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Checking badblocks using KS
by balajisundar＠midascomm.com 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '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? --Regards S.Balaji

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post Installation
by PV Juliet 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

Hi, I made my own distribution CD . when i am installing this before post installation /usr/sbin/mouseconfig no such file a message displays . can anyone can suggest why it's happens??/ Thanks in advance Regards juliet

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.htaccess problems..... Using Drupal
by Franklin S Werren 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

Hi All; I am trying out the web software from www.drupal.org and I have it Installed to a point ok in my www.werren.net domains. Every time I try to use the .htaccess file in the root directory With even one command showing I get a server mis-config error on the site. The default .htaccess is shown below I use Cent OS 4.7 using the Blue Quartz installer from Nuonce Networks http://www.nuonce.net/bq-cd.php Also the .htaccess for the /files subdirectory will not work I cannot get the GUI uploader to work.... Ideas ??? I figure it is an OS issue not a BQ issue -----------------------------------------------/web/files SetHandler Drupal_Security_Do_Not_Remove_See_SA_2006_006 Options None Options +FollowSymLinks ---------------------------------------/web or domain root # # Apache/PHP/Drupal settings: # # Protect files and directories from prying eyes. <FilesMatch "(\.(engine|inc|info|install|module|profile|po|sh|.*sql|theme|tpl(\.php)?|xt mpl)|code-style\.pl|Entries.*|Repository|Root|Tag|Template)$"> Order allow,deny </FilesMatch> # Don't show directory listings for URLs which map to a directory. Options -Indexes # Follow symbolic links in this directory. Options +FollowSymLinks # Customized error messages. ErrorDocument 404 /index.php # Set the default handler. DirectoryIndex index.php # Override PHP settings. More in sites/default/settings.php # but the following cannot be changed at runtime. # PHP 4, Apache 1. <IfModule mod_php4.c> php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0 php_value register_globals 0 php_value session.auto_start 0 </IfModule> # PHP 4, Apache 2. <IfModule sapi_apache2.c> php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0 php_value register_globals 0 php_value session.auto_start 0 </IfModule> # PHP 5, Apache 1 and 2. <IfModule mod_php5.c> php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0 php_value register_globals 0 php_value session.auto_start 0 </IfModule> # Requires mod_expires to be enabled. <IfModule mod_expires.c> # Enable expirations. ExpiresActive On # Cache all files for 2 weeks after access (A). ExpiresDefault A1209600 # Do not cache dynamically generated pages. ExpiresByType text/html A1 </IfModule> # Various rewrite rules. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on # If your site can be accessed both with and without the prefix www. you # can use one of the following settings to force user to use only one option: # # If you want the site to be accessed WITH the www. only, adapt and # uncomment the following: # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC] # RewriteRule .* http://www.example.com/ [L,R=301] # # If you want the site to be accessed only WITHOUT the www. prefix, adapt # and uncomment the following: # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC] # RewriteRule .* http://example.com/ [L,R=301] # Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory and # the rewrite rules are not working properly. #RewriteBase /drupal # Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'node.php?id=x'. #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^&]+)$ #RewriteRule node.php index.php?q=node/view/%1 [L] # Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'module.php?mod=x'. #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^mod=([^&]+)$ #RewriteRule module.php index.php?q=%1 [L] # Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'index.php?q=x'. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA] </IfModule> # $Id: .htaccess,v 1.81 2007/01/09 09:27:10 dries Exp $ Thanks.. Franklin S. Werren webmaster(a)bagpipes.net www.bagpipes.net www.chautauqualake.net www.franksradio.net www.chautauqua.us All messages sent from this computer are scanned by more than one Virus Scanner and are Certified to be Virus Free. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.8/904 - Release Date: 7/16/2007 5:42 PM

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RE: [CentOS] XFS module
by Alex Palenschat 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

> It's this guy? > > kmod-xfs-0.4-1.el4.2.6.9_55.0.2.EL.x86_64.rpm > If this is the replacement (I'm searching list archives but can't seem to find any reference) then how do I load it. I have the yum priorities plugin and it still tries to load the plus kernel (which I'm not using). Do I load it by hand as I always did with kernel-module-xfs? Thanks for answering, alex

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apache mod_authnz_ldap: multiple servers syntaxes
by kfx 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

Hello, I'm trying this here first before moving to the apache list. Maybe someone of you use mod_authnz_ldap with multiple ldap servers declaration for redundancy. With one server declared it is working. Here is what I've tried for adding another one (space separated as read in the apache's doc) : .... AuthLDAPURL ldaps://ldap1.example.com/ou=People,dc=example,dc=com?uid??(businessCategor… ldaps://ldap2.example.com/ou=People,dc=example,dc=com?uid??(businessCategor… .... Result: Syntax error on line 43 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/trac.conf: Invalid LDAP connection mode setting: must be one of NONE, SSL, or TLS/STARTTLS Second test with quotes (as seen with some googling): .... AuthLDAPURL "ldaps://ldap1.example.com/ou=People,dc=example,dc=com?uid??(businessCategor… ldaps://ldap2.example.com/ou=People,dc=example,dc=com?uid??(businessCategor…" .... Result: Syntax error on line 43 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/trac.conf: Bad URL encountered while parsing LDAP URL. I've also tried to quote each ldap's declaration. No go. Can someone show me the clean way to achieve this ? Thanks, kfx.

