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Yum showing error
by JohnsonKoilraj 25 Apr '08

25 Apr '08

Hi I am using centos 5. yum saying following error.. [root@zeus Desktop]# yum grouplist Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Group Process Setting up repositories Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 407: Proxy Authentication Required Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base my system is behind corporate filter. Is there any where to use yum. help me out in this. in some forum it says we need NTLM to handle this... by john Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com

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package-cleanup fails when cleaning kernels in CentOS 5
by J.J. Garcia 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

Hija! I get this error while doing the cleanup, hints? Cheers, JJ ----------------------------------------------------------- [root@neonbox ~]# package-cleanup --oldkernels --count 2 Setting up yum Loading "priorities" plugin Loading "kernel-module" plugin Loading "protectbase" plugin Loading "kmdl" plugin Loading "skip-broken" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin 0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections 0 packages excluded due to repository protections I will remove the following 8 kernel related packages: kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5 kernel-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 kernel-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5 kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.el5 kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 Is this ok [y/N]: y /usr/bin/package-cleanup:312: DeprecationWarning: returnHeaderByTuple() will go away in a future version of Yum. hdr = my.rpmdb.returnHeaderByTuple(kernel)[0] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/package-cleanup", line 402, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/package-cleanup", line 371, in main removeKernels(my, opts.kernelcount, opts.confirmed, opts.keepdevel) File "/usr/bin/package-cleanup", line 317, in removeKernels my.populateTs() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 171, in populateTs self.ts.addErase(txmbr.po.idx) AttributeError: 'YumInstalledPackage' object has no attribute 'idx' ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FYI [root@neonbox ~]# rpm -q yum yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5 [root@neonbox ~]# which package-cleanup /usr/bin/package-cleanup [root@neonbox ~]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/package-cleanup yum-utils-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2 [root@neonbox ~]# rpm -q centos-release centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1 TIA Jose.

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Problems with KMail and signatures
by Robert Spangler 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

Hello, For some reason KMail is all but coming to a stand still when I open messages with any kind of signature. So I goto the configuration page of KMail Security Crypo Back ends and I see nothing is checked off. So I hit rescan and get the error that is listed in the attachment. Anyone else having this issue? -- Regards Robert Smile... it increases your face value! Linux User #296285 http://counter.li.org

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.htaccess for script aliased directories
by Pam Astor 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

With the great assistance I got here I was able to get .htaccess to work on a centos 5.1 box running Apache 2.2.3 a few days ago. One other question. I am trying to protect a sub dir within the web space of a domain that is serving site statistics of awstats generated pages. The path to the dir is /home/user1/www/awstats. When testing, I am able to get a username and password prompt for the front page of the site, i.e. for www.mydomain.com, when I place the .htaccess file in www, but I can’t get a prompt for www.mydomain.com/awstats when I place the .htaccess in awstats. I am using the below script alias in the virtual domain conf.d file for this site the awstats directory is located in, so that awstats can generate the log file stats and alias them to the awstats dir which is empty: ScriptAlias /awstats/ "/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/ I’m assuming that’s why I can’t get a login prompt – any suggestions as to how to protect the awstats dir with .htaccess for a script alias’ed directory? The .htaccess file which I was using and works fine for the main www dir is: AuthName “/www” AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /home/user1/.htpasswd Require user guest _________________________________________________________________ In a rush? Get real-time answers with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refres…

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TCP/IP Port Relay
by Frank M. Ramaekers 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

What is the best way to temporarily setup a port relay. I'm trying to diagnose a problem with Cisco's latest VPN client and need to determine if the problem is port number related. e.g. VPN client---------23-(Linux box to relay port)-------xx-(Telnet server) (Keep in mind this is temporary and for debugging purposes) Thanks, Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer MCP, MCP+I, MCSE & RHCE American Income Life Insurance Co. Phone: (254)761-6649 1200 Wooded Acres Dr. Fax: (254)741-5777 Waco, Texas 76710 _____________________________________________________ This message contains information which is privileged and confidential and is solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please destroy it immediately and notify us at PrivacyAct(a)ailife.com.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 38, Issue 13
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '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-2008:0222 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2008:0238 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) kdegraphics - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2008:0240 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) xpdf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2008:0175 Important CentOS 5 i386 openoffice.org Update (Karanbir Singh) 5. CESA-2008:0175 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 openoffice.org Update (Karanbir Singh) 6. CESA-2008:0197 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 gnome-screensaver Update (Karanbir Singh) 7. CESA-2008:0197 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 gnome-screensaver Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:09:51 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0222 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) firefox - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080423150951.GX30581(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0222 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0222.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/firefox-1.5.0.12-0.15.el4.centos.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/firefox-1.5.0.12-0.15.el4.centos.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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RE: [CentOS] Re: Kickstart network settings problem -SOLVED
by Plant, Dean 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article > <2181C5F19DD0254692452BFF3EAF1D6803940E22(a)rsys005a.comm.ad.roke.co.uk>, > Plant, Dean <dean.plant(a)roke.co.uk> wrote: >> >> If like me you have never had to mess with the stage2.img file to fix >> installations issues, below shows what is required. >> >> cd ~ >> wget http://yourwebserver/centos5-dvd/images/stage2.img >> mkdir tmp >> mount -t squashfs -o loop stage2.img ./tmp >> cd tmp >> vi ./usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py # comment out >> dispatch.skipStep("network") at around line 876 or use Ray's patch. > > hmm, isn't this editing the file on a read-only file system? Oops......yes, not going to do much good editing the ro file system! Sorry. > >> mkdir ../new-stage2 >> tar cf - . | ( cd ../new-stage2/ ; tar xf - . ) > > I suspect here is where you need to cd ../new-stage2 and edit > kickstart.py > >> cd .. >> yum -y install squashfs-tools >> mksquashfs ./new-stage2/ stage2.img.new >> >> Now replace the stage2.img file on the web server with the >> stage2.img.new file, renamed to stage2.img of course. > > Cheers > Tony

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tomcat5 - RHEL4.5 - CentOS 4.5
by Tom Brown 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

