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Minor dovecot/KMail problem
by Timothy Murphy 27 Jun '09

27 Jun '09

I'm running a dovecot/IMAP server under CentOS-5.3 on my desktop, reading the mail with KMail on my laptop. I have what seems a venerable and well-documented problem/bug; when I click on "Check Mail" I get an error message "Error while getting folder information" ... Actually, this doesn't appear to have the slightest effect on kmail, which works perfectly if one just presses Continue. But I have worked out that the cause of the problem is that there exists a kind of ghost folder, "uidvalidity", which is listed among the folders on the kmail page but does not in fact seem to exist in my maildir on the server. Deleting the folder under kmail has no permanent effect; it simply re-appears when I re-start kmail. I assume the folder is listed in some way in the dovecot.index ; and my question really is: if I delete this index file will it be re-created automatically? This bug/feature seems to have been present for years, which I suppose is par for KDE. To make it as difficult as possible to diagnose, the error message on the kmail page is incomplete, even when expanded to the whole screen. In particular it does not specify (on the visible part) what folder is causing the problem. Nor is the error listed with other dovecot information in /var/log/messages . Any suggestions/advice gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin

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Schnitzer, Ted is out of the office.
by Ted_Schnitzer＠vrtx.com 27 Jun '09

27 Jun '09

I will be out of the office starting 06/25/2009 and will not return until 07/06/2009. In my absence please contact Dave Lowenstein or Ted Wojcik for UNIX/Linux technical issues. Please contact Kim Richardson for management issues. Thanks, Ted

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libgio?
by Ron Blizzard 27 Jun '09

27 Jun '09

Hi, I'm trying to run Celtx (a screenplay formatter) in CentOS 5.3 from the shell. If I run celtx-bin I get the following error: ./celtx-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libjemalloc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory If I run celtx I get ./celtx-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgio-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I can't find either of these files in the repositories. I find libgioXXX for OpenSuse and Mandriva at PBone, but not for Red Hat. I'm guessing these files are part of a bigger library? Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3

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2TB partition limitation on X86_64 version??
by mcclnx mcc 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

we have DELL server with Centos 5.3 X86_64 bits version on it. This server also have couple MD1000 connect to it. We configured MD1000 as one hardware Volume size 2990GB. I tried to use "fdisk" to partition this 2990Gb volume and "fdisk" can only see 2000GB. does 64 bits O.S. still have 2TB limitation on File system? Does there has other tool can partition disk size large than 2TB? (I don't like use LVM) Thanks. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 付費才容量無上限？Yahoo!奇摩電子信箱2.0免費給你，信件永遠不必刪！ http://tw.mg0.mail.yahoo.com/dc/landing

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Problem with Logitech wireless keyboard EX110
by MHR 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

I got a Logitech EX110 wireless keyboard and mouse set about a year or so ago, maybe more. The number pad on the keyboard stopped working after a while, so I complained to Logitech, and they sent me a new keyboard (actually, the whole set). I've had the problem on and off again a couple of times since then, but it usually only lasts a few days before all is well again. However, my son also has the same set (well, same model, different pieces of hardware) on his Windows XP machine, and he has _never_ had this problem. Tonight, he suggested that it might be a Linux problem, so I took our spare keyboard of this same type and switched them on my machine. Surprise: the new keyboard has exactly the same problem - no response from the number pad. Actually, that's not entirely accurate. The num lock and the Enter key both work, but the 5 key produces some control combination I don't recognize (seems to behave something like ^V of a previously ^X'd clipboard copy, unrelated to the current input), and the + key which seems to produce something like ^V^V, or "highlight the current terminal line" or something, but none of the other keys work at all. In any case, it looks like this is a problem with the keyboard driver, not the keyboard hardware. If I replace the wireless set with a wired keyboard and mouse, without rebooting, the mouse works, but the keyboard does not. (Apparently, after I tried the following, it turned out to be a bad keyboard....) If I replace the keyboard and reboot, oh, foo, bad keyboard. But! If I reboot with a good keyboard, it works, and then I can switch back to the wireless set and everything works, _including_ the number pad: 0.123456789/*-+ Is there a way to refresh the keyboard driver without rebooting? Anyway, thoughts, suggestions, etc. welcome. mhr

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 52, Issue 12
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '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-2009:1124 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 net-snmp - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2009:1124 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 net-snmp - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2009:1128 Important CentOS 3 i386 kdelibs - security update (Tru Huynh) 4. CESA-2009:1128 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 kdelibs - security update (Tru Huynh) 5. CESA-2009:1122 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 icu Update (Karanbir Singh) 6. CESA-2009:1122 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 icu Update (Karanbir Singh) 7. CESA-2009:1123 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 gstreamer-plugins-good Update (Karanbir Singh) 8. CESA-2009:1123 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-good Update (Karanbir Singh) 9. CESA-2009:1127 Critical CentOS 5 i386 kdelibs Update (Karanbir Singh) 10. CESA-2009:1127 Critical CentOS 5 x86_64 kdelibs Update (Karanbir Singh) 11. CESA-2009:1130 Critical CentOS 5 i386 kdegraphics Update (Karanbir Singh) 12. CESA-2009:1130 Critical CentOS 5 x86_64 kdegraphics Update (Karanbir Singh) 13. CESA-2009:1126 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 thunderbird Update (Karanbir Singh) 14. CESA-2009:1126 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 thunderbird Update (Karanbir Singh) 15. CEBA-2009:1131 CentOS 5 i386 autofs Update (Karanbir Singh) 16. CEBA-2009:1131 CentOS 5 x86_64 autofs Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:36:31 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1124 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 net-snmp - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090625173631.GA11571(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1124 net-snmp security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1124.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/net-snmp-5.0.9-2.30E.28.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/net-snmp-devel-5.0.9-2.30E.28.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/net-snmp-libs-5.0.9-2.30E.28.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/net-snmp-perl-5.0.9-2.30E.28.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/net-snmp-utils-5.0.9-2.30E.28.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/net-snmp-5.0.9-2.30E.28.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update net-snmp\* 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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Secure mail login problem
by Bob Hoffman 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

