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Linux vs Windows Drivers
by Bit 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

What is so fundamentally different about drivers in Linux and Windows? Specifically, video card drivers have always frustrated my understanding of what's going on under the hood. Say I have a nice video card from ATI. I need to install some cool drivers from ATI in order to make the card work at its best and in order to do any cool things like dual monitors. I download these drivers from the company's website, install them on my machine, and I'm off and running. Assuming all goes according to plan. That's all fine. Now, this is what confuses me. In Windows, I'm done forever at this point. I've never had a problem, nor heard of a problem, where I had to mysteriously reinstall the drivers for my video card after an Automatic Update. Not so in Linux. Every kernel update has me wondering if I'll have to reinstall the drivers for my video card. It seems like sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. I just reboot and pray that my video card is still working afterwards. Not knowing a great deal about how drivers really work in Linux or Windows, I can only really conclude that either Microsoft never updates the Windows kernel (at least not in a way that screws with driver interfaces), or there is something very different about how the two operating systems handle drivers. Can anyone shed some light on the subject for me? Thanks, bit

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Regd: Iptables SNAT issue in Cluster Suite Setup
by Balaji 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

Dear All, I have configured Cluster Suite with 2 servers Server 1 : 192.168.13.110 IP Address Server 2 : 192.168.13.179 IP Address Floating : 192.168.13.83 IP Address (Assumed by currently active server) I want all snmp packets going out through the active server to be stamped with floating IP So i have added a iptables rules as "iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p udp -s 192.168.13.179 --dport 161 -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.13.83:161 iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p udp -s 192.168.13.110 --dport 161 -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.13.83:161" I have written a script to continuously poll an agent using snmpgetnext. This script works for some time and then snmpgetnext fails giving the following message "Fri Dec 21 19:10:20 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" Fri Dec 21 19:10:20 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" Fri Dec 21 19:10:20 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" Fri Dec 21 19:10:20 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" Fri Dec 21 19:10:21 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" snmpgetnext: Failure in sendto (Operation not permitted) Fri Dec 21 19:10:21 IST 2007 snmpgetnext: Failure in sendto (Operation not permitted) Fri Dec 21 19:10:21 IST 2007 snmpgetnext: Failure in sendto (Operation not permitted) Fri Dec 21 19:10:21 IST 2007 snmpgetnext: Failure in sendto (Operation not permitted) Fri Dec 21 19:10:21 IST 2007 snmpgetnext: Failure in sendto (Operation not permitted) Fri Dec 21 19:13:20 IST 2007 snmpgetnext: Failure in sendto (Operation not permitted) Fri Dec 21 19:13:20 IST 2007 snmpgetnext: Failure in sendto (Operation not permitted) Fri Dec 21 19:13:21 IST 2007 snmpgetnext: Failure in sendto (Operation not permitted) Fri Dec 21 19:13:21 IST 2007 snmpgetnext: Failure in sendto (Operation not permitted) Fri Dec 21 19:13:21 IST 2007 Fri Dec 21 19:13:21 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" Fri Dec 21 19:13:21 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" Fri Dec 21 19:13:21 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" Fri Dec 21 19:13:21 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" Fri Dec 21 19:13:21 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" " If i remove the above iptables rule it works continuously and if i restarted iptables (with rule) then it works for some time and before the same problem repeats Can some one throw light on this particular problem Regards S.Balaji P.S: Same thing happen when a rule for rsync, ssh and telnet i.e they works some time and some times does not e.g rsync,ssh and telnet iptables SNAT rule "iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp -s 192.168.13.179 --dport 873 -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.13.83:873 iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp -s 192.168.13.179 --dport 22 -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.13.83:22 iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp -s 192.168.13.179 --dport 23 -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.13.83:23" rsync Success message is "receiving file list ... done Log/ Log/20070619.dbg.zip Log/20070619.log.zip Log/20070620.dbg.zip Log/20070620.log.zip Log/20070621.dbg.zip Log/20070621.log.zip sent 190 bytes received 211940 bytes 84852.00 bytes/sec total size is 211421 speedup is 1.00" rsync Failure message is "rsync: failed to connect to 192.168.13.100: Connection timed out (110) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(94) " *ssh Failure *Message is "ssh: connect to host 192.168.13.100 port 22: Connection timed out" telnet Failure Message is "telnet: connect to address 192.168.13.100: Connection timed out"

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Net install from behind webproxy
by McGlue, Ronan 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

I am behind a webproxy and am wondering if I can pass the webproxy's details to the boot time kernel so that I can install centos 5.1 from the net boot CD I have downloaded!? Thanks Ronan 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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Re: [CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks
by Robert Moskowitz 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

Frank Cox wrote: > On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:37:32 -0500 > Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com> wrote: > > >> Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 >> > > Get some canned air and blow the dirt off of the sensor in the drive. No change. The drive is the coffee mug tray style. so even opening the plastic housing for the drive does not let me 'see' the sensor, but I used a lot of canned air and no change in behaviour.... Perhaps I have to go out to the drug store and buy one of those drive lens cleaner disks?

