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Bash Script help...
by Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle 08 May '09

08 May '09

Hi All, I need to write a script that I will manually start (or a cron job in future) but I need it to do a number of things in order one after another. How do i do that so everything gets dont as the steps depend on each other. Example: cd /system_backups/ tar cvf apache-conf.tar /etc/httpd/conf/* gzip -v9 apache-conf.tar tar cvf apache-data.tar /var/www/* gzip -v9 apache-data.tar then last step... tar cvf <current_date>-system_backup.tar <all> the gzip files above gzip -v9 <current_date>-system_backup.tar scp <current_date>-system_backup.tar.gz user@10.0.0.1:/. etc...etc.... My questions: 1. How do I execute each statement and make sure subsequent statements are not executed until the previous is done? 2. How do I error check so if a step fails the script stops? 3. Since I run an SMTP Server on this box can I e-mail myself from bash the nightly results? 4. when I want to run the scp to send over the file to another machine for safety, how can I have it know the password to the machine I am scp'ing to? My mind is going crazy sort of with the things that I could do to protect myself in case of a system failure and making restoring easier. Can anyone provide insight for me? -Jason

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openldap 5.1 crashing
by Agnello George 08 May '09

08 May '09

Hi One of our server opneldap seems to crash ... following is info about my ldap. nss_ldap-253-3 php-ldap-5.1.6-5.el5 openldap-2.4.11-1.3.el5 openldap-servers-2.4.11-1.3.el5 compat-openldap-2.4.11_2.3.27-1.3.el5 openldap-clients-2.4.11-1.3.el5 openldap-devel-2.4.11-1.3.el5 And m getting error on command slapcat [root@ ldap]# slapcat bdb_db_open: DB_CONFIG for suffix "o=nerv_ldap" has changed. Performing database recovery to activate new settings. bdb_db_open: database "o=nerv_ldap": recovery skipped in read-only mode. Run manual recovery if errors are encountered. bdb(o=nerv_ldap): Logging region out of memory; you may need to increase its size bdb_db_open: database "o=nerv_ldap": db_open(/var/lib/ldap/id2entry.bdb) failed: Cannot allocate memory (12). backend_startup_one: bi_db_open failed! (12) slap_startup failed has any one faced any similar issue !! . Thanks a million -- Regards Agnello D'souza

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 51, Issue 4
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 08 May '09

08 May '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-2009:0473 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 kernel Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CESA-2009:0473 Important CentOS 5 i386 kernel Update (Karanbir Singh) 3. CESA-2009:0474 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 acpid - security update (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 14:35:31 -0400 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0473 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 kernel Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090507183531.GA16726(a)tantra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0473 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0473.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: e998a7bb8b781b36b349b96b8746e6e1 kernel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm 610c95fc3ce212ac2c18daf5587c76b5 kernel-debug-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm 76a36866da0ca71c1a6d645ae6bf4f5f kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm 23d00b4ace5501149b7920722790e165 kernel-devel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm 7ed5446f0a7a7bc09dd5723705acf5a4 kernel-doc-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.noarch.rpm 0d07b190c43a4107899b0273822fba0b kernel-headers-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm 0e20e30a7cb699474e33df0f8d0230cf kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm c9177740c71ebf22ed4b2c5d58e31f1d kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm Source: 3cf9c405b5b83369f87eb1af7a8bec25 kernel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 14:35:31 -0400 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0473 Important CentOS 5 i386 kernel Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090507183531.GA16711(a)tantra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0473 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0473.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 0f4cd2e2d8a703769bdf5a145efbfb81 kernel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.i686.rpm 13e7d81102cd5d6d472c840edd75295e kernel-debug-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.i686.rpm 3b828025b39f9edeb337bb7380b1efc6 kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.i686.rpm 230845dd5564b87547037694a2012cab kernel-devel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.i686.rpm 5758bcc0ba307c94434ec8b160af1a4c kernel-doc-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.noarch.rpm 91de67af97db6e837952b2cb0a28ace9 kernel-headers-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.i386.rpm 97cd73d65d63e2be3df1681bd17c66f1 kernel-PAE-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.i686.rpm 518877c49701b5c22fcbf4973cff3295 kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.i686.rpm 82e5f77efabbace17be1fe3091ccfbd0 kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.i686.rpm d41beb78e62cabe8565efd129b8f53d3 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.i686.rpm Source: 3cf9c405b5b83369f87eb1af7a8bec25 kernel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 22:36:32 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0474 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 acpid - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090507203632.GA2025(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:0474 acpid security update for CentOS 3 x86_64: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0474.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: updates/x86_64/RPMS/acpid-1.0.2-4.x86_64.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/acpid-1.0.2-4.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 x86_64 installations by running the command: yum update acpid 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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Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2 (Electronic Compute Cloud)
by Jason Aubrey 08 May '09