Hi I am seeing this issue on a RHEL4 box but i presume that the same will be for CentOS4.5 I am trying to get tomcat5 up and running using only upstream rpm's, as opposed to own rolled like i have done before, and hitting this issue. I have JAVA_HOME set in /etc/tomcat5/tomcat5.conf and also in /etc/sysconfig/tomcat5.conf and when tomcat is started using the init script it starts up like so tomcat 30676 0.1 1.4 1275052 60324 pts/0 Sl 08:45 0:03 /usr/java/sun/jdk/1.4.2_13/bin/java -server -Xms256m -Xmx1024m -Djava.security.manager=java.rmi.RMISecurityManager -Dcatalina.ext.dirs=/usr/share/tomcat5/shared/lib:/usr/share/tomcat5/common/lib -Dcatalina.ext.dirs=/usr/share/tomcat5/shared/lib:/usr/share/tomcat5/common/lib -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/share/tomcat5/common/endorsed -classpath /usr/java/sun/jdk/1.4.2_13/lib/tools.jar:/usr/share/tomcat5/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/tomcat5/bin/commons-logging-api.jar:/usr/share/java/mx4j/mx4j-impl.jar:/usr/share/java/mx4j/mx4j-jmx.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/share/tomcat5 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat5 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/share/tomcat5/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start However in the catalina.out i see this WARNING: unable to set your JAVA_HOME. This may cause problems for any java applications you run ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am : tomcat on hostname JAVA_HOME : /usr/jdk1.3.1_08 Any ideas why this is and where that JAVA_HOME is coming from? thanks

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RE: [CentOS] Kickstart network settings problem -SOLVED
by Plant, Dean 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:47:39PM +0100, Plant, Dean wrote: >> I would like one of my kickstart scripts to prompt for disk and >> networking only. Commenting out the disk and network settings makes >> the installer prompt for disk settings but not for network settings, >> they default to DHCP. Any idea's how to fix this? > > I'm assuming you are using CentOS 5 here. I'm not sure why upstream > disabled this feature -- it was very useful to be able to use > kickstart with a DHCP IP address initially, but still be prompted for > network information during the installer portion later (as it did in > RHEL4). > > See: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401531 > > In addition, I have an RFE in with Upstream to re-add this feature and > I believe it's slated for inclusion in 5.2 with the --bootproto=query > option. > > The attachment there however: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=291881 > > patches Anaconda to not skip the network step during installation. > I've been using this successfully here to "do what I need" while > waiting for the official fix. > > You can include this in an updates.img file and have it loaded > automatically on installs. Thank you Ray, worked a treat. If like me you have never had to mess with the stage2.img file to fix installations issues, below shows what is required. cd ~ wget http://yourwebserver/centos5-dvd/images/stage2.img mkdir tmp mount -t squashfs -o loop stage2.img ./tmp cd tmp vi ./usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py # comment out dispatch.skipStep("network") at around line 876 or use Ray's patch. mkdir ../new-stage2 tar cf - . | ( cd ../new-stage2/ ; tar xf - . ) cd .. yum -y install squashfs-tools mksquashfs ./new-stage2/ stage2.img.new Now replace the stage2.img file on the web server with the stage2.img.new file, renamed to stage2.img of course. Dean.

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OT -Recommendations relating to a Password Safe
by Clint Dilks 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Hi Everyone I am wondering if many people are using software that acts as a password safe. And if so can you recommend any software in particular? I know many people will disagree with this idea, and I myself have always followed the printed list stored in a secure location. But in our particular situation keeping this single list current and correct while ensuring that regular password changes happen is turning into a nightmare. Any suggestions welcome, have a nice day :)

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Missing update / update announcement
by Bernd Bartmann 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Hi, the C5 updates to openoffice.org-2.0.4-5.4.26 are available on the mirrors, but no announcement has come through the centos-announce mailing list yet. Also, upstream has released gnome-screensaver-2.16.1-5.el5_1.1 and gnome-screensaver-2.16.1-8.el5 (FasTrack channel) beginning of April. Neither is available yet for C5. Best regards, Bernd.

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centos 5.1 xen oddity
by Tomasz Nowak 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Hm... I've yum removed some old kernels in domU and... they seem to dissappear also in dom0! :> Is that possible? -- Tomek

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deny other hosts from synchronizing time with NTP client
by Simon Jolle 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Hi CentOS users We are running CentOS 4.5 with NTP 4.2.0. # cat /etc/ntp.conf restrict default ignore restrict dns1.xxx.xxx mask 255.255.255.0 nomodify notrap noquery restrict dns2.xxx.xxx mask 255.255.255.0 nomodify notrap noquery restrict 127.0.0.1 server dns1.xxx.xxx server dns2.xxx.xxx fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 driftfile /etc/ntp/drift broadcastdelay 0.008 authenticate no The problem is that other hosts are able to synchronize the time from our servers. How to disable that? # lsof -i :123 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME ntpd 4874 ntp 4u IPv4 35805 UDP *:ntp ntpd 4874 ntp 5u IPv6 35806 UDP *:ntp ntpd 4874 ntp 6u IPv4 35807 UDP localhost.localdomain:ntp ntpd 4874 ntp 7u IPv4 35808 UDP xxx:ntp ntpd 4874 ntp 8u IPv4 35809 UDP xxx:ntp ntpd 4874 ntp 9u IPv4 35810 UDP xxx:ntp ntpd 4874 ntp 10u IPv4 35811 UDP xxx:ntp NTP listens on every interface. cheers Simon -- XMPP: sjolle(a)swissjabber.org

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AW: Re: [CentOS] deny other hosts from synchronizing time with NTP client
by Marc Rebischke 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Simon Jolle <urandomdev(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The problem is that other hosts are able to synchronize the time from > our servers. How to disable that? Which other hosts? Other hosts in the same subnet as dns1 and dns2? If that is the problem, maybe you should try changing "mask 255.255.255.0" to "mask 255.255.255.255". The "mask 255.255.255.0" means all the class C subnet. HTH, Filipe _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ######################### Or just create an IPTABLES-Rule to keep those "unwanted" hosts away from Server's NTP-Service... Regards Marc

