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Fedora IRC
by James Bunnell 17 May '08

17 May '08

There is a IRC channel in the Freenode network for #fedora-newmexico users, if interested.

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OOM condition with file-4.17-9.0.1.el5
by John 17 May '08

17 May '08

Hello all, We just encountered several serious Out of Memory Problems caused by the file 4.17-9.0.1.EL5 utility on our mail Gateway. CentOS 5.1 kept it self alive by killing it parent process Amavisd-new. Manually restarting Amavisd-new and flushing the mail queue caused same problem. Disabling file for the moment, caused Amavisd-new to fail, and also defer all mail. My quick and dirty solution was the download the Fedora Core 9's file.4.23-5.src.rpm. and rebuild it on CentOS 5 After upgrading file, restarting Amavisd-new and flushing the Postfix queue, all mail was delivered without problems. Because our mail system went down, it didn't have the time to trace the message causing the problem. But I want to share here that the Redhat / CentOS EL5 file utility has problems and provide a quick workaround for the problem. Regards, John The Netherlands

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Centos Freezing
by Robert Spangler 17 May '08

17 May '08

Hello, For some reason at different times Centos will freeze and not allow me to do anything. This doesn't happen while I'm working on the system but after I have locked my session and then return. It could goes days without a lockup and then the next time I try to log in it'll be frozen. I would like to know if anyone else has seen this or knows of a fix or where I could start to look to find out if there is a process or something causing this. I normally have the same programs running so I don't think it could be caused by me starting and then leaving something new running. Thanks for your help. -- Regards Robert Smile... it increases your face value! Linux User #296285 http://counter.li.org

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ext3 errors
by Les Mikesell 17 May '08

17 May '08

I recently set up a new system to run backuppc on centOS 5 with the archive stored on a raid1 of 750 gig SATA drives created with 3 members with one specified as "missing". Once a week I add the 3rd partition, let it sync, then remove it. I've had a similar system working for a long time using a firewire drive as the 3rd member, so I don't think the raid setup is the cause of the problem. I may have had problems with the drive power connectors initially but I think that is fixed now and I can't see any hardware errors being logged (the system/log files are on different drives). About once a week, I get an error like this, and the partition switches to read-only. --- Feb 24 04:48:20 linbackup1 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device md3): htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #869973: directory entry across bloc ks - offset=0, inode=3915132787, rec_len=42464, name_len=11 Feb 24 04:48:20 linbackup1 kernel: Aborting journal on device md3. Feb 24 04:48:20 linbackup1 kernel: ext3_abort called. Feb 24 04:48:20 linbackup1 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device md3): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal Feb 24 04:48:20 linbackup1 kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only Feb 24 04:48:33 linbackup1 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device md3): htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #4212181: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offse t=0, inode=4054525677, rec_len=1183, name_len=121 ---- 'fsck -y' seems to fix it up, but it keeps happening. Is this likely to be leftover cruft from the hardware issues or are there problems in ext3/raid1/sata drivers? The way backuppc stores data with millions of hardlinks in the archive it isn't really practical to copy it off, reformat, and start over. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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xen kernel showing only one processor on SMP machine
by gen2 17 May '08

17 May '08

Hi there, I'm running an ibm xseries 345/dual Xeon 2.66GHz, 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen #1 SMP, and cat /proc/cpuinfo shows me only one processor. Apparently something strange happening with ACPI. What am I doing wrong? Thank you! Selected bits from dmesg: ------------------------- Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information SMP alternatives: switching to UP code ACPI: Core revision 20060707 CPU 1 irqstacks, hard=c0728000 soft=c0708000 CPU 2 irqstacks, hard=c0729000 soft=c0709000 CPU 3 irqstacks, hard=c072a000 soft=c070a000 ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code Initializing CPU#1 Initializing CPU#2 Brought up 4 CPUs ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20060707] ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x3 ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20060707] ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x1

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RE: [CentOS] clustered mail server?
by Rajeev R. Veedu 17 May '08

17 May '08

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chan Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 2:02 PM To: centos(a)centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] clustered mail server? > Thank you for your input. I can't justify exchange (and don't want MS) > for 10 users. I do want IMAP though, and the calendar & address book > would be nice. This IMO has nothing todo with CentOS though, but at the > same time it shouldn't be limited to which Linux distro I'm using. As > you have said I may need to look at file system clustering instead, but > have never attempted it, so I don't know where to begin even. I know a > lot of MTA's can support a central user DB, but that won't sync the > emails. And this won't be a commercial installation either, it's for a > for a project in a rural community about 700km's from me, so it's more a > matter of if 1 server dies / crashes / packes up, and I can only get to > it 5 days later, the mail server still works :) > > If you are looking exchange like functionality use POSTPATH. It comes with almost all features in exchange except the webmail. We are using it for the last 5 months, and look good so far. It can do load balance and clustering. You can download a 12 user version form www.postpath.com Thanks Rajeev _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.plus.c4.i586.rpm
by Barry Brimer 17 May '08

17 May '08

Are there plans to release kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.plus.c4.i586.rpm ?? Thanks, Barry

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 39, Issue 8
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 17 May '08

17 May '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-2008:0270 Important CentOS 3 ia64 libvorbis - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2008:0270 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) libvorbis - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2008:0270 Important CentOS 4 ia64 libvorbis - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2008:0270 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) libvorbis - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 19:42:11 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0270 Important CentOS 3 ia64 libvorbis - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080516164211.GJ2456(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0270 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0270.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/libvorbis-1.0-10.el3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/libvorbis-devel-1.0-10.el3.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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samba & samba-common installed then erased, but by whom?
by Johnny Tan 16 May '08

