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CentOS vs RedHat releases
by Scott Ehrlich 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

In comparing CentOS to RedHat releases, it seems to me CentOS is the Desktop/Workstation class distro from RedHat. Does the CentOS project then not have a Server class distro, or am I missing something? Granted, most any operating system can act as a server, but there are some fundamental components of a server-class OS that help is stand out versus a workstation version. Thanks for any insights. Scott

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New CentOS DNS Server woes
by Ray Leventhal 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

Hi folks, I've put my new DNS server in place, told the primary that this IP would be pulling zones and restarted BIND on the primary. I configured my named.conf file to pull zones from the primary, started BIND on the new box. Here's where I get confused ++++++++++++++++++++++++ [root@sunspot etc]# /etc/init.d/named status number of zones: 169 debug level: 0 xfers running: 0 xfers deferred: 0 soa queries in progress: 0 query logging is OFF recursive clients: 0/1000 tcp clients: 0/100 server is up and running +++++++++++++++++++++++ So the new BIND sees the conf file and recognizes that there are 169 zones (test group) to pull. nothing comes over. I tailed the /var/log/messages and I see about 169 <g> of these: Aug 5 14:10:08 sunspot named[5263]: dumping master file: /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/tmp-sTsIWElBLR: open: file not found and these Aug 5 14:10:08 sunspot named[5263]: transfer of 'jemsites.com/IN' from 64.135.16.10#53: failed while receiving responses: file not found I think this must be a permissions issue. (btw, SELinux is in Permissive mode at the moment). TIA for any comments or suggestions. ~Ray

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS vs RedHat packages
by Lanny Marcus 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

On 05 August 2007, Scott Ehrlich <scott(a)MIT.EDU> wrote: > I would have no problems doing it by hand, too, but when I use a > system-supplied option, I expect it to work, particularly > out-of-the-box, > and this simple tool breaks right after it is put to use. Makes me > wonder why, and what else might be breaking. Watch out, if you ever use FC then! During my very brief fling with FC6, I found that system-config-display did not update xorg11.config (that's not the correct file name), as it claimed to be doing. As you know, it is always best to either use the GUI tools or do it by hand. Not good to mix the two methods. My impression from reading this ML is that you will find CentOS performs for you just as well as RHEL would and probably you will get better support, on this ML, than you would from RH for RHEL, unless you are in the super customer group at RH.

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Re: [CentOS] Distro clarification thanks
by Lanny Marcus 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

On 04 August 2007, Scott Ehrlich <scott(a)MIT.EDU> wrote: <snip> > This is list is wonderful. Simply lurking, I, along with many others, > no > doubt, pick up so much. > > A great support team. > > Again, thanks to all. So true Scott. Just reading this ML is an education for you, for me and probably for many others. And the CentOS support team couldn't be better. :-) 73, Lanny

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Turning off a notebook's screen
by Robert Moskowitz 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

My notebook is an HP Compaq nc4010 running current Centos 5.0 with the Gnome desktop. I have been having problems with my notebook's screen never really going off. I lock my screen and the backlight stays on. I push the close monitor button, or even close the unit, the backlight turns off for maybe 10 seconds then turns back on. Actually I just did a test again, and when I push the notebook closed button (that little microswitch that gets toggled when the unit is closed), the monitor turns off completely, then the backlight comes on, then the screen goes into some sort of barely lit mode (brighter). Even the attack VGA monitor does the same thing. But at least I can turn that off independently when I want to lock my system. Oh, I did not have this problem in Centos 4.x. I think this is tied into the screensaver function. I have selected 'Blank screen' theme in Preferences > Screensaver. thanks for any pointers.

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Re: [CentOS] Asterisk
by Robert Moskowitz 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

Kenneth Porter wrote: > Is an RPM for Asterisk (the PBX system) available for CentOS 5? It > looks like RPMforge is supposed to have one, as I can see dependent > packages like asterisk-sounds, but the base package seems to be absent > from the repository. Trixbox 2.3beta is: Asterisk 1.4 on Centos 5.0 and FreePBX 2.3. But the team were having problems with some modules and pullled the beta for now. The trixbox repo might still be accessable. I got the ISO before they pulled it, but have had other things to do....

