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yum hangs when installing uucp
by Dave 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Hello, I've got a CentOS 5 box. I want to install the uucp rpm to give access to the cu command. I do a yum -y install uucp and yum is hanging on the transaction test. I get the file downloaded fine, but on transaction test yum freezes and i have to kill it's pid to stop it. Any ideas? I'm looking for a program for serial terminals. Thanks. Dave.

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Re: [CentOS] configuring sendmails domain
by Ross S. W. Walker 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Look at submit.mc for email sent from localhost. -Ross -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org <centos-bounces(a)centos.org> To: centos(a)centos.org <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Tue Nov 13 21:31:28 2007 Subject: [CentOS] configuring sendmails domain > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jerry Geis" <geisj at pagestation.com <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> > To: "CentOS ML" <centos at centos.org <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:11:02 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane > Subject: [CentOS] configuring sendmails domain > > I tried editing sendmail.cf and changing the Dj line to X.com > so any email originating from my machine would be X.com not m.X.com > where m is machine name. > > I typed make in the /etc/mail directory and did service sendmail restart. > > This did not work. email still shows as m.X.com > > What am I missing so as to NOT have the machine name in the email address. > I just want the domain. > > Thanks, > > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > > > > Editing the .cf file is not the way to do this sort of thing. Ensure you have the sendmail-cf package installed and make your changes to the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file and then type 'make' to build the new .cf. Then restart sendmail. > > > Incidentally, the .mc file has the necessary parameters in it that you may be looking for; > > > dnl MASQUERADE_AS(`mydomain.com')dnl > dnl # > dnl # masquerade not just the headers, but the envelope as well > dnl # > dnl FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl > dnl # > dnl # masquerade not just @mydomainalias.com, but @*.mydomainalias.com as well > dnl # > dnl FEATURE(masquerade_entire_domain)dnl > dnl # > dnl MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(localhost)dnl > dnl MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(localhost.localdomain)dnl > dnl MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(mydomainalias.com)dnl > dnl MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(mydomain.lan)dnl > > > I changed all the above to my X.com domain removed the dnl's on the line did a make in the /etc/mail directory, did service sendmail restart and I still get m.X.com and not just X.com What am I still missing something? Thanks, Jerry _______________________________________________ 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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Need advice on storage
by boisvert.guy＠videotron.ca 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Hi all, I have a CentOS 4.5 server running on a workstation mainboard (PCI Slots only). We have now one 200 Gigs IDE disk dedicated for e-mail server storage. We use Communigate Pro and the server has 45 Outlook clients with the MAPI connector (All mailboxes on the server). When a user opens Outlook, a refresh of the local cache is performed for his data. There is a big "Public" area (about 50 Gigs) where all the projects data/infos are stored (all that on the same IDE hard disk). Clients cache updates are performed on e-mail folder access. We noticed server response slowdown as the number of user increased (quite normal!). Now we want to upgrade the server to get better performance. I'd like to know if, as a temporary cheap upgrade, software RAID with a Sil 3124 and 2 x Raptor WD740ADFD (74 Gigs with NCQ) in Software RAID 0 would bring a significant performance boost. If it is the case, that would permit to phase out this server in 1-2 years and we'd upgrade the whole server after.Here a the specs of the actual "server":Asus A7V600 (I know, that's bad but it just works!!!)Athlon 2500+1 Gig RAM (we'll probably put 1 more gig soon if it can help)System Hard Disk: WD 80 GigsMail hard disk: Western Digital WD2000JB (IDE 200 Gigs) EXT3 on LVMBackups hard disk: 1 x 200 Gigs IDE, 1 x 320 Gigs SATA, 1 x 750 Gigs SATA --> LVM Total of 1270 GigsAny help / experience would be appreciated.TIA,Guy Boisvert

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Re: [CentOS] Need advice on storage
by Ross S. W. Walker 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

If you are seeing iowaits that high then something needs to be done. You CAN gain performance by striping, but the downtime due to disk failure can make your decision making skills look flawed. For a mail server I highly recommend RAID10 and drives with high RPM so you get better random io performance as 99% of io on a mail home server will be random io and while regular SATA drives would be ok for a file server which is mostly sequential they will stack up io waits on a busy mail or database server. The raptors are costly because they run at 10k rpm and have low seek times, this gives them much better random io performance, but sequential io is the same with regular SATA drives. In fact sequential io performance is almost identical between 7200rpm SATA and 15000rpm SAS the real difference is in random io where the 15k drives are 2x faster (1.2MB of 4k random ios a second versus 640KB of 4k random ios a second, unbuffered). If you have an external enclosure then that will help, but make sure the array is compatible with the drives you want. SATA disks cannot go into a SCSI array, though some SAS enclosures and controllers allow you to mix SAS and SATA drives (LSI is one). Performance can trump size here so if the choice is between 200GB 7200 rpm SATA drives or 72GB 15000rpm SAS drives, if your data fits onto the 72GB drives (probably 140GB if in a 4 drive RAID10) go with the 72GB drives (taking growth into consideration too). Hardware RAID can help too if you utilize onboard battery backed up write-back cache. The more write-back cache the better, just make sure it is battery backed up (BBU). -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 13 01:58:27 2007 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Need advice on storage ----- Message d'origine ----- De: Kenneth Price <kprice(a)nowyouknow.net> Date: Lundi, Novembre 12, 2007 10:58 pm Objet: Re: [CentOS] Need advice on storage À: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> > > You've already received a few responses about reconfiguring your > entireserver, so I'll avoid that route and simply answer your > question straight. > > "No" > > There will not be a "significant" performance boost striping > only 2 drives. > The 10K RPM Raptors alone will definitely increase performance, > but there > is little/no real advantage striping them together. Getting any > significant performance increase from a RAID array really > requires at > *least* 4 drives ... the more the merrier ... although I'll > probably catch > some flack from that statement. :-) > > A previous poster mentioned increasing your RAM from 1Gb to 2Gb. > That was > an excellent idea and should be done in parallel with whatever drive > changes you make. > > Regards, > Ken > > Thanks Ken. That's a good thing to know that software striping won't really boost performance, i then won't waste money on that avenue. I cannot explain why as i don't know about Linux drivers architecture and general system low level behavior but maybe somebody on this list could give us a clue. As i said on my previous post, i found that the server is inside a rack that has a VTRAK 15100 SCSI to SATA Enclosure with a free SCSI bus (the unit has 2 independant bus) and hard disk slots. I think we have a spare Adaptec 39160 so if it's the case, i could go with this solution and buy 4 x WD 250 Gigs "YS" (RAID) serie drives @ about 75$ each and put all this in RAID 10. The unit supports NCQ. It remains to be seen how well it can perform even if they are talking about "up to 200 MBps". Regards, Guy Boisvert ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 33, Issue 10
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 14 Nov '07