08 May '09

I'm starting to use the EC2 cloud (as are others) and noticed that all the available CentOS images seem to be of dubious origin. I think it would further the reputation and popularity of CentOS if it were represented in an official way. In case people aren't aware, when you create an AWS (Amazon Web Services) account there's a management console that shows a list of available images. Of this list, some are published by Amazon, others are uploaded anonymously, or you can upload your own. Given the dubious nature of an anonymous image and a lack of an Amazon image for CentOS, I'm left in the third camp - creating/bundling/uploading my own. Luckily I have the required 64 bit hardware to generate a 64 bit image! Selfishly I'd love to just start up an existing image published by centos.org but one's not available. Interestingly one is available from Amazon for both Fedora and Windows. Jason

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Installing xfce on CentOS 5.3?
by James Pearson 08 May '09

08 May '09

I would like to install xfce from the "extras" repo - but when I run: yum groupinstall XFCE-4.4 I get: Warning: Group XFCE-4.4 does not exist. Also 'yum grouplist' appears to only show the base groups ... Is there anything else I have to do to install xfce? Thanks James Pearson

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domU corrupt after server crash, help needed trying to recover domU LVM
by Rudi Ahlers 08 May '09

08 May '09

Hi all, One of our Dell servers has failed badly, and one of the domU's has been corrupted in the process. It boots up to a point and then gives me a kernel panic: Loading dm-zero.ko module Loading dm-snapshot.ko module Scanning and configuring dmraid supported devices Scanning logical volumes Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found Activating logical volumes Volume group "VolGroup00" not found Creating root device. Mounting root filesystem. mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' Setting up other filesystems. Setting up new root fs setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory Switching to new root and running init. unmounting old /dev unmounting old /proc unmounting old /sys switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! It shows up as a Zombie: [root@xen ~]# xm list Name ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 1439 1 r----- 329.0 Zombie-hfserver2 15 1024 1 ----c- 0.5 hfdns02 10 519 2 r----- 1552.8 I can't mount either: root@xen ~]# mount /dev/data/hf hfdns02 hfserver2 [root@xen ~]# mount /dev/data/hfserver2 /mnt/cpanel/ mount: you must specify the filesystem type [root@xen ~]# mount -o loop /dev/data/hfserver2 /mnt/cpanel/ mount: you must specify the filesystem type Here's the output of the LVM partitions: [root@xen ~]# lvscan ACTIVE '/dev/data/cpanel002' [100.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/data/windows2003_web' [30.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/data/storage' [50.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE Original '/dev/data/hfserver2' [30.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/data/hfdns02' [30.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/data/pluto' [30.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE Snapshot '/dev/data/pluto_s' [30.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/system/root' [39.06 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/system/swap' [9.75 GB] inherit [root@xen ~]# vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "data" using metadata type lvm2 Found volume group "system" using metadata type lvm2 [root@xen ~]# Does anyone know how to fix a LVM like this? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532

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OS2 filesystems?
by Julian Thomas 08 May '09

08 May '09

Has anyone managed to access OS2 HPFS and OS2 JFS filesystems from Centos? This is a multiple boot system with Centos, XP, and OS2. Tnx -- Julian Thomas: jt(a)jt-mj.net http://jt-mj.net In the beautiful Genesee Valley of Western New York State! -- -- Hex dump: Where witches put used curses...

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Hibernate Timeout
by James Bensley 08 May '09

08 May '09

Hi Guys n Gals, I've been trying to find out how to set the timeout value for how long my machine will wait before it goes into hibernation via the terminal but I can't find it anywhere? Does any one know? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, James ;) -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT/MU/U dpu s: a--> C++>$ U+> L++> B-> P+> E?> W+++>$ N K W++ O M++>$ V- PS+++ PE++ Y+ PGP t 5 X+ R- tv+ b+> DI D+++ G+ e(+++++) h--(++) r++ z++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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Re: [CentOS] timezone "Europe/London" ntpdate
by Yuri Timofeev 08 May '09

