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Root exploit in the wild
by Frank Cox 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432251 Mentioned on Slashdot here: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/10/2011257 Fedora bug report here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432229 -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed
by Bowie Bailey 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > Not very impressive :) Two different SATA II based arrays on an LSI > controller, 5% complete in ~7 hours == a week to complete! I ran this > command from an ssh session from my workstation (That was clearly a > dumb move). Given the robustness of the pvmove command I have gleaned > from reading, if the session bales how much time am I likely to lose > by restarting? Are the checkpoints frequent? I always use screen when running updates, installs, disk maintenance, etc. This way, if the ssh session dies for whatever reason, the command keeps going and I can reconnect to the session later. It's also useful to be able to start the run at the office and then reconnect from home to check on it. -- Bowie

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 36, Issue 7
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '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-2008:0129 Important CentOS 5 i386 kernel - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2008:0129 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 kernel - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:27:15 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0129 Important CentOS 5 i386 kernel - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <47B26393.7070704(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0129 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0129.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.i686.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.i386.rpm kernel-PAE-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.i686.rpm src: kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.src.rpm

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change the GUI manager
by Sobari Tanuwijaya 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Hi, I installed CentOS using GNOME, but now I want to try it using KDE, how can I change it? Thanks in advance -- Tanu --

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RE: [CentOS] VMWare Server Install Problem
by Harry Sukumar 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Dear All, Thank you all for sharing this information, I had to setup something very immediately and a friend of mine suggested VIRTUALBOX, so I went on installing virtualbox, to be frank its great free software. There was no hassle in Installation and pretty similar interface to VMWare Server. Does the same job as more secure and reliable I guess I will try your suggestion some time this week Once again thanks to every one Cheers Harry -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Akemi Yagi Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2008 10:42 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] VMWare Server Install Problem On Feb 12, 2008 4:33 AM, Alfredo Perez <alfredoj69(a)rogers.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:43:38PM +1000, Harry Sukumar wrote: > > Good Day All, > > > > I have issues installing VMware Server on CentOS 5, its asking for the > > location of c header files, i have installed them all but i am still > > unable to install VMWare Server > > > > here is the output > > > > What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your > > running > > kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] > > The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory. > > > > What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your > > running > > kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] > > > I think you need to install the kernel sources You do not need the full kernel source to install vmware server. Just kernel-headers and kernel-devel (or kernel-(foo-)devel) packages. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Question on failing hard drive part 2
by Jimmy Bradley 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

OK, I've figured out which drive is bad. Before I go any further let me give a brief HD configuration explanation. The primary IDE has a 80gig(Master) HD, and an internal zip drive(Slave) connected to it. The two 200gig Hard Drives are connect to a PCI ATA controller card(Not a promise card), one is master, the other one is slave. It is the slave 200gig drive that is going bad. Now, I have a feeling this would be too easy. When I set the machine up, Cent OS set the drives up using LVM. I only have about 20 to 30 gigs of data saved on the machine right now. Maybe not quite that much. Like I said, I have a feeling that hoping this will work would be too easy, but what do you think my chances would be, that I could disconnect the drive that is going bad, boot the machine up, and it fully boot up, and all my data be intact, and LVM automatically resize the home partition down to around 200gigs instead of 405gigs? Jim

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Interim RPMs for vmsplice() issue
by Erek Dyskant 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Howdy all, I compiled a set of kernel RPMs with the upstream kernel patch applied. Obviously they haven't gone through the full QA process, but I know of them running on approximately 50 servers without any reported issues. They're available at: http://erek.blumenthals.com/blog/2008/02/11/rhel-5-centos-5-kernel-rpms-pat… Let me know any experiences you have with them. Regards, Erek Dyskant

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Making FORWARD_IPV4=YES permanent / DHCP multiple routers
by Tim Alberts 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

First, I'd like to configure my system to forward ip, to act as a gateway for my network. I've always used a script during startup to do this: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ${UPLINK} -j SNAT --to ${IP_NAT} This works fine, however I want this permanent so I don't have to run the script on startup. I have the firewall setup with SNAT fine, but when I write the file /etc/sysconfig/network with the line 'FORWARD_IPV4=YES' it still doesn't enable the ip forwarding after boot? cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 0 So how do I do this? Second, In DHCP, you can specify multiple DNS servers: option domain-name-servers 10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2, 10.0.0.3; can you also do this with routers? option routers 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2; so that if one is down, the network PC's can fail over to another?

