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VMWare hiccup on CentOS 5, 2.6.18-8.1.8
by Mark Hull-Richter 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

For reasons which escape me, my VMWare Server, which was working perfectly a week ago when I shut down my machine for vacation, no loner comes up with the formerly working Windows XP system - it just stays in the small window where it normally boots and does nothing. The vmware serverd log shows nothing particularly interesting, and I have reconfigured the vmware twice to try and fix this (which interestingly enough could not find the vmware modules for my os either time). I am running CentOS 5.0 with all the latest updates through this morning, plus a 2.6.18-8.1.8 kernel with NTFS file system support compiled in as a module, and vmware server shows this: $ vmware -v /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) VMware Server 1.0.3 build-44356 (Not sure what that note about libpng12 means....) Here is the server log's tail: Jul 30 17:57:48: app| SP: Retrieved username: mhr Jul 30 17:57:54: app| Adding to list of running vms: /F/vmware/Windows XP Professional/Windows XP Professional.vmx Jul 30 17:57:54: app| Attempting to launch vmx : /F/vmware/Windows XP Professional/Windows XP Professional.vmx Jul 30 17:57:55: app| New connection on socket server-vmxvmdb from host localhost (ip address: local) , user: mhr Jul 30 17:57:55: app| Connection from : /F/vmware/Windows XP Professional/Windows XP Professional.vmx Jul 30 17:57:55: app| Setting up autoDetect info. Jul 30 17:57:55: app| VMServerdConnect: connecting to /F/vmware/Windows XP Professional/Windows XP Professional.vmx Jul 30 17:57:55: app| Connected to /F/vmware/Windows XP Professional/Windows XP Professional.vmx It is now 18:43 and the window is still hung. Any suggestions or clues? This is the first glitch I've had with vmware server on CentOS 5. Thanks. mhr

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

01 Aug '07

Is there not a separate SMP kernel for multi-processor systems in CentOS-5? I don't see one in the repository.

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RE: [CentOS] thnaks for ur replis guys -- sendmail list
by James D. Parra 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

Hello Simon, I hope you'll find what you need here; http://www.sendmail.org/misc/email-addresses.php James PS. Sorry for top posting. -----Original Message----- From: simon [mailto:mailadmin@baladia.gov.kw] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 12:42 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] thnaks for ur replis guys dear Guys, i do said at the start for my apology.. i am already subcribe to centOS mailing list ... hence i cd post to centos mailing list.. i asked my apology since i pst a query about how to SUBSCRIBE TO SENDMAIL USERS MAILING LIST... can anybody pls help me

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need help.. n do apolosize
by simon 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

Dear All, cd any one plss let me know how to subscribe to sendmail mailing lists.. i am not able to do it apprecite n thanks regards simon -- Network Administrator

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Partnership with CentOS for commercial support
by 김정규 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

Hello, My name is Jeongkyu Kim and I am working for Korea Linux Center, mid-size Korean company specialized in developing Linux server & desktop distributions from 2002. Our main focus of sales is public sector such as government agencies and public schools. Recently, we made a decision that further development of our server distribution will be based on CentOS. We believe that it would satisfy our customers with the more reliable solution. At the same time, we expect it would ease our development effort. As we prepare our new distribution, it was determined that partnership with CentOS is very crucial for our business. Our customers usually don't have technical person inside their organizations so that they want to be ensured by better chance of technical support. To make progress, I hope that someone in this list let me know who is the best person I can discuss with the way to make partnership and commitment we need to make. Best regards, Jeongkyu

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centOS query
by simon 01 Aug '07

01 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 -- Network Administrator

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Re: [CentOS] Ham Radio s/w and CentOS? {including Echolink}
by Mailing LIsts 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

On 31 July 2007, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > I am going to present Linux to my ham radio club at some point in the > next few months, and wanted to collect info on ham radio software, > including options for echolink. Not sure about echolink. > Also, anyone know of a live-on-CD/DVD CentOS distribution that may > include Echolink and/or other ham software? I think there may be a Linux distribution for ham radio, but my memory is very weak on that. Search on distro watch and maybe check out the ARRL web site and google and yahoo. There is (or was) something for PSK31, I think it was called KPSK or something, that I looked into several years ago. Maybe it's on the KDE web site. I believe there is a Linux kernel option, to enable stuff for packet or something. I wish I could be of much more help on this but I'm inactive now. 73, Lanny HK5MDT

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Reg:Checking HDD Badblocks on kickstart CentOS installation
by Balaji 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

Hi All, Is there a way to check the harddisk health before CentOS installation.? One way I used to do was by using --badblocks check in ks.cfg file while using RH 7.2. This is not working (atleast not with the same syntax as in RH 7.2) in CentOS. Is there an alternate (correct) syntax or is there a new (better) way to check harddisk health before CentOS installation? Please help me and it is very urgent requirement for me --Regards S.Balaji

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 30, Issue 1
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 01 Aug '07