16 May '08

I saw this in Logwatch today for one of my servers: --------------------- yum Begin ------------------------ Packages Installed: samba-common.i386 3.0.23c-2.el5.2.0.2 samba.i386 3.0.23c-2.el5.2.0.2 Packages Erased: samba-common samba ---------------------- yum End ------------------------- No one, including myself, has even logged into this box in the past few days (verified by asking the only other two people who have access and also looking at the last & secure logs). And neither /var/log/yum.log or /var/log/rpmpkgs shows samba at all being installed/erased/present. I ran both chkrootkit and rkhunter, and both turned up clean. Since this box is behind a firewall with only a few IPs given access to it, I'm thinking that it's not been rooted, but I can't seem to find any other explanation for this. The only thing that runs on this server is httpd and jetty. Everything else is done manually including yum updates. And nothing that runs on this machine would ever need samba. Has anyone ever encountered something like this? johnn

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has something happened to grep
by Jerry Geis 16 May '08

16 May '08

Hi all, when I do a "grep JERRY *.h" nothing is returned which is what I expect. This is in my source directory... when I do a "grep JERRY *" every file is returned an a line printed even though there is no JERRY on the line. Then if I do a "grep JERRY *.c" just the 4 lines that have JERRY are returned. This is what is prints for "grep JERRY *" src# grep JERRY * | more grep: JERRY: No such file or directory access_manager_help.htm:<FONT COLOR="#CCCCCC"> </FONT> so why is is skipping JERRY as the search item? The name JERRY is not the problem I can do this with any name and the same happens when searching all file "*". Thanks, Jerry

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symbolic linking
by Frank Cox 16 May '08

16 May '08

I have a number directories under /opt on computer jack. I want some (not all) of them to appear in /opt on computer jill. I have the /opt directory on jack mounted on jill under /mnt/jack If I go into the /opt directory on jill and do this: ln -s /mnt/jack/opt/files . I get /opt/files/files on jill. What I want is /opt/files and I can't see what I'm doing wrong. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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phenom anyone B3 stepping of course
by Jerry Geis 16 May '08

16 May '08

I was considering getting a Phenom 2.4G and B3 stepping (cheap $219). I was wondering if anyone has been using it with centos 5.1 x86_64 and found them stable now. Jerry

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Anyone configured two CentOS5 with shared storage for Oracle 10 R2 HA/failover?
by Christopher Thorjussen 16 May '08

16 May '08

I've gotten the task to setup a two server/node system for Oracle 10R2 with HA/failover. I've got a SAN connected to both servers. Any hints and tips? I've found the Cluster Suite Overview/Administration docs at http://www.centos.org/docs/5/. /Christopher

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shell script strangeness...
by Craig White 16 May '08

16 May '08

On my CentOS 4.6 server, this works... if [ -z `grep entry_chooser.js /var/log/httpd/access_log` ] On my CentOS 5.1 server, this gives me the following error... ./test_file.scr: line 3: [: too many arguments Can anyone explain why the difference and suggest something that makes both cases happy? Thanks Craig

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RHEL5 Linux with default Cluster is not Installed
by Balaji 16 May '08

16 May '08

Dear All, I have installed RHEL5 Linux Installation and I have selected all packages but the cluster packages are not displayed at package selection Menu After Installation Completed Successfully i have verified cluster is installed default and I findout the cluster packages are not installed default linux installation Can any one help me how to install the cluster packages with default linux installation Otherwise send me Cluster Installation Procedure after linux installation is over Regards -S.Balaji

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ntpd date sync before service startup
by David Hláčik 16 May '08

16 May '08

Hello, in system-config-date i have checkbox synchronize date before service startup. Which config switch,file does it affect? I want to turn it on on my CentOS machine without xauth , just editing config files , i was hoping it could be in /etc/sysconfig/ntpd but no. Thanks in advance! D.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 39, Issue 7
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 16 May '08

16 May '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-2008:0270 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 libvorbis Update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2008:0270 Important CentOS 4 i386 libvorbis Update (Johnny Hughes) 3. Impact of the Debian OpenSSL vulnerability (Daniel de Kok) 4. CESA-2008:0194 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 xen Update (Karanbir Singh) 5. CESA-2008:0194 Important CentOS 5 i386 xen Update (Karanbir Singh) 6. CESA-2008:0271-01: Important CentOS 2 i386 libvorbis security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 09:10:59 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0270 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 libvorbis Update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <482C4473.4080808(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0270 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0270.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: libvorbis-1.1.0-3.el4_6.1.i386.rpm libvorbis-1.1.0-3.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm libvorbis-devel-1.1.0-3.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm src: libvorbis-1.1.0-3.el4_6.1.src.rpm

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[OT]: Passing password for a command on the fly
by Mário Gamito 16 May '08

16 May '08

Hi, First things first, sorry for the off-topic, but I've already burned my eyes Googling and couldn't find the answer to what I need and I remembered asking here, because I'm a long time CentOS and its mailing list user. Again, my apologies. I have this command to create an FTP account: # pure-pw useradd mario -u 502 -g 502 -n 1000 -N 200 -d /home/pages/mario This command asks for the password twice. I need to pass the password (preferably without expect) so I can create the account without prompting. If i run: # echo secret | pure-pw useradd mario -u 502 -g 502 -n 1000 -N 200 -d /home/pages/gamito It reads the first insertion, but asks for the second. I knew how to do this a long time ago, but I've forgotten and couldn't find anything useful on Google. Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, Mário Gamito

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missing from Centos51 src tree: ".../drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/Makefile"
by snowcrash+centos 15 May '08

