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Correct way to change I/O scheduler in a iSCSI dev
by Santi Saez 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi, What's the correct way to change configuration parameters for an iSCSI device? For example I/O scheduler, max_sectors_kb, etc... I could add commands to the S99local script: echo noop > /sys/block/sdb/queue/scheduler echo 64 > /sys/block/sdb/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb Unfortunately, iSCSI device names might change from sdb to, say, sdc (server reboot, iSCSI target reconnection). If this happens, customizations would be lost or applied to a different device. Any workaround for this using centOS? sysctl, udev, anything else? It also may be applied to Fiber Channel devices.. Thanks! -- Santi Saez http://woop.es

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Looking for a method to keep at least 5% CPU
by Ryan J M 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi all, Sometimes, the working threads occupy 100% CPU, and I just cann't ssh login with root. my question is: Is there any solution for this case? I googled and found some related links, but not helpful. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/limit-cpu-usage-for… -- FIXME if it is wrong.

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Location of 5.2 .iso without XEN
by Sam Drinkard 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Subject pretty much says it all. I want the 5.2 without the xen kernel. I've grabbed bits from 2 different mirrors and they all appear to have xen on them. It would be very nice if someone could throw some text into the mirrors file to differentiate the two "versions".. Oh yeah, I need the x86_64 .iso. Thanks Sam

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 45, Issue 17
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

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-2008:0977 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2008:0976 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) thunderbird - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:31:10 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0977 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) seamonkey - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081127143110.GZ11171(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0977 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0977.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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OT - tomcat 6 error
by Tom Brown 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi I'm on 5.2 and 'have' to use tomcat 6 - I package it and can get the default install running fine - However when i drop my app into webapps/ as i war and start tomcat i get this INFO: Starting service Catalina Nov 28, 2008 10:44:15 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.18 Nov 28, 2008 10:44:15 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor WARNING: A docBase /xxxxx/xxx.war inside the host appBase has been specified, and will be ignored << error Nov 28, 2008 10:44:16 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-9080 Nov 28, 2008 10:44:16 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start INFO: Server startup in 603 ms The error is noted with the << - Has anyone used tomcat 6 before as i am sure this used to work just fine in < 5.x ? If this is felt to be the wrong list for this then sorry about that, but i am sure many people are experienced with tomcat here. thanks

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Can't adjust the brightness under CentOS 5.2
by Thomas Iverson 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi all , i just found a problem that i can't get my display brightness adjusted in CentOS 5.2 My laptop is HP 3742TU (the graphic card is INTEL X3100) and my DE is KDE , anyhelp ? thx -- Keep It Simple Stupid Thomas X. Iverson

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Centos 5.2 install problem
by Michael Kress 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi, I'm trying a fresh install on a x86_64 (Supermicro X7dbe, 2xIntel Xeon X5450, 8 GB, 3WARE 9650SE-8LPML, 3 disks in RAID 5). The format takes quite long (2,7 TB), that seems to be normal, but then the first boot will not take place, instead the system loops. Any hints? The message follows: Regards Michael 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! -- Michael Kress, kress(a)hal.saar.de http://www.michael-kress.de / http://kress.net P E N G U I N S A R E C O O L

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OT: bash script for passwd and shadow manipulation
by Erick Perez 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Hi, i need to extract some information from the /etc/passwd file to be used as a command input in a mail software. My /etc/passwd looks like: k.thomas:x:1918:100:Kimaura Thomas:/home/users/k.thomas:/bin/usersh My main issue here is that the fifth field contains spaces and spanish chars with accent. I currently do not posess the skill to understand how to use cut to extract all the field. So far, cut returns the name up to the space, so in this case it will return Kimaura and not Kimaura Thomas. Can you please point me to internet examples of tools (sed, awk, grep or cut) that will help me accomplish this, or maybe provide the code? And here is the code (not the best...im still learninng..) #!/bin/bash # Passwd to Zimbra import # This script modifies the displayName field in the Zimbra mailserver # This script will parse /etc/passwd and extracts field 1 and field 5 # field 1 is the username. # field 5 is the name in long format of the username # # domain="oj.gob.pa" # file="zimbranames.file" # x=0 # echo ''>$file # # for linia in `cat /etc/passwd` # do # user=`echo $linia|cut -f1 -d":"` # nombre=`echo $linia|cut -f5 -d":"` # echo "zmprov ma $user@$domain displayName $nombre">>$file # x=$[x+1] # done # echo "$x accounts exported to \"$PWD/$file\"" # sleep 5 Thanks in advance. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez ------------------------------------------------------------

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rsync to mirrors failing
by Robert Moskowitz 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

I try: rsync -auv rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.2/updates/i386/ ..... And get rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (104) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(614) [receiver=2.6.8] And then, if I keep trying, eventually rsync 'works' and I get my updates. What is causing this?

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OT: Testing copytruncate
by Gerhardus.Geldenhuis＠gta-travel.com 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Hi I am trying to simulate the behaviour when a file gets copy-truncated or any other option selected in logrotate. As a start, I have written a quick script to create values in a file at high rate. #!/usr/bin/perl open FILE, ">testdata" or die $!; for (my $i = 1; $i <= 10000000; $i++){ print FILE "$i\n"; # sleep 1; } close FILE and a logrotate.conf file that rotates the file /home/blah/testfileopen/testdata { copytruncate daily rotate 2 size=10M } It works but the copy truncate messes up the file the application is writing to... or it might be my simplistic perl script. I can't to a head on the testdata file. A hexdump reveals some strange errors which I believe is the cause of the problems, why I dont know. 0000000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 * 1028000 3232 3635 3235 0a31 3232 3635 3235 0a32 1028010 3232 3635 3235 0a33 3232 3635 3235 0a34 The truncated file is fine and is perfectly readable. So I have two questions really: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Given a well written program what is the potential data loss if any when doing a copy truncate logrotate. and * why does the file get such strange entries when truncated and is there an easy fix for it? Regards ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

