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Automatic kerberos ticket renewal
by Ross S. W. Walker 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Is there an app, configuration or script that works well to keep tickets fresh? We use KDE as our environment here. -Ross ______________________________________________________________________ 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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CentOS-5 PostgreSQL 8.1.9
by James B. Byrne 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

I have installed pgadmin3 from Dags repository. I now wish to enable postgresql server instrumentation and my research indicates that I need to install postgres-contrib (done) and then run the admin81.sql script. I cannot find said script and yum whatprovides admin.sql or admin81.sql does not find anything. How do I enable server instrumentationt for my CentOS-5 installation? Regards, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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MyhtTV or Freevo or something else?
by Mindaugas 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Hello, I have the idea brewing for some time in my mind - to build Linux based HTPC. It would be used for movies, cable (analog for now) recording, Stepmania, backup station, etc. And I would like to get some information before proceeding to estimate the cost. Which one of the Linux projects would you suggest and why? MythTV, Freevo or something else? Is CentOS good for such task or I should better use some more bleeding edge distribution like Fedora? Also what are hardware requirements? I believe HD 1080p h264 movie playback will set the bar. Which Intel or AMD CPU is enough (but not too expensive) for that? And which video card is more suitable for such task. HTPC would be connected to Panasonic LCD TV with VGA and HDMI inputs. Thanks, Mindaugas

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OT: How many watts do I need?
by Fajar Priyanto 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Hello all, Sorry for the OT thing. I'm helping a friend setting up a new box. It's a Pentium 4 with 430Watt power supply. He wants to plugin his old harddrives and DVD into the new box. The total will be: 3 harddrives, 1 DVD drive, 1 CDRW drive. In the box there are also 2 big fans. Is 430Watt enough? Thank you for your sharing. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 07:37:56 up 15 min, 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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[Semi-OT] Advice on large webmail setup
by Neil Thompson 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Hi all, As the resident Linux guru, I've just been tasked with costing a webmail setup for about 600 000 users. They each have 10MiB (small, I know) mailboxes. The current setup has about 40 million web page accesses per month. Has anyone here any experience with this kind of thing? If so, any pointers as to software and hardware used, and any other advice would be appreciated. TIA -- Cheers! (Relax...have a homebrew) Neil THEOREM: VI is perfect. PROOF: VI in roman numerals is 6. The natural numbers < 6 which divide 6 are 1, 2, and 3. 1+2+3 = 6. So 6 is a perfect number. Therefore, VI is perfect. QED -- Arthur Tateishi

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Re: [CentOS] Xen, GFS, GNBD and DRBD?
by Ross S. W. Walker 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

You can fail-over using iSCSI multi-pathing. Have the initiator log in to both targets and then setup dm-multipath to do fail-over. On the target side you could use drbd with multi primaries and there you have it, redundant storage with easy fail-over. -Ross -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org <centos-bounces(a)centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Wed Jan 02 20:15:58 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Xen, GFS, GNBD and DRBD? On 03/01/2008, at 9:55 AM, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Take a look at iSCSI for the storage servers. iSCSI Enterprise > Target is what I use here and it works well for us. > > You don't really need shared filesystems if you are doing direct > block io to LVs or raw partitions as the Xen migration will handle > the hand-off, but you will if you are using flat files, because of > this I recommend using LVs or raw partitions as clustered > filesystems will put a serious overhead on the Xen guest io. > > -Ross Ross, I can use DRBD to mirror data between the two storage servers and iSCSI to export the block devices, but how will iSCSI cope with failure of one storage server? Can I use heartbeat and CRM to failover the host IP and iSCSI target to the other storage server? Regards, Tom _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.

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The ticket clinic, What Is U.S. Copyright Law?
by Blogger Man 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

