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Reg. Kernel switching
by Padmaja 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi all, I am a newbie to linux and this is my first mail to this group. We have a PC running Centos version 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL. I needed to load a router software called Nistnet and it would not run properly. It is looking for RTC (Real Time clock) support as a module. I 've gone through the LKM Loadable Kernel module support under Documentation pages of Linux.org and did the following: located the kernel release: uname -r 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL next navigated to the /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-42.0.2.EL-i686 (this is where the kernel is located on this PC) then issued a make menuconfig command It took me to through the menu and under device drivers> character device drivers i chose the Real time clock support as a module. Then exited out of the menu and did make modules_install. Then rebooted. However, the PC while rebooting showed some messages like fast_rtc: lost around 26 interrupts at 8192Hz. this keeps on appearing on the screen for a while before reboot and after the system reboots, I see that at boot time, the ethernet interface does not come up. It gives the follwoing error: Device eth0 has a different MAC address than expected, ignoring. Also i get the following error messages : Cannot open /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.2.EL/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/ microcode.ko no such file or directory and cannot open lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.2.EL/kernel/drivers/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.ko no such file or directory. if I do an updatedb command and then slocate microcode.ko, I still see it under this directory. However, if I navigate to the kernel directory under 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL , there is nothing under it. If i issue ls -al there are a totoal of 16 entries but I cant see them. Can any one please tell me how to revert back to the original configuration or to undo these changes? I have copied the config-2.6.9-42.0.-EL release from Centos site to the /boot thinking it would revert to the original default config. Then I rebooted the PC but I still get the error-Eth interface has a different MAC id than expected or unable to bring eth0 up. So, at the boot time, I am currently choosing the kernel version 2.6.9-32-EL. With this I am able to browse the Internet. But I want to make the version 2.6.9-42-EL up. Please some one help me!! Thanks, Padmaja

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Reg. PPPoE server installation
by Padmaja 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi all, I am trying to install the PPPoe server rp-pppoe-3.8 from Roaring penguin on centos PC (Centos 4.3, Kernel release 2.6.9-34.EL) but not able to start it. When I start it it gives the error-- /etc/rc.d/init.d/pppoe status pppoe-status: Link is down (can't read pppd PID file /var/run/pppoe.conf-pppoe.pid.pppd) ror - /etc/rc.d/init.d/pppoe start Bringing up PPPoE link................TIMED OUT /usr/sbin/pppoe-start: line 191: 4703 Terminated $CONNECT "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1 [FAILED] Please let me know how to fix this. Thanks, Padmaja

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kickstart install NVIDIA binary driver
by Jerry Geis 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi all, I am wanting to add to my working kickstart post section grabbing the NVIDIA binary and installing it. I can grab the file thats not the problem. I can use the --x-module-path to pass to the binary installer... however, How do I get the correct module path, kernels are added the the yum update, and a new one comes along and wish to account for that. What is the correct way to know which path to provide to the installer. Process is in kickstart post: yum -u update copy NVIDIA binary init 3 install the NVIDIA binary with either the current kernel module path or if yum update grabbed a new kernel then use that module path.. Also is there anyway in the post section to do do a "CTRL+ALT+F3" Thanks, Jerry

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Changing ext3 Partition Size
by Scott Moseman 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

I have an ext3 partition from our SAN. The size was increased. I am attempting to re-size this specific ext3 partition, obviously. I unmount the partition, run fdisk, change the cyls, and save... WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 22: Invalid argument. The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at the next reboot. And that is the message that I receive after I attempt the save. I did attempt a reboot to see if it did anything, but it did not help. Thanks, Scott

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automatically select a virtual console
by Jerry Geis 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Is there a way in a shell script to switch virtual consoles? I want to switch to virtual console 3 using a command line . How do I do that? jerry

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New Adobe Reader works on CentOS-4.x, speech synthesis reader & more.
by William L. Maltby 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Just and FYI. In RPM form, works on 4.x and I will try on 5.x too. Speech is tacky, but if I can get something but the Gnome Festival synthesizer, maybe it will improve? http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html?promoid=BONRM -- Bill

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RE: [CentOS] Installation problems with large mirrored drives (SU CCESS!)
by Bowie Bailey 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Bowie Bailey wrote: > I am trying to install CentOS 4.6 to a pair of 750GB hard drives. I > can successfully install to either of the drives as a single drive, > but when I try to use both drives and mirror the partitions, I start > having problems. Anaconda crashes as it is trying to format the > drives. > > This is what I'm trying to create: > > /dev/md0: 200MB, /boot > /dev/md1: 2GB, swap > /dev/md2: rest of the drive, LVM PV > > LogVol00: 10GB, / > LogVol01: rest of the VG, /home Thanks for all the suggestions! I tried a few of them. They didn't solve the problem, but they did help me find it. When I tried to run the install without LVM, I still got the same anaconda crash (referencing vgremove). I realized that anaconda was trying to remove the volume groups that already existed on the drives. Once I erased all of the partition information on the drives with fdisk, I was able to do a normal install with LVM. -- Bowie

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VDR on CentOS?
by Christian Volker 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Yohoo! Is there a repository for CentOS5 with VDR? On http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/ I only find the sources, but no rpms. Thanks! Christian Volker Technical Support Engineer -- Parnell House, Barrack Square, Ballincollig, Co. Cork, Ireland

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Integrate driver disk to CentOs 5.1 DVD?
by Sebastian Marten 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi, I have a new mainboard with a Realtek RTL8111B / RTL8168B NIC. In 5.1 are no driver integrated for this nic, but there is driver disk: http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/RealTekRTL8111b and http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/RealTekRTL8111b?action=AttachFile&do=ge… Can I integrate this driver do the CentOS 5.1 ISO or can i use this driver from a USB Stick during the install? regards, Sebastian