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Yum weirdness
by Sorin Srbu 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Hi all, Running CentOS 5.2 x86. Tried to do a yum update on the command line a while ago and an error stating "No module named yum" popped up. I then tried importing the yum module by first entering "python" in a terminal window and then "import yum", for which I was rewarded with a "ImportError: No module named yum". Then I downloaded a yum rpm-package via pbone.net. I got this one http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/8092652/com/yum-3.2.8-9.el5.cen… and then did an rpm -Uvh on the rpm-file, then tried running yum again with no success. I still got the no module named yum-message. I further did a rpm -q yum* and was told that the above rpm wasn't installed, so I redid the install but added --force, but yum still gives the error message. Running rpm -V yum* rpm* python* gives package yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1.noarch.rpm is not installed package rpm* is not installed package python* is not installed Which is kinda weird, unless I'm missing something really obvious... On a hunch I ran yum extender from the startmenu, or whatever it's called in CentOS, and this works. It says yum v3.2.8 IIRC is invoked. I got a list of updated packages, the ones Karanbir announced recently and they installed fine w/o any problem. Yum has run fine when I used it about three-four weeks ago. Same problem is seen on three of my workstations. The fourth, a server running the latest x86-PAE kernel runs yum just fine on the command line. The answers I find searching the web more or less replicates the above steps I've already done, so I'm kind off at a loss here on what to do next to have yum on the command-line working. Can you guys help? Thanks. -- BW, Sorin ----------------------------------------------------------- # Sorin Srbu [Sysadmin] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem, Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se ----------------------------------------------------------- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 45, Issue 16
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

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-2008:0977 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2008:0976 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 thunderbird - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2008:0617 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) vim - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2008:0978 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CEBA-2008:0992 CentOS 5 x86_64 dmraid Update (Karanbir Singh) 6. CEBA-2008:0992 CentOS 5 i386 dmraid Update (Karanbir Singh) 7. CESA-2008:0580 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 vim Update (Karanbir Singh) 8. CESA-2008:0580 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 vim Update (Karanbir Singh) 9. CESA-2008:1001 Important CentOS 5 i386 tog-pegasus Update (Karanbir Singh) 10. CESA-2008:1001 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 tog-pegasus Update (Karanbir Singh) 11. CESA-2008:0617 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 vim security update (Karanbir Singh) 12. CESA-2008:0617 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 vim security update (Karanbir Singh) 13. CEBA-2008:1009 CentOS 5 i386 cman Update (Karanbir Singh) 14. CEBA-2008:1009 CentOS 5 x86_64 cman Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:25:23 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0977 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 seamonkey - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081126162523.GV11171(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0977 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0977.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64; updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated
by Ray Leventhal 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Hi all, Please pardon my newbie-ness on this issue....I've a / partition which is full (quite suddenly, actually) and I'm not sure how to fix this. I've searched for uneeded logs, etc in /var/log and /tmp to no avail. The system is CentOS 5.2 and is not connected to the internet, serves as a local LAN server running stock stuff...sendmail, dovecot, apache..nothing strange or special going on. I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order (would appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really stumped as to where the space is being eaten up. Thanks in advance, -Ray My layout is: #df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 131G 130G 0 100% / /dev/sdc1 271G 156G 102G 61% /home /dev/sdd1 271G 4.5G 253G 2% /home/905 /dev/sda1 99M 29M 66M 31% /boot tmpfs 442M 0 442M 0% /dev/shm # cat /etc/fstab /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/home/905 /home/905 ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/boot /boot 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/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 # cat /etc/mtab /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 / ext3 rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /home ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/sdd1 /home/905 ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0 sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0

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enable repo download and save but no install
by Jerry Geis 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Is there a way to enable a repo, and ask it to download a package and all dependencies and save these files to a given directory then some time later execute a command to install those files that were saved. Is that possible? I would like to take a snapshot of something like VLC on dag and always install those same vlc packages and dependencies that were saved locally. Not go out over the net and install them the next time. I'm not concerned about updates to this package. Jerry

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Looking for an application to work with Centos
by John Plemons 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

I'm looking for a application, and or ideas on how to .... Set up a web page that can be cataloged by search engines capturing all of the part numbers in a db. This page would be tied to a MySql or other Linux DB so that people can also do a basic on site part number search.. We have 150,000 different part numbers, we would like all 150,000 picked up by the different search engines. Can anyone come up with any ideas?? The platform is a basic P4 running Centos 5, disk space isn't much of an issue, I have 100 gig available for the application. The only other application on the machine is a picture server for off site auctions, so CPU load isn't major factor. Thanks, john

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[Q] what is difference between CENTOS and ORACLE unbreak Linux
by mcclnx mcc 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

ORACLE unbreak Linux and CENTOS both source code come from Redhat LINUX. Does there have other difference between CENTOS and ORACLE Linux? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 付費才容量無上限？Yahoo!奇摩電子信箱2.0免費給你，信件永遠不必刪！ http://tw.mg0.mail.yahoo.com/dc/landing

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tightvnc server fails to start
by Robert Moskowitz 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

I tried to use tightvnc back in August and had some help, but I stopped due to IPv6 support. Now I am back at tightvnc and cannot get the server started. This is on a new Centos install that did have regular vncserver working on it (I did a yum erase vnc-server first). So I have a working /etc/sysconfig/vncserver and my user has the appropriate ~/.vnc files that worked with regular vnc. Logged in as root, I issue: service vncserver start and get: Starting TightVNC remote administration daemon (Xvnc):2:root WARNING: initlog is deprecated and will be removed in a future vncserver: The USER environment variable is not set. [FAILED] But there is a USER environment variable set: set|grep USER PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}"; echo -ne "\007"' USER=root (remember, I am logged in as root so I can issue the service command) And further in /etc/profile I have: if [ -x /usr/bin/id ]; then USER="`id -un`" LOGNAME=$USER MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER" fi The only line in the /etc/sysconfig/vncservers is: VNCSERVERS="2:user" where user is the userid.

