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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 33, Issue 14
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '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-2007:1084 Critical CentOS 3 ia64 seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:08:58 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:1084 Critical CentOS 3 ia64 seamonkey - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20071128190858.GF18540(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:1084 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1084.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-0.7.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.7.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.7.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.7.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.7.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.7.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.7.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.7.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.7.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.7.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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heartbeat segfaulting on CentOS 5 x86_64 (xen guest)
by Amos Shapira 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hello, I'm having trouble running two linux-ha heartbeat nodes and have them talk to each other (or actually one of the nodes just doesn't work even for local basic admin stuff, including a simple "service heartbeat stop") and apparently it all boils down to the following Bug in Linux-HA: http://developerbugs.linux-foundation.org//show_bug.cgi?id=1678 I'm persuing this with the linux-ha users mailing list but the bug doesn't seem to get much attention from the linux-ha developers and I was wondering whether anyone here has stumbled on it and have a work around. The strange thing is that the two noes are identical - both are CentOS 5 PV Xen guests on the same CentOS 5 Dom0 host and exactly the same packages and config files - but one of them seems to work perfectly while the other doesn't. Anyone? Thanks, --Amos

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RE: [CentOS] Centos 5.1 distro: How to upgrade 5.0 to 5.1 with yum??
by Plant, Dean 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote: > --- Jancio Wodnik <jancio_wodnik(a)wp.pl> wrote: > >> Robinson Tiemuqinke pisze: >>> >>> Currently I download the Centos 5.0 upgrade packages from mirror >>> sites on Internet (.../centos/5/updates/{SRPMS,i386,x86_64}/...), >>> with the arrival of Centos 5.1, are the existing Centos 5.0 >>> update packages will be removed in honor of Centos 5.1 >>> updates? or it will stay? And how about the Centos >>> 5.1's default packages in distro? >>> >>> Give an example here: >>> >>> 2.6.18-8.1.15 version kernel is the most recently >>> updated kernel for Centos 5.0 distro, if the Centos >>> 5.1 distro comes with 2.6.18-8.1.10000 kernel and in >>> the first few weeks there are no kernel updates for >>> 5.1, then how can I upgrade my kernel to >>> 2.6.18-8.1.10000 naturally -- will the >>> 2.6.18-8.1.10000 shows in the same update sources >>> >> > directories(.../centos/5/updates/{SRPMS,i386,x86_64/...)? >>> >>> A similar question is: are the update diretories >>> contains only updates for 5.1 distro, or both 5.0 and >>> 5.1? >>> >>> Any clarifications are greatly appreciated. >>> >> It's simply. All things from 5.0 to 5.1 will be done automatically >> via yum (as standard update) or in rare situation can be possibly >> depedency problem (when mixing different repo ?). >> >> So don't worry. if you are really affraid - update >> only one box and test >> ... test ... then update the rest. >> >> I must say. In Centos 4 world all updates from 1 to 2 to 3 ... to 5 >> were go in smooth way. >> >> Regards, >> >> Irens >> > > I have had my local 5.0 update repository > (.../centos/5.0/updates/{SRPMS,i386,x86_64}/...) setup > and used it for my 900+ boxes's daily upgrade already. > The repository is synchronized with official Internet > mirrors daily to keep it current. > > My major concerns is: After the 5.1 is released, the > update channel/directory > (.../centos/5.1/updates/{SRPMS,i386,x86_64}/...) may > change to contain only updates for 5.1 > snapshot/release, not updates since 5.0. If so, then > all my Centos 5.0 boxes will suffer. > > I have the serious concern because most Centos Mirror > sites on Internet ONLY keep the updates for latest > release/snapshot, not holds updates since the > base(3.0, 4.0, 5.0 etc) release. This seems like a big > problem if we would like to install from base|initial > release (3.0, 4.0, 5.0) continuously and then use a > single up-to-date update/ repository to upgrade > machines to current level. > > For example, at Stanford's Centos 4 mirror site, only > 4.5 is mirrored while all the other > 4.0/4.1/4.2/4.3/4.4 are not. and in the updates/ > directory only updates for 4.5 are kept there. If the > same is true for all other sites honoring 5.0 series, > then I think I will definitely get screwed If I tried > to keep on using base 5.0 and daily synced updates/ > (exactly the same) for upgrade. > > Any mirror sites hold updates since base release? Or I > have to keep on adding more repositories to yum's > configuration? 5.0 distro, 5.0 updates, 5.1 distro, > 5.1 updates, 5.2 distro, 5.2 updates. etc. If so, then > it is too low-performanced and erro-prone. > > Any one have experience on upgrade Centos 4 releases > from 4.0 to 4.5 can shed a light on this? > > Thanks a lot. > > --Robinson > > If you remove the point release numbers from your update paths you do not need the old versions. If you really need the old updates use http://vault.centos.org/ >From http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4.4/readme ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This directory (and version of CentOS) is depreciated. For normal users, you should use /4/ and not /4.4/ in your path. Please see this FAQ concerning the CentOS release scheme: http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=34 If you know what you are doing, and absolutely want to remain at the 4.4 level, go to http://vault.centos.org/ for packages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To simplfy our yum configuration I disable all the repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d and call the yum configuration from a local web server in yum.conf by using the include statement. One change on the web server changes the yum configuration on all CentOS machines. In the yum.conf I add # Site yum files include=http://ourserver.ourdomain.com/centos/yum/centos.repo include=http://ourserver.ourdomain.com/centos/yum/centos-updates.repo The centos.repo looks like this, [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base baseurl=http://ourserver.ourdomain.com/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 And the centos-updates.repo looks like this, [updates-released] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates baseurl=http://ourserver.ourdomain.com/centos/$releasever/updates/$basea rch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 [custom-repo] name=CentOS-$releasever - Custom-rpms baseurl=http://ourserver.ourdomain.com/centos/$releasever/customrepo/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 Hope this helps. Dean