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Power burn test
by Robert Moskowitz 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

I need a program that will just run everything at max so I can measure the max power used on some systems. My 'Kill a Watt' meter should show up early next week. SO run that CPU at max, using all memory, and keeping the harddrive spinning. I can jsut do pings on the lan card for it to stay awake. I have searched here and on the net and have come back with nothing.

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CentOS vs RedHat packages
by Scott Ehrlich 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

Hello Once Again: Another learning experience question - it is my understanding that CentOS essentially IS RedHat but with any commercial connection removed. That being said, is there any difference in the included, or quality of packages between the two distros? I've got some basic issues with a critical server I'm about to set up, and if I cannot get beyond said issues, I may opt to try CentOS. Seeing that CentOS is free (can't call RedHat for support), I'm wondering if I should try and make the case for CentOS over RedHat. Once the choice is made, it may be next to impossible to revert to the other version (RH vs CentOS). Thanks for your insights. Scott

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Re: Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd.conf on centos 5
by Lanny Marcus 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

On 02 August 2007, "Indunil Jayasooriya" <indunil75(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, Why should I remove ProtectBase ? Whithout removing ProtectBase, > Is it NOT proper to install Priorities? I believe it is one or the other. If you decide to change to Priorities, which is recommended on the Wiki, remove ProtectBase, before you install Priorities.

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How to replace ntfs by ntfs-3g?
by Olaf Mueller 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

Hello, I can write to an ntfs partion if mounting it by hand with 'mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdf5 /mnt/xp'. But if I use the mount option from the kde Storage Media panel applet (kdebase-3.5.4-13.6.el5.centos) then the partion will be mounted without write support. So how to say kde and CentOS to use ntfs-3g and not ntfs? Maybe by changing some links? Thank you very much. regards Olaf

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Re: [CentOS] KStars on CentOS 4.4?
by Lanny Marcus 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

On 03 August 2007, "Lamar Owen" <lowen(a)pari.edu> wrote: <snip> > currently use KDE-RedHat with several CentOS 4 installs, to get KStars > for us to do telescope control. > The KDE in CentOS 4 is quite old, and kstars has improved by leaps and > bounds since then. Lamar: I found a very easy way to do it. I found that for CentOS 4.4, I could install the kdeedu RPM, from the Fedora Core 3 Install DVD, without any problem. And for CentOS 5.0, I installed kdeedu from the FC6 install DVD. That installed a lot of other stuff too.... Thank you for posting! KStars is both powerful and elegant. I am going to put FC7 on my daughters box and let my wife try the latest KStars there. Lanny

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Latest Pidgin update problem
by fredex 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

A while back I added the pidgin repo to my yum configuration and installed pidgin. it has automatically updated itself a time or two since without trouble. but now that Pidgin 2.1.0 is out, it won't update properly. Yum finds a couple of libpurple packages to update as well as pidgin-devel, but not the pidgin package itself: --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package libpurple.i386 0:2.1.0-0.el4 set to be updated ---> Package pidgin-devel.i386 0:2.1.0-0.el4 set to be updated ---> Package libpurple-devel.i386 0:2.1.0-0.el4 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: pidgin = 2.1.0 for package: pidgin-devel --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: pidgin = 2.1.0 is needed by package pidgin-devel Anybody else seen this? It seems odd that the official pidgin repo would have 3 of the four necessary packages but not the fourth. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good. ----------------------------- Proverbs 15:3 (niv) -----------------------------

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Re: [CentOS] Re: Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0 - SOLVED
by Mark Hull-Richter 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

Thanks for all the input - the HPLJ4 driver "supplied by" Minolta (with CentOS 5) solved my problem. mhr

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Data corruption on external hard disk
by Niki Kovacs 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