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centos 5.1 vnc server
by Jerry Geis 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

Any one using vnc server on centos 5.1? on 4.6 I had no issue. on 5.1 I am having times when on connetion the VNC serveris crashing and logs me out of all my open'ed items. I can relog in. But I was wondering if others are seeing this and if there is something to do about it. THanks, Jerry

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Channel Bonding issue in Cluster Suite Setup
by Balaji 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

Dear All, I have configured RHEL Cluster Suite with 2 servers Server 1 : 192.168.13.110 IP Address and hostname is primary Server 2 : 192.168.13.179 IP Address and hostname is secondary Floating : 192.168.13.83 IP Address (Assumed by currently active server) In am followed the RHEL Cluster Suite Configuration document "rh-cs-en-4.pdf" and I have configured Ethernet Channel Bonding in Each Cluster Nodes Channel Bonding Configuration Details are 1) Created bonding devices in "/etc/modprobe.conf" file alias bond0 bonding options bonding miimon=100 mode=1 2) Edit the "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1" configuration DEVICE=eth0 USERCTL= no ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes BOOTPROTO=none DEVICE=eth1 USERCTL= no ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes BOOTPROTO=none 3) Created a network script for the bonding device is "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0" DEVICE=bond0 USERCTL=no ONBOOT=yes NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=192.168.13.1 IPADDR=192.168.13.110 4) Reboot the system for the changes to take effect. After i am rebooted both the server then cluster node becomes simplex and Services are started on both the nodes The cluster output in primary node Member Status: Quorate Member Name Status ----------- ------- --------- primary Online, Local, rgmanager secondary Offline Service Name Owner (Last) State --------- -------- ----------------- -------- Service primary started The cluster output in secondary node Member Status: Quorate Member Name Status ----------- ------- --------- primary Offline secondary Online, Local, rgmanager Service Name Owner (Last) State --------- -------- ----------------- -------- Service secondary started Before Ethernet Channel Bonding cluster services are active in one node and other nodes acts as passive node and member status is Online for both the nodes But after Ethernet Channel Bonding cluster services are active on both the nodes and member status is current node is Online and other node is Offline We are not sure why this is happening. Can some one throw light on this. Regards -S.Balaji

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Re: [CentOS] centos 5.1 vnc server
by Frank Cox 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:23:33 -0500 Jerry Geis <geisj(a)MessageNetSystems.com> wrote: > The only other item is I am using the NVIDIA binary driver are you? Nope. I actively avoid anything other than Intel video. Perhaps that will change after the ATI open-source thing has a change to develop a bit, but at the moment I stay with Intel stuff. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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BitTorrent
by centos＠911networks.com 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

Any suggestion for a 'good' bittorrent client with Centos5.1? -- Thanks

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Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks
by Robert Moskowitz 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

When I try to burn anything to cd, I get a message to insert a CD large enough for my file (normally an ISO image). Doesn't matter if the iso image is a 600Mb Centos ISO or a 48Mb DSL ISO. Same warning. My CD-Rs are Memorex 700MB/80min 52x disks that work just fine on XP systems. So what am I missing configuration-wise?

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Re: [CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks
by Robert Moskowitz 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

Definetly trouble right here in River City... Joe Pruett wrote: > so you can read burned disks ok on the drive under linux? > I shut down the server, unplugged the CDRW, rebooted, set up a tail -f /var/log/messages then plugged in the CDRW and got: Dec 26 12:43:09 onlo kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 Dec 26 12:43:10 onlo kernel: usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Dec 26 12:43:10 onlo kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Dec 26 12:43:14 onlo kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Dec 26 12:43:14 onlo kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage Dec 26 12:43:14 onlo kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. Dec 26 12:43:19 onlo kernel: Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 8200f Rev: 1.0A Dec 26 12:43:19 onlo kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Dec 26 12:43:19 onlo kernel: scsi 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5 Dec 26 12:43:19 onlo kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Then I put in a of pics and movies of my daugther's graduation and the light on the drive flashes green then red. Nothing. I move the cd (oh and this is one taken from my disk supply last summer) and put it into the IDE cdrom reader and that little icon came up on the top system tray in Gnome telling me that I might want to mount the cdrom by left clicking on the icon. Once mounted, I get a CD icon on the desktop and this lets me open nautilus to the CD. And nothing like this happened with the external CDRW drive. Opening a terminal window and issuing mount, I see the /dev/hdc is on /media/060622_2133 type iso9660 Now lets test all this on the external again... so I insert the CD and again the light is flashing red. mkdir /media/cdrw mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrw and get the response: mount: No medium found I am going to dig out my portable CDRW from my notebook backpack (for my real work notebook that I am typing from now, not my 'corp' notebook!).