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libg++.so.2.7.2.8 available for CentOS 4.5 ?
by Tom Brown 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Hi We have a legacy app and i need to find *libg++.so.2.7.2.8 in a package for CentOS 4.5 - I can only find this library in a package for RH 7.x and this cane be installed as it conflicts with stuff from compat-libstdc++-296 which we also need.* ** *Any ideas ?* ** *thanks* **

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 38, Issue 12
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '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-2008:0223 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x) seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2008:0223 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2008:0235 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) speex - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2008:0145 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) ImageMagick - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2008:0145 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) ImageMagick - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:20:31 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0223 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x) seamonkey - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080422152030.GS30581(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0223 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0223.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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mount: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or /blah busy
by Al Sparks 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

How do I go about troubeshooting this? I'm using RHEL 4 update 6. mount: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or /blah busy It's actually an iSCSI LUN (NetApp filer). I successfully configured (ext3) and mounted it, but when I rebooted, the /dev/sdb1 device/partition is seen by the kernel and it shows up with "fdisk -l". Nevertheless I get that error. I've tried "umount" and am informed that /blah isn't mounted. I've tried "lsof" and don't find a process that's attached to /blah. I also tried "fsck -t ext3 /dev/sdb1" which worked (so it detects the ext3 file system). Any other tools to check out? === Al

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network Interface
by gopinath 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

When i run a mii-tool it displays no MII transcievers present !!! if i run ifconfig it displays the eth0 its ip and Hwaddress if i ping to the eth0 ip it pings. if i ping to some other ip on Lan no response is coming. This all happens in Cent OS 4.2 if i boot to Centos 5.1 or Redhat 7.3 the pc is able to communicated to everyone on the networks. Please help me out. Regards, Gopinath M Signal Networks Pvt. Ltd. Smile... it increases your face value!

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vectoring IRC / Jabber logins to AD?
by Rogelio 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Excuse my ignorance (I just got crap on the #centos IRC channel for this question), but is there a (easy!) way to have and IRC and/or Jabber server relay a login to a Microsoft Active Directory server for authentication? If there's a better question to ask this question, please point me in that direction, and I'll be happy to do so Thanks

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Can't get .htaccess to work
by Pam Astor 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Hi, I'm trying to password protect one of my web accessable directories and I can't get .htaccess to work in a Centos 5.1 box Here's what I did I created an .htaccess file with the contents: AuthName "Restricted Area" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /home/mysite/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null require valid-user and I uploaded it to the dir I want to protect. Then I created my password outside of my web dir with the command: htpasswd -c .htpasswd pam then followed password prompts, created my password. So then I go to the site, and am not seeing any password required box, I can see site without a login. So then I figured it's not turned on in apache, and went to httpd.conf and changed AllowOverride None to AllowOverride AuthConfig When I reload, apache will not reload. What am I doing wrong? _________________________________________________________________ Pack up or back up–use SkyDrive to transfer files or keep extra copies. Learn how. http://www.windowslive.com/skydrive/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh…

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RE: [CentOS] Kickstart network settings problem
by Plant, Dean 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

James Pearson wrote: > Plant, Dean wrote: >> I would like one of my kickstart scripts to prompt for disk and >> networking only. Commenting out the disk and network settings makes >> the installer prompt for disk settings but not for network settings, >> they default to DHCP. Any idea's how to fix this? > > I think you need to have the network settings defined - something > like: > > network --bootproto static > > If you don't give it an IP address (with the --ip option), then it > will prompt for it. This is what I do for NFS installs - as my > netmask, gateway and nameserver addresses are static, I also give > these on the network line. > Does not work, still defaults to DHCP with no prompt. Also if it makes any difference im using v5.1. I have tried with the 2 network lines shown below in the kickstart file, with and without interactive variable. Still no network configuration screen. :-( Below is my test kickstart. #platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T # System authorization information authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 # System bootloader configuration bootloader --location=mbr --md5pass=apssword # Reboot after installation reboot # Interactive interactive # Use graphical install graphical # Firewall configuration firewall --disabled # Run the Setup Agent on first boot firstboot --disable # System keyboard keyboard uk # Network settings #network --bootproto=static --device=eth0 --gateway=192.168.10.1 --nameserver=192.168.10.1 --netmask=255.255.255.0 --onboot=on network --bootproto=static # System language lang en_GB # Installation logging level # Use this to debug logging --host=alogmachine.domain.co.uk --level=info # Use network installation url --url=http://amachine.domain.co.uk/5/en/os/i386/ # Root password rootpw --iscrypted apassword # SELinux configuration selinux --disabled # System timezone timezone --isUtc Europe/London # Install OS instead of upgrade install # XWindows configuration information xconfig --depth=16 --resolution=1280x1024 --defaultdesktop=GNOME --startxonboot

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RE: [CentOS] Kickstart network settings problem
by Plant, Dean 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:47:39PM +0100, Plant, Dean wrote: >> I would like one of my kickstart scripts to prompt for disk and >> networking only. Commenting out the disk and network settings makes >> the installer prompt for disk settings but not for network settings, >> they default to DHCP. Any idea's how to fix this? > > I'm assuming you are using CentOS 5 here. I'm not sure why upstream > disabled this feature -- it was very useful to be able to use > kickstart with a DHCP IP address initially, but still be prompted for > network information during the installer portion later (as it did in > RHEL4). > > See: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401531 > > In addition, I have an RFE in with Upstream to re-add this feature and > I believe it's slated for inclusion in 5.2 with the --bootproto=query > option. > > The attachment there however: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=291881 > > patches Anaconda to not skip the network step during installation. > I've been using this successfully here to "do what I need" while > waiting for the official fix. > > You can include this in an updates.img file and have it loaded > automatically on installs. > > Ray Ahhhhh. Im not going daft then. Ill give the patches a go. Thanks everyone for your replies. Dean.