01 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-2007:0720 Important CentOS 3 ia64 cups - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:0735 Important CentOS 3 ia64 xpdf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2007:0720 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) cups - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2007:0735 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) xpdf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2007:0720 Important CentOS 4 ia64 cups - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2007:0735 Important CentOS 4 ia64 xpdf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2007:0729 Important CentOS 4 ia64 kdegraphics - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2007:0730 Important CentOS 4 ia64 gpdf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 9. CESA-2007:0720 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) cups - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 10. CESA-2007:0730 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) gpdf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 11. CESA-2007:0735 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) xpdf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 12. CESA-2007:0721 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 qt - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 13. CESA-2007:0721 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 qt - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 14. CESA-2007:0721 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 qt - security update (Tru Huynh) 15. CESA-2007:0721 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 qt - security update (Tru Huynh) 16. CESA-2007:0720 Important CentOS 4 i386 cups - security update (Johnny Hughes) 17. CESA-2007:0720 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 cups - security update (Johnny Hughes) 18. CESA-2007:0735 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 xpdf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 19. CESA-2007:0735 Important CentOS 4 i386 xpdf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 20. CESA-2007:0729 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 kdegraphics - security update (Johnny Hughes) 21. CESA-2007:0729 Important CentOS 4 i386 kdegraphics - security update (Johnny Hughes) 22. CESA-2007:0730 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 gpdf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 23. CESA-2007:0730 Important CentOS 4 i386 gpdf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 24. CESA-2007:0721 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 qt - security update (Johnny Hughes) 25. CESA-2007:0721 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 qt - security update (Johnny Hughes) 26. CESA-2007:0721 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) qt - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 27. CESA-2007:0729 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) kdegraphics - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 28. CESA-2007:0735-01: Important CentOS 2 i386 xpdf security update (John Newbigin) 29. CESA-2007:0720 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 cups Update (Karanbir Singh) 30. CESA-2007:0720 Important CentOS 5 i386 cups Update (Karanbir Singh) 31. CESA-2007:0729 Important CentOS 5 i386 kdegraphics Update (Karanbir Singh) 32. CESA-2007:0729 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 kdegraphics Update (Karanbir Singh) 33. CESA-2007:0732 Important CentOS 5 i386 poppler Update (Karanbir Singh) 34. CESA-2007:0732 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 poppler Update (Karanbir Singh) 35. CESA-2007:0721 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 qt Update (Karanbir Singh) 36. CESA-2007:0721 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 qt Update (Karanbir Singh) 37. CESA-2007:0721 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) qt - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:35:49 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0720 Important CentOS 3 ia64 cups - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20070731173549.GZ28734(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0720 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0720.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/cups-1.1.17-13.3.45.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/cups-devel-1.1.17-13.3.45.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.45.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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yum-updatesd.conf on centos 5
by Indunil Jayasooriya 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

Hi All, I am running CentOS5 . Yum pkg was installed by deault fresh installation. pls see below for installed yum pkgs. [root@mailgw ~]# rpm -qa |grep yum yum-updatesd-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.2 yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.2 later, I installed below pkg for protection. yum-protectbase-1.0.4-2.el5.centos Now, everything works. But, in this vershion of yum, It has no crontab running. It has a file called /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf instaed. in this yum-updatesd.conf file, by default, below 3 lines were set to no # automatically install updates do_update = no # automatically download updates do_download = no # automatically download deps of updates do_download_deps = no I changed it to yes. Pls see below for my yum-updatesd.conf file. [root@mailgw ~]# cat /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf [main] # how often to check for new updates (in seconds) run_interval = 3600 # how often to allow checking on request (in seconds) updaterefresh = 600 # how to send notifications (valid: dbus, email, syslog) emit_via = dbus # should we listen via dbus to give out update information/check for # new updates dbus_listener = yes # automatically install updates do_update = yes # automatically download updates do_download = yes # automatically download deps of updates do_download_deps = yes Then, I noticed it runs all the time. Is it proper? or is there any other way to run yum. Pls note that I need to download and install all the upfdates automaticallyas I have installed yum-protectbase. Help needed. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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Lost file associations, too - urgent
by Mark Hull-Richter 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

I just returned from a week's vacation and brought my CentOS 5.0 system back up, updated it, and somehow it has lost all the .doc file associations. These used to be associated with the OpenOffice writer, but that's now gone. ACtually, all the "open with" associations are gone (rtf's now think they should be opened by the text editor!). I'm not sure exactly what the association should be - can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks. mhr

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Linux File System w/case-insensitivity
by Al Sparks 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

I used to mount some files via Samba which resided on a windows machine on a CentOS box. We moved the files to a NetApp filer, and I was unable to mount those files using either Samba or CIFS. Most of my problems with Samba were related to the (Windows?) password encryption scheme that has not been included in the Samba suite. Even if I use the mount t cifs, it didn't work. So on the NetApp filer, we switched the volume to NFS only (having the volume as both NFS and CIFS also didn't work, strangely enough), and I was able to mount the volume. Fine. But now the complaint is that the files are case sensitive, and doing searches for a particular file is problematical. So the question: Is there a file system that linux can access that's case insensitive? I guess making a LUN off the NetApp filer and formatting NTFS would work. But I thought I'd ask if there's other alternatives. Also, I think that it would have to be writable. I haven't checked, but isn't NTFS mountable read-only by linux? === Al