14 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-2007:0961 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 ruby - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:0961 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) ruby - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2007:0961 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 ruby - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2007:0961 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 ruby - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:51:34 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0961 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 ruby - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20071113135134.GZ18540(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0961 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0961.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/irb-1.8.1-7.EL4.8.1.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/ruby-1.8.1-7.EL4.8.1.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/ruby-devel-1.8.1-7.EL4.8.1.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/ruby-docs-1.8.1-7.EL4.8.1.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/ruby-libs-1.8.1-7.EL4.8.1.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/ruby-mode-1.8.1-7.EL4.8.1.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/ruby-tcltk-1.8.1-7.EL4.8.1.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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printing problem
by umair shakil 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Salam, I am using CentOs 4.4, i have network printer with ip 192.168.1.88. when i click the option to print document, it seems everything is OK, printer shows with bliking of Data light but no print..... what i am missing??? Regards, Umair Shakil ETD

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freenx
by Michael Oevermann 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Hello, I am having problems getting freenx running in CentOS 4.5 i386_64. I know this is not a new problem, however, I havn't found a solution in all the postings I found on the web. I did exactly what is supposed to work and described in detail at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX After doing that I can connect to the server with nxcleint without problem but I get only a black screen. In the files .nx/S.../session and errors I see the warning Warning: Unrecognized session type 'unix-gnome'. Assuming agent session. The same happens with KDE. With the command nxloadconfig --check I get the output Warning: Could not find nxdesktop in /usr/bin. RDP sessions won't work. Warning: Could not find nxviewer in /usr/bin. VNC sessions won't work. Warning: Invalid value "APPLICATION_LIBRARY_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/ libX11.so.6.2:/usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4:/usr/lib/libXcomp.so.2:/usr/lib/ libXcompext.so:/usr/lib/libXrender.so.1.2". /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2 could not be found. Users will not be able to run a single application in non-rootless mode. Warning: Invalid value "COMMAND_FOOMATIC=/usr/lib/cups/driver/ foomatic-ppdfile" Users will not be able to use foomatic. Warning: "/usr/lib/cups/backend/nxipp" is not executable. Users will not be able to enable printing. Warning: "/usr/lib/cups/backend/smb" is not executable. Users will not be able to enable printing. Warning: Invalid value "COMMAND_START_CDE=cdwm" Users will not be able to request a CDE session. Warning: Invalid cupsd version of "/usr/sbin/cupsd". Need version 1.2. Users will not be able to enable printing. Error: Could not find 1.5.0 or 2.[01].0 or 3.0.0 version string in nxagent. NX 1.5.0 or 2.[01].0 or 3.0.0 backend is needed for this version of FreeNX. Errors occured during config check. Please correct the configuration file. The libraries are definitely not where nx looks for them - they are located at /usr/lib64/NX/lib (and symlinks under (usr/lib/NX/lib). What is going wrong here? I also tried to use nxconfig with --setup- nomachine-key with the same results, except that I did not need to import the key in the nxclient anymore. Does anyone has an idea to solve the problem? Many thanks for help Michael

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configuring sendmails domain
by Jerry Geis 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

I tried editing sendmail.cf and changing the Dj line to X.com so any email originating from my machine would be X.com not m.X.com where m is machine name. I typed make in the /etc/mail directory and did service sendmail restart. This did not work. email still shows as m.X.com What am I missing so as to NOT have the machine name in the email address. I just want the domain. Thanks, Jerry

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Sso the Linux way?
by Jason Pyeron 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

So I was googling around about this over the last week and here is what I found: nis/yp is for some reason bad. Kerbos is holy, but no how-to's that don't involve windows and active directory. What is the recommended sso approach for centos? Where are there examples / docs to follow? Jason -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Sr. Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, purge the message from your system and notify the sender immediately. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.

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Centos5 install failure
by John Thompson 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

A couple weeks ago I attempted to install Centos5 to replace an increasingly decripit Fedora Core 1 installation. Centos went onto an 80GB piece of previously unallocated space on /dev/hda, using the default configuration offered by anaconda. The installation process went smoothly, however, I was unable to boot Centos when it completed due to "Grub failure." IOW, I never even got the boot loader to come up. I've never been a big fan of grub (I've always used lilo) and this hasn't impressed me. I was able to restore Fedora's lilo loader but I cannot persuade lilo to boot Centos, probably because the / filesystem is using LVM which I am not familiar with. It failed with a kernel panic trying to find things in /dev. I put it on the back shelf for a couple weeks and finally got back to it today. I wiped hda to give it a fresh base on which to install, and it installed fine once again -- no errors. But on reboot grub failed once again, getting as far as GRUB and then locking up, responding only to the RESET button. So I created a bootable grub CD and booted from that, fed it the Centos kernel and initrd and booted. Lots of "missing module" errors because (as it turns out) the Centos installer neglected to create the proper module tree in /lib/modules. But there was one for the xen kernel. WTF, I'll try that. Boot again and tried to tell grub to load the xen kernel: "invalid file format." Whatever. Booted the regular kernel and initrd again, gritting my teeth through all the errors and created a sym-link from the xen module tree to what should be the regular module tree. Rebooted again with the regular kernel and initrd. Fewer error messages this time, but still a fair number. I just wanted to get to the point were I could repair the missing modules. So the system comes up -- sort of. The modules that still couldn't load turned out to include those for my network card, so no network access. Nor could I mount any cds or the xfs file system on the raid array. Useless. Just frickin' useless. My low opinion of grub remains unchanged, and my opinion of Centos is following in the same direction. I spent the rest of the afternoon restoring Fedora off my backup tapes. Any clues what I did wrong? -- John (john(a)os2.dhs.org)