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OT: virtual server hosting recomendation
by David Hrbáč 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hi, we are in need of a new (virtual) server based in US. Any hosting recommendation? Thanks, David Hrbáč

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2 DHCP server in one subnet
by Fajar Priyanto 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hello all, In the network there is already a W2K server serving as DHCP server for the network. Then we want to implement LTSP, so we need to setup another DHCP server, right? Due to unexpected reason (little by little migration of w98 clients to LTSP), we need to keep the W2K server running in that network. Can we then have 2 DHCP server in the same subnet, only serving pre-determine clients using mac address? Any clue on how to setup the dhcpd.conf? Thank you very much. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 20:16:32 up 14 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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Severe VMware slowdown
by Mark Hull-Richter 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

In the last few days, I have noticed a drastic slowdown in my VMware Windows guest OS.. I recently bit the bullet and upgraded it from XP SP1 to SP2, and that seemed to work fine for quite a few days. The two major changes I made to the system recently were: 1) The most recent update from CentOS (can't remember which one, but it was within the last two weekd for 5.0). 2) Adding another VM guest OS, this one a CentOS 5.0 guest. What happens is, usually when I click the mouse in the Windows window, the system hangs up completely for some period of time that usually exceeds four minutes. Thereafter, once the VM is "running," it will occasionally just stop when I am transitioning into the VM from elsewhere. I verified this using the CentOS system clock - last night it stopped at 23:01 and still read 23:01 when my cell phone, which is usually dead on in sync with the system clock, read 11:04pm. I cut back on the amount of memory allowed to the Windows VM (768MB, down from 1GB) and that seemed to help a little, but I have 2GB and I'm thinking that this should not be a problem. Any input would be helpful. Thanks. mhr P.S.: Now I'm thinking that my earlier remark about applications was a bit overstated....

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How to import/install the key for signing pxljr-1.1-1.i386.rpm
by Andrew Allen 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

How do I import and install the key for signing the above rpm (driver for HP Colour laserjet 3500 printer) which I've downloaded from the kde repo? - I want to use yum localinstall, but when I do I get the message 'package not signed'. Thanks for help, Andy

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Dell T3400 on CentOS 3.X
by Mark Belanger 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

For reasons I'd rather not go into, I need to get CentOS 3.anything on a Dell T3400: http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/precn_t3400?c=us&l… The hard drive is not seen at install time. Can someone point me in the right direction to see if this is possible and how to proceed? Regards, -mark

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Installing HP Color Laserjet 3500 printer in CentOS 5
by Andrew Allen 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

OK, I've downloaded and installed the driver (pxljr-1.1-1.i386.rpm), and the ppd file (HP-Color_LaserJet_3550-pxljr.ppd) in /etc/cups/ppd. Now I'm trying to set up the printer, connected to the network via a JetDirect printer server at location 192.168.0.200. Trouble is, I'm really not sure about all the settings in Printer Configuration - specifically, what should the Device URI be - at the moment, it says socket://HPColourLaserjet3500:9100, but I'm not sure if this is correct, but it doesn't seem to be because it won't print a test page. Any help much appreciated, Thanks, Andy

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Adobe products under Linux?
by Scott Ehrlich 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Also sent to Codeweavers - [what is this list's insights?] I have a 32 GB, dual quad-core desktop machine and was considering 32-bit Windows XP w/SP2, but discovered it only supports up to 4 GB RAM, so that idea is shot. Next in line is 64-bit CentOS 5. The major need for Windows would be very active use of Adobe Acrobat 8, Photoshop CS3, and Illustrator CS3. There may also be the need to copy/transfer information among Matlab, Mathematica, and Microsoft-based applications, from Office 2003 to the above-mentioned ones. Do you support these, and how complete is your product line for 64-bit CentOS 5? Based on your answer, I'll know whether to go with a virtual machine-based solution, which means a Windows VM, or can remain Linux-only, with your solution. Thank you very much. Scott