The ticket clinic, What Is U.S. Copyright Law? The US Copyright Law grants rights to individuals for the works they create. The US Copyright Act of 1790 has changed over the years. The current basis of US copyright law is based on the Copyright Act of 1976. US copyright law is relatively automatic. Once someone has an idea and produces it in tangible form, the creator is the copyright holder and has the authority to enforce his exclusivity to it. In other words, the person is the owner of the creation. It is not necessary that a person register their work. However, it is recommended and it can serve as evidence if someone ever violates a copyright. It is interesting to note that when an employer hires an employee to produce a work that the copyright is given to the employer. Violations of US Copyright Law are generally enforced in a civil court setting. However, there could also be criminal sanctions brought against someone who violates US copyright law. Someone in serious violation of US Copyright Law, such as counterfeiting, can find themselves on the inside of prison looking out. People need to understand the copyright symbol is not a requirement. Someone may have a copyright, yet their work may not have a copyright notice or symbol. US Copyright Law covers a wide range of things that are derived from artistic expression, intellectual or creative work. This includes things such as literary works, music, drawings, photographs, software, movies, choreographic works such as ballets and plays, poems, paintings and more. The law covers the form of expression, not the concept, facts or the actual idea of the work. This means that someone can use another person?s idea or concept and produce their own take on it. However, copying another person?s work is a violation. some things may not be copyrighted but they may be protected by a patent or trademark. Individuals who have a copyright on a particular piece of work can do with it what they will. They may choose to copy it and sell it. They may display their work or perform it in public and charge admission, or they can assign or sell the work to someone else. Individuals who have a copyright can also choose to do nothing with their work, if that is their desire. However, if someone comes along and takes the work and tries to use it in some way, that person is still in violation of the owner?s copyright. Copyrights cover published and unpublished work. Anyone who is in the creative arts arena should be very careful that they do not violate US Copyright Law. For that matter, anyone who is a fan of the creative arts should make sure they are not in violation of a copyright. Simple things like uploading, downloading and sharing music or movie files can result in serious charges and fines being brought against them. The popularity of the Internet and file sharing software has increased copyright violations. Copyright owners are starting to take a stand against copyright violators and are hunting down the perpetrators. Be careful you are not overstepping your boundaries and violating someone?s copyright law. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 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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The iostat command
by Indunil Jayasooriya 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Hi All, I am learning iostat command to understand disk I/O statistics. We have 2 Centos 4 servers running where oracle is installed.We installed them 2 weeks ago. @ that time, These Servers performed well. But, Now We have come to know that these 2 Machines are quite slow when comparing to the first week. So, Some say, run iostat to see statictics. I am not familiar with comamnd well. I found below url http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/admin-guide/s1-… And, I have still not understood it fully. Could you pls advice me , If you have experience with iostat? In adition to that, What are the other tools I can use? I have already used, top , vmstat commands Hope to hear from you. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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Java applets plugins for Mozilla Firefox
by Andrew Allen 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

I'm trying to view some websites which require Java applets to be installed in the web browser - how do I install these please as I haven't found a simple/obvious way to do it with yum? Thanks, Andy

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Xen, GFS, GNBD and DRBD?
by Tom Lanyon 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Hi all, We're looking at deploying a small Xen cluster to run some of our smaller applications. I'm curious to get the lists opinions and advice on what's needed. The plan at the moment is to have two or three servers running as the Xen dom0 hosts and two servers running as storage servers. As we're trying to do this on a small scale, there is no means to hook the system into our SAN, so the storage servers do not have a shared storage subsystem. Is it possible to run DRBD on the two storage servers and then export the block devices over the network to the xen hosts? Ideally the goal is to have the effect of shared storage on the xen hosts so that domains can be migrated between them in case one server needs to go offline. Do I run GFS on top of the DRBD mirrored device, exported via GNBD to the xen hosts; or the other way around, using GNBD to export the DRBD mirrored device and then GFS running on the xen hosts? Is this possible; is there an easier/simpler/better way to do it? Thanks, Tom

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Re: [CentOS] Xen, GFS, GNBD and DRBD?
by Ross S. W. Walker 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Take a look at iSCSI for the storage servers. iSCSI Enterprise Target is what I use here and it works well for us. You don't really need shared filesystems if you are doing direct block io to LVs or raw partitions as the Xen migration will handle the hand-off, but you will if you are using flat files, because of this I recommend using LVs or raw partitions as clustered filesystems will put a serious overhead on the Xen guest io. -Ross -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org <centos-bounces(a)centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Wed Jan 02 17:44:19 2008 Subject: [CentOS] Xen, GFS, GNBD and DRBD? Hi all, We're looking at deploying a small Xen cluster to run some of our smaller applications. I'm curious to get the lists opinions and advice on what's needed. The plan at the moment is to have two or three servers running as the Xen dom0 hosts and two servers running as storage servers. As we're trying to do this on a small scale, there is no means to hook the system into our SAN, so the storage servers do not have a shared storage subsystem. Is it possible to run DRBD on the two storage servers and then export the block devices over the network to the xen hosts? Ideally the goal is to have the effect of shared storage on the xen hosts so that domains can be migrated between them in case one server needs to go offline. Do I run GFS on top of the DRBD mirrored device, exported via GNBD to the xen hosts; or the other way around, using GNBD to export the DRBD mirrored device and then GFS running on the xen hosts? Is this possible; is there an easier/simpler/better way to do it? Thanks, Tom _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.

