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Network installation from CD
by Dag Wieers 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hi, In a corporate environment we are not allowed to use DHCP/PXE for doing network installations. This means we have to look for other solutions. Our solution is to use an ISO image (mounted via a KVM solution) to kick off the network installation. A big problem currently is that the order of the network interfaces is arbitrary (depends on the order of the drivers loaded) and is not influence by the order of the PCI slots. So in our case we have a bunch of e1000, bnx2 and tg3 in systems we have to install. The first onboard interface (usually tg3 or bnx2) almost never is eth0, but instead can be eth2, eth3 or higher. (Depending on the number of "other" NICs) This is problematic because Anaconda never gives a very good analysis of why the download of the kickstart fails. Very unpleasant if you want system deployements done by Service Operations. So our solution was to provide ksdevice=MAC-ADDRESS , which works fine in the first phase for downloading the kickstart file, but then the kickstart file again has a network-directive with a --device= parameter to configure the network again in the second phase. Here is where the trouble starts. The --device= cannot handle MAC addresses, in other words if we ommit the --device= parameter we get a list of interfaces, which we do not want because the list does not indicate which one is the right interface. Using ksdevice=bootif and providing BOOTIF=MAC-ADDRESS on the commandline does not help either because the second phase always wants to reconfigure the network. In fact we don't want the second phase to reconfigure the network, we want it to keep the working network configuration from the first phase which worked fine for downloading the kickstart file. So here's my question: Is there a way to have the second phase network configuration NOT take place, or have it use the interface that was correctly downloading the kickstart file ? I could not find it anywhere and none of my tests seem to indicate that this is at all possible. This is on RHEL/CentOS 4.6. -- -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list

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USB to SATA / eSATA adapter compatibility
by Rudi Ahlers 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hi all, Does anyone know if this USB to SATA / e-SATA adapter will work on Linux? http://www.vantecusa.com/front/product/view_detail/266 Their website and knowledgebase doesn't say anything about it, so I'm checking the list to try my luck :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers

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Rpmbuild and how to disable automatic dependency list creation.
by Friedrich Clausen 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hello All, When I build RPM packages, rpmbuild always scans all the executables, shared libs, perl scripts, etc. to find out which external libraries the application depends on. This is normally a Good Thing but I am currently packaging an in-house, self contained application. I could almost use a tarball but an RPM provides better manageability and also allows post-installation tasks. All shared libraries are under a single prefix, which is not in the system-wide ld.so.conf - it is configured in the startup script of the application. However, rpmbuild finds all these dependencies and adds them to the list of "Requires", which is not desirable in this case. My question therefore is - how can I tell rpmbuild to stop automatically creating a dependency list? The best I can come up with at the moment is to add the following to my ~/.rpmmacros (line numbers added by me): [1] %__os_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note [2] %__find_requires /bin/true [3] %__perl_requires /bin/true So: [1] - Stop it stripping already stripped binaries. [2] and [3] - This stops it doing the automatic dependency list creation. This seems a bit heavy handed though, is there another, cleaner way to do it? Regards, Fred.

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Reformatting a USB drive
by Todd Cary 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

I have a USB drive that has been formatted as NTFS. Can I reformat it? I have identified these properties about it /dev/sda1 /media/Extrnl_Bkup Not sure what to do next since the GUI will not mount a NTFS disk (expected). Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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Moving folder just vanished??
by Stewart Williams 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hi all, Can anyone explain or give an clues as to what just happened? I'm running CentOS 5.2 as a desktop with Gnome. Fully up to date, etc. I was dragging a folder of image (.jpg) files to another folder on the same filesystem (LVM ext3) with the mouse and as I dropped the folder into the new folder - poof! - it disappeared like a puff of smoke. I've searched everywhere for the files/and or folder and they are totally gone. I must also point out that the filesystem was an encrypted one using fuse-encfs. In all my years of using Linux, I've never seen this happen before. Sadly I have no backup as I'd just copied them from an SD card to the HDD then formated the card - maybe I was too quick doing that step. Thanks

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Strange message at boot time
by Niki Kovacs 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '08

Hi, I'm usually booting all machines here with 'vga=788 quiet' options in menu.lst, so I see what services start, but it's not too verbose at the same time. One message that puzzles me is the very first one after GRUB starts init: "Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range." Anyone knows what that means? Niki

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HAL adds printer twice
by Niki Kovacs 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '08

Hi, When I want to configure a printer, say an HP Deskjet 940, I install hplip, configure cupsd.conf, open up http://localhost:631 and configure the printer in the CUPS interface. Now whenever I want to print, I see that the selfsame printer is added again, and CUPS mentions it as "added by HAL". Is there a way to stop this sort of behaviour? Cheers, Niki

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 43, Issue 14
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '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-2008:0879 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:42:21 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0879 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) firefox - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080928004221.GN23179(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0879 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0879.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/firefox-3.0.2-3.el4.centos.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/firefox-3.0.2-3.el4.centos.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Adding patch to Centos Kernel - early build failure
by Dunc 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '08

Hi Guys I'm trying to add the patch mentioned in this thread to the plain Centos kernel http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-August/062845.html I've followed the directions on the wiki for building a custom kernel, but after applying all the patches it fails with: make[1]: *** [nonint_oldconfig] Error 4 make: *** [nonint_oldconfig] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.74263 (%prep) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.74263 (%prep) Can anyone help with this? Or is there an easier way to apply the patch, as I'm not wanting to change the config of the kernel in any way? Thanks Dunc

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Why i can't configure network and hostname with this kickstart file?
by Zhang Huangbin 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '08

