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network config files in centos 5 changing
by Jerry Geis 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

What is happening in centos 5 with network config files??? I have a machine with 2 network cards. ifcfg-eth1 keeps changing to DHCP. All my static setup is gone. Why is it doing this? How can I stop it? I run "netconfig -d eth1" and re-setup my static information. I reboot and now I am back to DHCP. I have a gigabyte motherboard, nvidia chipset. forcedeth driver. eth0 is e1000. Jerry

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recompile kernel 2.6.20.7 (so I get updated forcedeth driver)
by Jerry Geis 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

I installed 2.6.20.7 copied /boot/config{something} to .config make oldconfig make oldconfig make menuconfig - turned on drivers -> Sata -> nvidia make bzImage make modules make modules_install make install rebooted. Seems like the issue I had with forcedeth (nvidia) bad MAC address is gone. However, the iptables gives errors. Where in the menu tree do I enable what iptables needs??? I have looked around in there and did not see it. Thanks, (I know I'm not compatible now... :) Jerry

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kernel 2.6.21 on centos 5
by Jerry Geis 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

I have a computer that I needed to put 2.6.21 on. Everything is working fine after recompile except when iptables is starting up it errors with iptables-restore: line 23 failed. This is the normal centos 5 iptables. nothing special. What might I be missing in the new kernel that I get this error? Thanks, The file is below. Jerry --------------------------------------- # Firewall configuration written by system-config-securitylevel # Manual customization of this file is not recommended. *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0] -A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type any -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 50 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 51 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited COMMIT

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[CentOS 5] - SAMBA+LDAP
by Gabriel Stein 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Hi! I´m have some problems deploying OPENLDAP+SAMBA+PAM+NSSWITCH. When I restart the server with those services, the DBUS service crash. And when I try disable DBUS service on system start Avahi crashs too. Someone here have this problem? There´s a BUG on CentOS 5? Maybe PAM not talking with LDAP on startup? I can send some logfile and my system-auth setup. Thanks for your attention. -- /\ Gabriel Stein gabrielfstein(a)gmail.com MSN: gabrielstein(a)hotmail.com Administrador de Redes - Network Administrador Linux User #223750 51-92796310 Porto Alegre - RS - Brasil

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Re: ralink rt61 in centos 5 [solved]
by Olaf Mueller 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Hello, Maybe someone will run into the same problem, so here is how it works for me. I could not get work my wlan card (ralink rt61) with the driver from rt2x00.serialmonkey.com under CentOS 5 (2.6.18-8.1.1.el5). All drivers (beta and daily cvs) from this site freezes my system. So I get the driver from the Ralink support at http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html (RT2501PCI/mPCI/CB(RT2561/RT2661)). With this driver, my wlan card works very well (WPA2, AES). CentOS 5 is great. regards Olaf

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Xen guest and samba
by Rick Barnes 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hello, I am new to this list, but having been using CentOS for sometime. I recently installed CentOS 5 on a test server to check out Xen. The installation was smooth had so far I have everything working except I cannot get samba to join our AD domain from the xen guest, using para-virtualization, I setup. I am out of ideas, and cannot find anyone having similar problems. I have tested my config files on the server itself (Dom0) and it joins fine. But on the guest it will not join. kinit works and I do get a ticket from kerberos. But when I try to join I get: # net ads join -U administrator administrator's password: Using short domain name -- ICN Failed to set servicePrincipalNames. Please ensure that the DNS domain of this server matches the AD domain, Or rejoin with using Domain Admin credentials. Disabled account for 'XEN01' in realm 'ICN.LOCAL' In messages, I have: Apr 25 10:36:02 xen01 winbindd[29659]: [2007/04/25 10:36:02, 0] libads/kerberos.c:ads_kinit_password(208) Apr 25 10:36:02 xen01 winbindd[29659]: kerberos_kinit_password XEN01$(a)ICN.LOCAL failed: Clients credentials have been revoked Apr 25 10:36:34 xen01 pcscd: winscard.c:219:SCardConnect() Reader E-Gate 0 0 Not Found The hosts, resolv.conf, smb.conf and krb5.conf files are the same between the guest and Dom0 and are using the same version of samba. Selinux has been disabled in order to make sure it was not interfering. Has anyone had this issue or successfully able to join to a domain from a guest? Thanks, Rick