08 May '09

I setup to the timezone, date and time. And now I want to add synchronize time with the time-server. I want to change with daylight savings/summer time. 2009/5/8, lists-centos <replies-lists-a2z2-centos(a)listmail.innovate.net>: > is this the first time you've run ntpdate (or equiv) in a bit over a > month? > > "london" goes on "summer time" toward the end of march, so switches > to gmt+1 at that point, so it would be 22:nn now in "london time", > while it's 21:nn GMT. > > if you want your machine to not change with daylight savings/summer > time you need to select GMT or UTC, rather than a country-specific > timezone. > > - Rick > > > > ------------ Original Message ------------ >> Date: Thursday, May 07, 2009 11:43:58 PM +0300 >> From: Yuri Timofeev <tim4dev(a)gmail.com> >> To: centos <centos(a)centos.org> >> Subject: [CentOS] timezone "Europe/London" ntpdate >> >> Hi >> >> CentOS 5.3 with latest updates. >> >> I have a problem with the time zone on dedicated server. >> I had to setup the timezone using system-config-date to >> "Europe/London" and "System clock uses UTC" == checked >> >># date; date -u; hwclock --show; hwclock --show --utc; zdump >># /etc/localtime >> Thu May 7 21:29:47 GMT 2009 >> Thu May 7 21:29:47 UTC 2009 >> Thu 07 May 2009 09:29:48 PM GMT -0.411568 seconds >> Thu 07 May 2009 09:29:49 PM GMT -0.997482 seconds >> /etc/localtime Thu May 7 21:29:48 2009 GMT >> >># cat /etc/sysconfig/clock >> ZONE="Europe/London" >> UTC=true >> ARC=false >> >># cat /etc/adjtime >> -3525.635197 1241730131 0.000000 >> 1241730131 >> UTC >> >># strings /etc/localtime >> TZif2 >> TZif2 >> GMT0 >> >># ntpdate -q 0.centos.pool.ntp.org >> 7 May 21:14:51 ntpdate[12689]: step time server 195.42.115.77 >> offset -3638.766689 sec >> >> Why -3638 sec ? >> >> thanks. > > ------------ End Original Message ------------ > > > -- with best regards

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problem with updates
by Charles E Campbell Jr 08 May '09

08 May '09

Using Centos 5.2 and the "Software Updater/Package Updater/pup", I winnowed the problem updates down to six packages: 1: Updated file packages available 2: Updated gcc43 packages available 3: Updated gcc packages available 4: Updated pam packages available 5: Updated redhat-logos packages available 6: Updated redhat-menus packages available It'd really help if there was a button on pup to deselect all updates (and let me click just a few updates back on). The problem is typically... Updated file packages available Component: pirut Summary: TBe8ae967a sqlitesack.py:94:_read_db_obj:TypeError: unsubscriptable object As a result, /usr/share/gdm/themes/TreeFlower/background.png is missing, and so I get an error message about it and the "default" login screen. Of course, I don't know what else is missing (for example, those gcc packages...). Regards, Chip Campbell -- someday I'll have a good signature, I'm sure of it...

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Software RAID resync
by Rajagopal Swaminathan 08 May '09

08 May '09

I have configured 2x 500G sata HDD as Software RAID1 with three partitions md0,md1 and md2 with md2 as 400+ gigs Now it is almost 36 hours the status is cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md0 : active raid1 hdb1[1] hda1[0] 104320 blocks [2/2] [UU] resync=DELAYED md1 : active raid1 hdb2[1] hda2[0] 4096448 blocks [2/2] [UU] resync=DELAYED md2 : active raid1 hdb3[1] hda3[0] 484182912 blocks [2/2] [UU] [==========>..........] resync = 51.8% (251168768/484182912) finish=1975. 7min speed=1964K/sec unused devices: <none> I have reniced the md2-resync to -10 Q1. Does is take this long? Q2. How to speed it up Regards and Thanks Rajagopal

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OT: Photo Editor to reduce 272 photos to VGA at once
by Lanny Marcus 07 May '09

07 May '09

I returned from Bogotá and have a Folder with 272 photos that total 419.9 MB. I would like to email them to several people who were there for the concerts I attended. I have Picasa, gThumb (not really an Editor but I believe it can reduce the quality of photos) and The GIMP installed. Is there a way I can have a photo editor reduce all of them to VGA size, without doing that 272 times? The people who will receive them are using M$ Windoze. Also, they are in a folder and it doesn't seem possible to attach a folder in gmail. A good way to zip them up in one file that can be unzipped on Windoze boxes? TIA! P.S. I met people there who participate in the forum for my favorite singer. I suspect it would be equally interesting, to meet many of the people who participate in this Mailing List.