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heartbeat-2.1.2.el5.centos is released for i386/x86_64 for both CentOS-4 and CentOS-5 in the Extras repository.
by Johnny Hughes 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

heartbeat-2.1.2.el5.centos is released for i386/x86_64 for both CentOS-4 and CentOS-5 in the Extras repository. We have been working very hard with the Linux-HA guys on this one. It should be working fairly well. Use this tracker for feedback on this release: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1305 Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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Scripting a directory change on CentOS
by James B. Byrne 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

This is probably a FAQ item but despite searching extensively with google I am unable to find an answerer to this question. Perhaps I am using the wrong words. In any case, at the risk of inducing some mirth at my ignorance, how can one script a cd command so that that the user remains in that directory when the script exits? I have to work with a long path to a project working directory and I would like to have a simple script called "current" which would produce the same effect as issuing this from the shell: cd ./very/long/path/to/obscurely/titled/project/directory I cannot seem to find anything that directly addresses this, other than to point out that shell scripts run in their own copy of the shell interpreter and so anything done to the PWD therein is local to the duration of the script. I could create a logical link from my home directory I suppose, but I desire a scripted solution. I really do not wish to program a utility to do this and I cannot believe that many people have not already addressed this desire with a straight forward answer. So if any of you have a simple to implement solution then could you share your answer with me? As I am a digest subscriber in addition to your answer to the list the favour of a direct reply 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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Problem with mdadm softRAID in CentOS4.5!
by israel.garcia＠cimex.com.cu 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

I have a server running some dababases in CentOS4.5 fully updated, but this morning I read this error in messages log: Trover st0:Block limits 1- 16777215 bytes ****************************************************************** 172.25.8.236: Servinaves ATA ABNORMAL DTATUS 0X20DF ATA ABNORMAL DTATUS 0X20DF ATA ABNORMAL DTATUS 0X20DF ata comand 0x35 timeout, stat 0xd0 host - stat 0x21 atat1: status = 0xd0 Busy SCSI error: 2000 returns code0x8000002 current sda sense key aborted command additional sense:Scsi parity error end- request:110 error, devsda,sector 87008471 ******************************************************************** I have mdadm running RAID1 with two disk! Thanks in advance! Regards; Israel

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centos5/xen does not see all memory
by Peter Peltonen 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

I have a server with 6 gigs of memory. CentOS5/Xen sees only half of it. Could someone advice me how to get it recognize all my memory? I have installed 32bit CentOS5 and I'm running kernel-xen-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5. This kernel should have PAE support: $ grep PAE /boot/config-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen CONFIG_X86_PAE=y But xentop reports only 3 gigs of memory: Mem: 3145148k total, 2400512k used, 744636k free CPUs: 2 @ 2612MHz If I boot with kernel-PAE-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 the system recognizes all memory but I cannot use Xen. My motherboard is Supermicro H8SMA-2 A64/Opteron with MD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ processor and 2 x 1GB ECC DDR-II SDRAM and 2x 2GB ECC DDR-II SDRAM. Regards, Peter

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yum remove 'tomcat*'?
by Les Mikesell 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

On CentOS 5, why does 'yum remove tomcat*' remove all of the openoffice packages? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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File Size
by Centos 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hello What is the largest file size that can be created on Linux ? is there any limitation ? Thanks

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Any SELinux gurus around?
by Ray Van Dolson 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hey all, I'm having some trouble getting PHP5 w/ CentOS 5 to connect to a remote MySQL server using the standard mysql_connect() call. Yes, MySQL libraries are installed along with php-mysql... The only way I can get it to work is to run setenforce Permissive, otherwise the connection fails. The annoying thing is that nothing at all shows up in my /var/log/messages file describing why SELinux is stopping this connection. If I run my script with the CLI php binary, it connects to the remote server fine, just not when executed via httpd. I tried running the following on my PHP script: chcon -u system_u -t httpd_sys_content_t test.php But still I cannot complete a connection until I put SELinux back in Permissive mode. Any tips? Why isn't SELinux sending a message to the logs (it does for other SElinux issues just fine)? TIA, Ray

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Upgrade mode with kickstart
by Denis Machard 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Helllo, I'll like to add rpms during a upgrade with kickstart installation. I specified the name of rpm in "%package" section but the rpm isn't installed. This feature isn't supported with CentOS 4.4 ? # Kickstart upgrade # Reboot after install reboot #cdrom lang en_US.UTF-8 langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 ..... %packages vsftpd ... Thanks in advance, Denis MACHARD