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CentOS 4.4 Xen Guest on CentOS 5 Host
by Graham Jenkins 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Anybody done this yet? Is an appropriate Guest kernel available? -- Graham Jenkins +61 3 9925 4909 Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing http://www.vpac.org/ PO Box 201, Carlton South, Vic. 3053, Australia

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linux dd on CentOS 5 x86
by Drew Weaver 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Howdy, I had to use a driver disk today to install CentOS 5 on a Poweredge 1900 /w a 3ware 9650SE controller card. The only gotcha I noticed is that for some reason CentOS 5 will not read driver disk files off of a thumbdrive (usb key) when it is being emulated as auto, hard disk, or floppy disk. (it saw the thumb drive as SDA in all instances) however when I plugged in a USB floppy drive (the poweredge 1900 is sans floppy controller) it still saw the drive as SDA and it read the files off of the USB floppy disk. My question, I suppose is what is the difference between a floppy emulated SDA and a USB floppy SDA? Thanks, -Drew

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Raid 1 newbie question
by Roberto Pereyra 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hi I have a Raid 1 centos 4.4 setup and now have this /proc/mdstat output: [root@server admin]# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md2 : active raid1 hdc2[1] hda2[0] 1052160 blocks [2/2] [UU] md1 : active raid1 hda3[0] 77023552 blocks [2/1] [U_] md0 : active raid1 hdc1[1] hda1[0] 104320 blocks [2/2] [UU] What happens with md1 ? My dmesg output is: [root@server admin]# dmesg | grep md1 Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/md1 rhgb quiet md: created md1 raid1: raid set md1 active with 1 out of 2 mirrors md: md1 already running, cannot run hdc3 md: md1 already running, cannot run hdc3 EXT3-fs: md1: orphan cleanup on readonly fs EXT3-fs: md1: 4 orphan inodes deleted md: md1 already running, cannot run hdc3 EXT3 FS on md1, internal journal [root@server admin]# Thanks for any help !!! roberto -- Ing. Roberto Pereyra ContenidosOnline http://www.contenidosonline.com.ar

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Problem installing Windows under Xen CentOS 5
by Radu Radutiu 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hi, I'm having trouble installing Windows on a fully virtualized VM on CentOS 5. The installation hangs on the blue screen saying "Setup is starting Windows". The hardware is a dual processor dual core AMD Opteron 2218 with 8GB RAM and SATA disks, CentoOS 5 i386 will all patches applied. On the same machine I have successfully installed two VM's running CentOS 5, one paravirtualized and one with full virtualization. I have tried to install Windows 2003 server and Windows XP with the same result. The installation media are iso images of the Windows MSDN DVDs. When the installation hangs at the "Setup is starting Windows" screen the virt-manager shows 25% cpu utilization for the guest ( I think this represents 100% CPU usage for the guest as it has 1 vcpu assigned out the maximum 4 vcpus). I am running the virt-manager and the virtual machine console over ssh as dom0 has no X server installed. Has anyone seen this problem? Any suggestions? Regards, Radu

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Re: [CentOS] Re: [CSL #329283] centosplus XFS bug?
by David Thompson 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Johnny Hughes wrote: > >Dave, > >I would guess that this is not in there ... but I will double check and >see if we can get it rolled in. > >I should be in the CentOS-5 module though. It's going to be awhile before we'll be ready to upgrade that host to CentOS 5, so I'm looking at either getting a different xfs module for c4 or switching the partition back to ext3. So that I understand what I'm installing for c5, will the CentOS 5 xfs module for the mainline ("compatible with upstream") kernels be based on the in-kernel source, or will it be a replacement module (as in CentOS 4)? How about the centosplus kernels? Thanks again, Dave