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RE: [CentOS] Kickstart network settings problem
by Plant, Dean 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

James Pearson wrote: > Plant, Dean wrote: >> James Pearson wrote: >> >>> Plant, Dean wrote: >>> >>>> I would like one of my kickstart scripts to prompt for disk and >>>> networking only. Commenting out the disk and network settings makes >>>> the installer prompt for disk settings but not for network >>>> settings, they default to DHCP. Any idea's how to fix this? >>> >>> I think you need to have the network settings defined - something >>> like: >>> >>> network --bootproto static >>> >>> If you don't give it an IP address (with the --ip option), then it >>> will prompt for it. This is what I do for NFS installs - as my >>> netmask, gateway and nameserver addresses are static, I also give >>> these on the network line. >>> >> >> >> Does not work, still defaults to DHCP with no prompt. Also if it >> makes any difference im using v5.1. >> >> I have tried with the 2 network lines shown below in the kickstart >> file, with and without interactive variable. Still no network >> configuration screen. :-( > > Hmmm, works OK for me with CentOS 4.X - however, I used a hacked > version of anaconda - one of my hacks is to set 'netDev.isDynamic' to > 0 in loader2/loader.c i.e. make static IP the default ... however, I > thought this was for non-kickstart installs only ... but may be it > isn't. > Looks like it's a CentOS 5 feature/bug as I have just tested every incarnation of the network line and they all get ignored unless I put in the complete line as per Marc-Andre's post. This DID work in CentOS 4 as long as the interactive line was specified. Dean

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Kickstart network settings problem
by Plant, Dean 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

I would like one of my kickstart scripts to prompt for disk and networking only. Commenting out the disk and network settings makes the installer prompt for disk settings but not for network settings, they default to DHCP. Any idea's how to fix this? Thanks Dean

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dd backup of lv
by Joseph L. Casale 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

I have a series of unmounted lv's that are used in xen vm's of various flavors in a lab environment. I made a script that I use to backup all of them prior to doing anything I may need to undo and all I execute is: dd if=/dev/vgname/lvname of=/dir/name.img Are there any additional parameters I should use? I haven't tried to restore this into an lv, but I did swap the 'phy' specification for 'file' and started a vm using the backed up image and it was fine. Thanks! jlc

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fdisk partition table plus sign
by Kai Schaetzl 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

What does the plus sign after the blocks value exactly mean in the fdisk output? Some research reveals that it indicates that not all the blocks are included in the fdisk value. But what does this exactly mean? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 38, Issue 11
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '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-2008:0235 CentOS 5 x86_64 speex Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CESA-2008:0235 CentOS 5 i386 speex Update (Karanbir Singh) 3. CEBA-2008:0198 CentOS 5 i386 virt-manager Update (Karanbir Singh) 4. CEBA-2008:0198 CentOS 5 x86_64 virt-manager Update (Karanbir Singh) 5. CESA-2008:0239 Important CentOS 5 i386 poppler Update (Karanbir Singh) 6. CESA-2008:0239 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 poppler Update (Karanbir Singh) 7. CESA-2008:0223 Critical CentOS 3 ia64 seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2008:0145 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 ImageMagick - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 9. CESA-2008:0223 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 10. CESA-2008:0235 Important CentOS 4 ia64 speex - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 11. CESA-2008:0145 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 ImageMagick - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 12. CESA-2008:0222 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 13. CESA-2008:0238 Important CentOS 4 ia64 kdegraphics - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 14. CESA-2008:0240 Important CentOS 4 ia64 xpdf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:45:38 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0235 CentOS 5 x86_64 speex Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080421154538.GA18149(a)base.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0235 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0235.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 492528b48a9d807e5209bc403d477581 speex-1.0.5-4.el5_1.1.i386.rpm c86fba70e91cc69a2f6e82b06e59a6c5 speex-1.0.5-4.el5_1.1.x86_64.rpm 133cd17aa69922e0493a5e5b09928da2 speex-devel-1.0.5-4.el5_1.1.i386.rpm 0bed5259dbba7777b562c567691cf4f0 speex-devel-1.0.5-4.el5_1.1.x86_64.rpm Source: 10e91f401f38a47c6bd1da1527bd9386 speex-1.0.5-4.el5_1.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:45:37 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0235 CentOS 5 i386 speex Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080421154537.GA18132(a)base.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0235 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0235.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 47a276d96c56eea2c25eb3839abd4f57 speex-1.0.5-4.el5_1.1.i386.rpm ff9e4b595acef523f9e31193739488ca speex-devel-1.0.5-4.el5_1.1.i386.rpm Source: 10e91f401f38a47c6bd1da1527bd9386 speex-1.0.5-4.el5_1.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:47:49 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2008:0198 CentOS 5 i386 virt-manager Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080421154749.GA18300(a)base.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2008:0198 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0198.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 0ab29cc32db96613dc3df0f79be8c680 virt-manager-0.4.0-3.el5.1.i386.rpm 59235901253318a488b2c65d2c31bcbd virt-manager-0.4.0-3.el5.1.i686.rpm Source: 35d5478528204a9c880cf420b2315052 virt-manager-0.4.0-3.el5.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:47:49 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2008:0198 CentOS 5 x86_64 virt-manager Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080421154749.GA18318(a)base.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2008:0198 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0198.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: bd68fa6bfcfa40e258190fd47c703635 virt-manager-0.4.0-3.el5.1.x86_64.rpm Source: 35d5478528204a9c880cf420b2315052 virt-manager-0.4.0-3.el5.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:50:27 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0239 Important CentOS 5 i386 poppler Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080421155027.GA18611(a)base.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0239 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0239.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 56e539efe536f922c6e2d1e068088295 poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.i386.rpm b55397fc2d0c3daafeac19026e188362 poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.i386.rpm ac8daaf946bf5915f8d3a2fe78b9c87b poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.i386.rpm Source: a410fa5d13dfcfbfc57bf0c33b03ad8a poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:50:27 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0239 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 poppler Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080421155027.GA18624(a)base.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0239 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0239.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: b0fe189bb3eec9d3401a1a6854a95673 poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.i386.rpm 507675f8073aa337cd939d0b79832259 poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.x86_64.rpm c6ee3c0f1839a66f2a43d9bec1d48909 poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.i386.rpm 7bf9ddd101b883e3e99671a1658068c3 poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.x86_64.rpm 445a5b56abed10fad6b34730bf8fb258 poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.x86_64.rpm Source: a410fa5d13dfcfbfc57bf0c33b03ad8a poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:03:09 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0223 Critical CentOS 3 ia64 seamonkey - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080421180309.GK30581(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0223 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0223.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.17.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Console Screen Saver
by Joseph L. Casale 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

How does one access the properties associated with the blanking CentOS does at init3? How would I disable this for example? Thanks! jlc

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Diskless Environment
by gopinath 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

How to configure Diskless environment in CentOS 5.1. Please help me out Regards, Gopinath M Signal Networks Pvt. Ltd. Smile... it increases your face value!