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vncserver
by Jerry Geis 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Hi all, When using the "vncserver :1" and then "vncviewer :1" to see it so far so good. then when I run a program I get the window outline until I move to the position I want and click - how can I just skip that step and lets say have my new program go full screen (in the vnc window). Is that possible and how? THanks, Jerry

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gettext does not work after glibc update
by Christoph Mitasch 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Hi, I recently upgraded my system to CentOS 4.6 and noticed that gettext does not behave as before the update. As soon as I install the old glibc version (glibc-2.3.4-2.36) instead of the new one (glibc-2.3.4-2.39) it works again. See the Attachment for details. Any hints would be appreciated! Thank you, Christoph

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Regd: CentOS 4.4 Installtion Screen Shots
by Balaji 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Dear All, I need CentOS 4.4 Step-by-Step Installation Screen Shots. Please send me the following Installation Screen Shots Details or link Regards -S.Balaji

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cron clarification
by Joseph L. Casale 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

What is the ramifications to simply placing scripts in the /etc/cron.hourly directory as opposed to actually adding jobs via the crontab -e method? Is there any significance to using one method versus the other? Thanks! jlc

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Firewall frustration
by Robert Moskowitz 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Well FWbuilder is NOT easy. The documentation does not match the current GUI. Now the box is locked up. I will have to pull it again, hook it up to a kybd/VGA and reset iptables.... Maybe Shoreline with webmin.... Problem is I want a REAL router/firewall with little work. Both public and private nets have routable addresses. No NATing for me! I just help write the RFC ;) And all the templates for fwbuilder want you to be using NATing. Perhaps I should just set up another Astaro firewall. I have been using Astaro since v3, so I am comfortable with it....

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drbd on CentOS 5
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Hi All, Is the centosplus kernel still needed for drbd support? I noticed that if I do a 'yum update kmod-drbd', yum gives me an error because it wants to install the "normal" CentOS kernel, but can't since I have it excluded. I do see kmod-drbd in the centosplus repo though. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.22.9-61.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux 15:12:04 up 21 days, 13:43, 1 user, load average: 0.72, 0.85, 0.94

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Re: Create Live CD (was: Firewall frustration)
by Patrice Guay 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Weaver wrote: > On a whim I googled live CD creation and came up with some very > interesting results. A CentOS LiveCD project already exists. You can customize your own LiveCD using CentOS 5 as the base OS. https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/ - -- Patrice -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHemEYjCX40vq+oyIRAgcVAJ9a5Hu3U0b9d/qdZqklgXZEic7wUQCeLvLo Zs2ayye9sSWDLhQe8O9dfRg= =BeeF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Centos 5.1, mythtv, saa7134_dvb?
by Mogens Kjaer 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

I'm trying to set up my Centos 5.1 box at home to run mythtv. The DVB-T card requires saa7134 and saa7134_dvb. These are not in the Centos kernels. Centosplus has saa7134, but not saa7134_dvb. Do I have to compile the kernel myself, or is there a trick? Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08 Email: mk(a)crc.dk Homepage: http://www.crc.dk

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1680x1050 Monitor
by centos＠911networks.com 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Hi, I just got a new Samsung 226bw 22" wide monitor to replace my previous one. I also have a nvidia 8600gts video card. I can set interactively [through the nvidia-settings utility] the 1680 by 1050 resolution. I have saved the settings in the xorg.conf, but I can't keep it after a restart of X or a reboot. When I restart X, the login is at: 1680 by 1050, then it switches to 1280 by 1024. Here are the video sections from my xorg.conf Any suggestion with what's wrong? Section "Module" Load "glx" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce 8600 GTS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "0" Option "metamodes" "1680x1050 +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work

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ISO burning challenge -- pilgrims progress
by Robert Moskowitz 31 Dec '07

31 Dec '07

First the Storix drive works just fine under DSL 4.2.1 on my Libretto. So the drive is fine, the media is fine. And cdrecord on DSL reports the media to be Manuf. index: 27 Manufacturee: Prodisc Technology Inc. I have all of ONE system with Centos 4 on it. A Trixbox 2.2; I added cdrecord and found that I could burn the iso image ONLY by including the -force option to get around the "cdrecord: Cannot get disk type" error. So I moved back to the Centos 5 system. I had to add the speed=4 (when the unit supports speed=8) along with the -force to get it to burn a iso image (btw, timeout=100 does nothing. The failure is in a few seconds, adding to the timeout changes nothing). There are a number of timing errors on the Centos 5 system. Even the Centos 4 system had a SCSI error (0x7000). I did find ONE mention of "cdrecord: Cannot get disk type": http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd/Changelog.html but that is dated 2/2/06. One would think it is fixed in Centos 5..... I have NOT gotten the HP CDRW working yet, that is the one I want to leave on the server, as the Storix is my traveling drive. More work. Any pointers gladly taken! I REALLY want to move my CD processes to Centos. I want a GUI interface and want to rip and burn music CDs as well.....