Hi, I'm using CentOS 5 on all my computers here (work + home) and I'm very satisfied with it. Some time ago I purchased a 300 GB external hard drive to store films, music, pictures and documents. Since there's no Windows machine around here (small South French village, town hall and public library use Linux :o)), I replaced the FAT filesystem on the disk by an ext2 filesystem. Now it's already almost full with data. A few days ago I had a problem with the subdirectory Cinema/ containing a collection of my favourite movies. I wanted to copy them from the disk to my newly purchased laptop (ASUS W6F, already running CentOS 5), when suddenly I got a read error on data. I checked in a Terminal what was going on, and the file ownerships were all curiously set, like missing read flags, no more --x rights on directories, whereas I remember I had set them right in the first place. So I started a series of recursive chmod's on the directory Cinema/... but I got nothing: the command prompt never went back. Unmounting the disk was not responsive neither, so I just shut it off. When I was performing this, it was a very hot day, almost 40°C. The disk was really very hot, so I wonder if this might have damaged it. I could retrieve some of the data on the disk (music, pictures, documents), but now, instead of the Cinema/ directory, I have one big file that looks like this: [kikinovak@buzz:/media/disk/Films] $ ls -l total 692996 -rw-r----- 1 678756852 34537972 148381783526817280 avr 28 01:01 Cinema drwxr-xr-x 3 kikinovak kikinovak 4096 mai 9 10:07 Anime drwxrwxrwx 4 kikinovak kikinovak 4096 mai 10 12:25 Series Notice that the file size is something like petabytes :oD Is there any way to repair this obviously corrupt data? Cheers, Niki Kovacs

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Distro clarification thanks
by Scott Ehrlich 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

I want to take a moment to thank everyone who responded to my inquiry. The education is most appreciated, and well-received. This is list is wonderful. Simply lurking, I, along with many others, no doubt, pick up so much. A great support team. Again, thanks to all. Scott

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Re: [CentOS] Re: Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0
by Lanny Marcus 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

On 02 August 2007, "Mark Hull-Richter" <mhullrich(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip> http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting Mark, possibly something there that will help you. Lanny

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CentOS things to mod for VMware server
by Rogelio Bastardo 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

I'd like to make a CentOS-based VMware server. Anything I should consider before doing so? (e.g. stuff to disable, kernel tweaks, etc)

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new CentOS 5 install, 'Network is unreachable'
by centos＠swhi.net 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

Hi all, I've a new CentOS 5 minimalist install; this will be the name server from my prior thread. I have configured eth0 during setup with the static IP the unit will have when in production. During this setup phase, selinux is set to permissive. Setting up on a different network, I did this: dhclient eth0 and successfully got a private address; I also validated that the resolv.conf file was created by the dhclient-script and it was, accurately pointing to my gateway and listing a domain name server by IP. That's where the fun stops. Even pinging an IP, so as not to rely on name resolution, I get the dreaded 'Network is unreachable' error. Any pointers would be more than appreciated. Thanks in advance, ~Ray

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D-Link DFE-580TX
by Rodrigo Barbosa 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone here had any experience with D-Link's quad-port ethernet NIC, model DFE-580TX ? The people from Mikrotik says it can cause systemwide lockup, but from what I have been reading around, this board seem to work ok. This is the only quad-port NIC I have found with a reasonable price, so I'm seriously considering using it. Comments ? - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGs5JNpdyWzQ5b5ckRAvDJAKC00XZIqvD0EA80oCKklFGY/12RYgCgnP5v gwakIR4lBxgNMbhY1f28b/c= =xS0B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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HotPlug, eSATA, and /media
by Lamar Owen 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

Ok, got a quickie. I have an eSATA drive, a 750GB Seagate in an eSATA external enclosure, and a Silicon Image sil3132 ExpressCard controller for my laptop. The disk and controller work great in CentOS 5 (or F7, for that matter), if I specifically mount it. This is not how I want to have to use this drive, however. I want to hotplug it; that is, plug the controller into the laptop, and then plug the drive into the controller, and have it come up just like a USB drive would. It does not currently do that. Anyone here know how to make an eSATA (or a hotplug SATA mobile slide, for that matter) show up in /media, and have all the nice hotplug capabilities USB drives have? That is, KDE brings up the dialog asking what to do with the drive, it can be automounted, etc. Then when going to hot-unplug, I'd use the 'safely remove' context menu entry (just like a USB drive) and it would unmount the drive and unload anything it might need to unload. Anybody have this working? If not, i'm going to figure it out, but didn't want to reinvent the wheel. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu

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centos 5 as p2p client
by Dave 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