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Retrieving a banned e-mail
by Rajeev R Veedu 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

We have a postfix+cyrus+Spamassassin setup and all the virus or Banned or spam e-mails will move to a folder on /var/virusmails. I have a falseposative mail moved due to a banned attachment name. Could you please help me to retrieve these e-mails? Thanks Rajeev R. Veedu

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Web DAV (folder) access fails
by Kenneth Porter 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

I'm trying to get web folder (DAV) access working to my CentOS 5 setup. I previously had it working fine under Fedora 2. I can access the folder with the Java-based DAVExplorer, but Windows Network Places won't let me "Add a Network Place", telling me that "The folder you entered does not appear to be valid". I'm using https with self-signed cert and htpasswd file. If I switch to non-SSL, Windows recognizes the URL as valid, but my logins all fail with a 401. I don't see any clues in the Apache logs, and I'm not sure where to look next.

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New machine dying on boot.... - CPU 0 not enough memory for domain -
by John Plemons 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

I am playing with a new machine I just got in and it is dying on boot... I'm wondering if it is to much machine for Centos to run.. It is a Generic machine using a Tyan Thunder motherboard running (8) eight dual core AMD 855 cpu's with 128 gig of ram, not 128 meg, but 128 gig of ram. (2) SCSI 146 Seagate Drives. ATI Graphics built onto the board. The error I'm seeing is on loading the Kernel, I get a message that says "CPU 0 not enough memory for domain" I'm lost with 128 gig of ram I'd think there is plenty of memory... The load is a fresh install ( today ) of Centos 5 - x86_64 version Used the defaults on all of the items it is vanilla as can be, yet it chokes and dies... As for the machine, it is a new machine that I just picked up, I'm loading Centos to make sure it is working correctly... thanks, john

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Persistent iSCSI Device Names on CentOS 4
by Jay Leafey 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

I found a lot of stuff about this on the web, but never an answer that worked. One of the most promising hints was about udev maintaining links in the /dev/disk/by-* directories. This works just fine in CentOS 5, but not CentOS 4. As I was trying to use the iSCSI devices as VMware disks this was particularly frustrating. After banging my head on this for a while, I figured out how to make it work. By default, iSCSI devices don't show up in the /dev/disk/by-* directories maintained by udev under CentOS 4. After looking at the scripts used by udev, it appeared that the scsi_id program was not returning anything for the iSCSI devices. Digging in the manpage and the /etc/scsi_id.config file led me to believe that the devices in question were "blacklisted" and never returned a valid device ID. The fix was to add a line to scsi_id.config to whitelist the particular devices. In my case, the iSCSI devices are provided by on Openfiler box, which shows up in /proc/scsi/scsi like this: Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: Openfile Model: Virtual disk Rev: 0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 The fix for me was to add the following line to my iscsi_id.config file: vendor=Openfile, model="Virtual disk", options=-g The values for "vendor=" and "model=" will vary with the specific iSCSI target used. After adding this and rebooting, udev now properly maintains the links in /dev/disk/by-id/ for each of the iSCSI devices offered up to my workstation. Hope that helps somebody! -- Jay Leafey - Memphis, TN jay.leafey(a)mindless.com

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Best laptop for CentOS
by Ern jura 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.

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Open Source CPanel equivalent for CentOS?
by Eric B. 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a solid, reliable Open Source equivalent of Cpanel/Plesk that I can run on my CentOS boxes. I've done some searching around and find a bunch of them which seem to have stopped or stalled development, but I am figuring that there has got to be a strong market / demand for something out there. Is anyone using something secure, solid and complete? I don't need something for users to sign up themselves online, but would like something to give them abilities to administer their own domains. I am more than happy to move my entire existing mail server and accounts to something new if I can give my users this ability. Thanks! Eric

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mounting filesystems with blocks larger then 4k over a loop device
by Ruslan Sivak 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

So I'm playing around with S3 and elasticdrive, and I create a filesystem on it with a block size larger then 4k. mkfs.xfs -b size=8k /mnt/ed5/ed0 -f This completes fine and sets up the proper filesystem. When I try to mount it, however, I get: mount /mnt/ed5/ed0 /mnt/eds35/ -o loop mount: Function not implemented looking at dmesg I get: XFS: Attempted to mount file system with blocksize 8192 bytes XFS: Only page-sized (4096) or less blocksizes currently work. XFS: SB validate failed I had similar issues with reiserFS. Is there a way to get a filesystem with larger then 4k blocks in CentOS 5? Russ

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Installing Anjuta from KBS repos
by James A. Peltier 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Hi All, I am trying to install Anjuta from the KB Singh repos on CentOS 5 without success. yum install --enablerepo=atrpms,centosplus,rpmforge,kbs-Extras-x86_64,kbs-Misc-x86_64 anjuta-1.2.2-6 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 anjuta.x86_64 1:1.2.2-6 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: libvte.so.4()(64bit) for package: anjuta --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package vte.i386 0:0.14.0-2.el5 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: libvte.so.4()(64bit) for package: anjuta --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: libvte.so.4()(64bit) is needed by package anjuta It keeps failing on libvte.so.4 which I don't have /usr/lib64/libvte.so.9 /usr/lib64/libvte.so.9.1.5 has anyone gotten this to work or should I build it from the SRPMS? -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : jpeltier(a)cs.sfu.ca Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam(a)hotmail.com

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 33, Issue 9
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 13 Nov '07