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securing web applications (Wiki CMS installation)
by Simon Jolle "sjolle" 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Centos Users How to secure a Wiki CMS? This Wiki is based on Apache2, MySQL and PHP. I cant read the code (lack of knowledge). Would be glad about hints and URLs cheers Simon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHsLAaEMN/lNE/wrwRAlqBAJ91UQgileOWgtjwqzxwfo2j6v2+yQCfb8tL eGkCnAkZ8lehGzUitDov6Iw= =s2ox -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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About NAT MAQUERADE
by Roilan Cardoso Sánchez 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Hello everybody, í'm want to create a maquerade for my lan in the firewall server I know i can use: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o external-interface -j MASQUERADE but I want to use this nat only for some IPs How can i restrict the nat maswuerade for an IP or Ip range? regards Roilan ______________________________________________ ¿Con Mascota por primera vez? Sé un mejor Amigo. Entra en Yahoo! Respuestas http://es.answers.yahoo.com/info/welcome

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RE: [CentOS] VMWare Server Install Problem
by Alex 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

The vmware site has appliances already for install many other also -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alfredo Perez Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:33 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] VMWare Server Install Problem On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:43:38PM +1000, Harry Sukumar wrote: > Good Day All, > > I have issues installing VMware Server on CentOS 5, its asking for the > location of c header files, i have installed them all but i am still > unable to install VMWare Server > > here is the output > > What is the location of the directory of C header files that match > your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] The path > "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory. > > What is the location of the directory of C header files that match > your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] > > I think you need to install the kernel sources _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Re: [CentOS] VMWare Server Install Problem
by Akemi Yagi 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

On Feb 12, 2008 4:33 AM, Alfredo Perez <alfredoj69(a)rogers.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:43:38PM +1000, Harry Sukumar wrote: > > Good Day All, > > > > I have issues installing VMware Server on CentOS 5, its asking for the > > location of c header files, i have installed them all but i am still > > unable to install VMWare Server > > > > here is the output > > > > What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your > > running > > kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] > > The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory. > > > > What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your > > running > > kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] > > > I think you need to install the kernel sources You do not need the full kernel source to install vmware server. Just kernel-headers and kernel-devel (or kernel-(foo-)devel) packages.

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VMWare Server Install Problem
by Harry Sukumar 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Good Day All, I have issues installing VMware Server on CentOS 5, its asking for the location of c header files, i have installed them all but i am still unable to install VMWare Server here is the output What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] Thanks Harry

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 36, Issue 6
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '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-2008:0105 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) thunderbird - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:37:14 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0105 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) thunderbird - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080211163714.GJ3950(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0105 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0105.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/thunderbird-1.5.0.12-8.el4.centos.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/thunderbird-1.5.0.12-8.el4.centos.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Re: [CentOS] Disk partitions and LVM limits
by Peter Blajev 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

> Undo the LVM config, wipe out any MBR or disklabels on the drive, > then pvcreate the raw disk (/dev/sdb) it should be able to handle > the whole 5.4TB. I tried this but I'll try again tonight just in case I missed something the first time. I didn't check what pvcreate did but vgcreate after that gave me 2TB volume group. Googling around it looks like there is 2TB limit and there should be some kernel parameters to tweak but I still can't get a clear answer. Thanks Peter

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Re: [CentOS] IPtables Possibility
by Jun Salen 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

