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mdadm problem.
by David Mackintosh 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

So I'm trying to RAID-1 this system which has two identical disks installed in it, and it isn't working for some reason. I started by doing a CentOS-4 install on /dev/sda1 as root, and with /dev/sda2 as my swap. I finish the install, yum update, and then I want to make the mirrors. I copy the partition table from one disk to the other: # sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb I create my metadevices: # mdadm -Cv -l1 -n2 /dev/md1 /dev/sdb1 missing # mdadm -Cv -l1 -n2 /dev/md2 /dev/sdb2 missing I create my filesystems: # mkfs.ext3 /dev/md1 # mkswap /dev/md2 I change the /etc/fstab to use /dev/md1 for / and /dev/md2 for swap. I change the /etc/grub.conf to use /dev/md1 for the root= parameter on my kernel. I build myself a new initrd for the kernel I want to boot. I copy the contents of / over to the one-armed mirror: # cd / # mnt /dev/md1 /mnt/md1 # tar cfpl - . | ( cd /mnt/md1 ; tar xfp -) # umount /mnt/md1 # sync I run grub just in case: # grub > device (hd0) /dev/sda > root (hd0,0) > setup (hd0) I reboot, expecting that the system will find /dev/md1 and use it as its root... but it doesn't. Digging around in hobbled mode (changing the root= parameter in grub to /dev/sda1 instead of /dev/md1) shows that /dev/md1 doesn't get assembled, therefore it doesn't get mounted. Can anyone tell me what I've done wrong? -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | dave(a)xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com

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General question about PHP - continued with mod_python
by Wei Yu 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Oops, I just missed the python part. Does mod_python have similar options? Or how to stop other users to run python scripts in some directories? On 9/26/07, Miskell, Craig <Craig.Miskell(a)agresearch.co.nz> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Is that possible to disable running of PHP on certain directories? > > I am running a server which provides personal homepage > > service. However, not every user are familiar with security, > > some may upload some PHP scripts with bugs/holes. I do not > > want them to be executed on the server. > > I can enable the safe_mode, but I have some other PHP scripts > > which need safe_mode to be disabled. > > Any suggestions? > Yes. In you httpd.conf, you can include: > <Directory "/var/www/sheep/html/tmp"> > php_flag engine off > </Directory> > > Which disables php processing for the directory /var/www/sheep/html/tmp > . You could probably just include > php_flag engine off > In an .htaccess in the directory in question, assuming you've set > AllowOverride to an appropriate value, and don't mind the slight > performance hit of doing it that way. > > We use the former method to protect areas where users are permitted to > upload files to (mediawiki in this case), stopping a user uploading > something malicious which would then execute in the context of the > webserver > > Craig Miskell > ======================================================================= > Attention: The information contained in this message and/or attachments > from AgResearch Limited is intended only for the persons or entities > to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged > material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or > taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or > entities other than the intended recipients is prohibited by AgResearch > Limited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the > sender immediately. > ======================================================================= > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Zijing 15# 1404B Tsinghua Univ. +86 -10 -51537235 Zig

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General question about PHP
by Wei Yu 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Hello, Is that possible to disable running of PHP on certain directories? I am running a server which provides personal homepage service. However, not every user are familiar with security, some may upload some PHP scripts with bugs/holes. I do not want them to be executed on the server. I can enable the safe_mode, but I have some other PHP scripts which need safe_mode to be disabled. Any suggestions? Regards, Wei Yu

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Network routing
by Hapia IN 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Hi, guys! We need to setup our both network device on centos-4.5 as follow: eth0: IP: 192.168.1.0/24 GW 192.168.1.1 eth1: IP: 192.168.10.0/24 GW 192.168.10.1 We don't know how to create our setup files for both network (eth0, eth1 and their routes)? Help us, please. Thx Adriano

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hosting panel
by Michael Kress 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Hi there, what's your favorite (OS) hosting panel for centos5 ? What's most interesting for me is the usability by others i.e. users who don't know the tool very much, so it has to be very simple. Second is of course security. Greetings & TIA Michael -- Michael Kress, kress(a)hal.saar.de http://www.michael-kress.de / http://kress.net P E N G U I N S A R E C O O L

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 31, Issue 11
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '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-2007:0889 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 php - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:0513 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 gimp - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2007:0513 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 gimp - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:03:28 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0889 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 php - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20070926090328.GX18557(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0889 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0889.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/php-4.3.2-43.ent.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/php-devel-4.3.2-43.ent.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/php-imap-4.3.2-43.ent.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/php-ldap-4.3.2-43.ent.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/php-mysql-4.3.2-43.ent.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/php-odbc-4.3.2-43.ent.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/php-pgsql-4.3.2-43.ent.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Thermal/Heat
by Simon Jolle "sjolle" 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi list Can you please say me what this output exactly mean? Anything in relation to fans/cooling? What does "active" and "ok" mean? Which values are healthy? # acpi -tBSc Thermal 1: active[3], 50.0 degrees C Thermal 2: ok, 47.0 degrees C Thermal 3: ok, 45.0 degrees C Thermal 4: ok, 28.0 degrees C Thermal 5: ok, 35.0 degrees C Didn't found any useful docs about this. thanks Simon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG+UXgEMN/lNE/wrwRAs8XAJ9cIPH/mFL0J5anKTNYahj6xcPdagCeMIPG kRkljyrFqUTGu5RnhUoCrjE= =XVKj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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XMMS on CentOS 5
by Manuel E. Chavez Manzano 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