Hi all, Finally got around to making sendmail and dovecot use a secure log in procedure on my server. Now when I open up outlook it goes through a secure log in. Unfortunately, I am using my own self signed cert on the server for this. Hence, I get, for every single account, everytime I open up outlook a warning about untrusted cert. I have looked around and found a spot in IE to 'import' a cert of some kind...and this would seem like the way to make it work. I am unsure exactly what I am supposed to copy or run on the server to then save to my home computer to then add to the 'import' part. For sendmail I made a sendmail.pem and dovecot already came installed with its cert. It is annoying to have the warnings everytime I open outlook up and if anyone has experience with this stuff I would not mind a quick helping hand. Thanks all. Bob

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card reader not responding
by Michael Klinosky 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

I saved pictures on an SD card with my Nokia phone (1 GB). Now, I'm trying to use the card on my Acer Aspire 3680 (laptop) running 5.3 and gnome. Popping the card in (until it clicks) evokes nothing from the system log or dmesg, and I don't see anything relevant in /dev. (What is the device for this?) lspci has this entry: 0a:09.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) I couldn't find anything in Cent's wiki (searching for "card reader"), so I tired Google's linux SE, and found this: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=64974 I tried all 3 modprobe lines (as root) - "FATAL ... not found." So, one problem seems to be that I'm unfamiliar with modprobe; what's wrong? Do I need to install something? I should note that I'm not at all familiar with setting up new stuff like this. If I'm going at it wrong, please inform!

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Re: [CentOS] [Ocfs2-users] Unexplained reboots in DRBD82 + OCFS2 setup
by Kris Buytaert 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 12:02 -0700, Sunil Mushran wrote: > Do you have a separate network path for drbd traffic? If you do > not, then you are probably overloading the network. In this case, > I believe drbd is unable to replicate the ios fast enough and thus > is blocking the o2cb disk heartbeat. One workaround is to increase > the O2CB_HEARTBEAT_THRESHOLD to more than the default of 60 secs. > Refer to the ocfs2 faq or ocfs2 1.4 user's guide for more on this. > I've already modified the O2CB_HEARTBEAT_TRESHOLD to different values (120, 240 etc), with no changes.. > And if you want to capture the logs, setup netconsole. > /dev/console is a serial device connected to a terminal server, so far the best I got was a partial timestamp before I saw the output of the reboot again .. It tries to log .. but doesn't finish writing it :( But mostly there is no activity at all on the serial console :( Any other ideas ? greetings Kris > Kris Buytaert wrote: > > We're trying to setup a dual-primary DRBD environment, with a shared > > disk with either OCFS2 or GFS. The environment is a Centos 5.3 with > > DRBD82 (but also tried with DRBD83 from testing) . > > > > Setting up a single primary disk and running bonnie++ on it works. > > Setting up a dual-primary disk, only mounting it on one node (ext3) and > > running bonnie++ works > > > > When setting up ocfs2 on the /dev/drbd0 disk and mounting it on both > > nodes, basic functionality seems in place but usually less than 5-10 > > minutes after I start bonnie++ as a test on one of the nodes , both > > nodes power cycle with no errors in the logfiles, just a crash. > > > > When at the console at the time of crash it looks like a disk IO (you > > can type , but actions happen) block happens then a reboot, no panics, > > no oops , nothing. ( sysctl panic values set to timeouts etc ) > > Setting up a dual-primary disk , with ocfs2 only mounting it on one node > > and starting bonnie++ causes only that node to crash. > > > > On DRBD level I get the following error when that node dissapears > > > > drbd0: PingAck did not arrive in time. > > drbd0: peer( Primary -> Unknown ) conn( Connected -> NetworkFailure ) > > pdsk(UpToDate -> DUnknown ) > > drbd0: asender terminated > > drbd0: Terminating asender thread > > > > That however is an expected error because of the reboot. > > > > At first I assumed OCFS2 to be the root of this problem ..so I moved > > forward and setup an ISCSI target on a 3rd node, and used that device > > with the same OCFS2 setup. There no crashes occured and bonnie++ > > flawlessly completed it test run. > > > > So my attention went back to the combination of DRBD and OCFS > > > > I tried both DRBD 8.2 drbd82-8.2.6-1.el5.centos kmod-drbd82-8.2.6-2 and > > the 83 variant from Centos Testing > > > > At first I was trying with the ocfs2 1.4.1-1.el5.i386.rpm verson but > > upgrading to 1.4.2-1.el5.i386.rpm didn't change the behaviour > > > > > > Anyone has an idea on this ? > > How can we get more debug info from OCFS2 , apart from heartbeat > > tracing which doesn't learn me nothing yet .. in order to potentially > > file a valuable bug report. > > >

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[offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?
by Michael A. Peters 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

Is there something funny about rpm in Fedora 11 that causes cpio errors when trying to install src.rpm's in CentOS 5.3, or am I just getting repeated bad downloads?