13 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-2007:1024 Important CentOS 4 ia64 kdegraphics - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:1024 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) kdegraphics - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2007:1052 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 pcre - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2007:1052 Critical CentOS 4 i386 pcre - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2007:1024 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 kdegraphics - security update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2007:1024 Important CentOS 4 i386 kdegraphics - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:32:18 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:1024 Important CentOS 4 ia64 kdegraphics - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20071112163218.GX18540(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:1024 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1024.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/kdegraphics-3.3.1-6.c4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/kdegraphics-devel-3.3.1-6.c4.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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CentOS5 and ipw2200
by Christian Volker 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Hi all! I tried to use CentOS5 on an IBM Thinkpad R52 which has an Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Mini-PCI Adapter installed. I downloaded the firmware from the DAG-Repo (afaik 3.0.0) and added a "alias eth1 ipw2200" to modules.conf. After the module was loaded successfully (including the firmware) I was able to configure the card. For simplicity I didn't use any encryption. My access point as well is not using any encryption. I tried to use DHCP, but the card didn't get assigned to any IP address. So I used the manual configuration which seemed to work fine during startup. But unfortunately not network connection could be made. So no ICMP ping packets where reaching the destination. Using the iwconfig command I could see my SSID from the access point. Playing around with some values didn't have any success. So I tried using FC8- and it worked fine with fixed address settings. As well as OpenSuSE 10.2. Anyone an idea what's going wrong here? Christian Volker Technical Support Engineer -- Parnell House, Barrack Square, Ballincollig, Co. Cork, Ireland

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Postfix dying
by Paul Norton 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Hello list, Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2. In the morning (after noticing it died) I try to run `service postfix stop` and I get a failed start. Running `ps ax | grep postfix` I can see one process still running for postfix. After killing this, I am able to run `service postfix start`. I see a lot of this in my maillog: Nov 7 00:25:13 servername postfix/smtpd[16727]: lost connection after CONNECT from unknown[201.251.x.x] Nov 7 00:25:13 servername postfix/smtpd[16715]: disconnect from unknown[201.251.x.x] Nov 7 00:25:13 servername postfix/smtpd[16727]: disconnect from unknown[201.251.x.x] Nov 7 00:25:13 servername postfix/smtpd[16723]: warning: connect to private/anvil: Resource temporarily unavailable Nov 7 00:25:13 servername postfix/smtpd[16723]: warning: problem talking to server private/anvil: Resource temporarily unavailable Nov 7 00:25:13 servername postfix/smtpd[16723]: lost connection after CONNECT from unknown[201.251.x.x] Nov 7 00:25:13 servername postfix/smtpd[16723]: disconnect from unknown[201.251.x.x] Nov 7 00:27:22 servername postfix/smtpd[16184]: warning: timeout on private/anvil while reading input attribute name Nov 7 00:27:22 servername postfix/smtpd[16184]: warning: problem talking to server private/anvil: Connection timed out Nov 7 00:27:22 servername postfix/smtpd[16910]: warning: timeout on private/anvil while reading input attribute name Nov 7 00:27:22 servername postfix/smtpd[16910]: warning: problem talking to server private/anvil: Connection timed out Nov 7 00:27:22 servername postfix/smtpd[16726]: warning: timeout on private/anvil while reading input attribute name Nov 7 00:27:22 servername postfix/smtpd[16726]: warning: problem talking to server private/anvil: Connection timed out Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16184]: warning: connect to private/anvil: Resource temporarily unavailable Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16184]: warning: problem talking to server private/anvil: Resource temporarily unavailable Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16184]: lost connection after CONNECT from unknown[201.251.x.x] Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16184]: disconnect from unknown[201.251.x.x] Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16910]: warning: connect to private/anvil: Resource temporarily unavailable Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16910]: warning: problem talking to server private/anvil: Resource temporarily unavailable Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16910]: lost connection after CONNECT from unknown[86.123.x.x] Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16910]: disconnect from unknown[86.123.x.x] Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16726]: warning: connect to private/anvil: Resource temporarily unavailable Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16726]: warning: problem talking to server private/anvil: Resource temporarily unavailable Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16726]: lost connection after CONNECT from cpe-024-x-x-x.carolina.x.x.com[24.74.x.x] Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16726]: disconnect from cpe-024-074-x-x.carolina.x.x.com[24.74.x.x] TIA for any suggestions. -- Paul Norton Systems Administrator Neoverve - www.neoverve.com Neoverve Blog - http://blog.neoverve.com/

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Re: [CentOS] backups and md5 all in one while splitting
by Ross S. W. Walker 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Well in bash/sh the () means execute in a sub-shell. If you redirect or pipe output from one process to a command in a sub-shell it will be redirected or piped (whatever the original was) to the command being executed in the sub-shell. You can also use $(command) as a command-line variable that will substitute the output of the command during evaluation. Ie # mkinitrd /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) -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 12 17:57:11 2007 Subject: Re: [CentOS] backups and md5 all in one while splitting Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > 'tee' splits the stdin into multiple output streams. > > The first instance of tee you listed gave it a file name and a pipe to > output the stdout to. > > The second instance did a redirection to a sub-shell which then passed > it to 'split' and it also had a pipe. > > -Ross > How does this sub-shell redirection work? Can someone explain the syntax to me or shoot me a link to a doc somewhere? Russ _______________________________________________ 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] backups and md5 all in one while splitting
by Ross S. W. Walker 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

'tee' splits the stdin into multiple output streams. The first instance of tee you listed gave it a file name and a pipe to output the stdout to. The second instance did a redirection to a sub-shell which then passed it to 'split' and it also had a pipe. -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 12 17:44:47 2007 Subject: Re: [CentOS] backups and md5 all in one while splitting Shad L. Lords wrote: >> I'm trying to back up our svn repositories, and I found a nice little >> backup command line bzip's the backup and creates the md5 hash all in >> one: >> >> svnadmin dump --deltas /repo |bzip2 |tee dump.bz2 | md5sum >dump.md5 >> >> The problem is I need to split the backups, so this doesn't really >> work. Is there perhaps another way of piping things to allow for >> splitting of the backups? Currently I'm doing something like this >> >> svnadmin dump --deltas /repo |bzip2 |split - -b 64m >> cat *.bz2* | md5sum >dump.md5 >> >> Is there a way to do this all in one step? > > What about: > > svnadmin dump --deltas /repo | bzip2 | tee >(split -b 64m - dump.bz2.) > | md5sum > dump.md5 > > -Shad > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos This seems to work well, but I have no idea what it's doing. Can someone walk me through what tee >(split -b 64m - dump.bz2.) does and why? Russ _______________________________________________ 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 to know when files have finished FTPing?
by Neil Aggarwal 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Hello: I have a server set up a CentOS 5 server for a client to push files onto using FTP. I have a cron job to process the files and move them to another directory. Sometimes, the cron job executes while the client is still uploading a file (Some of them can be large) and I get a partial file. Is there a way to tell when a file has finished uploading? I am using the vsftpd daemon installed using yum. Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details.