I would like to know why CentOS doesn't have xmms. -- "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 | |Usando CentOS 5 | |-------ooo--ooo--------------|

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changing then main menu icon
by Frank Cox 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

What icon do I need to change or substitute (or what file should I edit) to get a custom icon for the Centos 5 main menu? I found a whole stack of "shadowman-*" icons, but nothing that says anything about "main menu". -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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CentOS Plus PHP5 upgrade.
by David Mackintosh 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Hi Folks, I have some users who have a 64-bit CentOS 4.x install (current), which was installed with @Everything and then some annoying packages strategically removed (mrtg, pegasus*, mailman...) and they have decided they have a need for php5. I find on the web this instruction for doing this: http://www.centos.org/centos/4/centosplus/Readme.txt So I try to do this, and I get: # rpm -e php-domxml # yum --enablerepo=centosplus upgrade php* [...] --> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.22.9 for package: php-pear --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.22.9 is needed by package php-pear So I try to remove this blocking package: # rpm -e php-pear error: Failed dependencies: php-pear is needed by (installed) php-4.3.9-3.22.9.x86_64 I try to get cute: # rpm -e --force php-pear rpm: only installation, upgrading, rmsource and rmspec may be forced (Heh.) So I can't be the first person to go down this road. Can anyone provide a hint as to how to get out of the hole I've dug for myself? Thanks for your time. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | dave(a)xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com

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Why glibc-profile doesn't show up in Centos 5 ???
by Robinson Tiemuqinke 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Hi, Anyone know what are the reasons behind that glibc-profile packages doesn't come with Centos 5 distribution which has version 2.5 glibc? Some colleagues around have been asking for the glibc profiling functions to be available continuously... I could change the glibc source RPM/spec file to disable '--disable-profile' option and recompile the core glibc packages. But I am not sure whether this is the correct way. Nevertheless, the glibc-profile may have a unknown strong reason not to show up in Centos 5. Please help. Thanks. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/

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parted - is there a problem
by Gregory P. Ennis 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Everyone, I recently added a 300gig Seagate sata drive on a Centos 5.0 and have a couple of questions. The drive was recognized with the device as /dev/sdc. The system came with some SCCI drives that are labeled as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. I was surprised that the sata drives used sdc. Are the sata drives considered more like SCCI or IDE drives? The real problem occurred when I tried to partition the drive with parted. I used he command mkpart to form one partition of 300 gigs which created /dev/sdc1, and then after 'quiting' parted used mkfs.ext3 to create a file system. Everything went as expected with the ability to mount the file system and copy files into it. However, /dev/sdc1 disappeared when I rebooted. After the reboot /dev/sdc1 was missing and CentOs obviously could not recognize the partition. The error is probably related to my lack of experience with parted so I tried it 2 other times with the same results. I finally gave up and used fdisk which has worked without a problem. By way of observation I could not find a 'write to disk' command in parted like what is present in fdisk. Is there a problem with parted or I am just lacking in knowledge of some of the parted commands. Certainly could not find any write like statements in the man pages or the info pages. Are there others of you that use parted? What did I do wrong? Greg Ennis

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CentOS 4.5 system doesn't boot after installing latest updates
by Alfred von Campe 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Today I decided to install all the latest updates (including the -06 kernel). The "yum update" seems to have run just fine (no errors), but when I rebooted the system it just sits there with the word "GRUB" in the upper left hand corner. I booted from the CentOS 4.5 install CD into rescue mode, did a "chroot /mnt/sysimage" and reinstalled grub and the latest kernel, but it still gets stuck in the same place. It's not that I can't boot the new kernel; I can't even get to the grub screen! Any ideas? I am totally stuck at the moment... Alfred

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MP3 plugin for XMMS media player - CentOS 4.4
by Andrew Allen 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Where can I find the best XMMS player plugin for MP3 files please, compatible with CentOS 4.4? Thanks, Andy

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CentOS-5 Hardware Probe
by James B. Byrne 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