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libgd question on CentOS (in order to get PerfParse working with Nagios)
by Rogelio 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Do I have the necessary gd packages installed on my CentOS 4 box? rpm -qa | grep gd gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-17.el4.3 gdk-pixbuf-devel-0.22.0-17.el4.3 gdbm-1.8.0-24 gdbm-devel-1.8.0-24 gd-devel-2.0.28-5.4E gd-2.0.28-5.4E gdm-2.6.0.5-7.rhel4.15 sysklogd-1.4.1-26_EL I'm trying to install PerfParser (./compile->make && make install), but I'm getting a "gImageString error", which according to this FAQ (http://perfparse.de/tiki-view_faq.php?faqId=1) means: "The gd library is probably not installed yet on your system. Or you are missing the development package such as libgd-devel or libgd-dev." I "yum search" 'd for libdg and found the following. Is this what I install? libgdiplus.i386 1.0.5-1.2.el4.rf rpmforge Matched from: libgdiplus libgdiplus is an Open Source implementation of the GDI+ API, it is part of the Mono Project libgdiplus-devel.i386 1.0.5-1.2.el4.rf rpmforge Matched from: libgdiplus-devel Header files, libraries and development documentation for libgdiplus This package contains the header files, static libraries and development documentation for libgdiplus. If you like to develop programs using libgdiplus, you will need to install libgdiplus-devel.

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sysstat out put
by Centos 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Hello in our Sysstat output we have the following lines, any one knows what does it mean ? 00:00:01 CPU i000/s i008/s i009/s i014/s i066/s i074/s i082/s i090/s 01:20:01 0 248.09 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.04 91.06 01:20:01 1 255.06 0.00 0.00 4.59 0.00 0.00 0.09 0.00 01:20:01 2 245.37 0.00 0.00 4.41 0.00 0.00 0.11 0.00 01:20:01 3 272.07 0.00 0.00 0.15 0.00 0.00 0.12 0.00 01:30:01 0 255.40 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.07 11.92 01:30:01 1 255.05 0.00 0.00 4.56 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 01:30:01 2 255.06 0.00 0.00 4.56 0.00 0.00 0.23 0.00 01:30:01 3 255.05 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.12 0.00 Thanks for help

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mod_gnutls on Centos 4
by David Hrbáč 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Hi, as you might know I have created mod_gnutls for CentOS4 a few months ago. http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el4/hrb/stable/i386/RPMS/repodata/repoview/mod_gnu… http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el4/hrb/stable/i386/RPMS/repodata/repoview/gnutls-… http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el4/hrb/stable/i386/RPMS/repodata/repoview/gnutls-… http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el4/hrb/stable/i386/RPMS/repodata/repoview/gnutls-… I'd like to ask if someone is using it? It seems to me that it's not able to handle higher load. When user hits F5 there are a few httpd processes running the full cpu. Strace shows nothing, server-status marks them "reading". :o( It seems to me that when user breaks/stops the request httpd breaks. Any experiences? Thanks, David

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Help with file descriptor
by Guy Boisvert 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Hi all! I have a problem with CentOS 4.4 and Communigate Pro 5.0.9. As our user number grows, we are seeing "too many files open" error messages in Communigate logs. I spoke with Communigate tech support and they asked me to increase the number of file descriptors which i did. I put 128000 as a script i made to check Communigate open files reported as high as 99000. As i checked the Communigate log file, it reported that it "sees" 1024 "available" file descriptors. Reporting that to Communigate tech support, the guy answered: "CommuniGate gets this number via getdtablesize() system call. Probably in CentOS the table has a fixed size so you need to recompile the kernel to expand it. Try upgrading CentOS to 4.5 (or whatever later version is available) " I'm a little afraid of upgrading the server right away, i don't want to worsen the problem. Or maybe it's safe to do it. I dunno. Is there anybody on the list that can comment on what the Communigate tech support guy said about the "getdtablesize" thing ? Thanks in advance! Guy Boisvert

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RedHat 4.6
by Stephen Harris 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

I've either been blind or everyone else is or... but I just noticed RedHat 4 Update 6 is out! So when's the next CentOS release? (grins, ducks and runs very very very fast!) -- rgds Stephen

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Mail Server Install
by Jun Salen 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Hi Friends, I am planning to upgrade my mail server from CentOS4.5 to CentOS5. By this, I also planned to replace my postfix mail server with Scalix although the community edition limit me to just 25 premium user, I think it is suffice for us with the remaining user as standard user (with approx. <> 100 users total). Is there a catch on using Scalix based on your experience. I see that Horde is available from Dag's repository, do you think it is better for me to use that instead? Is there anyone using it that may share their gotchas and good points from their experience for me to prepare and be ready. Thank you in advance. junji aisalen.wordpress.com Linux Registered User #253162 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative
by David G. Miller 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