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Securing SQUID
by Wahyu Darmawan 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

Hi experts, I have implemented squid for my school environment. How to testing it for the security? ingoing and outgoing? Thanks before. Regards,

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Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
by Les Mikesell 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: >> >>>>> It doesn't have to be available in a rpm-package, just available from >>> yum. >>>> Errr, yum doesn't know about anything but rpms. >>> Yupp, that's what I was trying to say but failed. 8-} I prefer either a >>> rpm-package to install from or something available via yum. Gallery2 is a >>> tar.gz-packagge. >> If you want something even easier for personal use there are inexpensive >> network file server appliances with built in media and web services so >> you just dump stuff in a mounted directory and it's available. For >> example: http://www.synology.com/enu/products/DS209j/index.php > > Seems like I also did not mention it must be free, as in not costing > anything. 8-) > > Though I dream of a six-disk NAS filled with 1TB-drives... 8-/ The point of these devices is that the cost ends up being negative compared to running stuff on a full-featured computer powered up all the time. Plus, they integrate the media server, so upnp/DLNA clients like the PS3/Xbox360 and an increasing number of network-connected TV's can view the same pictures with their built in protocol without yet another setup. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
by Bart Schaefer 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:47 AM, 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 Bart Schaefer >> >>Does anyone know of something REALLY simple? As in, using nothing but >>a directory hierarchy, CSS, and possibly some Javascript? > > Vi and some manual coding? ;-) Yeah, if I had time ... > Seriously, if you just want to have them available, just drop the files in a > folder and allow directory listing on that folder. That's *almost* what I want, except I want the directory listing to show the actual images instead of just links to the images.

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RPM python subroutine for (epoch, version, release) comparation?
by Robinson Tiemuqinke 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

Hi, all, On Centos 5 I am programming RPM with python recently. When I read the online RPM python programming guide at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch16s05.html, I got confused at the EVR() function as the function returns the (epoch, version, release) as a string “%epoch-%version-%release”, and so the RPM comparing process is simplified as string comparing – which doesn’t look correct, am I wrong? See the code from the page: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- file_h = ts.hdrFromFdno(fd) file_ds = file_h.dsOfHeader() inst_ds = inst_h.dsOfHeader() if file_ds.EVR() >= inst_ds.EVR(): print "Package file is same or newer, OK to upgrade." else: print "Package file is older than installed version." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’ve see another function in rpm object: rpm.versionCompare(h1,h2) which compare two rpm headers, Am I supposed to use this function or the EVR as documented? The former one is not well documented, though. Thanks. -- Robinson

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CentOS 5.3; x11 lost keyboard
by George R Goffe 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

Howdy, I have an IBM thinkpad with it's "standard" monitor and keyboard. It's been connected to a larger monitor and usb keyboard and usb mouse. The xorg.conf is a dual head config. This has been working for a few weeks now but has started failing. During boot and subsequent login the keyboard and mouse (gpm started) and display (larger monitor) work fine. When I startx, the keyboard becomes "dead to the world". NO signals are sent from the keyboard as far as I can tell. I had just configured VNC server and made it start at boot time when this problem appeared. I am sadly in need of hints/tips/suggestions as to how to trouble shoot this problem. Thanks, George... "It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain't so." Wil Rogers

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More awk help
by Joseph L. Casale 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Hey guys, Looking through my book and the web and I am not having any success returning data from a search. I need to have awk search for a string and print the first field which is no problem but now its returning two options as the input data has changed. The change is reliable, I only want the first field if it ends in a regex that I have, and I only want what that regex matches to be printed. Is it possible to do this in a one liner so I don't need to construct an awk script? I suppose I could pipe it into grep and cut but that's not very sexy :) Any ideas? Thanks! jlc

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setup VLAN without primary LAN?
by mcclnx mcc 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

we would like setup VLAN on CENTOS 5.X and 4.x. Only VLAN will active, but primary LAN NOT active. E.g "eth0" inactive, but "eth0.2" active. I have been tried several ways, but never successful. Any ideal? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 付費才容量無上限？Yahoo!奇摩電子信箱2.0免費給你，信件永遠不必刪！ http://tw.mg0.mail.yahoo.com/dc/landing

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migrasi Email account client di qmailtoaster
by dani 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Dear Rekan2 Saya mau tanya langsung nich... Kalau mau backup email-email address client beserta password nya di qmailtoaster server gmana yach cara nya???? Jadi kalau mau ganti server tinggal restore email address client dan password nya saja. Terima kasih Dani

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Unexplained reboots in DRBD82 + OCFS2 setup
by Kris Buytaert 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

