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resize an image file
by Jerry Geis 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

I have a 100G disk on an old redhat 7.3 system. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 9.6G 2.4G 6.7G 27% / /dev/hda3 99G 6.1G 88G 7% /home hda2 is 2G swap I am trying to back that complete image up on my centos 5 system. I can do the dd if=/dev/hda bs=1M | ssh root@machine 'cat > disk.img' which gets me the whole 100G. As you can see most of the disk is unused. Is there a way to trim the resulting image to only be 10G instead of 100G? Thanks, Jerry

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

On Tueday, 20 November 2007, "Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker(a)medallion.com> wrote: <snip> >I should have asked how big your setup was currently. The HD is only 40 GB on my box, a low end Dell Dimension 2400 (2.6 GHz Celeron) I won in a raffle. After I get this one up and running, I am going to switch wife and daughter's boxes, and redo them completely. Wife's current box has an 80 GB HD, which will give me a lot more room to experiment with VMware Server, which is something I want to learn about and use, until we get a box that is Xen capable.. >Oh well, yes the Windows apps take a while to install, been there myself. Been there and done that? I have huge appreciation, for the large number of packages that come from Upstream and are included in CentOS and the speed with which I can install the OS and so much stuff. And, for an example, the tools included, that would permit me to repair the WinXP problem, from the Linux side of the box, as you explained. To say nothing of my appreciation for the Developers of CentOS and the others who make this such a wonderful mailing list. I'm an old retired Assembly Language programmer (started with IBM 360/65) and I never worked with Unix, so this is a brand new world for me and one that I regret I did not work in, professionally. >If I were to re-do the whole drive, not knowing it's size I might do it as such: <snip> >You can then install Windows from within vmware by making /dev/sdc a raw disk for vmware. Once it's installed you could add an entry in >grub to boot into it. I'm going to RTFM and I think this time around, make it dual boot again and also try to install Windows within VMware, as you explain. Next time, I will hopefully have enough confidence in my ability to do this properly, that I will only install CentOS and then install Windows within VMware. Thanks much! Lanny

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manipulating files and directories with spaces
by Dave 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Hi, This might be a little O.t. so private responses please. I've got apache and samba running on a CentOS5 box enabling windows users to add web content. My issue is i've had to restore some backup data that was previously archived. The permissions aren't matching up so i'm wanting to use find and xargs to change them appropriately. Normally i do: find . -type type |xargs chmod value "{}"\; which usually works. My issue is the files were made with spaces so find isn't able to find them. Does anyone have a workaround? Some urgency! Thanks. Dave.

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HDD usage oddity
by Ugo Bellavance 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Hi, 2 of my Centos4 servers are showing weird behavior. [root@server1 ~]# du -sh /var/ 1.8G /var/ [root@server1 ~]# df -h /var Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 4.3G 3.9G 181M 96% /var [root@server2 var]# df -h /var Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 2.9G 2.7G 0 100% /var [root@server2 var]# du -sh /var/ 1.6G /var/ du seems to be reporting the right size Anyone seeing this?

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Backups on external USB HDD
by Ugo Bellavance 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Hi, I'm trying to implement this: I have: - A windows 2000 server - A centos 4 server - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monthly. The tape drive in the windows server died recently and I decided to switch to USB external drives. However, the USB controller in the windows server is only 1.1, so it is very slow. I didn't want to install a 2.0 USB controller in the windows server since it is a brand-name and I didn't want to make it unstable, so I decided to make the backups of the windows server (using Backup Exec) on the linux box. So backup exec writes on the linux box via samba, directly on the USB drive. (I thought of writing on the linux box FS directly, then rsync'ing to the USB drive), but the space available on the local FS is about 90 gigs while the external USB drives are 250 gigs, meaning that I can keep like 4 weeks of data on the USB drives (using backup exec settings), while I could only keep 1 or 2 weeks otherwise. My questions is: -how can the USB drives be umounted/mounted automatically when the person on site changes it (monday to tuesday, for example). There will always be only one HDD conected at the time. Thanks, Ugo

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html/form newbie: trying to upload a little data to a server
by Charles E Campbell Jr 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hello! I've been trying for several hours to upload a few bits of data (not a file) from an html form to a server, and none of my variants have worked thus far. I've done some web searching, too. Anyway, here's the form: <form method="POST" action="mmsrequest"> <pre> UserID: <input type="text" NAME="userid"> Date : <input type="text" NAME="date" value="mm/dd/yy"> Time : <input type="text" NAME="time" value="hh:mm:ss"> <input type="submit"> <input type="reset"> </pre> </form> I've tried mmsrequest as a script and as an executable. Full path, etc. In and out of cgi-bin. Variants tried: method="GET" I end up with a copy of the script (well, I told the browser not to bother trying to display the executable), instead of having the script run. method="POST" I either end up with a "Not Found" or "Method Not Allowed". I've always insured that permissions were rwxrwxrwx, just to avoid any permissions problem, expecting to tighten that up after I got the basic thing working. I don't particularly care if the script or executable gets the information from the command line separated by ampersands and whatnot, environment variable (QUERY_STRING, or so I understand), or from standard input. However, I do care that the script/program gets run and does get the information somehow, on the server side. Any suggestions? Thank you, Chip Campbell

