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mmonit - Permission denied errot
by Rajagopal Swaminathan 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Greetings, I just downloaded the mmonit from mmonit.com site on my CentOS box untarred-unizipped it. As per the documentation, I dutifully typed ./bin/mmonit and it is refusing to run. I am running this as root and SELinux is disabled. running it with strace spews the following (in entireity): [begin] # strace ./bin/mmonit execve("./bin/mmonit", ["./bin/mmonit"], [/* 28 vars */]) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) dup(2) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=makedev(136, 2), ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7fed000 _llseek(3, 0, 0xbfd7e7b4, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) write(3, "strace: exec: Permission denied\n", 32strace: exec: Permission denied ) = 32 close(3) = 0 munmap(0xb7fed000, 4096) = 0 exit_group(1) = ? [end strace] What am I missing here? Thanks and Regards Rajagopal

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Is there a web-based server status package?
by Xn Nooby 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

I have a small squirrelmail server using Postfix & Dovecot, and I would like to add a web-based "status" screen to remotely check its health. Is there a preferred packaged for doing this? I mostly want to monitor disk space usage, and CPU utilization.

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question about top output
by Greenseid, Joseph M (IS) 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

hi all, below is the output of top off a machine i have, sorted by CPU utilization. my question is, how can all 8 CPUs say they're pegged at 100% user utilization, when there are just these 8 processes saying they're using 25% of a CPU each, and no other processes showing up taking any resources? i have run this test on other machines and they act as expected. i found this b/c this node was running a lot slower for some reason, and i can't figure out why. there are no error messages anywhere... top - 00:16:34 up 8 days, 2:05, 1 user, load average: 8.40, 8.31, 8.24 Tasks: 156 total, 9 running, 147 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 97.2%us, 1.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.4%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 :100.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu2 :100.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu3 : 98.6%us, 1.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu4 :100.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu5 : 98.6%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.4%si, 0.0%st Cpu6 :100.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu7 :100.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 16424052k total, 13900392k used, 2523660k free, 10560k buffers Swap: 499988k total, 152k used, 499836k free, 28700k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 8568 jgreen 25 0 2089m 1.7g 4184 R 23 10.5 109:06.90 xhpl 8572 jgreen 25 0 2080m 1.6g 4184 R 23 10.5 109:12.40 xhpl 8574 jgreen 25 0 2079m 1.6g 4220 R 23 10.5 109:07.43 xhpl 8575 jgreen 25 0 2063m 1.6g 4168 R 23 10.4 109:08.12 xhpl 8570 jgreen 25 0 2084m 1.6g 4188 R 23 10.5 109:07.52 xhpl 8571 jgreen 25 0 2067m 1.6g 4188 R 23 10.4 109:08.51 xhpl 8569 jgreen 25 0 2072m 1.6g 4196 R 22 10.4 109:07.77 xhpl 8573 jgreen 25 0 2062m 1.6g 4204 R 22 10.4 109:08.23 xhpl 4457 root 15 0 12056 1424 992 S 0 0.0 8:01.62 pbs_mom 1 root 15 0 10316 792 660 S 0 0.0 0:02.74 init 2 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 migration/0 3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0 4 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 watchdog/0 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 6 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1 thanks, --Joe

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 49, Issue 10
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '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-2009:0341-01: Low CentOS 2 i386 Moderate security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:11:36 +1100 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0341-01: Low CentOS 2 i386 Moderate security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <49C85D78.2050408(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHSA-2009:0341-01 Moderate: curl security update Files available: curl-7.8-3.rhel2.i386.rpm curl-devel-7.8-3.rhel2.i386.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin ITS Senior Analyst / Programmer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 49, Issue 10 ***********************************************

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Re: [CentOS] hplip problems - configure: error: "cannot find libjpeg support"
by Anne Wilson 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

On Sunday 08 March 2009 20:58, you wrote: > yes, the "yum list" output shows both installed and available (from > the repos you have configured). if not installed it shows the repo - > e.g., "base", "rpmforge". so, if you're is showing installed there's > something else going on. is it complaining about dbus-python in > general, or is it giving a version/release-specific error? # hp-setup warning: python-dbus not installed. HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.2) Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 8.0 <snip> (Note: Defaults for each question are maked with a '*'. Press <enter> to accept the default.) Using connection type: usb error: No device selected/specified or that supports this functionality. That is correct. The printer in question is a networked one, and I would expect to have to set it in hp-setup. It works from other boxes with more recent distros. > there's > also: > > rpm -qa dbus-python\* > > to check that something is installed. That simply returns dbus-python-0.70-7.el5 Anne

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SATA tape drive on 4.7
by C Linus Hicks 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