Hello, I'm running centos5. I'm wanting this machine only, none of my other ones, to participate in p2p file sharing, bittorrent, edonkey, maybe other networks. Does anyone have a howto or step by step guide for this? I've installed bittorrent and mldonkey clients, but neither is working, i'm assuming gateway firewall issue, but i've enabled the correct ports, 6881 through 6999 redirecting to the centos box. I've not made any additions to the centos5 firewall. I've got some audio available on bittorrent network i'd like to get, and a .torrent file for it and on edonkey there's an iso any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0
by Mark Hull-Richter 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

For some reason, when I try to print any graphic PDF (or a PS file made from said graphic), it kills my Minolta 1100 laser printer, and I have to cancel the job, disable the printer and turn the printer off and on as many times as it takes to clear its buffer of the trash. I'm running CentOS 5.0 and have tried Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 for Linux; I have also tried printing the pdf to a file and running it straight through lpr, using the GIMP (although I've NEVER been able to print graphics from there), and even the Image Viewer (which chokes and dies silently while trying to load the file). Any suggestions? I'm using the standard CUPS print system for all of this.... Thanks. mhr

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Strange kernel error message: EDAC GART TLB blahblah..
by Robinson Tiemuqinke 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

What does the following EDAC problem means? The machine is a AMD 64bit box running Centos 5. It looks like some problems aroung AMD DRAM Memory controller. But what does it really mean b/c most of my AMD boxes has these messages in /var/log/messages. Please help. ... Aug 1 23:29:40 ccn128 kernel: EDAC MC: Ver: 2.0.1 Jun 12 2007 Aug 1 23:29:40 ccn128 kernel: EDAC MC0: Giving out device to k8_edac Athlon64/Opteron: DEV 0000:00:18.2 Aug 1 23:29:40 ccn128 kernel: EDAC MC1: Giving out device to k8_edac Athlon64/Opteron: DEV 0000:00:19.2 Jul 31 04:02:12 ccn128 kernel: EDAC k8 MC0: GART TLB errorr: transaction type(generic), cache level(generic) Jul 31 04:02:12 ccn128 kernel: EDAC k8 MC0: extended error code: GART error Jul 31 14:13:14 ccn128 kernel: EDAC k8 MC0: GART TLB errorr: transaction type(generic), cache level(generic) Jul 31 14:13:14 ccn128 kernel: EDAC k8 MC0: extended error code: GART error ... [root@ccn128 ~]# lspci -s 0000:00:18.02 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [root@ccn128 ~]# ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222

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Intel P35 / quad-core support for HPC applications
by Henry Shiu 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Hello all, Does anyone have experience with CentOS and the Intel P35 or G33 chipset? I've googled about and poked in the CentOS forums, but I've generally found questions without responses. I'm part of a university research group doing CFD (computational fluid dynamics). We're incrementally updating our computing power and have been looking at Intel quad-cores and the P35 or G33 chipset. We're particularly interested in motherboards with DDR2-1066 support. As we're in a production environment, we're more interested in reliability than squeezing out that last fraction of a percent of performance (I'm aware of the inherent contradiction in stating this as we're extending a bit on to the leading edge with this hardware selection). We've patched and rolled custom kernels in the past, but would just as soon not again. Hence, I'd be grateful if you're willing to share your specific experiences with CentOS and P35 or G33 motherboards. I'll compile the responses I get and post them in a consolidated message. Secondarily, I'd like to connect with anyone else doing similar work and/or in similar environments. Currently, we're running a 22-node, diskless (I believe the favored buzzword is now "stateless") cluster of mostly Athlon XP 2500 processors. It's on Centos 3 with Warewulf 2.1.12. Thanks, Henry -- Henry Shiu California Wind Energy Collaborative Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616-5294 (530) 752-2261 http://cwec.ucdavis.edu/

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KStars on CentOS 4.4?
by Lanny Marcus 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Is there an RPM for this? I think it's in the kdeedu package on the FC6 DVD. My wife is an amateur astronomer and she uses this excellent program. If upstream isn't including it, can I get it and not break my CentOS 4.4 system? (Also, I'd like to migrate her and my daughter to CentOS). TIA, Lanny

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Adaptec 39320A woes
by Michael St. Laurent 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