15 May '08

i'm attempting to rebuild centos51 kernel-xen. (fwiw, because pciback has NOT been compiled into the kernel, http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2767) after, yum install kernel-devel kernel-xen-devel and usual, ln -s /usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`-`uname -m` /usr/src/linux cd /usr/src/linux cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config make oldconfig make menuconfig ... next, make rpm fails at, scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/x86_64/Kconfig make clean scripts/Makefile.clean:17: /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5-xen-x86_64/drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/Makefile: No such file or directory make[5]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5-xen-x86_64/drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/Makefile'. Stop. make[4]: *** [drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100] Error 2 make[3]: *** [drivers/infiniband] Error 2 make[2]: *** [_clean_drivers] Error 2 make[1]: *** [rpm] Error 2 make: *** [rpm] Error 2 checking, ls -al \ /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5-xen-x86_64/drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/Makefile \ /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5-xen-x86_64/drivers/infiniband/hw/*/Makefile in fact *is* missing, /bin/ls: /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5-xen-x86_64/drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/Makefile: No such file or directory -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 380 May 7 06:12 /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5-xen-x86_64/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 545 May 7 06:12 /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5-xen-x86_64/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 782 May 7 06:12 /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5-xen-x86_64/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 310 May 7 06:12 /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5-xen-x86_64/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/Makefile installing & checking original/full SRPM, cd /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.1/updates/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.18-53.1.19.el5… rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.18-53.1.19.el5.src.rpm it's also missing there, ls -al /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5-x86_64/drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/Makefile /bin/ls: /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5-x86_64/drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/Makefile: No such file or directory where can I get the 'Makefile'? thanks.

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OT DNS Question
by Clint Dilks 15 May '08

15 May '08

Hi Everyone, I am currently reviewing the DNS records for the organization I work for and have one area I would like other peoples thoughts on. Would there ever be a situation where you need to have multiple A records pointing to the same IP Address? Currently we have a small number of cases where one IP Address has multiple A Records. This seems like a bad idea to me and I would replace these records with cnames. But I am meeting resistance to this. As far as I can think right now if you have one correctly configured A record with a matching reverse entry and then use cnames there shouldn't be any cases where you must add a second A record. Or am I missing something ?

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php-pear - required files - which rpm
by Tom Brown 15 May '08

15 May '08

Hi I am tying to install a php based application but the error i recieve is Failed opening required 'HTML/Template/IT.php' This is something to do with pear from what i can tell but i do have php-pear installed. The file IT.php is not on my system but does anyone know what rpm this would come from? thanks

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Replacing Qpopper with Dovecot
by Gerald Braun 15 May '08

15 May '08

I currently have a Centos server with Sendmail and Qpopper supporting about 50 mail users. I am planning to replace Qpopper with Dovecot to allow some users to have IMAP access to their mail (others will still use POP3.) Is there anything special to be aware of in setting up this migration? Thanks for your comments. Gerald

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Directory Compare
by Joseph L. Casale 15 May '08

15 May '08

I need to verify some directories of backed up data versus restored data. What would you recommend as the type of comparison to do, and which tool would give the easiest/most usable output? Thanks! jlc

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Somewhat OT:
by Sergio Belkin 15 May '08

15 May '08

Hi, I'm looking for a monitoring system that support snmp v3. I want to monitorize linux servers and network switches. Currently, I am trying to use zabbix, but sadly, it lack at present features that I need. For example, I want to get reporting screens with data and graphs from network switches, I'd like to configure one only port of a given switch and that is used as templates for the rest of switch ports and the rest of the switches. I'd like to use some open source software that meet that features, and I want to avoid Nagios :) Could you recommend me someone? Thanks in advance -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -

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Tape operation
by Fajar Priyanto 15 May '08

15 May '08

Hi all, My only encounter with tape-backup was with Windows 2000. With it, when we backup things using windows' backup tool, it will create a 'catalog', then the catalog contains all the backup operations we do based on date. So, with this we can "append" many backups into one tape. Next time we want to restore a backup, we can choose what date available in that particular tape. I have zero experience with tape on Linux. I've been googling around and it seems that the backup operation is very different. For example: - The tape is 400GB (LTO-3) - The data is only 10GB Some of the articles I read imply that 1 tape contains 1 backup-file only. CMIIW. This is certainly not very efficient. The commands used are: mt, either tar, cpio. My question is: 1. How do I use that one tape of 400GB to store 39 archives of backup into it in Linux? 2. Is tape backup seen by Linux just like any other filesystem? Can we mount it and 'ls -l' it? 3. When to rewind, forward, why? 4. Wel will only backup data/files (not the entire filesystem), is it enough to use the software provided by the tape vendor, or do I need another software? Or just the mt command will do it? Any URL, scripts, insight are very welcome. Thank you very much. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 11:35:28 up 4:39, 2.6.22-14-generic GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org The real challenge of teaching is getting your students motivated to learn.

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Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues
by Ross S. W. Walker 15 May '08

15 May '08

Probably already answered, but kermit isn't open source. You can get it from Columbia University's kermit site though. -Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org <centos-bounces(a)centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Wed May 14 10:58:43 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues On May 14, 2008, at 9:50, Steve Huff wrote: > This may well be an upstream issue; I have recently begun to > encounter the same problem on a RHEL 5.1 workstation, using Synergy > and nVidia binary packages from rpmforge (synergy-1.3.1-2.el5.rf, > nvidia-x11-drv-1.0.9755-1.nodist.rf). > > I first started seeing this issue last week, after a reboot; > unfortunately I'm not sure off the top of my head which packages I > had recently updated. Before last week the desired behavior (the > display waking from sleep upon mouse movement) was present. It's encouraging to hear that this used to work in 5.X. I am just upgrading to 5.1 and this has always been "broken" for me, so I can't tell if it was a recent update. Can you post (or email me offline) the relevant output of "rpm -qa --last"? We may be able to figure out what update caused this issue. In the mean time, anyone have any info on Kermit for CentOS 5? We have some Kermit scripts sent to us by one of our vendors, so we can't just easily migrate to another serial communications tool. Thanks, Alfred _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.