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"su" error need help???
by mcclnx mcc 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

I 'su" to root and run command. I got error message. Anyone know how to fix it? ===================================================== /home/app/oracle/product/oms10g/install/unix/scripts/omsstup start /bin/su: user %s_userName% does not exist ______________________________________________________________________________________ 怎樣減少垃圾信？只要看到垃圾信，立即按下「這是垃圾信」按鈕。http://tw.promo.yahoo.com/antispam/index.html

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

On Tuesday, 20 November 2007, "Nicolas Sahlqvist" <nicco77(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip> >I top that with another 10 - 20 GB, assume you got a DVD iso to burn, >so you make a copy and due to the effective native copy file feature, >expect a copy to be placed in some temp folder on C: why you need >another 5 - 8 GB free and then the space the DVD occupies.. This is >also true if you copy between 2 SMB shares, even if none of them are >on the local machine, it's neat iand effective isn't it? Nicholas: We need much bigger hard drives to do that. What you wrote makes a lot of sense and when it becomes possible, I'll devote that much space to M$ Windows. My eventual goal is to discontinue using Windows and avoid these problems. Lanny

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

On Tuesday, 20 November 2007, "Bart Schaefer" <barton.schaefer(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip> >I'd second this, but I'd say it's much better to go in the direction >of 10G than 5. I installed WinXP on a Mac Mini (BootCamp) with 5GB >on the internal drive and everything else on a firewire external >drive, and now after about a year of automatic updates that 5GB is so >nearly consumed that I'm having to shuffle things around by hand to >keep it working. It's just too damn difficult to prevent Windows >software from dumping crap on the C: drive (and then referencing its >location in the registry so it becomes nearly impossible to relocate >it). Bart: I'm contemplating using 10 of the 40 GB for WinXP and the rest for CentOS 5. I hope to redo this box on Friday. What you mentioned is one of my many pet peeves about Windows. Frequently, I will install some Windows ap and the piggish programmers who wrote the stuff were not professional enough to allow me to select where I want it installed (our other boxes have a D partition for Programs, which is where I'd want it installed) and they just go ahead and install into C, as if they own the box. Lanny

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

On Tuesday, 20 November 2007, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg(a)imag.fr> wrote: <snip> >I think it's been mentioned in the thread, but since you don't talk >about this in your summary above: one thing I would recommend is create >(at least) 2 partitions for MS: a small (5 to 10 G) for the system, and >a larger one for data. Nicholas: Our other boxes have four (4) partitions for Windows. I've never installed Windows on this box, because it came from the factory with WinXp in Spanish. I reduced the NTFS partition in size, to make room for CentOS, but it's still running what came on it, out of the Dell factory. Last week, I got an English language WinXP from Dell, so I'm ready to roll in English now and do it properly on this one too! >then use norton/symantec ghost to generate images of your system Several of our boxes have had Removable EIDE drive units in them (made by CRU) and I used those, before I began using Linux, to make images, and that was a great thing to do. I got lazy about making the backups and found it easier to backup over the network. I didn't use Norton Ghost, I used something else, but as I write this, I can't recall the name of the Utility I used to make the images. As I recall, at that time (a few years ago), Norton was more difficult to use and I'd read something about some unreliable results from Ghost. >you can probably do this with linux tools as well if you don't want to buy ghost. Yes. I will do everything possible with Linux tools in the future. Thank you! Lanny

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RE: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

On Monday, 19 November 2007, Phil Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner(a)NASA.gov> wrote: <snip> >A good toolkit for Windows is the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows at >http://www.ubcd4win.com/ >It uses BartPE, discussed earlier, but adds a lot more tools, including >rootkit and antivirus scanners. A clean install after data recovery is >still the best bet. Phil: I did some reading on their web site. I do like that better than BartPE! They include information about workarounds, when using it with a Dell WinXP Recovery CD, for one example. I'll make a CD for that, after I'm up and running. Thanks! Lanny

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Backups on external USB HDD
by Håvard Sørli 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

>-how can the USB drives be umounted/mounted automatically when the >person on site changes it (monday to tuesday, for example). There will >always be only one HDD conected at the time. By a Stardome Enclosure, and at leas 3 disks. Then you always has the most current backup online in the raid - and the user just change disk for offsite storage. The enclosure is also much better build than normal singel disk usb enclosure - http://www.stardom.com.tw/sohoraid%20sr3610.htm "SR3610 series bundle with a hardware controller internally to provide with not only RAID 1 function for instant data" -- hs