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Yum breaks after updating to CentOS 4.6
by Devraj Mukherjee 31 Dec '07

31 Dec '07

Hi everyone, Yum on one my CentOS systems has decided to stop functioning after an upgrade to CentOS 4.6. It's complaining about errors with Python-SQLite packages? Any ideas anyone? Here is what happens. [root@monk var]# yum search zaptel Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 102, in main result, resultmsgs = do() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 545, in doCommands return self.search() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 1129, in search for (po, matched_value) in matching: File "__init__.py", line 1157, in searchGenerator File "sqlitesack.py", line 52, in returnSimple File "sqlitesack.py", line 273, in getPackageDetails File "sqlitesack.py", line 403, in db2class File "/var/tmp/python-sqlite-root//usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/sqlite/main.py", line 97, in __getattr__ AttributeError: LOCATION_BASE -- "I never look back darling, it distracts from the now", Edna Mode (The Incredibles)

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Help with full and incremental dumps
by Scott Ehrlich 31 Dec '07

31 Dec '07

I have an Overland Arcvault 12 library with a full LTO3 magazine of 400/800 GB tapes. It is connected directly to the fileserver via a SCSI card/cable. The two main directories I want to back up are /var/log, which is on one filesystem, and /home, which is on another. There are _currently_ no databases to worry about, but there may be active users logged in and active jobs running. We'll just take our chances with what can be backed up. I've successfully run dump/restore to an external USB 1 TB hard drive as our backup device until the tape library arrived. Now, finding the appropriate dump and restore commands to throw into a script is the fun part. The first time will obviously produce a full backup of said directories to back up. Subsequent ones will be incremental. What should my dump lines look like for both full and subsequent incrementals? And, to test the backup and in case I need to retrieve a file, what should a respective restore line look like? Thanks much. Scott

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MOre on buring ISOs
by Robert Moskowitz 31 Dec '07

31 Dec '07

So right now I have installed k3b on this notebook. I am using my Storix DVD/CDRW usb drive. I can read cds with it. Cannot burn CDs. First k3b suggests slowing down (from 8x to 4x). Then use TAO. Then it gave up. So I try cdrecord directly. -checkdrive finds some interesting things. Got to close the drive manually; cdrecord says it can't. then try a cdrecord -v dev=dev/scd0 sample.iso and if fails: cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds... Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (cpu-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J?rg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2). cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority(). cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. scsidev: '/dev/scd0' devname: '/dev/scd0' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'SAMSUNG ' Identifikation : 'CDRW/DVD SN-308B' Revision : 'U006' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM. Current: 0x0009 Profile: 0x0008 Profile: 0x0009 Profile: 0x000A Profile: 0x0010 Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1353728 = 1322 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 48 MB Total size: 55 MB (05:32.48) = 24936 sectors Lout start: 56 MB (05:34/36) = 24936 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 cdrecord: Input/output error. read disk info: scsi sendcmd: cmd timeout after 9.040 (240) s CDB: 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 resid: 4 cmd finished after 9.040s timeout 240s cdrecord: Cannot get disk type. ========================== and in /var/log/messages Dec 27 21:11:11 nc4010 kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! Dec 27 21:11:11 nc4010 kernel: usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 21 So what of this? These are Memorex 700Mb/80min CD-R disks. Bought them probably 4 years ago. Got about 200 of them and down to about 30.

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Cent os 4 .htaccess file not working mod_rewrite enable - how can I test "help"
by sgoldman 30 Dec '07

30 Dec '07

Hello, Spend hours attempting to password protect a web directory- mod_rewrite enabled on httpd.conf file. Seek ideas please Stephen Stephen Goldman System Administrator MIT Biology sgoldman(a)mit.edu

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Can't connect to torrent tracker
by William L. Maltby 30 Dec '07

30 Dec '07

Well, yesterday my 5.1 and 4.6 systems could connect to torrent.centos.org OK. Today neither system can connect. I can ping, but that's all. No changes were made to the firewall during this time. Any tips on debugging this? I successfully http downloaded all the ISO images from various mirrors this morning, so I think my net and firewall are OK. TIA -- Bill

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Problem with RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet
by ArcosCom Linux User 30 Dec '07

30 Dec '07

Hi guys; I'm having a problem with a new pc that has an Realtec ethernet device. Don't know why the driver is not loading and is not detected during installation process. I tried to load r8169.ko unsuccessfully. It load but no device is detected. No dmesg or /var/log/message. ¿Any help on how I can configure correctly this ethernet device? This are the data that I have: # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) More detailed: 01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device e000 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 I/O ports at a000 [size=256] Memory at e1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 20000000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

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Firewall builder - which rpm?
by Robert Moskowitz 30 Dec '07