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Security help desperately needed
by Anne Wilson 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

I need to have the following services from my server: imap - mostly by lan, but occasionally external file and print serve samba access - read and write to some directories The problems I'm seeing are inconsistent, making it difficult to know how to find the source. Samba access is essential to me. I use a server-based korganizer, and without samba it's inaccessible. Sometimes it is working, sometimes it isn't. Last night, in desperation, I turned off selinux and the firewall so that I could finish a job, intending to get it sorted this morning. (There is a router firewall, so while security was diminished it was not totally absent.) This morning my laptop cannot make any samba connections at all. In an attempt to find out what's happening I have searched log files, and the only relevant entries are as follow: messages #borg2=server - no other connection at this point Feb 7 10:01:07 borg2 smbd[7393]: [2008/02/07 10:01:07, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_data(534) Feb 7 10:01:07 borg2 smbd[7393]: read_data: read failure for 4 bytes to client 192.168.0.91. Error = No route to host Feb 7 10:03:09 borg2 smbd[7394]: [2008/02/07 10:03:09, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_data(534) Feb 7 10:03:09 borg2 smbd[7394]: read_data: read failure for 4 bytes to client 192.168.0.91. Error = No route to host # laptop started - should automount borg2 Feb 7 10:09:48 borg2 automount[2590]: create_udp_client: hostname lookup failed: No such process Feb 7 10:09:48 borg2 automount[2590]: create_tcp_client: hostname lookup failed: No such process Feb 7 10:09:48 borg2 automount[2590]: lookup_mount: exports lookup failed for .directory # last entry refers to nfs export? # hostname lookup should be by way of /etc/hosts, which holds list of all lan members secure shows nothing helpful Way back I remember that msec used to change security settings overnight. Could this be happening? I feel to be thrashing helplessly. I need help to find a sensible strategy for sorting this, then setting correct security measures. TIA Anne

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Re: discrepancy between what quota reports and what du reports
by ankush grover 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

On Feb 7, 2008 4:31 PM, ankush grover <ankushcentos(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Friends, > > > I am running samba as domain member of AD 2k3 on Centos 4.4 . Quota of > 2GB is set for each user but for one of the user quota or edquota is > showing wrong blocks even though disk space occupied by that user is > 809M. > > > quota bhavesh.kumar > Disk quotas for user bhavesh.kumar (uid 11254): > Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace > /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 > 2791832* 2000000 2000000 1595 0 0 > > # du -sh bhavesh.kumar > 809M bhavesh.kumar > > > > dumpe2fs /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 |grep -i "block size" > dumpe2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) > Block size: 4096 > > > I tried quotaoff and quotaon on the /home partition and also mount > -all command to remount the partitions but still the problem is > persisting. Kindly suggest me how to get rid of this problem. Please > let me know if you need any further inputs. > > > Regards > > > Ankush > Further diagnosing the problem there are double entries of the files in the directory kindly see entries 45-50 & 63-68 find . -uid 11254 -exec ls -l "{}" ";"|nl | more 45 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 27136 Feb 7 15:44 Appraisal-ADP.xls 46 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 24064 Feb 7 15:44 Appraisal-DAL.xls 47 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 26112 Feb 7 15:44 Appraisal-Guidelines.xls 48 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 55296 Feb 7 15:44 Appraisal-GUI.xls 49 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 30208 Feb 7 15:44 AppraisalMaster.xls 50 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 37376 Feb 7 15:44 Appraisal-QA.xls 51 drwxr-xr-x 2 bhavesh.kumar root 4096 Feb 7 15:44 Apr-Sep2006 52 drwxr-xr-x 2 bhavesh.kumar root 4096 Feb 7 15:44 Apr-sep-2007 53 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 21504 Feb 7 15:44 Brabeion - Appraisal.xls 54 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 19456 Feb 7 15:44 Guidelines.xls 55 drwxr-xr-x 2 bhavesh.kumar root 4096 Feb 7 15:44 Oct-Mar2007 56 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 37376 Feb 7 15:44 ./Laptop Data/Brabeion/Appraisal/Appraisal-QA.xls 57 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 24064 Feb 7 15:44 ./Laptop Data/Brabeion/Appraisal/Appraisal-DAL.xls 58 total 28 59 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 26624 Feb 7 15:44 Team.xls 60 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 26624 Feb 7 15:44 ./Laptop Data/Brabeion/Appraisal/Apr-sep-2007/Team.xls 61 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 26112 Feb 7 15:44 ./Laptop Data/Brabeion/Appraisal/Appraisal-Guidelines.xls 62 total 256 63 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 27136 Feb 7 15:44 Appraisal-ADP.xls 64 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 24064 Feb 7 15:44 Appraisal-DAL.xls 65 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 26112 Feb 7 15:44 Appraisal-Guidelines.xls 66 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 55296 Feb 7 15:44 Appraisal-GUI.xls 67 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 30208 Feb 7 15:44 AppraisalMaster.xls 68 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 37376 Feb 7 15:44 Appraisal-QA.xls 69 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 21504 Feb 7 15:44 Brabeion - Appraisal.xls 70 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 19456 Feb 7 15:44 Guidelines.xls 71 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 37376 Feb 7 15:44 ./Laptop Data/Brabeion/Appraisal/Apr-Sep2006/Appraisal-QA.xls 72 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 24064 Feb 7 15:44 ./Laptop Data/Brabeion/Appraisal/Apr-Sep2006/Appraisal-DAL.xls 73 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 26112 Feb 7 15:44 ./Laptop Data/Brabeion/Appraisal/Apr-Sep2006/Appraisal-Guidelines.xls 74 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 30208 Feb 7 15:44 ./Laptop Data/Brabeion/Appraisal/Apr-Sep2006/AppraisalMaster.xls 75 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 21504 Feb 7 15:44 ./Laptop Data/Brabeion/Appraisal/Apr-Sep2006/Brabeion - Appraisal.xls 76 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 19456 Feb 7 15:44 ./Laptop Data/Brabeion/Appraisal/Apr-Sep2006/Guidelines.xls 77 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 27136 Feb 7 15:44 ./Laptop Data/Brabeion/Appraisal/Apr-Sep2006/Appraisal-ADP.xls 78 -rwxr--r-- 1 bhavesh.kumar root 55296 Feb 7 15:44 ./Laptop Data/Brabeion/Appraisal/Apr-Sep2006/Appraisal-GUI.xls 79 total 200 I have rebooted the system but still the problem persists. There is another person who faced the same problem with redhat 4.4 but the solution is not given. http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/centos@centos.org/8548096.html Thanks & Regards Ankush