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The use of Centos logo
by Fajar Priyanto 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hi all, A friend of mine asks me to teach him Linux using RHEL5. But, I insist that rather than using RHEL5, we use Centos5 instead, and he agrees :) So, I'm thinking of giving him a "certificate of attendance" and putting Centos logo on it. May I do that? What is the guidelines? Thank you :) -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 09:31:35 up 25 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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About md5sum
by Fajar Priyanto 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hi all, A friend of mine gives me a copy of Centos5 DVD. I then make an iso of it using dd if=/dev/cdrom of=centos5.iso command. I then check it using sha1sum. But the result is different than of listed in Centos website. Should it the same? Or we simply cannot compare sha1sum from burned DVD to that of 'unburned' iso file? Thanks. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 21:45:18 up 2:09, 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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pine 4.64 with CentOS with LDAP
by Farid Hamjavar 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hello pine 4.64 on CentOS 5 I have successfully compiled 4.64 with SSL and it works fine. However, I like to add LDAP feature. I am having trouble with compiling it with LDAP. I built the latest stable openldap-2.3.38 I did include this when I built openldap: ./configure --with-cyrus-sasl Compile process gives me these errors below. Any clue as what I may be doing wrong? Thanks, Farid /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:88: undefined reference to `sasl_version' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:124: undefined reference to `sasl_client_init' ../ldap/lib/libldap.a(cyrus.o): In function `ldap_int_sasl_open': /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:535: undefined reference to `sasl_client_new' ../ldap/lib/libldap.a(cyrus.o): In function `ldap_int_sasl_bind': /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:636: undefined reference to `sasl_dispose' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:682: undefined reference to `sasl_setprop' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:689: undefined reference to `sasl_client_start' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:726: undefined reference to `sasl_errdetail' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:801: undefined reference to `sasl_client_step' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:828: undefined reference to `sasl_errdetail' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:842: undefined reference to `sasl_errdetail' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:849: undefined reference to `sasl_getprop' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:864: undefined reference to `sasl_getprop' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:877: undefined reference to `sasl_dispose' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [pine] Error 1

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

On Monday, 19 November 2007, Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov wrote: <snip> >A good toolkit for Windows is the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows at >http://www.ubcd4win.com/ Phil:I found that Grisoft AVG (I use their free anti-virus program in Windows) has a free tool: AVG Anti-Rootkit Free http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-rootkit-free/lng/us/tpl/v5#details and I downloaded that. >It uses BartPE, discussed earlier, but adds a lot more tools, including >rootkit and antivirus scanners. A clean install after data recovery is >still the best bet. I'll look into Ultimate Boot CD for Windows, after I get this box up and running again. I will either get that or BartPE. Thanks! I recovered the data from the NTFS partition this morning, so I am ready to "learn by destroying". The consensus of opinion from Ross and you is that I should bite the bullet and do it correctly. Wipe the HD and do fresh installs. Time consuming it will be (especially installing the Windows aps), but, I will have a better system and I will learn. For several months, I've wanted to install/use the free VMware Server, but I don't have space on the HD to do much with it now. One of the suggestions, from Alain, was to have WinXP running virtually, under CentOS. I am contemplating devoting about 75% of the HD capacity to CentOS. Installing a lean WinXP in English, and dual boot with CentOS, and then install VMware Server and install WinXP in English, in virtualization. The "KISS" technique (fdisk /mbr, run the anti root kit program, reinstall GRUB and restore grub.conf) is tempting and would probably work, and would be much faster, but I still wouldn't have the kind of system I will have with the more time consuming approach. All the ideas everyone who has responded to this thread have thrown into the basket for consideration are deeply appreciated! Lanny

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Proftpd log errors - retrying please.
by Steve Campbell 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

I am using proftpd with my first Centos 5 box. Although it appears to be working, I see the following errors in my logwatch reports. Deprecated pam_stack module called from service "proftpd" pam_unix(proftpd:session): session opened for user steve by (uid=0) Deprecated pam_stack module called from service "proftpd" Deprecated pam_stack module called from service "proftpd" pam_env(proftpd:setcred): Unable to open config file: /etc/security/pam_env.conf: No such file or directory The file /etc/security/pam_env.conf does exist, but is owned by root with 644 permissions. I may change those, but for now I would like to hear from anyone before I do. I have googled to no avail, although I find a lot of references to this - just no definitive answer. I'm running the rpms 1.3.1-5 that I picked up from Dag's site. I tried here before and saw no replies, so pardon me for attempting again or if I missed previous postings. Thanks for any assistance. Steve Campbell

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openntp, mod_deflate, and mod_security CentOS5 rpms?
by Dave 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hello, Has anyone made any of the above in to CentOS5 rpms? I've googled and not found any CentOS5 rpms and was wondering before i atempt to make them, was wondering if anyone else had any of them? Thanks. Dave.

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: ImpossibletorestoreWinXP?
by Ross S. W. Walker 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