I installed CentOS-5 on a test machine, a P4 1.8 Ghz Compaq Evo D510 series. This was a clean install onto a new disk drive and everything went well. After updating with YUM and installing Postgresql, Rails for Ruby, Firefox-2 and Thunderbird I shutdown and restarted the system several times without incident. I then pulled the CD-ROM and replaced it with an LG-DVD DVD-RAM/RW device. I also swapped the PS/2 Kb and mouse for USB versions. When I rebooted the system I entered the bios setup and reconfigured for the new device. However, subsequently, Centos bootup has now entered an endless loop. Pluse neither the USB nor the PS/2 kb seem to work after a certain point. On Centos-4 I recall doing exactly the same thing and all that happened was that Kudzu ran during the boot procedure, prompted for the configuration changes and everything went on swimingly. I just verified this behaviour by swapping in a CentOS-4.5 disk on this machine and Kudzu came up, reported on all the config changes, accepted the responses and it booted with the DVD and USB devices installed What is happening in CentOS-5? Is there no hardware probe at startup? Is there some switch that I need to set? I can boot from the CD-ROM on this machine using the LG-DVD but not from the hard drive. Switching back to the original CD-ROM device did not alleviate the problem either so I am at a loss as to what is happening. As I am a digest subscriber the favour of a direct copy of any reply to the list is requested. 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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Samba and TCPWrappers
by Bob Chiodini 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Good Morning, I have a Centos 4.5 (x86_64) server running samba to share data with windows users. We've been going through a security audit and the following log entries were noted: [2007/09/24 09:37:29, 0] rpc_server/srv_util.c:get_alias_user_groups(206) get_alias_user_groups: gid of user bendew doesn't exist. Check your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files [2007/09/24 09:37:29, 1] rpc_server/srv_util.c:get_domain_user_groups(298) get_domain_user_groups: primary gid of user [nobody] is not a Domain group ! get_domain_user_groups: You should fix it, NT doesn't like that [2007/09/24 09:37:29, 0] rpc_server/srv_util.c:get_alias_user_groups(206) get_alias_user_groups: gid of user nobody doesn't exist. Check your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files [2007/09/24 09:37:29, 1] rpc_server/srv_util.c:get_domain_user_groups(298) get_domain_user_groups: primary gid of user [mark] is not a Domain group ! get_domain_user_groups: You should fix it, NT doesn't like that [2007/09/24 09:37:29, 0] rpc_server/srv_util.c:get_alias_user_groups(206) get_alias_user_groups: gid of user mark doesn't exist. Check your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files I am using tcpwrappers and have blocked the subnets that should not access my server. The IP of the auditor is within one of the blocked subnets, but still seems to be getting through. Is samba integrated with tcpwrappers. ldd smbd does not show a reference to libwrap, should it? Bob...

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/boot partition or not on C5
by mark pryor 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

hello, the last 3 times I installed C5, the MBR was unchanged and nothing was written into /boot/grub except splash.xbm.gz there were no stage* files, nor a menu.lst I know how to fix that. Would I have better luck using a partition mounted as /boot? Anyone succeded with Grub that way? I prefer not having to do surgery to get C5 to boot :) -- Mark New Packages for C5 --------- dkms-et131x-1.2.2-el5.noarch.rpm (gigabit ethernet driver) http://www.tlviewer.org/c5repo/web/agere kchm-el5 (CHM client with io-slave) http://www.tlviewer.org/c5repo/kde/ --------------------------------- Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search.

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Zoneminder-1.22.3-6.fc7.i386.rpm has dependency errors on Centos5 server-how to fix?
by Ken Sedlacek 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Running Centos5 server software. Running ALL software except virtualization and server cluster. Patched this server software via yum updates as of 9.24.2007 Downloaded the webcam software for FC7 from: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=10106 Zoneminder-1.22.3-6.fc7.i386.rpm When YUM tried to install this version of Zondminder, finds this 1 missing dependency: Missing Dependency: perl(Device::SerialPort) is needed by package zoneminder Question: how do I resolve this missing dependency? I have never compiled a kernal or anything else. Please lead me to a direction to resolve this. Thank you for your time. Ken

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NFS issue
by Dan 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

I am currently running K12LTSP on Centos 5, which is working well but without sound on most machines(ok all). So in order to remedy this and the cd-burning issue I have decided to try to install CentOS locally on one machine and then apply the personalizations via NFS. Steps: I editted the /etc/exports to export the /home dir as per the NFS howto and that seemed to work as the user homes were mounted in the correct place after an edit to my /etc/fstab "192.168.0.254:/home /mnt/home nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0" good :) Then I started adding users, I added one user and did not create a /home/user directory instead pointed the home folder to /mnt/home/user But when I try to login as that user I got the dreaded: "User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the default sessionand languages from being saved. File should be owned by user and have 644 Permissions. User's $HOME directory must be owned by user and not writable by other users." So I looked into the permissions and this is what I see serverside: [root@LTSP ~]# ls -al /home total 64 drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 15 23:13 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Sep 22 17:45 .. drwx------ 27 ainsley ainsley 4096 Sep 23 19:13 ainsley drwx------ 31 Dan Dan 4096 Sep 24 21:42 Dan drwx------ 27 darren darren 4096 Sep 23 18:17 darren drwx------ 33 devin devin 4096 Sep 24 07:28 devin drwx------ 22 kristi kristi 4096 Sep 24 21:35 kristi drwx------ 21 landen landen 4096 Sep 24 21:14 landen BUT when I look at the /mnt/home listing I see a completely different set of permissions: drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 15 23:13 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Sep 22 17:45 .. drwx------ 27 devin devin 4096 Sep 23 19:13 ainsley drwx------ 31 Dan Dan 4096 Sep 24 21:42 Dan drwx------ 27 kristi kristi 4096 Sep 23 18:17 darren drwx------ 33 503 503 4096 Sep 24 07:28 devin drwx------ 22 504 504 4096 Sep 24 21:35 kristi drwx------ 21 505 505 4096 Sep 24 21:14 landen the ones in bold are definately wrong, and I have no idea how they are being set. unless it is because they are not accounts on the test machine yet but then neither is the "landen" account and that one has the correct permissions sort of.... the user numbers are correct for the user names by the way. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks! Dan