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Re: [CentOS] Re: [CSL #329283] centosplus XFS bug?
by David Thompson 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > >This implies that you are running i386 and not x86_64. It has been my=20 >experience that xfs is less that solid on c4.i386 but fine on c4.x86_64. Th= >is=20 >is most likely due to the fact that i386 uses 4k kernel stack while x86_64= >=20 >uses 8k. Yes, that's correct. Going to x86_64 may be a possibility for future hardware incarnations of the host. Dave

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Error trying to mount NFS volume from kickstart in CentOS 5
by Alfred von Campe 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

The post section of the kickstart configuration file I have been using in CentOS4 looks like this: %post mount centosmirror:/var/www/html/ks /mnt /mnt/ks/post/post.sh > /root/post_install.log 2>&1 umount /mnt I tried to do my first CentOS 5 kickstart installation today using an identical post section, but the post install script did not run. After instrumenting the kickstart a bit, I found that the above mount command failed with the following error message: mount.nfs: Input/output error Not a very helpful error message -- any clues as to what is going on? It's a little tricky and time consuming to debug kickstart problems like these, so I thought I'd ask the list and hopefully save some time. If I execute that mount command after rebooting the system, it works just fine. Thanks, Alfred

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Re: [CSL #329283] centosplus XFS bug?
by thomas＠cs.wisc.edu 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

We're running a mix of ext3 and xfs file systems on CentOS 4 workstations at our site. We have benefitted greatly from the increased performance and fast (crash recovery) reboot times that we get from xfs. We're currently running CentOS kernel 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL and xfs version 0.2-1. We have one host where we've got issues. It's a (very) busy imap server with external scsi hardware raid, dual Xeon CPUs, and 8GB of RAM (it runs the hugemem kernel). Twice now in the last few weeks we've seen it hang with the follow log message repeated many times in the logs at the time of the hang: XFS: possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc (mode:0x250) I see this error discussed in: http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=410 ...and I'm wondering if the fixes mentioned in that bug are present in the 0.2-1 centosplus xfs drivers, or if it could get included in an xfs update for CentOS 4. Can anyone comment? Thanks for the filesystem, and the OS, it all rocks, and have a great day. Dave Thompson UW-Madison