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DDNS with DHCP
by gopinath 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

How to configure DDNS with DHCP on Centos 4.3 Regards, Gopinath M Signal Networks Pvt. Ltd. Smile... it increases your face value!

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iptables details
by Fajar Priyanto 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Hi all, I'm a bit confused reading the RHEL System-Administrator-Guide regarding this: (1) iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to 10.1.2.253:80 (2) iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 10.1.2.253:80 The first is for port forwarding, the second is said to be used for DMZ. But I tried both and the result is the same. Is there any difference between the two? Thank you, -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 08:09:27 up 1:01, 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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last resort before hard reboot
by Joshua Frankamp 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

Is there a resource for CentOS for things to do before a hard reboot? My situation is apparently an out of memory condition where I am seeing fatal 'oops' output all over the place, Ctrl-Alt-F3 (for example) new console login attempts will accept credentials and then never get to a login prompt. Remoting in is just as useless. I cannot therefore use any of the standard restart commands, since I cannot enter commands. By default in CentOs (and on my machine) Alt- SysRq is disabled. Do I have any other options before hard resetting the box? Thanks, - Joshua

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Odd behaviour with modules; looking for some theories
by Miskell, Craig 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

Hi all, Recently, after doing some maintenance on one of my servers (Centos 5), I rebooted. On reboot, it didn't find the SAN disks at all, and after some poking around in maintenance mode, I discovered that it couldn't find the Qlogic module. It turns out that /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/modules.alias, modules.dep and such were all empty or just had their header comment lines. moddep -a fixed things up quickly enough once I figured out what was going on. However, I'm kinda stumped as to how these files got nuked in the first place. It wasn't files being deleted completely, it's like they were regenerated incorrectly. Checking backups showed these files were last changed (to their short form) on Feb 11; yum.log doesn't show any sign of updates on that date, so presumably it wasn't something like a kernel installation running amok. Does anyone have any theories as to what happened? Random logical guesses is fine ;-) Thanks, Craig Miskell, Technical Support, AgResearch Invermay 03 489-9279 "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." -- Gene "spaf" Spafford (1992) ======================================================================= Attention: The information contained in this message and/or attachments from AgResearch Limited is intended only for the persons or entities to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipients is prohibited by AgResearch Limited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. =======================================================================

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rejecting I/O to offline device (PERC woes)
by Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