30 Dec '07

I need a decent, easy, firewall on Centos. This is for test systems, so I do not need a lot. For 'a lot', I use and Astaro firewall. I had used Firestarter once, but found out that it cannot handle routing between a public and private network. Basically saying this is impossible. Of course, if your private network is addressed per RFC 1918 (that I co-authored), I can understand the difficulty, but otherwise.... Anyway, I found firehol, but this is rather confusing. ( how do I define a service like for port 5903? What about UDP for RTP? How do I run the thing?) There have been people here mentioning Firewall Builder, and that seems be well documented, except which rpm I should grab for Centos 5. I am looking over at http://www.fwbuilder.org/ and http://www.fwbuilder.org/nightly_builds/build-329/ for rpms, but which one? fedora-c5 ? thanks.

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Job Script
by Christopher E 30 Dec '07

30 Dec '07

Hello All, Is there a way to run a script from CentOS 5 and have it look at a file and get it if its new then the file it got last time, if not it does nothing, if its a new file then it wgets the file and then unzip the file then runs a php script, I would want this to check once a week or if it would not make much of a different then each day is fine if this is able to be done can someone point me in the right direction to do such! Sincerely, Christopher

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Xen 3.1 install and xen-libs
by Joseph L. Casale 30 Dec '07

30 Dec '07

It appears that xen-libs-i386-3.0.3-41.el5.rpm is only compatible with xen 3.0.3. If I want to install 3.1, where do I find a compatible xen-libs rpm. What exactly is this for, there is no mention on the xen website of this requirement? Thanks! jlc

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VIA C3 support for CentOS 5? (i586 kernel)
by Ray Van Dolson 30 Dec '07

30 Dec '07

Hi all. Decided to upgrade an old Slackware 10 box I had. The box is running a VIA C3 processor and apparently doesn't support the cmov extension that most i686 processors do. As a result I cannot install CentOS 5. I discovered a few posts from way back in April: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-April/079352.html http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-April/079439.html Implying that an i586 version of the installer might be released. Was something along those lines ever done, or could it still be done? Or should I just stick with CentOS 4 for the time being? (I did try 'i586 text' on my netboot 5.1 CD) Thanks, Ray

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VooDoo3 = no joy
by Michael A. Peters 29 Dec '07

29 Dec '07

I posted this in the support forum but I suspect I may have better luck here. Old home built PC that has a 3dfx VooDoo3. When I tried installing CentOS 5 on it - the graphical installer would freeze just after starting X - but cli install worked just fine. The failing power supply on the old CRT finally completely died, so I bought a new Dell flat panel (1908FP) and hooked it up. With a new monitor that works, I decided to try X and got no joy - same symptom as the graphical install, completely frozen X display very shortly after starting the X server. The box isn't frozen, I can still ssh in - but keyboard/mouse are frozen (IE impossible to ctrl-alt-FN to switch to a virtual console). The X log in /var/log/ did not have anything that looked like an error - so I ran startx > foo.log 2>&1 and I did get what looks like some error messages - attached as text file. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I may see if I can replace the video card, I suspect finding a video card for this old style of AGP isn't going to be easy, so I'd prefer to have a solution to the VooDoo 3 issue. VooDoo 3 did work with X11 in Fedora Core 6 - the OS I ran before installing CentOS 5. CentOS install is up to date, only CentOS packages that have replaced by non CentOS packages are sox and php (and yes, I'm certain of that). Thanks for any suggestions. xauth: creating new authority file /home/admin/.serverauth.3217 X Window System Version 7.1.1 Release Date: 12 May 2006 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp i686 Red Hat, Inc. Current Operating System: Linux jerusalem.mpeters.local 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 #1 SMP Fri Nov 30 00:45:16 EST 2007 i686 Build Date: 10 November 2007 Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.1.1-48.26.el5 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Dec 28 00:09:24 2007 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (EE) TDFX(0): [dri] tdfx DRI not supported in 32 bpp mode, disabling DRI. localuser:admin being added to access control list No profile for user 'admin' found SESSION_MANAGER=local/jerusalem.mpeters.local:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3238 ** (eggcups:3308): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030 ** (eggcups:3308): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030 Introspect error: The name edu.duke.linux.yum was not provided by any .service files Unable to connect to yum-updatesd. Please ensure that the yum-updatesd package is installed and that the service is running. Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-writer.desktop for panel launcher: No such file or directory Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-impress.desktop for panel launcher: No such file or directory Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-calc.desktop for panel launcher: No such file or directory X: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/tdfx_drv.so: undefined symbol: getsecs Window manager warning: Lost connection to the display ':0.0'; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the window manager. The application 'pam-panel-icon' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. The application 'nm-applet' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. The application 'nautilus' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. xinit: connection to X server lost. The application 'gnome-panel' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. ** (gnome-panel:3298): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1287: failed to load applet OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet: Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0' The program 'gnome-panel' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was '164'. (Details: serial 40035 error_code 164 request_code 144 minor_code 184) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

