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Closing a multi-session disk
by Anne Wilson 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

I have a disk which is not being recognised for reading, and I suspect that it may be a multi-session disk which has not been closed. K3b seems to agree with me, since it lists it as an appendable data cd. However, I can't find any way to close the session in k3b. I thought I remembered that it was possible to do that in xcdroast - which is almost certainly the application that burned the disk in the first place. However, xcdroast tells me that no disk is loaded. That brings me to ask those of you that use command-line burning if you know of any way I can close this disk. I suspect the files on it are ones that I don't have elsewhere. Anne

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boot problems
by fabian dacunha 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Dear All, I am quite new to centos i had installed centos 5.2 to be as a squid proxy server and it was working fine for over a month or so but 3 days back the machine after a reboot jus refused to boot it jus was goin to the grub prompt i wd really apprecite if someone cd help me .. cd i boot from centos boot cd n go to rescue mode and check grub 2) if grub is OK how cd i reinstall centos without destroying data 3) any other tps to check out the problem cd be highly apprecited regards Fabian -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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pup update for mplayer: missing dependency libizo.so.1
by Lanny Marcus 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

I am updating my daughters CentOS 5.2 box. When pup was Resolving Dependencies, I got an error for mplayer: "Missing dependency. libizo.so.1 is needed by package mplayer". Questions: (a) Where do I get that file? (b) How do I install it? TIA! Lanny

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 45, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 04 Nov '08

04 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-2008:0971 Important CentOS 5 i386 net-snmp Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CESA-2008:0971 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 net-snmp Update (Karanbir Singh) 3. CESA-2008:0971 Important CentOS 3 i386 net-snmp - security update (Tru Huynh) 4. CESA-2008:0971 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 net-snmp - security update (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:25:11 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0971 Important CentOS 5 i386 net-snmp Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081103192511.GA4672(a)vkalu.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0971 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0971.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: bf7e37233e6e3d4f7761415a6947f5d5 net-snmp-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2.i386.rpm 1345fe20386781b6888bd3037833e427 net-snmp-devel-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2.i386.rpm 4cd9420e64f0a02182b3ff52e90c0332 net-snmp-libs-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2.i386.rpm 096b2597a0df76a7cd09423e9bf134be net-snmp-perl-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2.i386.rpm f8677a55b21d06b9ffb5e5ca14c09277 net-snmp-utils-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2.i386.rpm Source: 33b1ced85b82bd81a38383eed25b55f5 net-snmp-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:25:11 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0971 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 net-snmp Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081103192511.GA4687(a)vkalu.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0971 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0971.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: dbba57d2b96429f28e2398b57a11a794 net-snmp-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm 7aac59a634e8d6f6d29513d16184f894 net-snmp-devel-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2.i386.rpm d6b85b2188f684db23b787540d65f3f1 net-snmp-devel-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm 1e6e0c2c7b731e7f1633869d76de90e3 net-snmp-libs-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2.i386.rpm 5683335b6265c039abdb35aad2a09d2a net-snmp-libs-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm f65f4c9faad05b95e044b63d09a20544 net-snmp-perl-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm 6c50375aefbffefdde9c770e73992149 net-snmp-utils-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm Source: 33b1ced85b82bd81a38383eed25b55f5 net-snmp-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 21:40:39 +0100 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0971 Important CentOS 3 i386 net-snmp - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081103204039.GA14157(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0971 net-snmp security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0971.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/net-snmp-5.0.9-2.30E.25.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/net-snmp-devel-5.0.9-2.30E.25.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/net-snmp-libs-5.0.9-2.30E.25.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/net-snmp-perl-5.0.9-2.30E.25.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/net-snmp-utils-5.0.9-2.30E.25.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/net-snmp-5.0.9-2.30E.25.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update net-snmp Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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rpm spec question
by Tom Brown 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hi I am trying to package a bunch of files so that i can deploy them with rpm - Its prtty much just a case of dumping some files on the filesystem. I achieve this with rpm without issue however when i remove the rpm from the system it also removes the dir that contains the files, even though i dont specify this in the %postun. Is there a way to tell rpm to NOT remove files/dir's that it creates unless i request it? thanks

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[OT] List of all email users
by Jussi Hirvi 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

This is not CentOS-specific, hence OT. I need a list of all email users on my system (there are hundreds of them). The list could be extracted from /etc/aliases and the virtusertable. Does anyone know of a script that would do this automatically? It would have to - exclude commented-out lines (of course) - exclude duplicates - produce a list of usernames (or maybe unresolved email addresses for some users) separated by a comma I imagine perl would be the way to go. I haven't used perl at all myself. Regards, Jussi -- Jussi Hirvi * Green Spot Topeliuksenkatu 15 C * 00250 Helsinki * Finland Tel. & fax +358 9 493 981 * Mobile +358 40 771 2098 (only sms) jussi.hirvi(a)greenspot.fi * http://www.greenspot.fi