Hi, all. I use this kickstart file to install CentOS 5.2 (both i386 and x86_64), but i can't config NICs and hostname during installation, what's wrong with it? Thanks very much. ----<- kickstart file ----<---- # System authorization information #auth --useshadow --enablemd5 # System keyboard #keyboard us # System language #lang en_US # Installation logging level #logging --level=info #logging --level=debug # Installation method. #cdrom # SELinux configuration #selinux --disabled # Do not configure the X Window System #skipx # System timezone #timezone Asia/Hong_Kong # Install OS instead of upgrade #install # Configures network information for the system. #network --bootproto=dhcp # ------------------- # ---- Test only ---- # ------------------- # Use graphical/text install graphical # System bootloader configuration #bootloader --location=mbr # Clear the Master Boot Record #zerombr # Partition clearing information #clearpart --all --initlabel #Root password: redhat #rootpw --iscrypted $1$h7EtIFv4$R9JQ4aCOVN7E9ml3A2SXv. # Run the Setup Agent on first boot #firstboot --disable # Network information #network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --onboot=on # Disk partitioning information #part swap --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="swap" --size=512 #part / --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="ext3" --grow --size=1 # ------------------- # For more kickstart options, please refer: # http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Gu… # ------------------------------------------- # Packages. # ------------------------------------------- %packages --resolvedeps --excludedocs basesystem -rmt -dump -amtu -anacron -acpid -apmd -at -ftp -redhat-lsb -atk -gtk2 -GConf2 -bluez-gnome -bluez-utils -notification-daemon -libwnck -libnotify -attr -audit -audit-libs-python -policycoreutils -setools -selinux-policy -selinux-policy-targeted -authconfig -firstboot-tui -autofs -bc -bluez-libs -cairo -pango -paps -cups -ccid -coolkey -cpuspeed -Deployment_Guide-en-US -dhcpv6_client -ed -finger -hdparm -dmraid -NetworkManager -smartmontools -ppp -rp-pppoe -ecryptfs-utils #-rhn-client-tools #-rhn-check #-yum-rhn-plugin #-rhnsd #-rhn-setup -hesiod -sendmail -ifd-egate -pcsc-lite -gpm -ipsec-tools -libselinux-python -ksh -logwatch -mailcap -nano -nc -mtools -syslinux -mkbootdisk -net-snmp-libs -OpenIPMI -redhat-menus -htmlview -pinfo -mgetty -specspo -nscd -nss_ldap -nfs-utils-lib -nfs-utils -portmap -ypbind -yp-tools -quota -lsof -irqbalance -system-config-securitylevel-tui -crash -conman -cryptsetup-luks -dbus-python -yum-updatesd -dosfstools -gnu-efi -iptstate -microcode_ctl -mtr -pam_smb -parted -pax -pm-utils -psacct -pygobject2 -rdate -rdist -rhel-instnum -rsh -sos -talk -tcsh -telnet -exim # ------------------------ # Tools. # ------------------------ ntp man man-pages lynx wget mailx openssh-server openssh-clients bzip2 dhclient lftp vim-minimal # ------------------------ # GCC tools. # ------------------------ #gcc #cpp #glibc-devel #libgomp #glibc-headers #kernel-headers #gcc-c++ #libstdc++-devel # Required packages. acl createrepo vixie-cron crontabs dialog patch yum which kbd -- Best regards. - Open Source Mail Server Solution for RHEL/CentOS 5.x: http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/

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cpufreq and suspend
by Robert Moskowitz 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '08

With my OQO, I get the following message when I try to suspend: cpufreq: suspend failed to assert current frequency is what timing core thinks it is. I see in /var/log/messages: kernel: acpi-cpufreq: CPU0 - ACPI performance management activated There are a number of apps and such dedicated to 'cpufreq' on the system. I have done a bit of searching and have not figured out what to do to address this so I can put the OQOs into suppend mode. Any pointers out there?

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Build fails on new kernel source
by MHR 27 Sep '08

27 Sep '08

On my x86_64, I pulled down the source for the 2.6.18-92.1.13 kernel and followed the wiki faithfully, but it will not build. I'm getting errors in the Buslogic driver: In file included from drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c:56: drivers/scsi/BusLogic.h:241: error: redeclaration of enumerator 'false' include/linux/stddef.h:16: error: previous definition of 'false' was here drivers/scsi/BusLogic.h:243: error: redeclaration of enumerator 'true' include/linux/stddef.h:18: error: previous definition of 'true' was here drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c: In function 'BusLogic_InitializeProbeInfoListISA': drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c:584: warning: 'check_region' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/ioport.h:134) drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c:586: warning: 'check_region' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/ioport.h:134) drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c:588: warning: 'check_region' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/ioport.h:134) drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c:590: warning: 'check_region' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/ioport.h:134) drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c:592: warning: 'check_region' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/ioport.h:134) drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c:594: warning: 'check_region' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/ioport.h:134) drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c: In function 'BusLogic_InitializeMultiMasterProbeInfo': drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c:800: warning: 'check_region' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/ioport.h:134) drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c:810: warning: 'check_region' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/ioport.h:134) drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c:812: warning: 'check_region' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/ioport.h:134) drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c:814: warning: 'check_region' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/ioport.h:134) drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c:816: warning: 'check_region' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/ioport.h:134) drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c:818: warning: 'check_region' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/ioport.h:134) drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c: In function 'BusLogic_init': drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c:2301: warning: ignoring return value of 'scsi_add_host', declared with attribute warn_unused_result make[2]: *** [drivers/scsi/BusLogic.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [drivers/scsi] Error 2 make: *** [drivers] Error 2 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... It seems like a simple enough error to correct, but it seems kind of odd that it would occur in the first place - redefinitions of "true" and "false"? Is anyone else seeing this? Thanks. mhr

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 43, Issue 13
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 27 Sep '08

27 Sep '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-2008:0882 Critical CentOS 3 ia64 seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2008:0882 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2008:0879 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2008:0882 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x) seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2008:0882 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:15:55 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0882 Critical CentOS 3 ia64 seamonkey - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080926201555.GI23179(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0882 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0882.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-0.24.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.24.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.24.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.24.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.24.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.24.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.24.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.24.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.24.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.24.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Request info on managing MySQL
by Joe Klemmer 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

Good day/night/whatever fellow techies, I've come to a small problem managing mysql on CentOS 4.7 box[1]. When I have done things on mysql on my desktop systems it was always just for personal use so I would be lazy and put everything under the "test" db so I didn't have to deal with all that security. But I find that I need to put some db's on the "production" box and could use a little assistance. I can manage with the bulk of the work but since mysql is all pre-configured on RH based systems I don't know where to find the root password or any other tidbits needed to get started. Access to the grant and other admin db's and tables is all I believe I need. Looking through the docs on centos.org didn't reveal anything to me (or I just missed it). So the end result of this message is simply can someone point me to the howto use mysql on CentOS/RHEL info. I just need to be able to start adding db's and such. Once there I'm good to go. Thank you in advance, Joe [1] I know, I should upgrade but, as I mentioned, I'm a real lazy guy. -- Using Linux since 11/1991 | http://www.linux.org Linux user #29402 | http://counter.li.org/ CentOS Linux | http://www.centos.org

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SIze of reformatted USB drive
by Robert Moskowitz 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

I just reformatted an 8Gb USB drive as ext3. While as FAT32, it was reported as having well over 7Gb free (did not note the exact capacity). I reformatted with mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 Now it is reported (oh, this is with properties in Nautilus) as having 6.8Gb capacity (free space actually). Does this makes sense that ext3 has less available space than fat32?