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unziping
by Christopher E 29 Dec '07

29 Dec '07

Hello All, I am wondering what methoreds are allowed for unzipping a zip file under CentOS 5? How would you do this also? I want to exact a file eo1.zip to /home/dev/www/processing/eo1.lst <-- is the file name which comes from the zip file. Thanks all for your help. Sincerely, Christopher

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OpenMPI not compiled with Torque support
by James A. Peltier 29 Dec '07

29 Dec '07

The OpenMPI package that ships with CentOS 5.1 does not seem to be compiled with torque support. It does, however, seem to be compiled with gridengine and slurm support. Would it be possible to get this changed?

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Xen Networking Issue with CentOS 5.1
by Joseph L. Casale 29 Dec '07

29 Dec '07

Hi, I tried this post on the Xen list first with no answer. I have 4 machines and 3 of which (all different) have no network access when booted into Xen. I tried using Fedora Core 8 and it produced the same results. Is it normal for the virbr0 interface to take an arbitrary IP? How does it decide what to use? An ifconfig when booted into Xen shows the following: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:4A:69:63 inet addr:192.168.5.30 Bcast:192.168.5.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe4a:6963/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1763 (1.7 KiB) TX bytes:594 (594.0 b) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:336 (336.0 b) TX bytes:336 (336.0 b) peth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:21 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1943 (1.8 KiB) TX bytes:1314 (1.2 KiB) Interrupt:17 Base address:0x1400 vif0.0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:594 (594.0 b) TX bytes:1763 (1.7 KiB) virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:468 (468.0 b) xenbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1881 (1.8 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Thanks for any pointers! jlc

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vnc server
by Joseph L. Casale 29 Dec '07

29 Dec '07

I followed these instructions, http://egopoly.com/archives/2006/09/how_to_use_vnc.html to successfully connect to my centos 5.1 box. I assumed I could #chkconfig vncserver on to make this permananet but when I tried to #service vncserver start I got the message no desktop configured. Can anyone point me in the right direction to have vncserver run at startup? Thanks! jlc

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Installation problems Cisco VPN Client
by Saurabh Sharma 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

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workspace switcher
by Jerry Geis 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

Hi all, I added the "workspace switcher" and I now have 4 virtual screens. When I do "vncviewer machine" works and shows me the current 1-4 display. however, I want to go directly to one of the 1-4 displays. when I do "vncviewer machine:1" it says "unable to connect to host" How do I get the displays 1-4 to accept the vnc connection? I have module vnc loaded in my xorg.conf file. Again vnc works into the machine but I want to go directly to one of the 4 available virtual screens. Thanks, Jerry

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Problem with RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet
by ArcosCom Linux User 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

Hi guys; I'm having a problem with a new pc that has an Realtec ethernet device. Don't know why the driver is not loading and is not detected during installation process. I tried to load r8169.ko unsuccessfully. It load but no device is detected. No dmesg or /var/log/message. ¿Any help on how I can configure correctly this ethernet device? This are the data that I have: # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) More detailed: 01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device e000 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 I/O ports at a000 [size=256] Memory at e1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 20000000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

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SELinux and rsync permission on /bin
by James B. Byrne 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

I am getting this error from the SELinux troubleshooter SELinux is preventing rsync (/usr/bin/rsync) "search" to bin (bin_t) I can fix this easily enough but I want to ask why is rsync searching /bin as a repository? Is this a bug in the program or is the default SELinux configuration wrong for rsync? Regards, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Help with dump/restore
by Scott Ehrlich 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

So I recently installed an Overland Arcvault 12 tape library on a server to back up /var/log/ and /home. The server is an out-of-box RHEL 5 install, with all packages selected, in an isolated lan, with no package updates. Also, this is a live server that cannot be brought down for backups, and some files may be actively in use during the dump - just gotta live with it. Since I know EL5 and C5 are the same, and the level of support I get from RH is actually less effective and slower than resources such as this list, I'm looking here, first. Up to this point I was backing up to a USB-mounted external 1 TB hard drive. I was using a script containing: /sbin/dump -0v -z2 -f /media/usb_drive/dump0 /home I played with restore on that, and it tested fine. For the tape, I thought it would be nice to add /var/log (should have done it before, but didn't think of it...) Trying to adapt the knowledge to a tape library... /sbin/dump -0 -v -z2 -f /dev/nst0 /var/log /sbin/dump -0u -v -z2 -f /dev/nst0 /home I have a cron job that dumps the results to /var/log/dump.log, and a review of the log file claims all went well. Now for the restore... I just tried playing with different options of restore, but could not successfully restore anything. I ensured I was in a scratch area so as to hopefully not overwrite current files. What is the proper procedure for dumping and restoring now? Should I be dumping to /dev/nst0/dump? What restore commands would I use to recall a file? I'd like to keep things as simple as possible - people have suggested legato and amanda, but for now, I would think/hope dump and restore would work. Thanks. Scott