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Regd: Ethernet Channel Bonding issue in Cluster
by Balaji 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

Dear All, I have configured Cluster Suite with 2 servers Server 1 : 192.168.13.110 IP Address and hostname is primary Server 2 : 192.168.13.179 IP Address and hostname is secondary Floating : 192.168.13.83 IP Address (Assumed by currently active server) I have configured Ethernet Channel Bonding in Each Cluster Nodes and Channel Bonding Configuration Details are 1) Created bonding devices in "/etc/modprobe.conf" file alias bond0 bonding options bonding miimon=100 mode=1 2) Edit the "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1" configuration DEVICE=eth0 USERCTL= no ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes BOOTPROTO=none DEVICE=eth1 USERCTL= no ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes BOOTPROTO=none 3) Created a network script for the bonding device is "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0" DEVICE=bond0 USERCTL=no ONBOOT=yes NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=192.168.13.1 IPADDR=192.168.13.110 4) Reboot the system for the changes to take effect. After i am rebooted both the server then cluster node becomes simplex and Services are started on both the nodes The cluster ouput in primary node Member Status: Quorate Member Name Status ----------- ------- --------- primary Online, Local, rgmanager secondary Offline Service Name Owner (Last) State --------- -------- ----------------- -------- Service primary started The cluster ouput in secondary node Member Status: Quorate Member Name Status ----------- ------- --------- primary Offline secondary Online, Local, rgmanager Service Name Owner (Last) State --------- -------- ----------------- -------- Service secondary started Before Ethernet Channel Bonding cluster services are active in one node and other nodes acts as passive node. But after Ethernet Channel Bonding cluster services are active on both the nodes I need to solve the following issue and services are run only active node. Can some one throw light on this peculiar problem Regards -S.Balaji

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system hibernating?
by Jeffrey Ross 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

I'm in the process of setting up a new system and I have found that the system is hibernating when its sitting idle for a long period of time. How do I stop this? TIA, Jeff

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problems building appletalk module with new kernel
by Craig White 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

I've been doing this on CentOS 4 and CentOS 5 but after installing 2.6.18-53.1.4el kernel, I'm having a bit of a struggle... # make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5/build \ SUBDIRS=/usr/src/appletalk modules make: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5-i686' CC [M] /usr/src/appletalk/aarp.o CC [M] /usr/src/appletalk/ddp.o CC [M] /usr/src/appletalk/dev.o CC [M] /usr/src/appletalk/atalk_proc.o CC [M] /usr/src/appletalk/sysctl_net_atalk.o LD [M] /usr/src/appletalk/appletalk.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST CC /usr/src/appletalk/appletalk.mod.o LD [M] /usr/src/appletalk/appletalk.ko make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5-i686' # make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5/build \ SUBDIRS=/usr/src/appletalk modules_install make: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5-i686' INSTALL /usr/src/appletalk/appletalk.ko DEPMOD 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5-i686' and here is my problem... # insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5/extra/appletalk.ko insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5/extra/appletalk.ko': -1 Invalid module format The above reflects an adjustment in my Makefile but it didn't seem to help why all of a sudden, this 'Invalid module format' ? Craig my Makefile that I have been using for quite some time but not the one used above is... # # Makefile for the Linux AppleTalk layer. # CONFIG_ATALK=m obj-$(CONFIG_IPDDP) += ipddp.o obj-$(CONFIG_COPS) += cops.o obj-$(CONFIG_LTPC) += ltpc.o

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happy holidays
by Karanbir Singh 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

hi, Just want to wish everyone a happy holiday season and a good new year ahead. Its been a great year for CentOS and for everyone involved with it including the developers, supporters, contributors, editors, bug reporters, everyone. You all know who you are. And I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for the time and efforts that you have put into the project. 2008 will be bigger, better, noisier and even more fun! Enjoy. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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Prelink: Something's happening here
by Benjamin Smith 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

Can anybody explain to me what's going on here? This is a CentOS 4 i386 system. [root@edison ~]# rm -f /etc/prelink.cache [root@edison ~]# /etc/cron.daily/prelink [root@edison ~]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/sqlite3 sqlite-3.3.6-2 [root@edison ~]# rpm --verify sqlite prelink: /usr/bin/sqlite3: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?..... /usr/bin/sqlite3 [root@edison ~]# rpm -q --dump sqlite | grep "bin/sqlite3" /usr/bin/sqlite3 29044 1178360479 70e7158185e01e23dd2a62fa00f0f752 0100755 root root 0 0 0 X [root@edison ~]# md5sum /usr/bin/sqlite3 6e4b1dc7b0b5ade26448ed700c33e05f /usr/bin/sqlite3 [root@edison ~]# prelink -u /usr/bin/sqlite3 [root@edison ~]# md5sum /usr/bin/sqlite3 70e7158185e01e23dd2a62fa00f0f752 /usr/bin/sqlite3 [root@edison ~]# rpm --verify sqlite [root@edison ~]# prelink -f /usr/bin/sqlite3 prelink: /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.4: .debug_loc adjusting unfinished [root@edison etc]# md5sum /usr/bin/sqlite3 70e7158185e01e23dd2a62fa00f0f752 /usr/bin/sqlite3 [root@edison etc]# How did the RPM database have the right values for the sqlite3 file before prelink was run? Or, another way, why was the file different in the first place, that running prelink against it fixed it? And if "undoing" the prelink changed something, why wasn't it "changed back" when I ran prelink against the sqlite3 file the second time? Finding this confusing as H__L. I have *alot* of files on this system with this issue - I discovered this while debugging a problem with MailScanner. And, why do I see similar behavior on another system that's freshly built? EG: just ran the installer and "yum update" and see the same issue with a smaller number of files? -Ben -- Only those who reach toward a goal are likely to achieve it. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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"yum --security" and staying with 5.0
by Amos Shapira 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