I have gotten a hard system lockup several times using star on my system with a Quantum DLT-V4 SATA tape drive. I am including what got recorded in /var/log/messages from the most recent event showing stack trace. Output from uname -a: Linux lh10 2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 14 15:55:36 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'star', page 00000102382b1ec8) Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: flags:0x0100000c mapping:00000102146a4240 mapcount:2 count:0 Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: Backtrace: Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: Call Trace:<ffffffff8015f0cf>{bad_page+112} <ffffffff8015f7b1>{free_hot_cold_page+130} Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: <ffffffffa00d17b8>{:st:sgl_unmap_user_pages+67} <ffffffffa00d17df>{:st:release_buffering+27} Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: <ffffffffa00d6196>{:st:st_write+2692} <ffffffff80194b39>{inode_update_time+159} Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: <ffffffff8017beaa>{vfs_write+207} <ffffffff8017bf92>{sys_write+69} Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: <ffffffff801102f6>{system_call+126} Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'star', page 000001023eb70ed8) Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: flags:0x0100000c mapping:00000102146a4240 mapcount:2 count:0 Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: Backtrace: Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: Call Trace:<ffffffff8015f0cf>{bad_page+112} <ffffffff8015f7b1>{free_hot_cold_page+130} Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: <ffffffffa00d17b8>{:st:sgl_unmap_user_pages+67} <ffffffffa00d17df>{:st:release_buffering+27} Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: <ffffffffa00d6196>{:st:st_write+2692} <ffffffff80194b39>{inode_update_time+159} Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: <ffffffff8017beaa>{vfs_write+207} <ffffffff8017bf92>{sys_write+69} Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: <ffffffff801102f6>{system_call+126} Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'star', page 000001023d3bc220) Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: flags:0x0100000c mapping:00000102146a4240 mapcount:2 count:0 Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: Backtrace: Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: Call Trace:<ffffffff8015f0cf>{bad_page+112} <ffffffff8015f7b1>{free_hot_cold_page+130} Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: <ffffffffa00d17b8>{:st:sgl_unmap_user_pages+67} <ffffffffa00d17df>{:st:release_buffering+27} Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: <ffffffffa00d6196>{:st:st_write+2692} <ffffffff80194b39>{inode_update_time+159} Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: <ffffffff8017beaa>{vfs_write+207} <ffffffff8017bf92>{sys_write+69} Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: <ffffffff801102f6>{system_call+126} Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'star', page 0000010238c68e80) Mar 22 22:02:59 lh10 kernel: flags:0x0100000c mapping:00000102146a4240 mapcount:2 count:0 Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: Backtrace: Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: Call Trace:<ffffffff8015f0cf>{bad_page+112} <ffffffff8015f7b1>{free_hot_cold_page+130} Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: <ffffffffa00d17b8>{:st:sgl_unmap_user_pages+67} <ffffffffa00d17df>{:st:release_buffering+27} Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: <ffffffffa00d6196>{:st:st_write+2692} <ffffffff80194b39>{inode_update_time+159} Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: <ffffffff8017beaa>{vfs_write+207} <ffffffff8017bf92>{sys_write+69} Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: <ffffffff801102f6>{system_call+126} Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'star', page 000001023c14d570) Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: flags:0x0100000c mapping:00000102146a4240 mapcount:2 count:0 Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: Backtrace: Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: Call Trace:<ffffffff8015f0cf>{bad_page+112} <ffffffff8015f7b1>{free_hot_cold_page+130} Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: <ffffffffa00d17b8>{:st:sgl_unmap_user_pages+67} <ffffffffa00d17df>{:st:release_buffering+27} Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: <ffffffffa00d6196>{:st:st_write+2692} <ffffffff80194b39>{inode_update_time+159} Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: <ffffffff8017beaa>{vfs_write+207} <ffffffff8017bf92>{sys_write+69} Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: <ffffffff801102f6>{system_call+126} Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'X', page 000001023c14d570) Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: flags:0x01020008 mapping:00000101ec811360 mapcount:0 count:0 Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: Backtrace: Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: Call Trace:<ffffffff8015f0cf>{bad_page+112} <ffffffff8015f7b1>{free_hot_cold_page+130} Mar 22 22:03:00 lh10 kernel: <ffffffff8015f86a>{__pagevec_free+39} <ffffffff80165a5d>{release_pages+366} Mar 22 22:03:01 lh10 kernel: <ffffffff8016d921>{__vma_link+66} <ffffffff8016dd53>{vma_adjust+815} Mar 22 22:03:01 lh10 kernel: <ffffffff80165e4b>{__pagevec_mark_accessed+394} <ffffffff80166091>{lru_add_drain+91} Mar 22 22:03:01 lh10 kernel: <ffffffff8016e971>{do_munmap+355} <ffffffff8016f55e>{sys_brk+136} Mar 22 22:03:01 lh10 kernel: <ffffffff801102f6>{system_call+126} Mar 22 22:03:01 lh10 kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed star had been running about 20 to 30 minutes at the time of the crash. I have seen two or three crashes previously all denoting "Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page." This appears to have been reported as a bug in 2.6.12: https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/bugme-new/2005-August/012862.h… It was updated March 10, 2008 as rejected unreproducible. I have seen the problem three times in three days now without trying to reproduce it. Can I get any help on getting a fix? Linus

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Disks do not mount at boot
by Theo Band 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