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GStreamer Plugins for Apple QuickTime .mov files
by James B. Byrne 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

I have a requirement to view a .mov file on my CentOS workstation and Totem reports that it requires a plugin. Does anyone here know which plugin package from gstreamer.freedesktop.org contains the necessary codec? I seem to have a choice between gst-plugin-ugly and gst-plugin-bad, two highly inviting names. Or is there another package that I need? Thanks, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Automatic User Based Mounts
by Scott Moseman 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Let's say I have a Samba server for my file serving needs. Would there be any way to configure CentOS to automatically mount a few specified partitions as the user logging in? Something of the nature of /mnt/home, /mnt/pictures, /mnt/music and so forth. They need to be mounted as the current user, and I prefer not to customize shell based login scripts. Can this be done through fstab somehow? Or some other method? I can make, and currently utilize, SMB share links on my desktop for accessing them. However, when applications want to open or save directly to the file system, I'm unable to reach the network shares. In the grand scheme of things, this makes having network shares pretty much useless. There must be a better way? Thanks, Scott

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Can not print with OpenOffice.Org on CentOS 5.0 x86
by Ioannis Vranos 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

I can not print any document with OpenOffice.Org Writer on CentOS 5.0 x86. Has anyone encountered this problem? My printer is HP Deskjet 3745 and apparently uses the hplip and hpijs packages provided by CentOS.

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Re: [centos] how to know when files have finished ftping? -- antair restored
by gjgowey＠tmo.blackberry.net 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

Here's a thought: what about doing an lsof? If a file is still being written by ftpd it should be open for writing. Geoff Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -----Original Message----- From: gjgowey(a)tmo.blackberry.net Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:07:23 Subject: re: [centos] how to know when files have finished ftping? -- antair restored On Nov 11, 2007 2:20 PM, Neil Aggarwal <neil(a)jammconsulting.com> wrote: > Hello: > > I have a server set up a CentOS 5 server for a client > to push files onto using FTP. > > I have a cron job to process the files and > move them to another directory. > > Sometimes, the cron job executes while the client > is still uploading a file (Some of them can be large) > and I get a partial file. > > Is there a way to tell when a file has finished > uploading? > > I am using the vsftpd daemon installed using yum. > > Thanks, > Neil Wow, all quite involved answers. You may be able to get the list of files to process using 'find'. If you check using "-mmin +X", you might be able to get only files that haven't been updated in X minutes. That should filter out anything in progress. If a transfer is stopped in the middle, then restarted later, that wouldn't help here. It's possible that the FTP daemon might not update this information, so you'll have to expieriment. It's worth a shot before you start telling the client to modify their process. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld.

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CentOS 5 Boot Issues
by Robert Slade 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

Hi all, I am still having problems with my desktop system. Having updated it from 4 to 5, I now have problems with the logs. Neither boot.log nor dmesg has any data post the update. syslog appears to be normal in that it starts when it should but does not show any errors. It looks like whatever is supposed to write to the logs during initial boot is not doing so, but I am not sure where to look to see what is wrong. The other problem I have may or may not be related it is not notifying me when updates are available although Yum etc appear to be working correctly. I have all the data backed up and I could do a fresh install, but I am trying to avoid this as I would have to spend a lot of time reinstalling software etc. Any suggestions? Thanks Rob

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HP DL585 - CentOS4.5 - kix woes
by Tom Brown 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

Hi Well we are now using HP instead of Dell and have hit a major hurdle. We dont seem to be able to kix any of these boxes. I have been most recently trying on a dl585 and the issue appears to be that the kix kernel does not detect any nic. Its strange as the box can be installed using iso's and the nic appears as eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706 1000Base-T (A2) PCI-X 64-bit 100MHz found at mem fa000000, IRQ 209, node addr 001a4bedcf1c bnx2: eth0: using MSI which seems a pretty standard nic to me - has anyone been able to kix new hp kit recently using 4.5 ?? thanks

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distribution CD
by PV Juliet 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

Hi All, I am trying to create own distribution . distribution CD proceeds for installation and asking for the driver CD . But it's not dictates the driver CD. i customized the ks.cfg also .can anyone can tell me why it is happening ?? Thanks in advance juliet

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ISDN on CentOS
by Timothy Kesten 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

Hi Folks, I'm using ISDN-Connections extensively because ADSL is not available. So far it works fine "out of the box" (CentOS 5 PAE). Two questions: 1. for which the fcpci-kernel-modules from atrpm-Repo are useful? 2. Whats about channel bundling? Does CentOS bundling automaticly on every established connection (if it is selected in Network-Configuration) or is it only set/unset with the isdnctrl addlink/removelink ippp0 command? Thats very important because there is no flat-rate on this ISDN-Connection. I intend the use of channel bundling only for remote-access The "simple" user on the connected window-workstations shall not use channel-bundling for surfing. (ISDN is on the server with samba / squid). It's difficult for me to test it because I have only remote-access to this server (start/restart of the ISDN-Connection) Thanks for any hints Timothy

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Tomcat 6 and native lib
by Frank Büttner 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Hello, have somebody get the Tomcat 6 native lib to build? When I try to run ./configure --with-arp=/usr/bin/apr-1-config under /opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.14/bin/tomcat-native-1.1.10-src/jni/native I only get the error: configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in build ./build Any ideas how to to resolve this? Thanks

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 33, Issue 8
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 10 Nov '07