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package 'synchronization' for multiple systems
by Tim Alberts 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

I'm setting up multiple systems and ideally I want the same package configuration on all of them. So I'm going through yum and rpm queries manually to try and get this done. There must be a better way. Is there a way to use yum or rpm to configure multiple systems with the same packages? If yum or rpm has something native built into it to do this, that would be great. If there's some scripts to simplify some tasks that works too. I've used webmin's 'Cluster Software Package' module, and will probably fall back to it. However I don't think I get the info that yum gives regarding package grouping and what packages are part of what capabilities. Gotta query elsewhere for it. (no disrespect to webmin folks, great tool)

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Centos 5.1 ext3 filesystem limit
by Gary Molenkamp 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Centos 5.1 documentation states that the supported ext3 filesystem limit is 16TB, yet I have a 9.5TB partition that is claimed to be too large: mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) mke2fs: Filesystem too large. No more than 2**31-1 blocks (8TB using a blocksize of 4k) are currently supported. Am I missing something? > uname -a Linux fileserver.sharcnet.ca 2.6.18-53.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 23 11:28:47 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- Gary Molenkamp SHARCNET Systems Administrator University of Western Ontario gary(a)sharcnet.ca http://www.sharcnet.ca (519) 661-2111 x88429 (519) 661-4000

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Using tcpdump to sniff telnet password
by Fajar Priyanto 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hi all, As long as I can remember reading various articles/docs, they all say that telnet is not secure because all traffic is in clear text. Well, out of boredom, I try to sniff username and password from a telnet session. The command I use: tcpdump tcp port 23 -vvv -w test.txt Then I read the result: strings test.txt |`D |fD |fD 38400,38400 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ESD Ologin: D 5eE LsE _tE Password: F [aG |hG jaH Last login: Wed Feb 6 15:53:3H ]0;test4@server:~ GV{ But it succeeds with FTP. strings test.txt <.9@ 4.:@ 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1) 4.;@ @.<@ USER test4 331 Please specify the passwor 4.=@ B.>@ PASS secret 230 Login successful. 4.?@ :.@@ SYST 215 UNIX Type: L8 4.A@ Did I miss something? How do we capture telnet password using tcpdump? Thank you. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 15:51:58 up 8:16, 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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POSIX semaphores in CentOS 5.1?
by MHR 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

According to the man pages for sem_wait, etc., POSIX semaphores are available in Linux 2.6 (with the right NTPL threading in glibc). However, I have a program that compiles just fine but won't link because it can't find the library for the semaphore operations. What am I missing? I ran a find and grep through all the libc's on the system and they turned up nothing: $ find /lib /usr/lib -name "*libc\.*" -print -exec nm {} 2>/dev/null \; | grep sem_ (no results) Time is critical (yeah, I know...). Thanks. mhr

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poppler-utils missing pdftoppm
by Max Hetrick 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I found a thread here about this problem, but no answer or resolution as to whether it's a bug, or even something that can be fixed. <http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=12114&forum=38> I'm trying to get PDF support under DocMGR to work correctly and it's complaining about pdftoppm being missing. A bit of Googling and I found where pdftoppm is supposed to be included with poppler-utils package. I check on my FC 7 system which is running poppler-utils poppler-utils-0.5.4-7.fc7, and pdftoppm is physically there and located in /usr/bin. I'm running CentOS 5 with poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.3.el5_1. Is this a bug? Or is this resolvable? Thanks, Max -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHqhL1IXSX/6LmsXkRAvckAJ0fdUNflY6UdTdXAYhK4BlFndCOEgCfeToa 61Uo4Nonpcpgd13KPWPVtrU= =Yo9J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Samba GUI interface
by Dean Maluski 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

CentOS 5.1 I was just trying to add users and shares to Samba from GUI interface. I've already added users from command line. Regardless, when I go to select users the existing users is blank. When I add a user if it already exists I get a complaint that user exists. If I add a new user from GUI it does not get added to the blank list. OK I just added a user from gui, applied it [HIT OK] went back and tried to add user again but when hitting [OK] complained that user exists. Seems things are working except listing existing users in interface. I can live with this but I'm about to upgrade a server at work and ultimately I was hoping my Windows Sys Admin could manage to administrate Samba. I don't think this will be possible without a GUI.