I have a problem with two entries in my /etc/fstab. When I boot the machine, the disks are not mounted. When I give mount -a, all disks are present without an error. Of course I don't want to manually do that after each reboot. What can be the problem? CentOS 5.2 cat /etc/fstab /dev/vg/centos / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=zele_common /dczele01/ ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=users /dczele01/users ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/vg/swap swap swap defaults 0 0 arend:/home /home nfs proto=tcp,nfsvers=3,bg,defaults 0 0 arend:/program /program nfs proto=tcp,nfsvers=3,bg,defaults 0 0 Instead of LABEL I also tried to use the device /dev/vg2/users. The filesystem is created on a logical volume, part of a new volume group: lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert centos vg -wi-ao 6.91G swap vg -wi-ao 992.00M users vg2 -wi-ao 50.00G zele_common vg2 -wi-ao 100.00G After booting /etc/mtab and mount do not list the /dczele01 entries. In the log I see these lines: Mar 24 08:42:02 fsutrecht kernel: md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. Mar 24 08:42:02 fsutrecht kernel: md: autorun ... Mar 24 08:42:02 fsutrecht kernel: md: ... autorun DONE. Mar 24 08:42:02 fsutrecht kernel: device-mapper: multipath: version 1.0.5 loaded Mar 24 08:42:02 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal Mar 24 08:42:02 fsutrecht kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Mar 24 08:42:02 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal Mar 24 08:42:02 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Mar 24 08:42:03 fsutrecht kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Mar 24 08:42:03 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3 FS on dm-3, internal journal Mar 24 08:42:03 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Mar 24 08:42:03 fsutrecht kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Mar 24 08:42:03 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3 FS on dm-2, internal journal Mar 24 08:42:03 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Mar 24 08:42:03 fsutrecht kernel: Adding 1015800k swap on /dev/vg/swap. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1015800k Then I give a mount -a and see this in the log: Mar 24 08:44:28 fsutrecht kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Mar 24 08:44:28 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3 FS on dm-3, internal journal Mar 24 08:44:28 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Mar 24 08:44:28 fsutrecht kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Mar 24 08:44:28 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3 FS on dm-2, internal journal Mar 24 08:44:28 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. So from the log it looks like the mount is done, but nothing is actually mounted. I'm puzzled. The nfs shares and the /boot drive are mounted correctly. So what could cause these two shares to not mount automatically? What else can I do to debug? Thanks, Theo

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How to add ClamAV to Postfix?
by Xn Nooby 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

I sent this email to the Rehdat list, but I thought the Centos users might be more inclined to have the command-line solution I am looking for, so I thought I would post it here too: I would like to add anti-virus to my email server. Currently I have Postfix, Dovecot, PHP, and Squirrelmail installed. The users only use Squirrelmail to access mail. I am looking for command-line instructions, since I have limited access to the server itself (I am using SSH). ClamAV seems to be most common linux AV package, so I assume I should be using that. I'm not sure if I should be using Amavisd or MailScanner, or neither. I believe I need one of them to act as the glue that connects Postfix to ClamAV. Apparently none of these packages (Amavisd/MailScanner/ClamAV) are part of RHEL5, so I have to get the RPMS from somewhere else. Is there some standard way of adding AV to Postfix?

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help needed with DNS server
by Rudi Ahlers 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

Hi all, I'm setting up a DNS server on CentOS 5.2, but can't get it to listen to the outside IP address for DNS queries. There's no firewall installed yet. Here's the BIND config options: options { /* make named use port 53 for the source of all queries, to allow * firewalls to block all ports except 53: */ query-source port 53; // Put files that named is allowed to write in the data/ directory: directory "/var/named"; // the default dump-file "data/cache_dump.db"; statistics-file "data/named_stats.txt"; /* memstatistics-file "data/named_mem_stats.txt"; */ }; Yet, it only listes on 127.0.0.1 netstat -tulpn | grep :53 Stopping named: [ OK ] Starting named: [ OK ] tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 28979/named tcp 0 0 ::1:53 :::* LISTEN 28979/named udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* 28979/named udp 0 0 ::1:53 :::* 28979/named What am I missing? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers

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Form to mail script generators for Linux?
by Linda Stark 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

Hi, I am trying to find out if there are any Linux based “form to mail” php script generators available, that would generate the script needed to profess web mail forms such as a “contact us” page or a “mail us” page on a web site. There was one in patricular I was looking at that is windows based, called “Forms To Go”, a commercial package, which from what I have gathered is the most popular in it’s class and apparently it generates secure code. Thanks for any info. _________________________________________________________________ Internet Explorer 8 – Now Available. Faster, safer, easier. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/141323790/direct/01/

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Backporting and Apache 2.0.52 is 4 1/2 years old
by Rob Townley 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_20.html states that Apache 2.0.52 is 4 years old and the latest version is 2.0.68. i am no longer a httpd expert, but at least one of the security fixes involves XSS attacks via malformed ftp commands. I also realize that redhat / centos may patch things separately from Apache and that the sysadmin has a great deal to do with how secure things are, but almost 5 years? Does the sysadmin for www.centos.org get paid?