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[rsync -avz] total size/disk usage difference between source and destination
by Sven 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hi folks We migrated storage from local disk to SAN with: # rsync -avz /mnt/lvol00045/* /lvol00045 Why there is a difference in size? How to explain this? Do we have inconsistency? What we did wrong? [...] /dev/mapper/vg01-lvol00045_old 10321208 3930336 6286016 39% /mnt/lvol00045 [...] /dev/mapper/vg01-lvol00045 10321208 3163852 6633068 33% /lvol00045 [...] kind regards Sven

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TI USB 3410-5052 for CentOS 4.7
by Marc Ferguson 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Hi, I am trying to build the driver for the TI USB 3410/5052 family of devices. Specifically, I am trying to hook up a MultiTech GSM modem. I have the source for the driver which came with the modem. However, I beating my head against the wall trying to get around the usb-serial.h not found error. I have found references saying usb-serial.h has been moved. Even though I have pulled down kernel-2.6.9-78.src.rpm I can not find the .h to make things compile. Any assistance would be greately appreciated (a prebuilt driver would be even better). Thanks Marc Marc Ferguson Trapeze Group 757-961-9224 x304

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device driver useage
by Geoff Galitz 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Under Centos 5.X, how can I determine with 100% certainty what driver is associated with a given device other than referencing dmesg? For example, what tool can I use to tell for sure what driver is attached to my eth0 device? I have searched the web, but could not find anything that answered my question. Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland http://www.galitz.org

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Can I upgrade CentOS 3.9 to 4 with apt/yum
by chaminda＠mfsl.lk 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Deal All, Please tell me someone is is possible to upgrade CentOS3.9 to 4 via apt or yum? Thanks Chaminda

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CentOS 5.2 and Bacula
by Tronn Wærdahl 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Hi everyone, I have a Samba server on CentOS 5.2 that I would like to and some backup service to, I have been trying to install Bacula, because I want to backup MS machines too, and there is a web GUI. But when searching around i google I get a bit confused. about what packages I need. Has anyone got bacula running on Centos or maybe guide in the right direction. Tronn

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mysql 4 > 5 export import issue
by Tom Brown 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Hi I am migrating a mailserver from CentOS 4 to 5 and i am migrating the db's over from mysql-max-4.1.13 to mysql-server-5.0.45-7.el5 during the mysql import it fails with this... ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 129: Duplicate entry '3-r��?�' for key 1 anyone got any clues to this one as so far i have drawn a blank thanks

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Regd: SeLinux Configuration
by Balaji 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Dear All, Currently i have using CentOS4.4 and Kernel Version is 2.6.9-42.EL. I have disabled selinux on kickstart installation and command is *selinux --disabled * Can any one help me or guide me to 1. Enable the selinux 2. Selinux Customize my own policy Regards -S.Balaji

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Dazuko module Panda Antivirus
by Gopinath Achari 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Hi, I installed Panda antivirus for linux but it uses Dazuko module for updating virus definition downloaded from internet to virus definitions database. So i downloaded dazuko ( tar package) software and tryed to install. But it generates the below defined errors, Which module in the kernel has to be enabled. Please help me i am using Centos 5.2 with kernel version of 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5xen [gopinath@localhost dazuko-2.3.5]$ ./configure checking host system type... Linux checking for make utility... ok (make) checking for C compiler... ok (cc) kernel source in /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.13.el5xen/source... yes kernel build source in /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.13.el5xen/build... yes acquiring Linux kernel code configuration... ok checking if Linux is RSBAC patched... no checking if devfs is enabled... no discovered host system... Linux (2.6.18) checking if security module support is enabled... yes verifying capabilities are not built-in... built-in :( error: capabilities are built-in to the kernel: you will need to recompile a kernel with capabilities as a kernel module regards Gopinath .