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x86_64 rpms
by David Hrbáč 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hi, I'm preparing a new x86_64 build machine and I'm looking at installed rpms. I have found a lot of packages are marked i386 or i686. I have even found I have two version of package installed: glibc-2.3.4-2.36-i686 glibc-2.3.4-2.36-x86_64 What's the reason in duplicity and why not all packages are x86_64. Thanks in advance, David

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Ham Radio s/w and CentOS? {including Echolink}
by Scott Ehrlich 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

I am going to present Linux to my ham radio club at some point in the next few months, and wanted to collect info on ham radio software, including options for echolink. Our repeater has an echolink connection, thus if I present the software available for it, it might perk up people's interests more. It would also be very helpful if the echlink applications offered proxy/firewall options so people at companies or at home that have networks that implement firewalls, can proxy out and still get on Echolink. Also, anyone know of a live-on-CD/DVD CentOS distribution that may include Echolink and/or other ham software? Thanks for any leads. Scott, WY1Z

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CentOS Within VirtualPC 2007
by Robert Jackson 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Trying to get CentOS 5 running under VirtualPC 2007. The installation seems to go OK until X server runs. After this the screen display goes horribly wrong. Does anyone know if this is an issue with v5 or something else. Also has anyone managed to get CentOS running properly (from the install) under VirtualPC 2007? Regards, Rab. =========================================================== Robert Jackson Phone: +44 (0) 141 332 7999 Software Engineer Fax: +44 (0) 141 331 2820 Walker Martyn Ltd 1 Park Circus Place Email: rab(a)walkermartyn.co.uk Glasgow G3 6AH, Scotland Web: http://www.walkermartyn.co.uk =========================================================== ************************************************************************ The information in this internet E-mail is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access, copying or re-use of information in it by anyone else is unauthorised. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Walker Martyn Ltd or any of its affiliates. If you are not the intended recipient please contact administrator(a)walkermartyn.co.uk Walker Martyn Ltd, company number SC197533. Company is registered in Scotland and has its registered office at 1 Park Circus Place, Glasgow G3 6AH, UK. ****************************************************************

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 29, Issue 15
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '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-2007:0720 Important CentOS 3 i386 cups - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2007:0720 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 cups - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2007:0735 Important CentOS 3 i386 xpdf - security update (Tru Huynh) 4. CESA-2007:0735 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 xpdf - security update (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:57:24 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0720 Important CentOS 3 i386 cups - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20070730215724.GA20383(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0720 cups security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0720.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/cups-1.1.17-13.3.45.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/cups-devel-1.1.17-13.3.45.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.45.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/cups-1.1.17-13.3.45.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update cups\* 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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update from HD
by Tony Barratt 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hello, Have install of centos 4.5 on Xeon 64 bit. Want to copy install DVD to harddrive and later use this to update the OS. However I dont know how to ask the install program to look on the harddrive rather than DVD CD. TIA Tony

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Re: [CentOS] memory query
by Mailing LIsts 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

On 28 July 2007, simon wrote: > I have recently installed centOS 5 on DELL pentium 2.7ghz (model > optiplex GX270) and have 512 memory Simon: Below is on the same box, after I did a clean install of CentOS 5.0. Still showing 512 MB of RAM, as it did with CentOS 4.4, which is what's installed in the box. Look at the information in the BIOS of that box and see what it shows you there. I'm using x86. Lanny > [mailing-lists@dell2400 ~]$ free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 514084 507700 6384 0 11148 226780 > -/+ buffers/cache: 269772 244312 > Swap: 1044184 144 1044040 > [mailing-lists@dell2400 ~]$ cat /proc/meminfo > MemTotal: 514084 kB > MemFree: 5704 kB > Buffers: 11292 kB > Cached: 226316 kB > SwapCached: 0 kB > Active: 281128 kB > Inactive: 130944 kB > HighTotal: 0 kB > HighFree: 0 kB > LowTotal: 514084 kB > LowFree: 5704 kB > SwapTotal: 1044184 kB > SwapFree: 1044040 kB > Dirty: 176 kB > Writeback: 0 kB > AnonPages: 174476 kB > Mapped: 62020 kB > Slab: 21928 kB > PageTables: 4396 kB > NFS_Unstable: 0 kB > Bounce: 0 kB > CommitLimit: 1301224 kB > Committed_AS: 684364 kB > VmallocTotal: 507896 kB > VmallocUsed: 4748 kB > VmallocChunk: 502772 kB > HugePages_Total: 0 > HugePages_Free: 0 > HugePages_Rsvd: 0 > Hugepagesize: 4096 kB > [mailing-lists@dell2400 ~]$