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Havp Version 0.86 RPM ?
by Indunil Jayasooriya 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

Hi, I want to use Havp Version 0.86 with SQUID on CENTOS 4.4 and 5. But, no Havp 0.86 RPM still can not be found. I want to build Havp 0.86 RPM and SRPM by using the tarball. So, I got havp.spec file written for Havp 0.82 and changed its version to Version: 0.86 . Then, I did below command. [root@worldnet SPECS]# rpmbuild -ta havp.spec error: Name field must be present in package: (main package) error: Version field must be present in package: (main package) error: Release field must be present in package: (main package) error: Summary field must be present in package: (main package) error: Group field must be present in package: (main package) error: License field must be present in package: (main package) then, It gave the above error. then, I tried below command. [root@worldnet SPECS]# rpmbuild -ba havp.spec error: File /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/havp- init.patch: No such file or directory then, It gave the above error. What are these errors. How can I solve this? any instructions to build havp 0.86 RPM out of havp-0.86.tar.gz? -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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Flash-plugin ?
by jarmo 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

Hi Have anyone got Adobe's flash-plugin 9.x.x.x working under centos 5? I can get video working ok, but no sound. Using alsa, and can play with other players all other sound formats, but flash's sound. Have tested plugin with FF 1.5, latest opera and konqueror, dead :( Anyone could give me some "twisted ironsting" model, how to get it working. After couple of hours googling, no help, but similar problems loud a much. Jarmo

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CentOS 5 dvd installation
by david chong 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

Sorry if I post to the wrong place. Please give direction. I downloaded CentOS 5 dvd iso and burn it to a DVD-R, then booting it from my computer, but the following appear: Can't find kernal image: linux boot: I read the RHEL installation guide but it says for CD installation the installation program will start by itself, but why this happen for DVD? Did I miss anything? Thanks in advance. david

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Flash Media Server 2
by Lam, Eric 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

Hi, I need to install Flash Media Server on a Centos box. When running the installation script, I get a.... [root@... FMS_2_0_3_r68_linux]# ./installFMS ./fmsini: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ERROR: Your are running the Macromedia Flash Media Server installer on the wrong platform. Please advise. Anyone have any experience installing FMS on Centos? Is there a RPM package? Should I just go into the script and remove the platform checking routine? Thanks.

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About firefox 64 bit version
by devel 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

Is available new version of Firefox? This version have problems of stability and with java script > firefox-1.5.0.9-10.el5.centos > firefox-1.5.0.9-10.el5.centos

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RE: [CentOS] XFS module
by Alex Palenschat 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

>> >> I am in the same boat. I cannot find an rpm that correlates to the >> 2.6.9-55.0.2 kernel. I am running this on an x86_64 architecture. >> >> Alex > > It's this guy? > > kmod-xfs-0.4-1.el4.2.6.9_55.0.2.EL.x86_64.rpm > I have been using the kernel-module-xfs rpm. Did I miss a change to the packaging/naming convention? alex

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RE: [CentOS] XFS module
by Alex Palenschat 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

Heitor Augusto M Cardozo wrote: > Hi, > > Im using XFS on production server and waiting the release of > kernel-module-xfs-2.6.9-55.0.2 on CentOSPlus Repository to update. Any > idea of release date? > > Thanks. I am in the same boat. I cannot find an rpm that correlates to the 2.6.9-55.0.2 kernel. I am running this on an x86_64 architecture. Alex

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RAID hard drive serial numbers?
by Scott Ehrlich 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

smartctl, hdparm, and sdparm all are valuable tools to obtain hard drive info. But, they don't seem to work, at least, on obtaining hard drive info from drives on a Dell PERC controller. Instead, I'm given basic PERC controller info, not drive info. Is there a tool to let me get the hard drive make/model/serial numbers from a hardware RAID setup? Thanks. Scott

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Re: [CentOS] Newbie ADSL configuration, ppp0 can't activate &
by Lanny Marcus 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

>Message: 9 >Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:30:39 -0400 >From: "William L. Maltby" <CentOS4Bill(a)triad.rr.com> >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Newbie ADSL configuration, ppp0 can't activate & >Message-ID: <1184524239.5514.8.camel(a)centos01.homegroannetworking> <snip> >I've been using IPCop several years now on a cable setup in the boonies >(few users, low sharing of bandwidth, great throughput). Since version William: I came in here about 430 this morning and I installed/configured IPCop 1.4.15 on a P3 500 MHz with 384 RAM. I'm online with the box running headless (I disconnected the monitor, keyboard and mouse). I was able to get to it via the web interface and did a backup to floppy disks. When I have time, I will explore the administration manual more and the web interface. IPCop has excellent documentation! Lanny