10 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-2007:1027 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 tetex - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2007:1027 Important CentOS 4 i386 tetex - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2007:1052 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 pcre - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2007:1052 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) pcre - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:37:18 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:1027 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 tetex - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <4735195E.1070707(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:1027 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1027.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: tetex-2.0.2-22.0.1.EL4.10.x86_64.rpm tetex-afm-2.0.2-22.0.1.EL4.10.x86_64.rpm tetex-doc-2.0.2-22.0.1.EL4.10.x86_64.rpm tetex-dvips-2.0.2-22.0.1.EL4.10.x86_64.rpm tetex-fonts-2.0.2-22.0.1.EL4.10.x86_64.rpm tetex-latex-2.0.2-22.0.1.EL4.10.x86_64.rpm tetex-xdvi-2.0.2-22.0.1.EL4.10.x86_64.rpm src: tetex-2.0.2-22.0.1.EL4.10.src.rpm

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headphones on a packard bell , Help.......
by Manuel Enrique Chavez Manzano 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

I had a little trouble with my new laptop, I have a Packard Bell MZ380 laptop with Realtek High Definition Audio, I have installed CentOS 5 on it, I have sound by the speaker but when I plug the headphone the sound is over, I mean I have not sound by the speaker and by the headphones. Can someone help me? What I have to do ???? I'll be waiting for help. -- "Nuestra recompensa se encuentra en el esfuerzo y no en el resultado. Un esfuerzo total es una victoria completa". Mahatma Gandhi (@ @) |------o00o-(_)-o00o----------| |Manuel Enrique Chávez Manzano| |manuel864(a)gmail.com | |manny(a)cmc.cfg.sld.cu | |GNU/LINUX User | |#424754 | |Using CentOS 5 | |-------ooo--ooo--------------|

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System on time
by Niki Kovacs 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Hi, To get my system on time, I usually issue these two commands: # ntpdate de.pool.ntp.org # hwclock -w And when I want this to be done on startup, I put the two lines in rc.local. I wonder if this is an orthodox way to do things. Or is there something more appropriate? Niki Kovacs

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Slightly OT - unable to install hplip 2.7 on CentOS 5 64
by Mark Hull-Richter 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

I have already reported this as a bug to the HP folks, but I was hoping someone here might have a clue about this one. Just bought an HP Deskjet F2120 and tried to install it on my CentOS 5.064-bit system. The printer installed fine, but sane does not recognize the device, so I tried to install hplip 2.7.10, which is supposed to support it. Installation failed twice - first time because I did not have net-snmp-devel installed. I installed that, then tried again. Now it fails because it claims I do not have libusb installed: INSTALL MISSING REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES ------------------------------------- warning: There are 2 missing REQUIRED dependencies. note: Installation of dependencies requires an active internet connection. warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency: libusb (libusb - USB library) error: This installer cannot install this dependency for your distro/OS and/or version. error: Installation cannot continue without this dependency. Please manually install this dependency and re-run this installer. However, both yum and rpm say this is installed: $ yum list | grep libusb libusb.i386 0.1.12-5.1 installed libusb.x86_64 0.1.12-5.1 installed libusb-devel.i386 0.1.12-5.1 base libusb-devel.x86_64 0.1.12-5.1 base $ rpm -qa | grep libusb libusb-0.1.12-5.1.i386 libusb-0.1.12-5.1.x86_64 I tried installing via the tarball, but it failed, claiming I don't have libjpeg installed (it is, both 32 and 64 bit versions). Note that the hp-check output (below) shows both of these to be installed.... Any/all assistance/guideance would be appreciated - I'd hate to have to pack this up and take it back, but I will if need be. mhr $ hp-check HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.6.7) Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 2.1 Copyright (c) 2003-6 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. Basic system info... --> Linux mhrichter 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.nx #1 SMP Wed Oct 24 16:35:26 PDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Currently installed version... --> 1.6.7 Checking Python version... --> Version 2.4.3 installed. --> OK Checking for user interface dependencies... Checking for SIP... --> OK Checking for PyQt... --> OK Checking Qt version... --> Version 3.3.6 installed. --> OK Checking SIP version... --> Version 4.4.5 installed --> OK Checking PyQt version... --> Version 3.16.0 installed. --> OK Checking for library dependencies... Checking for libnetsnmp... --> OK Checking for libjpeg... --> OK Checking for libusb... --> OK Checking for libcrypto... --> OK Checking for libpthread... --> OK Checking for application dependencies... Checking ghostscript... --> Version 8.15.2 Checking gcc... --> gcc (GCC) 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52) --> OK Checking make... --> GNU Make 3.81 --> OK Checking ReportLab (optional)... warning: Not installed. Fax coverpage support will be disabled. Checking kernel module... Checking for ppdev (optional)... --> OK Checking for CUPS... --> scheduler is running --> OK Checking existing CUPS queues... Printer Device URI HPLIPInstalled? ------- -------------------------------------------------- -------------------- HP2120 hp:/usb/Deskjet_F2100_series?serial=CN7863R35K04TK Yes MPP1100 parallel:/dev/lp0 No Note: Any CUPS queues that are not 'HPLIP Installed', must be installed with the 'hp:' or 'hpfax:' backends to have them work in HPLIP. Refer to the install instructions on http://hplip.sourceforge.net for more help.

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Intel 1000/PRO GT (e1000 driver) and "Detect Tx Unit Hang" error with 4GB RAM
by Steven Alexson 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hmmm...any chance that you can ellaborate on what updates will be included with 5.1. Not sure if it will be of practical interest anymore (I have 4 new network cards...non-Intel..on the way) since I have spent far more time on this problem than I should have. But, from a curiousity perspective, I am curious. If I could resolve this problem and use the Intel cards, that would be ideal. Then I could return the 4 cards I ordered today and save a bit of money. If waiting the couple of weeks (projected) that it takes for 5.1 to roll out, that might be worth it. Thanks for the insight. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Intel 1000/PRO GT (e1000 driver) and "Detect Tx Unit
by Steven Alexson 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Ignore this thread...misdirected the reply. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Intel 1000/PRO GT (e1000 driver) and "Detect Tx Unit
by Steven Alexson 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hmmm...any chance that you can ellaborate on what updates will be included with 5.1. Not sure if it will be of practical interest anymore (I have 4 new network cards...non-Intel..on the way) since I have spent far more time on this problem than I should have. But, from a curiousity perspective, I am curious. If I could resolve this problem and use the Intel cards, that would be ideal. Then I could return the 4 cards I ordered today and save a bit of money. If waiting the couple of weeks (projected) that it takes for 5.1 to roll out, that might be worth it. Thanks for the insight. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Gpdf - maintainer?
by James B. Byrne 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Can anyone here tell me who maintains Gpdf and where its project page is located? Google searches give one the impression that gpdf is no longer maintained but this is evidently not the case given the recent updates. Sincerely, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Intel 1000/PRO GT (e1000 driver) and "Detect Tx Unit Hang" error with 4GB RAM
by Steven Alexson 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