Hello, So I've watched a few threads about the new 5.0 vs. 5.1 upgrade and have a couple of (hopefully) practical questions about this: Context - I'd like to stick to 5.0 at least for a while until the dust around 5.1 settles down (and I'm back from holidays). As an example - In Debian, as long as I stick to "stable" I can be sure that the only updates I receive there are for heavily tested very important bugs and security issues, so I should generally apply them. 1. If I read the FAQ correctly, in order to force yum to stay with 5.0 should I just manually edit /etc/redhat-release from: CentOS release 5 (Final) to: CentOS release 5.0 (Final) (i.e. add ".0" to the version)? If not then what should I do? 2. I am hoping that yum-security will allow me to stick to the latest security updates for 5.0 without forcing me to upgrade to 5.1 until the dust settles down. Am I correct that this is possible with yum-security and the repositories provided by CentOS? Will "yum update --security" update packages with later versions only if those versions fix security issues? Are security updates maintained for 5.0? Here is what I get right now on one of my systems (without doing the change I asked about in (1)): # yum --security list updates Loading "security" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up repositories base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files Limiting package lists to security relevant ones No packages needed, for security, 196 available If I drop the "--security" flag I indeed get a list of196 packages to upgrade. So to clarify my question - is my system secure (in terms of package versions) by sticking to "yum update --security"? Thanks, --Amos

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Debug symbols for CentOS server
by Tom Laramee 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

is there a repository of build symbols for the various packages i have installed on my CentOS 5 server? here's a use case - i'm developing an apache/httpd plugin module - it's not loading properly - i want to run apache in single-process mode (httpd -X), attach gdb to it, set a break point just before my module is loaded, and step through the code to find out why my module is not being loaded properly. ideally, i could do something like so: yum install httpd-symbols (same question for any/all packages on my server, not just httpd). thanks --tom

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Creating a local repo
by Joseph L. Casale 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

I have created a local repo, set its priority highest, and populated it with xen-3.1.0-1.i386.rpm and kernel-xen-2.6.18-3.1.0.i386.rpm yet when I do a yum list *xen* I don't see those rpm's? Can someone shed some light on this for me? Thanks! jlc

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CentOS-5 Need Help With Serial Ports
by James B. Byrne 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

I have been struggling with setting up two serial ports on an HP/Compaq D512S (Intel P4) under CentOS-5. I am not at all sure why these things were not auto-configured when I initially installed the CentOS system from CDs but they were not. I have found various resources on the web and from them uncovered the setserial utility. What I need from somebody is guidance on how to use this utility to properly configure the ports. Currently in /dev/ I have: crw------- 1 uucp uucp 4, 64 Dec 21 12:14 ttyS0 crw------- 1 root root 4, 65 Dec 20 17:36 ttyS1 crw------- 1 root root 4, 66 Dec 20 17:36 ttyS2 crw------- 1 root root 4, 67 Dec 20 17:36 ttyS3 When I run setserial -g ttyS* I get this: # setserial -g ttyS* Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument ttyS1: No such device or address ttyS2: No such device or address ttyS3: No such device or address Can someone walk me through this? I setup hylafax previously on our existing CentOS-4.5 server and never had this difficulty nor had to use setserial, so far as I can recall. Sincerely, -- *** 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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Update repo rsync but no new repodata?
by Robert Moskowitz 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

I just did a manual resync of my local update repo from mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.1/updates/i386/ I got a new version of Thunderbird, but not a new set of files in the repodata directory. Thus when I did a yum update against my local repo, I did not get the new version of Thunderbird. I will note that the files on my local repo are dated Dec 20th and the ones on mirrors are dated Dec 21st. The command I am using is: #!/bin/sh rsync -auv rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.1/updates/i386/ \ --delete --exclude=debug/ /repos/centos/5.1/updates/i386 Oh, and the old version of Thunderbird was not deleted....

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 34, Issue 15
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

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-2007:1104 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:1083 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) thunderbird - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2007:1222-001 Important CentOS 4 i386 mysql - security update (CENTOSPLUS Only) (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2007:1222-001 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 mysql - security update (CENTOSPLUS Only) (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2007:1083 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 thunderbird Update (Karanbir Singh) 6. CESA-2007:1083 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 thunderbird Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:17:20 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:1104 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) kernel - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20071222141720.GE16424(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:1104 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1104.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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sandisk mp3 player
by Dave 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hello, Got a 2gb mp3 player. The issue is it needs a usb2 card and the only available one is on a centos 5.1 box. I was wondering how do i get this device to show up? I'd like to share it's directories via samba, so that windows users can manipulate it's files, add more, etc. Thanks. Dave.