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mail server
by Mark Quitoriano 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Hi All, what can you recommend for mail server. I'll be needing mail server with tls,ssl and virtual domains with web ui management, im doing this for a client of mine. Thanks! -- Regards, Mark Quitoriano, CCNA

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vmware 1.0.4 lock up on install
by Jerry Geis 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

I am not having a good experience with vmware. Twice I have tried it today and it locks up my machine. First attempt was to install centos 4.5 i386. It told me it could not find anything to install on. After a post to the list I was instructed to not do typical, but custom and select LSILogic as the controller. I did and I got past that point. I then goto into an install with 6 minutes remaining on screen and another lock up. Anyone else experiences this with vmware. Is it something I am not doing or its just not going to work for me? I have a stock centos 4.5 X86 AMD X2 as my host and was installing a centos 4.5 i386 guest. Thanks, I was almost there. Jerry

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Zimbra vs. Scalix vs. et. al.
by John Hinton 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Well, I stumbled onto zimbra.... I have a Scallix system built, but still have some rough edges to try to smooth. Like the way it works with sendmail, no dnsbl's will work as sendmail sees all mail as coming from locohost (scalix). Still battling that one which is when I ran across Zimbra. So, this made me start wondering. Are there other exchange server-like products out there? Has anyone dealt with Scalix and Zimbra (or another from the question above) and would you care to post pros and cons to each? Some of the cons to me with Scalix. It uses it's own directory structure which is non-sensical to any admin. Each seems to be assigned on a numbering system.. finding who has what where is not fun and I fear will be a nightmare in the future. Sendmail milters work fine to a point, but there is the limit of filtering using dnsbl's and it appears it will require setting up sendmail as the receiver, passing to scalix, passing back to sendmail, passing back to scalix and the user mail boxes... adding an extra loop. Shared folder are nice.. shared calendars are pretty good although I don't see a way to sort by user are even really see immediately for which user the event exists. You can drag and drop from Outlook IMAP a file directly to the server, but internally we don't use outlook... but for other clients this could be nice. So, how are those Zimbra installs going and what's the scoop? Thanks, John Hinton

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DNAT PREROUTING issue with iptables
by Indunil Jayasooriya 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Hi, I have an DNAT ISSUE with PREROUTING. This is my setup. I have 2 firewalls running iptables. Pls asume 1.2.3.4/29 is the internet interace of FIRST firewall. 2.3.4.5/29 is the internet interface of SECOND firewall. it has DMZ zone. in that DMZ zone, mail server runnig @ 192.168.100.3 Now I want to DNAT port 25 of FISRT firewall (i.e - its ip address - 1.2.3.4/29) to the internet ip address ( 2.3.4.5/29) of SECOND firewall. That firewal DNATs port 25 to mail server @ 192.168.100.3 in DMZ zone. These are rules I have added. FIRST firewall (its internet ip address - 1.2.3.4/29) I have addes below rule. iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 -d 1.2.3.4 --dport 25 -j DNAT --to-destination 2.3.4.5:25 That should forward port 25 to SECOND firewall. in SECOND firewall, I have added 2 below rules. iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 -d 2.3.4.5 --dport 25 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.100.3:25 iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -d 192.168.100.3 --dport 25 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT Now, it should forward port 25 to mail server @ DMZ Zone. I think I have added these rules properly. But, It does not work. I checked from outside world . I telneted to port 25 of first firewaal. Then, It should forward to mail server @ DMZ zone. But, no responce. WHY is that? YOUR IDEAS? -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 31, Issue 10
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '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-2007:0883 Important CentOS 4 i386 qt - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2007:0883 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 qt - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:22:05 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0883 Important CentOS 4 i386 qt - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <46F8E14D.4030005(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ==================================================================== NOTE: This was released on "Sep 15 14:01 2007 UTC", but the release message did not make it to the Announce List, so this message is resent. ==================================================================== CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0883 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0883.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: qt-3.3.3-13.RHEL4.i386.rpm qt-config-3.3.3-13.RHEL4.i386.rpm qt-designer-3.3.3-13.RHEL4.i386.rpm qt-devel-3.3.3-13.RHEL4.i386.rpm qt-MySQL-3.3.3-13.RHEL4.i386.rpm qt-ODBC-3.3.3-13.RHEL4.i386.rpm qt-PostgreSQL-3.3.3-13.RHEL4.i386.rpm src: qt-3.3.3-13.RHEL4.src.rpm