My system configuration: ASUS M2A-VM motherboard AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz 4x A-DATA 1GB DDR2 800 memory 2x Intel 10/100/1000 Pro/1000 GT Desktop Network Adapter 2x Seagate Barracuda 250GB HD (RAID 1, software RAID) CentOS 5 x86_64; Kernel 2.6.23 (custom built); Version 7.6.9.2 e1000 driver The symptoms of this problem are outlined at: http://e1000.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Issues[1] http://e1000.sourceforge.net/wiki/in...p/Tx_Unit_Hang[2] Last night I started experiencing the "Detected Tx Unit Hang" problem with the Intel e1000 NIC. This happened after I upgraded my system to 4GB RAM (previously 2GB). I have 2 of these cards in the system. I updated the Linux kernel to 2.6.23 and I downloaded from Sourceforge and installed the most recent stable version of the e1000 driver for Linux, version 7.6.9.2. I still experiencing the "Detected Tx Unit Hang" message. I had to recompile the kernel because upgrading to 4GB with the current kernel for CentOS 5 (2.6.18.8-1) causes an error, ata1: softreset failed (1st FIS failed), which results in a kernel panic. Upgrading the kernel to 2.6.23 fixed that problem, but now I have a problem with my network cards. Searching around, I found posts saying that disabling acpi with the kernel options "acpi=off noacpi" would fix it, but it did not. I tried added explicit modprobe options for the driver in /etc/modprobe.conf (options e1000 XsumRX=0 Speed=1000 Duplex=2 InterruptThrottleRate=0 FlowControl=3 RxDescriptors=4096 TxDescriptors=4096 RxIntDelay=0 TxIntDelay=0). Still no change. Still getting experiencing the problem. I then tried another suggestion I found in a forum discussion `ethtool -K eth0 tso=off`. Seems to have had no effect on the problem. This problem occurs immediately when the system is trying to bring the device up. I cannot even get to a point to try sending traffic over the network interface because it never negotiates an IP address from DHCP. If I specify a static IP address, the address is assigned, but I still experience the problem, and I cannot even ping another host. Now, if I reduce the amount of RAM to 3GB or less, everything works fine! So, this leads me to believe that my kernel and driver are configured, compiled, and functioning correctly. It also leads me to believe that there are no problems with the network cards. So, I though perhaps a bad memory module, but no matter which 3 modules of the 4 I leave in, I get the same results. Everything works fine until I add the 4th module. Then I found an article on Intel's site saying that some older EEPROM have the power management option turned on, and that could cause the problem. So, I downloaded the script that would fix the bit in the EEPROM (turning off power management). The script says that it does not apply to my version of the EEPROM. When I run `ethtool -e (eth0|eth1)` I do not have the bit on 0x0010 that is set to "de", so I must believe that the script is correct in assessing that it does not apply to my NICs. So, I thought that perhaps my power supply could be the problem. Perhaps the PSU doesn't supply enough power to power everything when I add the 4th memory module. It is just a generic 300W PSU that came with the case (I have new 500W PSUs on the way). So, I pulled out one of the NICs and disconnected the DVD drive. That is about all I can eliminate. Reducing the hardware installed made no difference. I am running the 64-bit kernel, so I should have no trouble supporting the 4GM RAM, correct?. Now, I am out of ideas, and I seem to have hit a brick wall. One of the things that disturbs me is that all of the articles I have found concerning this problem are dated 1-2 years ago. Can anyone offer me any assistance? Links: ------ [1] http://e1000.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Issues [2] http://e1000.sourceforge.net/wiki/in...p/Tx_Unit_Hang ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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RE: [CentOS] System on time
by Bowie Bailey 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Brian Mathis wrote: > On Nov 9, 2007 9:03 AM, Matt Hyclak <hyclak(a)math.ohiou.edu> wrote: > > > > chkconfig ntpd on > > will cause ntpd to sync and start the ntp daemon every boot. > > service ntpd start > > will start the daemon right now. > > > > Matt > > You can set the servers you want to use in /etc/ntp.conf And check here for some publicly available time server pools: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/NTPPoolServers -- Bowie

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nss_ldap bug fix update for CentOS?
by Sebastian Marten 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hello, Is it Possible to create this fix for CentOS too? Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=243753 Solution: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0676.html regards Sebastian

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 09 Nov '07

09 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-2007:0968 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 pcre - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2007:0968 Critical CentOS 4 i386 pcre - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2007:0966 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 perl - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2007:0966 Important CentOS 4 i386 perl - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2007:1022 Important CentOS 4 i386 cups - security update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2007:1022 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 cups - security update (Johnny Hughes) 7. CESA-2007:1025 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 gpdf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 8. CESA-2007:1025 Important CentOS 4 i386 gpdf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 9. CESA-2007:1029 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 xpdf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 10. CESA-2007:1029 Important CentOS 4 i386 xpdf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 11. CESA-2007:0966 Important CentOS 5 i386 perl Update (Karanbir Singh) 12. CESA-2007:0966 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 perl Update (Karanbir Singh) 13. CESA-2007:0967 Critical CentOS 5 i386 pcre Update (Karanbir Singh) 14. CESA-2007:0967 Critical CentOS 5 x86_64 pcre Update (Karanbir Singh) 15. CESA-2007:1027 Important CentOS 4 ia64 tetex - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 16. CESA-2007:1027 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) tetex - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 17. CESA-2007:1028-01: Important CentOS 2 i386 tetex security update (John Newbigin) 18. CESA-2007:1031-01: Important CentOS 2 i386 xpdf security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:03:54 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0968 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 pcre - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <4732FB2A.6010209(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0968 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0968.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: pcre-4.5-4.el4_5.1.i386.rpm pcre-4.5-4.el4_5.1.x86_64.rpm pcre-devel-4.5-4.el4_5.1.x86_64.rpm src: pcre-4.5-4.el4_5.1.src.rpm