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courier-imap-mysql
by Tom Brown 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

Hi I see the courier-imap-mysql rpm is available on rpm.pbone.net, does anyone know if this is also available in a repo ? I looked in extras but it didn't find anything. thanks

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NIS problems after installation
by Steve Strong 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

so, i just installed CentOS on our server and set up NIS using the same configuration as on our other server, but the clients' ypbind services complain that although they can find the correct server, the server does not respond to requests. to debug this, i've: * pinged the server using its ip and it's name * ssh'ed to the server using it's ip and name * ftp'd to the server using its ip and name * used dig to get the server's address from itself (dig @stretch stretch.washcslab.org * checked to see that nfs and ypserv are running * checked to see if stretch could bind to it's own nis server and all of these were successful. so, I also: * run ypserv (on the server) and ypbind (on the server) both in debug mode and gotten no errors * run ypserv (on the server) and ypbind (on the CLIENT) both in debug mode and gotten no errors any help with this really gnarly bug would be greatly appreciated! steve -- Steve Strong Math and Computer Science Washington High School 2205 Forest Dr. SE Cedar Rapids, IA 52403 http://crwash.org mailto:strong@crwash.org

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Firestarter on Centos 5
by Robert Moskowitz 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

I am looking into different firewall tools. Well, I am looking to turn my Centos notebook into a NAT box, so that I can plug my corp notebook into its ethernet, and get access through my Centos notebook's wireless connection. (yes the corp notebook has wireless, but they frown on us using it!) I have started with Shorewall via webmin. I suspect that since my main firewall is Astaro, I will figure out Shorewall. But in an earlier post to this list, there was a reference to Firestarter (http://www.fs-security.com/) Thing is there is no Redhat/Centos 5.0 rpm, only 4.x. Anyone out there know if it will work?

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conga / luci not working in centos 5
by Shadow Lurker 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

I am trying to create a cluster in cent5 but keep running in bugs. First I ran into this bug: "A problem occurred when installing packages: failed to locate/execute module" http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1931 and followed the following suggestions in the above thread: mv /etc/redhat-release /etc/redhat-release.orig echo "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga)" > /etc/redhat-release This seemed to work but now I am experiencing another issue. Current Issue: I cannot create a cluster when the "Enable shared storage support" is checked. Conga appears to be trying to create the cluster as you get the "creating cluster message" then just bombs with the following error. "A problem occurred when installing packages: Failed to install packages" If I don't check the "enable shared storage support" the cluster is created and brought online. I need to get a cluster online with shared storage for gfs but these bugs are stopping me, could someone shed some insight on this. Thanks in advance!

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Gnome Bluetooth Manager
by Robert Moskowitz 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

I installed: gnome-bluetooth.i386 0.7.0-10.2.el5 from the base repo It also installed (at least): gnome-bluetooth-libs.i386 0.7.0-10.2.el5 These show up in /var/log/yum.log interestingly they do not show up in /var/log/rpmpkgs My bluetooth mouse is now working. It was not before. But I do not see any bluetooth management stuff in gnome (http://live.gnome.org/BluetoothManager) What gives? Did I forget a step? The following bluetooth related rpms area also installed: in rpmpkgs: bluez-gnome-0.5-5.fc6.i386.rpm bluez-hcidump-1.32-1.i386.rpm bluez-libs-3.7-1.i386.rpm bluez-utils-3.7-2.el5.centos.i386.rpm bluez-utils-cups-3.7-2.el5.centos.i386.rpm in yum.log: Jul 16 17:02:23 (yumex) Installed: gnome-bluetooth-libs.i386 0.7.0-10.2.el5 Jul 16 17:02:30 (yumex) Installed: gnome-bluetooth.i386 0.7.0-10.2.el5 Jul 16 17:02:37 (yumex) Installed: nautilus-sendto-bluetooth.i386 0.7-5.fc6

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Citrix Replacement
by Charles Yao 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

Hi Guys, What can I use as a replacement for Citrix for my apps? Charles

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Wireless newtworking in CentOS 5
by Andrew Allen 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

Installed CentOS 5 on my Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop, hoping that it will be easier to set up wireless networking than it was in CentOS 4.4. But still sooooo difficult to get it working, mainly because there doesn't appear to be a driver pre-installed for this wireless card ((Dell wireless 1390 Mini PCI network card 802.11b/g). Do I still have to use ipw2200 and what is this anyway? - I really don't understand why it is so difficult to get wireless networking in CentOS 5 when it works like a dream in Windows XP (I have a dual boot system, but I'd much rather use linux!). I've tried modprobe ipw2200 and all the rest of it with no success - what am I doing wrong please? Thanks, Andy

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Gnome Terminal and xterm problems
by Matt Shields 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