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PPTP VPN server
by "Germán Andrés Pulido F." 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hi I've been using linux to give VPN access to my corporate LAN using the following software: Centos 5.2 x86 kernel 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5xen pptpd (poptop) 1.3.4 ppp 2.4.4 The Centos server has directly connected the Internet Router, on one interface (eth1) and the LAN on another (eth0) and it works as the firewall/VPN server of my LAN. It mostly works, however, if I try to connect using remote desktop (terminal services) to our windows domain controller (for example, it will happen with any windows server) the Centos server will just reboot. I can connect to the windows, authenticate, and work for about 5-10 seconds before the linux reboots. It's not a friendly reboot, it just crashes and restarts. This linux is running virtualized with xenserver express, and the windows domain controller is running as another virtual machine in the same physical computer. I've updated the CentOS server, using yum update but it will still crash. I tried installing pptpd from source, but still crashes the same way. I googled a bit, and somebody said it had a similar issue but solved it lowering the MTU in the WAN interface of the VPN server. I did it, but nothing helped. I've searched bug reports on this, but there seems to be none. Any idea what can I do to fix this? or does anybody know another good VPN server for linux? (I know about openvpn and using ipsec+xl2tpd but these require additional software on the client or are not very linux-friendly). My main requiements for the VPN server are: - it should require no additional software on the windows clients (Vista and XP currently) - it should work fine with Mac OS X and linux clients - if posible, not very hard to setup ;) Thanks a lot, and sorry for the long post. -- Cordialmente, GERMAN ANDRES PULIDO F. Ingeniero de Proyectos GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES - GTS S.A. ------------------------------------- Tel: (571) 658 34 10 ext 110 Carrera 7b No. 123-46 Bogotá-Colombia Sitio Web: www.gtscolombia.com

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 45, Issue 15
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

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-2008:0617 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 vim - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2008:0617 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 vim - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2008:0617 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 vim - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2008:0617 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) vim - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2008:0617 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 vim - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2008:0972 Important CentOS 4 ia64 kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2008:0618-01: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 vim security update (John Newbigin) 8. CESA-2008:0972 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 9. CESA-2008:0978 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:56:47 +0100 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0617 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 vim - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081125165647.GA6086(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0617 vim security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0617.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/vim-common-6.3.046-0.30E.11.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/vim-enhanced-6.3.046-0.30E.11.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/vim-minimal-6.3.046-0.30E.11.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/vim-X11-6.3.046-0.30E.11.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/vim-6.3.046-0.30E.11.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update vim 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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replicate package installation on multiple machines
by Davide Cittaro 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hi all, Is there a way to dump the current packages installed on a machine and use it do install/uninstall packages on other machines? I've configured one at install time but to speed up other installations I would like to install default packages and then install/uninstall some starting from my first machine configuration... thanks d PS Oh, I'm going to RTFM too... but I'm new to CentOS and yum...

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saslauthd crashes
by Bazooka Joe 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

I just took my first cent server into production and now saslauthd keep crashing after brute force attack. I found a bug report so this has already been reported but not fixed. http://bugs.centos.org/print_bug_page.php?bug_id=2860 I assume this has to be a large problem for many people and am surprised it hasn't been fixed yet. Has anyone found a work around for this bug? Is there a better rpm repo for a saslauthd that won't crash? -bazooka

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Sun depricates JRE 1.4.2, what impact on Centos?
by Robert Moskowitz 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

From a different list: "JRE from SUN is getting depracated: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html" Centos comes with the 1.4.2-gcj-compat rpm. What impact does this all have? I do have JRE 1.6.0_05 installed on most of my systems (I see that update 10 is the now current version).

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Trouble Donating on centos.org
by Kurt Hansen 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hello, I tried making a donation via the centos.org website but was blocked by PayPal. I tried today and a few weeks ago. The error I got in both instances was: "The card you entered cannot be used for this payment. Please enter a different credit or debit card number." This strikes me as a strange response. It didn't say the card was declined; it said it "cannot be used." Also, the response was awfully quick so it didn't seem to be from the credit card processor, but from PayPal. I setup e-commerce sites so am very familiar with on-line credit card processing. Also, I just used this card online a couple of days ago successfully, and I know I have plenty of available credit. Has anybody else gotten an error like this? I suspect PayPal is blocking this, not my credit card company. I suspect, too, PayPal is doing this to reduce their own costs rather than protect centos.org or me from a fraudulent transaction. I have a PayPal account that was set up a few years back as a test based on a PayPal offer to me, have never used beyond setting up, but which PayPal has suspended. I'm not interested in using this account nor jumping through the hoops they require. I may have entered this credit card in that account. I suspect PayPal is blocking this credit card number to push me to re-open my PayPal account. Am I just being paranoid? Take care, Kurt Hansen

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Getting a disk driver from 3ware installed.
by Steve Campbell 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

We are having a little problem with a raid array, and it appears that the disk driver may be at fault. A disk driver for the kernel we are running, 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5.i386, has been downloaded from 3ware's site. The only documentation included says to run "linux dd". I'm assuming this is at the boot prompt upon startup, and not installation (I hope). I have found some old threads about this for Centos 4, but it kinda drifted away and never really gave much info on what to do with the files that were downloaded. Can anyone tell me what I'm supposed to do with this downloaded zipped file to get it to use the driver, please? Thanks Steve Campbell

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adduser vs. useradd
by Niki Kovacs 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hi, To add a user to the system on the commandline, I usually use the adduser command. # adduser newuser And that's it. I've been using that command probably out of an old habit, since I've been a long-time Slackware user before. But now I wanted to dig a bit deeper, and some details puzzle me. Whereas on Slackware, 'adduser' is an interactive shell script to create a user so that basically you don't have to memorize all the 'useradd' switches, CentOS' 'adduser' is a mere symbolic link to 'useradd'. But when I add a new user (# adduser newuser), I don't use any switches, say to specify the shell, the home directory, the password expiration delay, etcetera. I understand that it is Red Hat (CentOS) tradition to create a separate group for each user. For example, user kikinovak also belongs to a group kikinovak. And when I create a new user 'newuser', the 'newuser' group also got somehow created. Plus, the new user also seems to have his own user profile, with a default .bashrc and so on. My only explanation for that is that CentOS' 'useradd' command doesn't work like the traditional UNIX useradd command and uses a few switches by default. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Any light on this? Niki