"Matt Shields" <mattboston(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 27, 2007 10:37 AM, Count Of Dracula <countofdracula(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> > On 11/26/07, Dag Wieers <dag(a)centos.org> wrote: >> >>> > > Hi all, >>> > > >>> > > I would like to announce a CentOS on Laptops initiative. The aim is to >>> > > allow everybody in the community (and on this mailinglist) to document >>> > > their own experience with CentOS on their laptop (on the CentOS wiki). >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > The goal of this initiative consists of 2 parts: >>> > > >>> > > - help and convince people with their own CentOS on laptop installation >>> >> > >> > Are you nuts? CentOS on laptop? Why you want to kill torture people in >> > such a cruel way? >> > >> > Joy >> > > Because some people may actually want to run a stable OS that will > have patches released for quite a while. Fedora is not an option for > most business people who rely on their laptops every day. Torture is > installing the latest Fedora every 6 months and hoping something > doesn't break. Some would say Fedora users are nuts. I think you perfectly described my experience with Fedora on my laptop (HP zv6015). I managed to coerce Fedora 4 onto it (even the install was wonky until I learned about nofb). I got tired of chasing the latest Fedora release and moved to CentOS 5 when it was released. I built a custom kernel for a while so the card reader would work until enough fixes got back ported that the stock kernel would read the SD card my camera uses. Now everything (sort of) "just works (TM)". I say "sort of" because I'm still running ndiswrapper since every time I've tried the bcm43xx kernel module it hasn't worked with my WAP. With CentOS 5 the laptop seems to be as stable as my desktop. About the only time I ever boot the Windows XP Home partition is if there's a BIOS update or something that HP doesn't release any other way. Can't imagine torturing myself with XP. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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rpm / yum / repo wranging tools?
by Rogelio 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

I'm inheriting dozens of CentOS servers and am looking for various tools to help me wrangle the rpm / yum / repo madness. Any tools you might suggest for me to look into would be greatly appreciated!

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X windows
by Hiep Nguyen 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

hi all, i just finished install (minimal) centos 5. how do i use yum to install X windows so that i can use gui. thanks, T. Hiep

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Using a local mirror?
by Jason Pyeron 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

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Re: [CentOS] Adobe products under Linux?
by Ross S. W. Walker 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

You could try crossover office, it's reported to work with several windows apps from adobe. Photoshop I believe works. -Ross -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org <centos-bounces(a)centos.org> To: centos(a)centos.org <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Fri Nov 23 17:03:10 2007 Subject: [CentOS] Adobe products under Linux? Also sent to Codeweavers - [what is this list's insights?] I have a 32 GB, dual quad-core desktop machine and was considering 32-bit Windows XP w/SP2, but discovered it only supports up to 4 GB RAM, so that idea is shot. Next in line is 64-bit CentOS 5. The major need for Windows would be very active use of Adobe Acrobat 8, Photoshop CS3, and Illustrator CS3. There may also be the need to copy/transfer information among Matlab, Mathematica, and Microsoft-based applications, from Office 2003 to the above-mentioned ones. Do you support these, and how complete is your product line for 64-bit CentOS 5? Based on your answer, I'll know whether to go with a virtual machine-based solution, which means a Windows VM, or can remain Linux-only, with your solution. Thank you very much. Scott _______________________________________________ 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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reader
by qsm 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

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SSD and linux
by Jerry Geis 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Are the new SSD disks compatible with centos 5.0? Anybody have one? know where to get one? I think they only come with new laptops. Jerry

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Need help with httpd.conf not rendering cgi or php files
by Scott Ehrlich 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

I got this working perfectly at home - what should be exact same setups- - Fresh install of CentOS 5 32-bit from DVD - yum update & upgrade - Reboot - yum install mysql-server - Download phpmyadmin and bugzilla from their respective home pages - Move both to /var/www/html, naming the extracted phpmyadmin directory as phpmyadmin, the same with bugzilla - Copy my working httpd.conf file from home and replacing the work one, then restarting httpd - sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart - Verify mysql is running - sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld restart Call up firefox via an ssh x session and visit http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php. Instead of showing a rendered page, it only shows the text of the index.php file. Same for http://localhost/bugzilla/index.cgi What did I miss? The same config file from home, in a setup that worked perfectly, is missing something here! /usr/sbin/httpd -v Server version: Apache/2.2.3 Thanks for any help. Scott

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script to take cd iso's and create dvd iso
by Tom Brown 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Hi I used to have a script that would take a dir of cd iso's and then stick them together and create a DVD iso. I seem to remember downloading it from a link posted in here. I have searched but cant find it, i dont suppose anyone knows of such a thing? thanks