I should have asked how big your setup was currently. Oh well, yes the Windows apps take a while to install, been there myself. If I were to re-do the whole drive, not knowing it's size I might do it as such: /dev/sda - standard 100MB boot /dev/sdb - 90% of remaining space as an LVM PV /dev/sdc - remaining space as future Windows volume In the LVM VG formed from /dev/sdb, create a / lv of say 8GB, a swap lv of say 2GB and a /home lv of say 16GB, save whatever is left for additional storage, maybe for shared files (/shared) or commercial apps (/opt) or whatever. The sizes are simply suggestions, but try to not allocate all free space. You can then install Windows from within vmware by making /dev/sdc a raw disk for vmware. Once it's installed you could add an entry in grub to boot into it. If you just want to access it from vmware you could forgo /dev/sdc and just create another lv for windows, but if you want to play directX games I think you will be out of luck. To use Xen hardware virtualization you will need a recent processor that supports it, there is a flag in cpuinfo that can tell you if it does I forget which one it is. Google will tell you or some kind soul on the list will volunteer it. -Ross -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org <centos-bounces(a)centos.org> To: CentOS Mailing List <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Tue Nov 20 08:34:47 2007 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: ImpossibletorestoreWinXP? On Monday, 19 November 2007, "Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker(a)medallion.com> wrote: <snip> >I wouldn't necessarily wipe the whole HD, just the windows partition. Ross: That would be a little faster. It would take me about 2-3 additional hours, to reinstall CentOS5 and restore everything. Installing Windows and it's applications it *VERY* time consuming. But, if I dont redo my CentOS installation, I won't have room for VMware Server. I won't have time to do this for 2 or 3 days, so I still have time to decide on the path to take. :-) Minimum, I will wipe MS Windows and install it with the new English language CD I got from Dell last week. >You could also use Xen in CentOS 5 for your Windows virtualization. I'd wait for 5.1 though which will be more refined then version 5. Does Xen require a special CPU or motherboard? Thanks much, for all of your ideas! Lanny _______________________________________________ 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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Re: [CentOS] ntp queries not being answered
by Nicolas Sahlqvist 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Ok, so it was indeed the firewall, thanks for letting me know! :) (CCing the centos list in order to close the subject there too) - Nicolas On Nov 20, 2007 3:23 PM, Engineer, Gaurav <gaurav.engineer(a)lmco.com> wrote: > This worked like a charm. Thanks for all the help! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicolas Sahlqvist [mailto:nicco77@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:36 AM > To: Engineer, Gaurav > Subject: Re: [CentOS] ntp queries not being answered > > Hi Gaurav, > > You can check the output of "iptables -L -n" or use "setup" and check > out what "Security Level" is set to under "Firewall configuration". In > case it's enabled, you can disable it or add "Other ports" under > "Customize". > > > - Nicolas > > > On Nov 20, 2007 2:20 PM, Engineer, Gaurav <gaurav.engineer(a)lmco.com> > wrote: > > Thanks for the reply Nicolas. > > > > I was thinking it was something dealing with security that might be > > the problem. Unfortunately, I am totally new to Centos and linux. We > > > have another team that is responsible for loading processors with the > OS. > > > > So nothing was done besides the initial base loading of the SW and > > configuring the IP address. > > > > Can you please tell me how to deactivate the firewall (iptables) on > > the linux box? How to activate the ntp port? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > > Behalf Of Nicolas Sahlqvist > > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:14 AM > > To: CentOS mailing list > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] ntp queries not being answered > > > > On Nov 20, 2007 2:05 PM, Engineer, Gaurav <gaurav.engineer(a)lmco.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello All, > > > > > > > > > > > > My name is Gaurav, and I am tasked with configuring a linux box with > > NTP. > > > > > > I am having a problem that I hope you can help me with. > > > > > > We have installed CentOS V5 on 1 processor down in the lab. The > > > rest > > of the > > > processors on the network are AIX boxes versions 3.2.5 and 5.2. I > > worked > > > through the entire initial NTP configuration; setup the > > > /etc/ntp.conf > > file > > > to point to the server, etc. > > > > > > Now when I run the ntpdate -d <address of server> on the linux box I > > get all > > > the right information. > > > > > > Also, when I run the same command with the address for another > > non-linux box > > > (AIX): ntpdate -d <address of non-linux box> I get all the right > > information > > > again. > > > > > > The problem is that the linux box does not answer queries of the > > command to > > > it. > > > > > > So if I enter the following on the non-linux box: > > > > > > Ntpdate -d <address of linux box>... all the values for offset, etc. > > are all > > > zeroed out. So the linux box is not passing any information back to > > the > > > querying processor, even though the command works the other way > > (executed on > > > the linux box querying the non-linux box). Also, I don't see the > > usual > > > "transmit....recieve" pattern for the command.... just the > > "transmit...transmit...". > > > > > > Are there any reasons that the box can query the server and other > > boxes > > > successfully, but not answer queries sent to it? > > > > > > And in an effort to troubleshoot, I have commented out everything in > > the > > > /etc/ntp.conf file except the server address to see if there was > > something > > > in that file causing the problems, but that didn't work either. > > > > > > > > > > > > Do you have any information on this that could help me? Anything at > > all > > > would be appreciated. > > > > Hi Gaurav, > > > > Have you ensured that the firewall (iptables) are deactivated or got > > the ntp port open for ntp queries from the AIX boxes? > > > > > > - Nicolas > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS(a)centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > >

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wall and mesg and Xwindow
by Robert 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

I read in another post this morning something that reminded me of a question that has left my pulling my eyebrows out. How are broadcast messages enabled in X? I have found that # mesg y at a console will enable wall to post to that console. And, by placing "mesg y" in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, messages will be enabled on all consoles. But they're not enabled in KDE, neither in a pop-up nor in a terminal. So far, I've been unable to find what changed between CentOS 4 and CentOS 5 (and equivalent upstream versions, obviously). Would someone share a clue?