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Misterious Yum install Error: "package ... is reduced"
by Robinson Tiemuqinke 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hi, Here is a newbie to Yum on Centos 5. I got an interesting yet misterious problem here. When I rolled a mod_jk package and tried to install it onto a bunch of Centos 5 boxes with comand 'yum -e 10 -d 10 install mod_jk', it fails with the messages at end; and so mod_jk just ended up ignored. But when I manually run 'rpm -ivh --test mod_jk...rpm' on command line it reports no problem. Please help. ----------------------------------------------------- ... Reading Local RPMDB Parsing package install arguments No other mod_jk installed, adding to list for potential install reduced installs : mod_jk.x86_64 0:1.2.23-1_myRolled skipping reposetup, pkgsack exists skipping reposetup, pkgsack exists Building updates object ... skipping reposetup, pkgsack exists skipping reposetup, pkgsack exists Package httpd - 2.2.3-7.el5.centos.x86_64 already installed and latest version Nothing to do ... Any ____________________________________________________________________________________ Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/

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Misterious Yum install Error: "package ... is reduced"
by Robinson Tiemuqinke 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hi, Here is a newbie to Yum on Centos 5. I got an interesting yet misterious problem here. When I rolled a mod_jk package and tried to install it onto a bunch of Centos 5 boxes with comand 'yum -e 10 -d 10 install mod_jk', it fails with the messages at end; and so mod_jk just ended up ignored. But when I manually run 'rpm -ivh --test mod_jk...rpm' on command line it reports no problem. Please help. ----------------------------------------------------- ... Reading Local RPMDB Parsing package install arguments No other mod_jk installed, adding to list for potential install reduced installs : mod_jk.x86_64 0:1.2.23-1_myRolled skipping reposetup, pkgsack exists skipping reposetup, pkgsack exists Building updates object ... skipping reposetup, pkgsack exists skipping reposetup, pkgsack exists Package httpd - 2.2.3-7.el5.centos.x86_64 already installed and latest version Nothing to do ... Any ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/

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C5 RPM for RequestTracker now available
by mark pryor 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

Hello, I took a stab at packaging RequestTracker for CentOS 5. Basically some needed FC6 packages were rebuilt as el5. The results are here: http://www.tlviewer.org/rt3/ I'm an rt3 newbie. I'm in the process of reading the DOCS and setting up the DB. The install via RPM appears to be sound. So far the login page for RT opens successfully. I've yet to setup the mail-dispatcher. -- Mark --------------------------------- Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids.

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Perl-related problem on rrdtool?
by Rogelio Bastardo 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

On CentOS 4.5, I have Cacti and Nagios installed. I'm trying to "glue" them together with a program called n2rdd but am having a problem that I wondering is Perl-related. When I run "tail /var/log/nagios/rra/n2rrd.log", I see lots of this sort of thing: server01: Missing template for "server01" service "check_ping" "/etc/n2rrd/templates/rra/ping.t" I have a ping.t template in that file path, but it's still not working. In fact, I did one exactly like the example in the instructions (step 7, example 1: http://n2rrd.diglinks.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/InstallationGuide) and then I copied that icmp.t template to ping.t While I don't expect a CentOS list to help me with a non-CentOS, perhaps someone can tell me if this is a "Perl on CentOS" issue. I'm relatively new to installs requiring Perl and assumed I was ready to go Perl-wise on this version of CentOS Thanks.

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Problem maillog
by Adriano Frare 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

Dear Friends, How I restart logrotate ? Because file /var/log/maillog doesn't rotate log. Thanks Adriano

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Re: [CentOS] memory query
by Lanny Marcus 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

On 28 July 2007, simon wrote: > > I have recently installed centOS 5 on DELL pentium 2.7ghz (model > > optiplex GX270) and have 512 memory I received the CentOS 5.0 DVD today. ASAP, I will upgrade from 4.4. After that, I will let you know how 5.0 sees the available RAM, in the same box. The first place you need to look, is in the BIOS, to see how the box sees the RAM. If it doesn't see the RAM as available, CentOS won't either.

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Re: [CentOS] Re: SOLVED: Re: KStars on CentOS 4.4?
by Lanny Marcus 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

On 27 July 2007, Scott Silva wrote: >You can get Fedora 3 src rpms for Centos 4 and Fedora 6 srpms for >Centos 5. Then it can be as simple as rpmbuild --rebuild bla- >bla-.src.rpm. It can also be difficult if other dependencies creep in. >But the rpmbuild process should warn you. Scott: Thank you again! I think I have the SRC RPMS for FC3 and FC6. I will do some reading, about rpmbuild. Lanny

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incredible heartbeat 2.X depencies
by Martin Hamant 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