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Having trouble with FreeNX, Need help to make it work perfectly
by Kai Yang Tay 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hi thanks for the reply i am really grateful if you can tell me how to make FreeNX work like charm. I am really stuck with it, and after reinstalling the server is definitely pissing off my boss. Please help me thanks. =========================== Please let me review how my FreeNX was screwed up. After i fresh install my CentOS 5, I 'yum install freenx' and so if i am not wrong I actually install freenx 0.5.0-12 or something.... but i think ya shd be -12. Ok... so after i install freenx through yum. I follow what's on http://wiki.centos.org/FreeNX I --adduser and --passwd etc. Then copy the /etc/nxserver/client_id*.key over to my NX Client on Windows. Initially all works out. The NX session starts and i can do what i want over this remote session, and i proceed with updating of the critical updates for other apps from yum. The problem comes after i do this, right after the yum update. I choose to reboot my server. I reboot the server over the NX remote session. By going System -> Log Off -> Reboot. The NX Client's Window automatically closed (in quite a violent way with error msg). Then the server reboot. After the reboot, I try to reconnect to Server again using NX. But this time it fails with the following message. ==================================================================================== NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 5940 NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files NX> 285 Setting the preferred NX options NX> 200 Connected to address: 192.168.1.5 on port: 22 NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey HELLO NXSERVER - Version 1.5.0-60-SVN OS (GPL) NX> 105 hello NXCLIENT - Version 1.5.0 NX> 134 Accepted protocol: 1.5.0 NX> 105 SET SHELL_MODE SHELL NX> 105 SET AUTH_MODE PASSWORD NX> 105 login NX> 101 User: root NX> 102 Password: NX> 103 Welcome to: XQSVR200611 user: root NX> 105 listsession --user="root" --status="suspended,running" --geometry="1280x1024x32+render+fullscreen" --type="unix-gnome" NX> 127 Sessions list of user 'root' for reconnect: Display Type Session ID Options Depth Screen Status Session Name ------- ---------------- -------------------------------- -------- ----- -------------- ----------- ------------------------------ NX> 148 Server capacity: not reached for user: root NX> 105 startsession --link="lan" --backingstore="1" --nodelay="1" --encryption="1" --cache="32M" --images="64M" --media="0" --session="XQSVR200611" --type="unix-gnome" --geometry="1280x994" --fullscreen="1" --kbtype="pc102/en_US" --screeninfo="1280x1024x32+render+fullscreen" NX> 1000 NXNODE - Version 1.5.0-60-SVN OS (GPL) NX> 700 Session id: XQSVR200611-1000-1279B1D659A32AEF7AA88D7C50CA5619 NX> 705 Session display: 1000 NX> 703 Session type: unix-gnome NX> 701 Proxy cookie: 64b824b7aa9edb0a55c6e220710fba3c NX> 702 Proxy IP: 127.0.0.1 NX> 706 Agent cookie: 64b824b7aa9edb0a55c6e220710fba3c NX> 704 Session cache: unix-gnome NX> 707 SSL tunneling: 1 NX> 1009 Session status: starting NX> 710 Session status: running NX> 1002 Commit NX> 105 /usr/bin/nxserver: line 1190: 6719 Terminated sleep $AGENT_STARTUP_TIMEOUT NX> 1006 Session status: running NX> 596 Session startup failed. NX> 1004 Error: NX Agent exited with exit status 1. Can't open /var/lib/nxserver/db/running/sessionId{1279B1D659A32AEF7AA88D7C50CA5619}: No such file or directory. mv: cannot stat `/var/lib/nxserver/db/running/sessionId{1279B1D659A32AEF7AA88D7C50CA5619}': No such file or directory NX> 1006 Session status: closed NX> 1001 Bye. bye Killed by signal 15. I really do not know what's wrong. When i try to connect back locally at my server. The GNOME UI is gone! I am now left with only the console logon menu. This same problem happens everytime, even with CentOS 4.4 recently. (In the past, ard DEC 2006, I did the exact same thing on my CentOS 4.4 Server, it works without any problem EVEN with the same violent exiting way, I have never have a problem connecting back to the server. But recently after i failed my installation of CentOS 5 and go back to CentOS 4.4, the problem starts to occur like what i have mentioned. And I really did what was written on the wiki, nothing i have done now is different from what i did in the past.) Please, and sincerely please. Guys, if you all know what's wrong please tell me, how should I solve it? Did I miss out something? like installing of NX Node or NX Client on the server etc? Well explained or guide is really appreciated. Thanks, really Thank You.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 26, Issue 9
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '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. New mailing list: CentOS-Promo (Ralph Angenendt) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:38:44 +0200 From: Ralph Angenendt <ralph(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] New mailing list: CentOS-Promo To: centos(a)centos.org, centos-announce(a)centos.org, centos-devel(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20070425163844.GJ4045(a)br-online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Ladies and Gentlemen, we, the CentOS Project, are proud to invite you to our newest mailing list: CentOS-Promo. This list is for the discussion of Events, Gatherings and (LUG)Meetings where CentOS will or should be presented. Should *you* join this mailing list? Yes, if - you want to help out at events - you want to present CentOS at your LUG - you have great ideas for marketing material to promote CentOS - you are interested in doing promotion for CentOS - you know about events where CentOS should be (re)presented - you want to invite CentOS developers to your LUG/Event (you want to pay travelling costs, don't you? >:) ) - you want to know where CentOS will be presented next So go ahead, subscribe to this list and help us spread the word! CentOS is good for you! We know we will see you on that mailing list soon. Just point your browser to <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/CentOS-Promo> and join us! Be seeing you there, Ralph