I've noticed this in CentOS 4 & 5 and Fedora 5 & 6. If I'm in Gnome desktop and using any of the terminal programs and I ssh into any server, the connection just hangs. Not drops, it just hangs and doesn't recover. These servers are all over the country on different ISPs in Tier1 datacenters. Some are in our office, so they are on the local lan. We have a mix of RHEL 3, 4 & 5 and CentOS 4 & 5 on the servers. If I'm using a windows computer with putty or SecureCRT this never happens, it only happens when I'm using any of our linux desktops or laptops. It doesn't matter if I'm in the office or at home (on comcast) or over at a friend's house (verizon dsl). This problem has been going on for at least two years and I'm finally fed up to the point where I might switch back to windows since 99% of my job is working while ssh'ed into servers. Anyone had similar problems? -matt

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Rebuild Fedora Core 6 cmake rpm on CentOS 5
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

Hi, I'm trying to build cmake on CentOS 5 from a Fedora Core 6 source rpm (I need it for another package I'm trying to build from a source rpm, xmlrpc-c). When I start the build, I get this error: error: Failed build dependencies: xmlrpc-c-devel is needed by cmake-2.4.6-3.el5.i386 Well, that's nuts. I can't build xmlrpm-c without cmake, but cmake won't build without xmlrpc-c-devel! I'm probably just going to try installing the Fedora Core 6 rpms on CentOS 5 to avoid this problem. But, how would one go about resolving a build problem like this? Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux 11:47:54 up 1 day, 5:47, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.06, 0.04

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upgrade my open ssl
by mailadmin＠baladia.gov.kw 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

Dear All, I have centos 4.5 final and when i installed it there is a openssl version openssl-0.9.7a-43.16 .. i need to upgrade it to openssl 0.9.8 .. also when i try to uninstall it it gives me a failed dependency errror actually i did a nodeps and uninstalled openssl ver 0.9.8 but when my sendmail was restatered compalined saying libssl.so.4 missing or error actually i found that thaere was libssl.so.6 in /lib directory. if i say yum update openssl or yum install openssl it searches the repositories and says nothin to do. How can i upgrade my openssl... apprecite if u can guide me thnks and regards simon

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help compiling a package camserv
by Jerry Geis 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

I download camserv and did the usual ./configure and make make gives me an error: gcc -g -O2 -o camserv camconfig.o camserv.o filter.o main_loop.o picture_loop.o shm.o video.o -Wl,--export-dynamic ../libltdl/.libs/libltdlc.al -ldl ../common/libcommon.a -lnsl -ljpeg -lm /usr/bin/ld: errno: TLS definition in /lib64/libc.so.6 section .tbss mismatches non-TLS reference in camserv.o /lib64/libc.so.6: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status What could that be from? I have never seen this error before? Jerry

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Sybase 12.5.3 on CentOS 5
by Fabiano Caixeta Duarte 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

Folks, After installing CentOS 5, I installed a few Sybase dependencies such as compat-libstdc++-296 and libXp. Once Sybase was installed, I started the steps to create the Adaptative Server. When the wizard executes the dataserber binary it crashes with segmentation fault. Someone can give me some help on this? Does anyone have this working? Thanks in advance! -- Fabiano Caixeta Duarte Seção Técnica de Informática FEA-RP/USP ************************************ " DESISTIR é uma solução permanente para um problema temporário. " James MacArthur ************************************ _______________________________________________ CentOS-pt-br mailing list CentOS-pt-br(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-pt-br

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xen network io load
by Tadeas Mengler 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

Hello I have Xen related issues. I try to describe it as best as I can. While transmitting large amounts of data from domU the IO load increases greatly, thus making the domU unusable. The load is significant even on dom0. The performance of cpus and hard drives is not an issue. We have this problem on all servers with diferent hw configurations. Please do you know the reason of this behaviour, do you have any experience whith such problems? -- S pozdravem Tadeas Mengler Senior Linux System Administrator tadeas.mengler(a)miton.cz 483 367 866, 608 264 866 MITON CZ, s.r.o. | www.miton.cz Jiraskova 9, 466 01 Jablonec nad Nisou Tel.: 483 367 800, fax: 483 710 884 www.stahuj.cz | www.stable.cz | www.otoman.cz | www.vareni.cz

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Re: [CentOS] Newbie ADSL configuration, ppp0 can't activate &
by Lanny Marcus 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

>Message: 10 >Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:44:52 -0400 >From: Walt Reed <centos(a)linuxguy.com> >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Newbie ADSL configuration, ppp0 can't activate & >Message-ID: <20070714154451.GA15061(a)linuxguy.com> <snip> >Some pain-in-the-ass ISP's force you to do PPPoE instead of DHCP. Some >give you a DSL modem that does NAT and the PPPoE stuff for you, some >don't. If you have one that doesn't, a cheap Linksys "router" can do >the NAT and PPPoE for you if you don't fee comfortable doing it in >Linux. Walt in our former home, we had Cable Modem access for 3+ years and I used a Linksys Router/Switch there. We live in South America, so I'd need to have one shipped from the states. I think I can get it going, with IPCop or Devil-Linux. >on a 1.5/384 DSL connection. Our new connection is 256. After using dial up for 3 1/4 years, that's fast. :-) It's a lot slower than when we had Cable Modem service, but a huge improvement! I wanted WiMAX access, which is available in the city of Cali, but it's not available in our town and who knows when if ever it will be available. I downloaded the latest versions of Devil-Linux and IPCop this morning. They both have things I like. Devil-Linux does not require a hard drive and runs off a CD-ROM and a write protected floppy, which for security, I think is better. IPCop has much more documentation, can run headless and has some other things I like. I think I will try IPCop first. Thanks much for your input! Lanny