----- Original Message ---- From: Brent L. Bates <blbates(a)vigyan.com> To: Jun Salen <nokijun(a)yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:30:44 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] IPtables Possibility > Personally, I'd use ipfilter instead of ipchains/iptables, or what ever >they are calling it this month. It is much better software and I find it much >easier to use and configure than the other. It is used on a wide variety of >OS's. However, what ever you choose to use, it will still be a steep learning >curve. You might be better off learning more about your current firewall than >switching to something else. Since I do know how to set up ipfilter, I do >find it difficult using the canned firewall boxes. Things I could easily do >with ipfilter are usually a pain in the neck or they can not be done at all >with these other boxes. I hope this is of some help. Thanks for the advice Brent. junji aisalen.wordpress.com Linux Registered User #253162 CentOS User Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Apache 2.2 on CentOS 5 and name-based SSL virtual hosts?
by Kai Schaetzl 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

name-based virtual hosts with SSL (*) work fine with Apache 2.0 on CentOS 4 and I know from someone that he uses a self-compiled Apache 2.2 on CentOS 4 and this works fine for him as well. So, Apache 2.2 should still have this functionality. But testing this on CentOS 5 with the Apache 2.2 coming with it is not working for me. Has anyone tested this already? Does it work for you? I fear the build for RHEL/CentOS 5 may be missing a build parameter or so that is necessary to enable this. (*) using the same wildcard certificate for all SSL virtual hosts on the same IP-no:port combination, of course. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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nmbd dead but pid file exists
by Anne Wilson 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

I'm having a lot of problems with nmbd quitting while I'm working. 'service smb status' shows samba running, but 'nmbd dead but pid file exists'. Log files show lines like nmbd/nmbd.c:reload_interfaces(229) reload_interfaces: No subnets to listen to. Shutting down... Googling hasn't come up with anything helpful. Has anyone any idea what is happening and what I can do about it? Anne

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Flushing RAM contents?
by Scott Ehrlich 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

A user wants to time a command/program/application and ensure the full contents of that command's data management has been flushed from RAM/cache and saved to disk. Is there a way to ensure the cache/RAM is flushed to disk, or is the flushing a function of the kernel or the application? This happens to be on a 64-bit Intel system with 64-bit CentOS 5, fully patched. But even if the system were an out-of-box 64-bit install, unpatched, would it make a difference? Thanks. Scott

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Folding@Home
by Robert Spangler 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

Hi, I seem to not be able to connect to the folding site and receive new work. Anyone else having this issue? Port 8080 is open as well as the other web ports on the firewall. I can ping the host but get nothing when I open a web browser to it. Anyone else having the same issues? Where can I look to figure this one out? -- Regards Robert Smile... it increases your face value! Linux User #296285 http://counter.li.org

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Network Installation of CentOS disk image via PXE
by vincenzo romero 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

Hello all, I've deployed new servers - installing new CentOS servers via PXE booting using its iso distribution stored on an NFS server. For certain server types; I'd like to install custom applications into a server and then generate an image of that server, and deploy again via PXE to another group of servers. Wanted to find out if anyone can forward any pointers to papers or links on: 1. Best and (cheapest) way to create disk image (that can be used for over the network installation over PXE) of an existing CentOS server with all its custom apps and packages ... would this be dd? would this take a long time? 2. Would like to find out if you can point me to a guide or doc - that specifically describes this process; most PXE install notes out there describe the PXE config setup and assumes an ISO image (to create a new server), as opposed to deploying a "ghosted" image of an existing server. 3. In a deployment of a "ghosted" image - would the DHCP automatically request for a new IP address upon completion of the installation on the target machine (since when I ghost the source machine, the network information will contain that source's machine IP address, MAC, etc. etc.) Thanks in advance .. -- best, Vince

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NFS Exporting / not working ???
by Michael W Cocke 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

I'm fairly certain I'm not losing my mind, but.... I'm a very recent convert from fedora 7 to Centos 5. I had the / filesystem exported and it worked fine. Installed Centos, dropped the very same exports file I was using successfully into /etc, restarted nfs, and it won't allow anyone to access. If you mount it from a different system, the mount succeeds, but no files or directories show up and the ls just sort of dies a slow death. I managed to get it to work with samba, but nfs just won't happen. What am I missing? Mike- -- If you're not confused, you're not trying hard enough. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,