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Kickstart install via network, nonexistant disk sda
by ethan＠757.org 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hello all, I have 3 Supermicro 1u servers, each with dual 250gb SATA drives. I have a server with CentOS 5 64bit setup for pxebooting and kickstart installs. I have a kickstart install file that doesn't specify the disks specifically. It works like a champ, and the operating system installs and completes. I have a kickstart install file that specifies the disk devices (sda, sdb) pulled and modified from another similiar system. My goal here is configuring software RAID. Whenever I try to use the file for software raid, she dies with an error: "Specified nonexistant disk sda in clearpart command" ... if I removed the --drives-sda,sdb from the clearpart, it will just fail on the part command for RAID. Now, I struggled with machine #1 for a long time, then realized that it is probably the onboard raid in the BIOS, which isn't a real RAID. Turned it off, and it appeared to be the solution. I thought I was well on my way. I did the same for machines #2 and #3 which had no installation attempts, and they would not work. I can take the disks from machine #1, which will run through a reinstall fine, and throw them in machine #2 and *it will install*. So it seems to be an issue with the partition information on the disk. I tried doing a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda (bs=1024 count=10000) to try to overwrite any RAID metadata and partition information and what not. During the install, when I have the error that sda is invalid, I can hit the vty2 (emergency shell) and easily run fdisk /dev/sda and print the partition table. So the device is there, and accessable. I've tried every incarnation of clearpart commands. My current kickstart info: # RAID kickstart # clearpart --linux --drives=sda,sdb # clearpart --all --linux --initlabel clearpart --drives=sda,sdb --all --initlabel # clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda,sdb part raid.9 --size=100 --ondrive=sda part raid.10 --size=100 --ondrive=sdb part raid.13 --size=2000 --ondrive=sdb part raid.12 --size=2000 --ondrive=sda part raid.16 --size=100 --grow --ondrive=sdb part raid.15 --size=100 --grow --ondrive=sda raid /boot --fstype ext3 --level=RAID1 --device=md0 raid.9 raid.10 raid swap --fstype swap --level=RAID1 --device=md1 raid.12 raid.13 raid / --fstype ext3 --level=RAID1 --device=md2 raid.15 raid.16 Any advice is appreciated!

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install via http
by Hiep Nguyen 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

hi there, i try to install centos 5 via http, but i don't know what to put in when it asks for "Web site name" & "CentOS directory". can someone give me this info? can i used mirror.centos.org & /centos/5/os/i386/??? i only have the boot cd & i don't want to download and burn all 6 cds. thanks

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boot is stopping in the system log gor status for a while
by ann kok 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hi all The system is stopping in the system log gor status. what is next? how do I check thank you ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Re: SOLVED: Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Some thoughts, for anyone faced with this type of problem on a dual boot box in the future: My first thought was to try to Rescue the WinXP Spanish language installation that came on the Dell Dimension 2400, out of the Dell factory. Later, I decided to wipe the entire drive, since I now have a WinXP English language Restore CD and I wanted to redo CentOS5, so I would have room to experiment with VMware Server. With regard to restoration or rescue of WinXP on a dual boot box, I believe the method Ross explained last week, about doing it from CentOS5, would be the fastest and easiest. For those with boxes dedicated 100% to WinXP, I believe the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows, which Phil mentioned (based on the BartPE Live CD) is the way to go. I downloaded the 196.6 MB file from http://www.ubcd4win.com and I have copied the contents of the Dell WinXP Restore CD to my HD. I like the fact that they explain workarounds, for those using a Dell WinXP Restore CD to make the UBCD4WIN CD. One of the mistakes I made, was after I got the box in 2005. On other new systems, I've wiped the drive and done clean installs, with four (4) partitions for Windows. Had I done that in 2005, I would have known that the Drivers for the box are not on the Dell WinXP Restore CD or on the Dell Driver CD that came with the box. Fortunately, last week, after I mounted the NTFS partition read only, I not only copied my data onto CD's, I copied other files, which turned out to include the Driver for the NIC. I believe the audio and video Drivers are also on the CD I made last week. :-) I went ahead and wiped the drives on the boxes of my wife and daughter, since they were out of town. The installation on my wife's box (Compaq Evo D300v) was the easiest. All of the Drivers for the Compaq Evo were on the Dell Restore CD, with the exception of the Driver for an inexpensive store brand web cam we bought recently. I will need to buy OEM license's for that box and daughters box. More $ for Microsoft.... All of the Drivers for my daughters box (Dell Dimension 4300) were on the Dell WinXP Restore CD too. I've configured wife and daughter as Restricted Users in WinXP, as Ross suggested. Special thanks, to everyone who responded with ideas! Lanny

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apc deemon
by Euroka 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hi, I'm using Centos 5 (64bit) and connected an APC battery to the server and used the USB cable for monitoring this setup, but I can't find the apc daemon anymore in the offcial yum repo's. Has aocd become obsolete and has it been replaced by something else or do i need to add a third party repo? kind regards, euroka

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A real bluetooth device manager for gnome?
by Robert Moskowitz 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

I would like to move away from command-line tools for my bluetooth devices. The gnome bluetooth manager is extremely limited in features. And I can't find anything going on like on the gnome-bluetooth site. Any one have any experience one this? It would be nice to start getting on par with Macs and Win systems....