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Re: SOLVED: Re: [CentOS] Newbie ADSL configuration, ppp0 can't activate & config not found
by Lanny Marcus 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

>Message: 26 >Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:59:09 -0400 >From: Dan Halbert <halbert(a)everyzing.com> >Subject: Re: SOLVED: Re: [CentOS] Newbie ADSL configuration, ppp0 > can't activate & config not found >Message-ID: <469A0C0D.3030400(a)everyzing.com> >Great! By the way, you should not even need to specify the DNS >servers. >In the DHCP info your router gives your machine, it will probably list >itself as the DNS server. (DHCP does not return just an IP address but >also a bunch of other info such as subnet mask and DNS servers.) Yes. When I checked the network configuration for eth0, the 2 IP addresses for their DNS servers that I'd entered, had been changed, to 192.168.1.1, the IP of the ADSL Router. >The router just forwards DNS requests it gets on to the real DNS >servers (it found out those when it itself connected to the ISP).. So >don't specify the DNS servers yourself and then you won't have to do >anything if the ISP's DNS serves change. That works. I will change that in the other boxes (also dual boot), after I have the Firewall/Router box up and running. When I did ifconfig -a it came back with inet addr 192.168.1.10 Bcast 192.168.1.255 and Mask 255.255.255.0 When I did nslookup 192.168.1.10 it came back with server 192.168.1.1 Address 192.168.1.1#53 and ** Server can't find 10.1.168.192.in.addr.arpa NXDOMAIN I downloaded the lastest versions of Devil-Linux and IPCop this morning. I think I will try IPCop first, because it can be headless and has a lot of documentation and other features I like. Devil-Linux does not require a hard drive, which I believe would be better for security.

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disabling SELinux on CentOS: a good idea?
by Rogelio Bastardo 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

I was banging my head against the wall trying to figure out why my Nagios install wasn't working on CentOS 4.5 (I'm used to Debian), and so I disabled SELinux and everything magically started working. Is this a good long term idea? Or is there a better way of doing things?

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Centos on a Flash drive and Micro drive
by Robert Moskowitz 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

I am considering putting together a 'micro server' that I can easily travel with. I am seriously considering the decTOP, as at $99 (plus the cost of a 256MB SIMM) is amazingly priced. But I want to run on batteries, so trash a real hard drive. I have a couple of IDE to Compact flash adapters that support 2 flash cards. So I was considering a 4Gb (or even 2Gb) cheap real fash card for the OS and a 4 or 8 Gb micro drive (I have a 4Gb sitting in a drawer gathering dust got to figure out how to fix its paritions that I messed up). So I was thinking to put the more static parts of the OS on the flash card and the not static parts on the micro drive. Obviously the Swap partition, /home, and /var/log go onto the micro drive. What else? /tmp? Are /dev and /proc real things on disk or only pointers to the various devices? And then how do I put all these directory trees on the micro drive. I currently use a LVM partition for my /home on my notebook, but this is a lot more. Do I do Symbolic links? Or what. Are there any howtos? I have not found anything to help me so far. Probably got at least a week to figure this out. Obviously I don't have the system right now. And monday it is off to San Fran for the IEEE 802 meeting... (and the following week IETF in Chicago, family gets really upset when I have these 'back-to-back' conferences).

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 29, Issue 7
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 15 Jul '07

15 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-2007:0675 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 perl-Net-DNS - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2007:0675 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 perl-Net-DNS - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2007:0519 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 xorg-x11 - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2007:0519 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 xorg-x11 - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2007:0662 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 httpd - security update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2007:0662 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 httpd - security update (Johnny Hughes) 7. CESA-2007:0662 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 httpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2007:0662 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) httpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:44:40 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0675 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 perl-Net-DNS - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <46990B88.9080303(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0675 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0675.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: perl-Net-DNS-0.48-2.el4.i386.rpm src: perl-Net-DNS-0.48-2.el4.src.rpm

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SOLVED: Re: [CentOS] Newbie ADSL configuration, ppp0 can't activate & config not found
by Lanny Marcus 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