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Set hardware clock manually
by Joseph L. Casale 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

I can't reboot a server to set the hardware clock to UTC time, but CentOS was installed with the assumption that the PC was running UTC. Is it possible to update the hardware clock to the right time and therefore allow CentOS to maintain the right time without rebooting? I am hoping to use this route for consistency versus changing how CentOS interprets the time so all servers are the same. Thanks! jlc

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system smtp server question
by Joseph L. Casale 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

If I have a production mailserver and a series of Linux servers that all develop mail from logging etc, it seems slightly redundant to have so many smtp servers installed on each of those boxes simply forwarding mail as I choose to not have local delivery. Is there a mechanism possible in CentOS to setup a pointer to a different mailserver such that programs like mailx could still send mail? Currently I have postfix setup with maps so that root on server A has mail sent from root(a)server-a.fqdn<mailto:root@server-a.fqdn> and that is relayed to my production box. It just seems like it is an additional service to manage on so many hosts? Thanks! jlc

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Dependency problem in heartbeat-ldirectord update for Centos 4.6
by tony＠softins.clara.co.uk 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

I've just been trying to do a "yum update" on a Centos 4.6 system, and one of the packages it wants to upgrade is heartbeat-ldirectord from 2.1.2-3 to 2.1.3-2 However, the newer version has dependency problems that can't be resolved: [root@miton2 ~]# yum update Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading "protectbase" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Reading repository metadata in from local files 0 packages excluded due to repository protections Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.9-67.0.4.EL set to be installed ---> Package kernel-smp-devel.i686 0:2.6.9-67.0.4.EL set to be installed ---> Package kernel-smp.i686 0:2.6.9-67.0.4.EL set to be installed ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.9-67.0.4.EL set to be installed ---> Package heartbeat-stonith.i386 0:2.1.3-2.el4.centos set to be updated ---> Package heartbeat.i386 0:2.1.3-2.el4.centos set to be updated ---> Package heartbeat-pils.i386 0:2.1.3-2.el4.centos set to be updated ---> Package heartbeat-ldirectord.i386 0:2.1.3-2.el4.centos set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: perl-ldap for package: heartbeat-ldirectord --> Processing Dependency: PyXML for package: heartbeat --> Processing Dependency: perl-libnet for package: heartbeat-ldirectord --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package PyXML.i386 0:0.8.3-6 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: perl-ldap for package: heartbeat-ldirectord --> Processing Dependency: perl-libnet for package: heartbeat-ldirectord --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: perl-ldap is needed by package heartbeat-ldirectord Error: Missing Dependency: perl-libnet is needed by package heartbeat-ldirectord [root@miton2 ~]# uname -a Linux miton2 2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Dec 19 16:01:12 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@miton2 ~]# cat /etc/issue CentOS release 4.6 (Final) Kernel \r on an \m [root@miton2 ~]# Looking in Google, it appears that this problem has occurred before in previous releases of CentOS 4, although heartbeat-ldirectord-2.1.2-3 doesn't have the problem. Is this a bug in upstream too? How to fix? Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony(a)softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony(a)mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org

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64 bit and 32 bit are mixed up
by Centos 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hello I have installed Centos 5.1 on 64 bit servers, and I see some of the packages have been installed two times, one for i386 and one for 64 bits. I don't know why i386 packages can be installed on 64 bit machine and why they should come together, even some times when I am searching yum repository , I see i386 and x64 packages. shouldn't the search result depend on server architecture ?

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drbd82 RPMS for testing
by Johnny Hughes 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

All, There are drbd82 RPMS for CentOS-4 and CentOS-5 (i386 and x86_64) for testing here: http://people.centos.org/~hughesjr/drbd/ These are designed to be able to live in the same repository as the current STABLE versions. These RPMS are designed as CONFLICTS and not upgrades as there may be some manual actions to upgrade, especially on CentOS-4. Here is an article on the upgrade process: http://fghaas.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/step-by-step-upgrade-from-drbd-07-to… also this thread about potential upgrade problems: http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2008-January/008318.html (We have 8.2.4, so should not have this issue ... but just in case). The process will be similar for drbd-8.0.x to drbd82-8.2.x upgrades as well. Please report successful uses of the RPMS (upgrades and new installs) and any problems here: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2657 Here is a post to the DRBD mailing list for reference as well: http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2008-February/008473.html Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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RPM for perl-svn-notify?
by J. Potter 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hi List, Is it possible to get an rpm built and added into the plus or dag repos for the perl module svn-notify? (Note: not the same as svn- notify-mirror.) I know it's been brought up before that perl's internal CPAN build/ install can cause serious conflicts with the rpm-based approach; if there are other / better ways of doing this in a standard fashion, please let me know. Thanks, Jeff

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Seamonkey (with plugins) as Firefox replacement?
by Niki Kovacs 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hi, I'm running CentOS 5.1 with the GNOME desktop in all our public libraries around here. I start from a minimal install stripped down to the bones, install X11, GNOME, and then one application per task. I try to follow some best-of-the-breed logic, and my focus lies on robustness to avoid the Tamagotchi syndrome :o) Recently I've been rather disappointed with Mozilla Firefox, which crashes more and more often (this has already been developed elsewhere on this list). On one of my machines, I'm running Slackware Linux 12.0, with an XFCE desktop and the latest Mozilla Seamonkey browser. This browser gives me entire satisfaction: light on RAM, fast, and (almost) never crashes. So the idea is simple: install Seamonkey instead of Firefox. Now I'd like to integrate things cleanly, not install it additionally to Firefox. My main concern now are plugins, namely Flash (flash-plugin) and MPlayer (mplayerplug-in, never knew why that hyphen wandered off :o)). I'd like to do things cleanly, so I have a vague idea. Tell me if this sounds reasonable: 1) Install Seamonkey from latest SRPM. 2) Install flash-plugin from SRPM, but modify the .spec file so it depends on Seamonkey instead of Firefox. 3) Do the same thing with the MPlayer plugin. 4) (I never succeeded to install the Java plugin, I guess I'll leave that for after I'm dead :o/ ) Eventually, create my own repo with the resulting RPMS, and define priorities for Yum so that my own packages are used first. Sounds feasible? Or does someone have a better suggestion? Cheers, Niki