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Update Centos-4.4 to centos-5 spents a lot of time in "restorecon"
by Joachim Backes 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hi, having running centOS-4.4 on a really fast machine (16 GB memory, 8 Opteron CPU's, SATA drives). Then making an update by using the Centos-5 CD's. The start was fast, but during update, the installer spents a very, very long wallclock time during selinx updating: for about 1/2 hour the updater runs in a restorecon/find sequence. And at the end, before the MBR is written, it spents again a long time in "install". Can somebody explain this? Regards -- Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de> University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center [RHRK], Systems and Operations, High Performance Computing, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany -------------------------------------------------- Phone: +49-631-205-2438, FAX: +49-631-205-3056 http://hlrwm.rhrk.uni-kl.de/home/staff/backes.html

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Centos 5 -- Bind not
by Robert Moskowitz 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Well, I just did my 2nd install. (Now doing the updates via yumex and stepping into the updates instead of risking doing it all at once.) I selected every bind related package, and then ran the BIND configuration GUI in System>Adminstration>Server Settings. Things seem to work. So I uninstalled and reinstalled on my new DNS server and it looks like I can proceed on the install.

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fuse/ntfs 3g for centos 5
by Rainer Traut 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hi, are there any plans do this for centos 5? Maybe in centosplus? Thx Rainer

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XVideo vs OpenGL
by Ioannis Vranos 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hi, I have a Pentium III PC with NVIDIA GeForce 7300GT on an AGP 8x and am running NVIDIA driver 9755 on CentOS 5.0 x86. What is the most efficient playback method for the various players, XVideo or OpenGL? RealPlayer has a "Use XVideo" tick box under the "Hardware" tab preselected, while MPlayer uses xv - X11/Xv, gl - X11(OpenGL) and other Video drivers. What is the most efficient between the two, given the configuration?

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URGENT: Skip installation ix86 packages from kickstart on 64bit arch?
by Robinson Tiemuqinke 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hi, Has any one know how to skip ix86 packages from installation in Centos kickstart? Most of our machines have 64bit Intel/AMD CPUs, and it make non-sense to still keep 32bit compatibility. Even worse of i*86 packages is, when upgrade we have to recompile both ix86 version and x86_64 version to get an automatic yum upgrade. I know we could use 'exclude' option to exclude i*86 packages from yum calculation/upgrade; But, if this can be extended to kickstart? Thanks a lot. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Centos5 installer hangs up with promise sata controller on board
by Joachim Backes 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Hi, curently running centos4.4 with a board having promise sata controller. If I try to update to centos-5, the installer hangs up. No problems under centos-4.4. Does somebody know a workaround for this problem? In the mailing list archives I found a similar report, but no solution. Regards -- Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de> University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center [RHRK], Systems and Operations, High Performance Computing, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany -------------------------------------------------- Phone: +49-631-205-2438, FAX: +49-631-205-3056 http://hlrwm.rhrk.uni-kl.de/home/staff/backes.html

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Re: [CentOS] Strange content in the kernel dmesg traces [SOLVED]
by Mark Hull-Richter 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

On 4/25/07, Michael D. Kralka <michael.kralka(a)kvs.com> wrote: > > I am going to regret answering this, because it is not the right place > for such questions. However... True, but thank you for the post. > I suspect you are misusing printk and the KERN_XXX prefixes (KERN_DEBUG, > KERN_ERR, KERN_INFO, etc.) defined in include/linux/kernel.h. Try > dropping the comma between the prefix and the message. That is: > printk(KERN_INFO "Hello World!\n"); > rather than: > printk(KERN_INFO, "Hello World!\n"); I would hate to admit that a typo was "misusing" something, but this was the problem - one of the 35 traces I have in place was mistyped with a comma after the KERN_DEBUG. I think staring at them allowed me to miss this the first four or five times through, and, of course, it was the last one I added - the one that was not supposed to appear at all. -- Mark Hull-Richter, Linux Kernel Engineer DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com) 85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 949-680-3082 - Office 949-330-7691 - fax

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CentOS 5 x86: Hibernate
by Ioannis Vranos 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

OS: CentOS 5 x86. Has anyone tried hibernation under CentOS 5 x86 on a *non-virtual* machine? I tried it on my PIII and it had some kind of hibernation/resume failure. The screen went standby during hibernation and resume, and I hardware reseted the system.