# activating extras repo # issuing "yum install heartbeat" # got : (...tons of depedencies resolution...) ttmkfdir-3.0.9-20.el4.i38 100% |=========================| 6.6 kB 00:00 ---> Package ttmkfdir.i386 0:3.0.9-20.el4 set to be updated --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: heartbeat i386 2.0.7-1.c4 extras 1.8 M Installing for dependencies: atk i386 1.8.0-2 base 170 k chkfontpath i386 1.10.0-2 base 13 k cpp i386 3.4.6-8 base 1.6 M curl i386 7.12.1-11.el4 base 230 k fontconfig i386 2.2.3-7.centos4 base 117 k fonts-xorg-base noarch 6.8.2-1.EL base 7.3 M gnutls i386 1.0.20-3.2.3 base 259 k gtk2 i386 2.4.13-22 base 4.3 M heartbeat-pils i386 2.0.7-1.c4 extras 124 k heartbeat-stonith i386 2.0.7-1.c4 extras 223 k libglade2 i386 2.4.0-5 base 91 k libidn i386 0.5.6-1 base 169 k libjpeg i386 6b-33 base 127 k libtiff i386 3.6.1-12 base 257 k nx i386 1.5.0-1.centos4 extras 2.5 M pango i386 1.6.0-9 base 271 k pygtk2 i386 2.4.0-1 base 639 k switchdesk noarch 4.0.6-3 base 13 k ttmkfdir i386 3.0.9-20.el4 base 44 k xinitrc noarch 4.0.14.3-1 base 26 k xorg-x11 i386 6.8.2-1.EL.18 base 13 M xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL i386 6.8.2-1.EL.18 base 383 k xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU i386 6.8.2-1.EL.18 base 448 k xorg-x11-font-utils i386 6.8.2-1.EL.18 base 307 k xorg-x11-libs i386 6.8.2-1.EL.18 base 2.7 M xorg-x11-tools i386 6.8.2-1.EL.18 base 516 k xorg-x11-xauth i386 6.8.2-1.EL.18 base 284 k xorg-x11-xfs i386 6.8.2-1.EL.18 base 319 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 29 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 38 M 38Mb and xorg-x11 seems a bit too much for a "simple" heartbeat, no ? -- Martin Hamant

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Hard disk recomendation for a software raid 5 array. Does Linux Software Raid support/interacts well with TLER enabled disks.
by Alexander Georgiev 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

Hi people, I am building a cheap remote rsync backup server using a software raid 5 array of 4 500GB disks. What I have available on the market is: 1. HITACHI GST Deskstar T7K500 500GB 7200rpm 16MB cache Serial ATA II-300 2. SEAGATE Barracuda 7200.10 with NCQ 500GB 7200rpm 16MB cache Serial ATA II-300 3. Western Digital 500GB SATAII RAID EDITION Caviar SE16 7200rpm 8.9ms 16MB cache I am tempted to use the Western Digital Raid Edition as it has 5 years of warranty. However I found out that the "Raid Edition" means that the disk supports TLER - time limited error recovery: http://www.excelmeridiandata.com/products/wd_raid_edition_drive.shtml A more profound description can be found here http://www.wdc.com/en/library/sata/2579-001098.pdf. In summary, the error recovery time of the hard disk is reduced to 8 second. If the hard disk cannot perform the recovery it will report an error to the RAID controller and delegate the recovery to the controller. As I intend to use linux software raid on Centos 5, I will not have a RAID controller to deal with this delegated error, but two cheap I/O SATA controllers. Has anybody used 'raid edition' disks with software raid? Does anybody know how linux software raid interacts/supports these TLER disks. Best regards Alex

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MRTG with 14all.cgi on centos 5
by Indunil Jayasooriya 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

Hi, I installed mrtg on centos5 with 14all.cgi script. I downloaded it from below URL. http://my14all.sourceforge.net/14all-1.1.txt and copies it as 14all.cgi @ /var/www/cg-bin I made a few changes to the script. Those changes can be seen in BOLDletteres. # if MRTG_lib.pm (from mrtg) is not in the module search path (@INC) # uncomment the following line and change the path appropriatly: #use lib qw(/usr/local/mrtg-2/lib/mrtg2); use lib qw(/usr/lib/mrtg2); # if RRDs (rrdtool perl module) is not in the module search path (@INC) # uncomment the following line and change the path appropriatly # or use a LibAdd: setting in the config file #use lib qw(/usr/local/rrdtool-1.0.38/lib/perl); use lib qw(/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi); ### where the mrtg.cfg file is # anywhere in the filespace #$cfgfile = '/home/mrtg/mrtg.cfg'; #$cfgfile = '/etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg'; # relative to the script $cfgfile = ' mrtg.cfg'; # use this so 14all.cgi gets the cfgfile name from the script name #(14all.cgi -> 14all.cfg) #$cfgfile = 'mrtg.cfg'; It works fine. But When this server comes up , after rebooting, the traffic of the First graph (i.e Daily' graph (5 Minute Average) goes up, both incoming and outgoing traffic go up to 50-60 Mbits per secrond. This happened, Whenever the system comes up after a reboot. Any idea to solve this issue? Unless it reboots, It works fine. Also, I want to know, Where is this mtrg date stored? I want to back up data. If the system crashes one day, then, I will be able to retrieve it. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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Re: [CentOS] Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)
by Lanny Marcus 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

On 28 July 2007, Dag Wieers wrote: <snip> > Let me add that an effort to make sure EPEL is compatible with > RPMforge failed as EPEL wants to become the only repository for RHEL > and there is no interest to consider current RPMforge users. > > EPEL refused the repotag, so one cannot easily identify where a > package comes from and mixing repositories becomes harder. Since > compatibility is a 2 way interaction and EPEL shows no interest, it is > certain that mixing EPEL with other repositories may break something. <snip> Dag: I hope you will consider rewriting that post to the ML and putting it into the CentOS Wiki. Rewriting may not be necessary. Your post was pretty explicit and very informative. IMHO, it will be a great addition to the Repository Wiki. Lanny