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Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
by Glenn 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

At 02:57 PM 10/31/2008, you wrote: >I recommend taking a good look at Digicam. For the types of tasks >listed above, its very good and fairly easy. It also supports bulk >processing, tagging images, etc. > >Its part image database and part image manipulator. Link? Please? Digicam gives too many hits on search engine even with refining the search. (Lurking and inquisitive) Thanks, Glenn

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Repository for Red Hat Enterprise IPA?
by Sebastian Marten 02 Nov '08

02 Nov '08

Hello list, Last week i read a interesting artice about Red Hat Enterprise IPA / Free IPA. Is there a Repository for this packages yet? Greetings Sebastian

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Upgrade then sudden death..
by Ben Mills 02 Nov '08

02 Nov '08

I recently put Cent 5.2 (64 bit) on a new server using a Supermicro pdsbm-ln2+ sys board. I did the original installation at home using the 5.2 dvd I got via torrent. I turned it over to my NOC tech and it went right online so he ran yum update. With the most recent kernel, which went in with the update, the server hung on grub (after reboot). He did a fresh (minimal) Centos installation and once again ran update, but again the new kernel wouldn't load. The machine is set up RAID 1 with two Seagate 250 GB sata drives. Nothing fancy, just cheapo 7200 rpm stuff. I wish I could be more specific, but I wasn't present during the update and failure. None the less, I would appreciate all the opinions and feedback you folks can offer. I'll have the server back here in a couple of days. In the meanwhile, I'd like to get some ideas that could help me resolve this issue. I put the system board manual on my server at: http://hwy39.net/centos/Supermicro_PDSBM-LN1-LN2-LN2+_Manual.pdf . Feel free to take a look at it. -- Thanks, Ben hwy39.net lonsingerpharmacy.com

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Question re RHEL 5.3
by MHR 02 Nov '08

02 Nov '08

I've heard now from more than one source about problems with CentOS (and RH) at least up through 5.2 w.r.t. SATA drive handling, and I've even reported on this myself in this list before. My question is, do we have any idea if 5.3 has any improvements in this area? One of my cohorts here, who happens to be a Fedora fan, says that these problems are fixed in F9, but I have grave concerns about putting an enterprise lifeline main application on any Fedora release. If 5.3 solves these issues, I'd much rather go with that. Any ideas? Any places I might look to see for myself? Thanks. mhr

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LDAP and expired passwords
by Steve Thompson 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

CentOS 5.2 with OpenLDAP 2.3.27, nss_ldap_253.13, using TLS, i686 and x86_64. If a user with an expired password (shadowLastChange + shadowMax < current day) logs in to a system where ldap.conf points first to a consumer-only LDAP server, the password change operation (exop) proceeds and fails with: LDAP password information update failed: Referral If I comment out "ssl start_tls", the referral to the master is followed and the password change operation succeeds. I've found references to problems with earlier releases of pam_ldap when referrals were not properly followed when using TLS, and these are supposed to be fixed; apparently not in my case. Can anyone hit me with the clue stick? Steve ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Thompson E-mail: smt AT vgersoft DOT com Voyager Software LLC Web: http://www DOT vgersoft DOT com 39 Smugglers Path VSW Support: support AT vgersoft DOT com Ithaca, NY 14850 "186,300 miles per second: it's not just a good idea, it's the law" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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The relationship between udev and MAKEDEV
by Clint Dilks 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

Hi People, Recently an issue where I was trying to changed the group and permission associated with the device /dev/net/tun. As I knew devices were controlled by udev I went looking at its configuration and found this rule 50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="tun", NAME="net/%k". Some research on the web suggested that modifying the default rules was a bad idea and that you should in fact override them with your own custom rules. So I tried setting up a custom rule, this failed. I then tried modifying the default rule this also failed. A helpful response from here pointed me to MAKEDEV and I was able to change /etc/makedev.d/01linux-2.6.x to do what I wanted. But this has raised a couple of questions for me. 1. If udev doesn't directly control the creation of this device why is there a udev rule for it? 2. Is modifying /etc/makedev.d/01linux-2.6.x likely to cause me issues in future ? My investigation to date has led to me to believe that devices listed in /etc/udev/makedev.d/ are the devices that you always want to be present on a system rather than relying on something about your systems Hardware configuration to lead to a device being created. Is this correct ? Thank you for any thoughts / information you can share relating to this.

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swap being used?
by Mag Gam 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

I have a machine with 64GB of memory in our lab. We have memory demanding processes and natually swap gets used. However when these processes are gone and the system is idle, we still see swap being used. Is this normal behavior? TIA

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Re: [CentOS] offtopic question .. apprecyice ur help
by David G. Miller 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

"fabian dacunha" <fabian(a)baladia.gov.kw> wrote with horrible intentional misspellings: > Dear All, > > its a offtopic question but really apprecite if someone would advise n help > i have been running a mil server with sendmail > > and have sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org as my dnsbl. > > i had other servers which are alredy out now > that is relays.ordb.org and dsbl.org have already been out of my sendmail > config. > > any one knows of ny other servers i could add in my sendmail config > > apprecite ur help > > thanks > > > regards > > Fabian I have two blog posts that describe how I deal with spam: http://davenjudy.org/davesBlog/node/22 http://davenjudy.org/davesBlog/node/27 I use a combination of several RBLs and dSPAM that seems to work fairly well and I'm not hearing about any false positives. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 45, Issue 1
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 01 Nov '08