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kickstart editor
by Jerry Geis 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

I thought there used to be a kickstart editor? I am on centos 5.1 and am not seeing one in the menus. Not even sure what the executable was called. Is there a package I no longer have installed? What is it called? Thanks, Jerry

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RE: [CentOS] Net install from behind webproxy
by McGlue, Ronan 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

I am now in the prediciment of getting as far as downloading the rpms from the installation website( a local repository I created on same switch). The installation progresses through downloading the various image / xml files etc from the server , formats and partitions the harddrive accordingly. But when it gets to downloading and installing the rpms it throws a wobbler. As per my post on forums a few hours ago [quote] ronanOZ wrote: Ok, I sort of guessed that after checking out the parameters. Now I'm one step on from that. I have set up Xserver on my win box and have pointed the installer to it and it gets as far as starting to copy the rpms down to the target machine. IE it can see and download images/stage2.img etc but it balks at the first rpm, which happens to be system-config-services... saying it ".. missing or corrupt file, or corrupt media.." The <alt>F3 debug output simply states that it fails to get http://<IP>/./Centos/system-config-services.. trying 1-10 then fails. The only thing I can think of is the permissions on the NTFS file system but if it can see the images folder contents etc how come not the CentOS subfolder. Could it be that the centos installer is looking for a folder which is case sensitive whereas NTFS isn't!? TIA Ronan[/quote] Now I have subsequently tried using a ks file and a basic core install and it performs as expected until it too gets grumpy at the same stage of the installation. I can however wget the files on the target machine from the repository using the shell provided when I <alt>F2. The Xserver httpd log files show 200 codes for the rpm downloads. Would it be possible that I have a corrupted net-install cd. I have verified that the CD and the repository are both i386/5.1 I am at a loss to explain this. Can anyone else!? TIA Ronan -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Fabian Arrotin Sent: Friday, 28 December 2007 12:18 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Net install from behind webproxy _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Australia Post is committed to providing our customers with excellent service. If we can assist you in any way please telephone 13 13 18 or visit our website. The information contained in this e-mail communication may be proprietary, confidential or legally professionally privileged. It is intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. You should only read, disclose, re-transmit, copy, distribute, act in reliance on or commercialise the information if you are authorised to do so. Australia Post does not represent, warrant or guarantee the integrity of this e-mail communication has been maintained nor that the communication is free of errors, virus or interference. If you are not the addressee or intended recipient please notify us by replying direct to the sender and then destroy any electronic or paper copy of this message. Any views expressed in this e-mail communication are taken to be those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically attributes those views to Australia Post and is authorised to do so.

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CentOS on laptops - TuxBox?
by Bart Schaefer 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

RedHat magazine this month has an article about the TuxBox M750: http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/12/06/hardware-review-tuxbox-computers-s… Has anyone bought one of these? I'm particularly interested in estimated battery life, which that review doesn't mention. The M750 is comparable in most other ways to an HP that I was about to buy, but the HP's battery life is supposedly unusually good (5+ hours).

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boot hangs on trying to start sendmail
by Robert Moskowitz 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

I am building a new server. It will be a temporary firewall of sorts. I am well into the config, made a lot of changes; almost ready to set it up in the target networks, but now.... The system hangs trying to start sendmail. I was thinking hard about disabling sendmail, but thought I needed it for internal functions, so did not. yet. So is there someway to get the system working so I can change something like disable sendmail? The system has no cdrom, diskette, etc. In fact the kybd/monitor require a special temp setup. Perhaps I can edit the kernel line in grub to disable something? If necessary, I can pull the drive and put it in a system that does support cdrom. That is the way I did the initial harddrive install.

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Failed to enable keyboard
by Robert Moskowitz 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

I have a set of systems that I have to build that cannot be booted from CD. So I put the drive in another system, do the install, move the drive, and fix the video with system-config-display. But seems perhaps there is another (small) problem. The build system has a PS/2 keyboard interface (and mouse). The target system has NO PS/2 interfaces. Only USB is available. So at boot I get the message: atkbd.c: Failed to enable keyboard on isa0060/serio0 What do I do to remove this?