I'm having speed problems with the SCSI card we're using to do tape backup. It seems to be functioning in 16 bit mode and the current thinking is that perhaps it's using a legacy driver instead of the correct one. The Adaptec site has a 'driver' for RHEL5 which I've downloaded and tried to install but it seems to have a problem installing on a CentOS-5 system. [root@hcnas modules]# cd /proc/scsi [root@hcnas scsi]# cat scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lun: 00 Vendor: DP Model: BACKPLANE Rev: 1.05 Type: Enclosure ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Host: scsi0 Channel: 02 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: DELL Model: PERC 5/i Rev: 1.03 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: CERTANCE Model: ULTRIUM 2 Rev: 1914 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 01 Vendor: DELL Model: PV-124T Rev: 0043 Type: Medium Changer ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: Dell Model: Virtual CDROM Rev: 123 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: Dell Model: Virtual Floppy Rev: 123 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 [root@hcnas scsi]# ll total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug 3 13:21 aic79xx -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 3 13:21 device_info -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 3 13:21 scsi dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug 3 13:21 sg dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug 3 13:21 usb-storage [root@hcnas scsi]# cd aic79xx/ [root@hcnas aic79xx]# ll total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 3 13:09 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 3 13:09 2 [root@hcnas aic79xx]# cat 1 Adaptec AIC79xx driver version: 3.0 Adaptec 39320A Ultra320 SCSI adapter aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 101-133Mhz, 512 SCBs Allocated SCBs: 4, SG List Length: 128 Serial EEPROM: 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x09f4 0x0142 0x2807 0x0010 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0x0430 0xb3f3 Target 0 Negotiation Settings User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 1 Negotiation Settings User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 2 Negotiation Settings User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 3 Negotiation Settings User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 4 Negotiation Settings User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 5 Negotiation Settings User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 6 Negotiation Settings User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Goal: 3.300MB/s transfers Curr: 3.300MB/s transfers Channel A Target 6 Lun 0 Settings Commands Queued 29 Commands Active 0 Command Openings 1 Max Tagged Openings 0 Device Queue Frozen Count 0 Channel A Target 6 Lun 1 Settings Commands Queued 20 Commands Active 0 Command Openings 1 Max Tagged Openings 0 Device Queue Frozen Count 0 Target 7 Negotiation Settings User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 8 Negotiation Settings User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 9 Negotiation Settings User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 10 Negotiation Settings User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 11 Negotiation Settings User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 12 Negotiation Settings User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 13 Negotiation Settings User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 14 Negotiation Settings User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 15 Negotiation Settings User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) [root@hcnas ~]# rpm -e a320raid-3.00.063.5.V580A1-1 [root@hcnas ~]# rpm -ivh a320raid.rhel5.i686.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:a320raid ########################################### [100%] Adaptec adp94xx driver installer - V1.2.5934.0-1 Backing up all modified files to /boot/adp94xx-backup-3 Using GRUB configuration If this is not what you want, rename your /boot/grub/grub.conf file /boot -rw------- 1 root root 2403411 Jul 27 14:47 initrd-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.img /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 /boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.img CentOS (2.6.18-8.1.8.el5) Configuration [CentOS (2.6.18-8.1.8.el5)] /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 -> 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 ****** PROBLEM ******* No prebuilt module for 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 i686 ********************** /boot -rw------- 1 root root 2403318 Jul 27 07:39 initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 /boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img CentOS (2.6.18-8.el5) Configuration [CentOS (2.6.18-8.el5)] /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 -> 2.6.18-8.el5 ****** PROBLEM ******* No prebuilt module for 2.6.18-8.el5 i686 ********************** *************************************** ******** NO MODULES INSTALLED ********* *************************************** Done. error: %post(a320raid-3.00.063.5.V580A1-1.i686) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 [root@hcnas ~]#

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proxy arp on CentOS 5?
by Florin Andrei 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Anybody implemented a working proxy ARP with CentOS 5? I am trying to implement DNAT on a dual-homed firewall (servers behind firewall are on private IPs) and that requires proxy ARP. I've tried several different methods but nothing seems to work. Any advice? Is proxy ARP broken on v5? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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command for dhcp client
by Jerry Geis 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Is there a command that says DONT use the ifcfg-eth0 setting(s) that basically have a static address and start the network in DHCP. I dont want to disturb the static settings in ifcfg-eth0 or re-enter them once my DHCP setting is done... I just want to temporarily run with DHCP (I'm on different network than the static setup). Yes I can copy files and then recopy files and all that - but is there a command that just says startup the network in DHCP and dont change anything in the files. Jerry