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Implementing LVS changes made in Piranha GUI
by David Dyer-Bennet 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

Every time I touch something, pieces fall off! It's a good thing this stuff isn't in production yet (for me I mean). So I had an LVS, configured with Piranha, directing http test transactions across two servers. I used Piranha to add another realserver. It appeared in the lvs.cf file, but didn't appear in the ipvsadm output. So I stopped and restarted Pulse. And now *none* of the servers appear in the ipvsadm output. Pulse says it started clean, and nothing in the syslog. The gratuitous arp gets made, and the correct IPs are assigned to the correct interfaces. [ddb@prcapp02 ~]$ sudo ipvsadm IP Virtual Server version 1.2.1 (size=4096) Prot LocalAddress:Port Scheduler Flags -> RemoteAddress:Port Forward Weight ActiveConn InActConn TCP prcvmod01.pinerivercapital.l wlc That's the write service name (the ".l" at the end is ".local" truncated). WLC is the right scheduling mode. But no remote addresses are listed. In lvs.cf, there are multiple servers present: server vl31 { address = 172.17.3.1 active = 1 weight = 2 } server vw32 { address = 172.17.3.2 active = 1 weight = 2 } server vl41 { address = 172.17.4.1 active = 1 weight = 4 } -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b(a)dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 43, Issue 12
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '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-2008:0879 Critical CentOS 5 i386 firefox Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CESA-2008:0879 Critical CentOS 5 x86_64 firefox Update (Karanbir Singh) 3. CESA-2008:0885 Important CentOS 5 i386 kernel Update (Karanbir Singh) 4. CESA-2008:0885 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 kernel Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:09:01 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0879 Critical CentOS 5 i386 firefox Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080925130901.GA20946(a)base.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0879 Critical Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0879.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 3b3715628761b69ba56ac5048df2dd85 devhelp-0.12-19.el5.i386.rpm bbe15acc25c68fbfefa2ad5425dd41ec devhelp-devel-0.12-19.el5.i386.rpm eb50b46a6c7b04c28d84134b889c53d9 firefox-3.0.2-3.el5.centos.i386.rpm 2b5ddea020e8b3756fcd0796ce83453a nss-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm 8c4e86d8542fac2508701e9a90296a15 nss-devel-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm 73c0a03d46ff601bec767c3ba6500522 nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm b07d95abd704d0ae35f8b2d1c9ae00fd nss-tools-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm e4319021dd3504ce33d91e2227799054 xulrunner-1.9.0.2-5.el5.i386.rpm 24c47321a523f8af6463ba92bdc0fef0 xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.2-5.el5.i386.rpm 0e6fe52441b895c63e36c8ef0b4276d9 xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.2-5.el5.i386.rpm 536c8b33c5d7dee4abe8bcbef75263ae yelp-2.16.0-21.el5.i386.rpm Source: 9c3a276993490bb4d950624db1d9cd80 devhelp-0.12-19.el5.src.rpm f7d4d7d45a743f3fd689dc3184822832 firefox-3.0.2-3.el5.centos.src.rpm 03915f1dc871973dc9c01192c80aad65 nss-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.src.rpm 5f43770a10fe5160458291861a98e2bd xulrunner-1.9.0.2-5.el5.src.rpm 84a081674ec2989da9602861f0e409ed yelp-2.16.0-21.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:09:02 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0879 Critical CentOS 5 x86_64 firefox Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080925130902.GA20960(a)base.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0879 Critical Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0879.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 3a5fdacc5f98e86985759e88a7af3caa devhelp-0.12-19.el5.i386.rpm a2ebd1959eb1c69b524191409dd71c69 devhelp-0.12-19.el5.x86_64.rpm 91caea52eeccc74ec515c89e2ac7ca89 devhelp-devel-0.12-19.el5.i386.rpm d405ead46ecbee89d18fc2abaa6e58cd devhelp-devel-0.12-19.el5.x86_64.rpm a5e8c97ebf1509fc323b8b83368b2bf8 firefox-3.0.2-3.el5.centos.i386.rpm c5301abfb19354312c1c6909a05c02b3 firefox-3.0.2-3.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm 30bd2ca54357da4223fd8eca908df761 nss-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm 03b5494015fbee2b4e36a76c677d5897 nss-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm 3f34de5f2051853b2114729f02300ba5 nss-devel-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm 82f7ac4e71274edf83530301bba24b94 nss-devel-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm 6065393717a4821c69381751beee06c3 nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm fb819d996a72617dd7d35583892280a1 nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm 1c5b884fef901cbab2d524b1dc21848a nss-tools-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm 62b674569afeb4c3eced2c911f7fa801 xulrunner-1.9.0.2-5.el5.x86_64.rpm 222f3bffcedde2c34c4531c78f64b575 xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.2-5.el5.x86_64.rpm 4c17721dd49ec88116afa83a7154ec17 xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.2-5.el5.x86_64.rpm 96523479b5bc377ddd0720b3d84c65ad yelp-2.16.0-21.el5.x86_64.rpm Source: 9c3a276993490bb4d950624db1d9cd80 devhelp-0.12-19.el5.src.rpm f7d4d7d45a743f3fd689dc3184822832 firefox-3.0.2-3.el5.centos.src.rpm 03915f1dc871973dc9c01192c80aad65 nss-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.src.rpm 5f43770a10fe5160458291861a98e2bd xulrunner-1.9.0.2-5.el5.src.rpm 84a081674ec2989da9602861f0e409ed yelp-2.16.0-21.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:46:59 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0885 Important CentOS 5 i386 kernel Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080925174659.GA28493(a)base.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0885 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0885.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 731df68b2a43fa709f705ea3232f0a9d kernel-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.i686.rpm 7043895b683c62d39eb5d6860f50ae58 kernel-debug-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.i686.rpm 02a035e76d34cd6d06dfa31b65275fde kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.i686.rpm 9b3be0a6157143cdbe4f5e0bd67e1670 kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.i686.rpm 18a8a0f3aad5c576264396d78b9770de kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.noarch.rpm 1965faf8a19d8e812364437a5e0fc0e0 kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.i386.rpm ffc79838dcd8ea11bf2f2c6c2b031a39 kernel-PAE-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.i686.rpm 305212e342fb9a7d33c82538be446f2d kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.i686.rpm 0d8ec6c0275193e1a7841624037a9665 kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.i686.rpm a9f8654d320d81f716a578f3c24fe3d2 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.i686.rpm Source: b0781e55fbfe110961e4c6ab1ec1fe9e kernel-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:47:00 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0885 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 kernel Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080925174700.GA28506(a)base.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0885 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0885.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 141d7aeebb09b0c5dd640b2855c66678 kernel-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.x86_64.rpm 090970b951c3599f60fbb11242f46148 kernel-debug-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.x86_64.rpm f0e02d3a05ad3d9c1c349add514118a7 kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.x86_64.rpm 6c60e24edfe73d66faaf9966f2748e0d kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.x86_64.rpm 1c093763f50047bd81e45b91ff26f429 kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.noarch.rpm 14226502a5bae6f0b480a88e6d653e5f kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.x86_64.rpm d526e836398e832b2e100b4e1e1a40a8 kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.x86_64.rpm 855a2714323fff2332ccb19b93ba2061 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.x86_64.rpm Source: b0781e55fbfe110961e4c6ab1ec1fe9e kernel-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 43, Issue 12 ***********************************************