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CentOS 3.9's up2date missing sources???
by Lawrence Houston 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

CentOS3.9 Users: After applying all Updates to Upgrade from CentOS 3.8 CentOS 3.9 I find up2date no longer works "correctly" (or shall I say NOT as before)... Missing is the "sources" File!!! Is this how V 4.5.5-7 is supposed to be or is the "sources" File omission an "error"??? Lawrence Houston -- (centos(a)greenfield.dyndns.org)

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Unsubscribe Me Please
by Robert J. Thompson 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

Please unsubscribe me from the Centos mailing list.

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typo on a Wiki page
by Lanny Marcus 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

I don't know the correct way to get this into the system, so I'm posting here. On this page: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities a line begins: Some packages specify obsoletes in their metadata. This property of a packages that should be "This property of a package" not packages, singular. An incredibly minor error, on an extremely helpful Wiki page. Lanny

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Higher memory requirements for 64 bit?
by Steve Bergman 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

I have a dual Xeon 3.2GHz XDMCP server serving out about 50 Gnome desktops to thin clients. I currently am running 32 bit with 4GB of memory. Performance is fine, normally, and the machine runs with about 3GB in swap. However, if a user app suddenly sucks up the maximum allowed rss and virtual or 256MB/process as specified by ulimit, the resulting swap drags the machine down to the point that people think it is locked up. I have another 4GB of memory on order. But I suspect that part of the problem may be running out of memory in zone-normal, which I know will cause swap storms. (An oops in the log file suggests that is where memory was tight.) I had low memory protection set to 150MB, and have increased that to 256MB. (I had to increase it to at least 135MB previously, else dd if=/dev/zero of=/tempfile.tmp would start a swap storm that would bring the machine to its knees.) More users will be added to this machine, and I am worried about having an ever higher percentage of this (16GB maximum) machine in zone high. So I am considering moving it from 32 bit CentOS4 to 64 bit CentOS5 or 64 bit Fedora 7. But a cursory test of the 32 and 64 bit versions of firefox suggest to me that, just opening them up and going to google.com, the 64 bit version uses about 50% more memory than the 32 bit version. Could someone please comment on how much of an additional memory hit I might expect? The VM risks and benefits that I might be taking? Really, *any* commentary about this scenario would be appreciated. Thanks, Steve Bergman

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Re: [CentOS] memory query
by Lanny Marcus 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

On 28 July 2007, simon wrote: > I have recently installed centOS 5 on DELL pentium 2.7ghz (model > optiplex GX270) and have 512 memory I do not have a CentOS 5 box yet, Below is on a CentOS 4.4 box. A low end Dell Dimension 2400 (Celeron 2.6 GHz, with 512 MB RAM and integrated video and sound). I hope someone running CentOS 5.0 can reply to you! Check out the manual for the Optiplex (and the BIOS settings) and the Support area of Dell.com and maybe you will find out where the missing RAM is used. There's also a Linux area, in the Dell Support forums. Lanny > [mailing-lists@dell2400 ~]$ free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 514440 511260 3180 0 22444 266204 > -/+ buffers/cache: 222612 291828 > Swap: 1044184 0 1044184 > [mailing-lists@dell2400 ~]$ cat /proc/meminfo > MemTotal: 514440 kB > MemFree: 2856 kB > Buffers: 22560 kB > Cached: 266208 kB > SwapCached: 0 kB > Active: 235784 kB > Inactive: 180100 kB > HighTotal: 0 kB > HighFree: 0 kB > LowTotal: 514440 kB > LowFree: 2856 kB > SwapTotal: 1044184 kB > SwapFree: 1044184 kB > Dirty: 8 kB > Writeback: 0 kB > Mapped: 165624 kB > Slab: 23660 kB > CommitLimit: 1301404 kB > Committed_AS: 521484 kB > PageTables: 2696 kB > VmallocTotal: 499704 kB > VmallocUsed: 3720 kB > VmallocChunk: 495604 kB > HugePages_Total: 0 > HugePages_Free: 0 > Hugepagesize: 4096 kB

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Re: [CentOS] typo on a Wiki page
by Lanny Marcus 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

On 28 July 2007, Akemi Yagi wrote: > A nice catch. As you know, typos are a hallmark for some CentOS > developers and an integral part of the CentOS project because they > make this OS stand out. :-) I laughed, when I read that! I believe they want to make it as perfect as they possibly can. Actually, I wondered about reporting that typo, because it seems like serious nit picking.