Haven't gotten any tips on a solution to the problem below. It happened again this weekend. My next test steps (order not determined): 1. Downgrade to CentOS 4 2. Swap out PERC controller with a spare I have never had a problem with the PERC4/DC controllers on our other machines (RHEL3/4, CentOS 4). Although, I've no other machine that has 5 300G Fujitsu SCSI drives either. Any suggestions on the below, or which order on the above to try ? Thanks, -- Curt ------------------------------- I have a 6650 with a PERC4/DC running CentOS5. After 1 to 3 weeks of operation (running VMWare Server) it 'dies' (raid array gets taken offline) and you get rejecting I/O to offline device. When this system was setup late last year, the 6650 was given all the latest firmware along with the PERC4/DC. using linttylog, the last entries from when the system must have 'checked out' last night, I see the data attached below. Some time back I thought I had cured this problem by adding noapic to the kernel boot parameters in boot.conf. It had gone away for a long time... but is now back. according to lintty, it reports controller firmware is: T0: Firmware version 352D build on Mar 19 2007 at 17:43:23 T0: MegaRAID Series 518 firmware version 352D using strings tty.log | grep 'MedErr on pd' | cut -c17- | sort | uniq -c | sort -n I see: 163 REC:log MedErr on pd[1] #retries=0 165 REC:log MedErr on pd[4] #retries=0 168 REC:log MedErr on pd[2] #retries=0 If I am to believe this, Patrol read is finding media errors on physical drives 1, 2, and 4 ! ? These drives are not even a year old, and to have an almost even distribution of errors across 3 drives seems far fetched (unless patrol read is reading past the end of drive ?, but then it would be doing that with all 5 drives). Is the PERC busted ? driver issue ? I'm running CentOS 5 with kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5PAE from dmesg, megaraid related driver versions: megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.7 (Release Date: Sun Jul 16 00:01:03 EST 2006) megaraid: 2.20.5.1 (Release Date: Thu Nov 16 15:32:35 EST 2006) Anyone seen this behavior before ? Anyone have a solution ? We have several Dells in a hosting environment with PERC4/DC running RHEL3, RHEL4.X, and CentOS4.X. We have not had this issue on any of them (though they do not have 5 300G Fujitsu SCSI drives in a RAID 5 config either (as this one does)). Hoping someone can shed some light on this... so far I keep coming up short on finding a solution. Here is the full content of the last lines recorded in the PERC as pulled by linttylog: 03/24 21:43:41: Next PR scheduled to start at 03/25 0:00:00 03/25 3:47:41: REC:log MedErr on pd[4] #retries=0 03/25 3:47:41: LogSense: pd=04, cdb=2f 00 14 30 03 12 00 ff ff 00 03/25 3:47:41: sense=f0 00 03 14 30 14 e6 28 00 00 00 00 11 01 00 00 00 3f 03/25 3:47:41: REC: MedErr on LD[4] BadLba=143014e6 03/25 3:47:41: prCallback: Medium Error on pd=04, StartLba=14300312, ErrLba=143014e6 03/25 3:47:42: prRecQueue: starting pd=04 recovery - blocking host commands 03/25 3:47:42: prRecGo: Ready to attempt recovery errLBA=143014e6 on pd=04 03/25 3:47:42: prGetLDInfo: MediaErr in ld=0, span=0, arm=4 03/25 3:47:42: prRecGo: dataErr found on ld 0 span 0 arm 4 03/25 3:47:42: prRecGo: data NOT in cache; cacheLn=ffffffff, row=143014, stripe=50c052, refBlk=e6, type=1 03/25 3:47:42: prRecGo: R5-get cacheLn=133, c_ptr=d0dc1045 mem=d0daf9a4 & setup cInx=1db c=d0d26ee6 03/25 3:47:42: RtnFrmPrcRcyRd for arm=1 mem=d0db23f1 stripe=143014 type=2 i=0 status=ffff 03/25 3:47:42: RtnFrmPrcRcyRd for arm=2 mem=d0db2402 stripe=50c050 type=1 i=1 status=ffff 03/25 3:47:42: RtnFrmPrcRcyRd for arm=3 mem=d0db2413 stripe=50c051 type=1 i=2 status=ffff 03/25 3:47:42: RtnFrmPrcRcyRd for arm=0 mem=d0db23e0 stripe=50c053 type=1 i=4 status=ffff 03/25 3:47:43: REC:log MedErr on pd[1] #retries=0 03/25 3:47:43: LogSense: pd=01, cdb=28 00 14 30 14 e6 00 00 01 00 03/25 3:47:43: sense=f0 00 03 14 30 14 e6 28 00 00 00 00 11 01 00 00 00 3f 03/25 3:47:43: REC: MedErr on LD[1] BadLba=143014e6 03/25 3:47:43: REC:log MedErr on pd[2] #retries=0 03/25 3:47:43: LogSense: pd=02, cdb=28 00 14 30 14 e6 00 00 01 00 03/25 3:47:43: sense=f0 00 03 14 30 14 e6 28 00 00 00 00 11 01 00 00 00 3f 03/25 3:47:43: REC: MedErr on LD[2] BadLba=143014e6 03/25 3:47:43: org resgnBlk=e6 03/25 3:47:43: org resgnBlk=ffff 03/25 3:47:43: PatrolReadStart: Log MedErr pd=04 errLBA=143014e6 in NVRAM_EVENT_LOG 03/25 3:48:06: REC:log MedErr on pd[2] #retries=0 03/25 3:48:06: LogSense: pd=02, cdb=2f 00 14 2f a7 92 00 ff ff 00 03/25 3:48:06: sense=f0 00 03 14 30 14 e6 28 00 00 00 00 11 01 00 00 00 3f 03/25 3:48:06: REC: MedErr on LD[2] BadLba=143014e6 03/25 3:48:06: prCallback: Medium Error on pd=02, StartLba=142fa792, ErrLba=143014e6 03/25 3:48:06: prRecQueue: starting pd=02 recovery - blocking host commands 03/25 3:48:06: prRecGo: Ready to attempt recovery errLBA=143014e6 on pd=02 03/25 3:48:06: prGetLDInfo: MediaErr in ld=0, span=0, arm=2 03/25 3:48:06: prRecGo: dataErr found on ld 0 span 0 arm 2 03/25 3:48:06: prRecGo: data NOT in cache; cacheLn=24a, row=143014, stripe=50c050, refBlk=e6, type=1 03/25 3:48:06: prRecGo: R5-get cacheLn=24a, c_ptr=d0dcc646 mem=d0d945e2 & setup cInx=10e c=d0d1f9fc 03/25 3:48:06: RtnFrmPrcRcyRd for arm=1 mem=d0d98e11 stripe=143014 type=2 i=0 status=ffff 03/25 3:48:06: RtnFrmPrcRcyRd for arm=3 mem=d0d98e33 stripe=50c051 type=1 i=2 status=ffff 03/25 3:48:06: RtnFrmPrcRcyRd for arm=4 mem=d0d98e44 stripe=50c052 type=1 i=3 status=ffff 03/25 3:48:06: RtnFrmPrcRcyRd for arm=0 mem=d0d98e00 stripe=50c053 type=1 i=4 status=ffff 03/25 3:48:07: REC:log MedErr on pd[1] #retries=0 03/25 3:48:07: LogSense: pd=01, cdb=28 00 14 30 14 e6 00 00 01 00 03/25 3:48:07: sense=f0 00 03 14 30 14 e6 28 00 00 00 00 11 01 00 00 00 3f 03/25 3:48:07: REC: MedErr on LD[1] BadLba=143014e6 03/25 3:48:07: REC:log MedErr on pd[4] #retries=0 03/25 3:48:07: LogSense: pd=04, cdb=28 00 14 30 14 e6 00 00 01 00 03/25 3:48:07: sense=f0 00 03 14 30 14 e6 28 00 00 00 00 11 01 00 00 00 3f 03/25 3:48:07: REC: MedErr on LD[4] BadLba=143014e6 03/25 3:48:07: org resgnBlk=e6 03/25 3:48:07: org resgnBlk=ffff 03/25 3:48:07: PatrolReadStart: Log MedErr pd=02 errLBA=143014e6 in NVRAM_EVENT_LOG 03/25 3:48:09: REC:log MedErr on pd[1] #retries=0 03/25 3:48:09: LogSense: pd=01, cdb=2f 00 14 30 00 d2 00 ff ff 00 03/25 3:48:09: sense=f0 00 03 14 30 14 e6 28 00 00 00 00 11 01 00 00 00 3f 03/25 3:48:09: REC: MedErr on LD[1] BadLba=143014e6 03/25 3:48:09: prCallback: Medium Error on pd=01, StartLba=143000d2, ErrLba=143014e6 03/25 3:48:10: prRecQueue: starting pd=01 recovery - blocking host commands 03/25 3:48:10: prRecGo: Ready to attempt recovery errLBA=143014e6 on pd=01 03/25 3:48:10: prGetLDInfo: MediaErr in ld=0, span=0, arm=1 03/25 3:48:10: prRecGo: dataErr found on ld 0 span 0 arm 1 03/25 3:48:10: prRecGo: data NOT in cache; cacheLn=99, row=143014, stripe=143014, refBlk=e6, type=2 03/25 3:48:10: prRecGo: R5-get cacheLn=99, c_ptr=d0dbabcf mem=d0d92c51 & setup cInx=102 c=d0d1f324 03/25 3:48:10: RtnFrmPrcRcyRd for arm=2 mem=d0d9d002 stripe=50c050 type=1 i=1 status=ffff 03/25 3:48:10: RtnFrmPrcRcyRd for arm=3 mem=d0d9d013 stripe=50c051 type=1 i=2 status=ffff 03/25 3:48:10: RtnFrmPrcRcyRd for arm=4 mem=d0d9d024 stripe=50c052 type=1 i=3 status=ffff 03/25 3:48:10: RtnFrmPrcRcyRd for arm=0 mem=d0d9cfe0 stripe=50c053 type=1 i=4 status=ffff 03/25 3:48:11: REC:log MedErr on pd[2] #retries=0 03/25 3:48:11: LogSense: pd=02, cdb=28 00 14 30 14 e6 00 00 01 00 03/25 3:48:11: sense=f0 00 03 14 30 14 e6 28 00 00 00 00 11 01 00 00 00 3f 03/25 3:48:11: REC: MedErr on LD[2] BadLba=143014e6 03/25 3:48:11: REC:log MedErr on pd[4] #retries=0 03/25 3:48:11: LogSense: pd=04, cdb=28 00 14 30 14 e6 00 00 01 00 03/25 3:48:11: sense=f0 00 03 14 30 14 e6 28 00 00 00 00 11 01 00 00 00 3f 03/25 3:48:11: REC: MedErr on LD[4] BadLba=143014e6 03/25 3:48:11: org resgnBlk=e6 03/25 3:48:11: org resgnBlk=ffff 03/25 3:48:11: PatrolReadStart: Log MedErr pd=01 errLBA=143014e6 in NVRAM_EVENT_LOG Any help is greatly appreciated, -- Curt