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OT? Creative Zen player not registering as a USB device
by MHR 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

I plugged my son's new (Christmas) Zen V player into my CentOS 5.1 box and it doesn't register as a device that the system can see or mount. If I lsusb, it shows up as bus 2, device 8, but there is no corresponding /dev/??? device for it, so the system can't get at it. (I tried my flash drive in the same USB port and it works fine, so it's not the hardware.) How do I get around this? Thanks. mhr

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Issues installing x86_64 5.1 on Ultra 40
by Ray Van Dolson 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

Hi all, we're trying to install CentOS 5.1 on a Sun Ultra 40. This is an AMD-powered machine and we're using the x86_64 version of CentOS 5.1. The machine is using the NVidia CK804 chipset and has SATA disks. It also has 16GB's of memory which prompted us to upgrade the BIOS on the machine from 1.1 to 1.6 per this (we also have the two quadro cards): http://docs.sun.com/source/819-3954-18/index.html#0_37092 The install goes fine up until the installer is trying to format the disks. Part of the way through it simply dies and pops up an error saying that the installer couldn't format the LVM volume and we have to reboot. An examination of dmesg output shows that there are many SATA errors occuring at this point. Timeouts and such. After a reboot, the SATA drive no longer shows up -- not even in BIOS. It's as if the formatting has instructed the drive to deactivate itself. :) A hard reset and reseat of the drive in the SATA enclosure brings it back again. First thought was that the slot or SATA port was bad, so we have moved to others with the same result. Solaris 10 x86 installs perfectly on this machine, so I'm starting to think that the sata_nv driver is to blame here. We're in the process of trying 32-bit CentOS 5.1 on the system just for giggles, and may try Fedora 8 as well or RHEL 5.1 and use our paid support to track this issue down, but thought I'd run it by everyone here. Didn't see any existing issues in bugzilla.redhat.com or bugs.centos.org. Any insights on this? I will get the exact error messages posted up here soon (output from dmesg, etc). TIA, Ray

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libata and PMP (Port Multiplier) support in CentOS
by Timothy Selivanow 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

I'm looking at buying a NORCO DS-1220 and it comes with a NORCO 4618 PCI-X card (4 port eSATA, with a port multiplier on the card or the chassis). I've been trying to pin down whether or not CentOS will see all 12 drives, and I haven't seen anything that is definitive. I see that the kernel module sata_sil24 supports the SiI3124 chip on the NORCO 4618 card, but I haven't found whether or not the default kernel will support the SiI3726 (PMP) without the libata-tj patch. I'm just trying to determine the easiest route to go with minimal cost. I've found another enclosure that uses 4 mini-SAS connectors, but in addition to the extra $320 for the enclosure, I'd need to buy a $300 card and at least one $120 cable (either SFF-8088 to SFF-8470 or a straight SFF-8088). While this is for at home, I would consider this a "mission critical" device and don't want a flakey setup, which is what I have now...I've become an expert at recovering from a 2 drive failure in a 4 drive RAID5 setup using mdadm. Any ideas, suggestions, or authoritative comments? --Tim ________________________________________________________________________________ < You're definitely on their list. The question to ask next is what list it is. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \ \ \ \ /\ ( ) .( o ).

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Solved - Re: [CentOS] boot hangs on trying to start sendmail
by Robert Moskowitz 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

After a wait of about 5 min, the boot moved on to hang on sm-client. When that finally timed out, I was able to log in. The problem was indirectly DNS. When I had configured the 2nd interface (which I added in the last reboot), I included a gateway address. Then when I booted, there were two interfaces each with their gateway address. Well the second (non-existant) one was used, so no access to the DNS server. It is those beartraps you know about that get you every time. replies-lists-a1z2-centos(a)listmail.innovate.net wrote: > the sendmail hang is generally a dns issue -- sendmail is trying to > resolve the hostname. it will timeout past this after a bit. having > the appropriate entries in /etc/hosts should resolve this. > > > - Rick > > > ------------ Original Message ------------ > >> Date: Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:03:52 AM -0500 >> From: Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com> >> To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> >> Subject: [CentOS] boot hangs on trying to start sendmail >> >> I am building a new server. It will be a temporary firewall of >> sorts. >> >> I am well into the config, made a lot of changes; almost ready to >> set it up in the target networks, but now.... >> >> The system hangs trying to start sendmail. I was thinking hard >> about disabling sendmail, but thought I needed it for internal >> functions, so did not. yet. >> >> So is there someway to get the system working so I can change >> something like disable sendmail? >> >> The system has no cdrom, diskette, etc. In fact the kybd/monitor >> require a special temp setup. Perhaps I can edit the kernel line >> in grub to disable something? >> >> If necessary, I can pull the drive and put it in a system that does >> support cdrom. That is the way I did the initial harddrive install. >> >> > > > ---------- End Original Message ---------- > > >

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