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clamav-update and missing dependencies
by Timothy Kesten 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hi Folks, again: try to update clam* and get error-message Missing Dependency: libclamav.so.4(CLAMAV_PUBLIC) is needed by package perl-Mail-ClamAV Missing Dependency: libclamav.so.4 is needed by package perl-Mail-ClamAV libclamav.so.4 is on my system [admin@server ~]$ locate libclamav /usr/lib/libclamav.so /usr/lib/libclamav.so.4 /usr/lib/libclamav.so.4.0.4 /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libclamav.pc [admin@server ~]$ What goes woring? CentOS 5 update clam* to 14:06:39 : Packages to update 14:06:39 : ---> clamav - 0.94.1-1.el5.rf.i386 14:06:39 : ---> clamav-db - 0.94.1-1.el5.rf.i386 14:06:39 : ---> clamav-devel - 0.94.1-1.el5.rf.i386 14:06:39 : ---> clamd - 0.94.1-1.el5.rf.i386 Thx Timothy

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Dell PE2970 with ATI RN50
by James Bensley 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hey Guys, I'm having a few troubles trying to get Cent OS 5.2 displaying correctly on my Dell PowerEdge 2970 (I also have two PowerVault NF500 III's but they are just getting a little screen lag at the minute, the 2970 is getting white artifacts when I drag a window!). Can anyone help me locate and correctly install some drivers. The 2970 has an onbaord ATI RN50 as its an AMD board/CPU combo thus its RN50 chipset. I have look at the Dell website for Red Hat 5 drivers but there aren't any for video? Would the Red Hat 4 drivers be OK? Also, I rang ATI and they said try going back to the Dell and installing the general Chip set drivers as that would probably include the onbaord graphics? I could do with some help on this one as I have never had to install drivers for a Linux OS before as I normalaly work with Linux on workstations which is always straight forward. Any help anyone can give 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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bioinformatics repository?
by Davide Cittaro 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hi all, I'm new to Centos, just moved here from Gentoo Linux. I have to install a server for bioinformatics purposes and I see that default yum repositories do not include any bioinformatics software (i.e. ncbi-toolkit, blat, and others). I'm googling a bit but I can't find a valuable solution: which is (or which are) the best repository I should add to have a satisfying list of bioinfo rpm? Thanks d /* Davide Cittaro Cogentech - Consortium for Genomic Technologies via adamello, 16 20139 Milano Italy tel.: +39(02)574303007 e-mail: davide.cittaro(a)ifom-ieo-campus.it */

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Centos 4 Yumdownloader vs yum-downloadonly on Centos 5
by Vandaman 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Peter Kjellstrom <cap(a)nsc.liu.se> wrote: > For completeness, yumdownloader is a command/program that > comes with the > yum-utils package on centos 4 and 5. > Yumdownloader on centos 4 does not add the functionality of the yum --downloadonly feature in Centos 5 from the yum-downloadonly-1.1.10-9.el5 I was replying to Peter Kjellstrom http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-November/068300.html as the original thread was about yum --downloadonly not present in centos 4. Regards, Vandaman.

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ntop from rpmforge
by John R Pierce 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

I installed ntop on a centos5.2 system (which got all yum updates a few days ago)... # rpm -q ntop rrdtool ntop-3.3.8-1.el5.rf rrdtool-1.2.28-1.el5.rf went through the password configuration when I start it, its erroring. # service ntop start Starting ntop: Processing file /etc/ntop.conf for parameters... Mon Nov 24 23:56:36 2008 NOTE: Interface merge enabled by default Mon Nov 24 23:56:36 2008 Initializing gdbm databases FATAL ERROR: Unrecognized/unprocessed ntop options... --user ntop, --db-file-path /var/ntop, run ntop --help for usage information Common problems: -B "filter expressions" (quotes are required) --use-syslog=facilty (the = is required) [FAILED] ooops! near as I can tell, tis getting those options from /etc/ntop.conf and I've done a bit of futzzing in there to try and sort it out but to no avail. before I go and break things totally, what did I do wrong?? if I run ntop --daemon from the command prompt, it seems to work fine. # ntop @/etc/ntop.conf --daemon Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 NOTE: Interface merge enabled by default Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Initializing gdbm databases Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 ntop v.3.3.8 (Dag Apt RPM Repository) Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Configured on Oct 6 2008 1:40:18, built on Oct 6 2008 01:41:15. Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Copyright 1998-2007 by Luca Deri <deri(a)ntop.org> Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Get the freshest ntop from http://www.ntop.org/ Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 NOTE: ntop is running from 'ntop' Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 NOTE: (but see warning on man page for the --instance parameter) Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 NOTE: ntop libraries are in '/usr/lib' Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Initializing ntop Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 No patterns to load: protocol guessing disabled. Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Checking eth0 for additional devices Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Resetting traffic statistics for device eth0 Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Initializing device eth0 (0) Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 DLT: Device 0 [eth0] is 1, mtu 1514, header 14 Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Initializing gdbm databases Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: Loading MAC address table. Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: Checking for MAC address table file Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: File '/etc/ntop/specialMAC.txt.gz' does not need to be reloaded Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: ntop continues ok Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: Checking for MAC address table file Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: File '/etc/ntop/oui.txt.gz' does not need to be reloaded Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: ntop continues ok Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Fingerprint: Loading signature file Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Fingerprint: Checking for Fingerprint file... file Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Fingerprint: Loading file '/etc/ntop/etter.finger.os.gz' Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Fingerprint: ...loaded 0 records Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 INIT: Parent process is exiting (this is normal) Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 INIT: Bye bye: I'm becoming a daemon...