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Turning Wireless Radio on and off: how?
by Mark Weaver 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

Hi all, I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Broadcom 1390 Wlan mini card (integrated) wireless lan chipset. I've got an init script setup to activate the wireless connection at boot time, however when the system boots the adapter doesn't connect. I'm not able to get a connection until after the desktop is done loading and I run the script from the command line. After some log review apparently as the system is booting the radio for the wireless lan card is "off", so I need to know how to turn the wireless radio on just before the init script for the adapter fires off. How can I turn on/off the wireless lan radio? I'm using ndiswrapper and the dell windows driver for this wireless card. thanks, Mark

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upgrade perl 5.8.0 -> 5.8.1
by Tony Barratt 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

Hello List, I have a few intel centos 3.9 boxes with perl-5.8.0-94.EL3 installed. This seems like a very early version of 5.8 perl. centos 4.6 has 5.8.1. Would it be sensible to just upgrade to this rpm? I want a stable platform for cgi. I suppose I could just try it, but these boxes are under a form of change control and I think I should ask for advice before going that route. Many thanks for any advice, Tony

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 36, Issue 5
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '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-2008:0104 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2008:0104 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x) seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2008:0103 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2008:0104-01: Critical CentOS 2 i386 seamonkey security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:16:47 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0104 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) seamonkey - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080210131647.GG3950(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0104 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0104.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-9.el4.centos.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Trouble Ticket System
by Jun Salen 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

Hi, Last year, I tried to installed and evaluate the following OSS web base trouble ticketing system. This is for me to track history on our IT related issues. Those that I tried are the PHP Ticket, DanPHPSupport, Epix Power Support, ruQueue, Ticket Express, OTRS, PMOS Help Desk and eTicket. From those, PMOS and eTicket are my top picks. I have problem installing OTRS the last time, so I am unable to evaluate that but will try later. The problem with PMOS is that the developer want to give up the project last time I checked. Aside from the mentioned above, can you suggest others that are better. Any advice from other experiences please. Thank you very much. junji aisalen.wordpress.com Linux Registered User #253162 CentOS User Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Remember the unknown rootkit problem previously reported?
by Christopher Chan 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

If the attacker could get a shell, the attacker could have used this local root exploit to get the necessary privileges to install the rootkit. One reason why there seem to be few RHEL reports is that RHEL5 is not that widely available yet but lots of vulnerable Fedora/Debian installations are available.

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Apache2::Request on CentOS 5
by Mag Gam 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

Hi, Running mod_perl, and trying to get Apache2::Request installed. I can't seem to find an RPM for it. Has anyone got this working on CentOS 5? TIA

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tar: no, the file did not change while you read it
by Steve Thompson 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

CentOS 5.1, i686. I have a directory, say "foo", containing several hundred directories down to about six levels deep, and about 33,000 files. Periodically I make a tar archive of the whole lot: tar cf foo.tar foo and I often get from a few dozen to several hundreds of: tar: XXXXX: file changed as we read it followed by an exit status of zero. I am absolutely sure (100%, positive) that no files were changed during the period that tar was running: some of the files that are often flagged as changed have not been modified in many months, and have only been read by tar and the backup system. If I immediately repeat the tar command, it may succeed without any of these messages or flag a different set of files as changed, when again they have not. I'm sure from Googling that many have seen this. The system does also run Samba and the file system on which these files are resident is accessible from Windows clients, but none of these particular files are ever used from the Window side. The file system is also NFS exported, but again the files are not in use on any NFS client. What is interesting (that is, suspicious) is that on upgrading (clean install) the system from a previous incarnation of CentOS 4.6 (which also exhibited the problem) to CentOS 5.1, keeping the same tar version (1.15.1) and making no hardware changes, the incidence of these messages has _hugely_ increased. I have also seen a couple of repeated instances of "stat <file>" return changed times that differ from one another, and in all cases the file has not changed at all: the difference in the reported change times is always exactly 5 hours (which is my offset from UTC). I can't reproduce that at will. If anyone has a clue stick to beat me with, please do; it's getting a little old. Steve