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Wireless DELL M90 with CentOS 5.1 - pb with key encryption
by MOKRANI Rachid 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hi, I have a laptop DELL M90 with an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG card. I'm using centOS 5.1 kernel 2.6.18-53 i386. I installed ndiswrapper v 1.52 I installed the driver http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R164255.EXE The wireless-tools is v 28.2 When I trying to connect to my wireless access point with encryption key disabled everything work fine !!!! When I enabled the encryption key on my wireless access point with à 128b WEP it's impossible to connect to it. If I need to connect to the same wifi access with an ancryption key (WEP 128b) it's impossible :-( I receved the message that the laptop cannot get an IP Adress. The same laptop under Windows can connect to the same wireless acces point with encryption key enable ou disable (WEP 128b) The result when Encryption key is off and the laptop is connect. [root@localhost ~]# iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:01:02:(change by me) ESSID:"Borne Wifi" Protocol:IEEE 802.11g Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6) Quality:93/100 Signal level:-36 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm Encryption key:off Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s Extra:bcn_int=100 Extra:atim=0 [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Borne Wifi" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:02:03:(change by me) Bit Rate:48 Mb/s RTS thr:1600 B Fragment thr:1600 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:98/100 Signal level:-33 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 [root@localhost ~]# Any help ? Best Regards. __________________________ Ce message (et toutes ses pièces jointes éventuelles) est confidentiel et établi à l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires. Toute utilisation de ce message non conforme à sa destination, toute diffusion ou toute publication, totale ou partielle, est interdite, sauf autorisation expresse. L'IFP décline toute responsabilité au titre de ce message. This message and any attachments (the message) are confidential and intended solely for the addressees. Any unauthorised use or dissemination is prohibited. IFP should not be liable for this message. Visitez notre site Web / Visit our web site : http://www.ifp.fr __________________________

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 36, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 07 Feb '08

07 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-2008:0055 Important CentOS 4 ia64 kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2008:0055 Important CentOS 4 ia64 kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:25:21 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0055 Important CentOS 4 ia64 kernel - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080206192521.GA2825(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0055 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0055.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-67.0.4.EL.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.4.EL.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-67.0.4.EL.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.4.EL.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Re: [CentOS] 32 bit applications on 64 bit machine
by Rozsa Sandor 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hi, The command ldd returns $ ldd ./a.out /usr/bin/ldd: line 161: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary file not a dynamic executable and $ ls -l /lib/ld-linux.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 31 16:57 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> ld-2.5.so The compat packages are installed (yum install compat*) Any suggestion how can I fix this problem. Thanx s ----- Original Message ---- From: Rozsa Sandor <rozsa_sandor_gyula(a)yahoo.com> To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2008 10:54:17 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] 32 bit applications on 64 bit machine ----- Original Message ---- From: John R Pierce <pierce(a)hogranch.com> To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2008 6:58:42 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] 32 bit applications on 64 bit machine Rozsa Sandor wrote: > Hi people, > > I have a 64 bit Centos machine. My problem is that I can't run 32 bit > applications on that. I can compile with the 32 bit option my sources, > but when I'm trying to run them I obtain the following error message: > > -bash: ./a.out: cannot execute binary file > And the file a.out returns the following: > a.out: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for > GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux > 2.6.9, not stripped $ ldd ./a.out should list any required .so libraries it says $ ldd ./a.out /usr/bin/ldd: line 161: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary file not a dynamic executable _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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equota reporting wrong blocks
by ankush grover 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hi Friends, I am running samba as domain member of AD 2k3 on Centos 4.4 . Quota of 2GB is set for each user but for one of the user quota or edquota is showing wrong blocks even though disk space occupied by that user is 809M. quota bhavesh.kumar Disk quotas for user bhavesh.kumar (uid 11254): Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 2791832* 2000000 2000000 1595 0 0 # du -sh bhavesh.kumar 809M bhavesh.kumar dumpe2fs /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 |grep -i "block size" dumpe2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) Block size: 4096 I tried quotaoff and quotaon on the /home partition and also mount -all command to remount the partitions but still the problem is persisting. Kindly suggest me how to get rid of this problem. Please let me know if you need any further inputs. Regards Ankush

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RAM for cluster net boot?
by Scott Ehrlich 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

I'm looking at building a small cluster of disk-less 1 or 2U servers and will probably use CentOS 5. Since these machines will not have any hard drives, what would be the minimum amount of RAM I'd need? Also, if using Rocks or something similar, will that help cluster the RAM together so 4 servers x 4 GB RAM each = 16 GB available? Some applications might be CPU intensive, others might be RAM intensive, so I need to play that balance, too. Thanks. Scott

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VPNC
by Terry Polzin 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

What's the best bet for getting vpnc on v5.1? Compile from cource, DAG repo, other repo? Compiled from source I can't seem to get a response from the target. THANKS, Terry

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Command line tool to test bandwidth between 2 servers
by Dan Carl 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

What's the best way to do this? Daily, jpg images are added to an inhouse server. Everynight I want to backup these images to a server offsite, via rsync. What I want is to determine what to set the bwlimit to. I also want to estimate how many MB's of images I can move nightly. Thanks Dan