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Set up Acer laptop web cam on CentOS 5.2
by hce 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

Hi, I am running CentOS 5.2 on Acer laptop Aspire 5920 with a built in Web Cam. Anyone know how to set up and running the web cam on CentOS 5.2? I can run the VLC to view the video. Thank you.

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fix firefox?
by Paul Bijnens 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

I once had firefox x86_64 installed (because it was the default). But that one has problems with plugins (flash, java), which are much easily solved by using the i386 version. So I unstalled firefox, and installed it again using: yum install firefox.i386 This worked, and even the plugins worked fine afterwards. I did have some problems when uninstalling, because yum insisted on a whole load of dependencies going up to uninstalling the package 'firstboot' (wow!). However I can't remember the exact details anymore. I do not remember having to force anything; just reinstall a little bit more than I was expecting to. I do remember that after the erase/install, no particular problems were left and I used firefox since then without any problems. Today came the update for firefox 3.0.2. So I did "yum update". The depencies included xulrunner and devhelp. However, yum complained about a conflict between xulrunner 1.9.0.1 being incompatible. So I erased xulrunner first (yum erase xulrunner). And then installed firefox again: yum install firefox.i386 it pulls in xulrunner as well, but two different versions for two different architectures (???): ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: firefox i386 3.0.2-3.el5.centos updates 11 M Installing for dependencies: xulrunner x86_64 1.9.0.2-5.el5 updates 10 M xulrunner i386 1.9.0.1-1.el5_2 updates 10 M and afterwards firefox complains: $ firefox Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.2 and 1.9.0.2. Any idea how to fix the fox? -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology Services Tel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: Paul.Bijnens(a)xplanation.com *********************************************************************** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, ^^, * * F6, quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***********************************************************************

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Telnet & ssh connection limit and idle timeout
by lingu 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

Dear all, * I am running centos 4 update 5. I want to limit user connection(maximum 10 simultaneous connection are only allowed) to server (for telnet & ssh sessions).In the mean time i like to remove all dead and idle connections(ssh & telnet session) of more that 24 hours. Any one guide me how to do this. Regards Lingu *

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Install via VNC
by Robert Moskowitz 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

This sounds very interesting: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VncHeadlessInstall It would get me around my limitations on the screen on the OQO. And the instructions read rather well. Only thing I don't know how to do is have vncviewer in 'listen' mode.

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RE: [CentOS] Re: DKIM
by Bowie Bailey 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

John Hinton wrote: > Toby Bluhm wrote: > > Scott Silva wrote: > > > > > > A "one stop shop" on everything CentOS. > > > > I like that approach better. A new list for email only would > > probably lead to email threads on *both* lists, users being > > reminded to take the <select inappropriate subject> discussion to > > the other list, etc. > > My point is we go unhelped by CentOS. There is no way I'm going to > post mail issues to this list. And this list would become unusable if > we started this. Talking about spam filters, milters and on and on > and on. Look what just happened. One single very simple question of > the thousands to be dealt with and the thread went crazy... at which > point it was suggested that we end this thread. So, basically, posts > about 'all' things email are NOT welcomed on this list.... and should > not be. The only reason this thread went nuts was because it got onto the topic of SPF records. This is one of those topics that lots of people have rather strong feelings about and threads discussing it almost always seem to go out of control. The suggestion to end the thread generally comes when an argument starts going around in circles resolving nothing. Generic mail questions are always welcome here. Of course, more specific questions should be directed to the proper MTA-specific mailing list. -- Bowie

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vncviwer in listen mode poer number
by Robert Moskowitz 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

I am working on the Centos wiki instructions for doing an install via vnc: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VncHeadlessInstall CD is all burned and ready to go. I then thought about the viewer settings particularly the port number and firewall rules. When I connect vncviewer to a vncserver it uses port(s) 590n where n is the display number. OK, is that what happens when a server connects back to a -listen viewer? Seems not. According to the man page, it seems the default is port 5500, so I have to open up this port on the 'client' system and of course allow it through my internal firewall (or put the install system on the same subnet as the client and not the one with the repo server). Do I this figured out right?