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OT: centos.org web site not responding
by Lanny Marcus 22 Mar '09

22 Mar '09

The web site for CentOS is not responding. I can ping it OK, but the web site is not responding to http requests from my browser. If the webmaster should happen to read this...

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by Daniel Hays 22 Mar '09

22 Mar '09

Hi there, Could you please remove me from your mailing list? Thank you Daniel _________________________________________________________________ Need a new place to rent, share or buy? Let ninemsn property help. http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fninemsn%2Edomain%2Ecom%2Eau…

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Being Green, Time to make the servers sleep!
by James Bensley 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

Shadies and Mentlemen; I am trying to be green and put our backup servers to sleep during the day and have them wake on LAN and fire back up at night for our nightly backups as "sleep" is a sort of low power usage mode. (At this point I would be curious to know the different levels of sleep, what can I achieve? Does my server just drop into a low power state, or can I stop the hard drives as well?) I am wondering if it is achievable to script the process of putting a server to sleep so I can cron tab its behind! I would assume it would be possible but I don't know how, does anyone have any idea? -----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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fetchmail SSL protoco; issue
by Louis Lagendijk 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

I am using fetchmail to collect mail from some secondary mail accounts, among which is hotmail. So far I have used hotwayd to fetch the mail from hotmail using httpmail. Hotmail now supports pop3 access, so I decided to change fetchnail to fetch the mail directly over pop3. This works, but whatever I try, I get an error message when I run fetchmail: Invalid SSL protocol 'SSLv23' specified, using default (SSLv23). Invalid SSL protocol '' specified, using default (SSLv23). The relevant part of my .fetchmailrc is included below (userids and password changed for privacy reasons :-) poll pop3.live.com port 995 proto pop3 user xxxxx(a)hotmail.com password yyyyyy no keep ssl sslproto ssl23 fetchall to myuserid The error message remains almost the same when I remove the sslproto option, only the second line is printed My mail is correctly fetched however. For gmail I use the same setup, but do not get any errors there. Anybody got this working WITHOUT error messages? What am I doing wrong? Louis

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Centos 5.2 ,5.3 and GFS2
by FM 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

Hello, I will create a Xen cluster and using GFS2 (with conga, ...) to create a new Xen cluster. I know that GFS2 is prod ready since RHEL 5.3. Do you know whent Centos 5.3 will be ready ? Can I install my GFS2 FS with centos 5.2 and then "simply" upgrade to 5.3 without reinstallation ? Tx

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How to configure Xmanager to CentOS?
by madunix 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

Can any help in this issue, it would be really appreciated. I did the following, but it didnt help.... For XDMCP connection to Red Hat 5 EL 1. XDM Configuration 1. Change runlevel to 5 Open/etc/inittab and set the initial runlevel to 5 as following: id:5:initdefault: 2. Enable XDMCP For GDM: Open /etc/gdm/custom.conf and set the Enable entry to 1 in the [xdmcp] section as following. [xdmcp] Enable=1 For KDM: Open /usr/share/config/kdm/Xaccess and remove the initial "#" character for the following line: #* #any host can get a login window ==> * #any host can get a login window Open /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and set the Enable entry to true in the [xdmcp] section as following. [xdmcp] Enable=true 2. Firewall (TCP/UDP Ports) Configuration Open UDP port 177 from the PC to the remote host direction. Open incoming TCP ports 6000~6010 from the remote host to your PC. 3. Reboot the remote host and start Xmanager # init 3; init 5

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pam_access.so restrictions not working - syntax errors?
by Dirk H. Schulz 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Hi folks, I want to restrict root access via ssh to certain (internal) hosts. That is what pam_access.so is for, I thought, so I configured: in /etc/security/access.conf I added (nothing in there before): + : root : 192.168.123.0/24 10.72.0.0/16 - : root : ALL in /etc/pam.d/ssh I added at the end: account required pam_access.so Then I restarted the ssh server. Basically, this kinda works. Cron suddenly had no right to do it's job, so I had to add + : root : LOCAL to /etc/security/access.conf But there still is no restriction on ssh logins by root - I can still login from anywhere. Next I tried putting it in one line in /etc/security/access.conf: - : root : ALL EXCEPT LOCAL 192.168.123.0/24 10.72.0.0/16 That did not change anything, still I can log in via ssh. I am stuck. According to documentation and the examples on the net this should be the right syntax. And, by the way, in my /etc/ssh/ sshd_config I have "UsePAM yes". Any help or hint is appreciated. Dirk

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pam_ldap and nss_ldap failover
by Paul Heinlein 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