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tomcat error on x86_64 with 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen & jre 1.6.*
by Johnn Tan 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

I get the same error as this person: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9349 Like the poster, I get the error with tomcat 6.0.13 on x86_64, kernel 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen and both jre 1.6.0_01 and 1.6.0_02 When I revert to jre 5u12 on the same kernel, I don't get the problem. If I stay with jre 6, but use kernel 2.6.18-8.el5, I also don't get the error. So it's not clear to me whether this is a java problem or a kernel problem. Any hints? For now, I can use jre 5u12, but I could file a bug if I could figure out which one is actually causing the error. johnn

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Chmod Explaination
by joseph blase 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Howdy list, I can't seem to find any doc's explaining what's really going on behind this scenario: A user home directory had been reset to : d--- --- --- user group user_dir As root i tried to : chmod -R 750 user_dir got permission denied, my friend tried with as user that owns the directory to: chmod -R 750 user_dir and voila it works. My question is how come did it work, since the user_dir doesn't have a owner permission attached and why user root has been denied with changing the mode? Rgds, Joseph

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where the problem
by simon 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Dear All I have jus migrated to centos 5 and jus wondering why n where this problem could be server A which is running for the past 2 years used as my primary dns and mail server redhat linux 8 sendmail ver-8.12.5-7 bind ver -9.2.1-9 since the server is old and is prone to all security problems i have a new machine which i have installed the following and will replace my existing redhat dns + mail server centOS 5 bind-9.3.3-8.el5 sendmail-8.13.8-2.el5 mailscanner latest spam assassin + clamav - latest dkim filter plus the lastest updates now when i send a mail to my yahoo account from my old redhat server it goes fine to inbox I disconect my old red hat server cable and plug it new centos server since both have the same IP's and when i send a mail from the centos server it goes to yahoo bulk mail and not to inbox receving is fine with both server i am jus wondering why. even i see the DKIM filter inserts a global key ( text record of my DNS ) in my mail logs and also in the yahoo when i see full headers in yahoo apprecite if someone could help me thnks and regards simon -- Network Administrator -- Network Administrator

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Full server restore-point image
by Alain Reguera Delgado 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Hi, After some months of configuring and testing a small server, think that would be nice to make a full server restore-point image in order to recover it if something goes wrong in the future, just restoring the image back and not making the full install and configure process all over again. The server uses Logical Volumes. I was thinking on using the CentOS LiveCD and then use dd command to clone all partitions to another storage device. But I have no experience on this. What do you suggest ? Cheers, al.

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Another oddity - users get no ftp (no ftpd) on latest update from CentOS 5.0
by Mark Hull-Richter 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

The subject pretty much says it all. My ftp comes back with "ftp: ftp/tcp: unknown service" - unless I run it as root, in which case it works just fine. What's going on here? Did I screw up a setting of mine or something? Thanks. mhr

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EPEL repo
by JC Júnior 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

hi all, I received a message about EPEL repository, I would like to know if this repo is long term support too. thanks; Jc júnior

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how to export and import VMware servers
by Rogelio Bastardo 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

I recently build a CentOS-based VMware server (the free ver) and now need to move all of the virtual machines off my old Windows-based VMware server (also the free ver) to this next CentOS-based one. I have successfully FTP'd all of the files to the new CentOS box and have even opened the server in the console Window, but cannot "start" it. I start the machine (like I always do), and nothing happens. Unfortunately, I cannot simply run "import", as I'm using a Windows-based workstation to use the Windows-program to console into the CentOS-based VMware server. I suspect that perhaps some config file or something still thinks that the machine is still running in the previous Windows host OS? Now, both my guest OS and host OS are both CentOS 4.5. Before, the host OS was Windows 2003, and my host OS is CentOS 4.5. Any ideas of where to look would be greatly appreciated. (I understand that this might not be the best place to ask such a non CentOS-related question.)