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Install question
by Jeffrey Ross 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

I have been running Fedora for a number of years and have decided that for my mailserver system (which doubles as a small time web server) I want to go to an OS that has a supported lifespan of more than a year, especially since this machine has in the past been up longer than a year without reboots. The machine that it will ultimately host the OS is a dual processor P3 machine with 2GB of RAM (the machine was free and is normally running idle so cpu isn't an issue), I also plan on (continuing to) running software RAID 1 on this system. So I'm not rushed into an install I plan on installing the OS on different hardware My questions are several. 1) The build hardware is only a single processor with 768MB of memory (also a P3) what if anything will I need to do to enable the second processor? (I'll make provisions for a larger swap space at build time) 2) The build hardware won't have a second disk usable for RAID, is it possible to build the RAID as degraded during the install? Or am I better off building it as a non RAID system and transfer everything to a RAID disk later? 3) The system bios will allow me to boot off the network, can I do an install from that boot? there is no CD/DVD reader in the box, nor is there a floppy drive. USB (flash?) may possible, but it is USB1.0 (1.1?) and quite slow and I'm not 100% positive the BIOS will support booting from a USB device. Any other caveats to be aware of? My experience with linux has been several Fedora (core) releases some Redhad releases prior to that, and many many many years ago slackware (when the install was a stack of diskettes!) TIA, Jeff

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Request on Cent OS insight
by stephen goldman 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

Hello List, I am getting familar with CentOS and using Rel 4.6. My goal is to get a automated update *(email)* of system updates. I found the link below in the WIKI. Additionally I have enable "yum" to run as a service int 345 and started it. yum update from the command line works fine- There are three scripts indicated on the web link below : http://wiki.centos.org/YumCheckOrInstallUpdates usr/bin/yum-check ( not on the machine) /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron: ( not on the machine) there a is file named yum.cron at this location- [root@bmc-4 cron.daily]# cat yum.cron #!/bin/sh if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/yum ]; then /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum /usr/bin/yum -R 10 -e 0 -d 0 -y shell /etc/yum/yum-daily.yum fi etc/sysconfig/yum-check: (not on the machine) I am not sure what to do with the information provided. Can others point me in a direction please.. The documentation is not clear. Thanks, Stephen Stephen Goldman Systems Administrator MIT Biology 617-452-2595 sgoldman(a)mit.edu

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saslauth in postfix 2.2 on CentOS 4
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

Hi All, I have a mail server with CentOS 4 (fully updated) running dovecot and postfix. I have a couple of virtual domains, so I've setup postfix and dovecot accordingly. That is, dovecot is doing the auth for internal hosts, and postfix is handling sending/receiving for both domains. What I want to do now is open up pop3s and smtp over TLS, which will give me access to my two domains from external clients. The pop3s bit was easy, and my tests have been successful. The hard bit is the smtp over TLS. Since I'm using dovecot to handle the authentication, how do I tell postfix that the sasl auth should be passed to dovecot? I know how to do this in CentOS 5 since it has postfix 2.3, and that version has support for dovecot authentication. So far, I haven't been able to figure out how to do the same thing in CentOS 4 and postfix 2.2. Any tips? Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.22.9-61.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux 14:41:05 up 4 days, 13:10, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.06, 0.07

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System freezes with i8042_panic_blink on suspend
by Olaf Mueller 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

Hello, I am using CentOS 4.6 (2.6.9-67.plus.c4) on a toshiba tecra 8000 notebook. If closing the panel, "Panel Power On/Off" is enabled in bios, the notebook does suspend. But after opening the panel, the notebook completely freezes. If the suspend only takes a few minutes, then everything is working fine. But if the suspend takes a time more than five or ten minutes, the system completely freezes. The error message is: [<c032bbe7>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [<c032007b>] xfrm_find_acq_byseq+0x100/0x10f Badness in i8042_panic_blink at drivers/input/serio/i8042.c:992 [<c0254fe6>] i8042_panic_blink+0x188/0x1a0 [<c0123ea2>] panic+0xf7/0x142 [<c010cd7a>] set_rtc_mmss+0x6c/0x204 My system: # cat /etc/grub.conf | grep kernel kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.plus.c4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 noapic acpi=off rhgb quiet # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 02) 00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 12) 00:05.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:05.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:05.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:05.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:09.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port (rev 23) 00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 05) 00:0b.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 05) 05:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI The system freezes too, if com-ports and sound is disabled in bios. Could the network controller 'RaLink' causes this problem? I am using the centosplus kernel cause of its support for isa sound cards. Is there an other kernel with that I could avoid this panic? Thank you very much! regards Olaf

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 34, Issue 14
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

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-2007:1166 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 libexif - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2007:1166 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 libexif - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2007:1177 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 autofs5 - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2007:1177 Important CentOS 4 i386 autofs5 - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2007:1083 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2007:1083 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 7. CESA-2007:1104 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 kernel - security update (Johnny Hughes) 8. CESA-2007:1104 Important CentOS 4 i386 kernel - security update (Johnny Hughes) 9. CESA-2007:1104 Important CentOS 4 ia64 kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 10. CESA-2007:1083 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 thunderbird - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:13:17 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:1166 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 libexif - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <476BE61D.4080708(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:1166 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1166.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: libexif-0.5.12-5.1.0.2.el4_6.1.i386.rpm libexif-devel-0.5.12-5.1.0.2.el4_6.1.i386.rpm src: libexif-0.5.12-5.1.0.2.el4_6.1.src.rpm

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centos 5.1 vnc crashing
by Jerry Geis 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