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Remastering CentOS
by Mas'ud Ulum® 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi All, Does anyone can help me about remastering CentOS. i try to remaster it. but i cannot get rpm so my ISO is only bootable disk.

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible torestoreWinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

On Monday, 19 November 2007, "Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker(a)medallion.com> wrote: <snip> >I wouldn't necessarily wipe the whole HD, just the windows partition. Ross: That would be a little faster. It would take me about 2-3 additional hours, to reinstall CentOS5 and restore everything. Installing Windows and it's applications it *VERY* time consuming. But, if I dont redo my CentOS installation, I won't have room for VMware Server. I won't have time to do this for 2 or 3 days, so I still have time to decide on the path to take. :-) Minimum, I will wipe MS Windows and install it with the new English language CD I got from Dell last week. >You could also use Xen in CentOS 5 for your Windows virtualization. I'd wait for 5.1 though which will be more refined then version 5. Does Xen require a special CPU or motherboard? Thanks much, for all of your ideas! Lanny

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ntp queries not being answered
by Engineer, Gaurav 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hello All, My name is Gaurav, and I am tasked with configuring a linux box with NTP. I am having a problem that I hope you can help me with. We have installed CentOS V5 on 1 processor down in the lab. The rest of the processors on the network are AIX boxes versions 3.2.5 and 5.2. I worked through the entire initial NTP configuration; setup the /etc/ntp.conf file to point to the server, etc. Now when I run the ntpdate -d <address of server> on the linux box I get all the right information. Also, when I run the same command with the address for another non-linux box (AIX): ntpdate -d <address of non-linux box> I get all the right information again. The problem is that the linux box does not answer queries of the command to it. So if I enter the following on the non-linux box: Ntpdate -d <address of linux box>... all the values for offset, etc. are all zeroed out. So the linux box is not passing any information back to the querying processor, even though the command works the other way (executed on the linux box querying the non-linux box). Also, I don't see the usual "transmit....recieve" pattern for the command.... just the "transmit...transmit...". Are there any reasons that the box can query the server and other boxes successfully, but not answer queries sent to it? And in an effort to troubleshoot, I have commented out everything in the /etc/ntp.conf file except the server address to see if there was something in that file causing the problems, but that didn't work either. Do you have any information on this that could help me? Anything at all would be appreciated. -thanks.

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Remastering CentOS
by Mas'ud Ulum® 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi, i try to remastering CentOS. i try do step by step from http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?forum=34&topic_id=789&vie… why when i create ISO. i just get bootable disk. i cannot get rpm2 that i have installed. am i supposed to including manually rpm's what i want into ISO directory then make ISO or mkisofs repackage automatically? thx

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Xen and multiple block devices
by Francois Caen 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hello, CentOS 5.0 on x86_64 I'm trying to set up Xen paravirt guests with access to 2 block devices: One for / and one for swap. The block devices are LVM LVs, but that shouldn't matter. When I create the guest using either virt-manager or virt-install, I get asked which device to use for xvda. But I want more block devices: xvdb for swap. I know how to add this as an option to the config file in /etc/xen 'phy:/dev/vg1/guest1-swap,xvdb,w' But that file only appears AFTER running the installer. How do I make xvdb visible DURING the install of CentOS? Thanks, -- Francois Caen

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible torestoreWinXP?
by Ross S. W. Walker 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

I wouldn't necessarily wipe the whole HD, just the windows partition. You could also use Xen in CentOS 5 for your Windows virtualization. I'd wait for 5.1 though which will be more refined then version 5. I've been thinking of setting up a Xen machine of my own with a Windows HVM and a couple of Linux PVMs with their GUIs/consoles pinned to different virtual consoles. It has always been a dream to Alt-FX to the OS of my choice. I'll need more then 1GB of RAM to do it right though. -Ross -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org <centos-bounces(a)centos.org> To: CentOS Mailing List <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Mon Nov 19 18:18:28 2007 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible torestoreWinXP? On Monday, 19 November 2007, Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov wrote: <snip> >A good toolkit for Windows is the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows at >http://www.ubcd4win.com/ Phil:I found that Grisoft AVG (I use their free anti-virus program in Windows) has a free tool: AVG Anti-Rootkit Free http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-rootkit-free/lng/us/tpl/v5#details and I downloaded that. >It uses BartPE, discussed earlier, but adds a lot more tools, including >rootkit and antivirus scanners. A clean install after data recovery is >still the best bet. I'll look into Ultimate Boot CD for Windows, after I get this box up and running again. I will either get that or BartPE. Thanks! I recovered the data from the NTFS partition this morning, so I am ready to "learn by destroying". The consensus of opinion from Ross and you is that I should bite the bullet and do it correctly. Wipe the HD and do fresh installs. Time consuming it will be (especially installing the Windows aps), but, I will have a better system and I will learn. For several months, I've wanted to install/use the free VMware Server, but I don't have space on the HD to do much with it now. One of the suggestions, from Alain, was to have WinXP running virtually, under CentOS. I am contemplating devoting about 75% of the HD capacity to CentOS. Installing a lean WinXP in English, and dual boot with CentOS, and then install VMware Server and install WinXP in English, in virtualization. The "KISS" technique (fdisk /mbr, run the anti root kit program, reinstall GRUB and restore grub.conf) is tempting and would probably work, and would be much faster, but I still wouldn't have the kind of system I will have with the more time consuming approach. All the ideas everyone who has responded to this thread have thrown into the basket for consideration are deeply appreciated! Lanny _______________________________________________ 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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how can I use awk to match? pls help
by ann kok 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi all I don't have idea how to write this script, please help I have thousand records in this format. eg: file No.3 is File No: 003 Customer: Ann Email address: xxx@info Country: England Created by: 20071102 file No. 4 is: File No: 004 Customer: James Email address: xxx@gov Country: Australia Created by: 20071105 I need to write a script to replace those Fields eg: (Customer/Email/Country.... when matching the FileNo.001...002...) to get Data in this file and also put the date in "Created by: 20071105" when I run this script File NO Customer Email Address Country -------------------------------------------------------- 001 John xxx@net USA 002 Peter xxx@com Canada 003 David xxx@org Mexico I know awk can do it. but don't know how to match the File No. in original file and the data file Thank you for your help ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