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SOLVED: Re: Partioning Error: Dual Boot, WinXP & CentOS5, 27 GB Free space; my error is?
by Lanny Marcus 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

On 25 November 2007, John Bowden j-alan at btconnect.com wrote: <snip> >I think the problem is that you can only have 4 Primary partitions on a disk. >If you to convert one of the NTFS partitions to an extended partition, with >the NTFS partition inside it. Personally, if you want to keep the 4 drive >letters in windoz, I would back up the whole disk ("in case"), set up the >disk with 1 Primary NTFS partition and an extended Partition with the other 3 >NTFS partitions inside it. Leave the free space as free space and let the >CentOS installer to use the free space as it sees fit John: THANK YOU! That was it! I blew it away with QtParted and in a few minutes, I had it correct. The attention to detail was lacking on that box. I got the other 2 boxes up and running, without this frustration. Hopefully they are partitioned correctly. CentOS is now installing on that box. :-) Lanny

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Linux driver for HP Laserjet 3500 printer - yum won't install
by Andrew Allen 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

I'm trying to install the linux driver for an HP Colour Laserjet 3500 in CentOS 5. I've installed the kde.repo (with appropriate priorities set up), but when I try yum install pxljr-1.1-1.i386.rpm, yum says 'nothing to do' - is this because the priority protection won't let it install from the kde repo? The alternative approach seems to be to use yum localinstall with the downloaded package, but then I get the message that 'the package is not signed'. So how do I resolve that please - the instructions regarding 'signing of packages' don't seem very clear to those of us who weren't 'born and bred' on linux! Thanks, Andy

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Partioning Error: Dual Boot, WinXP & CentOS5, 27 GB Free space; my error is?
by Lanny Marcus 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Hello: Starting Friday afternoon, I blew away the installations on the three (3) boxes we use as Desktops. On two (2) of them (my Dell Dimension 2400 and my wife's Compaq Evo D300v), I have MS Windows XP and CentOS5 running. :-) On my daughters box (Dell Dimension 4300) I am having problems with the partitioning. Probably this is due to some mistake I have made, with regard to "Active" or "Primary" partitions? The HD has four (4) NTFS partitions on dev/hda. hda1 > hda4. According to the partition table shown in the CentOS5 installation, there is 27925 MB of Free Space on the HD. If I try to create a /boot partition (100 MB) or an LVM, I get: "Error partitioning - Could not allocate requested partitions. Partitioning failed. Could not allocate partitions as primary partitions. Not enough space left to create partition for /boot More or less the same error: "Automatic partitioning errors - You have not defined a root (/) partition. This can happen if not enough space." What am I doing wrong on that box? TIA! - Lanny --------------------------------------------------------- Over 800 Magazine titles up to 85% off http://lowcostmagazines.com/

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Total novice
by Manuel Leon 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Hi. I want to remove one of three hard drives. But if I just remove the disk, Linux signals errors and enters administrative mode requesting corrective actions which, of course, I do not know. If I reconnect the drive, everything returns to normality. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance. MLM

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snapshots of server state with F/OSS software
by Rogelio 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

I'm looking for something (ideally) in the CentOS repo that lets me easily take and restore snapshots of my system while powered on (similar to how later versions of Norton Ghost work). Is LVM my best bet to do this? (I hate to admit this, but up to this point when I've been in a pinch, I've just powered the box down on off hours and then imaged it via some sort of live cd)

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yum install nautilus-sendto-bluetooth fails on 5.0
by Frank Büttner 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Hello, when I try to install it, I get this error: yum install nautilus-sendto-bluetooth Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package nautilus-sendto-bluetooth.i386 0:0.7-5.fc6 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: nautilus-sendto = 0.7-5.fc6 for package: nautilus-sendto-bluetooth --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package nautilus-sendto.i386 0:0.7-5.fc6 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: libgaim.so.0 for package: nautilus-sendto --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package gaim.i386 2:2.0.0-0.28.beta5.el5 set to be updated --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: nautilus-sendto-bluetooth i386 0.7-5.fc6 base 8.2 k Installing for dependencies: gaim i386 2:2.0.0-0.28.beta5.el5 base 6.7 M nautilus-sendto i386 0.7-5.fc6 base 61 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 3 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 6.8 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /usr/bin/gaim from install of gaim-2.0.0-0.28.beta5.el5 conflicts with file from package pidgin-2.0.2-3.el5 Error Summary -------------

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 33, Issue 13
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '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-2007:0747 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 httpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:0747 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) httpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:09:37 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0747 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 httpd - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20071125110937.GD18540(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0747 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0747.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/httpd-2.0.52-38.ent.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/httpd-devel-2.0.52-38.ent.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/httpd-manual-2.0.52-38.ent.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/httpd-suexec-2.0.52-38.ent.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/mod_ssl-2.0.52-38.ent.centos4.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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perl-crypt-des rpm not signed
by Dave 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Hello, Not sure where this should go. I've got a CentOS 5 box that i wanted to install munin on. One of it's dependencies is perl-crypt-des and that particular rpm is giving an error of not being signed. I'm hoping this gets to the packager of that rpm. Thanks. Dave.