Hi all, I was running centos 4.5 with not issues on my main box. I updated to (fresh install) to 5.1 Things run fine except I use vnc alot from home to connect back into my machine and sometimes on connecting it is crashing the vnc session and then it kills my entire login session. Is anyone else having this on 5.1? This is my modules section in xorg.conf Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "dri" Load "vnc" EndSection It worked flawlessly on centos 4.5. Any ideas about how to get it not to crash. Jerry

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4.6 update overwrote my /usr/lib/python2.3/site.py file
by Jeff Larsen 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

We had some custom additions to our site.py file for a third party application. 'yum update' to 4.6 overwrote the file with no backup or warning. Not hard to repair, but it did have me worried there for a few minutes when the application failed to start. Is this a python issue, an upstream issue or a CentOS issue? Can something be done about it going forward? Jeff

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SCSI bad block table display
by Hugh E Cruickshank 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi All: Is there a utility available that will allow for the dump/display of the bad track table of a SCSI drive. We had this capability on SCO OSR5 but I have not been able to locate anything similar for Linux. The closest I have found is the badblocks utility that is part of the e2fsprogs package but this appears to only test for bad blocks not display the current bad block table contents. I have done quite a bit of searching with Google but either it does not exist or (more than likely) I am using the wrong search parameters. TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

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yum updates
by centos＠911networks.com 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi, Is there a way to still do the yum updates but not update the openoffice. Right now, I do it one at a time. -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work

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5.0->5.1 upgrade problems
by Andreas Kuntzagk 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi, I try to upgrade a 5.0 desktop to 5.1. Some packages give me errors. Most important the kernel and e2fsprogs: [root@scarbo9 ~]# yum update kernel Loading "allowdowngrade" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Reading repository metadata in from local files Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 set to be installed --> Running transaction check --> Processing Conflict: kernel conflicts e2fsprogs < 1.37-4 --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package e2fsprogs.x86_64 0:1.39-10.el5 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Conflict: kernel conflicts e2fsprogs < 1.37-4 Error: No Package Matching kernel.x86_64 I'm a little bit confused about this error. Any hints? regards, Andreas

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Peter Kastegård is out of the office.
by Peter.Kastegard＠cygrids.com 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

I will be out of the office starting 2007-12-21 and will not return until 2008-01-07. If you have any questions or technical issues please contact the support at support(a)cygrids.com or call +46-(0)413-19280. Cheers, //Peter

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Monitor Blanking
by Manuel Leon 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi to everyone. I would like to control the timing of the automatic blanking of the monitor (occurs within few minutes of inactivity). I have been unable to find where or how to control it. Can someone help me? Thanks in advance. Manuel Leon

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File description left open in LVM
by Reuben D. Budiardja 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hello, I used to have LVM on my machine to combine the capacity of a hard drive and a partition on a different drive as one volume group. I had problem with one of the disk but I was able to remove all the data of the computer, and replace the disk, and add another disk Now I want to start over and create LVM again. However, I keep getting this message: # vgdisplay File descriptor 128 left open File descriptor 129 left open No volume groups found # pvdisplay File descriptor 128 left open File descriptor 129 left open What does this mean ? Also, in /etc/lvm I found archive/ and backup/ directory which seems to refer to my old LVM, and also .cache. Are they safe to remove ? Thank you for any help. RDB

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 34, Issue 13
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

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-2007:1177 Important CentOS 4 ia64 autofs5 - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:1177 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) autofs5 - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CEBA-2007:1131 CentOS 5 i386 net-snmp Update (Karanbir Singh) 4. CEBA-2007:1131 CentOS 5 x86_64 net-snmp Update (Karanbir Singh) 5. CEBA-2007:1133 CentOS 5 i386 mcstrans Update (Karanbir Singh) 6. CEBA-2007:1133 CentOS 5 x86_64 mcstrans Update (Karanbir Singh) 7. CEBA-2007:1127 CentOS 5 i386 mozldap Update (Karanbir Singh) 8. CEBA-2007:1127 CentOS 5 x86_64 mozldap Update (Karanbir Singh) 9. CESA-2007:1155 Important CentOS 5 i386 mysql Update (Karanbir Singh) 10. CESA-2007:1155 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 mysql Update (Karanbir Singh) 11. CESA-2007:1130 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 squid Update (Karanbir Singh) 12. CESA-2007:1130 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 squid Update (Karanbir Singh) 13. CESA-2007:1165 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 libexif Update (Karanbir Singh) 14. CESA-2007:1165 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 libexif Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:43:51 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:1177 Important CentOS 4 ia64 autofs5 - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20071220204351.GA16424(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:1177 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1177.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/autofs5-5.0.1-0.rc2.55.c4.2.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Console during Install of 5.1
by Joseph L. Casale 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Is it possible during install to open a console window and perform some simple tasks such as lspci and mount. If so what text file editor exists in this console? Thank you, jlc

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Regd: Source NAT Rule in Cluster Suite Setup
by Balaji 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Dear All, My Requirement is 1. I am taking backup from client to server and i configured floating IP Address at the client 2. From primary or secondary server rsync command will be triggerd via floating IP Address to the client PC I am using the following rules in firewall scripts /sbin/iptables -F INPUT /sbin/iptables -F OUTPUT /sbin/iptables -F FORWARD /sbin/iptables -F RH-Firewall-1-INPUT # Default Rule /sbin/iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT Rsync Source NAT rules is iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp -s 192.168.13.179 --dport 873 -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.13.83:873 192.168.13.83 is floating ipaddress 192.168.13.179 is primary ipaddress 192.168.13.110 is secondary ipaddress The following rules is working fine . But the problem is at every trigger of rsync command we will restart the iptables and firewall scripts, then only it will works fine. If the services are not restart then it will send the following error message "rsync: failed to connect to 192.168.13.100: Connection timed out (110) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(94)" I need to solve the following "iptables and firewall restart" issue in Cluster Suite Setup. Can some one throw light on this.