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Local yum mirror and repomd.xml
by Mathew S. McCarrell 07 May '09

07 May '09

Hey, So, I'm having a minor issue. Today, I configured one of our CentOS systems to use our local mirror (mirror.clarkson.edu) for its repositories. After doing this, I ran a yum update and received the following warning in the output along with the updates available: Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have: Current : Thu May 7 14:41:57 2009 Downloaded: Tue Apr 28 05:04:32 2009 In order to get rid of this error, I ran "yum clean all" and then "yum update" again. This results in the warning no longer being present but also results in yum telling me there are no packages marked for update. Any thoughts on why this is occuring? I've posted my mirror configuration at the bottom of the page. Thanks, Matt ======= Mirror Configuration (CentOS-Base.repo) ======= # CentOS-Base.repo # # This file uses a new mirrorlist system developed by Lance Davis for CentOS. # The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the # update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and # geographically close to the client. You should use this for CentOS updates # unless you are manually picking other mirrors. # # If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can try the # remarked out baseurl= line instead. # # [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base #mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os baseurl=http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 protect=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates #mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updat… baseurl=http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 protect=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #packages used/produced in the build but not released [addons] name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons #mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=addons baseurl=http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 protect=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #additional packages that may be useful [extras] name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras #mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras baseurl=http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 protect=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages [centosplus] name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus #mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=cento… baseurl=http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 protect=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #contrib - packages by Centos Users [contrib] name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib #mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=contr… baseurl=http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/$releasever/contrib/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 protect=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 ======================================== -- Mathew S. McCarrell Clarkson University '10 mccarrms(a)gmail.com mccarrms(a)clarkson.edu

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stale dm-multipath mappings
by Eugene Vilensky 07 May '09

07 May '09

Greetings, I've hit this exact 'bug': https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491311 I need to remove the mappings manually. I assume this is done via 'multipath -F' followed by a 'multipath -v2' ? Has anyone experienced doing this on a production system? We can do it during hours of low activity, but we would prefer to keep the databases on this host online at the time. The LUNs themselves are completely removed from the host and are not visible on the HBA bus. Regards, Eugene Vilensky evilensky(a)gmail.com

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timezone "Europe/London" ntpdate
by Yuri Timofeev 07 May '09

07 May '09

Hi CentOS 5.3 with latest updates. I have a problem with the time zone on dedicated server. I had to setup the timezone using system-config-date to "Europe/London" and "System clock uses UTC" == checked # date; date -u; hwclock --show; hwclock --show --utc; zdump /etc/localtime Thu May 7 21:29:47 GMT 2009 Thu May 7 21:29:47 UTC 2009 Thu 07 May 2009 09:29:48 PM GMT -0.411568 seconds Thu 07 May 2009 09:29:49 PM GMT -0.997482 seconds /etc/localtime Thu May 7 21:29:48 2009 GMT # cat /etc/sysconfig/clock ZONE="Europe/London" UTC=true ARC=false # cat /etc/adjtime -3525.635197 1241730131 0.000000 1241730131 UTC # strings /etc/localtime TZif2 TZif2 GMT0 # ntpdate -q 0.centos.pool.ntp.org 7 May 21:14:51 ntpdate[12689]: step time server 195.42.115.77 offset -3638.766689 sec Why -3638 sec ? thanks. -- with best regards

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kghostview and xdg-open. Need to fix problem across whole system
by Paul Johnson 07 May '09

07 May '09

In Centos 5.3, a bad problem has surfaced in user land. We want to use either Evince or Adobe acroread as the pdf view, but the update of kdegraphics has somehow screwed up these systems so that the odious, horrible, awful pdf viewer kghostview is used. It is what you get when you doubleclick on pdf files, it is what programs get when they try to use xdg-open framework. This happens even though xdg-open seems to think it is pointing at Adobe. $ xdg-mime query filetype manual.pdf application/pdf $ xdg-mime query default application/pdf AdobeReader.desktop I've had it happen before that users make mistakes and then the mime types are accidentally re-defined in the user accounts. I have not had it happen across all users accounts that something goes so wrong. How can I tell the Gnome mime system to always use evince for opening pdf, not kghostview? What's wrong with xdg-open? It says AdobeReader.desktop, but it points applications at the other. Thanks in advance PJ -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas

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system-config-printer and mapping to a ppd file
by Blackburn, Marvin 07 May '09

07 May '09

I have a lot of printers that will use the same ppd. For example, I have about 50 hp 4250 printers to configure. How can I figure out which driver that system-config-printer uses so I can use lpadmin to add the rest? _____________________________________ "He's no failure. He's not dead yet." William Lloyd George

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jigdo images
by Marcelo M. Garcia 07 May '09

07 May '09

Hi Is there a jigdo image available for CentOS-5.3? Or is there a jigdo project for CentOS? Thanks Marcelo

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Ghostscript in 5.3
by MHR 07 May '09

07 May '09

Ever since I updated to 5.3, I have been unable to convert any ps files to pdfs using the ps2pdf command. I usually get errors like this: [mhr@mhrichter forms]$ ps2pdf doe81008 ERROR: /undefinedfilename in (doe81008) Operand stack: Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push Dictionary stack: --dict:1120/1686(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:102/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: 2 ESP Ghostscript 815.02: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 I can print the ps file just fine, but I wanted to save it in pdf format instead of ps format, and that's not working. I can use my VM WinXP machine and Adobe Photoshop Elements to do this, but I prefer not having to fire up the VM for this. Anyone else seeing problems like this? Thanks. mhr