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OpenSSL/SSH Bug on Debian - Compromised key pairs
by Clint Dilks 15 May '08

15 May '08

Hi People, I know this may seem off topic, but I thought for those of us who might have Debian users generating key pairs that they put on CentOS systems people should be aware that everybody who generated a public/private keypair or an SSL cert request on Debian or Ubuntu from 2006 on is vulnerable http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/05/13/1533212.shtml

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Using Nagios in CentOS (It was Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT: (Nagios))
by Sergio Belkin 15 May '08

15 May '08

2008/5/14 Thomas Harold <tgh(a)tgharold.com>: > Sergio Belkin wrote: >> >> 2008/5/13 <jleaver+centos(a)reachone.com>: >> >> OK, you won :) I'm going to test nagios. I am using centos 5.1 >> x86_64. Do I lose much if I use rpm from rpmforge (version 2.9)? >> > > We're running version 2.11 at the office (on CentOS 5.1 x86_64). I've > looked at some of the things in 3.0, but there's nothing there that I needed > yet. > > Hopefully you have some way to track changes in /etc/nagios (FSVS is what we > use), because it will make your life much easier to have an audit trail. > > We created sub-folders under /etc/nagios to hold the various types of > entities. For example, we have: > > /etc/nagios/commands > /etc/nagios/contacts > /etc/nagios/contactgroups > /etc/nagios/hosts-switches > /etc/nagios/hosts-dmz > /etc/nagios/hosts-servers > /etc/nagios/hosts-lan > /etc/nagios/templates-hosts > /etc/nagios/templates-services > > We then broke individual elements out of the default massive configuration > folder into individual .cfg files. For example, we chose to create > individual files for each contact rather the putting them all in a single > file. So far it works well, it's a lot easier to get a feel for what users > have been defined, what hosts are defined, what the templates are. Because > when I look in templates-services, I see from the directory listing that I > have service templates named X, Y and Z (without having to open up the file > to look). > > We currently put service checks for individual hosts in the same > configuration file as the host. So you will have the following definitions > in a typical host file (until you get into templating): > > define host{ > define hostextinfo{ > define service{ > define service{ > ... > > Any plugins that we wrote ourself, we put under a separate folder. Which > keeps them separate from > > /usr/local/lib64/nagios-plugins/ > > Basically, start small, track your changes, and plan on refactoring it in > week #2 after you start monitoring about a dozen hosts. Stay away from > advanced things like escalation, monitoring things like disk space on remote > servers, or the like until you get the basics working. > > Oh, and SELinux will probably get in your way. So you'll need to play with > audit2allow to create supplemental policy to give Nagios additional > permissions. (Which may have been due to PEBKAC issues on my end - I plan > on going back and looking at labeling and figuring out what I mislabeled.) > > I think that's the majority of the issues that we dealt with in the past 2 > weeks. We're now in fine-tuning mode and getting ready to start monitoring > remote services next week. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Really, thanks all for your experiences. Bear in mind that what I want to do is (mainly) monitor network switches, and get data and charts of them. I hope I can do that. Keep in touch -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -

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Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard
by techlists＠comcast.net 15 May '08

15 May '08

What about SuperMicro? I've never used one personally, but my employer had some servers built with SuperMicro and those things reliably chugged along for years, never had any problems. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: John Plemons <john(a)mavin.com> > I would look at Tyan, Soyo, and Intel for middle of the road > performance, but more over for dependability... I have also had very > good luck with MSI, Asus... > > john plemons > > > > > > > > Ryan Nichols wrote: > > Really? We bought that EXACT motherboard.. 10 to be exact and we've > > had 9 fail and the 10th is on its way to major failure.. the odd thing > > is that 10th one was the first one purchased and that was 6 months ago. > > > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Juan C. Valido > > <jvalidolnx(a)juanyjosefina.com <mailto:jvalidolnx@juanyjosefina.com>> > > wrote: > > > > Personally, I like Gigabyte motherboards a lot, the GA-P35-DS3L I use > > with Core 2 Duo (Quad) and DDR2. I though I was going to do better > > with > > the Intel DP35DP and guess what, I like the the Gigabyte Better > > (personally). > > > > On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 06:43 -0500, Ryan Nichols wrote: > > > To all.. > > > > > > I was using a Gigabyte motherboard, and the board seems like a bad > > > choice. What do you guys recommend for a decent server board that > > > would use a Dual Core processor and DDR2 ram. I dont want to > > replace > > > the CPU and Mem i already have, just find a decent board that > > > supportsthe existing.. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Ryan Nichols > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > CentOS mailing list > > > CentOS(a)centos.org <mailto:CentOS@centos.org> > > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS(a)centos.org <mailto:CentOS@centos.org> > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS(a)centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG. > > Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1433 - Release Date: 5/14/2008 > 4:44 PM > >

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eth1 changed to __tmp78668633 in recent kernels
by henry ritzlmayr 15 May '08

15 May '08

Hi list, kernel-xen-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 and kernel-xen-2.6.18-53.1.19.el5 do not detect/initialize/whatever my eth1 network card any more. With kernel-xen-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 everything is working as expected. With the two recent kernels I only get an Interface named __tmp786686833 which is not added to xenbr... lspci -v to the adapter in question says 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82572EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 06) Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/1000 PT Desktop Adapter Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 Memory at febe0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Memory at febc0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] I/O ports at ec00 [size=32] Expansion ROM at feba0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [e0] Express Endpoint IRQ 0 ip link says 2: __tmp786686833: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop qlen 1000 link/ether 00:1b:21:0e:a9:3b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff In modprobe.conf I have alias eth1 e1000 for the adapter in question. The module itself is loaded. Any Ideas how to fix this? cheers Henry