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XFS or JFS on CentOS 5?
by Ray Van Dolson 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hi folks... trying to pick between jfs and xfs for a filesystem. In the past we've used jfs with CentOS + centosplus, however, an older post indicated that this may not be the best choice as the version of jfs included with the centosplus kernel would only be as new as the version that was included in the 2.6.18 kernel as RH doesn't backport fixes... It looks like xfs isn't part of the centosplus kernel, but instead is provided as a kmod -- so I'm thinking it might be the better choice based purely on the fact that it's likely to be current. Is my understanding correct there? What would stop us from building a kmod-jfs against the latest jfs from the up-upstream kernel and not building jfs.ko in the centosplus kernel at all? It looks like jfsutils is a fairly recent version... Thanks, Ray

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MSSQL on linux
by chaminda＠mfsl.lk 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Dear all, I'm running CentOS 5.1. Is there any way to run MSDE or MSSQL on Linux? Please help. Thanks, Chaminda Mendis

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python issue?
by Craig White 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

# system-config-printer Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 29, in ? import gtk.glade File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 48, in ? from gtk import _gtk ImportError: /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2: undefined symbol: FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden CentOS 5.2 Any clues? Craig

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Skype vs. CentOS: no outgoing sound
by Niki Kovacs 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Hi, I've spent the best part of a sunny afternoon trying to get Skype to work on my CentOS 5 desktop. My soundcard seems configured OK. I can play sounds and hear them OK in my headset: $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/*.wav I can record speech from my microphone OK: $ arecord > ~/test.wav ... although I have to say that sound quality seems rather poor. It's quite fuzzy. Other detail: curiously when I speak into the microphone I don't hear my own voice in the headset. I've installed the CentOS RPM from skype.com, but no matter what I do, I can't seem to have outgoing sound. Whenever I do a test call (echo123), there's no message left. I've been jumping through burning loops giving all the options and their possible permutations a shot, to no avail. Though curiously that thing worked on a Linux Mint 5 install. But then, I won't change distro because of one small detail. Any suggestions? Niki

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domU fedora 10
by David Hláčik 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Hi guys, how can i install F10 which has domU support in kernel , using virt-install ? IT returns me lot of errors when i will point it to ftp source. Thanks in advance! David

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yum download
by Robert Moskowitz 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Can I just download an rpm from a repo without installing it? I don't see anything like yum download or yum install --downonly

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Configure sendmail to only send to one domain
by Sean Carolan 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Is there an easy way to configure sendmail to only send mail to addresses in one particular domain?

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Correctly setting up sound with Intel High Definition ICH7
by Niki Kovacs 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Hi, Earlier this day I started a thread about Skype not working with outgoing sound. Now I wonder if it's not a problem with my soundcard. I had a vague suspicion about this, but since it's way off the original topic, I decided to start a new thread about this. Here's what the soundcard looks like: [root@grossebertha etc]# lspci | grep -i audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) Actually plain sound (output) works OK. I can use XMMS, MPlayer, VLC and the likes without any problem. On the other hand, when I try to record sound over the soundcard, the result is quite fuzzy, full of distortions. I tried to fiddle with alsamixer to get rid of the distortions, but to no avail. Here's what I did to record sound over the mic: $ arecord > ~/test.wav Now in the past I configured a laptop with an ICH sound card on it, a small ASUS. I spent like whole afternoons googling and searching through forums, until some day I stumbled over the solution. I had to add something to /etc/modprobe.conf, something like: alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel model=3stack ... and all of a sudden sound worked. Now maybe there is also a magic line for my new machine (a lenovo desktop PC) that makes the soundcard work correctly for the microphone? But where do I get that information? Guesswork? Google again for a week? Searching for "centos intel high definition sound" doesn't show much. Cheers, Niki

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 45, Issue 14
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