We're trying to setup a dual-primary DRBD environment, with a shared disk with either OCFS2 or GFS. The environment is a Centos 5.3 with DRBD82 (but also tried with DRBD83 from testing) . Setting up a single primary disk and running bonnie++ on it works. Setting up a dual-primary disk, only mounting it on one node (ext3) and running bonnie++ works When setting up ocfs2 on the /dev/drbd0 disk and mounting it on both nodes, basic functionality seems in place but usually less than 5-10 minutes after I start bonnie++ as a test on one of the nodes , both nodes power cycle with no errors in the logfiles, just a crash. When at the console at the time of crash it looks like a disk IO (you can type , but actions happen) block happens then a reboot, no panics, no oops , nothing. ( sysctl panic values set to timeouts etc ) Setting up a dual-primary disk , with ocfs2 only mounting it on one node and starting bonnie++ causes only that node to crash. On DRBD level I get the following error when that node dissapears drbd0: PingAck did not arrive in time. drbd0: peer( Primary -> Unknown ) conn( Connected -> NetworkFailure ) pdsk(UpToDate -> DUnknown ) drbd0: asender terminated drbd0: Terminating asender thread That however is an expected error because of the reboot. At first I assumed OCFS2 to be the root of this problem ..so I moved forward and setup an ISCSI target on a 3rd node, and used that device with the same OCFS2 setup. There no crashes occured and bonnie++ flawlessly completed it test run. So my attention went back to the combination of DRBD and OCFS I tried both DRBD 8.2 drbd82-8.2.6-1.el5.centos kmod-drbd82-8.2.6-2 and the 83 variant from Centos Testing At first I was trying with the ocfs2 1.4.1-1.el5.i386.rpm verson but upgrading to 1.4.2-1.el5.i386.rpm didn't change the behaviour Anyone has an idea on this ? How can we get more debug info from OCFS2 , apart from heartbeat tracing which doesn't learn me nothing yet .. in order to potentially file a valuable bug report. thnx in advance Kris

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LinuxTag day One
by Didi 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

The guys [3] at LinuxTag want to share some of the stuff they have been doing today. After setting up the booth [1] we started the usual socializing by doing this, we met Brian Schueler again who created a PowerPC 32 version of CentOS and even a ARMv5. This is quite impressive and we all gathered around to see a little demonstration. Further we talked to the usual suspects from Fedora and Red Hat which was represented quite strongly this year. Nothing special about the booth [2] this time we have an iMac on display on which we are showing some information about CentOS. Then we went on dismantling a thinkpad to see how it looked on the inside and some members of the team visited some talks. We are now off to the pub for some food and German Beer. Cheers [3] [1] http://picasaweb.google.com/ribalba/LinuxTag09#5350925153100143234 [2] http://picasaweb.google.com/ribalba/LinuxTag09#5350925123075083122 [3] Chris, Chris, Dag, Didi, Tim ---- My www page: www.ribalba.de Email / Jabber: ribalba(a)gmail.com Skype : ribalba

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CentOS Repos
by fmb fmb 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Hi, Where can I get a list of all the available repos with some info about each? thnx,

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Missing php* packages
by przemolicc＠poczta.fm 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Hello, I am trying to migrate one of our fedora-based servers to CentOS. Our PHP developers doesn't allow us to switch because there are no crucial (for them) php packages: php-smarty php-adodb php-accelerator It is not acceptable for us to download sources and compile them and repeat the process each time there is a security bug. Can you recommend any repository which will deliver all the above packages (and many others) ? Regards przemol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nowa akcja Pepsi - nagrody za kody spod nakretek. Zarejestruj sie! http://link.interia.pl/f21cc

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Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
by nate 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: > My requirements are only that the software should be simple to install, > maintain and add more photos. I'm not a pro (a newbie more like it...) when > it comes to mysql and php, so this needs to be easy to do as well, from the > gallery standpoint. I like gallery v1 myself and have used it for years. I tried gallery v2 but it was too complicated to use(and hated the themes it came with I just wanted something plain), I just wanted something simple. It doesn't use a (SQL) DB, it does do auto resizing of pictures when you upload them. my gallery site is http://gallery.aphroland.org/ nate

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Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
by Les Mikesell 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: > >>> It doesn't have to be available in a rpm-package, just available from > yum. >> Errr, yum doesn't know about anything but rpms. > > Yupp, that's what I was trying to say but failed. 8-} I prefer either a > rpm-package to install from or something available via yum. Gallery2 is a > tar.gz-packagge. If you want something even easier for personal use there are inexpensive network file server appliances with built in media and web services so you just dump stuff in a mounted directory and it's available. For example: http://www.synology.com/enu/products/DS209j/index.php -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
by John Thomas 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: > What web photo gallery software do you guys use? I like http://drupal.org It is an open source content management system. You could use one of the gallery modules that best suits your needs. In addition, the system is flexible and will allow you to do all sorts of other things (blogs, share content, to do lists, project management, etc). Here is a search of the modules with photo and album: http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_search/photo%20album?filters=type%3Apro… -- Sincerely, John Thomas