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PCNS for CentOS and APC ups's
by Joseph L. Casale 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Apparently there is only an Itanium client for RHEL according to APC? I need to setup a few boxes to shut down safely and don't know if the PCNS 2.2.3 Linux version will do it? Anyone know why it needs Java as well? (Blegh) Assuming APC is fairly popular, how do you guys shutdown your CentOS boxes with a UPS with a management card in it? Thanks! jlc

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Re: Trouble Ticket System
by Jun Salen 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

>I found this on Exo; >http://www.vulnerabilityscanning.com/Exo-PHPDesk-id-Parameter-SQL-Injection… >I don't see a version or a date to check up on it. Thanks for the info Scott. I will take those into consideration. 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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Re: [CentOS] PCNS for CentOS and APC ups's
by Ross S. W. Walker 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Well I'm not near the config, but I remember it was easy. The default timings match APC's defaults, so all you really need to do is set the UPS name (for identification purposes) and the comm type will be snmp, port will be something like <hostname>:161:<community> and set an email address to send alerts to. Testing is a little tricky as it dials directly in to the snmp interface, you could lower the "time on battery" and kick the plug on the ups and see if it initiates a safe shutdown, but that depends on how many other hosts are on the ups and if this host is in active production. It has worked in my environment though. -Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org <centos-bounces(a)centos.org> To: centos(a)centos.org <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Wed Feb 06 18:50:23 2008 Subject: RE: [CentOS] PCNS for CentOS and APC ups's >I use apcupsd from epel > >-Ross Reading about that now, it sounds a lot cleaner then that silly java based one from APC. Can you elaborate on how you add it as a device into the UPS and share a config in this scenario? Thanks! jlc ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.

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adapting perl check_snmp_load script for CentOS environment
by Rogelio 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

I'm trying to use some perl scripts on a CentOS box (Nagios03) that were previously working on a Gentoo (Nagios01) box. Any ideas on what I might to do try to resolve this? WORKS ON GENTOO nagios01 new # ./check_snmp_load.pl -H myserver.mydomain.com<http://ha-vpn-internal.clacorp.com> -C myPublicString -w 50,50,50 -c 75,75,75 -T nsc -t 15 -f CPU : 3 3 3 : OK | cpu_5_sec=3%;50;75,cpu_1_min=3%;50;75,cpu_5_min=3%;50;75 nagios01 new # DOES NOT WORK ON CENTOS [root@nagios03 plugins]# ./check_snmp_load.pl -H myserver.mydomain.com<http://ha-vpn-internal.clacorp.com/> -C myPublicString -w 50,50,50 -c 75,75,75 -T nsc -t 15 -f Unknown option: T Multiple warning without -L or -I switch Usage: ./check_snmp_load.pl [-v] -H <host> -C <snmp_community> | (-l login -x passwd) [-p <port>] -w <warn level> -c <crit level> [-L|-A|-I|N] [-f] [-t <timeout>] [-V] [root@nagios03 plugins]#

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Re: [CentOS] PCNS for CentOS and APC ups's
by Ross S. W. Walker 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

I use apcupsd from epel -Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org <centos-bounces(a)centos.org> To: 'centos(a)centos.org' <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Wed Feb 06 18:11:12 2008 Subject: [CentOS] PCNS for CentOS and APC ups's Apparently there is only an Itanium client for RHEL according to APC? I need to setup a few boxes to shut down safely and don’t know if the PCNS 2.2.3 Linux version will do it? Anyone know why it needs Java as well? (Blegh) Assuming APC is fairly popular, how do you guys shutdown your CentOS boxes with a UPS with a management card in it? Thanks! jlc ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.

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yum upgrade php dependency failure
by Ed Morrison 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi, I am trying to upgrade php to version 5. When running yum upgrade I get this failure: --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.22.9 for package: php-pear --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.22.9 is needed by package php-pear but the required php version is installed: [root@ftp ~]# rpm -q php php-4.3.9-3.22.9 Any suggestions on what is wrong and how to fix this? Thanks! Ed

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Installation problems with large mirrored drives
by Bowie Bailey 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

I am trying to install CentOS 4.6 to a pair of 750GB hard drives. I can successfully install to either of the drives as a single drive, but when I try to use both drives and mirror the partitions, I start having problems. Anaconda crashes as it is trying to format the drives. This is what I'm trying to create: /dev/md0: 200MB, /boot /dev/md1: 2GB, swap /dev/md2: rest of the drive, LVM PV LogVol00: 10GB, / LogVol01: rest of the VG, /home I uploaded the anaconda log to the CentOS bugtracker, but I don't know if or when I should expect a response from that, so I'm asking here as well. If you want to see the log, here's the link: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2652 Is there a way I can work around this problem? It has been suggested that I build the system with a single drive and then add the mirror to it. Is it possible to add a mirror to a partition that is an LVM PV? Can someone give me a link to a good set of instructions for doing this? Thanks, -- Bowie

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NFS problem in the latest kernel (Was: [CentOS] MySQL issues with kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm)
by Akemi Yagi 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

On Jan 30, 2008 8:25 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> wrote: > Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 at 10:18am, Johnny Hughes wrote > > > >> Bent Terp wrote: > > > >>> Has something changed with regard to the mount options? We use > >>> (rw,noatime,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,udp,context="system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0) > >>> > >>> which has worked fine until now. > >> > >> I am trying to duplicate your options ... and noatime is not a valid > >> option. > >> > >> Could you please double check the /etc/export options again so I can > >> try to duplicate the issue. > >> > >> Using my standard /etc/exports on 2 i686 test platforms I have no > >> problems at all. > >> > >> Here are the options I used on my test: > >> > >> (rw,insecure,sync,no_subtree_check) > > > > Those are NFS export options. The OP's list is *mount* options (i.e. on > > the client side). He stated that his NFS server is actually an EMC > > Cellera. > > > AH ... now I see. > > In any event, I can not duplicate the problem with an nfs export on c4 > or c5 and connecting with a c5 client, regardless of the kernel using i686. One other person has reported seemingly the same nfs problem in the Scientific Linux mail list: http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0801&L=scientific-linux-devel… According to this post, "It only seems to affect x86_64 systems, or affects them much more noticeably than it does i386 ones." Akemi