I'm (finally) getting around to putting a backup LDAP authentication server on my network. The backup uses syncrepl to grab the database, and to my eyes both LDAP servers answer read queries identically. I'm testing the client side of this configuration on virtual CentOS 5 i386 machine. /etc/ldap.conf reads ----- %< ----- base dc=DOMAIN,dc=com timelimit 30 bind_timelimit 30 idle_timelimit 300 nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,ldap,named,[... trimmed ...] uri ldap://ldap1.DOMAIN.com ldap://ldap2.DOMAIN.com ssl start_tls tls_cacertdir /etc/openldap/cacerts pam_password md5 ----- %< ----- The client will bind to whichever server is listed first after the 'uri' directive. In the config snippet, it's 'ldap1' -- but it works the other way too. If the first-listed server goes away, the client never seems to try to find or bind to the second-listed server (where "never" == my patience limit of about an hour). Once the first-listed server goes away, all password authentication fails, though getent passwd and getent group still work (presumably because of nscd). Has anyone else experienced this or, more importantly, figured out a way to get failover to work in a reasonable timeframe? -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein(a)madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/

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stty and sockets
by Jerry Geis 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

With local com ports I can use stty to inspect the port settings. Is there a similiar method with a socket connection? I have an odd situation happening where my data collection program that is working on 3 machines is not working on the 4th. The program opens a socket to remote RS232 device no data is recieved. strangely though if I "telnet IP port" to the device it will send the data on this 4th unit. (odd that it works on 3 units but not the 1). I was thinking there must be something different with the way telnet is setting up the socket than I am setting up the socket. Is there a command or method that can inspect socket options like I can with stty for RS232 lines? If so how? Thanks, Jerry

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wireshark
by Jerry Geis 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

I did a "yum -y install wireshark" and it was successful. After the is type "wireshark" and nothing. Is there a problem with this package or am I missing something. Jerry

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 49, Issue 9
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '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-2009:0341 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 curl - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2009:0341 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 curl - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2009:0345 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 ghostscript - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2009:0345 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 ghostscript - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2009:0341 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) curl - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2009:0341 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) curl - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2009:0345 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) ghostscript - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2009:0345 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) ghostscript - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 9. CESA-2009:0341 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 curl - security update (Tru Huynh) 10. CESA-2009:0341 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 curl - security update (Tru Huynh) 11. CESA-2009:0345 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 ghostscript - security update (Tru Huynh) 12. CESA-2009:0345 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 ghostscript - security update (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:55:16 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0341 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 curl - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090319165516.GV23300(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0341 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0341.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/curl-7.10.6-9.rhel3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/curl-devel-7.10.6-9.rhel3.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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minimal installation - kickstart error
by Tom Brown 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Hi I have inherited some kickstarts that attempt to remove some packages that at some point its been deemed they are not required. I am migrating all this over to cobbler but trying to get to the bottom of this error that although the kickstart completes sshd cant start as the package nss is not installed. It fails with this Installing nss - 3.11.99.5-2.el5.centos.x86_64 error: %pre(nss-3.11.99.5-2.el5.centos.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping nss-3.11.99.5-2.el5.centos Which seems to happen due to this error while loading shared libraries: libssl3.so yum tells me # yum provides libssl3.so nss.i386 : Network Security Services nss.i386 : Network Security Services so # yum search "Network Security Services" nss.i386 : Network Security Services nss-tools.x86_64 : Tools for the Network Security Services nss-devel.x86_64 : Development libraries for Network Security Services nss.x86_64 : Network Security Services nss-devel.i386 : Development libraries for Network Security Services nss-tools.x86_64 : Tools for the Network Security Services mod_nss.x86_64 : SSL/TLS module for the Apache HTTP server nss.i386 : Network Security Services But anyone know what package messing this up as from what i can see nothing there is being 'removed' in the kickstart - below is a full list of packages removed in the kickstart thanks for any tips tom # individual packages to remove -acpid -apmd -aspell -aspell-en -at -autofs -bc -beecrypt -binutils -bluez-bluefw -bluez-hcidump -bluez-libs -bluez-utils -cpio -crash -cryptsetup -cups -cups-libs -cyrus-sasl -cyrus-sasl-md5 -cyrus-sasl-plain -dhclient -dhcpv6_client -dmraid -dosfstools -dump -ed -eject -fbset -finger -ftp -gpm -hesiod -irda-utils -isdn4k-utils -lftp -lha -logwatch -lrzsz -mailcap -minicom -mtools -mtr -mt-st -nano -nc -netconfig -NetworkManager -ntsysv -pam_smb -parted -pax -pcmcia-cs -pinfo -quota -rdate -rdist -redhat-logos -rmt -rp-pppoe -rsh -sendmail -slang -stunnel -system-config-mouse -system-config-network-tui -system-config-securitylevel-tui -talk -tcsh -up2date -vconfig -wireless-tools -wvdial -xinetd -ypbind -yp-tools

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Wine
by madunix 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Am running Centos5.2 64Bit, want to run windows application on it [x@linux10 ~]$ uname -a Linux 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5 #1 SMP Wed Sep 24 19:32:05 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [x@linux10 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.2 (Final) Which Wine version should i install? Should i go for rpm or tarball package? Which packages should be installed beside Wine? Thanks -- THE MASTER

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Firefox, sound, flash under CentOS 4.7
by Stephen Harris 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