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 39, Issue 6
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 15 May '08

15 May '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-2008:0270 Important CentOS 3 i386 libvorbis - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2008:0270 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 libvorbis - security update (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 14:52:45 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0270 Important CentOS 3 i386 libvorbis - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080514125245.GA26796(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0270 libvorbis security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0270.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/libvorbis-1.0-10.el3.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/libvorbis-devel-1.0-10.el3.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/libvorbis-1.0-10.el3.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update libvorbis\* 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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A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues
by Alfred von Campe 14 May '08

14 May '08

I've finally made the switch to CentOS 5.1 (I had been running 4.6). So far, so good, but I do have a few issues. First, I can not find kermit (or ckermit) in any of the repos (base, extras, centosplus, rpmforge). On my 4.6 systems, /usr/bin/kermit was provided by the package ckermit in the base repo. That package appears to be no longer available. Any ideas where I could find a suitable replacement? Second (and this is probably OT), I use the binary nVidia driver and the keyboard and mouse sharing utility Synergy (http:// synergy2.sourceforge.net, a fantastic utility without which I would be so much less productive). Since upgrading to CentOS 5, if the nVidia card goes into powersave mode, it can not be woken up by moving the cursor from the Synergy server to the Synergy client display (in this case, the CentOS 5.1 systems); you have to hit a key on the keyboard that's physically attached to the CentOS 5 system to wake it up. Is there a way to have the display wake up when the cursor is moved into the client display? Or at least disable this "deep sleep" mode on the nVidia cards? I have not changed the hardware or the version of the nVidia driver when upgrading from CentOS 4.6 to CentOS 5.1, and I did not have this issue before the upgrade. Alfred

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Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT:
by Ross S. W. Walker 14 May '08

14 May '08

Sorry for the top post. Nagios can start very simple, but has the ability to end up very complex. It's configs take a modular approach, you have monitors, monitors belong in groups, groups have operators/administrators, etc. My big problem with nagios is when I used it last it didn't keep monitor history which makes trending impossible. I eventually went with ipmonitor from solarwinds which has a nice web interface, all the reporting you may want and works pretty much like nagios does, but through a web interface. Very reasonable pricing too. Of course I believe it only runs on windows, but it runs very nicely as a VM guest. -Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org <centos-bounces(a)centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Tue May 13 07:34:50 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT: 2008/5/13 Kai Schaetzl <maillists(a)conactive.com>: > Sergio Belkin wrote on Mon, 12 May 2008 23:07:20 -0300: > > > [CentOS] Somewhat OT: > > even then please write a senseful subject next time! > > Kai > > -- > Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany > Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com > Yes, you're roght Kai, I don't know how I could write such a stupid subject, but it was too late yersterday, and I was writing with a little part of my brain working :) Even so, thanks for your comments, I'd like more experiences about monitoring systems. Again of topic, I want to avoid Nagios because it looks like over complex but if someone has an actual experience demostrating the opposite, I'd be glad to hear. Thanks in advance -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin - _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.

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Max thin client sessions/gdm limit?
by Ryan Faussett 14 May '08