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init script numbers
by Joseph L. Casale 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

How does chkconfig determine what number to give to a link when you turn a service on? Thanks! jlc

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enable bootsplash
by David Hláčik 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

Hi, how do i enable boot splash (graphical boot) in CentOs5.1 ? I am in init 5, i have updated from minimal install to GNOME using yum groupinstall. Thanks in advance! David

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rpmforge problem
by Anne Wilson 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

For several days now I've been trying to update clamav from rpmforge without success. Does anyone know what's likely to be the problem? Anne

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Good news for virtual EL-4.x boxes
by Stephen John Smoogen 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

Currently, if you are running CentOS-4.x on a Vmware box you end up with time skew problems. The main fix has been using a set of recompiled kernel that has a HZ that is more fitting with what Vmware expects (eg 100 hz). The 4.7 kernels look like they will not need this: http://jons-thoughts.blogspot.com/2008/04/rhel-and-vmware-time-skew-problem… Well, I've gotten quite the number of questions over the last few days about time skew problems in RHEL4 and VMWare, so figured that I would write this. In RHEL4.7, there will be a kernel feature that allows you to pass 'divider=' on the command line in grub. The number must be a divisor of 1000, and the most common value is 10 (yielding an effective timer interrupt rate of 100Hz). I'm expecting the 4.7 beta to become available Real Soon Now(TM), though I have no information as to when that will occur. In the meantime, this change is available as a hotfix from Red Hat's Global Support Services. What this does is take the kernel tick rate (which defaults to 1000Hz) and divides it by the value of divider, to come up with an effective interrupt rate. You can verify that this is working by: Before making the change, use 'watch --interval=1 cat /proc/interrupts' and you'll notice that the timer interrupt is incrementing by 1000 every second. After you make the change, you you notice with the same command that it is incrementing via 1000/ every second. The vlaue of HZ that is exposed to modules is still 1000, thus not breaking module ABI. This same change is already present in RHEL5.1 today. In recent Fedora's, this is unnecessary due to the advent of the tickless kernel (which is useful for other reasons, including reduced power consumption on laptops). It is likely that RHEL6 will also be based on a tickless kernel. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"

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GUI
by hamood Iqbal 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

Hi, i am happy user of Centos 5.1 . i have installed Zimbra , Zenoss and webmin for testing purposes. Everything was going fine until yesterday when ever i want to go to yumex Gui it does not open, same with add and remove software when i click it , it does not open. also when i go to "services" gui same is happening. Yesterday i updated the system and rebooted still the problem remains. everything is fine if i do it through the terminal. but when i want to access services , network , yumex , add & remove software they dont start. other programs like Ooffice work. if i check in the terminal they are working. So what is happening ? please help in this matter. i am using centos 5.1 on vmware server 1.0.3. will install on a production server soon. Thanks

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vmware free on Centos5.1 clock sync
by David Hláčik 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

Hi, i am running virtual machines on vmware free , both with Windows Server Enterprise 2003. Problem is with clock, they are allways goinng forward faster then should. dmesg informs about : dev/vmmon[21623]: host clock rate change request 83 -> 1043 /dev/vmmon[21623]: host clock rate change request 1043 -> 83 /dev/vmmon[21623]: host clock rate change request 83 -> 1043 /dev/vmmon[21623]: host clock rate change request 1043 -> 83 /dev/vmmon[21623]: host clock rate change request 83 -> 1043 /dev/vmmon[21623]: host clock rate change request 1043 -> 83 all the time. I found on centos wiki information ,about vmware kernel running inside linux virtual machines to change frequency to 100hz. Is there any workaround for this issue? Thanks! David

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 38, Issue 10
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '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-2008:0223 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 firefox - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2008:0222 Critical CentOS 4 i386 firefox - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2008:0223 Critical CentOS 4 i386 seamonkey - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2008:0222 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 firefox - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2008:0145 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 Imagemagick - security update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2008:0145 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 Imagemagick - security update (Johnny Hughes) 7. CESA-2008:0235 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 speex - security update (Johnny Hughes) 8. CESA-2008:0235 Important CentOS 4 i386 speex - security update (Johnny Hughes) 9. CESA-2008:0238 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 kdegraphics - security update (Johnny Hughes) 10. CESA-2008:0238 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 kdegraphics - security update (Johnny Hughes) 11. CESA-2008:0240 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 xpdf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 12. CESA-2008:0240 Important CentOS 4 i386 xpdf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 13. CESA-2008:0175 Important CentOS 4 i386 openoffice.org2 - security update (Johnny Hughes) 14. CESA-2008:0175 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 openoffice.org2 - security update (Johnny Hughes) 15. CESA-2008:0176 Important CentOS 4 i386 openoffice.org - security update (Johnny Hughes) 16. CESA-2008:0176 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 openoffice.org - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:01:13 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0223 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 firefox - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <480B4CA9.70902(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0223 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0223.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: seamonkey-1.0.9-16.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-16.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-16.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-16.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-16.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-16.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-16.el4.centos.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-16.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-16.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-16.el4.centos.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-16.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-16.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm src: seamonkey-1.0.9-16.el4.centos.src.rpm