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fs for > 16 TiB partition
by Adrian Sevcenco 07 May '09

07 May '09

Hi, What would you recommend as an FS for an partition greater than 16 TiB? This is for an production server (that is, no ext4 recommendations please :) ) What experiences did you had with your preferred FS ? (good and not so good points) Thank you, Adrian

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Re: [CentOS] SSH problems - command not found (SOLVED)
by George Alexandru Dudău 06 May '09

06 May '09

Hi all, After some search i find that openssh-client was missing. This was all my problems. Is strange because on CentOS 5.2 openssh-client was present but after upgrade to 5.3 (with yum) don't. Thank you all for advices. Geo -- George Alexandru Dudău CORE IT MEX - Grupul de firme MOBEXPERT Network administrator | proiecte web | proiecte speciale Tel : +40 21 2421040-1139 http://www.itmex.ro

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Apache and CF
by Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle 06 May '09

06 May '09

Hi All, I have a CentoS 5.3 Xen Instance at Mosso. I need to run ColdFusion and I have in the past successfully made everything work, but not on Linux rather Windows. I just cannot get Apache and CF talking. I added mod_jrun22, When I try to serve a CF file, I am asked to download binary data. I added .cfm and .cfml to Directory Index for /var/www/html in httpd.conf and nothing still. I have been trying to get this working for days. If anyone has a bit of free time, I can pay about $25. (Sorry, trying to get launched so my llc can make money). If anyone would trade 'services' can offer copies of our peoducts when they go live or some CF dev. -Jason

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Strange problem with filesystem changes reverting on reboot
by Bart Schaefer 06 May '09

06 May '09

Our sysadmin was doing midnight work on moving some hardware to new power outlets. We'd recently done a CentOS 5.3 install on one of those machines and then "yum install" with the centosplus kernel and some rpmforge packages. It had been up and running fine for at least two weeks in that configuration. He sent this message: On reboot the root file system seems to have reverted to the previous startup -- no CentOS plus, no Dag repository info in /etc/yum.repos.d, no xfs, and therefore no /var/lib/mysql. This is at least the second time we've experienced this phenomenon ... suffice to say I am really really suspicious about ext3 now. The previous time this occurred was quite some time ago, probably soon after the CentOS 5.1 release -- we'd written it off as pilot error of some kind. The root is not an LVM, but it is on a software RAID -- my suspicion leans more toward a RAID issue than ext3. Does any of this sound familiar to anyone?

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SSH problems - command not found
by George Alexandru Dudău 06 May '09

06 May '09

Hi All, I have a strange problem with ssh on CentOS 5.3: 1. I make a ssh connection from computer X to Y => OK 2. When i try to conect from Y to Z i receive a strange message: -bash: ssh: command not found (normal and root user) #which sshd /usr/sbin/sshd The sshd daemon it's on (see nr.1) So connection to Y it's OK, but from Y to another computer don't. Even back to X don't work Any advice? Thank you! P.S - sorry for my bad english

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Users
by Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hi All, I am confused about users. IIRC, ftp users are just ordinary users on the system (/etc/passwd) Is there an add user wizard from the command-line? I dont quite get all of the steps to add a user, dont let login except FTP, etc, etc -Jason

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Debuginfo RPMs for gcc-4.1.2-44.el5
by Robert Mann 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hi, I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem with an application, and I need the debuginfo RPMs for gcc. (The symbols for libstdc++ are in there.) I recently upgraded one machine to CentOS 5.3, and this installed gcc-4.1.2-44.el5. However, there isn't any corresponding debuginfo RPM on the mirror: [kMDIAG@vm01 rql_mdiag]$ links -dump http://debuginfo.centos.org/5/i386/ | grep -i gcc-debuginfo-4.1.2- [1088][ ] [1089]gcc-debuginfo-4.1.2-14.el5.i386.rpm 09-Nov-2007 23:47 80M [1090][ ] [1091]gcc-debuginfo-4.1.2-42.el5.i386.rpm 26-May-2008 22:56 81M 1089. http://debuginfo.centos.org/5/i386/gcc-debuginfo-4.1.2-14.el5.i386.rpm 1091. http://debuginfo.centos.org/5/i386/gcc-debuginfo-4.1.2-42.el5.i386.rpm I assume that the debuginfo RPMs got generated at the same time as the gcc RPM was built in January, but I can't think of a reason why they might not be on the mirrors. Is there something wrong with the mirror infrastructure?