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ESX Server 2.5 - Centos 5.1 guest
by Tom Brown 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

Hi Anyone got a driver disk for a CentOS 5.1 install running on an ESX 2.5 server ? When the install runs it seems it cant find any hdd's - In the past with 4.x i have loaded a driver disk but i cant seem to find one for 5.x Does anyone have this running? thanks

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 36, Issue 4
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '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-2008:0103 critical CentOS 5 x86_64 firefox - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2008:0103 critical CentOS 5 i386 firefox - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2008:0105 moderate CentOS 5 i386 thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2008:0105 moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2008:0104 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2008:0104 Critical CentOS 3 ia64 seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2008:0103 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2008:0105 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 thunderbird - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 9. CESA-2008:0103 Critical CentOS 3 i386 firefox - security update (CENTOSPLUS Only) (Tru Huynh) 10. CESA-2008:0103 Critical CentOS 3 x86_64 firefox - security update (CENTOSPLUS Only) (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:43:19 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0103 critical CentOS 5 x86_64 firefox - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <47ADADF7.7010306(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0103 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0103.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: firefox-1.5.0.12-9.el5.centos.i386.rpm firefox-1.5.0.12-9.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-9.el5.centos.i386.rpm firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-9.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm src: firefox-1.5.0.12-9.el5.centos.src.rpm

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CentOS 4 Yum Update Warnings? libsmi
by John Hinton 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

Installing: libsmi [ 4/16]warning: user mockbuild does not exist Did somebody leave the wrong user set during the build process? Thanks, John Hinton

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Date/Time config 'behind the scenes'
by Tim Alberts 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

The GUI tool to set date time works great when your running X or whatever, but what is it really doing in the background? How do I setup automatic time synchronization from the command line? Reference the GUI setup doc at: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/ch-dateconfig.html

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CentOS 5.1 php-curl
by Dean Maluski 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

I have two boxes nearly identical. I must have a package installed on one and not on the other. I cannot run a php-curl statement on one, and the other I can. Doing a google I find that I simply need to install php-common. According to box that does not work php-common is installed. What did I miss?

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Re: [CentOS] IPtables Possibility
by Jun Salen 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

>nate wrote: >> Personally I'd go with OpenBSD with pf. It's real easy to use, >> much more powerful than IP Tables, and, well just better. >> I've been running OpenBSD firewalls for a few years now, before >> that my favorite was FreeBSD with ipfw(before bridging was common >> in linux). All of my BSD firewalls are bridging firewalls. >> >> The most annoying thing about OpenBSD is the partitioning setup >> during installation.... > >you might check out pfSense, which is a hybrid of freebsd kernel with >the openbsd pf stuff, and a nice web gui for managing it. can run on >very minimal hardware, booting from a tiny flashcard Thanks Nate and John. This will surely become one of the projects of mine in the future. Again, thanks for the inputs. junji aisalen.wordpress.com Linux Registered User #253162 CentOS User Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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using nfs in kickstart post section
by Jerry Geis 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

I am trying to mount an nfs drive in the post kickstart section. I am getting an error on "service nfs start" about cannot register service RPC What do I need to start first? jerry

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Centos 5 on i586
by Matias Surdi 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

Is possible to install Centos 5 on a 586 CPU? (cpu_type = 5) Thanks a lot.