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vncviewer
by Joseph L. Casale 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

How do you send special keystrokes in vncviewer? I need to send Shift-F10... Searching the net showed nothing and realvnc's webpage yielded nothing either. Thanks! jlc

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PPP server Over E1
by gopinath 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

How to configure a PPP server to send and receive traffic over G.703 PCI card. ( E1 Line) Regards, Gopinath M Signal Networks Pvt. Ltd. Smile... it increases your face value!

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iSCSI + CentOS 5.1 +_netdev problem
by Santi Saez 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

Dear Srs, I'm trying to automount an iSCSI device at system startup, this is the configuration: - CentOS 5.1, with kernel 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5PAE, i686 arch - iscsi-initiator-utils 6.2.0.865-0.8.el5 - iSCSI target is a Infortrend A16E-G2130-4 I have solved the "initial_login_retry_max" problem [1] and Open- iSCSI logs into Infortrend target without problems, with 10 retries in the parameter, but the partition is not automounted. Start scripts order appears OK: # ls -1 /etc/rc3.d/S* /etc/rc3.d/S07iscsid /etc/rc3.d/S10network /etc/rc3.d/S12syslog /etc/rc3.d/S13iscsi /etc/rc3.d/S25netfs /etc/rc3.d/S55sshd /etc/rc3.d/S90crond /etc/rc3.d/S99local But "_netdev" marked iSCSI device is not mounted, this is the fstab file: LABEL=/vz /vz ext3 _netdev,rw,noatime,nodiratime,commit=60,data=writeback 0 0 I have tried using LABELs, UUIDs, device names in fstab file.. and the problem is the same. If I put a "mount /vz" into "/etc/rc3.d/S99local" partition is mounted without problem.. I think the problem is in the "netfs" start script, I see no option to mount "_netdev" marked entries.. only a call to the command: (..) fsck -A -T -R -a -t opts=_netdev (..) I have solved the problem adding a "sleep 1" before the fsck execution: (..) echo $STRING sleep 1 fsck -A -T -R -a -t opts=_netdev rc=$? (..) Anyone with the same problem? What can be wrong? I have no problem with the same scenario on CentOS 4.6.. thanks!! Regards, -- Santi Saez

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What is wrong with yum?
by Olaf Mueller 20 Apr '08

20 Apr '08

Hello, in my CentOS-Base.repo file there is a line baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch and yum update said 'nothing to do'. Then I change this line to baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.1/updates/i386 and yum updates firefox, squid, sos and so on. That happens on two of my computers, reproducible. Does yum sometimes forget it's release version? regards Olaf

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New firewall, need mac changed
by Joseph L. Casale 20 Apr '08

20 Apr '08

I have read a few ways to do this, but not 100% sure. I need the interfaces reliably associated to the hardware (there are more than one), so the ifcfg-ethn has the mac address in it. I need to match the mac address of an old router that is about to be removed so I need not change any dns related config. Thanks! jlc

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Logrotate problem after start of DST
by Bernd Bartmann 20 Apr '08

20 Apr '08

Hi, since the start of the daylight savings time my server has a problem with the log files. Sunday night the log files get rotated correctly, i.e. /var/log/messages gets /var/log.messages.1, /var/log/messages.1 get /var/log/messages.2, ... The problem now is that after log rotation new messages do no go to /var/log/messages, but to the rotated file. As DST started 3 weeks, the latest log entries now go to /var/log/messages.3. This happens to all other log files too. Even after rebooting the server new log entries go to /var/log/messages.3 instead of /var/log/messages. Any ideas why this happens and how to fix this problem? Thanks in advance, Bernd.

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Securing SSH
by Tim Alberts 20 Apr '08

20 Apr '08

So I setup ssh on a server so I could do some work from home and I think the second I opened it every sorry monkey from around the world has been trying every account name imaginable to get into the system. What's a good way to deal with this?

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 38, Issue 9
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 20 Apr '08

20 Apr '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-2008:0222 Critical CentOS 5 i386 firefox Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CESA-2008:0222 Critical CentOS 5 x86_64 firefox Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:20:35 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0222 Critical CentOS 5 i386 firefox Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080419132035.GA27726(a)base.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0222 Critical Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0222.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 4379799fe0774963f4ce58e1143ecd78 firefox-1.5.0.12-15.el5.centos.i386.rpm 46887c550eb005138abfc1beb55605cc firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-15.el5.centos.i386.rpm Source: e30461f5b1481b4a03820adf0f96476b firefox-1.5.0.12-15.el5.centos.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:20:37 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0222 Critical CentOS 5 x86_64 firefox Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080419132037.GA27744(a)base.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0222 Critical Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0222.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 27c5f0ba71e3777f6189d654082fa860 firefox-1.5.0.12-15.el5.centos.i386.rpm b763e54ee9cb560f87e787276e066f01 firefox-1.5.0.12-15.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm 77e0a94ee60bd56186343348106c67d2 firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-15.el5.centos.i386.rpm 5bab86c7afac95364f31fd74da3900bc firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-15.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm Source: e30461f5b1481b4a03820adf0f96476b firefox-1.5.0.12-15.el5.centos.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 38, Issue 9 **********************************************

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Another samba problem
by Anne Wilson 19 Apr '08

19 Apr '08

My server is CentOS with samba 3.0.25b. One client box runs Mandriva 2007.1 with samba 3.0.24. I can see the client box from the server, but the client box can't see the server. It can see the laptop on the same lan, though. Any suggestions as to what I could check? I know Craig said there had been some significant changes in recent versions. Are any of those changes likely to have an impact on this? Anne

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