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kickstart question
by Jerry Geis 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hi all, My kickstart section for packages is %packages @base-x @dialup @gnome-desktop @base @development-libs @core @x-software-development @mail-server @development-tools @web-server @graphical-internet @sound-and-video @legacy-software-development @editors @smb-server @ftp-server mesa-libGLU-devel device-mapper-multipath xorg-x11-server-Xnest xorg-x11-server-Xvfb imake I do not have package @mysql in the list - yet after install "rpm -qa | grep -i mysql" reports mysql loaded. how can I stop mysql from loading from anaconda? Thanks, this is centos 5.3 x86_64 Jerry

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Rosewill RSV-S8 Storage Enclosure Support
by Ruslan Sivak 05 May '09

05 May '09

I'm trying to get RSV-S8 working with Citrix XenServer 5 update 3 (which I believe runs CentOS 5.something). I have the Rosewill card that comes with it in there (sil3132 based). It's seeing the card, and seeing all my drives. I fdisk the drives and I can create the partitions, but I am unable to set up either software raid or create filesystems. I keep getting errors saying that the volumes are in use (although they do not appear to be mounted anywhere). # mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1 mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) /dev/sdc1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here! # mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 mdadm: Cannot open /dev/sdb1: Device or resource busy mdadm: Cannot open /dev/sdc1: Device or resource busy mdadm: create aborted Am I doing something wrong or is it possibly an issue with the driver? I had no problems using this under windows. Russ

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Dev Tools
by Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hi All, Cent OS 5.3. I need to install the gcc toolchain, but what yum packages is this? I need to compile ProFTPD, etc, etc. I tried yum install gcc, what else? -Jason

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Re: [CentOS] Best mobile SSH client?
by Martin Jernberg 04 May '09

04 May '09

i like MidPSSH http://www.xk72.com/midpssh/ tough its the only mobile SSH client i have used :p

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5.3 on an EeePC??
by Beartooth 04 May '09

04 May '09

I have an ASUS EeePC 701 (with 2GB of RAM and an 8 GB card), on which I've installed CentOS on the hard-drive-plus-card. But it can't even use my eth0. Some one on a local LUG, where I had mentioned that other OSs did fine with all the same exact hardware, suggested that CentOS, being designed for stability rather than the bleeding edge, likely lacks drivers; so I need to get some. Anybody know what drivers (for wireless as well as ethernet cable) I need, and how/where to get ones to fit CentOS?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.

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CentOS 5.3 - OpenJDK vs. Sun JDK
by Sean Gilligan 04 May '09

04 May '09

What have people's experiences with CentOS 5.3 and OpenJDK for server apps (e.g. Tomcat) been so far? Has anyone found they've had to install the Sun JDK? If so, what was broken? Thanks, Sean

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OT Live Help Center
by Per Qvindesland 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hi List I am wondering if some of you might know about any free alternative to Crafty Syntax Live and Help Center Live? Regards Per

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How to determine connection time between two node ?
by Semih Gokalp 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hi all CentOS users, How can i determine connection time during the package walking between two nodes ? But not in my network ! only any two network nodes in world ? For example: Get report time value betwwen www.abc.com and www.cde.com Thanks for all advice. -- Iyi calismalar.Basarilar... Semih Gokalp Istanbul/Turkiye

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yum update installed xen and pae kernels
by Robert Moskowitz 04 May '09

04 May '09

Why??? I was/am running kernel 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 I did a yum update and watched 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5xen and 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5PAE being installed, with PAE listed first in my /boo/grub/menu.lst I also see: Installing: kmod-fuse i686 2.7.4-1.el5.rf rpmforge 26 k replacing dkms-fuse.noarch 2.7.4-1.nodist.rf kmod-fuse-PAE i686 2.7.4-1.el5.rf rpmforge 26 k replacing dkms-fuse.noarch 2.7.4-1.nodist.rf kmod-fuse-xen i686 2.7.4-1.el5.rf rpmforge 26 k replacing dkms-fuse.noarch 2.7.4-1.nodist.rf This notebook has the atheros wifi mini-pci card. What do I do at this point? I have not rebooted...

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 51, Issue 3
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 04 May '09

04 May '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-2009:0458 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) gpdf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2009:0457 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) libwmf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 15:57:20 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0458 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) gpdf - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090503125720.GC17845(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0458 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0458.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/gpdf-2.8.2-7.7.2.c4.4.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/gpdf-2.8.2-7.7.2.c4.4.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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c5-webstack: where can I get it (to test)
by mbneto 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hi, Where can I find the test (or final) version of the c5-webstack? Regards.