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Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
by Greg Bailey 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: > > What web photo gallery software do you guys use? > > My requirements are only that the software should be simple to install, > maintain and add more photos. I'm not a pro (a newbie more like it...) when > it comes to mysql and php, so this needs to be easy to do as well, from the > gallery standpoint. > I've used PHPix2 for quite a long time now. I like it because there's no requirement for SQL and you can basically upload the original images straight from the camera to a directory tree. PHPix2 then lets the user view pictures in a variety of resolutions, with forward/previous thumbnails, album descriptions, etc. It's easy to maintain backup copies because it's just a regular directory tree. Downside is it hasn't been updated in awhile, but it may fit your needs... More at: http://phpix2.sourceforge.net -Greg

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Evolution to Exchange 2007?
by Scott Ehrlich 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Hello to all: What is the most recent status of MAPI support for Evolution connectivity to Exchange 2007 server for calendaring, etc? I've seen various blogs and email threads, but I wanted to tap this list's resources, too. Thanks. Scott

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Use 8GB RAM on Pentium D?
by Neil Aggarwal 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Hello: I have a Supermicro SuperServer 5015P-TR. It has a Pentium D and is running CentOS x86_64. Can this machine use 8GB RAM? I think it should because it is running a 64 bit OS, but I am concerned because it is fundamentally 32 bit hardware. Anyone have any experience in this area? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details.

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Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
by Lanny Marcus 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:33 AM, 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 Lucian(a)lastdot.org > >Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 12:24 PM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options > > > >>> What web photo gallery software do you guys use? > > > >Picasa3 can sync local albums to its web service. I'm quite happy with > >it (although I'd prefer some open source replacement.. but there's > >none as of yet), give it a try. > > I've actually looked at Picasa already, and it looks nice and all, but I > feel I'd like a local gallery that *I* can control. As you say, open source > is preferable. Still, if I fail finding something suitable I'll go for > Picasa or something like it off-site. > I know you would like to host it locally, but Picasa Web Albums < http://picasa.google.com/features.html#utm_medium=embed&utm_source=pwalogin> has been working well for me. One or more people on this list suggested it to me, early in May. I have one album there, with 273 photos I took before and during a concert and people around the world can see them. Picasa is also very easy to use, although not Open Source.

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how to yum install after deleting some files?
by MontyRee 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

Hello, all. I have deleted some files for mistake. So I would like to re-install those files using yum install. But if I execute yum install some_package, that doesn't work, because some files are remain, I guess. So is there any yum install option to re-install forcely when some files are deleted? Should I remove all related files first to re-install using yum? Thanks in advance. _________________________________________________________________ 대딩들의 인맥관리! 윈도우 라이브 메신저로 해결하자! 채팅은 기본! 25GB 자료실은 덤! 대딩들의 아지트 윈메 클럽 http://im.msn.co.kr/Univ/

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Compile driver for new kernel rpm
by Chadley Wilson 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

Hi All, My question is directed at those with kernel compiling experience. I have a driver source xxxxx.c file and a Makefile with it. I want to recompile the kernel to include the driver and rebuild the initrd.img. Where do I copy the file in the kernel sources? I currently have it in a sub folder of the drivers directory in the kernel source folder. There is one more question if I may, it does not have a xxxx.h (header file) do I need it? The driver does compile perfectly without it. But I am not sure if I need to compile it into the kernel? [cid:image001.jpg@01C9F4CF.43AAE290]<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/> Chadley Wilson | Research and Development Engineer Research and Development | Pinnacle Micro Direct: +27-11-265-3020 | Fax: +27-11-265-3277 chadley(a)pinnacle.co.za www.pinnacle.co.za<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/> Proline Computers<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/proline/> | AMD<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/hardware/products/?brand=28> | Apacer<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/hardware/products/?brand=29> | Canon<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/canon/> | Dicota<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/hardware/products/?brand=67> | D-Link <http://www.pinnacle.co.za/networking/products/?brand=37> | Hauppauge!<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/hardware/products/?brand=69> | Hitachi<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/> | IBM<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/> | Intel<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/hardware/products/?brand=27> HP<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/systems/> | Lenovo<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/hardware/products/?brand=34> | Lexmark<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/imaging/> | LG<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/hardware/products/?brand=34> | Logitech<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/hardware/products/?brand=12> | Mapower<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/> | Microsoft<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/hardware/products/?brand=15> | MSI<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/hardware/products/?brand=26> | RiDATA<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/ridata/> | Samsung<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/pos/products/?brand=56> | Senao<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/hardware/products/?brand=95> | Sony<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/hardware/products/?brand=30> | Spectra Logic<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/storage/products/?category=251&brand=63> Sunnix<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/pos/products/?brand=71> | Super Micro<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/systems/products/?category=224> | Symantec<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/> | Motorola/Symbol<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/symbol/> | Western Digital<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/hardware/products/?brand=31> | Zebex<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/pos/products/?brand=73> | Zebra<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/pos/> Electronic Communications Disclaimer<http://www.pinnacle.co.za/general/terms.asp> (c) 2008 Pinnacle Micro ________________________________ Pinnacle Technology Holdings E-Mail Disclaimer: This e-mail is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual(s) to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Pinnacle Technology Holdings any of it's divisions or affiliates. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have this e-mail in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of it is strictly prohibited.