14 May '08

Greetings, I've been subscribed to this list for some time and I'd like to start off by thanking everyone who helps out on it. This is my first post to it, so please be gentle :-) I have several offices set up with RedHat and CentOS terminal servers. We are using CentOS 4.6 and RedHat 4.6 on them, GDM for the display manager, and PXES (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pxes/) for the boot image. Each terminal server is also the font server, dhcp server, tftp server, dns server, and provides a ldap slave from our master ldap server (at our corporate office) for user accounts and authentication. Everything has been working quite well for some time. However now I seem to have hit a 50 thin client/gdm session limit. I've tested this several times by powering off all of our thin clients and restarting the terminal server, then powering up each thin client one at a time. They all work fine up to the 51st thin client. When I power up the 51st thin client it grabs an ip address, fetches its boot image, proceeds to boot, X starts (gray mesh screen, large X cursor -- gray screen of death?) and then it just sits there. The GDM login/greeter is never presented. Looking at the log file on the terminal server shows: gdm_child_action: Aborting display Running gdm in debug mode gives me this (sorry for the long log dump): May 14 03:08:21 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_decode: Received opcode QUERY from client 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:21 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_query: Opcode 2 from 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:21 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_send_willing: Sending WILLING to 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_decode: Received opcode REQUEST from client 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_request: Got REQUEST from 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_request: xdmcp_pending=0, MaxPending=4, xdmcp_sessions=50, MaxSessions=80, ManufacturerID= May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_display_dispose_check (200.netbiz.com:0) May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_auth_secure_display: Setting up access for 200.netbiz.com:0 May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_auth_secure_display: Setting up access May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_auth_secure_display: Setting up access for 200.netbiz.com:0 - 1 entries May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_display_alloc: display=200.netbiz.com:0, session id=1696684507, xdmcp_pending=1 May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_send_accept: Sending ACCEPT to 10.2.1.200 with SessionID=1696684507 May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_decode: Received opcode MANAGE from client 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Got MANAGE from 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Got Display=0, SessionID=1696684507 Class=MIT-unspecified from 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Looked up 200.netbiz.com:0 May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_choose_indirect_lookup: Host 10.2.1.200 not found May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_forward_query_lookup: Host 10.2.1.200 not found May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_display_manage: Managing 200.netbiz.com:0 May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: loop check: last_start 0, last_loop 0, now: 1210759704, retry_count: 0 May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: Resetting counts for loop of death detection May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[6191]: gdm_slave_start: Starting slave process for 200.netbiz.com:0 May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_display_manage: Forked slave: 6191 May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[6191]: gdm_slave_start: Loop Thingie May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[6191]: gdm_slave_run: Opening display 200.netbiz.com:0 May 14 03:08:24 lts-nimbus gdm[6191]: gdm_slave_run: Sleeping 1 on a retry May 14 03:08:25 lts-nimbus gdm[6191]: gdm_slave_run: Sleeping 3 on a retry May 14 03:08:26 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: (child 5747) gdm_slave_alrm_handler: 10.2.1.220:0 got ARLM signal, to ping display May 14 03:08:26 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_decode: Received opcode MANAGE from client 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:26 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Got MANAGE from 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:26 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Got Display=0, SessionID=1696684507 Class=MIT-unspecified from 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:26 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Session id 1696684507 already managed May 14 03:08:28 lts-nimbus gdm[6191]: gdm_slave_run: Sleeping 5 on a retry May 14 03:08:30 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_decode: Received opcode MANAGE from client 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:30 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Got MANAGE from 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:30 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Got Display=0, SessionID=1696684507 Class=MIT-unspecified from 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:30 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Session id 1696684507 already managed May 14 03:08:33 lts-nimbus gdm[6191]: gdm_slave_run: Sleeping 7 on a retry May 14 03:08:38 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_decode: Received opcode MANAGE from client 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:38 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Got MANAGE from 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:38 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Got Display=0, SessionID=1696684507 Class=MIT-unspecified from 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:38 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Session id 1696684507 already managed May 14 03:08:40 lts-nimbus gdm[6191]: gdm_slave_run: Sleeping 9 on a retry May 14 03:08:49 lts-nimbus gdm[6191]: gdm_slave_run: Sleeping 11 on a retry May 14 03:08:54 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_decode: Received opcode MANAGE from client 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:54 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Got MANAGE from 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:54 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Got Display=0, SessionID=1696684507 Class=MIT-unspecified from 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:08:54 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Session id 1696684507 already managed May 14 03:09:00 lts-nimbus gdm[6191]: gdm_slave_run: Sleeping 13 on a retry May 14 03:09:13 lts-nimbus gdm[6191]: gdm_slave_run: Sleeping 15 on a retry May 14 03:09:26 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_decode: Received opcode MANAGE from client 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:09:26 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Got MANAGE from 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:09:26 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Got Display=0, SessionID=1696684507 Class=MIT-unspecified from 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:09:26 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Session id 1696684507 already managed May 14 03:09:28 lts-nimbus gdm[6191]: gdm_slave_run: Sleeping 17 on a retry May 14 03:09:45 lts-nimbus gdm[6191]: gdm_slave_run: Sleeping 19 on a retry May 14 03:09:58 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_decode: Received opcode MANAGE from client 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:09:58 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Got MANAGE from 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:09:58 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Got Display=0, SessionID=1696684507 Class=MIT-unspecified from 10.2.1.200 May 14 03:09:58 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_xdmcp_handle_manage: Session id 1696684507 already managed May 14 03:10:04 lts-nimbus gdm[6191]: gdm_slave_quick_exit: Will kill everything from the display May 14 03:10:04 lts-nimbus gdm[6191]: gdm_slave_quick_exit: Killed everything from the display May 14 03:10:04 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: mainloop_sig_callback: Got signal 17 May 14 03:10:04 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_cleanup_children: child 6191 returned 4 May 14 03:10:04 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_child_action: Aborting display 200.netbiz.com:0 May 14 03:10:04 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_display_unmanage: Stopping 200.netbiz.com:0 (slave pid: 0) May 14 03:10:04 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_display_dispose: Disposing 200.netbiz.com:0 May 14 03:10:04 lts-nimbus gdm[4066]: gdm_display_unmanage: Display stopped Once this has happened even powering off a working thin client that was able to get a GDM session/login and powering up one that was not still doesn't work. However any of the ones that were working can still be powered up and get a GDM session/login. If I power down all the thin clients, restart the terminal server I can again get any of them to work up to the 51st connection. I've looked through the config files for xfs and gdm but can't find anything relating to any sort of session limit. The only thing that looked remotely close was MaxSessions under the [xdmcp] section which is already set to 100. I spent a couple of hours searching with Google but didn't really find anything other than a bug for a different version of GDM than we are using that caused it to ignore a session limit setting (which I can't seem to find where to set it anyway). I believe everything is pretty much stock distribution. We are using the gdm from rpm "gdm-2.6.0.5-7.rhel4.15". Does anyone have any ideas? I'm not sure what more info to post but I'd be glad to send anymore log info or config files. Any help/suggestions are appreciated, Ryan Faussett

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Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT:
by Ross S. W. Walker 14 May '08

14 May '08

Really? I thought Outlook does a pretty good job on references. Maybe it's the BB :-( <rant> I really need RIM to update their mailer app on the BB to allow threading and preserve references... Is that so hard RIM?! Is it? </rant> -Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org <centos-bounces(a)centos.org> To: centos(a)centos.org <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Wed May 14 06:48:50 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Sorry for the top post. Your mailer breaking references and thus destroying threading for others is worse than top posting >:) Cheers, Ralph ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.