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Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??
by Per Qvindesland 03 May '09

03 May '09

Hmmm "This will wipe your drive." normally means what it says it wipes your drive to be honest if it was me then I would skip centos and go for the uhuntu, it's designed for the netbook and from what I hear i runs like the clappers on the netbook. Regards Per Qvindesland --- Original message follows --- SUBJECT: Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC?? FROM: Beartooth TO: "centos(a)centos.org" DATE: 03-05-2009 21:02 On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:20:30 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: [...] > I like CentOS better than Debian also but, apparently, the new Ubuntu > 9.04 works really well on netbooks. > > It's here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook For the record, I went there, got that, burned it to a medium, and started an install. It came up with some startlingly strong caveat, to the effect that "This will wipe your drive." I took that to be so much more ubuntoid protecting me from myself, and went ahead, taking for granted that the installer would give me at least one choice which would preserve CentOS. Ba-aa-aadd move. It meant what it said : never gave me any other choice of anything, but went ahead and, sure enough, completely trashed my CentOS install. After that, the machine ran UNR and only UNR, even with thumbsticks in it. I finally ended up running DBAN against it -- and am still looking for other, *NON*-ubuntoid distros ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 51, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 03 May '09

03 May '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-2009:0458 Important CentOS 4 ia64 gpdf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2009:0457 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 libwmf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 15:25:03 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0458 Important CentOS 4 ia64 gpdf - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090503122503.GA17845(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0458 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0458.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/gpdf-2.8.2-7.7.2.c4.4.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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webgui, gui
by Erik Xavior 03 May '09

03 May '09

Are there any good "GUI"s, webGUIs for managing an "Linux" server? For several use, like the mandriva directory server? thanks

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GFS and Small Files
by Hairul Ikmal Mohamad Fuzi 03 May '09

03 May '09

Hi all, We are running CentOS 5.2 64bit as our file server. Currently, we used GFS (with CLVM underneath it) as our filesystem (for our multiple 2TB SAN volume exports) since we plan to add more file servers (serving the same contents) later on. The issue we are facing at the moment is we found out that command such as 'ls' gives a very slow response.(e.g 3-4minutes for the outputs of ls to be printed out, or in certain cases, 20minutes or so) This is completely true especially in directories containing "large number" of small files (e.g 90000+ of 1-4kb files). The thing is, most of system users are generating these small files frequently as part of their workflow. We tried emulating the same scenario (90000+ of small files) on a ext3 partition and it gives almost the same result. I believe most of the CLVM/GFS settings done are using the defaults parameters. Additionally, we would prefer to stick to GFS (or at least ext3) as it is part of CentOS / RHEL distribution rather than changing into other small-files 'friendly' filesystems (such as XFS, ReiserFS). I'm exploring whether is there anyway we can tune the GFS parameters to make the system more responsive? I have read that we can apply 'dir_index' option to ext3 partition to speedup things, but I'm not so sure about GFS. Below are the output from "gfs_tool gettune /export/gfs" : ilimit1 = 100 ilimit1_tries = 3 ilimit1_min = 1 ilimit2 = 500 ilimit2_tries = 10 ilimit2_min = 3 demote_secs = 300 incore_log_blocks = 1024 jindex_refresh_secs = 60 depend_secs = 60 scand_secs = 5 recoverd_secs = 60 logd_secs = 1 quotad_secs = 5 inoded_secs = 15 glock_purge = 0 quota_simul_sync = 64 quota_warn_period = 10 atime_quantum = 3600 quota_quantum = 60 quota_scale = 1.0000 (1, 1) quota_enforce = 1 quota_account = 1 new_files_jdata = 0 new_files_directio = 0 max_atomic_write = 4194304 max_readahead = 262144 lockdump_size = 131072 stall_secs = 600 complain_secs = 10 reclaim_limit = 5000 entries_per_readdir = 32 prefetch_secs = 10 statfs_slots = 64 max_mhc = 10000 greedy_default = 100 greedy_quantum = 25 greedy_max = 250 rgrp_try_threshold = 100 statfs_fast = 0 TIA. .ikmal

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find tux comic picture help
by Erik Xavior 03 May '09

03 May '09

does anyone knows/have that comic picture of "tux" the Linux penguin that: - has four pictures in it - it defines 4 "levels" of the knowledge of tux, who is "symbolizing a learning person" - the first one: tux is just a Linux "fanboy"; second: tux is working, and say's: "...stupid rpm"; three: I can't remember that:D sorry; four: tux has a beard, and the picture says don't mess with it. thank you, and sorry for the question, but I just can't find it on google :D :S

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how to find out dependencies
by Jerry Geis 03 May '09

03 May '09

At install I had Gnome and Not KDE. doing rpm -qa | grep qt results in qt-3.3.6-23.el5 qt4-4.2.1-1 How can I find out what package loaded the qt4 and qt? Thanks, Jerry