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How do I change passwords / remove users for Samba?
by Kevin Thorpe 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

I've got a bit of a problem with Samba. I just can't work out how to change passwords or remove users. I've just got user security.. lines in smb.conf are: security = user passdb backend = tdbsam I've removed the user using pdbedit, I've removed the unix user, smbpasswd says the user doesn't exist yet I can still connect to the shares. I'm obviously just missing something here. Can anyone point me in the right direction? thanks

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RHEL, centos and seeing if i now understand this
by Robert P. J. Day 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

ok, given the flurry of responses to my original post, let me see if i have a handle on this as i think i've finally figured it out and, yes, it does make sense. the scenario is that there is a very large software company in the area whose only officially supported linux platform is currently suse. however, they are getting increasing call to have their product run on red hat. for most of their clients (who are fairly sizable) who will want official support, RHEL will be the obvious choice and the software company will advertise that RHEL is what they support. the SW company will be happy, the clients will be happy, and red hat will be happy. on the other hand, if there is the occasional client who is perhaps not as large, or doesn't have a budget for RHEL, centos will be the obvious option if they're prepared to do their own support. that scenario will, i'm guessing, not be that common so red hat has nothing to worry about it in terms of cutting into their revenue stream in any significant way. and, finally, for any client that chooses centos, that will represent a possible support contract for independent linux consultants. sound about right? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rpjday Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

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rpm -qa not displaying sources
by Chadley Wilson 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

Hi All, I must have missed something here. I installed my kernel source using rpm -ivh kernel-`uname -r`.el5.src.rpm it installs perfectly, without error, but if I cd to the /usr/src/redhat folder, all I get is SOURCES and SPECS... rpm -qa | grep kernel doesn't return the kernel source rpm I installed only the kernel, devel and headers. And I can't find the actual kernel source folder.... thanks chad ________________________________ Pinnacle Technology Holdings E-Mail Disclaimer: This e-mail is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual(s) to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Pinnacle Technology Holdings any of it's divisions or affiliates. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have this e-mail in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of it is strictly prohibited.

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Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
by Bent Terp 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

I'd recommend using the beta of Gallery3 instead - it will be upgradable to the final version, and -3 is so much nicer to work with than -2. Actually, I've stayed on -1 simply because -2 was way too complex. You won't get it through yum, but you can update using git instead of having to download and untar new versions. BR Bent

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Slow CentOS VM when running off the network
by Alfred von Campe 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

I have a CentOS 5.3 VM running under VMware on a WIndows XP laptop. Everything works fine when connected to the network. However, removed from the network, most everything in the CentOS VM takes minutes to complete. For instance, starting a new Terminal window takes over 3 minutes. I did an strace, and there are a couple of long waits when trying to open a socket (/tmp/.ICE-unix/XXXXX for instance). The host and the VM can ping each other fine, but any access to the VM (either external or from within) eventually succeeds, but it takes a long time. First, I thought I'd reduce the default socket timeout (which I believe is set to around 90 seconds), but I can't find where to do that on a system wide level. But I really need to figure out what is causing the problem in the first place. I'm assuming the network is somehow misconfigured, but I don't know how. Alfred

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Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
by Les Mikesell 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: >> What web photo gallery software do you guys use? >> >> My requirements are only that the software should be simple to > install, >> maintain and add more photos. I'm not a pro (a newbie more like > it...) when >> it comes to mysql and php, so this needs to be easy to do as well, > from the >> gallery standpoint. >> >> Hi Sorin, >> Gallery2, Coppermine, 4Images Gallery, etc are all good galleries to use. > And >> installation is very, very simple. upload the files to your websever, add a > MySQL >> database, and run the installation.php script - very easy. I doubt if > you'll get a website >> gallery that is packged in an rpm though. > > It doesn't have to be available in a rpm-package, just available from yum. Errr, yum doesn't know about anything but rpms. > Doing a "yum list *gallery" doesn't give me anything available from the > Centos and rpmforge repos. Just thought I'd make it simple for myself. 8-) > > 4Images I believe is commercial payware, so it's not interesting for me. > Coppermine I haven't heard of before, but will check up on. Otherwise, > Gallery it is. The home page is here: http://gallery.menalto.com/ -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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problem with centos 5.3 upgrade
by attila.mathe＠orange-ftgroup.com 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

Hi All, I'm running CentOS 5.3 x86, and recently my yum update isn't running as it should. It pops up with sub conflict messages for i386 packages, which I don't need - even though yum is downloading them. Due to this sub conflict messages, I'm not able to update/install my x86 packages, as the installation stops at the error message. Anybody, any idea how to come over this issue ? Thx Error log reported by yum: Transaction Summary ======================================================================== ======== Install 12 Package(s) Update 68 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total size: 136 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psvn.el from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/subversion.mo from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/subversion.mo from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/subversion.mo from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/subversion.mo from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/subversion.mo from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/subversion.mo from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/subversion.mo from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/subversion.mo from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/subversion.mo from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/subversion.mo from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/subversion.mo from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/subversion.mo from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/man/man1/svn.1.gz from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/man/man1/svnadmin.1.gz from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/man/man1/svnlook.1.gz from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/man/man5/svnserve.conf.5.gz from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/man/man8/svnserve.8.gz from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/psvn.el from install of subversion-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 file /usr/share/man/man1/xdelta.1.gz from install of xdelta-1.1.4-1.el5.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package xdelta-1.1.3-20.i386 Error Summary ------------- ********************************* This message and any attachments (the "message") are confidential and intended solely for the addressees. Any unauthorised use or dissemination is prohibited. Messages are susceptible to alteration. France Telecom Group shall not be liable for the message if altered, changed or falsified. If you are not the intended addressee of this message, please cancel it immediately and inform the sender. ********************************