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Printing: network host busy
by centos＠911networks.com 14 May '08

14 May '08

H, I have 5.1. The other day I was printing and the job crashed. I cleaned the /var/spool/cups, but I am still getting the: network 192.168.2.10 host is busy, will retry in 30sec It's a dlink print server, that has worked very well for the last 3 years. I have restarted but the print server and the printer. Any suggestion? -- Thanks

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NFS subdirectory on client is out of sync
by Theo Band [GreenPeak] 14 May '08

14 May '08

Today a user asked me whether a file on one host can be different on another host. I was busy composing an answer to tell that the /home space on all clients are mounted using NFS from the file server. Any host will therefor see the same file. The user pointed me to his file and I copied this file from the client and compared this with the file on the file server. To my surprise it turned out that he was right, the files were different. I created a new file in this directory and it was not created on the file server. I renamed the file, and that was only seen on this single client. How can this happen? My setup file server (arend) CentOS release 4.6 # grep /home /etc/exports /home *(rw,sync,no_subtree_check) On the clients (also CentOS release 4.6) I mount /home with these options: arend:/home /home nfs proto=tcp,nfsvers=3,bg,defaults 0 0 To debug I created (su stbo) on the client small test files (touch test) in each directory all the way to the user /home dir. It turns out that one subdirectory and everything below was not synchronized to the server. I could create files, move them, but it was just as if I was working on a local disk. Other users did not experience any problem on this machine so it was only one sub-directory (and everything below). I checked the syslog both on the client and on the server, but no messages of interest. [root@arend ~]# stat /home/stbo/workarea/toekan/design/dig/vhdl/fpga/fpga_top.vhd File: `/home/stbo/workarea/toekan/design/dig/vhdl/fpga/fpga_top.vhd' Size: 53214 Blocks: 112 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: fd01h/64769d Inode: 6614395 Links: 1 Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--) Uid: ( 635/ stbo) Gid: ( 635/ stbo) Access: 2008-05-14 12:46:34.000000000 +0200 Modify: 2008-05-14 10:08:07.000000000 +0200 Change: 2008-05-14 10:08:07.000000000 +0200 I renamed the filename on the client and did stat there as well. The modify time shows this file is indeed older as the user mentioned. [stbo@junco /root]$stat /home/stbo/workarea/toekan/design/dig/vhdl/fpga/fpga_top.vhd_theo_test File: `/home/stbo/workarea/toekan/design/dig/vhdl/fpga/fpga_top.vhd_theo_test' Size: 53214 Blocks: 112 IO Block: 32768 regular file Device: 14h/20d Inode: 6583089 Links: 1 Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--) Uid: ( 635/ stbo) Gid: ( 635/ stbo) Access: 2008-05-14 12:47:07.000000000 +0200 Modify: 2008-04-09 13:09:23.000000000 +0200 Change: 2008-05-14 12:24:24.000000000 +0200 After rebooting everything is normal again: [root@junco ~]# stat /home/stbo/workarea/toekan/design/dig/vhdl/fpga/fpga_top.vhd File: `/home/stbo/workarea/toekan/design/dig/vhdl/fpga/fpga_top.vhd' Size: 53214 Blocks: 112 IO Block: 32768 regular file Device: 14h/20d Inode: 6614395 Links: 1 Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--) Uid: ( 635/ stbo) Gid: ( 635/ stbo) Access: 2008-05-14 12:46:34.000000000 +0200 Modify: 2008-05-14 10:08:07.000000000 +0200 Change: 2008-05-14 10:08:07.000000000 +0200 Any clue what could have gone wrong? Since I trust on a working NFS, I like to understand what could have gone wrong. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Theo

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Centosplus kernel does not have framebuffer support?
by Alfred von Campe 14 May '08

14 May '08

I'm still using CentOS 4.6, but have been planning an upgrade to CentOS 5 for quite a while. One of the things that was holding me back is that the CentOS 5.0 kernel did not have the framebuffer support enabled by default. So I waited for CentOS 5.1. However, on one of my test systems I ran into the bad NFS performance issue (see CentOS bug 2635), so I plan to use the centosplus kernel. However, it appears that this kernel does not have the framebuffer support enabled -- arrgghhh! So, is this just an oversight or is there a reason for not enabling the framebuffer support on the centosplus kernel? Alfred (who really wants to upgrade to CentOS 5 but cannot live with the NFS performance issue and does not want to build his own kernel RPMs)

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custom iptables chain jumping
by Fajar Priyanto 13 May '08

13 May '08

Hi all, When we create a custom chain in iptables, should we specifically create a rule to 'jump back' to the previous chain? For example: iptables -A INPUT -j CUSTOMCHAIN iptables -A CUSTOMCHAIN rule1 iptables -A CUSTOMCHAIN rule2 Should we add: iptables -A CUSTOMCHAIN -j INPUT ? Or, it will automatically go back to CHAIN when there's no more rule? Thank you very much, -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 08:22:38 up 1:15, 2.6.22-14-generic GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org The real challenge of teaching is getting your students motivated to learn.

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Re: Curiosity when installing CentOS 5.1 in addition to W98 & WXP - SOLVED
by MHR 13 May '08

13 May '08

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:47 PM, MHR <mhullrich(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva(a)sgvwater.com> wrote: > > on 5-12-2008 10:17 AM MHR spake the following: > > > > > It might not have finished the install, and something made it reboot before > > it had written the grub records. > > > > I figure I'll just start over and sit there to watch while I read a > book or something. (sigh) > Turns out it looks like the DVD didn't burn quite right (even though K3B verified it) and the install aborted about 2/3 of the way through. Thanks! mhr

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where is centos live cd?
by David Hláčik 13 May '08

13 May '08

As far as i am searching over internet, i am finding only dead links for CentOS Live CD project (http://wiki.centos.org/Projects) . Where can i find and download it please? thanks ! D.