01 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-2008:0965 Important CentOS 3 ia64 lynx - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 4 ia64 lynx - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) lynx - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) lynx - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:09:58 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 3 ia64 lynx - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081031170958.GS5793(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0865 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0965.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/lynx-2.8.5-11.3.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Picasa vs. native photo management apps
by Niki Kovacs 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

Hi, I'm running a small business (http://www.microlinux.fr) offering various services around GNU/Linux, among which migrating folks from Windows to Linux. On server and desktops, I'm using CentOS exclusively. I know, Fedora would be more suitable, but I like the solidity of CentOS, and I can always build the odd missing bits myself from Fedora SRPMS. My heavily customized CentOS-based desktop is very solid and production-proof (in use in all the public libraries around here). One request that I got more often lately is Google Picasa. I vaguely remember having downloaded and installed it once. As far as I know, it's a closed-source Windows app that comes with a WINE emulation layer. Not exactly the open source spirit. As far as I'm concerned, I manage all my photos with some very basic tools: GThumb, Nautilus, GIMP, and that's it. Are there some tasks one performs with Picasa that one can't perform with these native programs? Or is there some other well-made photo management software that you can recommend as a replacement for Picasa? Cheers, Niki Kovacs

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offtopic question .. apprecyice ur help
by fabian dacunha 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Dear All, its a offtopic question but really apprecite if someone would advise n help i have been running a mil server with sendmail and have sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org as my dnsbl. i had other servers which are alredy out now that is relays.ordb.org and dsbl.org have already been out of my sendmail config. any one knows of ny other servers i could add in my sendmail config apprecite ur help thanks regards Fabian -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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OT: SA/Apache "Best Practice"?
by Camron W. Fox 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Alle, Here is our situation: Our customer leases their machines from us and contract us to to manage them (as far as all systems administration issues). The customer does not have root access to any machine (by their own choice, as they want us to be responsible if something goes awry). In the case of their web servers, we handle all configuration, they manage the content. We make changes to the configuration as necessary to support their content. There is one machine (RHEL5.2) that they are developing on that will become a production box. They have sudo access to manage mysql functions as well as the apache server. They have asked, that we change the default directory permission/ownership of /var/www/html,cgi-bin, instead of using the Documentroot and ScriptAlias parameters in the apache configuration. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 11 2008 /var/www/cgi-bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 11 2008 /var/www/html to drwxrwxr-x 2 root user 4096 Jan 11 2008 /var/www/cgi-bin drwxrwxr-x 2 root user 4096 Jan 11 2008 /var/www/html We have explained that it is preferable *not* to modify the default filesystem configuration of the underlying OS and have recommended that they customize the app by specifying a location of their choice in httpd.conf. They argue that they "just want to use the system default location". There is no *technical* reason for this, according to them. The location does not affect the app. None of the other web servers we manage for them use the RHEL apache default, they all have customized locations for content and scripts. My question is: What argument, if any, would you use to try and convince the customer that this is a bad idea/bad practice? Best Regards, Camron -- Camron W. Fox Hilo Office High Performance Computing Group Fujitsu Management Services of America, Inc. E-mail: cwfox(a)us.fujitsu.com Phone: (808) 934-4102 Cell: (808) 937-5026

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Re: [CentOS] offtopic question .. apprecyice ur help
by Glenn 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

At 01:34 PM 10/31/2008, you wrote: >Thanks guys for ur immediate reply > >do apprecite > >i try to incoporate some of the RBLS and check it out > > >regards > >simon Depending upon your outcome, there are other methods you can use to modify for better results. You may find inserting the RBL in sendmail as a successful choice. In case you do not, What I use is a combination of scoring within SpamAssassin on the public RBLs and maintaining my own RBL on my local mail servers (See http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/rbldnsd.html) I got too many false positives off publicly available RBLs, but adding up the number of RBLs a sender 'hits' made my SpamAssassin scoring method VERY ACCURATE! Good luck and keep fighting!