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CentOS - HP
by Tom Brown 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Hi Does anyone have experience of running CentOS on HP hardware, both rack mount kit and blades? How are things like hardware monitoring etc? We may be moving from Dell to HP and i get on really well with OMSA and Nagios etc so ideally would like to monitor using similar tools rather than some central 'enterprise' dashboard etc. Any real world experience? thanks

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Debian DomU on Centos 4.4 Dom0
by Eduardo Grosclaude 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Hello, Can somebody point some docs on how to do this? Has anyone done it --known pitfalls? TIA -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina

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automated response
by jorge.prado 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

I am currently out of the office, returning Monday, August 6. Regards, Jorge Prado

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Re: [CentOS] Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0
by Mark Hull-Richter 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

On 8/1/07, Mark Hull-Richter <mhullrich(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/1/07, Robert <kerplop(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > Against the chance you have a bad .pdf, as someone suggested, I've > > attached one that successfully printed on my Brother HL-5250DN. The > > file was produced by OOo > > (openoffice.org-calc-2.0.4-5.4.17.2). > > > > I will try this when I get the chance - thanks. It's not all PDFs, though.... Printed just fine - text PDFs are not the problem. Also, the ps files produced when I print the graphical PDFs to a file will not print either. Thanks. mhr

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recovery data
by Hiep Nguyen 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

hi all, how do i mount usb laptop hard drive to a centos 4 box? this hard drive has 2 partitions: NT (winxp os) and fat32 for data. i'm unable to boot from it and i think NT partition is corrupted. i did try to connect to windows box, but i still can't get to fat32. any idea how to do this on centos box? i gave up on windows box. thanks, T. Hiep

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Allocating 64 kbits/s out of 256 kbits/s for one LAN behing firewall
by Indunil Jayasooriya 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Hi, We have a 256 kbits/s (kilobits per second) link to the internet. it is a router running Linux that belongs to our ISP. They have given us 8 internet ips. (i.e- subnet is 255.255.255.248). one has been given to this router. I have given another internet ip to the firewall running CentOS 4.5. iptables is running on it. And also, I have installed iproute2 pkg as well. pls see below for installed pkgs. [root@firebox ~]# rpm -qa |grep iptables iptables-1.2.11-3.1.RHEL4 [root@firebox ~]# rpm -qa |grep iproute iproute-2.6.9-3.EL4.3.centos4 This firewall has 3 ethernet cards at the moment. one is connected to router. one is connected to our DMZ zone. one is connected to LAN1. These are ips of the firewall. eth0 (internet) - 1.2.3.4/255.255.255.248 (pls assume it. For security reason, I will not give you the actual ip) eth1 (DMZ Zone) - 192.168.100.254/255.255.255.0 eth2 (LAN1) - 192.168.101.254/255.255.255.0 Now, everyone in LAN1 has access to internet. (due to SNAT rule) Now, I want to install another ethernet card to this firewall. then, it would be eth3. eth3 will be as follows. eth3 (LAN2) - 192.168.102.254/255.255.255.0 Now, I want put about 5 people (5 PCs) behind this LAN2 and give internet access to them. But, I do not want them to use my whole bandwidth (i.e - 256 kbit/s), But Instead, I want peple behind this LAN2 to allocate 64 kbits/s(kilo bits per second) for their internert access. Is it possible to acheive this task on firewall running iptables and iproute2 (CentOS 4.5) ? If so, How can I do such thing? If I do such thing, what will happen to the people behind LAN1 ? Will they get whole 256 kbits/s as before or will they get 256 kbit/s - 64 kbit/s for their internet access? Hope to hear form you. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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about add/remove software
by beast 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

In the documentation, it says that add/remove software is use only to install from CD drive[1]. However this program refuse to run when no internet connection, why not just prompt for the installation media? assuming everybody has fast internet connection was too optimistic. 1. So what is the correct way to install/remove software after the installation (using GUI)? 2. In /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo the sample command was incorect, it should be --enablerepo=c5-media. But anyway, it still did not works here, centos cd was mounted under /media/CentOS_5.0_Final, after manually changed (is there any shortcut, ie using old good /dev/cdrom ?) : [root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c5-media install tftp 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. ---> Downloading header for tftp to pack into transaction set. media://1176235114.525559%235/CentOS/tftp-0.42-3.1.el5.centos.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media> Trying other mirror. Error: failed to retrieve CentOS/tftp-0.42-3.1.el5.centos.i386.rpm from c5-media error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media> Also i feel that yum is to slow even when running from cache, ymmv. 3. What is the program/service responsible to automatically display media in desktop when mounted? Thanks! --beast [1] http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/sn-software-management-tools.html