On Monday, 19 November 2007, Ross S. W. Walker rwalker at medallion.com wrote: <snip> > You can fix it all from CentOS. Ross: In addition to coming up with another slick way to fix this box, which I truly appreciate, you came up with the below: >You need to run some kind of rootkit detection and cleaner on the >system before it reboots or else it will just reinstall itself. Question: What would you suggest I run? Suggestions are most welcome and solicited! BTW, the system has been shut down and rebooted a bunch of times (in Linux) since the Trojan Horse hit. I have the AVG Free anti virus program running in Windows and it told me about the Trojan Horse and that the user32.dll file was damaged. It's possible that because the box is Spanish in Windows, I clicked incorrectly and made this problem much worse, but I'm not sure of that. > I would run all Windows accounts as restricted users from now on. I'll try to figure out how to do that in WinXP. I won the box in a raffle and it has WinXP in Spanish, which is not my native language. If I need to reinstall everything (I believe I can avoid that, with the suggestions you and others on this mailing list have made), Dell sent me an English language WinXP CD, last week, and I'll install in English, if it comes to that. All of your comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated! I am beginning to *hate* MS Windows, but there are still a few things we use it for. Lanny

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Network Name issue
by Patricio A. Bruna 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi, I've installed CentOS 5 on a Dell pe1950 with 2 dual port NICS. One of the NIC is an Intel and use the e1000 module. The problem is when the server is rebooted it does no asign the ethx name to the NICs, instead the so assign something like _dev377362... so i dont have networking on the server. Any ideas what is happening and how to solve it? Thanks.

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RE: [CentOS] Network Name issue
by Trevor Benson 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Patricio, I had a very similar issue with a wireless Intel device coming up as _tmp29384792. I found that if I did a service network stop and removed the kernel module, loaded the kernel module and then service network start, everything went back to normal. I have not bothered to see why it loads this way, as its only every few boots on my personal laptop. If I remember correctly people noted the hardware timeout before it completed loading, but this is just a guess as to what it was as I never confirmed any comments people had made. This isn’t a solution obviously to the issue, but does give you some steps to see if the devices can be reloaded and work or not. Trevor From:centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Patricio A. Bruna Sent:Monday, November 19, 2007 8:31 AM To:CentOS mailing list Subject:[CentOS] Network Name issue Hi, I've installed CentOS 5 on a Dell pe1950 with 2 dual port NICS. One of the NIC is an Intel and use the e1000 module. The problem is when the server is rebooted it does no asign the ethx name to the NICs, instead the so assign something like _dev377362... so i dont have networking on the server. Any ideas what is happening and how to solve it? Thanks.

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Samba Upgrade on Centos 3
by Ben Mohilef 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

After today's samba update, Centos 3 boxes can not use samba to communicate with each other, although Windows and the Centos 3 boxes see each other correctly as do RHEL5 and the Centos3 boxes. The du command works well, but ls, cp, cat ,etc produces the error: PANIC: push_ascii - dest_len == -1 in the server log and smb_trans2_request: result=-5, setting invalid in the client. A similar (but more serious) set of problems was reported in Ubuntu early this morning after their update. Is any one else experiencing this problem with samba and Centos 3 after the update? regards, benm

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Generating CMDB - Recommendations
by Tom Brown 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi We use Remedy as our tool to help us with ITIL but we have a LOT of boxes ~4000 and that is growing all the time. I am looking at ways for us to be able to update the CMDB within remedy with little effort from us. I can get our DC team to pretty much touch a file on the OS with the box location but does any one have any 'neat' tricks that can take various pieces of info and then spit them out into say a csv that we could then use to import into Remedy? I know this is a vague request but i wonder how others with a few boxes handle their CMDB's ? thanks

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Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