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32 Bit vs. 64 Bit Linux Server installation
by Simon Jolle 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hi Centos Users What are the advantages of 64 Bit and respective 32 Bit installation of Centos? With PAE 32 Bit installation can address huge amount of RAM. As a desktop system, I prefer 32 Bit installation because of teething troubles in 64 Bit Linux world. When would you choose 64 Bit and when 32 Bit? We are running mostly application and web services. Is this true that with 32 Bit architecture the kernel is limited to 1 GB RAM? cheers Simon -- XMPP: sjolle(a)swissjabber.org

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CentOS 5: comment swap in fstab
by finley＠privacynetworks.com 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

I'm not sure what gave me this idea, but I decided to comment out the swap partition in /etc/fstab and reboot my laptop. I did not run swapoff directly at any time. I'm running more things now than I would ever dream of to hammer my 500MB of memory, but I still notice NO slowdown. This is the best desktop experience I've ever had for any OS on any hardware! Here's the first 12 lines in top (CPU) top - 22:57:28 up 2:06, 1 user, load average: 1.11, 0.89, 0.88 Tasks: 97 total, 2 running, 95 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 20.2%us, 2.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 76.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.1%hi, 0.6%si, 0.0%st Mem: 449556k total, 441840k used, 7716k free, 9420k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 159416k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2921 root 15 0 227m 69m 7312 S 16.2 15.9 22:41.70 X 3317 finley 15 0 240m 25m 8684 S 3.1 5.8 2:32.73 xine 3204 finley 15 0 2160 772 564 S 2.2 0.2 2:02.71 top 3100 finley 15 0 183m 51m 16m S 0.8 11.7 5:03.90 firefox-bin 3116 finley 15 0 223m 39m 2440 S 0.4 8.9 0:54.26 java_vm 3264 finley 15 0 32276 9788 7132 S 0.3 2.2 0:23.74 kpat 3050 finley 15 0 33676 10m 7572 R 0.2 2.3 0:21.28 konsole 3049 finley 15 0 32080 7620 5668 S 0.1 1.7 0:01.62 kscd 3399 finley 15 0 57024 25m 16m S 0.1 5.7 0:08.55 konqueror 1 root 15 0 2028 480 392 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.29 init 2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 ksoftirqd/0 Here's the top 12 lines (Mem) top - 22:58:41 up 2:07, 1 user, load average: 1.14, 0.92, 0.89 Tasks: 97 total, 3 running, 94 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 25.3%us, 2.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 71.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.4%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 449556k total, 442156k used, 7400k free, 9648k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 159160k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2921 root 16 0 227m 69m 7312 R 20.9 15.9 22:55.56 X 3100 finley 15 0 183m 51m 16m S 0.4 11.7 5:05.54 firefox-bin 3116 finley 15 0 223m 39m 2440 S 0.4 8.9 0:54.60 java_vm 3253 finley 15 0 198m 34m 9.8m S 0.0 7.9 0:07.97 swriter.bin 3317 finley 15 0 240m 25m 8684 S 2.9 5.8 2:35.17 xine 3399 finley 15 0 57024 25m 16m S 0.0 5.7 0:08.57 konqueror 3638 finley 15 0 93632 23m 15m S 0.0 5.4 0:03.80 gaim 3026 finley 15 0 35180 13m 10m S 0.0 3.1 0:05.42 kded 3336 finley 15 0 34232 11m 8776 S 0.0 2.7 1:01.01 kuickshow 3038 finley 15 0 35096 11m 8828 S 0.0 2.7 0:23.91 kicker 3050 finley 15 0 33676 10m 7844 R 0.4 2.4 0:21.53 konsole 3264 finley 15 0 32276 9808 7152 S 0.0 2.2 0:23.85 kpat As you can see, I'm running a KDE environment. I'm going to try this in a gnome environment tomorrow. This is on an HP Pavillion ze4800 I purchased at WalMart a bit over two years ago for ~$900. >From dmesg: AMD mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP2800+ Memory: 447836k/457664k available Linux info: [finley@c182 ~]$ cat /etc/issue CentOS release 5 (Final) Kernel \r on an \m [finley@c182 ~]$ uname -a Linux c182.pnd.net 2.6.18-8.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Thu Jun 14 17:46:09 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux Hope this makes someone else's day! Steve Finley

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Cheap dual-head pci card with CentOS support?
by mbneto 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hi, I am looking for a cheap PCI (or AGP) video card with dual output (DVI or VGA) and CentOS support. Any recommendations? I am not interested in games. Thanks.

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CentOS 5.0 - Yum install using the install cd's as the RPM source
by Keith Christian 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

What is the mechanism or procedure for installing additional packages from the six CentOS 5.0 CD's using Yum, assuming a secured server with no outside internet connection? Debian based distributions are able to use the package manager to search for and install from the CD's, and I'm looking for the CentOS equivalent. Obviously, it's possible to install "manually" from a CD with: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom cd /media/cdrom/CentOS rpm -U foobar-1.2.3.-4.5.el5.i386.rpm Yum has such good dependency checking I'd like to know of a way to use it if possible. ========Keith

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Help with sound on Packard bell
by Manuel Enrique Chavez Manzano 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hello to everyone I had a little trouble with my new laptop, I have a Packard Bell MZ380 laptop with Realtek High Definition Audio, I have installed CentOS 5 on it, I have sound by the speaker but when I plug the headphone the sound is over, I mean I have not sound by the speaker and by the headphones. Can someone help me? What I have to do ???? I'll be waiting for help. -- "Nuestra recompensa se encuentra en el esfuerzo y no en el resultado. Un esfuerzo total es una victoria completa". Mahatma Gandhi (@ @) |------o00o-(_)-o00o----------| |Manuel Enrique Chávez Manzano| |manuel864(a)gmail.com | |manny(a)cmc.cfg.sld.cu | |GNU/LINUX User | |#424754 | |Using CentOS 5 | |-------ooo--ooo--------------|

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