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4gb ram shows as 3.3gb
by Nick 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

Hi, Running Centos 5 (32bit)... running a server with 4gb of RAM and it's shows up as: [root@ubercore1 ~]# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3369544 2549668 819876 0 29008 2382360 -/+ buffers/cache: 138300 3231244 Swap: 6291448 0 6291448 I know 4gb is the limit for a 32bit OS but i thought it would be able to use all of it? Is there another kernel i was supposed to install? --N

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Centos as a desktop, advisable?
by beast 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

Hello, I would like to deploy centos on hundreds of client PC (a new setup). Presently, several distros has attract me due to their focus on the desktop, however they only have few months lifetime before a new version released. Is it advisable using centos on client? what about support for new hardware and several office productivity software like openoffice, did centos always update to the latest version? Previously i was using RH9 on several hundreds clients and love it, however the update was horrible since it is unsupported, hence I can not install it on the new hardware (ie. sata) thanks. --beast

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rpms for 32 bit
by Tony Barratt 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

Thanks Johnny, I dont think there is Internet access on the boxes I have to deal with. What I am trying to get to grips with is the problems described here: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/library/es-rhel-coexist/ Although actually the hardware is different and I will be using centos 4.0 I guess I need Legacy, Compatibility ARCH Development Support 8 Legacy Software Development 5 Compatibility ARCH Development Support 191 But I dont know which rpms are in these 3 groups, I will only have remote text based access and if I had a list of these rpms I could do a rpm -q to see if they were installed. (maybe these are in a packing list or xml file somewhere?) Also I recall doing some similar application install on 32 bit hardware with Centos 4.0 which meant I had to install some (32 bit) compat libs cos the app was expecting to run on Centos 3.0. So now I might need to install, with ssh/scp, rpms for 32 bit compatability and also 4.0/3.0 compatability. Any further pointers, so I can crack on, rather than scratch my head ;-) TIA Tony Tony Barratt wrote: > Hello! > > Need to install the required rpmz to support 32bit apps on 64bit Centos 4. > How to find out which rpmz are needed? Probably the easiest way is to first make sure you have a .rpmmacros file (in at least root's home directory, also any users that you routinely use to solve dep issues) ... in that file, put this line: %_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch} That will make all rpm queries show you the $ARCH of the RPMS ... Then, you should be able to bring the file in question onto the machine and do: yum localinstall <filename> ---OR--- If the packages are in the x86_64 repos now, just: yum install <name>.i386 There are some i386 packages inside the x86_64 tree, if you are trying to run others (specifically from 3rd party repos) then you are going to have issues if you try to install the i386 and x86_64 programs at the same time because of shared files (files that exist in both the i386 and x86_64 repos). Most of these shared files are in /usr/share/doc or /etc .. though, maybe also /usr/include and others. The way shared files work is that the shared file MUST have the same md5sum on both $ARCHs (i386 and x86_64) ... which for doc files that are generated via texinfo or other things is quite hard to accomplish. You can minimize shared file problems by installing all i386 duplicate packages with this option: rpm -Uvh --excludedocs <package> This is quite a PITA because you loose the ability to use yum for installs or updates. You could also use the "tsflags=excludedocs" in your /etc/yum.conf file ... but then you get no documentation from any i386 OR x86_64 packages that you install. Either way ... running 32bit packages on x86_64 machines is a royal PITA, and I would recommend that you use a 32bit OS where you know you will need 32bit packages if at all possible. Thanks, Johnny Hughes Tony

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memory query
by simon 28 Jul '07

28 Jul '07

Dear All, I have recently installed centOS 5 on DELL pentium 2.7ghz (model optiplex GX270) and have 512 memory but the OS free command show me Mem: 473876 469892 3984 0 11288 69384 -/+ buffers/cache: 389220 84656 Swap: 1020088 0 1020088 also cat /proc/meminfo show me same MemTotal: 473876 kB MemFree: 4108 kB Buffers: 11040 kB Cached: 69376 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 374072 kB Inactive: 67712 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 473876 kB LowFree: 4108 kB also top gives me the same info why i am loosing the memory.. appreciate your help Thanks n reagrds simon -- Network Administrator

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Re: sono in ferie dal 28-8-2007 al 5-8-2007
by webmaster＠3vit.it 28 Jul '07

28 Jul '07

sono in ferie dal 28-8-2007 al 5-8-2007 mi trovate in ufficio dal 6 al 10 agosto luigi mangili

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copying files between hosts
by simon 28 Jul '07

28 Jul '07

Dear All, i need to copy mail files from my REDHAT Linux old server to my CENTOS new server these files in mbox formay in/var/mail directory i need to preserve permissions as well the the modification date n time i tried using scp it works fine but i can the file permissions r not preserved but the date n time is preserved if i try rcp it gives me error xx.yy.zz.1: Connection refused i have the .rhosts file also apprecite your hep regards simon -- Network Administrator

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openoffice
by beast 28 Jul '07

28 Jul '07

Since rpm from openoffice.org was not nicely integrate with Centos, what is the best way to make OO uptodate, can i use (or depend on) package from fedora (it slightly outdate but not too far from OO release). Having see the huge spec file (around 3700 lines), building it ourself is really not fun :( --beast

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