We rarely use M$ Windows, but I let my daughter surf pbskids.org while using Windows and a Trojan Horse modified or deleted the user32.dll file. I found the instructions on the Microsoft Support web site, and it would be very easy for me to expand a new copy of user32.dll if I could get the MS WinXP CD to work. It boots OK, I press a key so it will search hardware and it then has hard drive activity for a long, long time. My impression is that Microsoft does not want this to work on dual boot boxes. I've tried this on dual boot boxes with Windows ME and Windows 98 SE and it works fine. Dell sent me two (2) new WinXP CDs (one in English and one in Spanish) but the problem apparently is not that I have a defective WinXP CD from Dell. Has anyone been able to restore WinXP on a dual boot box? TIA! -- Lanny --------------------------------------------------------- Over 800 Magazine titles up to 85% off http://lowcostmagazines.com/

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

On Sunday, 18 Nov 2007 14:46:23 -0800, "Akemi Yagi" <amyagi(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip? >If it is ever necessary to mount ntfs, follow this wiki: >http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFSPartitions >Read/write access to ntfs is now considered "safe" with the current driver. Akemi: I mounted it read only and I can see everything. I am going to try to backup my Windows data to CDs now, in case the rescue does not go well. Lanny

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Can not mount CIFS-Share on bootup (SELinux Problem)
by Jan Falkenhagen 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hello everybody, i am trying to mount a CIFS-share while booting, providing a credential file for the share (/root/smbpassword) - without success (with SElinux turned on). The share will get mounted just fine when typing mount -a on the shell. And it also will get mounted automatically during boot when SELinux ist turned off. I have searched the documentation, but i have no clue which SElinux context is the right one for the credentialfile and where i have to put it. sincerely -- Jan Falkenhagen

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

On Sunday, 18 Nov 2007 14:46:23 -0800, "Akemi Yagi" <amyagi(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip> >If it is ever necessary to mount ntfs, follow this wiki: >http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFSPartitions >Read/write access to ntfs is now considered "safe" with the current driver. Akemi: Thank you! I will read that information on the Wiki in a few minutes. Nice to know that it is now OK to write to NTFS, as well as read NTFS. Lanny

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to, restore WinXP?
by David G. Miller 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

"Alain Spineux" <aspineux(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> probably I will need to wipe the HD and install both OS's again. Lanny >> > > Yes and keep on hand a bart-pe boot disk, this time :-) > That's probably "a good thing". You don't know what else was changed (e.g., registry entries, etc.) that won't keep the system from booting but could cause other problems. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

On Sunday 18 Nov 2007 23:09:27 +0100, "Alain Spineux" <aspineux(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip> Alain: I get the Digest version of the ML. Thank you, for the additional information in your posts #33 and 34 yesterday! Much appreicated! >Yes and keep on hand a bart-pe boot disk, this time :-) Amen. After I get WinXP running again, I will make and test a BartPE CD, ASAP! I appreciate you telling me about BartPE! We don't use Windows much and I'd never run into a problem with XP like this before. Lanny

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After last update problems with MIME-Types (Postfix, amavisd)
by Timothy Kesten 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi Folks, after the last update I get this error in my maillog: Error in processing, id=05622-06, mime_decode-1 FAILED: Can't locate object method "seek" via package "File:: Temp" at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Parser.pm line 816, <GEN19> line 109. (in reply to end of DATA command)) Are there some problems with the perl-packages from rpmforge???? How can I fix it - and avoid in the future My Postfix-Server with amavisd doesn't work for the moment. The mails stay in the mailqeue and won't delivered to the recipient. This is a big problem for me. Thx Timothy

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Launching X-Windows at different runelvels
by carlopmart 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi all, I need to launch X-Windows at runlevel 4 and 5. CentOS only start up x-windows at runlevel by default. I have modified /etc/inittab to accomplish this: x:4:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon But this returns errors every time that start and stop system ... Which is the correct form to launch x-windows under centos at different runlevels?? Many thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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Local mirroring of the CentOS repos
by Kai Schaetzl 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

I figured I try if I can mirror the base and updates repos locally. There's no tutorial for that, only one about creating your own repo of packages which is not the same. So, I just mirrored all the stuff with wget and changed the baseurl in the repo files and hoped that's enough. Works. So easy you don't need a tutorial. *But* I then realized that the updates directory contains *all* updates, not just the latest. Which means if I don't regularly check I may get old versions mirrored I don't want. It also means that I get a lot of unwanted files at the time I start to mirror. And I cannot delete old files as these would again be mirrored in. An obvious solution would be to check each day and tell wget (or whatever software I use) to ignore files older than 24 hours. Still, this means the initial download has to get them all and I have to delete all unwanted old files manually. Is there a better solution? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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Which pop3 server
by Miark 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

What's the best package for a plain-jane pop3 server? Miark

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RE: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

On 18 November 2007, Alain Spineux aspineux at gmail.com wrote: <snip> >BartPE found that WinME was installed on that box and it died there. >If you have any ideas about how I can make the BartPE CD, on a non >WInME box, they will be much appreciated! TIA, Lanny Making the BartPE CD on a WinME box is apparently impossible. Here's what it says on this URL: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/faq/#12 "Can Windows 9x/ME be used to build BartPE? No, absolutely not!" This box is dead in the water, with respect to booting WinXP, because of the corrupted or missing user32.dll. We only have this one box with WinXP, so unless there's another solution for me to rescue WinXP, I will need to format and reinstall WinXP and CentOS5. TIA, Lanny