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OT - Please don't feed the Troll(s)
by William L. Maltby 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Folks, I fully understand the emotional need to respond to one who throws around terms like "Communist", "Tyrannical", etc. even if ostensibly framed as a rhetorical question. Certain terms and phrases are by nature pejorative and I;m sure the OP knew this when he entered his post. My feeling was the OP is either an ignorant, unappreciative, self-centered, and emotionally immature person that expects all projects and activities to meet his desires, wants and criteria, _or_ he is trolling. In either case, any response you provide will be obviously wasted as the OP's POV will likely not be affected. Therefore, you waste your time responding. Trolls, if not fed, eventually die or wander off into the distance. Please don't feed the trolls. MHO -- Bill

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nfs mounted /home and selinux
by Marc Wiatrowski 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

I'm trying to set the context on an nfs mounted /home. I believe exactly like in Redhat's Deployment Guide at http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.2/html/Deployme… On my system running CentOS 5.2: $ ls -alZ /home drwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:home_root_t . drwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:root_t .. $ mount -t nfs -o context=user_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t \ server001a:/vol/vol01/home /home $ ls -alZ /home drwxrwxr-x root root system_u:object_r:nfs_t . drwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:root_t .. drwx------ fred users system_u:object_r:nfs_t fred drwx------ mike users system_u:object_r:nfs_t mike drwx------ alice users system_u:object_r:nfs_t alice $ mount -l server001a:/vol01/home on /home type nfs (rw,context="user_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0",addr=10.1.1.11) Shouldn't the users be set to user_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t? I feel like I am missing something simple... I don't see any avc or related syslog messages and the nfs server is an older netapp if that matters. thanks, marc

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resize LVM (ext3)
by David Hláčik 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Hello guys, my scenario is following 1. I have LVM group named "system" 2. I have a logical volumes - system/root , ext3 mounted as / (20GB) - system/swap, swap - system/home, ext3 mounted as /home (431GB) I need to shrink system/home to 80GB (currently there is 57GB used) and use free space to create another logical volumes. My scenario is 1. reduce ext3 fs size to 80GB by using resize2s 2. reduce system/home size by using lvreduce 3. create another logical volumes Questions 1. How can i be sure that i will shrink ext3 to exact size 80GB and that the same will lvreduce do? I do not want to cut from ext3 filesystem if i will reduce logical volume too much 2. Can you please send me commands to achieve 1) and 2) part of my scenario? 3. Or can i just use lvreduce and my ext3 will shrink automatically? 4. Do i need to umount system/home when resizing? Thanks in advance! David

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Apparently no swap configured
by Ian Masters 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Nate Thanks very much for the reply. > If that volume is not in use by anything else you should > be perfectly able to do: > > mkswap /dev/VolGroup00/swap > swapon /dev/VolGroup00/swap > > then add something like this to fstab: > /dev/VolGroup00 swap swap defaults 0 0 Well it doesn't show up when I do 'df': [root@mail ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 4.8G 446M 4.1G 10% / /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 1.9G 316M 1.5G 18% /var /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03 9.5G 2.3G 6.7G 26% /usr /dev/sda1 99M 32M 63M 34% /boot tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol04 9.9G 172M 9.2G 2% /home /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol05 1.9G 35M 1.8G 2% /tmp Also, as I said /dev/VolGroup00/swap is not listed in /etc/fstab, but it is listed in /dev/mapper/. Is that good enough confirmation that it is not in use? I'm very curious how I managed to get into this situation, using the GUI install method. Any ideas on that? I'd prefer not to be in this situation again. Thanks Ian Masters

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Desktop Choice Centos 4/Centos 5 or Fedora 9
by vandaman2002-rt＠yahoo.co.uk 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

I have a choice of CentOS 4/5 and Fedora 9 on a laptop. I have not use CentOS 5 on a desktop but have used CentOS 4 and Fedora 9. I found the Fedora Gnome not as appealing as the CentOS 4 clearlooks. Any opinions from someone who has used CentOS 4/5 and Fedora? I'm not a KDE fan so KDE users need not reply. Regards, Vandaman.

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Re: [CentOS] Possibly OT: intermittently long response times, when connecting to host
by David G. Miller 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 16:30 -0500, David Miller wrote: > >> > I have a CentOS 5.2 server running Apache 2.2.3 (yum installed) and >> > drupal 6.5 on ESX 3.5. We're using Name Based Virtual Hosting on it - >> > 2 hosts. The problem is that when I pull up a web page after not >> > having accessed it for ~15+ minutes it takes between 10-12s to load >> > fully. The 2nd page, 3rd page - and sometimes more than that - take >> > between 8-12 second. After that - decent performance, though not great >> > (0.3s to 2s). Wait ~15 minutes, maybe more, maybe less, and it goes >> > back to slow. While it's been most apparent with httpd, I've noticed >> > similar slowness with the initial ssh session, etc. >> > <snip> > ---- > sounds sleepy - perhaps the mysql connections drop after inactivity and > then it takes that long to connect > > You might just want to set up a cron script that does a curl or wget of > a standard page every 2 minutes or so just to keep things active. > I'm working with some folks to develop a web site with a very similar configuration (Apache, Drupal, MySQL, not sure which Linux distro is underneath it all though) that's hosted by IX web hosting. We are seeing very similar behavior. It has gotten better since we complained to IX but we still see a significant lag the first time the site loads. The fast load on subsequent visits could be explained by Drupal doing some caching of needed items so it doesn't have to go to the database. The initial site load time became much more noticeable after IX took some kind of hit on their DB server. All we know is the site suddenly couldn't connect to the database, they fixed something on their end and the database came back but we've had the long lag for first load ever since. BTW, pleased to make your acquaintance, Dave. Cheers, Dave Miller -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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no network kernel boot option
by Jerry Geis 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