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Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
by Anne Wilson 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

On Wednesday 24 June 2009 11:30:43 Sorin Srbu wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > > Behalf > > >Of Anne Wilson > >Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:36 AM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options > > > >> What web photo gallery software do you guys use? > > > >In the past I have made galleries with konqueror - not on centos, but with > >kde3, so I'm guessing that it works on centos. I'm not at a centos > > desktop > > at > > >the moment, so I can't check, but it should be a menu entry in konqueror. > > > >It is, however, creating a static gallery. It wouldn't be so easy for > > others > > >to add photos, so may not meet your needs. > > Konqueror?? That's a new one. Will check it up. Depending on what it can do > it might do the trick. > > I don't really need others to add photos, just me. 8-) That doesn't > necessarily mean it shouldn't be simple to do it. Tedious uploads and such > only means I won't use the software in the long run. 8-/ > > Thanks for the Konqueror hint! I creates an html page, so you'd have the choice of rebuilding with the additional photos or simply editing the html i there were not too many. HTH 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] Web photo gallery options
by Anne Wilson 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

On Wednesday 24 June 2009 09:57:14 Sorin Srbu wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a web photo gallery for my personal web server at home. > Till now I've done the galleries manually from Adobe Photoshop Elements, > but I feel that is a dead end, kinda', besides the fact that the galleries > created are rather static. I'd like an easier way to do this, eg uploading > images in folders directly to the gallery and it will take care of what > needs to be done automagically, like resizing etc. > > So far I've come across a project called Gallery2, that seems to do what I > want. Downside is that no rpm-packages are available with yum with this > one. > > What web photo gallery software do you guys use? > > My requirements are only that the software should be simple to install, > maintain and add more photos. I'm not a pro (a newbie more like it...) when > it comes to mysql and php, so this needs to be easy to do as well, from the > gallery standpoint. > In the past I have made galleries with konqueror - not on centos, but with kde3, so I'm guessing that it works on centos. I'm not at a centos desktop at the moment, so I can't check, but it should be a menu entry in konqueror. It is, however, creating a static gallery. It wouldn't be so easy for others to add photos, so may not meet your needs. 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] Web photo gallery options
by Rudi Ahlers 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu(a)orgfarm.uu.se>wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a web photo gallery for my personal web server at home. > Till > now I've done the galleries manually from Adobe Photoshop Elements, but I > feel that is a dead end, kinda', besides the fact that the galleries > created > are rather static. I'd like an easier way to do this, eg uploading images > in > folders directly to the gallery and it will take care of what needs to be > done automagically, like resizing etc. > > So far I've come across a project called Gallery2, that seems to do what I > want. Downside is that no rpm-packages are available with yum with this > one. > > What web photo gallery software do you guys use? > > My requirements are only that the software should be simple to install, > maintain and add more photos. I'm not a pro (a newbie more like it...) when > it comes to mysql and php, so this needs to be easy to do as well, from the > gallery standpoint. > > Thanks. > -- > BW, > Sorin > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Sorin, Gallery2, Coppermine, 4Images Gallery, etc are all good galleries to use. And installation is very, very simple. upload the files to your websever, add a MySQL database, and run the installation.php script - very easy. I doubt if you'll get a website gallery that is packged in an rpm though. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532

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Web photo gallery options
by Sorin Srbu 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

Hi all, I'm looking for a web photo gallery for my personal web server at home. Till now I've done the galleries manually from Adobe Photoshop Elements, but I feel that is a dead end, kinda', besides the fact that the galleries created are rather static. I'd like an easier way to do this, eg uploading images in folders directly to the gallery and it will take care of what needs to be done automagically, like resizing etc. So far I've come across a project called Gallery2, that seems to do what I want. Downside is that no rpm-packages are available with yum with this one. What web photo gallery software do you guys use? My requirements are only that the software should be simple to install, maintain and add more photos. I'm not a pro (a newbie more like it...) when it comes to mysql and php, so this needs to be easy to do as well, from the gallery standpoint. Thanks. -- BW, Sorin ----------------------------------------------------------- # Sorin Srbu [Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem, Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se ----------------------------------------------------------- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # "I did the thing that I do when I want to do the thing, and then it like did something and it won't do the thing! Yeah, there was like an error message, but I didn't read it..." -"User"

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oVirt on CentOS 5.3?
by Rudi Ahlers 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

Hi, Has anyone been succesful in installing oVirt on CentOS 5.3? While it looks like a greate virtualization package, they only support FC10, and the installation instructions are for FC9. So, has anyone installed it on CentOS yet? If so, would you mind sharing with me whether it was a problematic installation, or not really? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532