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-2008:0988 Important CentOS 5 i386 libxml2 Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CESA-2008:0988 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 libxml2 Update (Karanbir Singh) 3. CESA-2008:0976 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 thunderbird Update (Karanbir Singh) 4. CESA-2008:0976 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 thunderbird Update (Karanbir Singh) 5. CESA-2008:0988 Important CentOS 4 i386 libxml2 security update (Karanbir Singh) 6. CESA-2008:0988 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 libxml2 security update (Karanbir Singh) 7. CESA-2008:0976 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 thunderbird security update (Karanbir Singh) 8. CESA-2008:0976 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 thunderbird security update (Karanbir Singh) 9. CESA-2008:0978 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 firefox security update (Karanbir Singh) 10. CESA-2008:0978 Critical CentOS 4 i386 firefox security update (Karanbir Singh) 11. CESA-2008:0988-01: Important CentOS 2 i386 libxml2 security update (John Newbigin) 12. CESA-2008:0969-03: Low CentOS 2 i386 tzdata enhancement update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:33:38 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0988 Important CentOS 5 i386 libxml2 Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081123133338.GA30733(a)vkalu.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0988 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0988.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: f0b1a098558945492ea77144e0f6181f libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.i386.rpm 59978e81bebbe081ecc731fc013e52bd libxml2-devel-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.i386.rpm f5fc9c02342ffc526ee12520e1944ca6 libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.i386.rpm Source: b41a7df119a39f706dde49e65b655e8c libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:33:38 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0988 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 libxml2 Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081123133338.GA30748(a)vkalu.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0988 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0988.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: d96b14ca34388b2a3d71ed43288f9c71 libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.i386.rpm 671ec99091fdab31c7cee5766d369012 libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.x86_64.rpm 89595530f0fef18931e2f56f5d3c697b libxml2-devel-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.i386.rpm eeacdc92545c6c2b0774ed3b259850bb libxml2-devel-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.x86_64.rpm ba06ac1b06d89355fe6cf5c7985757da libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.x86_64.rpm Source: b41a7df119a39f706dde49e65b655e8c libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:34:31 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0976 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 thunderbird Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081123133431.GA30773(a)vkalu.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0976 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0976.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: ad231949050191a38318615b94abe854 thunderbird-2.0.0.18-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm Source: 6becfac01f4995984ee94a950bc381ad thunderbird-2.0.0.18-1.el5.centos.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:34:33 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0976 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 thunderbird Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081123133433.GA30786(a)vkalu.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0976 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0976.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: acff3d4fb94a31f095d2823a9eb79a1c thunderbird-2.0.0.18-1.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm Source: 6becfac01f4995984ee94a950bc381ad thunderbird-2.0.0.18-1.el5.centos.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:46:16 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0988 Important CentOS 4 i386 libxml2 security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081123134616.GA30876(a)vkalu.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0988 Important https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0988.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: libxml2-2.6.16-12.6.i386.rpm libxml2-devel-2.6.16-12.6.i386.rpm libxml2-python-2.6.16-12.6.i386.rpm src: libxml2-2.6.16-12.6.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos @irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:46:16 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0988 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 libxml2 security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081123134616.GA30889(a)vkalu.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0988 Important https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0988.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: libxml2-2.6.16-12.6.i386.rpm libxml2-2.6.16-12.6.x86_64.rpm libxml2-devel-2.6.16-12.6.x86_64.rpm libxml2-python-2.6.16-12.6.x86_64.rpm src: libxml2-2.6.16-12.6.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos @irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:02:27 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0976 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 thunderbird security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081123140227.GA31022(a)vkalu.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0976 Moderate https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0976.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-17.el4.centos.i386.rpm src: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-17.el4.centos.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos @irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:02:27 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0976 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 thunderbird security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081123140227.GA31034(a)vkalu.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0976 Moderate https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0976.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-17.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm src: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-17.el4.centos.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos @irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:23:44 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0978 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 firefox security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081123172344.GA31472(a)vkalu.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0978 Critical https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: firefox-3.0.4-1.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm nss-3.12.1.1-3.el4.centos.i386.rpm nss-3.12.1.1-3.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm nss-devel-3.12.1.1-3.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm src: firefox-3.0.4-1.el4.centos.src.rpm nss-3.12.1.1-3.el4.centos.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos @irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:23:44 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0978 Critical CentOS 4 i386 firefox security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081123172344.GA31460(a)vkalu.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0978 Critical https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: firefox-3.0.4-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm nss-3.12.1.1-3.el4.centos.i386.rpm nss-devel-3.12.1.1-3.el4.centos.i386.rpm src: firefox-3.0.4-1.el4.centos.src.rpm nss-3.12.1.1-3.el4.centos.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos @irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:43:15 +1100 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0988-01: Important CentOS 2 i386 libxml2 security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <4929F8A3.3050701(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-2008:0988-01 Important: libxml2 security update Files available: libxml2-2.4.19-12.ent.i386.rpm libxml2-devel-2.4.19-12.ent.i386.rpm libxml2-python-2.4.19-12.ent.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 ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:30:33 +1100 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0969-03: Low CentOS 2 i386 tzdata enhancement update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <492A1FD9.6000806(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: RHEA-2008:0969-03 tzdata enhancement update Files available: tzdata-2008i-1.el2_1.noarch.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 45, Issue 14 ***********************************************

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Printing to Windows’s share printer - epson lq 2090
by Indunil Jayasooriya 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Hi, There is a Printer connected to Windows XP Pc and shared it. (its name is epson lq 2090) Now, I want print from a CentOS 4 box. by using printconf command, Added the printer to Centos box. But, I could Not take print out. Anyway. When I printed a test page, Printer worked, Paper also came out. But, Paper is BLANK. Then, I followed below URL as well http://infected.wordpress.com/ But, Still NO LUCK. YOUR IDEAS R EXPECTED -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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USB printer goes into disconnected state when low-power mode enabled
by Mark Hull-Richter 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

I've mentioned this before, here, but with a laser printer connected via the lp0 port. I have a new laser printer, a Brother HL2140, that normally works just fine when installed using the CUPS interface per OpenPrinting's instructions (with one minor modification I had to add because the base driver without the CUPS installation did not work. Every so often, which actually appears to be every time the printer goes into power-saver mode, when I try to print something, I get this response in lpstat -t: [mhr@mhrichter ~]$ lpstat -t scheduler is running no system default destination device for HL2140: usb://Brother/HL-2140 series device for HPOJ4315: hp:/usb/Officejet_4300_series?serial=CN7AJH318W04GQ HL2140 accepting requests since Sun 23 Nov 2008 02:38:56 PM PST HPOJ4315 accepting requests since Sun 07 Sep 2008 12:52:14 AM PDT printer HL2140 now printing HL2140-2188. enabled since Sun 23 Nov 2008 02:38:56 PM PST Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds... printer HPOJ4315 is idle. enabled since Sun 07 Sep 2008 12:52:14 AM PDT HL2140-2188 root 18432 Sun 23 Nov 2008 02:38:56 PM PST At one point, through some strange combination of: System->Administration->Printers Disable the printer cancel the print job (sometimes) disconnect the printer (USB cable out) power down the printer power the printer back on and wait for it to come ready reconnect the printer re-enable the printer liberally sprinkled with 30 second waits, I used to be able to get the printer to come back on line and print. Now I can't seem to get the <censored> thing to come back at all. Any suggestions on what to do to make this work? I suppose I could reboot, but that _really_ defeats the purpose of using a USB printer in the first place. FTR, I also have an HP OfficeJet 4315 on a USB connection to the same system, and I _never_ have this problem with it. I'm running CentOS 5.2 x86_64 with all the latest updates, using the printer drivers from the OpenPrinting online database: brhl2140lpr-2.0.2-1.i386.rpm cupswrapperHL2140-2.0.2-1.i386.rpm Stumped. mhr

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CentOS on HP EliteBook 6930 or Dell Latitude e6400
by Kurt Hansen 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