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yum
by Mad Unix 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

How to solve this issue? [root@king rescue]# yum update xulrunner Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.silyus.net * updates: mirror.silyus.net * addons: mirror.silyus.net * extras: mirror.silyus.net Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package xulrunner.x86_64 0:1.9.0.2-5.el5 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Updating: xulrunner x86_64 1.9.0.2-5.el5 updates 10 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 0 Package(s) Update 1 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 10 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /usr/bin/xulrunner from install of xulrunner-1.9.0.2-5.el5 conflicts with file from package xulrunner-1.9.0.1-1.el5_2 Error Summary -------------

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Proxy with no cache
by Sergio Belkin 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

Hi, I'd want to install a proxy server but I no need cache, what software do you recommend me? thanks in advance! -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 43, Issue 11
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '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-2008:0882 Critical CentOS 4 i386 seamonkey Update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2008:0882 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 seamonkey Update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2008:0879 Critical CentOS 4 i386 firefox Update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2008:0879 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 firefox Update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2008:0882 Critical CentOS 3 i386 seamonkey - security update (Tru Huynh) 6. CESA-2008:0882 Critical CentOS 3 x86_64 seamonkey - security update (Tru Huynh) 7. CESA-2008:0882-01: Critical CentOS 2 i386 seamonkey security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:22:25 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0882 Critical CentOS 4 i386 seamonkey Update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <48DA4D21.9060901(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0882 Critical Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0882.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: seamonkey-1.0.9-26.el4.centos.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-26.el4.centos.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-26.el4.centos.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-26.el4.centos.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-26.el4.centos.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-26.el4.centos.i386.rpm src: seamonkey-1.0.9-26.el4.centos.src.rpm

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Some best practices when sending to Yahoo! Mail
by Josh Donovan 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

There were a ton of replies to the DKIM thread so I thought I'd chip in with what Yahoo have stated on their website, Q What are some best practices when sending to Yahoo! Mail? A http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/postmaster-15.html Apologies if this has been mentioned before in the 300 or so replies to that topic but problems sending mail to Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail are best served, by looking at the FAQ's for those service providers. Believe me you are not the first to have asked that question. Thanks, Josh.

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Installing perl modules using yum?
by Al Sparks 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

I'm trying to install swatch using rpmbuild. I'm getting dependency errors saying that I need perl(Date::Calc), perl(Date::Format), and perl(File::Tail). I've been beaten over the head in this group for using CPAN. So methodology do I use to I install those modules? === Al

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Update troubles for wxGTK apps
by Niki Kovacs 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

Hi, I have a CentOS 5.2 desktop with the RPMForge repo enabled. I just ran 'yum update', and there seems to be some trouble with the wxGTK apps. A simple 'yum update' gives this error message: --8<-------------------------------------------------------------------- --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.6.so.0 is needed by package audacity Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.6.so.0 is needed by package audacity Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_html-2.6.so.0(WXU_2.6) is needed by package audacity Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_html-2.6.so.0 is needed by package audacity Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_baseu_net-2.6.so.0(WXU_2.6) is needed by package audacity Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_baseu-2.6.so.0 is needed by package audacity Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_qa-2.6.so.0 is needed by package audacity Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_core-2.6.so.0(WXU_2.6) is needed by package audacity Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_core-2.6.so.0(WXU_2.6.2) is needed by package audacity Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_baseu-2.6.so.0(WXU_2.6) is needed by package audacity Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_baseu_net-2.6.so.0 is needed by package audacity Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_core-2.6.so.0 is needed by package audacity Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_baseu_xml-2.6.so.0 is needed by package audacity --8<-------------------------------------------------------------------- But when I put an exclude line in /etc/yum.conf for wxGTK, the error message becomes: --8<-------------------------------------------------------------------- Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0 is needed by package amule Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0(WXU_2.8) is needed by package amule Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_richtext-2.8.so.0 is needed by package vlc Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.8.so.0 is needed by package vlc Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.8.so.0(WXU_2.8) is needed by package vlc Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0 is needed by package vlc Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0(WXU_2.8) is needed by package vlc Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_aui-2.8.so.0 is needed by package vlc Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0(WXU_2.8) is needed by package vlc Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_baseu_net-2.8.so.0 is needed by package amule Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.8.so.0(WXU_2.8) is needed by package amule Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_baseu_net-2.8.so.0 is needed by package vlc Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_qa-2.8.so.0 is needed by package vlc Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_baseu_xml-2.8.so.0 is needed by package vlc Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_baseu_net-2.8.so.0(WXU_2.8) is needed by package amule Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0 is needed by package amule Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.8.so.0 is needed by package amule Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_html-2.8.so.0 is needed by package vlc Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0(WXU_2.8) is needed by package amule Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.8.so.0 is needed by package vlc Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0 is needed by package vlc --8<-------------------------------------------------------------------- So it looks like Audacity depends on wxGTK 2.6, whereas Amule and VLC depend on wxGTK 2.8. 1) Where do I report a bug for that? 2) In the meantime, what can I do? Simply exclude vlc, amule, audacity and wxGTK from updates in /etc/yum.conf and wait until the problem is resolved? Cheers, Niki Kovacs

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Shell script to list group members
by Tim Alberts 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

I have several shell scripts to manage user accounts on a server. I've been using a file with the usernames of peoples accounts that any script needs to process. I had a thought that I can and should be setting up groups and adding user accounts to those groups so I don't have to maintain a set of files with the user accounts. So essentially, I am looking for a (simple) shell command to run from a bash script that will allow me to list user accounts that belong to a particular group. Any help is appreciated.

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NFS issues
by Johan Swensson 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

So I'm running nfs to get content to my web servers. Now I've had this problem 2 times (about 2 weeks since the last occurrence). I use drbd on the nfs server for redundancy. Now to my problem: All my web sites stopped responding so I started by checking dmesg and there I found a bunch of this errors || Aug 11 16:00:39 web03 kernel: lockd: server 192.168.20.22 not responding, timed out Aug 11 16:02:39 web03 kernel: lockd: server 192.168.20.22 not responding, timed out But when checking the nfs server lockd was running and I could access all the files from the webserver with ls, cd etc. The logs on the nfs server doesn't say anything of interest and checking apaches error_log just says "not found or unable to stat". Now I mentioned this have happened 2 times and both these times I've "solved" it by rebooting the nfs server and web servers. This isn't a good solution to have to reboot my servers every couple of weeks so I really could use some help. :) Also I get this from time to time on the web servers, dunno if it's related. /do_vfs_lock: VFS is out of sync with lock manager! /

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Getting perl CGI programs to work on CentOS 5 server
by Andrew Allen 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

I'm trying to get perl CGI programs to work from the cgi-bin (actually a sub-directory cgi-bin/various) and have set appropriate permissions using chmod 755. I'm currently testing using the simplest cgi program, you know the one: #!/usr/bin/perl # howdy--the easiest of CGI programs use CGI; print <<END_of_Multiline_Text; Content-type: text/html <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Hello World</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <H1>Greetings, Terrans!</H1> </BODY> </HTML> END_of_Multiline_Text This has worked absolutely fine in the past, but now when I invoke it, either nothing appears in the browser (Mozilla Firefox) or I get "Internal Server Error" - any ideas please? Thanks, Andy

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Re: [CentOS] usb irq problem
by partha chowdhury 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

i add the "irqpoll" option to kernel line. after the system booted i log into X with tty1 also login as root with the command " tail -f /var/log/messages" for monitoring . After 10 to 20 minutes i got the same message again but this time immediately the system froze up ! i tried it 5 times now and each time is the same result.i also noticed that the system was behaving very slowly till the message came up like usually folder copy operation - i usually get 70-90MB/s according to vmstat 1 comand, but with irqpoll the maximum i noticed was like 10MB/s. Am i doing something wrong ?