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Formatting a large disk
by Rajeev R Veedu 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid card) Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this disk. I would like to have the whole disk in 1 partition and format it for ext3. The default partitioning utility doesn't do this. The OS sits on another SATA disk and each time during the installation it doesn't format the full disk which is 3TB. Could someone suggest another disk partitioning utility (other than fdisk) please? Thanks Rajeev R. Veedu

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[T-dose-announce] Screenshots of your fav opensource software or desktop ( high resolution - 1002-768 ) for slide show on t-dose (fwd)
by Dag Wieers 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Hi CentOS users, The centos-promo team is looking for your help. Is anyone interested in creating nice CentOS screenshots ? We can have them on the wiki as well for future articles or presentations. A good screenshot should: + Be clear on what it is showing - applications like eg. inkscape should have a file opened - files opened in applications should make clear what the application does - try not to show off too many things at once, in order to not overwhelm or confuse + The CentOS logo (and name) should be clearly visible - possibly by using the content in applications eg. inkscape could open the SVG CentOS logo with some text or Open Office could show an important CentOS slide that also holds the major advantages of CentOS - or making the background visible with CentOS theme Please let me know if you are interested to contribute in this fashion. Thanks for your help ! -- -- dag wieers, dag(a)centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: jochemscheelings <jochemscheelings(a)hccnet.nl> To: Geert Stappers <stappers(a)stappers.nl> Cc: t-dose-announce(a)lists.sourceforge.net Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:38:19 +0200 Subject: [T-dose-announce] Screenshots of your fav opensource software or desktop ( high resolution - 1002-768 ) for slide show on t-dose Hello all, i am putting together an slide show for t-dose , wich will be presented on an screen during the event, in continu play, please send your fav screenshot of the desktop / and software to me, and i will add it to the show, thank you and untill then , bye bye l.scheelings(a)hccnet.nl

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Fedora Core 5 EOL on 2007-06-29
by Akemi Yagi 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Ahem, I know this is a CentOS mailing list. BUT, as more and more people migrate from FC to CentOS, I thought placing this reminder here was worthwhile. [I am still running *cough* FC5 on my own desktop, so I am also running out of time] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-June/msg00006.html Happy Centosing! Akemi

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command to show virtual X screens
by Jerry Geis 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Hi all, Is there a command line command that controls which virtual X screen a person is viewing? Sure I can click on one of the 4 virtual X screens but can I control that from the command line. Thanks, Jerry

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vmware server 1.0.4 and centos 4.5 i386 install
by Jerry Geis 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Hi all, I tried to install centos 4.5 i386 as a guest on an AMD x2 machine today. It told me it did not find any install media. I had created an 8G disk for it. Is there a SCSI driver I need to "Add" when prompted? I have never used SCSI and dont know which SCSI controller vmware is emulating. What driver do I need to load? I was then surprised some time later when my machine locked up. Typically my machine is fine. only thing different is today I install vmware server 1.0.4. After the reboot it has been fine again - but I have not restarted vmware. Thanks, Jerry

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Re: [tools] Why FC Packages in Centos Repository?
by Dag Wieers 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, John Lee wrote: > Just curious, but why are there Fedora packages in Centos5 base > repository? (i.e. blahblah.fc6.rpm) Are they compatible with CentOS? That is a very good questions and I personally veel very sad that Red Hat chose to do this. RHEL5 (and CentOS 5) are based on development done on Fedora Core 6. Red Hat started off with Fedora Core 6 when creating RHEL5. After some considerable QA, they were stuck with packages from Fedora Core 6 that were tagged with fc6 and were not rebuild for RHEL5, but verbatim copied from FC6. Because they did not want to recompile and retag these packages, because it required them to redo QA, they chose to ship RHEL5 with the verbatim Fedora Core 6 packages. As a result, CentOS chose to keep the original package names, including the fc6 tag for maximum compatibility. Even when it is confusing as hell ! Be aware though that the fc6-tagged packages in RHEL5 are verbatim copied packages from Fedora Core 6, but that on CentOS 5 the fc6-tagged packages are newly rebuild packages on a CentOS 5 system. CentOS 5 (in contract to RHEL5) is completely self-hosting and CentOS is particularly proud of this. We actually did what Red Hat failed to do. But we have the legacy fc6-tag from RHEL5. I hope this clears it up. PS This also means that some, but not all the Fedora Core 6 packages work on RHEL5. That is one of the confusing parts of reality. In all cases you are better off with el5-tagged packages than fc6-tagged packages. -- -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]

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xorg-x11
by Barton Callender 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Greetings, Are there any xorg-x11-devel or xorg-server-devel rpm for centos 5? Thanks, Barton _________________________________________________________________ Kick back and relax with hot games and cool activities at the Messenger Café. http://www.cafemessenger.com?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_SeptWLtagline