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stuck process continues under strace
by Jure Pečar 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

Hello, I have a few VPSes with centos5 on which I expirience a strange phenomen: Every now and then a random network communicating process (lynx, sendmail, httpd, ...) starts eating 100% of cpu while doing nothing. That slows down a VPS a lot. When examined with lsof, all of such processes have at least one tcp connection in close_wait state. Touching such process with strace -p makes it spring back to life and it goes on working normaly. Sendmail straces are specialy interesting, because I can see it wants to continue smtp dialogue somewhere from the middle. I suspect the cpu usage I see is the process trying to read from tcp socket to which the other end has nothing more to write. But as this is not happening in userspace (where I would see recv() in strace output), I expect the problem lies higher, in virtuozzo. I would like to be able to understand what is going on and maybe be able to reproduce the problem, but I don't have enough understanding of what exactly goes on. Specifically, what does strace do to a process that knocks it out of the cpu consuming loop? I'd be happy if you can give me some pointers. -- Jure Pečar http://jure.pecar.org/

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Team CentOS breaks though the 200 ranking barrier.
by Sharon Kimble 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Congratulations to all the CentOS folding@home team members for breaking through the 200 world ranking barrier. Its taken a bit of time but we've all helped to do it. Our next target is obviously to achieve 150th in the world ranking. But, to help achieve that we're going to need more members and more machines. So, if you think it sounds interesting and you want to learn more, then please have a look at http://www.sharons.org.uk/cf.html or ask in #centos-social on irc, or in the usual mailing list. Theres always someone on hand to advise or to point you in the direction of someone who could possibly help. Thanks everybody, and full steam ahead to the next target! :) Sharon. -- 14:20:05 up 9 days, 21:44, 2 users, load average: 2.89, 1.72, 1.62 A taste of linux http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ Centos 4.4, KDE 3.5.4-6.0, OpenOffice 2.0.3 Registered Linux user 334501 Get my public GnuPG key from http://keyserver.veridis.com:11371/export?id=6499064243027013735

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Port 631 closed, not hidden
by Miark 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

I have the firewall turned on my CentOS 5 box, but GRC is reporting that 631 is closed instead of stealthed. If the firewall isn't configured to allow that, then why might that be happening? Miark

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Bugzilla Install problems - need last mile help
by Scott Ehrlich 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

I've freshly installed CentOS 5 32-bit on a pc, performed a yum update and yum upgrade. I then did a yum install of mysql. I finally picked up fresh copies of phpmysql and bugzilla and put both in my /var/www/html directory. mysql is running. I am able to use mysql -u root to get into it, and phpmysql is able to get it, too. After runs of checksetup.pl to ensure all required pre-requisites were installed, I ran it one more time, and get the following: Creating database bugs... The 'bugs' database could not be created. The error returned was: Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'bugs' This might have several reasons: * MySQL is not running. * MySQL is running, but there is a problem either in the server configuration or the database access rights. Read the Bugzilla Guide in the doc directory. The section about database configuration should help. * Your password for the 'bugs' user, specified in $db_pass, is incorrect, in './localconfig'. * There is a subtle problem with Perl, DBI, or MySQL. Make sure all settings in './localconfig' are correct. If all else fails, set '$db_check' to 0. [root@localhost bugzilla]# What do I need to do next? I tried creating an empty database called bugs for the script to hook into, but no luck. I tried creating a user bugs with full permission, but no luck. Thanks for any leads. Scott

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wget'ing files relative paths?
by Rogelio 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

I'm trying to wget some very specific files off a web page, but some of the paths are relative paths (e.g. ../path/to/file) rather than abosolute (e.g. http://direct/path/to/file ). Obviously, when wget gets to that part, it craps out... Is there a switch in wget (in CentOS 5 - latest wget package) that lets me maintain this session? I tried some of the options here (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/HTTP-Options.html ), but it's not working, and I'm hoping someone here might point me in the right direction.