Hello, I'm considering the HP EliteBook 6930 or the Dell Latitude e6400 notebooks for CentOS. I'm planning on using these in a situation in which they are always on, and I want low power and low noise and high reliability. HP claims up to 24 hours battery power and Dell up to 19 hours. I figure this can bridge the gap for most power outages in my neighborhood. I realize that I won't get these hours running CentOS, but these two seem best of breed, so they give me the most margin. I'm also planning on getting a SSD (Solid State Drive) on them. I've found folks on the Web who've put the latest Ubuntu on each with few problems, but very little mention of other distributions. Actually, I couldn't find any mention of other distributions. Is there anything that should concern me about putting CentOS on either of these? Has anyone done it? Note that I plan to turn wireless networking off so I'd be happy if it doesn't work. Also, I don't care about the screen performance. I figure these are the two most likely areas of compatibility concern, but the SSD has me a little concerned, too. Thanks for your help! Take care, Kurt Hansen

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Cluster fail over database getting stopped
by linux-crazy 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

Hi, I am running RHEL3u8 two node cluster,which is running oracle 9i database.I am facing problem while rebooting second node causing my oracle database get stopped in the active node 1 which is running my database.so i checked below probabilities to find out when the database get stopped. Version clumanager-1.2.31-1.x86_64.rpm I stopped both the node. started first node when the clumanager started during boot cycle on node 2 database running on node 1 get stopped(checked my oracle alert log telling the database get stopped exactly at the same time clumanager started on node 2) After that When i run clustat on node 1 its telling the service(database) is running. I am using /etc/init.d/scriptdb.sh in my cluster config file which is having both start.stop and status check. test 2: I stopped both the node and started the node 2 first and waited for 30 minutes. oracle was up and running by default on node 2 (clumanger started oracle service) started node 1 after 20 minutes when the clumanager started during boot cycle on node 1 database running on node 2 get stopped(checked my oracle alert log telling the database get stopped exactly at the same time clumanager started on node 1) After that When i run clustat on node 2 its telling the service(database) is running. Test2: If cluster relocate the service automatically by itself form node 1 to node 2 or node 2 to node 1 for some reason during the critical day time my database is not getting up during fail over on both the nodes. Test 3: If i manually relocate the service from node 1 to node 2 and vice versa my database is not getting stopped and it is working fine. Please some one help me to fix out this issue ,it is my critical production database. Below is my cluster config file cluster.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <cluconfig version="3.0"> <clumembd broadcast="yes" interval="1000000" loglevel="5" multicast="no" multicast_ipaddress="" thread="yes" tko_count="25"/> <cluquorumd loglevel="7" pinginterval="5" tiebreaker_ip=""/> <clurmtabd loglevel="7" pollinterval="4"/> <clusvcmgrd loglevel="7"/> <clulockd loglevel="7"/> <cluster config_viewnumber="4" key="6672bc0a71be2ec9486f6a2f5846c172" name="DBCLUSTER"/> <sharedstate driver="libsharedraw.so" rawprimary="/dev/raw/raw1" rawshadow="/dev/raw/raw2" type="raw"/> <members> <member id="0" name="cluster1" watchdog="yes"/> <member id="1" name="cluster2" watchdog="yes"/> </members> <services> <service checkinterval="10" failoverdomain="oracle_db" id="0" maxfalsestarts="0" maxrestarts="0" name="database" userscript="/etc/init.d/script_db.sh"> <service_ipaddresses> <service_ipaddress broadcast="None" id="0" ipaddress="20.2.135.35" monitor_link="1" netmask="255.255.0.0"/> </service_ipaddresses> <device id="0" name="/dev/cciss/c0d0p1" sharename=""> <mount forceunmount="yes" fstype="ext3" mountpoint="/vol1" options="rw"/> </device> <device id="1" name="/dev/cciss/c0d0p2" sharename=""> <mount forceunmount="yes" fstype="ext3" mountpoint="/vol2" options="rw"/> </device> <device id="2" name="/dev/cciss/c0d0p5" sharename=""> <mount forceunmount="yes" fstype="ext3" mountpoint="/vol3" options="rw"/> </device> <device id="3" name="/dev/cciss/c0d0p6" sharename=""> <mount forceunmount="yes" fstype="ext3" mountpoint="/vol4" options="rw"/> </device> <device id="4" name="/dev/cciss/c0d0p7" sharename=""> <mount forceunmount="yes" fstype="ext3" mountpoint="/vol5" options="rw"/> </device> <device id="5" name="/dev/cciss/c0d0p8" sharename=""> <mount forceunmount="yes" fstype="ext3" mountpoint="/vol6" options="rw"/> </device> <device id="6" name="/dev/cciss/c0d0p9" sharename=""> <mount forceunmount="yes" fstype="ext3" mountpoint="/vol7" options="rw"/> </device> <device id="7" name="/dev/cciss/c0d0p10" sharename=""> <mount forceunmount="yes" fstype="ext3" mountpoint="/vol8" options="rw"/> </device> </service> </services> <failoverdomains> <failoverdomain id="0" name="oracle_db" ordered="no" restricted="yes"> <failoverdomainnode id="0" name="cluster1"/> <failoverdomainnode id="1" name="cluster2"/> </failoverdomain> </failoverdomains> </cluconfig> Regards, crazy pap

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syslog remote computers
by Craig White 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

Trying to figure out if there's a way to get syslog.conf to direct remote logging from a wireless access point to log to a separate file instead of the main syslog and can't figure out how that could be done from man syslog.conf (or man 2/3 of syslog) this clearly doesn't work 192.168.1.251.* /var/log/WAP-2.log which according to the man page, makes sense since this the IP address is not a facility. Is there a way to do this that I am missing? Craig

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kbs-CentOS-Testing gnucash: status for CentOS 5?
by William L. Maltby 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