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Postfix Questions
by Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle 03 May '09

03 May '09

Hi All, I am working on setting up Postfix and I have a few questions: 1. mynetworks = Do I put my public static IP here? So I am hosting at another provider on my own dedicated hardware. Do I put that machines IP or the IP of my apartment where I want to access from? Second, do I have to know the Ip information for my BlackBerry to work as well? 2. relaying: Obviously I dont want to be an open relay, but I do what to send mail from my apartment and from my Blackberry. Ideas? -Jason

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eSATA controller that supports Centos 4.4
by Jean-Francois Leblond 02 May '09

02 May '09

Hi, I'm looking for SATA controller with a eSATA port that is supported by Centos 4.4 ( rhel 4.4) Do you have any suggestions for a eSATA controller with good Linux support ? How can I list the sata controllers supported by Centos 4.4 ? Thanks JF Leblond Jean-François Leblond jfleblond68(a)hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Découvrez toutes les nouvelles fonctions et reconnectez-vous à votre vie. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9650738

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Hello mail list world
by Falcon chen 02 May '09

02 May '09

First time to use the centos mail lists . In fact ,it's my first time to use mail list - -# , glad to chat with you , I love Centos as all people include you of course , ha ha ! -- Falcon Chen Sent from Guangzhou, 44, China

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apache slow on lan transfers?
by Gordon McLellan 02 May '09

02 May '09

When I download a file from apache on the lan (gigabit lan), I only get 3-4mbps of download speed, opposed to accessing the file via FTP or SMB which results in 500+ mbps of transfer speed. As far as I know, I'm running the stock apache (httpd) that is distributed with centos 5.3, and haven't changed anything in the config file with the exception of setting up various virtual directories. I'm hoping someone can give me pointers on what I need to search for to research this problem. Apache + slow + lan isn't really getting me anywhere. The apache process itself on the server doesn't even register 1% of cpu usage, and iowait is 0% All suggestions are appreciated, Gordon

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Rsync/SSH automation problem?
by James Bensley 02 May '09

02 May '09

Hi All, I have a win2k3 server that its backing up to a CentOS 5.3 server. On the Win2k3 machine I plan to have rsync back up nightly to the CentOS server through ssh. The command I am using is as follows: rsync -vrPtz -e ssh myuser@myserver:/remote/backup/folder/ /local/backup/folder/ This all works great for the inital test except its prompts me for a password for "myuser" (as you would except) but how can I embed the password for ssh into the command line? Or can I not? Is the following some how possible: rsync -vrPtz -e ssh myuser@myserver mypassword /remote/backup/folder/ /local/backup/folder/ Or something like that? I can't find anything that says it is possible so its probably isn't but I know that some of you out there have far superior searching skills than I or hopefully, you might already know? Assuming this isn't possible as I've got that gut feeling it won't be, does anyone else have a better idea? BTW; Rsync in running on the windows box through cygwin in case you wondered or hadn't guessed ;) Many thanks, James ;) -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT/MU/U dpu s: a--> C++>$ U+> L++> B-> P+> E?> W+++>$ N K W++ O M++>$ V- PS+++ PE++ Y+ PGP t 5 X+ R- tv+ b+> DI D+++ G+ e(+++++) h--(++) r++ z++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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Web Serving
by Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle 01 May '09

01 May '09

Hi All, My quest is going slowly but surely and I am learning a lot. I use ColdFusion. I installed in on My CentOS 5.3 instance and all was well. I added: DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.php index.cfm index.cfml to httpd.conf and restarted. I put an index.cfm page in /var/www/html and removed the standard index.html and I can see when I hit my IP it works. I then created virtual hosts for a few coldfusion websites in httpd.conf and added the directories to /var/www/html One thing I notice is the owner/group is 501 and games like: drwxr-xr-x 5 501 games 4096 Apr 25 23:57 www_sheldony_com Is this normal? I just did a simply mkdir statement. Did I screw something up? And when I try to hit an index.cfm page Firefox prompts me to download binary data. When I try to hit the CF Administrator I get the same 'binary' data file download. I am running CF on port 80 as I need to. Examples that works: http://67.23.34.37/ Does not work: http://67.23.34.37/cfide/administrator Ideas? -Jason

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Inotify or equivalent
by Joseph L. Casale 01 May '09

01 May '09

I installed inotify and incrond to watch a directory and set the job as '/mnt/dir IN_ATTRIB chmod 0660 $@/$#' which worked very well except that as expected, IN_ATTRIB is to broad of a watch class as it caused an enormous amount of contention with the filemonitor and/or db server and the client side app was less than happy. Not to mention top showed it working away like mad... Is there any way to look for permission changes only, or something else that might work? Thanks! jlc

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