If I run firefox then everything is fine... until I hit a page with flash and sound on it (youtube, some other stuff). Then it sems to lock the sound device and no other programs (eg Pidgin) can make sounds. In previous versions of firefox (firefox 2? Can't remember) I could run it under esddsp and then firefox/Flash played nicely with others. However now firefox just doesn't start up. FWIW, I don't use Gnome or KDE as a window manager; that _shouldn't_ cause any impact. Any ideas? -- rgds Stephen

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Firefox seg faults
by Rob Kampen 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Hi, I have two very similar AMD based work stations running fully current CentOS x86_64. Both have 4Gb of RAM, both have [rkampen@media ~]$ sudo rpm -qa |grep flash flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386 [rkampen@media ~]$ sudo rpm -qa |grep fire firefox-3.0.6-1.el5.centos.i386 One machine (home) works fine on my web page www.ndgonline.net/ndg/ the other (work) seg faults - I guess it is due to the godaddy link on the bottom of the page, as plain old google loads fine. I started this debacle by removing firefox, flash and the plugin directories on my work machine under /usr/lib/mozilla and /usr/lib64/mozilla as my page loads were very slow (only the godaddy bit) and also any video content (flash based I think) failed to play, yet all this works fine on the home machine. I guess there is some common lib somewhere that is corrupt, any ideas of where to start looking? I did have nspluginwrapper installed on the work machine, however this is no longer installed and is not installed on the home machine. Do not see what this provides, as I have more success playing multimedia content at home than at work...... Heading away from the work machine, thus ability to check if any changes work will be limited until I am in front of the screens tomorrow, however I can ssh and check packages etc. Thanks for your help. Rob

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w command about user
by chloe K 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Hi I use w command to get user is "2 users" but I only have connection one ls any process dead? But I check other centos machine is same How can I check it? Thank you [root@host ~]# w 7:22:26 up 20 days, 23:20, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT chloe pts/0 dsl-203-18-20-82. 7:22 0.00s 0.09s 0.09s sshd: chloe [priv] --------------------------------- Yahoo! Canada Toolbar : Search from anywhere on the web and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now!

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Bug with cron ?
by MOKRANI Rachid 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Hi, Is there a bug under cron on CentOS 5.2 x86_64 ? kernel 2.6.18-92 Something is strange on my system. I have a simple shell script to run on many computers . When I run this script by hand, everything works fine on all workstations. But if I start this script via crontab vmplayer is never install with no errors. Any ideas ? Best regards. #/usr/bin/yum -e 0 -d 0 -y remove VMware-Player.x86_64 #/usr/bin/yum -e 0 -d 0 -y install VMware-Player-2.5.1-126130.x86_64 #/usr/bin/vmware-networks --stop #/usr/bin/vmware-networks --migrate-network-settings /vmware/virtualmachine #/usr/bin/vmware-networks --start #/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 vmware on __________________________ Ce message (et toutes ses pièces jointes éventuelles) est confidentiel et établi à l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires. Toute utilisation de ce message non conforme à sa destination, toute diffusion ou toute publication, totale ou partielle, est interdite, sauf autorisation expresse. L'IFP décline toute responsabilité au titre de ce message. This message and any attachments (the message) are confidential and intended solely for the addressees. Any unauthorised use or dissemination is prohibited. IFP should not be liable for this message. Visitez notre site Web / Visit our web site : http://www.ifp.fr __________________________

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Re: [CentOS] ssh - alternate ports, and host verification
by russ＠vshift.com 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Are these on the same ip, but different ports? I suggest setting up two different hostnames. Russ ------Original Message------ From: dnk Sender: centos-bounces(a)centos.org To: CentOS Mailing list ReplyTo: CentOS Mailing list Sent: Mar 19, 2009 6:53 PM Subject: [CentOS] ssh - alternate ports, and host verification I have a centos box that will need to ssh into 2 other centos boxes (with keys). Now one of these boxes is a firewall, and another is a system behind the firewall. I have rules in my firewall to punch into the system behind the FW. Now if i connect to the IP (sine the public one is shared), anytime i connect to the other system, I get the host verification failed error and have to remove the IP from the known_hosts file. What is the best (secure) way to get around this? I know i can disable the check, but that is not my preferred way. Thanks. d _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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ssh - alternate ports, and host verification
by dnk 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

I have a centos box that will need to ssh into 2 other centos boxes (with keys). Now one of these boxes is a firewall, and another is a system behind the firewall. I have rules in my firewall to punch into the system behind the FW. Now if i connect to the IP (sine the public one is shared), anytime i connect to the other system, I get the host verification failed error and have to remove the IP from the known_hosts file. What is the best (secure) way to get around this? I know i can disable the check, but that is not my preferred way. Thanks. d

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Fwd: broken lame/mp3 output (was: Re: Problem with ecasound on CentOS 5.2, x86_64)
by MHR 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