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RE: [CentOS] Installation problems with large mirrored drives
by Bowie Bailey 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

nate wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > Is there a way I can work around this problem? It has been > > suggested that I build the system with a single drive and then add > > the mirror to it. Is it possible to add a mirror to a partition > > that is an LVM PV? Can someone give me a link to a good set of > > instructions for doing this? > > I work around it by not using LVM during installation. I've > experienced random crashes with anaconda going back to at least RHEL > 3 I think when LVM was used during install(kickstart specifically). > Often times if > I try a 2nd(or a 3rd) time I can get anaconda to go through without > crashing on LVM. > > If you really want LVM I'd suggest something like making your root and > boot(assuming you have seperate ones) partitions standalone mirrored > partitions, setup another pair of mirrored partitions that take up the > rest of the drive that you'll use for LVM, but don't make it LVM, just > make it a normal file system(this so it configures the software raid > end of things for you). > > Once the system is installed, then change the partition type of the > last mirrored pair to be LVM, and configure LVM. If you want your > /usr /var etc on LVM make the volumes, go to runlevel 1 and copy > the files to the new locations and re-mount the LVM volumes as > your /usr /var etc. I was able to install the system with no problems using the exact same filesystem layout (LVM and all) with a single drive. The problem only occurs when I try to mirror the partitions. I may give your suggestion a try tomorrow when I have more time to play with the system. -- Bowie

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Trouble Ticket System
by Jun Salen 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

>> Take a look at Request Tracker >> http://bestpractical.com/rt/ >> >> Active support and an active user community. >> >and run it on Centos 5 or use the updated LAMP packages in the centos >plus repository if you are running Centos 4.I try to used this also last year but I found it complicated to use. If possible, I want my user to find it easy to use. After searching the list archives, I found suggestion on using EXO PHPDesk and it looks good. I will try to install it later and check. Thanks, 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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sendmail: fatal message, sudo bash
by Farid Hamjavar 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Centos 5 Hello I successfully converted my mta from sendmail to postfix. no problem. mail is ok. A by-product of that, as bizarre as it may seem is this: As regular user, when I do 'su -' to become root, all is well. As regular user, when I do 'sudo bash' I become root alright but I also get: sendmail: fatal: Recipient addresses must be specified on the command line or via the -t option I tried many things ranging from temporarily swapping sendmail.postfix to messing around with /etc/profile and /etc/skel/* and many other things. How can I address the annoying message above? Thanks, Farid

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system gets suspended automatically!
by Chandra 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hello! I am running CentOS-5 with latest kernel available by deault (2.6.23). I installed it on a Dell XPS machine having Intel Quad processors (4 parallel cpus). I use it to run a computational program and I need to keep the program running for 1-2 months continuously. I generally boot it in runlevel-3 with network ON without X and use ssh from another machine to connect and run the program using the "nohup" utility. However, the system automatically gets suspended (the computational program stops, ssh stops working, whole the OS seems to be freezing) after 4-5 hours. I have stopped the "acpid" daemon and boot the kernel with "acpi=off" option in "grub.conf" but no help. The kernel log ( /var/log/messages) doesn't show anything special. After the instant of suspension, kernel also stops logging into "/var/log/messages". Please help me out. I think there is a kernel problem. I have run programs for days and days continuously using FC5 (which had older kernel). I can't use FC5 or older version of CentOS because I need GCC-4.1.2+ to compile parallel OpenMP program. Thank you, Chandra

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ohci_hcd 0000:00:0f.2: wakeup
by Jun Salen 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi, I had successfully installed CentOS 5.1 fully updated in old Fujitsu Primergy MS610 server. There was no problem except that during startup, I found many message saying "ohci_hcd 0000:00:0f.2: wakeup". Searched the internet and did what is written to avoid this to no avail. Anyone have ideas on how to resolve this? It seems that it was related to USB port which, I will not use anyway. Thanks, 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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strategy/technology to backup 20TB or more user's data
by ankush grover 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi Friends, I am currently using Samba on Centos 4.4 as a domain member of AD 2003 with each user having a quota of 2GB(no of users is around 2,000). Now the management wants to increase the quota to 10GB with this there will be more than 20TB of data to be backup weekly which will take lots of hours. Currently Veritas backup software is used to backup data on tapes. There is a concept of snapshots of Samba with LVM where snapshots of samba are taken at the given interval but so far haven't found any good article or how-to on that and also what is the experience of users using this technology and also what other technologies are being to handle TBs of data. Kindly let me know if you need any further inputs Thanks & Regards Ankush