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Error on installing fuse-ntfs-3g
by Ern jura 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

I get the following error when I try installing fuse-ntfs-3g even though I have installed fuse-2.7 and fuse-kmdl-2.7 error: Failed dependencies: libfuse.so.2 is needed by fuse-ntfs-3g-1.913-1.el5.rf.i386 libfuse.so.2(FUSE_2.2) is needed by fuse-ntfs-3g-1.913-1.el5.rf.i386 libfuse.so.2(FUSE_2.5) is needed by fuse-ntfs-3g-1.913-1.el5.rf.i386 libfuse.so.2(FUSE_2.6) is needed by fuse-ntfs-3g-1.913-1.el5.rf.i386

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perl 5.8.5-36.el4_5.2
by Tom 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi all, Since upgrading to perl 5.8.5-36.el4_5.2 I have had no end of problems, starting with needing compress::zlib which I got from rpmforge, then I had to reinstall scalar::util to get mailscanner working but now I can't install or upgrade any perl modules. Has anyone else had problems or can someone tell me what I've done wrong please? regards tom

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webserver setup
by Andreas Kuntzagk 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi, I have setup a webserver on CentOS 4.5 with NameVirtualHost. Two VirtualHost should be reachable by port 80 from outside, while the third (default) should be only reachable by https from outside but by http from inside. Since all share the same IP firewalling seems to be out of question. So is there a way to restrict that in Apache config? regards, Andreas

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Package pxljr-1.1-1.i386.rpm (from kde.repo) is not signed
by Andrew Allen 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

I'm trying to install the driver for an HP Colour Laserjet 3500 in CentOS 5. I've installed the kde.repo (with appropriate priorities set up), but when I try yum install pxljr-1.1-1.i386.rpm, I get the above message that 'the package is not signed'. I've previously tried running yum localinstall on the downloaded package with the same result. How do I resolve this please? Andy

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perl-base and perl-file-scan-clamav and perl dependency error re 5.8.8 ???
by Robert - elists 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Happy gobble gobble day! Server is a mail and web box with latest centos 4 upgrades and has been running and stable for probably over two years Machine has perl 5.8.8 on it. For a coupla days I have been trying to follow these basic instructions so that I can run a test. http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ClamAVPlugin Now, the issue I am running into is that I needed to get a file-scan-clamav perm module in rpm So I opened up browser and search for "file-scan-clamav perl dag rpm" and found some choices Eventually I end up with this file http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/3851508/com/perl-File-Scan-ClamA V-1.8-1mud2007.0.noarch.rpm.html then when I try to install it says I need perl-base so I search and goto http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/perl-base/ now... when I install perl-base and then goto install the file-scan-clamav rpm I get this... yum localinstall perl-File-Scan-ClamAV-1.8-1mud2007.0.noarch.rpm Setting up Local Package Process Examining perl-File-Scan-ClamAV-1.8-1mud2007.0.noarch.rpm: perl-File-Scan-ClamAV - 1.8-1mud2007.0.noarch Marking perl-File-Scan-ClamAV-1.8-1mud2007.0.noarch.rpm to be installed Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package perl-File-Scan-ClamAV.noarch 0:1.8-1mud2007.0 set to be updated --> Running transaction check Setting up repositories update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished --> Processing Dependency: perl-base >= 2:5.8.8 for package: perl-File-Scan-ClamAV --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: perl-base >= 2:5.8.8 is needed by package perl-File-Scan-ClamAV at this point, I was wondering what I specifically need to do. So, I tried rebuilding perl-base and installing it yet it asked to be signed so I have to figure that part out and if it will solve this. Is that what the error is about in regards to perl-base >= 2:5.8.8 Or am I missing something else? Dag, would you consider putting File::Scan::ClamAV rpm on your site please? Thanks and kind regards! - rh

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Migration from RH9
by Ugo Bellavance 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Hi, I will probably have to migrate a few servers running Red Hat 9 to CentOS and I'd like to have opinions. One server to migrate is running Fedora core 4. Reason for migrating to CentOS: no more security updates available, hardware change planned anyway. Here are the services to be migrated: sendmail pop (not sure which daemon, I think it is running the default daemon in RH9) DNS apache+PHP website FTP Dansguardian Samba Perforce Squid I haven't seen any directories like LDAP or windows Active Directory, so I assume for now that all authentication is done locally. Anyone has experience with that? I'm not too scared about sendmail, Bind, apache/PHP (except that maybe the PHP upgrade may break the website, but this is easily managed and can be tested), ftp. However, I don't know dansguardian much, but I guess it would be a good idea to integrate it with squid. I don't know squid much, but depending on what they're doing with it, it should be fairly simple. For samba, are there major changes between the default version in RH9 and Centos4 or 5? Anyone migrated a perforce environment? I'm also wondering whether I migrate them to centos3, 4, or 5. 3 would be to make the transition easier, while still letting them have many years of security updates. 4 is the version I use most, I barely touched 5. 5 would be for xen and... your ideas? I usually use OpenVZ for virtualization, but they might want to virtualize windows servers too, which OpenVZ can't do. Any input would be appreciated, Regards, Ugo

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