I posed a question about this a while back, and Kai found the problem and sent this workaround: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Kai Vehmanen <kvehmanen(a)eca.cx> > Date: Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:03 PM > Subject: broken lame/mp3 output (was: Re: Problem with ecasound on CentOS 5.2, x86_64) > To: MHR <mhullrich(a)gmail.com> > Cc: ecasound-list(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > Hi, > > : > > Fortunately, a workaround is easy, just add: > > --cut-- > ext-cmd-mp3-output = lame -b %B -s %S -r --little-endian -S - %f > --cut-- > > ... to your ~/.ecasound/ecasoundrc and ta-daa it works. > This works nicely, so if anyone else was having this problem, here's the fix. mhr

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Cent OS 4.4 x64 slow
by sumit agarwal 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Hi, i installed Cent Os 4.4 x64 (all packages )on my thinkpad . i have enough ram ie 2 gb and good processor Core 2 duo.2.5 ghz T9300 evrey thing seems to be running very slow. any help would be welcome thanx Sumit

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 49, Issue 8
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '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-2009:0358 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) evolution - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2009:0355 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) evolution and evolution-data-server - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2009:0354 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) evolution-data-server - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:47:31 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0358 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) evolution - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090318204730.GS23300(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0358 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0358.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/evolution-1.4.5-25.el3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/evolution-devel-1.4.5-25.el3.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/evolution-1.4.5-25.el3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/evolution-devel-1.4.5-25.el3.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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SELinux - different context on subdirectories
by Marcus Moeller 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Hi all, I have created a directory /srv with the following SELinux context: system_u:object_r:var_t Now I want to create a subdirectory within /srv which should get a different context. So I tried to set e.g.: semanage fcontext -a -t samba_share_t /srv/samba /sbin/restorecon -v /srv/samba but the context is always reset to: system_u:object_r:var_t What am I missing? Best Regards Marcus

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5.3 and ext4
by Jerry Geis 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Is 5.3 and ext4 going to be safe? I have seen a couple reports of data loss using ext4? Has this already been fixed? What does the list recommend? ext3/ ext4? Thought maybe today we would start seeing 5.3 showing up... Looking forward to it. Jerry

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Directory server import
by Per Qvindesland 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Hi list Does anyone know if there is a simple way to import standard linux users into the directory server? I have found some but they don't seem to be so flexible since I have to import from several servers into different ou's Regards Per Qvindesland

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connecting 2 servers using an FC card via iSCSI
by Erick Perez 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Hi there, I have one server acting as a iscsi target running windows storage server r2 sp2 and the other server is running centos as an initiator. They are connected to a switch over a 1Gbit ethernet connection. the target is a Dell NF600 and the server running centos is a Poweredge R900. We want to move this configuration to a FC based installation using a Dell QLE2462 HBA (this is the hba we can get here). So, i would like to ask before i make a mistake..... :) If I purchase an ethernet fiber switch and add a Dell QLE2462 HBA to both servers and connect the servers to this ethernet switch, will I be able to use this configuration as iscsi target/initiator? will i be able to add a new server (initiator) to this configuration? or the whole thing is totally impossible? -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Cel +(507) 6675-5083 ------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0358 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 evolution - security update
by Spiro Harvey 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

$ gpg --list-key 7049E44D025E513B pub 1024D/025E513B 2004-03-15 [expired: 2009-03-14] uid CentOS-3 Key <centos-3key(a)caosity.org> The key you signed with has expired. I tried refreshing it, but it had not changed. Is there any particular keyserver I should update it from? cheers -- Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Ltd 021-295-1923 www.knossos.net.nz

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wifi and the default keyring
by Michael Klinosky 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hello. I'm using my laptop (an Acer Aspire 3680, with built-in Atheros wifi). I installed 5.2 on it, and it's working nicely. But, I have an issue with the keyring. I should mention that this is my *first* experience with keyrings. When I set up the wifi, it stated basically that "nm-applet wants to access the default keyring, but it's locked. Enter password." So I did. (I made one up.) So, every time I boot, it asks for the password. Then, I found out about the trick of making it the same as the user's login password. Yes, that works, _but only if 'auto-login' is disabled_. It amounts to having to enter the login pw on every boot, or the default keyring pw. So, my question: * Can I totally disable (remove?) the keyring stuff, and set up nm-applet another way to get the wifi passphrase? - or - * Can I _permanently_ unlock the default keyring? - or - * Another trick? Whatever circumvents having to enter the keyring password with 'auto-login' enabled.

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syslog: CPU stuck for 10s!
by tblader 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hi All, I have a Centos 5 box serving NFS3 shares from an LSI megaraid card. The box has been up and down for about a week and trying to figure out what's up. Found a syslog message today about "APIC error on CPU" and after rebooting with NOAPIC, I now get this: # cat /var/log/kernel | grep BUG Mar 17 09:51:05 ofdmz kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 10s! [migration/0:2] Mar 17 09:52:21 ofdmz kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 10s! [ssh:3491] Anyone know what this means? I found a thread* from 2006 on this list that mentions updating the bios, but thought I would get a message out early in case this doesn't fix it. Thanks [*] - http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-June/023933.html

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Changing Color Mappings
by Brian Becker 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