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Re: [CentOS] Network Connection Card Problem?
by Jun Salen 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

On 9/11/07, Jun Salen <nokijun(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >Hi List, > > > >My Mail/Proxy server has from time to time refuse to > >accept accept network connection. If I restart the > >network service, the service will again start to > >accept connection but after some time will again > >refuse connection. I use CentOS 4.5 with Squid, > >DansGuardian, Postfix. Please can someone point me > >what are the possible cause of this. Thank you. > > In addition to my posting above. When I make ping to > other machine from the server, the server will again > restore and accept connection. This is weird, so my > temporary solution is to let the server continually > ping other machine. Please help. Thanks again. > Ping is a very cheap and acceptable solution ! Anyway you'r certainly curious about the problem :-) This is a problem about ARP request. Maybe another machine with low activity share the same IP or your swith/hub is badly configured ! You can use arping to detect any device with the same IP and tcpdump to look for arp request."arp -an" will show you the arp table. Regards > junji > aisalen.wordpress.com > Linux Registered User #253162 > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com ----------------------- When I do /sbin/arp -an in the server box it does not contain entries for ip address where the server, it is ok? I observed that when I ping the server from other machine, it replies but from time to time displays time-out. We use this server for our mail and proxy so it is affecting us when time outs occur. Tsk tsk. junji aisalen.wordpress.com Linux Registered User #253162 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Error trying to install Ktorrent
by Dago Pacheco 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Hi... I was trying to install Ktorrent in my centos 4 x64 (i use kde) and when I typed './configure' i get this error message: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support! How can i solve it?... i'm kinda newbie in linux. Tnaks averybody -- ________________________ Dago Pacheco Encargado de Informática Maestranza Makimet Ltda.

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Weird NFS problem
by Frank Cox 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

I have a weird NFS problem here. I am trying to set up a machine with Centos 5 on it. First time I've tried Centos, but it looks like it's going to be the real thing for some machines that I look after that are intended to be long-term "just works" application servers. I plan to start reading and participating in this mailing list now, so Hello to everyone! My name is Frank Cox and I own and operate the Melville Theatre in Melville Saskatchewan, Canada. My first attempt to install Centos 5 was from ISO files that I put on my fileserver, which is the method that I use to install Fedora. Boot off a boot CD, point it to the appropriate directrory on the fileserver, and let 'er rip. That didn't work this time. I got to the point where I told the boot CD where to find the ISO files on the fileserver, and the whole thing hung up. I found an error message on one of the consoles that said something to the effect of "server fileserver not responding, still trying". And that's as far as I got. I tried this a half-dozen times with the same result. I thought maybe it just didn't like my fileserver for some reason, so I put the ISO files on another of my computers and set up an NFS share on that computer. Same thing again. I gave up and put Centos 5 onto CD's, booted from CD number 1 and just swapped CD's until I'm done. I thought that solved everything but now I have something even weirder. I mounted my fileserver like this: mount fileserver:/nas/NASDisk-00002/files /mnt/fileserver That's exactly the same way that I mount it on my Fedora machines. The fileserver mounts without error, and it appears at first glance to work. I can "cd /mnt/fileserver/where-ever" and use ls to view the files that are in the directories. However, if I try to read the files on the fileserver, my terminal hangs up. All I can do is view the directories on my fileserver. Doing anything that reads any file on the fileserver locks up my terminal. Logging in again from another terminal and viewing /var/log/messages tells me this: nfs: server fileserver not responding, still trying This appears to be the same problem that I had when I was installing the operating system. Normally if the installer can't find the NFS share due to a typo or whatever, it just tells me "Can't find the images" and that's all there is to it. But the installer hung up at the point where it was supposed to start reading the images so I think it could find them but couldn't read them either. This exact same procedure works fine from my Fedora machines. What in the world is going on here? If I can't get NFS to work on this machine I'm going to be up the creek because I use LTSP on it to run several terminals. I haven't tried web browsing from that machine yet, but the ethernet card is obviously working because I did a "yum update" and a few "yum installs" with no problem. It is an Intel motherboard and CPU with integrated everything. I strongly suspect that I'm doing something stupid here and can't see the obvious. Can someone give me a steer? Thanks in advance for any assistance. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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searching for yum packages necessary for mail gateway
by Rogelio Bastardo 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

I'm looking for the Red Hat equivalent of this Debian statement "apt-get –y install postfix mailscanner spamassassin bind9 clamav ssh webmin webmin-core logwatch libspf2-0 libmail-spf-query-perl" "yum search" can't find some of the packages. Is there some sort of online DB or something that I can search through to see which repository I need to enable for some of those programs?