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kmod-xfs disappear!
by Farkas Levente 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

hi, it seems since yesterday the kmod-xfs rpms for the default (non centosplus kernel) are removed from centos/5/centosplus repositories. what happens? why did you do so? is there any announcement about it? thanks. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd.conf on centos 5
by Mailing LIsts 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

On 01 August 2007, "Indunil Jayasooriya" <indunil75(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip> > Pls note that I need to download and install all the upfdates > automaticallyas I have installed > yum-protectbase. On this URL: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories it says: > Note: You should seriously consider using the Priorities (or > ProtectBase) yum plugin if you are going to use a 3rd Party > Repository. (The Priorities and ProtectBase plugins both prevent 3rd > party repos replacing base packages, but Priorities is much more > flexible and therefore the recommended plugin.) Consider removing ProtectBase and installing Priorities http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 30, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '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-2007:0731 Important CentOS 3 i386 tetex - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2007:0731 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 tetex - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2007:0731 Important CentOS 4 i386 tetex - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2007:0731 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 tetex - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2007:0731 Important CentOS 3 ia64 tetex - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2007:0731 Important CentOS 4 ia64 tetex - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2007:0731 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) tetex - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2007:0731 Important CentOS 5 i386 tetex Update (Karanbir Singh) 9. CESA-2007:0731 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 tetex Update (Karanbir Singh) 10. CESA-2007:0731 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) tetex - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:52:26 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0731 Important CentOS 3 i386 tetex - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20070801125226.GK8974(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0731 tetex security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0731.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/tetex-1.0.7-67.10.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/tetex-afm-1.0.7-67.10.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/tetex-dvips-1.0.7-67.10.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/tetex-fonts-1.0.7-67.10.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/tetex-latex-1.0.7-67.10.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-67.10.i386.rpm addons/i386/RPMS/tetex-doc-1.0.7-67.10.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/tetex-1.0.7-67.10.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update tetex\* Tru -- Tru Huynh (CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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Pam module for freeradius
by Devraj Mukherjee 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Hi everyone, Does the default installation of pam support authenticating against radius. Or do I need the module available from the freeradius site. If yes, then is the freeradius pam module available via rpm? Thanks -- "I never look back darling, it distracts from the now", Edna Mode (The Incredibles)

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usb 1-2: device not accepting address 2, error -71 - CENTOS 5
by Indunil Jayasooriya 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Hi all, I installed CentOS 5 on DELL machine. Then, When the system comes up, I always get below erros. Could you pls help me to solve this out before I setup this box for productiuon use ? these are errors. usb 1-2: device not accepting address 2, error -71 ata2: port failed to respond (30 secs) ata2: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata2: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100) ata2: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata2: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100) ata2: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata2: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100) ata2: reset failed, giving up I installed centos 4.4 on the same machine. Then I did not get these errors. Then, I updated it to CentOS 4.5. Then also, I did not get those errors? why does it happen to CentOS 5 ? -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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xorg version
by beast 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

A quick question. how do i know the version of xorg server? rpm -qa | grep xorg-x11-server gives 1.1.x which is not correct. --beast

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virtual hdd problems when CentOS is guest OS
by Rogelio Bastardo 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

I recently installed VMware on CentOS 4.4 (using the single server CD). I installed VMware fine, and then installed the VMware-mui tools that allow me to use a Windows box to console to the server. From my Windows box, I can create VMs on the fly just fine. Interestingly, I can create virtual Debian boxes ok, but I can't create virtual CentOS boxes. What might I be missing? As soon as I boot to the iso, it says something about not being able to find the drive. (I didn't have this problem with CentOS when Windows was my host OS, only when CentOS is the host OS)

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RE: [CentOS] No separate SMP kernel for CentOS-5?
by Michael St. Laurent 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

That explains it then, thank you. ;) -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Akemi Yagi Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 2:19 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] No separate SMP kernel for CentOS-5? On 8/1/07, Michael St. Laurent <mikes(a)hartwellcorp.com> wrote: > > Is there not a separate SMP kernel for multi-processor systems in CentOS-5? > I don't see one in the repository. All CentOS 5 kernels are smp. Akemi _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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