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changing installed kernel from i386 to i686
by Jerry Geis 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Hi all, If I initially installed a i386 kernel on centos 4.6 is it possible to migrate to i686 with yum (yes the box cpu is capable)? Can I just "yum install kernel2.6.9-78.EL.i686" and that will work? Will that magically bring in other needed libraries? Thanks, Jerry

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new 4.7 i586 kernel not happy
by Joe Pruett 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

my poor little toshiba libretto (p-120) won't boot with the new 4.7 i586 kernel. i've reverted back to the previous kernel for now. anyone else using the new i586 kernel successfully on old hardware?

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Centos installed on OQO mod 2
by Robert Moskowitz 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Since I have a four of these units, and the XP recovery CD, I figured, "ah give it a go." And going through the Centos wiki, I found a simple piece I was missing: "linux text askmethod". There were a few problems I had with the text install: Disk Druid does not work with LVM partitions, much, in text mode. I was able to increase the size of the swap partition though... I missed the setup for a user other than root. I will have to do that separately. System came up in init 3 mode. Easy to fix. Video is 800x480. This is a problem for a number of dialog boxes. I tried to change the video, but nothing happened when I logged out and back in. still 800x480 (I selected Generic LCD for hardware then 1034 x 768). I read in one set of notes that using xvesa is better than vesa (which is what is being used now). How do I set that? Oh, /proc/cpuinfo reports 769 bogomips. Wait, this boot it is 830 bogomips? hmmm.

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Suspend to swap failing on OQO
by Robert Moskowitz 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

error is: cpufreq: suspend failed to assert current frequency is what timing core thinks it is. I think this might be tied into one of the Unbutu install notes: ftp://ftp.oqo.com/unsupported/linux/OQOLinux.html ?? Really need to be able to suspend.

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problem with FTP server
by fabian dacunha 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Dear All, i have the following centos FTP local FTP server having the following Centos 5 vsftpd-2.0.5-10.el5 its been running fine for abt 2 years or so Now with IE5 or IE6 when i say ftp://ip address of FTP server it asks me for the username and password and if its correct i directly go to the /var/ftp/pub directly which is perfect but only in IE7 when i do the above it takes me to root and i c the following ------ FTP root at 91.198.134.59 To view this FTP site in Windows Explorer, click Page, and then click Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer and below is a long directory listing of the entire root filesystem which i can navigate n it not takes me to /var/ftp/pub now if i click on View => Open FTP site in Windows Explorer it again ask me for the username and password n after entering it works perfect wondering why this happen only wth IE7 browser apprecite your help regards Fabian and on top it dispalys FTP root at 91.198.134.59 To view this FTP site in Windows Explorer, click Page, and then click Open FTP Site in Windows Explor now if i click on view=> open FTP Site in Windows Explorer it open a new window and ask me for username n passowrd and after emtering it works perfect thats is my root directory is now /var/ftp/pub now this above problem does not occur when the broweser is IE5 or IE6 its only with IE7 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Apache modules C4,5 repos
by David Hrbáč 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

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Centos and colocation....
by Bob Hoffman 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Well, I finally did it..and used centos. I started out in 1997 with my little website with not much on it. It was a shared host account. Eventually I added some more sites and got to grow out and went to this new fangled thing called VPS. Lots of problems plagued me throughout that experience, some on ensim control panel, some on others. When chost.net (think that was their name) blew up (1999 ?) and I lost my sites I moved to OLM. Finally got big enough to go to the dedicated thing. My own server, managed by the hosting company. Years of that turned stale as recumbent issues of updating and control panels just made it not so good. I made the plunge and built my own server and colocated it. Only problem, which software. I decided on rhel, but found the support so stunningly unknowledgable I moved to centos since it made no difference free or paid, no tech support is really there anyway. And I do not like redhat having access to my servers like that. It was a long long trial by fire to learn sysadmin with linux. But lessened by the huge amount of pre-setups that are done with a centos install. I look at web pages and books that talk about untarring, installing and compiling, and just pass right by them (scared one day I may have to do that stuff). It was not easy making the jump. Especially deciding not to use a control panel. However, today, just minutes ago, I moved the final website from the dedicated host to my own server and cancelled the account. It is just a wonderful and elated feeling to know I have a good server with redundancy, great raid mirror, awesome software, great company updating security patches and a great company that repackages that for me from redhat. So far, other than the hardships of learning how to build the dang webserver with a ton of poorly instructed programs, centos has been sturdy, stable, and works like a charm, almost out of the box!! I would never want to repeat the experience of learning this stuff for the first time...never. But now that I passed what I hope is the last hard bump in the road, I can finally get some sleep, go outside, and start programming more websites. Thanks centos. And yes. I am compiling all my notes from start to finish on this webserver project and intend to print a book with a step by step...but only for centos. Eventually make it one big wiki site too. Thanks for everyone who helped, everyone who yelled, everyone who flamed, everyone who just laughed, and everyone who supported. Today, I am free from hosting companies! Hooooo- Aaaaaaaah!!!! And a big thank you to the team at Centos who take the time to package up the redhat binaries and make them work correctly...and for adding the updates so quickly to the mirrors. I hope my book will bring more people to centos as a perfect solution for a webserver. Gonna go to bed now...finally over.

