality distro. > > I second that, nicely put! > > If I may suggest Smoothwall for a firewall appliance...? This is a > specialty > distro, IPCop is another similar distro. Smoothwall's even got a > simple > static DNS built-in, just the thing for a smallish home network. > Might be > just what the OP is looking for? > -- i know I used to use a Linux PC as a firewall for my home system. Back before the inexpensive routers, and before the fairly easy to find specialty loads. The thing that got me away from it was it was my only Linux system at the time, and a botched update ended up with me having an unbootable system. And an emergency trip to Staples to buy the distribution they had there. A couple days without a protected home network, and I decided to eventually go with a dedicated box. Things would be different if I wanted to get fancier than what these standalone systems provided. But right now, I don't need the extra capability.

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Bring up Networking in Single User Mode
by ML 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hi All, Can anyone provide advice on how to bring up networking in Single User Mode? I need to specify an IP, mask, gateway and bring up the adaptor so I can ssh into another machine to transfer files to it. -ML

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CentOS-5.3 Inactive device reports error - bugzilla:465442
by James B. Byrne 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

I am seeing this in the syslog when starting a multi-homed CentOS-5.3 host. Oct 6 08:35:04 inet04 nm-system-settings: initial_add_devices_of_type: could not get device from HAL: An SELinux policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager" member "FindDeviceByCapability" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal") (9). Which appears to be this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465442 However, I cannot tell from the bug description and commentary what is actually going on. What does this message mean and how is the situation reported rectified? I speculate that this error is somehow related to the fact that eth1 is not activated on boot by intent, but I cannot tell for sure. If anyone has the explanation of what is happening, what it means, and how this is fixed I would appreciate learning it. Regards, -- *** 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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trying to understand OSS, GPL, BSD & other licensing model for software distribution.
by Rudi Ahlers 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hi all, We are busy developing some software (some is web based, others not) and I am having a bit of hard time understanding (or rather, choosing) a license model to work with, We will offer some free software (PHP based scripts, and even Windows based applications) and for this I'm sure the GPL, or even LGPL (for the network side?) will work fine. But, we also need to suppose these scripts, and will be charging for support (other for installations, customization, or even custom derivations, etc), but at the same time we need to distribute some commercial software to cover developer's salaries, rents, marketing, business growth, etc. Now, my question(s) is as follows: Can I sell one script as GPL, but another as AGPL, or even BSD under the same company name? And if these 2 are tied together (i.e. being able to be used together, although seperate programs / script - for example Apache + PHP), how would I license them? We are writing a series of PHP + MySQL based scripts which can be used on the internet, either stand-alone, or in conjunction with other scripts (API driven), and I want to offer a free, limited edition, as well as commercial edition with more features. We're also writing some software that makes use of MySQL / sqlite / postgresql, and even MSSQL, so I need to take their licenses into consideration. What would be the best license for this? I know it's broad, but there's just too much to readup on the different licences and I've read a lot already, not knowing where to go. I have a feeling that I may need to go the dual / multi-license route, but even then I don't know which licences to use. The open source projects wouls also be open for other people to add their own modifications, but I would also like to allow others to write commercial addon's as well. Any pointers, and even past-experiences? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532

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problem installing centos 5.3 on IBM x3200 m2
by Janez Kosmrlj 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hi, I am trying to install centos 5.3 on ibm x3200 m2 server. The problem appears when the installer is about to finish the installation. It detects the RAID correctly, but it doesn't finish formatting the root partition. I tried the default partition layout and also a custom one, but it always ends with the same message: An error occurred trying to format /. this problem is serious and the install cannot continue. I also checked the error console (ctrl+alt+F4) and it writes: <3> sd 0:1:10:0: rejecting I/O to offline device lspci says that the machin has an: LSI Logic SAS1064ET PCI-Express SCSI controller Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5722 Ethernet Has anybody an idea, how to fix this? BR

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