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Regd: Iptables Source NAT
by Balaji 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Dear All, I am using the following rules in firewall scripts /sbin/iptables -F INPUT /sbin/iptables -F OUTPUT /sbin/iptables -F FORWARD /sbin/iptables -F RH-Firewall-1-INPUT # Default Rule /sbin/iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT Rsync Source NAT rules is iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp -s 192.168.13.179 --dport 873 -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.13.83:873 192.168.13.179 is eth0 ipv4 ipaddress and 192.168.13.83 is eth0 ipv6 ipaddress The following rules is working fine But the problem is at every rsync trigger we will restart the iptables and firewall scripts, then only it will works If the services are not restart then it will send the following error message "rsync: failed to connect to 192.168.13.100: Connection timed out (110) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(94)" I need to solve the following "iptables and firewall restart" issue. Can some one throw light on this. Regards -S.Balaji

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Postfix Configuration Setup for 2+ domains
by Rick Barnes 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hello, I have a client that wants to have a dedicated smtp sending host. But they have 2 separate domains then that don't want to have share IP address. The reasons from this is long and drawn out. Is it possible to setup postfix in a virtual host config, like apache for example, such that, domainA.com listens and sends on one IP address and domainB.com listens and sends on another address. This host is simply a email forwarding host, so no user accounts are on the server, they have about 5 servers serving websites for 2 domains and subdomains and want email coming from a common source for both domains (this will be the relayhost for the web servers). I have it setup to listen to 2 ip addresses but as of now I get: 220 smtp.domainA ESMTP Postfix on both addresses. Is there a way to have one address show as: 220 smtp.domainA ESMTP Postfix and the other: 220 smtp.domainB ESMTP Postfix More importantly, email send via 1 should look like it came from that domain and email sent to the other look like it came from its domain. I can find info on virtual domains, but its geared for receiving email for multiple domains. Thanks, Rick

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Home Theater Thing
by Chris Mauritz 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

I checked Best Buy again. The second system I recommended is in stock at the Best Buy in Warwick. It's on sale for $353. :) http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8254569&type=product&id=11695… I'm thinking about getting out of Dodge today to unwind so if you pick it up early today I can come up and help you install it and then just come home later in the day. Cheers, your son -- Chris Mauritz chrism(a)imntv.com EVP & Chief Technology Officer Global Music International http://www.imntv.com

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Problem after crash during yum update
by Alfred von Campe 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

I was doing a "yum -y update" on a CentOS 4.5 system to get to 4.6 when my system froze. I couldn't ping it nor switch to an alternate console. It was completely frozen. The only recourse was to cycle the power. So I did that, and now when I try to do a "yum update" I get the following error: [many package header downloads deleted] tkinter-2.3.4-14.4.el4_6. 100% |=========================| 21 kB 00:00 ---> Package tkinter.i386 0:2.3.4-14.4.el4_6.1 set to be updated ---> Downloading header for oprofile to pack into transaction set. oprofile-0.8.1-33.i386.rp 100% |=========================| 20 kB 00:00 ---> Package oprofile.i386 0:0.8.1-33 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Conflict: python-devel conflicts python < 2.3.4-14.4.el4_6.1 --> Processing Dependency: kdebase = 6:3.3.1-6.el4 for package: kdebase-devel --> Processing Dependency: httpd = 2.0.52-32.3.ent.centos4 for package: httpd-manual --> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-devel = 6.8.2-1.EL.31 for package: xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel --> Processing Dependency: rpm = 4.3.3-22_nonptl for package: rpm-build --> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-deprecated-libs = 6.8.2-1.EL.31 for package: xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel --> Processing Dependency: httpd = 2.0.52-32.3.ent.centos4 for package: httpd-suexec --> Processing Dependency: rpm = 4.3.3-22_nonptl for package: rpm-devel --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: python-devel conflicts with python < 2.3.4-14.4.el4_6.1 Error: Missing Dependency: kdebase = 6:3.3.1-6.el4 is needed by package kdebase-devel Error: Missing Dependency: httpd = 2.0.52-32.3.ent.centos4 is needed by package httpd-manual Error: Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-devel = 6.8.2-1.EL.31 is needed by package xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel Error: Missing Dependency: rpm = 4.3.3-22_nonptl is needed by package rpm-build Error: Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-deprecated-libs = 6.8.2-1.EL.31 is needed by package xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel Error: Missing Dependency: httpd = 2.0.52-32.3.ent.centos4 is needed by package httpd-suexec Error: Missing Dependency: rpm = 4.3.3-22_nonptl is needed by package rpm-devel From the attached log file, you can see that yum was able to install/ update 120 packages before it crashed. Any ideas on how to recover from this state? Alfred