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Re: [CentOS] Network Installation of CentOS disk image via PXE
by David G. Miller 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

"vincenzo romero" <new2xen(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I've deployed new servers - installing new CentOS servers via PXE > booting using its iso distribution stored on an NFS server. For > certain server types; I'd like to install custom applications into a > server and then generate an image of that server, and deploy again via > PXE to another group of servers. > > Wanted to find out if anyone can forward any pointers to papers or links on: > > 1. Best and (cheapest) way to create disk image (that can be used for > over the network installation over PXE) of an existing CentOS server > with all its custom apps and packages ... would this be dd? would > this take a long time? > > 2. Would like to find out if you can point me to a guide or doc - > that specifically describes this process; most PXE install notes out > there describe the PXE config setup and assumes an ISO image (to > create a new server), as opposed to deploying a "ghosted" image of an > existing server. > > 3. In a deployment of a "ghosted" image - would the DHCP > automatically request for a new IP address upon completion of the > installation on the target machine (since when I ghost the source > machine, the network information will contain that source's machine IP > address, MAC, etc. etc.) Unfortunately, I can't give you full details on this. We did something very similar to what you're asking about in #1 and #2 where I used to work. I used the setup for installing on systems but someone else did the initial setup. You need to look at two things: PXE and custom kickstart. I think Red Hat has some guidance on how to set up both. If not, Google. The idea is that the system that needs to get an installation is set to "boot from LAN" in the BIOS and the PXE server is also setup as a DHCP server on the same LAN segment. The system being installed does a normal boot from LAN which contacts the DHCP/PXE server. The DHCP/PXE server provides the boot image using tftp from the first install CD and a kickstart file. The kickstart file controls the installation as to which apps get installed. The setup we used let us pick from several different possible kickstart files for different configurations so there's room for customizing the process. Hopefully, that's enough of a start in the right direction that you can Google for the details. As to #3, the idea is to have the source of the ghost image setup for DHCP booting and not be bound to a particular network card (HWADDR in the ifcfg-ethX file). The target system gets the ghost image and then needs to reboot. When it boots, it gets a new IP address via DHCP. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 36, Issue 3
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '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-2008:0104 Critical CentOS 3 i386 seamonkey - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2008:0104 Critical CentOS 3 x86_64 seamonkey - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2008:0103 critical CentOS 4 x86_64 firefox - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2008:0103 critical CentOS 4 i386 firefox - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2008:0105 moderate CentOS 4 i386 thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2008:0105 moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 7. CESA-2008:0104 critical CentOS 4 x86_64 seamonkey - security update (Johnny Hughes) 8. CESA-2008:0104 critical CentOS 4 i386 seamonkey - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 20:04:30 +0100 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0104 Critical CentOS 3 i386 seamonkey - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080208190430.GA30641(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0104 seamonkey security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0104.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-0.9.el3.centos3.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.9.el3.centos3.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.9.el3.centos3.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.9.el3.centos3.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.9.el3.centos3.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.9.el3.centos3.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.9.el3.centos3.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.9.el3.centos3.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.9.el3.centos3.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.9.el3.centos3.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-0.9.el3.centos3.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update seamonkey\* 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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Create a Yum repository for CentOS 5?
by Niki Kovacs 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

Hi, I'm using CentOS 5.1 on both server and desktops. I have a series of packages that I either rebuilt from CentOS SRPMS to modify them according to my needs (PHP for example), or that I built from Fedora Core SRPMS because they're not available on CentOS nor in the RPMForge repos (Seamonkey, MPD with libshout support, xmms-wma, ...). I want to create my own remote Yum repository for these packages, but I don't quite know how to achieve that. I've done something similar with Slackware and swaret before, though, so I sort of grasp the logic behind it. Is it possible to do that on a remote server where I only have FTP access? E. g. somehow create the repo locally on one build box, copy the whole tree over to the remote machine and then add some according file/stanza in /etc/yum.repos.d/ ? cheers, Niki

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Whereis yum-rhn-plugin package?
by carlopmart 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

Hi all, I need to setup a repo server to allocate updates for RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5 and CentOS5. Apart of mrrepo tool, I see that I can use reposync from yum-utils package and yum-rhn-plugin package to setup a mirror update server. But I can't to find yum-rhn-plugin under centos5 repo. Where is it?? Or I need to use package released from upstream vendor?? Thanks -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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IPtables Possibility
by Jun Salen 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