>Message: 23 >Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:11:59 -0400 >From: Dan Halbert <halbert(a)everyzing.com> >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Newbie ADSL configuration, ppp0 can't activate & > config not found >Message-ID: <469830EF.3080601(a)everyzing.com> >mailing-lists(a)computer2.com wrote: > I am frustrated. This is a dual boot box, Win XP (Spanish) and CentOS >4.4. The phone company man came today and installed ADSL to the WinXP <snip> >Dan wrote: If you have a router, then the ADSL connection you have is >handled by the router, and is invisible to you, on the LAN side of the <snip> Thank you! I was busy and gone most of the day yesterday and didn't touch the box after about 7 A.M. Early this morning, I came in here and in two (2) minutes, the box was online in Linux. :-) The problem was that I'd seen in System Tools > Internet Configuration Wizard (internet-druid) and I set up an xDSL connection ppp0, which was not necessary, as you wrote, because the ADSL Router the phone company man brought does the log in. After I deleted the ppp0, I set up eth0 again, to get my IP from the ISP via DHCP and I put in the 2 IP numbers for their DNS servers, restarted the Network and I am online! :-) I knew this was something extremely simple, but it was Friday the 13th and to use Johnny's phrase, I had a cubic butt load of frustration. :-) This will hopefully make it easier for me to get Devil-Linux configured, for my Firewall/Router box. Walt Reed: I get the Mailing List Digest, which will come in about 90 minutes, but I looked at the archives this morning and I also saw your post, which is much appreciated. I am going to try to use Devil-Linux and if I can't get that working, I will use IPCop, for my Firewall/Router. Thanks to both of you for replying to me and to everyone who participates in this great mailing list! Lanny

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Postfix Question
by ethericalzen＠gmail.com 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

I've googled around and although I get a lot of hits about postfix smarthost authentication with ssl, I can not find out how to actually accomplish the task. I've read through smatterings of postings from Neophasis and the like searching for just the syntax and what file (I assume it's main.cf) I should be using; however, any smtpd_ lines I have tried result in postfix hanging and refusing to deliver mail. I could simply cease using smarthost, but my ip address is dynamic (yes I know stop yelling at me I'm poor right now) so mail bounces to some domains if I don't use smarthost. The server I'm running postfix on is CentOS 4 (fully updated). Postfix version is 2.2.10-1.1.el4 (from rpm -qa). I have not had sufficient downtime to upgrade to CentOS 5. Should I do that? Sincerely -- Alex White ethericalzen(a)gmail.com Life is a prison, death is a release

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Tired of temp induced shutdowns
by Robert Moskowitz 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

My notebook has a habit of getting hot, and Centos just shuts down. Just did it again: Jul 15 01:35:12 nc4010 kernel: ACPI: Critical trip point Jul 15 01:35:12 nc4010 kernel: Critical temperature reached (113 C), shutting down. Jul 15 01:35:12 nc4010 kernel: Critical temperature reached (55 C), shutting down. Jul 15 01:35:13 nc4010 shutdown[9847]: shutting down for system halt Jul 15 01:35:13 nc4010 gconfd (rgm-2904): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly Jul 15 01:35:13 nc4010 gconfd (rgm-2904): Exiting What I would like to know is where are the threshholds stored? It would be nice if some alarm went off (like with low battery), giving me time to grab the blue-ice block out of the freezer (or at least saving some work and pointers!).

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Centos on the decTOP?
by Robert Moskowitz 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

https://store.dataevolution.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=DT%2D7001 For $99 a nice little system with AMD Geode GX500 128Mb memory and 10Gb disk. Upgrade to 256Mb and off we go? Replace the hard drive with a Flash card, and run off a battery pack? Add Bluetooth (lower power draw that 802.11) and run IP over it to your desktop.... It does have ethernet, so a crossover cable works too. Would be nice if I could know if I can pull that GX500 and put in a slightly faster cpu....

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Re: [CentOS] Strange C programming problem
by fredex 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:52:09PM -0400, Michael Velez wrote: > > > > > I've got this little program I wrote to test something, and > > it keeps giving the wrong result. I'm not inexperienced in C, > > but I can't believe strtof (et al) are broken, so I must be > > doing something wrong. However, I've spent hours looking at > > this and comparing it to the man pages and don't see what I'm > > doing wrong. strtod() and strtold() also give equally wrong > > results. (the example program given on the strotd man page > > works fine, BTW.) > > > > Can someone wield a clue-bat please? :) > > > > Here's the program: > > > > #include <stdio.h> > > #include <math.h> > > #include <stdlib.h> > > #include <errno.h> > > > > int main (int argc, char ** argv) > > { > > float ldbl = 0.0; > > char * endp; > > > > printf ("%s\n", argv[1]); > > > > errno = 0; > > ldbl = strtof (argv[1], &endp); > > if (errno != 0) > > printf ("strtof failed! errno=%d\n", errno); > > > > printf ("%f\n", (double) ldbl); > > printf ("%f\n", (double) strtof (argv[1], (char **)NULL)); > > printf ("%f\n", (double) atof (argv[1])); > > > > return 0; > > } > > > > Compile it with: > > > > cc -O0 -g -o x4 x4.c > > > > then run it like this: > > > > ./x4 2.5 > > > > and I'd EXPECT it to produce this output: > > > > 2.5 > > 2.5 > > 2.5 > > 2.5 > > > > but it actually produces this: > > > > 2.5 > > 1075838976.000000 > > 1075838976.000000 > > 2.500000 > > > > the typecase of the arg in the 3 printf calls makes no > > difference. Remove it and the results are the same. > > > > Using an input of something other than 2.5 changes the middle > > two lines in some way in which I haven't yet discerned a > > pattern, but the result is still highly bogus. > > > > The following strtod line works fine on my system (CentOS 5, latest updates, > x86_64): > > printf ("%lf\n", (double) strtod (argv[1], (char **)NULL)); > > For strtof, the SYNOPSIS in the man page mentions you need to add: > > #define _ISO_C99_SOURCE > > Or > > #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 > > Either line should be added before ALL include files (note there is a > mistake in the synopsis. There should be no = sign in the define statement > for _XOPEN_SOURCE). > > The above #define lines enforces C99 compatibility rules, which is the > revised ISO C standard which came out in 1999. As a previous responder > suggested, you can also specify -std=gnu99 or -std=C99 on the compile line. > > Michael Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm using Centos 4.5. And the man page here doesn't mention those #define settings. I'll give it a try, thanks! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 ---------------------------------