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Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box
by lannyma＠gmail.com 13 May '08

13 May '08

On 5/7/08, Ralph Angenendt <ra+cento AT br-online.de> wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: > > Scott: Great! If I can locate kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 and > > kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 I can use the rpm -e command to remove them > > and then yum update again and that should update the kernel in her box. > > How do I locate them? > > Why locate them? rpm -e takes the package *name*, not the package > itself. Yes. I woke up about 430 this morning and I realized that rpm can locate the file by itself. :-) However, I want to learn how to use find that Mark (mhr) mentioned! [lanny@compaq1300 ~]$ su - Password: [root@compaq1300 ~]# rpm -e kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 [root@compaq1300 ~]# rpm -e kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 [root@compaq1300 ~]# yum update Loading "priorities" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files 263 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for kernel to pack into transaction set. kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 100% |=========================| 258 kB 00:03 ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 set to be installed --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: kernel i686 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 updates 13 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 1 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 13 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/1): kernel-2.6.18-53.1 100% |=========================| 13 MB 03:36 Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing: kernel ######################### [1/1] Installed: kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 Complete! [root@compaq1300 ~]# exit Notice that: I was able to remove both files, with rpm -e without any problem and I was able to run yum update, and it installed the new kernel, but not the kernel-header file. [lanny@compaq1300 ~]$ uname -a Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 19:57:35 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [lanny@compaq1300 ~]$ After rebooting the box, it is still on the original kernel, rather than on the new kernel. I just installed kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 again. Was that correct or not? Probably very close to solving this now! Thanks much to everyone who has contributed ideas! Lanny

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JetDirect Webinterface doesn't work anymore with OpenJDK Java 1.6
by Heiko Adams 13 May '08

13 May '08

Hello, after installing the openjdk 1.6 packages from centos testing the webinterface of my hp jetdirect 300x printserver doesn't work anymore. The webpage is loaded but the applets don't start - no java console and no error messages are shown. Tested with Firefox 3 Beta 5 and Opera 9.5 Beta 2 Can anyone confirm this? -- Heiko Adams <heiko.adams(a)gmail.com>

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re: RSA SecurID and CentOS5
by Andy Pace 13 May '08

13 May '08

I actually just noticed that the pam.d/sshd file looks a lot more sane in CentOS4. I'm going to give that a shot. The documentation for configuring PAM is right on with the format -- no include or optional fields :) -- Andy Pace apace(a)singlehop.com

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RSA SecurID and CentOS5
by Andy Pace 13 May '08

13 May '08

I am attempting to get our RSA SecurID tokens working in CentOS: http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=1177 Has anyone had any experience with this? I know CentOS is not supported but one would think that it could be easily implemented... Here's the error I'm receiving: May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: @(#)RSA Authentication Agent 5.3 for PAM [263] May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: Entered pam_sm_authenticate May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: Entered iReadPAMConfigFile May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: VAR_ACE is /var/ace May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: ENABLE_GROUP_SUPPORT is 0 May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: INCL_EXCL_GROUPS is 0 May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: Adding ::other:: to list of groups May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: Adding ::wheel:: to list of groups May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: Adding ::eng:: to list of groups May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: Adding ::othergroupnames:: to list of groups May 13 10:25:21 sshd[1662]: Adding ::testing:: to list of groups May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: Number of groups is 4 May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: AUTH_CHALLENGE_USERNAME_STR May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: AUTH_CHALLENGE_RESERVE_REQUEST_STR May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: AUTH_CHALLENGE_PASSCODE_STR May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: AUTH_CHALLENGE_PASSWORD_STR May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: iReadPAMConfigFile: Returning success. May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: Entered PAM:InitSecurID May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: ace_dir_env is VAR_ACE=/var/ace May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: AceInitialize failed May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: Reserve password not allowed by RSA SecurID module May 13 10:26:21 sshd[1662]: Failed password for apace from 192.168.5.201port 60353 ssh2 [root@snorlax bin]# ./acestatus Error can't connect to ACE/Server [root@snorlax bin]# ./acetest AceInitialize failed [root@snorlax bin]# RSA is no help since it's not a RHEL box :( The PAM module installs fine, but I see no communication between the server and the RSA Appliance! -- Andy Pace apace(a)singlehop.com

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"Could not find mime-type"
by Anne Wilson 13 May '08

13 May '08

After a two-week holiday I've just updated my server. I have a message from kcontrol - "Could not find mime type application/octet-stream". A .png thumbnail on the desktop isn't displaying, but apart from that I don't have much of a clue what has happened. Nothing seems to appear in messages. Any help, please? Anne

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GFS + quotas
by Doug Tucker 13 May '08

13 May '08

I have 2 machines in a cluster using GFS, that many client mount up via nfs. We use quotas extensively here, is there a way from a client machine to check a users quota? Standard quota command on client machines do not work like they do when checking a non-gfs nfs mounted file system. The quotas do work however, when a user exceeds quota and tries to write a file, it tell them that quota has been exceeded.

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OT: YUM, RPM and PGP keys
by James B. Byrne 13 May '08

13 May '08

I set gpgcheck=0 in /etc/yum.conf; ran yum localinstall; and set gpgcheck=1 after the install completed. This has resolved the issue for me. -- *** 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 -- *** 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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Partly OT: Is there a DVD (or other) firmware flash download program for CentOS/Linux?
by MHR 13 May '08

13 May '08

All I can see with google is sfdnwin.exe for Window$ only.... Thanks. mhr

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Reseted net statistics
by happymaster23 13 May '08

13 May '08

Hi all, sometimes I´m checking status of my server with phpSysInfo, always is all right, but at May 8 I was experienced a "big deviation". My machine was online for 12 days, but net statistics are reseted. I was checked /proc/net/dev and there are reseted net statistics too. How is this possible? Just before I was experienced this problem I was updating two packages with yum (perl-HTML-Parser.i386 3.56-5.el5 and epel-release.noarch 5-3). In /var/log/messages is nothing about it. At the same day someone attemped to log in to ssh (attack was about 10 hours long, but its impossible to break my server - I´m using private key allowed only from my IP and in AllowUsers is only root) so I don´t know, how is this possible. Thank you for answers

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