I am looking for a kernel boot option that specifies "nonetwork" I have found in searching the nousb - nopcmcia etc.... but I have not found one for nonetwork. Is there one and what is it called? Thanks, Jerry

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changing partition priority on install
by Monty Shinn 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Greetings. I am in the process of installing 5.1 64 bit on a server. The server has 2 3ware cards: 9550SX 12 port, and a 8006 2 port, both SATA. I want the 8006 board to be /dev/sda, and the 9550 to be /dev/sdb. My plan is to install the os on /dev/sda (8006), and data on /dev/sdb (9550). Unfortunately, the 9550 comes up as /dev/sda. The 8006 is installed in slot 3, which is a 100Mhz slot. The 9550 is installed in Slot 4, which is a 133Mhz slot. I really don't want to put the 9550 in the 100Mhz slot. I'm not even sure it would make a difference... I would also prefer to not have grub reside on /dev/sda, while the os is on /dev/sdb. I have tried to change the boot priority in bios, but this hasn't changed the priority. I tried to disable one of the boards in the bios, but that didn't seem to have any effect. Interestingly enough, when I boot with the Knoppix 5.1.1 live cd, the cards show up as I want them to. I have searched Google, but I am either entering the wrong search parameters, or there isn't anything out there, at least pertaining to the initial installation. Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks in advance. Monty Specs: Supermicro X6DH8-G 3ware 8006-2lp pci-X 3ware 9550sx-12, pci-X CentOS 5.1, x86_64, network (nfs) install

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RHEL 5.3 Beta released, beta-testers needed
by Dag Wieers 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hi all, The CentOS community is pretty limited in what we can do to the core distribution. Since our mantra is "aiming to be 100% compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux" we cannot fix bugs or improve the CentOS core without waiting for Red Hat to make those modifications first. We have limited leverage and a 6-month release cycle against us. But that is not the complete truth, Red Hat usually has an internal, a vendor and a public beta period and everything that is found within that time-frame might get fixed before it is being shipped (and frozen) for the next 6 months. Today RHEL 5.3 Beta was announced with a lot of interesting improvements. https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-announce/2008-October/msg00000.html So if we can improve the testing during the RHEL Beta program, everyone in the CentOS community directly benefits from that as well. Therefor it makes a lot of sense to encourage the large CentOS community to take part in the RHEL Beta program and help with improving the next CentOS releases. (You don't need my back patting, start already !) If you are looking for the RHEL 5.3 Beta ISO images, go to Red Hat Network, log in, click on Download Software, expand the RHEL5 channel for your architecture and go to the Beta channel. There you can find the RHEL 5.3 Beta ISO images for your architecture. https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channel/downloads/Download.do?cid=6002 https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channel/downloads/Download.do?cid=6007 And please, if you find anything that is worth to fix, report your findings to Red Hat's bugzilla. Thanks in advance, -- -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]

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A few general questions
by kevin kempter 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hi All; I ran Linux as my main laptop OS for several years, then I got into a mac shop and bought a macbook. The macbook is ok but it just doesn't cut it per productivity so I've ordered another laptop (a 64bit laptop with 8G of memory expandable to 16G and 2 internal 320G 7200rpm drives) I'll be loading Linux as soon as the machine arrives from Dell. Here's my questions: 1) Are there any published plans for CentOS to support KDE4, or is there a way to upgrade CentOS to KDE4 ? 2) Does anyone know if Kpilot is working with Palm Centro phones ? Is there a better solution besides Kpilot ? 3) Does Kmail support Exchange yet ? 4) Is there a way to migrate apple mail messages to Kmail ? 5) Is there a way to migrate apple address book and calendar events to the KDE address book and calendar ? Thanks in advance...