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Openoffice 2.3 on centos 5 issue
by beast 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

I have just install OOo 2.3 on new centos 5 box. However OO keep open registration wizard everytime launched, even though i already select "i do not want to register". I've been playing with "$HOME/.openoffice.org2/" but still no luck. This problem did not happen on FC6, so i guess its not OOo bug. --beast

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Checking how many DIMM slots are in use
by Ow Mun Heng 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Hi, I'm wondering if there's a method for doing any of these 1. Check what's the physical memory available. free -m shows ~768 mem but I was sure that I had 1G of memory in there. 2. I check the kernel and it seems like the 4G split is in effect so it should map / correctly recognise there's 1G of Mem there. Is there any way to check besides opening up the machine to look at it physically??

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fstab problem after a failed drive
by Gregory P. Ennis 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Everyone, I installed a sata drive on a SuperMicro with SCSI drives. No problem with the installation. Everything went as expected as the os recognized the drive and assigned /dev/sdc to the new 300 gig Seagate drive. I had planned to use this drive for backup tarballs. The drive had been functional for about a week with no problems. Apparently it went out today when I tried to reboot the system. Now the boot process brings the system up into repair mode, but mounts the / partition in "read only" status. I can see that the original /dev/sdc is present but /dev/sdc1 is not present. I removed the drive completely and predictably /dev/sdc is no longer present. The problem I have now is that I have an entry in /etc/fstab that references the disabled drive that I am unable to change because I can only get to /etc/fstab in "read only" status. I am sure there is way to remove the entry to /dev/sdc1 but I have not been able to do so. Any help would be appreciated Greg Ennis

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CentOS 5.0 crash (cifs bug ?)
by Kuang-Chun Cheng 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Hi I think I hit the cifs bug described at http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/WindowsShares and http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1776 As CentOS Wiki said, CentOS 5.0 do have a bug fixed cifs.ko, so I thought it should be in CentOSPlus repository ... so I upgrade my kernel and using 2.6.18-8.1.10.el5.centos.plus. After I use this kernel release, I check the cifs.ko and see the following: $ modinfo /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.10.el5.centos.plus/kernel/fs/cifs/cifs.ko filename: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.10.el5.centos.plus/kernel/fs/cifs/cifs.ko version: 1.45 description: VFS to access servers complying with the SNIA CIFS Specification e.g. Samba and Windows license: GPL author: Steve French <sfrench(a)us.ibm.com> srcversion: 7C1A34565EA00CE993D56FA depends: vermagic: 2.6.18-8.1.10.el5.centos.plus SMP mod_unload 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.1 parm: CIFSMaxBufSize:Network buffer size (not including header). Default: 16384 Range: 8192 to 130048 (int) parm: cifs_min_rcv:Network buffers in pool. Default: 4 Range: 1 to 64 (int) parm: cifs_min_small:Small network buffers in pool. Default: 30 Range: 2 to 256 (int) parm: cifs_max_pending:Simultaneous requests to server. Default: 50 Range: 2 to 256 (int) The cifs.ko is version 1.45 .... I think this is still the buggy version, right ??? I have two CentOS 5.0 boxes, both running 2.6.18-8.1.10.el5.centos.plus and using automounter to mount WinXP's share. I use this as part of my daily backup ... and both boxes crash quite often ... specially when I have large files cross cifs mounted filesystem using rsync. For small files, they are quite stable. Could someone tell me ... did I use the bug fixed cifs.ko ? Or how can I fix this problem ? Thanks Regards KC

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X11 virtual screens on centos 5
by Jerry Geis 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

When the you select an X11 virtual screen (1 of 4) with the mouse on default centos 5 what command gets executed to show screen 1, screen 2 etc... Basically, I want to have a command or know the command to execute to show the desired virtual X11 screen. Thanks, Jerry

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question on "yum --enablerepo=centos "
by Rogelio Bastardo 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

I'm installing Fruity for Nagios using the 4.4 Single Server CD and want to force upgrade PHP 4 to PHP 5 without having to upgrade everything on CentOSplus. In order to install Nagios, I have to first enable RPMforge. However, to use Fruity, I have to use PHP 5, which isn't included in the RPMforge repository, unless I enable CentOSplus and yum update/upgrade everything (which I did eventually, just to get everything working). While in 4.x, I tried to enable *just* PHP with a command (something like) the following: yum --enablerepo=centosplus upgrade php* After doing so, however, I got all these errors saying that it couldn't update it b/c other things were needing updating (Pear, I think, was one of them). Perhaps this had to do with me installing RPMforge and using protect-plugins. Is there a way to force an update of, say, PHP and have also force an update on everything directly needed to install PHP? I don't mind everything directly associated to the one package I need being updated, but I'd prefer to peg the other programs and not let them update.