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Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful
by Bill Campbell 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009, Sorin Srbu wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf >>Of Michael Semcheski ... >>> Volunteer support is available via IRC (channel #centos), Centos mailing >>> lists and the Centos forums. >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>I think the response from Geoff below is excellent. Its honest, to >>the point, and understandable. > >With risk of splitting hairs, I'd rather use the phrasing "Community support >is available..." instead of "Volunteer support...". Again, it's the touchy >feely stuff that makes or breaks. IHMO, Volunteer support is what is generally available on this list, and similar fora for free. Many of the contributors to this list also provide commercial support, development, and consulting services. Bill -- INTERNET: bill(a)celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. -- Frederic Bastiat, The Law

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Make sshd log IP addresses, not hostnames
by Scott Moseman 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

Can I adjust the ssh daemon to log IP addresses instead of hostnames? I assume this situation is feasible... * 10.10.10.10 attempts to ssh to the server * reverse dns resolves to "somehost.domain.com" * ssh daemon logs "somehost.domain.com" in messages * foward dns on "somehost.domain.com" resolves to 10.10.10.20 Thus it causes some of my scripts a problem if the DNS resolutions don't match. It would be nice if it could just log IP addresses only. Thanks, Scott

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link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful
by Robert P. J. Day 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

i may be in the position of recommending that a sizable client take a look at centos as a supported platform in the near future, but if one goes to the "Support" -> "Commercial Support" page, it reads: This Section or Page is coming soon. that is *not* going to give this client any warm fuzzies. from a promotion perspective, either that page should get some actual content, or the link should be dropped entirely. or something. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rpjday Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

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Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful
by Geoff Galitz 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

> > "Commercial support is currently unavailable, although this is being > investigated by the community. The difficulty is that CentOS is a > volunteer run effort." > > Don't overreact Spiro. I really like your blurb, but the difficulty > sentence > has a negative ring. Please rephrase that single line and you get a > gold-star. ;-) I (amicably) object to the "currently unavailable" phrase. As has been mentioned support is available. I would suggest the following change: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Currently the Centos Project cannot endorse any specific support offering and does not directly offer commercial support. Support is available from third party consultants and firms. Volunteer support is available via IRC (channel #centos), Centos mailing lists and the Centos forums. --------------------------------------------------------------------- I would avoid making any promises like "we are working on a support program" or "working on an endorsement program" simply because there is no telling when such a program would get rolled out. Keeping people waiting around for a long time is not so good for the Centos image. FWIW, I think we should lighten up on the original poster. He asked a simple question, he got an answer. There's no need to beat up on each other... it is not constructive. -geoff --------------------------------- Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://eifel-consulting.biz/blog/ http://german-way.com/blog/

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Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful
by Les Mikesell 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: > >> p.s. let me make it clear why i'm being so obnoxious at the moment >> about this. a local company currently supports their software suite on >> linux on suse only. they're getting more call for RH support. i'd >> like to suggest they consider centos because i might get some support >> business out of it. as part of their consideration, they will >> undoubtedly go to centos.org and poke around, and i want them to be >> happy with what they read there, and not be scared off. and maybe, >> out of the goodness of their hearts, they'll donate to centos because >> they like it so *everybody* wins. > > With that said, any commercial company needing a linux OS with paid > support and that likes CentOS, should go for RHEL as a first choice; CentOS > is after all a clone of RHEL. > > On another track, CentOS is a very mature enterprise OS and puts other > similar distros to shame IMO. Overall, this is as good as it gets. Like it > or not. And there is always the issue that if Red Hat sees Centos as competition in the supported OS business, they will make the cloning and updates more difficult. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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Program to ban sniffers
by Bob Hoffman 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

So I have been reading the ssh attack thread and finally want to ask about something. I doubt there is a program like this, but I would love to have a program that listens at common ports that I do not use at all...and only allow that program to listen to it, especially the usual ssh port (using a different one for real ssh)... That program would then, upon receiving a 'sniff' or 'user' would then add that ip to the deny hosts lists..for either a long or short time. Using this would seem like a win as you can easily grab someone before they can get somewhere one hopes. Also, by opening up a few other ports that are unusual like 8561....well, if someone sniffs that it could be a 3 day ban or a month... In other words, anyone hitting those ports that are not being used at all except by our sniff protector, would allow instant banning. So...does something like this exist?

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Need to rebuild installation CD
by Chadley Wilson 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

Hi All, I would be lying if I said I am a newbie, but I am rusty so please bear with me. I am looking for a how-to for Redhat or Centos to remake the installation CD. First let me explain: I have an installation disc supplied to me, with centos 5.2 which has kickstart, post and pre installation scripts which run. The problem we have is that the CD does not support our CDROM (it8213). I have managed to compile the driver from the sources, and I have a boot stiffy. So I have managed to load the server, the problem is that we need to load about 10 of these server every week and the Linux guru (me) is not always able to drop his work and load servers. I need to implement the driver on the installation CD so that the kickstart file is read and run Is there a way to hack around this problem? Can anyone guide me through this process or give me a work around please. Pinnacle Technology Holdings E-Mail Disclaimer: This e-mail is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual(s) to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Pinnacle Technology Holdings any of it's divisions or affiliates. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have this e-mail in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of it is strictly prohibited.

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