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Re: [CentOS] Can one invoke multiple INSTANCEs of Firefox on CentOS
by James B. Byrne 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

On Thu, October 30, 2008 09:56, lists-centos wrote: > > you can do this by putting: > > setenv MOZ_NO_REMOTE 1 > > in your .cshrc (i'll let you figure out the bash equiv if that's what > you're using). > > and then use (e.g., in your icon's properties entry): > > /usr/bin/firefox -SelectProfile %u > > to start an instance. This works. Thank you. The magical invocation is: Edit ~/.bashrc or /etc/bashrc and add: # Force Mozilla (Firefox) to prompt for profiles # and start as separate instances for each. MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1; export MOZ_NO_REMOTE # Then invoke via "firefox -SelectProfile %u" Log out and restart the desktop to get the changes to take effect for the panel and menus. Changes made to ~/.bashrc or /etc/bashrc are picked up with each new terminal window opened and do not require a logout or source command if you invoke Firefox from the command line instead. Many thanks. Now I can lose myself in the madness of model-model, view, controller xml.... wheeeee.... -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Re: [CentOS] Can one invoke multiple INSTANCEs of Firefox on CentOS
by James B. Byrne 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

On Wed, October 29, 2008 12:05, Joe Pruett wrote: > you can do it with firefox profiles. start with: > > firefox -ProfileManager > Thank you very much for the hint. I went to the Mozilla Firefox Help page and read up on this. However, when I run: # firefox -ProfileManager All I get is a new Firefox window with all of the bookmarks and history of my standard user profile. Am I missing something here? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2
by Eduardo Silvestre 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hello, i have some customers with php 5.1.6 and they have a problem because this version have a bug on gd library. Link http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39366 Need install other version to use this feature. Regards, --- Eduardo Silvestre nfsi telecom, lda. eduardo.silvestre(a)nfsi.pt Tel. (+351) 21 949 2300 - Fax (+351) 21 949 2301 http://www.nfsi.pt/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph Angenendt" <ra+centos(a)br-online.de> To: centos(a)centos.org Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:27:56 AM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2 John Clement wrote: > > i need to know where i can find php version 5.2? > > you'll probably want to have a look here > > http://www.php.net/get/php-5.2.6.tar.bz2/from/a/mirror And then make that into an rpm? Or just work around the packaging system on CentOS? Not a good idea. There are some packages in the CentOS-Testing repository (which require you to give feedback to the CentOS developers via , there is Jason Litka's repository and there is Remi Collet's repository. But: If you have problems with the packages from there, then bug the people you got the packages from - not CentOS. Anyway, all of those means of distribution are way better than working around package management. Ralph _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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PHP 5.2
by Eduardo Silvestre 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hello guys, i need to know where i can find php version 5.2? Regards, --- Eduardo Silvestre nfsi telecom, lda. eduardo.silvestre(a)nfsi.pt Tel. (+351) 21 949 2300 - Fax (+351) 21 949 2301 http://www.nfsi.pt/

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Re: Apparently no swap configured
by James B. Byrne 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:29:43 -0700 From: Scott Silva <ssilva(a)sgvwater.com> Wrote: > Even though the recommended swap is 2 times system memory, I have > never made a swap partition over 2 GB. Maybe I am also flirting > with disaster, but haven't been bit yet in years. I believe that the current recommendation is 2 x physical memory up to 2 GB and then 1 x physical memory thereafter. See: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.2/html/Deployme… " Swap should equal 2x physical RAM for up to 2 GB of physical RAM, and then an additional 1x physical RAM for any amount above 2 GB, but never less than 32 MB. So, if: M = Amount of RAM in GB, and S = Amount of swap in GB, then If M < 2 S = M *2 Else S = M + 2 Using this formula, a system with 2 GB of physical RAM would have 4 GB of swap, while one with 3 GB of physical RAM would have 5 GB of swap. Creating a large swap space partition can be especially helpful if you plan to upgrade your RAM at a later time. For systems with really large amounts of RAM (more than 32 GB) you can likely get away with a smaller swap partition (around 1x, or less, of physical RAM). " Regards, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Checking if a user is 'Disabled'
by Tom Brown 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hi I need to create some local users but then 'disable' that user. I know i can enable and disable the user by using usermod -L and -U but does anyone know if there is a way for me to see the current status of the user? ie locked or unlocked? thanks

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RHEL 5.3 Beta released, beta-testers needed
by Eugene Fong 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

I don't think a login can be registered unless you buy and activate a subscription

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.7 Server CD - update frontpage
by Spiro Harvey 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