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Fedora Revisor with CentOS 5 Support
by Matt Martz 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

Looks like Fedora released a new version of Revisor, 2.0.4.1-2, (Custom Live CD Generator) that includes support for generating CentOS5 live cds. Just thought someone might like to know. Cheers! -- Matt Martz mdmartz(a)sivel.net CentOS Mirror Admin

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Strange C programming problem
by fredex 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

I've got this little program I wrote to test something, and it keeps giving the wrong result. I'm not inexperienced in C, but I can't believe strtof (et al) are broken, so I must be doing something wrong. However, I've spent hours looking at this and comparing it to the man pages and don't see what I'm doing wrong. strtod() and strtold() also give equally wrong results. (the example program given on the strotd man page works fine, BTW.) Can someone wield a clue-bat please? :) Here's the program: #include <stdio.h> #include <math.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <errno.h> int main (int argc, char ** argv) { float ldbl = 0.0; char * endp; printf ("%s\n", argv[1]); errno = 0; ldbl = strtof (argv[1], &endp); if (errno != 0) printf ("strtof failed! errno=%d\n", errno); printf ("%f\n", (double) ldbl); printf ("%f\n", (double) strtof (argv[1], (char **)NULL)); printf ("%f\n", (double) atof (argv[1])); return 0; } Compile it with: cc -O0 -g -o x4 x4.c then run it like this: ./x4 2.5 and I'd EXPECT it to produce this output: 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 but it actually produces this: 2.5 1075838976.000000 1075838976.000000 2.500000 the typecase of the arg in the 3 printf calls makes no difference. Remove it and the results are the same. Using an input of something other than 2.5 changes the middle two lines in some way in which I haven't yet discerned a pattern, but the result is still highly bogus. Thanks! -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever." ------------------------------- Isaiah 9:7 (niv) ------------------------------

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Re: [CentOS] Newbie ADSL configuration, ppp0 can't activate &
by mailing-lists＠computer2.com 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

>Message: 23 >Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:11:59 -0400 >From: Dan Halbert <halbert(a)everyzing.com> >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Newbie ADSL configuration, ppp0 can't activate & > config not found >To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> >Message-ID: <469830EF.3080601(a)everyzing.com> mailing-lists(a)computer2.com wrote: <snip> If you have a router, then the ADSL connection you have is handled by the router, and is invisible to you, on the LAN side of the router. The router could be connecting to the WAN via a piece of wet string, as far as you care. So you should just have eth0 do DHCP and leave it connected to the router. You'll get an address like 192.168.1.2 from the router. You don't need ppp0 at all; to Centos the router appears like a LAN that routes to the Internet. In Windows, do "ipconfig" in a Command window, and you'll see what I mean. You should see something similar with ifconfig in Centos. Dan: Thank you for replying! I will try what you suggested, ASAP. Yesterday was Friday the 13th.... I need to get this working, before I try to get my Firewall/Router working! Lanny

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Live CD root password
by Mogens Kjaer 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

Does the root user on the CentOS 5 live CD have a password? If so, which? su and sudo asks for a password, it is neither empty, root nor centos. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08 Email: mk(a)crc.dk Homepage: http://www.crc.dk

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PHP doesn't connect to PG with SELinux
by Martin Marques 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

I just migrated my FC4 server to CentOS 5 and had some problems with DB connections from PHP to a PG server (remote server). The thing is that I couldn't get an error, until I disabled SELinux. At that time, the PG connections started working. Are there any instructions on how to work with SELinux enabled and multiple applications connecting one with another? -- select 'mmarques' || '@' || 'unl.edu.ar' AS email; --------------------------------------------------------- Martín Marqués | Programador, DBA Centro de Telemática | Administrador Universidad Nacional del Litoral ---------------------------------------------------------