Hi, I just wonder if I can replace PIX firewall with machine having IPTable as my firewall. I want to control our firewall but due to the lack of knowledge in configuring PIX, i want to replace it with Linux or BSD. I do not have the time now to learn the complexity of PIX and yet I want to know what happening in my firewall and control it as much as possible. Do you think it is justifiable for me to replace it? Can you please provide me your inputs? Thank you very much. junji aisalen.wordpress.com Linux Registered User #253162 CentOS User Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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CentOS 5.1 Core 2 Duo Install freezes
by Ken Price 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Alrighty. I'm having a hell of a time and I need help. I'll try to give as much information as possible. ---------- HARDWARE ---------- MB: Supermicro PDSBM-LN2+ Intel 946GZ ICH7R + Intel® 82573 Memory: Crucial 512Mb, 1Gb, 2Gb modules matched to above MB. Processors: Intel Celeron 420 Conroe-L, 1.6GHz 512KB 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo E6320, 1.86Ghz 4Mb 64-bit Intel Pentium E2140 Allendale (Dual Core), 1.6GHz 1M 64-bit Hard Disks: Various Western Digital and Seagate SATA Drives ---------- ---------- BIOS (Rev 1.0 as well as Rev 1.0a) ---------- Disabled Native Mode Disabled Native Mode with ACPI Enabled SATA Native Mode ---------- KERNEL PARAMS (singularly and combination) ---------- acpi=off, pci=nommconf, pci=bios, nohz=off, noapic, nolapic, pci=routeirq, maxcpus=1 ---------- ATA_PIIX loads at startup, sometimes ACPI depending on my BIOS settings. Always after verifying dependencies, and typically during the disk format process, the installation freezes. I get a "kernel panic - not syncing" in text mode. Single disks, dual disks, LVM, no-LVM, software RAID, even when disks are on a Promise SATA300-TX4. The single-core Celeron processors work fine, but none of the dual core processors work. I'm using 5 sets of hardware, so bad hardware is unlikely. I'm stumped. Anyone out there with similar problems and/or workarounds? Any ideas? -Ken

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Re: [CentOS] Trouble Ticket System
by Jun Salen 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

>I would like to recommend a piece of software known as GLPI ... when >used in conjunction with OCSng, it will track all hardware and software >installed on each machine, which users use which machines, etc. > >It also can use ADS or LDAP for authentication, and there is the ability >to create FAQs that users can search. > >So, the combination can be used as a software/hardware inventory program >and trouble ticket system. > >http://glpi-project.org/?lang=en > >http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/ > >Thanks, >Johnny Hughes Thanks Johnny. I already visit the site and check the screenshots. Looks promising, I will try to test it my test server. Ocsinventory-ng seems also very useful to me for my inventory need. Thank you very much. junji aisalen.wordpress.com Linux Registered User #253162 CentOS User Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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resolv.conf question
by Thomas Dukes 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hello, I have a centos 4.6 system acting as a router for my local network. I obtain my eth0 IP address automatically via DHCP from my ISP, sc.rr.com. If I add 127.0.0.1 to resolv.conf, it won't save it. I tried adding this to my dhclient.conf lease { option domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1; } The above is the only entry in the file. Don't know it caused it but my system locked up 3 times since adding this. Deleted the file and its fine. Any help would be appreciated. --Eddie