I know it's going farther off the beaten topic here, but just received this email of warm wishes from our friend Spike Turner that I thought I'd share. It's not even necessary to insult him, he's done it all for himself. On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:41:21 -0700 (PDT) Spike Turner <spiketurner09(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Spiro Harvey wrote: > > > Your comments were not constructive criticism. You're > > just a whiny > > little punk who can dish it out but gets upset when > > it's flung back in > > your direction. > > > > Grow up. > > If you were within reach I would punch you and you > would spit all your teeth out. Having done martial arts > and powerlifting, dealing with a punk like yourself would > not be a problem. > > Spike. > > > >

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Installer stopped short
by Niki Kovacs 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Hi, I just tried to install a CentOS 5 desktop on very recent hardware, an Acer desktop machine. The installer stopped short very early. I gave Ubuntu 8.04 a shot, and it installed without a problem. Now what can I do about this? Is there a way to use some "enhanced" kernel (like the centos.plus kernel) to perform the install? I guess what's missing there is a specific driver for something (SATA drive? Processor?). Any suggestions? Niki

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CentOS 4.7 Server CD - update frontpage
by Spike Turner 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Perhaps with the release of the CentOS 4.7 Server CD the frontpage at www.centos.org could be updated to reflect this new development rather than 4.4? Here is the announcement for those who missed it http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-October/015328.html Spike. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Problem with svn/apache
by Joe Tseng 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

I hope someone can help me with this b/c I'm stumped... I had set up an svn repository a while ago with an apache/webdav front end using the default centos packages. For some reason this morning it stopped working for me - it would give me a 403 error. I suppose the problem is with Apache and not svn. So far I've checked the following: I use a couple of files called svn_htpasswd_file (for userids/password hashes) and svn_auth_file (users, groups and permissions) - I verified the files were still apache:apache and were user-readable Just for grins I ran "chown -R apache:apache" on my repository home directory and all repositoriesI made a new user entry in the two files listed above with full admin rightsI restarted httpd and rebooted the serverI made sure the httpd processes were running using apache as userAnd I've run out of ideas. Has anyone else seen this before? - Joe Failure is always an option -- Adam Savage _________________________________________________________________ When your life is on the go—take your life with you. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/115298558/direct/01/

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Can one invoke multiple INSTANCEs of Firefox on CentOS
by James B. Byrne 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

I am doing some testing with XForms and I really need a separate instance of Firefox, one that shares nothing with my primary instance that has various reference works and web sites open, to test forms. Is this even possible? I have a sense from the small bit of testing that I have done that even with separate profiles and invoking the firefox process manually from different terminal windows does not provide a completely separate running instance on the desktop. Is there a way to do this? If so then how? Regards, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Possibly OT: intermittently long response times when connecting to host
by David Miller 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

I have a CentOS 5.2 server running Apache 2.2.3 (yum installed) and drupal 6.5 on ESX 3.5. We're using Name Based Virtual Hosting on it - 2 hosts. The problem is that when I pull up a web page after not having accessed it for ~15+ minutes it takes between 10-12s to load fully. The 2nd page, 3rd page - and sometimes more than that - take between 8-12 second. After that - decent performance, though not great (0.3s to 2s). Wait ~15 minutes, maybe more, maybe less, and it goes back to slow. While it's been most apparent with httpd, I've noticed similar slowness with the initial ssh session, etc. I know what you're thinking. DNS problem, right? Yeah, me too. But for the life of me I can't find a problem. This is at a colocation site where we have other servers - all of those are just fine. We've got an almost identical box internally - working just fine. I can do an nslookup off of each of our different internal name servers and get identical and immediate responses. I've done tcpdumps (both on the client and the server). It shows the request gets to the server immediately. I've started httpd using strace and not seen anything glaringly wrong (though I'm not well versed in the output I have enough C under my belt to have an idea what's going on). Thinking it was code that the developer working on the project I pulled all the custom drupal modules out and it's still slow. Even created another virtual host with a stock drupal install and it's slow (identical results). I moved the mysql server from local to our central DB server. Load avg never gets above ~0.10 so I don't think the box is stressed. Watching the ESX load average it looks good too. I've tried a hell of a lot of other things and tried to include all the relevant information so apologies in advance for anything I might have left out. Thanks, Dave Relevant info: uname -a: Linux internal-name.domainname.com 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5 #1 SMP Wed Sep 24 19:33:52 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux relevant portion of httpd.conf: NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /path/to/drupal-current ServerName publicname.domainname.com ErrorLog /path/to/logserror_log CustomLog /path/to/logs/access_log common </VirtualHost> /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost internal-name 12.34.56.78 publicname.domainname.com 12.34.56.79 db-server.domainname.com db-server

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