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 29, Issue 6
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 14 Jul '07

14 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-2007:0662 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) httpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:01:53 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0662 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) httpd - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20070713140153.GF28734(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0662 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0662.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/httpd-2.0.46-68.ent.centos.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/httpd-devel-2.0.46-68.ent.centos.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/mod_ssl-2.0.46-68.ent.centos.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/httpd-2.0.46-68.ent.centos.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/httpd-devel-2.0.46-68.ent.centos.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/mod_ssl-2.0.46-68.ent.centos.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Newbie ADSL configuration, ppp0 can't activate & config not found
by mailing-lists＠computer2.com 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

I am frustrated. This is a dual boot box, Win XP (Spanish) and CentOS 4.4. The phone company man came today and installed ADSL to the WinXP side and that works fine. I can't get the box online, while in CentOS 4.4. The ADSL router has a fixed IP address (192.168.1.1) and he configured it to get the IP from the ISP via DHCP and get the DNS servers automatically. When I try that on CentOS (which is what I use 99% of the time), it doesn't connect. In the Network Configuration for eth0, things seem OK, but the configuration for xDSL, ppp0, probably needs something I do not have in it and it won't activate. Questions: (a) should I have network configurations for both eth0 and ppp0? I've tried it with both and only with ppp0. (b) is there a possibility that the NIC, which is integrated onto the motherboard and has always worked fine on our home LAN, as eth0, won't work properly as ppp0? If so, should I disable it and install a NIC in the box? I've looked in the RHEL Step by Step Guide for RHEL 4 and Systems Administrators Guides, but they don't seem to cover this issue. Any links to a step by step how to, to do something I believe is simple, but, where I'm missing something, will be greatly appreciated! TIA, Lanny

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PHP 5.2
by John Thomas 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

To me, there seems to be growing support to requiring PHP 5.2 within the next year, see http://www.gophp5.org/ . Does anyone know of plans to release PHP 5.2 RPMS in any of the major repos? -- Sincerely, John Thomas

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Re: [CentOS] dumb sendmail question -- how to get outbound messages to use "example.com" instead of hostname?
by Brent L. Bates 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

Since you are using NAT, the important IP address and host name associated with it is the one the outside world sees. Does that IP address have a host name the world sees and does that name then resolve to the same IP address? -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research Center FAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 Email: B.L.BATES(a)larc.nasa.gov http://www.vigyan.com/~blbates/

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username list?
by Rogelio Bastardo 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

Where/how in CentOS can I get a nice list of all the usernames on the system?

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Centos 5 Live CD
by BRUCE STANLEY 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

I just tried the Centos 5 Live CD on my Thinkpad T41. It works pretty good but did not recognize my Laptop's modem or WiFi (I guess no surprise there). I do have a CardBus modem that is not a Win-modem that I could try when I get home. I did not see anyway to configure a PPP dialup call. Is there a way to run kppp or Gnome's equivalent?

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 29, Issue 5
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 13 Jul '07

13 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-2007:0674 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 perl-Net-DNS - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:0674 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) perl-Net-DNS - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2007:0675 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 perl-Net-DNS - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2007:0675 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) perl-Net-DNS - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2007:0519 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 xorg-x11 - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2007:0520 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 xorg-x11-xfs Update (Karanbir Singh) 7. CESA-2007:0520 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 xorg-x11-xfs Update (Karanbir Singh) 8. CESA-2007:0674 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 perl-Net-DNS Update (Karanbir Singh) 9. CESA-2007:0674 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 perl-Net-DNS Update (Karanbir Singh) 10. CESA-2007:0662 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 httpd - security update (Tru Huynh) 11. CESA-2007:0662 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 httpd - security update (Tru Huynh) 12. CESA-2007:0519 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) xorg-x11 - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 13. CESA-2007:0662 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 httpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:49:12 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0674 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 perl-Net-DNS - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20070712164912.GA28711(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0674 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0674.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/perl-Net-DNS-0.31-4.el3.noarch.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Dconf trouble
by David Hrbáč 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

Hi, since upgrade Centos 4.4 to 4.5 we are sometimes getting these error from Dconf. Thanks, David Hrbáč /etc/cron.weekly/dconf: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/etc/cron.weekly/dconf", line 481, in ? main() File "/etc/cron.weekly/dconf", line 450, in main mail('changes to %s' % os.uname()[1], diff(os.path.realpath(previouslog), os.path.realpath(latestlog))) File "/etc/cron.weekly/dconf", line 267, in diff fromfd = dzopen(fromfile) File "/etc/cron.weekly/dconf", line 142, in dzopen return gzip.open(filename, arg) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.py", line 49, in open return GzipFile(filename, mode, compresslevel) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.py", line 94, in __init__ fileobj = self.myfileobj = __builtin__.open(filename, mode or 'rb') IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/dconf-fs11-20070610-042246.log.gz'

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