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 34, Issue 12
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

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-2007:1130 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 squid - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2007:1130 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 squid - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2007:1155 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 mysql - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2007:1155 Important CentOS 4 i386 mysql - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2007-1215-001 CentOS 4.6 i386 Zero Day Updates (resent) (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2007:1166 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 libexif - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2007:1166 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) libexif - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:16:27 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:1130 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 squid - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <47690B9B.2050704(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:1130 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1130.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: squid-2.5.STABLE14-1.4E.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm src: squid-2.5.STABLE14-1.4E.el4_6.1.src.rpm

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Help Needed with setup!
by Christopher E 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

Hello All, I write in hope that there is a person willing to contact me and assist in setup a server that is being hosted by ServerBeach, this is for a non-profit , I don't know much about this stuff and I would like to get it setup so I can do the things that I need to do which is get the website up and running. The org does not have any money as if it need we would get a managed server and instead of a self-managed server. Any one in the USA that is willing to help please email me back so we could exchange information. just so you know I am a english speaking person. Sincerely, Christopher

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Resizing a Xen DomU disk image
by Matthew Lind 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

Hello Mailing List! A quick question. Has anyone gotten a resize (in my case grown) a Xen DomU disk image? Here is the procedure I have followed: 1. Install a DomU using virt-install Customize xvda to be all one partition ext3 2. On Dom0: dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=1 >> <my_disk_image> ll -h (Image is now 1GB larger) xm create <DomU> On DomU: df -h (Size has not changed) shutdown -h now On Dom0: e2fsck -f <my_disk_image> (Errors Bad Magic...) resize2fs -f <my_disk_image> (Errors Bad Magic...) xm create <DomU> On DomU: df -h (Still reports old size) I am assuming that because resize2fs didn't run that the DomU doesn't know about the additional space. Thanks in advance!

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Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!
by Les Bell 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

"William L. Maltby" <CentOS4Bill(a)triad.rr.com> wrote: >> Sorry to hear that your getting so little support from the community. << Oh, I'm not complaining on that score; in fact, I'm not complaining at all. I just fired up BitTorrent to help out, and I figured I could use a 5.1 DVD anyway. Right now, my upload rate is higher than my download rate, so at least I'm helping to share the load. Best, --- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909

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Getting email from cron when script is run manually
by Jeff Larsen 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

We have some third party software running on a CentOS 4.5 virtual machine. The software is delivered as compiled python and I wrote an init script for it myself (/etc/init.d/gk). Because the software lacks the usual robustness of CentOS services, I have a bash script (/etc/cron.daily/gk-restart) which simply calls "/etc/init.d/gk restart". So, as expected, root gets an email every day when cron runs the script. Here's the puzzling part: If I need to manually restart the service, I will use the command "/etc/init.d/gk restart". But then I get the very same email message from the cron daemon as if the daily cron job had been run automatically. The email is timestamped for the time at which I manually restarted the service. How on earth is the manual restart being monitored by the cron daemon? The init script is full featured and maintains pid and lock files in /var/run and /var/lock/subsys respectively. Is that the connection? Jeff

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Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!
by Les Bell 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

"William L. Maltby" <CentOS4Bill(a)triad.rr.com> wrote: >> At 07:40 EST (+5 UTC?) with most of the U.S still asleep, I've 8 and 6 peers connected and uploading for the 4.6 and 5.1 DVDs respectively. << As I write, I've had the torrent running for approximately 12 hours; I have 50 peers connected and am getting 26 KB/s download speed. I'm so excited. . . Best, --- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909

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Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!
by Robert Arkiletian 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

On Dec 17, 2007 5:16 PM, Kenneth Porter <shiva(a)sewingwitch.com> wrote: > --On Monday, December 17, 2007 4:58 PM -0800 centos(a)911networks.com wrote: > > > Why use torrents? With torrents I get around 25Kb/sec. > > Sounds like something is throttling your torrent connection. Start by using > a non-standard torrent port to escape traffic shaping by naive throttles. I think the EFF was accusing Comcast of doing this. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071128-eff-study-reveals-evidence-of… > > > With places such as utah.edu [I am in North America] I got > > 320Kb/sec steady. It took me 3hr and a bit to download the 5.1 > > dvd. As far as I understand it, Utah and the other mirrors donated > > the bandwidth to the community. > > Torrents have the benefit of sharing the cost over many community > contributors. > Also don't forget that many mirrors offer rsync. If you rename your 5.0 DVD to the 5.1 version and do an rsync it will save lots of bandwidth. -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada Fl_TeacherTool http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/ C++ GUI tutorial http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/

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Screen blanking crashes
by centos＠911networks.com 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

Hi, I upgraded a Dell C521 from Ubuntu 6.04 to CentOS5.1. The Dell has an NVidia 6150 analog video card. The screen is an LG1952Tx. After the screen blanking goes on, and the screen goes to sleep, the screen goes black except for a blue note saying: analog video, invalid frequency... I have installed the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg1. Everything works great except for the screen sleep... Any suggestion of what I should look for? -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work

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