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Xvnc from tightvnc crashing
by Jonathan Berry 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi all, I am having issues with running tightvnc-server on a CentOS 5.1 x86_64 machine (currently up-to-date, kernel 2.6.18-53.1.6.el5). Occasionally, the Xvnc instance will just crash, taking with it everything that I was running. When it crashes, it seems to do so when I try to open some GUI program. So, for instance, I click on a shortcut to open a program, and poof, it crashes. But it does not crash every time. At times it is usable for a long time. I believe tightvnc is available from rpmforge. $ rpm -qa | grep tightvnc tightvnc-server-1.3.9-1.el5.rf tightvnc-1.3.9-1.el5.rf Is anyone else using tightvnc? Is anyone having any trouble with it? Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? Here are the last few messages from the log file after one of these crashes: ** (nm-applet:26504): WARNING **: <WARNING> nma_dbus_init (): nma_dbus_init () could not acquire its service. dbus_bus_acquire_service() says: 'Connection ":1.74" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo" d ue to security policies in the configuration file' The application 'pam-panel-icon' lost its connection to the display :1.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. The application 'bt-applet' lost its connection to the display :1.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. The application 'gnome-session' lost its connection to the display :1.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. The application 'nautilus' lost its connection to the display :1.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. The application 'gnome-panel' lost its connection to the display :1.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. The application 'nm-applet' lost its connection to the display :1.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. Window manager warning: Lost connection to the display ':1.0'; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the window manager. The application 'eggcups' lost its connection to the display :1.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. (gnome-panel:26480): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_run_dispose: assertion ` G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (gnome-panel:26480): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_run_dispose: assertion ` G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed gnome-terminal: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :1.0. Jonathan

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Disk partitions and LVM limits
by Peter Blajev 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi, I've got a DAS DELL MD1000 with a bunch of SATA drives in RAID 5 configuration with total space of 5.4TB. This box is attached to a CentOS5 system (kernel 2.6.18-53.1.6.el5). Any idea how to make this space usable? Is there a limit how big a partition can be? What is the work around? Is there a limit how big a file system ca be? I've tried to partition it but no matter how bug partition I create fdisk spits out these messages on the console: --- sdb: very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). SCSI device sdb: 10248519680 512-byte hdwr sectors (5247242 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off --- I decided to not partition the drive and use LVM but the physical volume stopped at 2TB. So, right now I can't use LVM because of this 2TB limit and I'm not sure if I partition the drive how good these partitions are because of the the message from fdisk. Any help or idea is highly appreciated. Thank you Peter -- Peter Blajev Systems Administrator Computer Science and Engineering Department University of California, San Diego Office: EBU3B 1214 Phone: (858) 534-2532 E-mail: pblajev(a)ucsd.edu

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CentOs 5.1 Vmware Workstation Ace Edition - Problem With Atheros AR5006EG
by Masters IT Gmail 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Sorry to bother I am working with CentOs 5.1 Final running in a virtual machine using Vmware Workstation Ace edition. I want to know if someone knows how to configure and if it is possible to enable my wifi card Atheros AR5006EG in a virtual machine. Thanks in advance. George from Uruguay.

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Kernel compiling troubles (ABI checking)
by ArcosCom Linux User 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi, I'm having a problem compiling the kernel as a normal user (don't know if not being root is the problem or not). What is ABI? I can compile with the flag --without kabichk, but I don't know if really is that the solution or not. The package build stops at this point: + echo '**** kABI checking is enabled in kernel SPEC file. ****' **** kABI checking is enabled in kernel SPEC file. **** + chmod 0755 /home/samueldg/rpmbuild/SOURCES/check-kabi + '[' -e /home/samueldg/rpmbuild/SOURCES/Module.kabi_i686 ']' + cp /home/samueldg/rpmbuild/SOURCES/Module.kabi_i686 /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.1.el5_ArcosCom-root/Module.kabi + /home/samueldg/rpmbuild/SOURCES/check-kabi -k /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.1.el5_ArcosCom-root/Module.kabi -s Module.symvers *** ERROR - ABI BREAKAGE WAS DETECTED *** The following symbols have been changed (this will cause an ABI breakage): inet_twsk_deschedule ipv6_get_saddr inet_csk_listen_start inet_hash_connect ... skb_append_datato_frags ip_nat_protocol_register __inet_lookup_listener + exit 1 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.18627 (%build) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.18627 (%build)

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nautilus quit
by Frank Cox 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

I have a client who emailed me earlier and said that his desktop is blank. The toolbar is present but all of his desktop shortcuts are gone and he has a black desktop. I just ssh-ed into his machine and discovered that nautilus is not running for his username. So... how can I fix that? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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