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CentOS 5.2 kickstart install with latest updates
by Venkatraju 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Hi, The CentOS 5.2 release notes contain this warning: "A kickstart installation that attempts to use the *repo* directive (where that *repo* points to an updates repository) may fail to properly install." This is exactly the method that I had been using with CentOS 5.1 :-) What is the right way to achieve this now? Is adding a repository in the %post section of the kickstart file and running "yum update" safe? Anyone run into problems with this? Thanks in advance, Venkat

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non-graphics install or fix xorg.conf?
by Robert Moskowitz 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Trying the to install on the OQO, and hitting up against one problem I see a lot in the comments about installing various distros on it. That is its screen size. So I could install using the text installation except... What is the command line for text install and askmethod so I can use HTTP to access my local repo? What do I add to 'linux askmethod'? And if I go the text install route, can I do all of my custom disk partitioning? I seem to recall from when I fell intotext install on a system without enough memory, that I could not work with LVM in text mode. Or Can I set the video size in that 'linux askmethod' line? Here is a sample xorg.conf I have found: Section "Device" Identifier "Silicon Motion, Inc. SM720 Lynx3DM" Driver "vesa" # Driver "siliconmotion" # need to modify the driver first before using BusID "PCI:0:6:0" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" Option "DPMS" Modeline "800x480" 40 800 864 928 1088 480 481 484 509 +HSync EndSection IF I have to go with a custom kickstart file from diskette (Drive a:), I suppose I could put the hardware together for it. I would need a powered USB hub (around here somewhere), my USB diskette drive, along with the USB CDrom.... How best to proceed? Oh, for my custom disk partitioning, besides the ext3 partition for /boot, I create a separate swap partition of memory x 2 (=2Gb). Then the LVM partition has two ext3 partitions, one for / around 12Gb, and the other for /home as the rest. The drive is a 60Gb drive, so I might make / bigger: ext3 /boot 100mb swap 2Gb LVM Rest of drive (to 512byte multiple) ext3 / 12Gb ext3 /home rest of LVM

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kernel and memory question
by Mag Gam 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Currently at my university we are running many servers with Centos 4.6 and everything is okay, but when a user does a large operation such as 'cp' or 'tar' or 'rsync' all of the physical memory gets exhausted. Our lab servers have 32GB physical to 64GB of physical memory and when a user does a large copy which involves very small but over 10k files eventually we see a kswap process. I would like to control swapping so these files don't go into memory instead they get flushed out. These computers are used for fluid dynamics calculations and I would just like to have the memory do a FIFO and use the least swap as possible. I tried setting the swapiness to '10' or '0' but that really does not help. Also, has there been a major memory management advancement from 4.6 to 5.2? If so, where can I read about the changes? TIA

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[ANN] iRedMail-0.3: Open Source Mail Server Solution
by Zhang Huangbin 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Hi, all. I'd like to introduce this open source email server solution here, hope it can help people who need mail server solution. Project: http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/ iRedMail is: * Mail server solution for Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux and CentOS 5.x, support both i386 and x86_64. * A shell script set, used to install and configure all mail server related software automatically. * Open source project (GPL v2). Main Components: * Apache (2.2.3, shipped within RHEL/CentOS) * PHP (5.1.6, shipped within RHEL/CentOS) * MySQL (5.0.45, shipped within RHEL/CentOS) * OpenLDAP (2.3.27, shipped within RHEL/CentOS) * Postfix (2.3.15) * Dovecot (1.1.3) * Amavisd (2.6.1) * SpamAssassin (3.2.5, shipped within RHEL/CentOS) * ClamAV (0.94) * Policyd (1.82, +patches) * Pysieved (1.0) Features (http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/wiki/Features) * Fast Deployment * Deploy full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. * Multi-platform Support * OS: RHEL/CentOS * Version: 5.x (5.0, 5.1, 5.2) * Arch: i386, x86_64 * Popular and standard protocols, mail user agent support * HTTP (access mailbox via web browser), HTTPS * SMTP, SMTPS, Submission * POP3, POP3S * IMAP, IMAPS * Anti-Spam & Anti-Virus * SPF (Sender Policy Framework) support. * DKIM support. * Greylist, Blacklist, Whitelist. * Blacklist HELO. * HELO Randomization Prevention (HRP). * Spamtrap. * Sender & Recipient Throttling * Recipient and Deliver Restrictions * Enable/Disable deliver. * Enable/Disable recipient; * Enable/Disable POP3; * Enable/Disable IMAP; * Web Mail: * Roundcube Web Mail (0.1.1) * SquirrelMail (1.4.15) * Horde WebMail (1.0.2) * Mail Server Management: * No limits on the number of domains or users. * Simple mail backup and monitor (per-user and per-domain). * Web based interface to manage * mailboxes, virtual domains and aliases. * MySQL database, LDAP. * Per-domain and per-user sent and recivied mail backup. * Provide mail statistics for mail server that produces daily, weekly, monthly and yearly graphs of received, sent, bounced and rejected mail. Help needed: * PostfixAdmin improvement: - Add per-user and per-domain bcc feature, etc. - Ability to edit whitelist, blacklist in policyd's database. * Roundcube plugin: - Per-user blacklist (Implemented with policyd with 'rcpt_acl' patch). -- - Open Source Mail Server Solution for RHEL/CentOS 5.x: http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/ - eBooks, Free eBooks, RapidShare Download, Free eBooks Download, Fast and Reliable: http://www.ufindbook.com/

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auto create user home by vsftpd
by Leutz, Alexander 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Hi everybody, we using our centos server with vsftpd and windbind. our users can log on via ftp on the centos server by using their windows-ad-domain-accounts. That's working fine. But vsftpd doesn't auto create user home dirs, if the user connects the first time to the system. Anybody some suggestions why? Our configuration in the /etc/pam.d/vsftp: session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0022 Greats & Thanks Alexander ________________________________________________________________ Alexander Leutz Red Hat Certified Engineer Accredited Systems Engineer (ASE) ProLiant Server Telefon: +49-6023-9471-0 Durchwahl: +49-6023-9471-43 Fax: +49-6023-9471-25 Mobil: +49-171-7146534 E-Mail: A.Leutz(a)itservices24.de Internet: http://www.itservices24.de ITservices24 GmbH, Max-Planck-Str.2a, 63755 Alzenau ________________________________________________________________ Geschaftsfuhrer: Matthias Stephan, Mario Zander, Matthias Veith Sitz der Gesellschaft: Alzenau, Amtsgericht Aschaffenburg HRB 8096 UStID-Nr. DE 216819403 ________________________________________________________________