I decided I would like to try GnuCash on my 5.x desktop system. I did an available list and got this gnucash.i386 2.2.4-1.el5.kb kbs-CentOS-Testi gnucash-docs.noarch 2.2.0-2.el5.kb kbs-CentOS-Testi Did a yum --enablerepo=kbs-CentOS-Testing install gnucash\* That produced Package gnucash-docs-2.2.0-2.el5.kb.noarch.rpm is not signed I figured I had forgot to install the gpg key, so I did that. Well, now I have to instances of that key. When I try to remove one copy, # rpm -e gpg-pubkey-3e13cf5b-422eea1c error: "gpg-pubkey-3e13cf5b-422eea1c" specifies multiple packages I tried removing the /var/lib/rpm/__* and rebuild, but no help. Still have two instances of the key. Any way to clean that without a remove and reinstall of all the keys? Anyway, a search of the archives has an entry indicating that gnucash was available for CentOS 4.x, but nada about 5. Am I too early on this? Anyhoo, figuring that docs could be addressed later, I then foolishly (need more coffee?) did yum --enablerepo=kbs-CentOS-Testing install --exclude=gnucash-docs \ gnucash which, of course produced Error: Missing Dependency: gnucash-docs >= 2.2.0 is needed by package gnucash-2.2.4-1.el5.kb.i386 (kbs-CentOS-Testing) Undaunted, I figured to download via yum and force installation with nodeps (hmm, yum --downloadonly didn't work. Nothing in the docs about that though. Did yumdownloader --enablerepo=kbs-CentOS-Testing gnucash-docs and that worked) Then rpm --install --nodeps gnucash-docs-2.2.0-2.el5.kb.noarch.rpm worked, but gave I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd The docs were installed though AFAICT. ISTR seeing stuff similar to this with other packages in the dim past. Don't recall any solutions though. I wonder if there's a way to suppress that activity. I don't particularly care for packages that require on-line references for local and potentially sensitive work. I'm thinking there might be a configuration file I could modify because I see some similar files already on the system. I'll pursue that later if I get gnucash installed. Back to the primary task, did yum --enablerepo=kbs-CentOS-Testing install gnucash That produced Package gwenhywfar-2.6.2-2.el5.kb.i386.rpm is not signed At that point I felt maybe I was a bit premature as I had already confirmed that I had the gpg key installed. Any words of wisdom for me? If I don't need to worry about the signing issues, I guess I could download and install all with --nodeps. Good/bad idea? Anything I might do to help the process along? I've not done any rpm work, so it might take awhile if there is anything too technical. I'm going to fire up my 4.x and see if it works there. I can muddle through there, with a small amount of inconvenience. But that might be worth it. Before I forget, thanks to you and all the crew for the hard work that benefits us all. TIA -- Bill

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rsyslog-postgresql for CentOS5
by Adam Tauno Williams 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

Is the postgreSQL backend/connector for rsyslog being packaged by anyone? I've looked around and only found rsyslog & rsyslog-mysql.

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howto transfer all configuration between 2 remote dedicated servers?
by Joe Barjo 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

Hello I'm willing to change my dedicated server hosting provider, and transfer my existing server to the new one. I don't have kvm access, but both servers are centos5.2 I can boot a network image that is debian based and have access to the disk. Then I tried to rsync -a my first server to the destination host, but it was not reachable from the network (I modified /etc/fstab and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 for the destination server). I also copied /boot including grub configuration... (both are using grub) As I don't have a kvm, I don't know why it is not reachable from net. So I would like to get the list of all rpms (rpm -qa) install them to the new server, then copy all files that were added/modifed Most packages should be still in the yum cache, but I'm not sure. For the rpm -qa I think there should be some special flags to get an output that would be yum compatible? But my real question is: How can I get a list of files in the whole filesystem that were added or modified compared to all the files that come from rpms? Is there a script for doing such a thing? Thanks

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Forward all traffic from public IP A to public IP B?
by Morten Sundstrøm 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

Need help. Im trying to forward all traffic to a public server(A) to another public server(B) except traffic to port 22. Found this on google but cant get it to work. Could someone help me please. Server A has one NIC server B has one NIC. Do i need 2 NICS in server A. #!/bin/sh iptables -F iptables -F INPUT iptables -F OUTPUT iptables -F FORWARD iptables -X iptables -F -t nat iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 --protocol tcp --destination-port ! 22 -j DNAT --to-destination "IP B" iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 --protocol udp -j DNAT --to-destination "IP B" # END /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables status Table: filter Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) num target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) num target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) num target prot opt source destination Table: mangle Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT) num target prot opt source destination Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) num target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) num target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) num target prot opt source destination Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT) num target prot opt source destination Table: nat Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT) num target prot opt source destination 1 DNAT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:!22 to:"IP B" 2 DNAT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 to:"IP B" Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT) num target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) num target prot opt source destination /Morten.

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finding a needed Aramaic font
by Michael A. Peters 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

Not CentOS specific, but ... I'm trying to load a web page with some ancient Aramaic text. I have some Aramaic fonts installed, but I think they are for modern Aramaic. I've tried installing several different ttf fonts, but I still get boxes with numbers in them - IE 07 17 07 3D etc. Does anyone know of a resource where I can input those hex codes (I assume they are really 0717 and 073D) and find what ttf fonts would cover those characters? I'm guessing they are from an Aramaic script font. Is there maybe an existing font in CentOS or EPEL that I might try?

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hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
by Matt 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

I upgraded my Centos 4.7 server last night. Switched from a cheaper 50$ asus motherboard to a Supermicro motherboard. I also, using dd, copied entire 500g SATA seagate drive to new 500g SATA seagate drive so as to have two copies in case something went wrong. Anyway, now I keep getting this error: Nov 21 06:08:33 server kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } Nov 21 06:08:33 server kernel: Nov 21 06:08:33 server kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Nov 21 06:08:33 server kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE Nov 21 06:08:34 server kernel: ide0: reset: success Found one website that told me too try hdparm -i to see whats up: /dev/hda: Model=ST3500320AS, FwRev=SD15, SerialNo= Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: unknown: * signifies the current active mode So from recommendation on website I did this to match MaxMultiSect: hdparm -m16 /dev/hda then tried this to turn MultSect off: hdparm -m0 /dev/hda Still getting error. The Supermicro MBD-X7SBL-LN1-O motherboard has basically all defaults set in bios. Any ideas? Thanks. Matt

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