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Disk De-Fraging in Linux
by Al Sparks 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

A couple of questions. Are there any linux tools that can de-frag an ext2/3 partition? Are there any advantages to doing so if you're running hardware RAID5? Are there advantages / disadvantages if you're running LVM? === Al

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(gnome-session:5212) error
by Todd Cary 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

One user gets the gnome-session: 5212 error when he tries to log on. The error states that "Could not create /home/.gnome2/ Permission denied" and "Could not create ~/.gnome/ Permission denied" Any suggestions are welcomed...... Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64
by Les Bell 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

Karanbir Singh <mail-lists(a)karan.org> wrote: >> There will be an IA64 CentOS-5 beta soon, and the plan is to have IA64 release at the same time as i386 and x86_64 for CentOS-5.1. << Any word on s390 and s390x? I don't need it myself, but I've been talking to a number of mainframe users recently and they expressed interest. Best, --- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909

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chmod / chown settings on /var/www/html
by Rogelio Bastardo 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

I'm setting up a new CentOS 4.4 server to work with Fruity (a frontend program that operates Nagios). For security purposes, what chmod and chown settings do you put on the /var/www/html folders? Also, can anyone recommend any good LAMP hardening guides? While I'm not planning on putting this into production, I'd like to cover all my bases before that's an issue.

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install freezes at partition layout
by Barry Schiffman 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

I'm trying to install centos 5 on an old machine, a Micron with a pentium III and 250 megs of ram. I'm using the DVD image. The media check said the DVD was OK. Everything starts fine (both in graphics and text modes), untl I get to the custom partition table. The new system will go on hda, with the boot and root partition reformatted (see below). I laid it out to preserve the data on /home and another two partitions with a lot of data on each. One of these is mounted as /proj but Anaconda shows it as a giant swap partition. After I'm done with the formatting and mount points, I say OK, and then nothing happens. I left it run for over an hour, and then bailed out. Before rebooting, I looked at the console messages. There were a couple of warnings but no indications of anything fatal. Just nothing for over an hour. I'm downloading a new image (actually the CDs) just in case the media's bad. I also suspect the partition layout may be a problem. It was done long ago on the first hard drive: /boot 100 megs / 10 gigs /home 10 gigs extended ... /proj 25 gigs /opt 10 gigs swap 500 megs Once the CDs are in, I'll try again. If it fails, I'll do a new partition table on the first hard drive -- I have everything backed up. If anyone has a better idea, or if I'm way off base, let me know. hda -> ST360021A, ATA 60 gig Seagate hdb -> Maxtor 6Y160L0, ATA 150 gig Thanks, Barry ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469

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Re: [CentOS] install freezes at partition layout
by Lanny Marcus 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

On 22 September 2007, Barry Schiffman <schiffo2000(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Message: 15 > Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:22:39 -0700 (PDT) <snip> > I'm trying to install centos 5 on an old machine, a > Micron with a pentium III and 250 megs of ram. I'm > using the DVD image. Barry: Possibly the small amount of RAM is causing it to fail at the partitioning stage of the installation? I have CentOS 5.0 running on a box with 384 MB of RAM and on two boxes with 512 MB of RAM. Whether or not the 256 MB of RAM you have is causing the problem, consider adding more RAM. You and your system will be happier with more RAM! Lanny http://lowcostmagazines.com

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Re: [CentOS] Runing a script under cron. Append stdout and, stderr to a log file, propagate stderr back to cron for email, reporting
by David G. Miller 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

"Alexander Georgiev" <alexander.georgiev(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I want to run a rsync-ing script in cron, generating a very verbose > -vv rsync log in a log file. The log file should combine both stderr > and stdin, which is easy: > > backup.sh >>/var/log/backup.log 2>&1 > > However, I would like to propagate only stderr to cron - in case there > has been an error, cron will mail me the assembled stderr output. If you just want STDERR to get mailed to root (or wherever you specify), remove the "2>$1" from your cron entry. This is what instructs the shell to combine STDOUT with STDERR. Your cron entry should look like: backup.sh >>/var/log/backup.log >> /var/log/backup.log to append STDOUT output to backup.log. cron automatically mails any output from programs. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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Gnumeric spreadsheet?
by Frank Cox 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

Where can I get the Gnumeric spreadsheet for Centos 5? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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Runing a script under cron. Append stdout and stderr to a log file, propagate stderr back to cron for email reporting
by Alexander Georgiev 22 Sep '07

22 Sep '07

Dear List, I want to run a rsync-ing script in cron, generating a very verbose -vv rsync log in a log file. The log file should combine both stderr and stdin, which is easy: backup.sh >>/var/log/backup.log 2>&1 However, I would like to propagate only stderr to cron - in case there has been an error, cron will mail me the assembled stderr output. I tried the following: $ (./backup.sh > /var/log/backup.log) 2>&1 | tee -a /var/log/backup.log which propagates the stderr to cron, but lines written to /var/log/backup.log are out of sequence - for example if the contents of backup.sh are: #!/bin/bash echo "out 1" >&1 echo "out 2" >&1 echo "out 3" >&1 echo "out 4" >&1 echo "err 5" >&2 echo "out 6" >&1 echo "out 7" >&1 echo "out 8" >&1 I get in /var/log/backup.log: out 1 out 2 out 3 out 4 out 6 out 7 out 8 err 5 I would like the lines in their initial sequence. Do you know a shell trick or a tool that I can use to achive desired goal? Best regards, alex

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