I have been tasked with finding a way to change the color mappings on a CentOS 5.2 system. Basically I want to make an image that is black and white appear in different shades of gray by adjusting the color mappings. I need to know the starting point for the color maps however so I can make the appropriate adjustments. I have been told this should be some kind of look up table array of 256x3 elements. I have searched through the frame buffer in the kernel and the driver area for the intel frame buffer but haven't found anything that looks appropriate. Does this table exist or is the problem being tackled completely wrong. Any help, ideas, or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Brian

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How to get usb storage under /media in runlevel 3?
by Kimmo Koivisto 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hello I have previously used Centos 4.x in runlevel 3, when I plug in my usb storage device/cd in cd-rom, it is shown under /media, for example /media/MyUsbStick. Now in Centos 5.2, when I insert usb storage device, nothing is shown under /media (runlevel 3). When I have runlevel 5 and X running, usb stick / cdrom is automounted fine. I can mount the stick using /dev/xxx device, but would prefer if: a) cdrom and usb-stick would appear under /media automatically and I could manually mount it b) cdrom and usb-stick would be automounted when inserted (like in runlevel 5). Any ideas, how to accomplish (a) or (b)? Regards, Kimmo Koivisto

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 49, Issue 7
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '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-2009:0355 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 evolution and evolution-data-server - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2009:0354 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 evolution-data-server - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2009:0358 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 evolution - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:18:35 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0355 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 evolution and evolution-data-server - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090317171835.GP23300(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0355 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0355.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/evolution-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/evolution-data-server-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/evolution-data-server-devel-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/evolution-devel-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Correct way to provide kernel patch
by Chris Miller 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

I work with a USB device that is intercepted by the USB HID driver. In order to stop this behavior, the device needs to be added to the HID blacklist (hid-core.c) and a custom kernel needs to be compiled. If I create a CentOS specific patch, it appears I need to create the patch against an already patched source tree (i.e. after running rpmbuild -bp) because other patches exist that add items to the blacklist that would break my diff patch. Seems like this would be a never ending battle as new patches get added to new kernels. What's the correct way to get this device added to the kernel? Do I submit my patch to the CentOS dev team, to the kernel.org folks, or both? What's the timeline (if accepted) to actually seeing this in a production kernel? On the CentOS kernel build how-to, the kABI fixes won't make it into CentOS until 5.4, and 5.3 hasn't been released yet. Thanks in advance... Regards, Chris

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Streaming video with Centos 5.2...how to?
by Gilbert Sebenste 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hello all, I am a noob to streaming video, and I have a file I'd like to stream (a .wmv file...sorry. ;-) ). In any case, how can I do this on my website using Centos 5.2 and Apache 2.2.8, rather than making people download a 20 MB video? Can someone point me to some URL's and some software? Thanks for any help, I greatly appreciate it! Gilbert ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** *******************************************************************************

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Centos 5.2 live cd won't boot
by tblader 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hello All Anyone have a workaround for booting the 5.2 LiveCD? I'm getting this error: no root yet, udev rule will write symlink Then I drop to a shell, with a message to create a symlink to /dev/root and then exit the shell. There is also a message that it cannot find the root filesystem. Is there a way to disable udev with grub? Thanks

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libpng and Kernel updates
by Russ Lavoy 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

I noticed that CentOS 5.2 does not have the following updates listed in the repository. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0264.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0333.html Is this something that is coming soon? Thanks!

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 49, Issue 6
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '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-2009:0358 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 evolution - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2009:0358 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 evolution - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2009:0344 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 libsoup - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2009:0344 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) libsoup - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:02:02 +0100 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0358 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 evolution - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090317090202.GA4009(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:0358 evolution security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0358.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/evolution-1.4.5-25.el3.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/evolution-devel-1.4.5-25.el3.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/evolution-1.4.5-25.el3.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update evolution 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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Linuxtag 2009
by Ralph Angenendt 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Cheers. It is this time of year again: CentOS is going to Linuxtag 2009 (well, at least we will try to get a booth there). If you want to be part of the team there, stay tuned for news here in centos-promo(a)centos.org. Deadline for the projects is 24th of march (short call!), I will try to apply sooner than that >:) Cheers and thanks, Ralph

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Re: [CentOS] grub issue
by David G. Miller 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Indunil Jayasooriya <indunil75(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Pls see below > > > [root@authpassword ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > # root (hd2,0) > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > # initrd /initrd-version.img > #boot=/dev/sdb > default=0 > timeout=5 > splashimage=(hd2,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > hiddenmenu > title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-128.1.1.el5PAE) > root (hd2,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5PAE ro > root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5PAE.img > title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-92.el5PAE) > root (hd2,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.el5PAE ro > root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-92.el5PAE.img > as a follow up to why it was necessary to issue the following command at the grub command prompt: > grub> root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Note that you are telling grub to find the root file system on drive hd0 and partition 0. The grub.conf file provided has root set to drive hd2 and partition 0. It appears that something changed the order of your drive numbering (e.g. you moved the cable that attached you boot drive from IDE1 to IDE0 when you installed the new CPU). Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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