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FW: My Contact Details in B'lore
by Harry Sukumar 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

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More on Linux on the OQO
by Robert Moskowitz 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

I am going over: ftp://ftp.oqo.com/unsupported/linux/OQOLinux.html This is for the 'older' model 1, I have the model 2. The files are 18 mo old, and relate to kernel 2.6.10. Of course I want to avoid a custom kernel, but please help me understand what is being covered here: "2. Enable crusoe processor in kernel .config CONFIG_MCRUSOE=y" What is the crusoe processor? 3. Programs such as 'hwclock' synchronize on the RTC periodic interrupt for accuracy. We need to disable RTC IRQ support in the kernel as we don't get the periodic interrupt. In the kernel .config set CONFIG_HPET_RTC_IRQ to 'y'. This enables the high performance event timer irq and in the process disables the rtc driver interrupt code: CONFIG_HPET_RTC_IRQ=y" How do I do this with the Centos kernel? "4. ACPI processor module (idle handler) interferes with transmeta longrun scaling. Set ACPI_PROCESSOR to 'n' or not set # CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR is not set" Does this mean I have acpi=none in the kernel line? I really hope not. "5. Kernel preempting option currently causes a bug to show up in the wifi drivers, turn it off CONFIG_PREEMPT=n" I would hope to be using the dkms madwifi stuff. Do I need this? "6. Download the latest rtl8150 drivers from CVS at: https://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=15970. The drivers in the base 2.6.10 tree will kernel panic upon removal of the dock. Copy the new driver to linux/drivers/usb/net/rtl8150.c" Don't see this as a problem as Centos has rtl8150 support. "7. In drivers/input/serio/i8042-io.h, add 'i8042_noloop = 1' in the function i8042_platform_init(). You only really need to do this if you have OQO subprocessor version 10/5 (It'll say 'EC Build 10/5' on BIOS post)." What is this all about? Still haven't actually tried an install.....

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install of Pod::Simple through CPAN
by Al Sparks 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

I'm running CentOS 4.4. I'm trying to install swatch (a log watcher) using CPAN. It's getting hung up on trying to install a dependency, Pod::Simple So before I get too wrapped up in this, I have the following questions: 1. Is there an alternative way to install swatch? I didn't get a hit when I tried yum. 2. I'm not wedded to swatch. Is there another log checker out there that will work with CentOS? 3. Lastly, here's the error I get when I attempt to install Pod::Simple through CPAN: Test Summary Report ------------------- t/xhtml01 (Wstat: 512 Tests: 26 Failed: 2) Failed tests: 24, 26 Non-zero exit status: 2 Files=53, Tests=1095, 9 wallclock secs ( 1.30 usr 0.10 sys + 7.22 cusr 0.78 csys = 9.40 CPU) Result: FAIL Failed 1/53 test programs. 2/1095 subtests failed. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255 ARANDAL/Pod-Simple-3.07.tar.gz /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK //hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, try: reports ARANDAL/Pod-Simple-3.07.tar.gz Running make install make test had returned bad status, won't install without force Failed during this command: ARANDAL/Pod-Simple-3.07.tar.gz : make_test NO

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ASUS P5GC-MX/1333+ WD SATA
by Eduardo Grosclaude 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

Hi, I'm puzzled by an ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 with a WD320AAJS disk. My 5.2 DVD refused to see the hard disk. As the CD happened to have a bad MD5 sum, I assumed this was due to a bad burnt image. Backed off to 5.1. Installation of 5.1 to /dev/sda went OK, then I upgraded by yum to 5.2. But, at the next boot, the new kernel can't see the disk. Only when BIOS IDE Setup is "compatible" I can boot the new kernel. However, the disk shows up as /dev/hdc and performance is noticeably slow. If I choose any other mode, nash complains that any LVM groups can't be found and panics away. I/O in general is terrible. Copying a CDROM to a file with dd renders the machine nearly unusable. The kernel provided in 5.1 can work in the BIOS IDE Setup "enhanced/SATA" and performance is really good. Hdparm when under the current kernel says 3.51 MB/s buffered speed, whereas for the older kernel it claims some 111+ MB/s. I have updated the BIOS ROM to no avail. What am I missing? Is there anything I can do except keep trying kernel updates? TIA -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina

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ProLiant Support Pack PSP 8.11: hpplduinstaller takes 100% CPU and hangs / hpplduioss defunct
by Sven 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

Hi folks, We use CentOS 5.2 (with latest errata) 64bit on DL380 G5 and trying to install psp-8.11.rhel5.x86_64.en.tar.gz. After installing dependencies (like kernel-devel, rpm-devel, etc): # ./install811.sh Saving user-defined agent thresholds... [ Done ] Checking system for required packages... [ Done ] ./hpplduioss: error while loading shared libraries: libXi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory **************************************************************** HP ProLiant Deployment Utility for Linux Copyright 2003-2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. **************************************************************** The current log file name is now /var/log/hppldu.log # ps -ef [...] root 30463 1 0 10:24 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/snmpd -Lsd -Lf /dev/null -p /var/run/snmpd.pid -a root 30577 7742 0 10:24 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/bash ./install811.sh root 31012 30577 0 10:24 pts/0 00:00:00 ./hppldu root 31020 31012 0 10:24 pts/0 00:00:00 ./hpplduparserss MG root 31021 31012 99 10:24 pts/0 00:25:28 ./hpplduinstallerss MG root 31022 31012 0 10:24 pts/0 00:00:00 [hpplduioss] <defunct> root 31023 31012 0 10:24 pts/0 00:00:00 ./hpplduverchkdbss MG root 31026 31012 0 10:24 pts/0 00:00:00 ./hppldudepchkss MG root 31286 7740 0 10:28 pts/1 00:00:00 -bash [...] # top PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 31021 root 18 0 32516 764 560 S 101 0.0 27:08.24 hpplduinstaller # strace -p 31021 Process 31021 attached - interrupt to quit [ Process PID=31021 runs in 32 bit mode. ] futex(0xf7569bd8, FUTEX_WAIT, 31037, NULL <unfinished ...> Process 31021 detached Any idea how to troubleshoot and successfully install? Anybody running PSP on ProLiant/CentOS? Is there a ProLiant specific mailing list? regards Sven

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