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nx.x86_64
by Michael Velez 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hello all, Lately, I've been getting the following error when I try to install the nx.x86_64 package with yum: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/NX: cpio: rename The package never gets installed so I get this error every time I run yum. Does anybody know how to resolve this? Thank you, Michael

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

On Nov 18, 2007 4:38 PM, MrKiwi <mrkiwi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The problem is the mbr - i had the same problem trying to > put a replacement sata drive into a machine - it had > previously had centos on it, and i was trying to install xp. > > The solution for me was to use a dos boot disk and run > fdisk /mbr > however im not sure how that will affect your dual boot > situation. > > Anyway ... the mbr issue will get you going in the right > direction. Apparently xp cd gets hung if it cant make sense > of the mbr, even if other disks exist with window-happy mbrs. Mr. Kiwi: Thank you! I have a feeling this is the only path. I am going to wait until the long Thanksgiving weekend and if another possible solution doesn't appear, I think I will try what you suggested, before I wipe the drive. If I fdisk /mbr and am then able to restore the user32.dll file in WinXP, hopefully, after that, I could reinstall GRUB and have my dual boot box working again. If not, probably I will need to wipe the HD and install both OS's again. Lanny

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RE: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

On 18 November 2007, Alain Spineux aspineux at gmail.com wrote: <snip> >I remember a got this problem multiple time. The XP CD (and also self made >autoinstall CD) was refusing to boot if the HD was allready partitioned with >an "incompatible" fdisk tool. It was usually on test machine and I had >not problem doing a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 >and then reinstall all the machine from scratch, or if the installed >OS were important then I used some imaging or backup tools. But the reset of the >partition was mandatory. >You could try to use the very powerful BartPE live CD do restore your DLL. Alain: Thank you for recommending BartPE! I downloaded BartPE on this side of the box (CentOS 5), but I couldn't unzip it in Linux. I moved it over to our Windows ME box and unzipped it there. Since I cannot start WinXP on this box, I can't run BartPE on this box at this time. I was hoping BartPE would ask me to let it read the WinXP files from the CD (on the WinME box), but no joy. This is the only box we have that has WinXP on it and it is crippled. From what it said on the site for BartPE, I was hoping it would permit me to make the CD on our WinME box: >4. Now PE Builder will ask to search for windows installation files. If you don't have your windows XP setup/installation files on your >system you must insert the original Microsoft Windows XP installation/setup CD at this point. BartPE found that WinME was installed on that box and it died there. If you have any ideas about how I can make the BartPE CD, on a non WInME box, they will be much appreciated! TIA, Lanny

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Re: [centos] dual boot box: winxp & centos 5: impossible to restore winxp?
by Lanny Marcus 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

On Nov 18, 2007 1:05 PM, <gjgowey(a)tmo.blackberry.net> wrote: > Have you disconnected all your usb hardware before trying the repair? I've repaired my box >more times than I can count and the only time I've seen lots of hdd activity is when I had some >weird hardware attached. Geoff: Thank you for this information. On this box, there's no USB attached at this time. In the future, what you wrote might come in handy! The only things connected now are the monitor, keyboard, speakers, mouse and a printer connected via Parallel cable. Lanny

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Problems with Postfix and Perl
by Timothy Kesten 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hi Folks, I've new installed my CentOS5 Box. It works well but postfix. I use fetchmail and in maillog are these error message: Error in processing, id=04451-04, mime_decode-1 FAILED: Can't locate object method "seek" via package "File::Temp" at /usr/ lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Parser.pm line 816, <GEN14> line 142. (in reply to end of DATA command)) What's wrong? Any hints Thx Timothy

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Re: [centos] dual boot box: winxp & centos 5: impossible to restorewinxp? -- antair restored
by gjgowey＠tmo.blackberry.net 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Have you disconnected all your usb hardware before trying the repair? I've repaired my box more times than I can count and the only time I've seen lots of hdd activity is when I had some weird hardware attached. Geoff Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -----Original Message----- From: gjgowey(a)tmo.blackberry.net Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:01:11 Subject: [centos] dual boot box: winxp & centos 5: impossible to restorewinxp? -- antair restored We rarely use M$ Windows, but I let my daughter surf pbskids.org while using Windows and a Trojan Horse modified or deleted the user32.dll file. I found the instructions on the Microsoft Support web site, and it would be very easy for me to expand a new copy of user32.dll if I could get the MS WinXP CD to work. It boots OK, I press a key so it will search hardware and it then has hard drive activity for a long, long time. My impression is that Microsoft does not want this to work on dual boot boxes. I've tried this on dual boot boxes with Windows ME and Windows 98 SE and it works fine. Dell sent me two (2) new WinXP CDs (one in English and one in Spanish) but the problem apparently is not that I have a defective WinXP CD from Dell. Has anyone been able to restore WinXP on a dual boot box? TIA! -- Lanny --------------------------------------------------------- Over 800 Magazine titles up to 85% off http://lowcostmagazines.com/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld.

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