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Discrepancy between df and quota commands
by Balaji 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi All, There is some discrepancy between what quota reports and what du reports -bash-3.00$ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.4 (Final) -bash-3.00$ pwd /home/corview -bash-3.00$ df . Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vgroot-LogVol01 10095152 586932 8995404 7% /home -bash-3.00$ du -sh . 19M . -bash-3.00$ quota Disk quotas for user corview (uid 934): Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace /dev/mapper/vgroot-LogVol01 968480* 900000 1000000 none 268 0 0 As shown above du says only 19MB is occupied by user corview( No big files of corview are present in /tmp/ or /var/ ) But quota says 968480 out of 1000000 is used. -bash-3.00$ id uid=934(corview) gid=934(corview) groups=19(floppy),934(corview),935(admin) -bash-3.00$ grep 934 /etc/passwd corview:x:934:934::/home/corview:/bin/bash nbiperf:x:946:934::/home/nbiperf:/bin/bash nbibill:x:947:934::/home/nbibill:/bin/bash rilbill:x:948:934::/home/rilbill:/bin/bash So, no other user with id 934. and data in other users who are in corview group is also very small. lsof hasnt revealed any thing. How do I know which file(s) is(are) eatig so much.? I found a peculiar problem -bash-3.00$ pwd /home/corview -bash-3.00$ ls -l total 20 drwxrwxr-x 2 corview admin 4096 Nov 15 12:53 as -rw-r--r-- 1 corview corview 0 Feb 5 15:50 b drwxr-xr-x 6 corview corview 4096 Nov 14 22:49 log drwxr-xr-x 3 corview corview 4096 Nov 14 22:49 print drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 14 22:48 replicatedfiles drwx------ 4 corview corview 4096 Nov 14 22:49 ricEMS -bash-3.00$ find . -uid 934 -exec ls -l "{}" ";"|nl 38 -rwx------ 1 corview corview 258959 Apr 27 2006 jta25b.jar 39 -rwx------ 1 corview corview 40 Feb 5 2007 Module.txt 40 -rwx------ 1 corview corview 164 Feb 5 2007 temp1.txt 41 -rwx------ 1 corview corview 249 Feb 6 2007 temp2.txt 42 -rwx------ 1 corview corview 93 Feb 6 2007 temp3.txt 43 -rwx------ 1 corview corview 249 Feb 6 2007 ./ricEMS/corView/resource/con fig/Profile/WorkingDirectory/temp2.txt 44 -rwx------ 1 corview corview 392 Feb 5 2007 ./ricEMS/corView/resource/con fig/Profile/WorkingDirectory/flt-http-deny-ruleid.txt 45 -rwx------ 1 corview corview 41 May 23 2007 ./ricEMS/corView/resource/conf ig/Profile/WorkingDirectory/BBGL_Enable.txt 46 -rwx------ 1 corview corview 26 May 23 2007 ./ricEMS/corView/resource/conf ig/Profile/WorkingDirectory/Adsl_Selt_Disconnect.txt 47 -rwx------ 1 corview corview 39 May 23 2007 ./ricEMS/corView/resource/conf ig/Profile/WorkingDirectory/Adsl_Selt_Connect.txt 48 -rwx------ 1 corview corview 40 Feb 5 2007 ./ricEMS/corView/resource/conf ig/Profile/WorkingDirectory/Module.txt 49 -rwx------ 1 corview corview 164 Feb 5 2007 ./ricEMS/corView/resource/con fig/Profile/WorkingDirectory/temp1.txt 50 -rwx------ 1 corview corview 258959 Apr 27 2006 ./ricEMS/corView/resource/ config/Profile/WorkingDirectory/jta25b.jar 51 -rwx------ 1 corview corview 245 Feb 5 2007 ./ricEMS/corView/resource/con fig/Profile/WorkingDirectory/flt-arp-rep-srcip-deny-ruleid.txt As we see some files show up twice in find. For e.g, jta25b.jar is shown in line 50 (actual place) and in line 38 (bogus) -bash-3.00$ pwd /home/corview -bash-3.00$ find . -name jta25b.jar ./ricEMS/corView/resource/config/Profile/WorkingDirectory/jta25b.jar -bash-3.00$ How is this? TIA Regards, -S.Balaji

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python XML processing to turn a XML file into a structure?
by Robinson Tiemuqinke 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Hi, I'm running Centos 5 with python 2.4.3. Anyone know if there are python xml processing tools/packages that can turn an XML file directly into a complex structure? and write a complex structure back into an XML file? I'm a newbie to Python programming, though years ago I've processed XML files with Java but now I am in a rush. Thanks. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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Kickstart stops with dialog about which networking device - how to avoid
by Keith Christian 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Using a kickstart file that stops with a curses dialog "You have multiple network devices on this system. Which one do you want to install through?" The machine being configured with PXEboot has two ethernet interfaces. What's missing from the network entries below? I'd like this install to proceed without asking which ethernet interface. PXE begins the install with DHCP, so Kickstart should already know which of eth0, eth1, etc. to use. Here is the ethernet line in the ks.cfg file: network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp Any ideas appreciated. =======Keith

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xloadimage in centos 5.1
by Jerry Geis 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

I have noticed that xloadimage rpm is not in centos 5.1 I use the command "xview -identity" to get the size of gifs, jpgs, and pngs. xview is part of the xloadimage package. The command "file filename" also reports sizes for gifs and pngs BUT not for jpgs. Is there an alternative command to use to report gif jpg and png sizes? I thought about just getting an older xloadimage package and that works but I want to do it the right way... THanks, Jerry

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hp dl585 - qlogic hba's - centos 4.5 x86_64
by Tom Brown 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Hi I recently installed some hba's into a bunch of these 585's as they are forming a RAC cluster - previously to this they were all using DAS without issue. After the qlogic cards were installed i reinstalled the OS and now once installed the OS will not boot - the box just reboots continuously, it does not even appear to get to grud, although this could be the ilo not displaying correctly. I have installed the OS onto the internal RAID set as usual and the MBA gets put onto this internal RAID disk also, the internal disks are just laid out in a /boot and a / Does anyone know what the issue could be or how i could disable these hba's during the install process so that they are not recognised? thanks

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