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Hiding PCI devices from Dom0 on Centos5
by Michael J. Carter 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

I'm trying to hide my PRV-350 PCI card from Dom0 so that a DomU can see it. >From Dom0, the card reports as: [root@willamette ~]# lspci |grep 06:02 06:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) The ivtv driver isn't installed on Dom0. I have added the following to /etc/modprobe.conf on Dom0: options pciback hide=(0000:06:02.0) but the card still shows up. Is PCI backend/frontend support compiled in the Centos5 xen kernels? If so, am I configuring it correctly? Should I be asking this on a xen list? TIA, mjc -- Michael J. Carter mcarter(a)pobox.com

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Centos 5 Reproducible Reboot
by Centos-admin 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Guys, I've just setup 5.0 and can reproduce a crash/reboot every time. Details; x86_64 Install Using Xen Kernel System fully updated including Xen Kernel (latest 1.1 update) Intel Dual Core E6400 4gb RAM I've installed vmware server 1.0.2 from rpm. It has been configured and is ready to create new machines. I have successfully created a new machine but when I attempt to power-on the system resets. No panic information, just straight to the BIOS. I've searched bugzilla and there appears to be nothing related. I'll do some more testing tomorrow, I'll try without the Xen-ified kernel. Anyone else see this sort of behaviour ? Brian. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Heads up re web radio show tonight
by Lance Davis 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

CentOS will be guest of honour on the Linux tech link show tonight http://www.thelinuxlink.net/ 8.30 pm Eastern US time 00:30 am UTC 01.30 am UK BST Johnny and I will hope to give good answers to whatever is thrown at us :) Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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Centos 5 -- X default resolution
by Robert Moskowitz 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Install did not recognize my LCD monitor, probably due to the old KVM. Anyway, I went to config monitor after install (logged in as root) and selected the monitor in my NOC where this box is going to live anyway. I then had to exit X and restart it for this selection to take. It this point the resolution was 1280x1024 which was unreadable. I changed it to 1024x768 which works well. However at bootup and for the login screen the resolution is still 1280x1024. How do I change this?

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Re: Evolution problem - not sending/receiving any more [SOLVED]
by Mark Hull-Richter 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

On 4/25/07, Mark Hull-Richter <mhullrich(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > ??? > Never mind - it had to be a gmail problem because this morning it works fine. That'll teach me to stay up all night (and post stupid messages).... -- Mark Hull-Richter, Linux Kernel Engineer DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com) 85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 949-680-3082 - Office 949-330-7691 - fax

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New mailing list: CentOS-Promo
by Ralph Angenendt 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Ladies and Gentlemen, we, the CentOS Project, are proud to invite you to our newest mailing list: CentOS-Promo. This list is for the discussion of Events, Gatherings and (LUG)Meetings where CentOS will or should be presented. Should *you* join this mailing list? Yes, if - you want to help out at events - you want to present CentOS at your LUG - you have great ideas for marketing material to promote CentOS - you are interested in doing promotion for CentOS - you know about events where CentOS should be (re)presented - you want to invite CentOS developers to your LUG/Event (you want to pay travelling costs, don't you? >:) ) - you want to know where CentOS will be presented next So go ahead, subscribe to this list and help us spread the word! CentOS is good for you! We know we will see you on that mailing list soon. Just point your browser to <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/CentOS-Promo> and join us! Be seeing you there, Ralph

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Printing
by centos＠911networks.com 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

I have installed CentOS5 on a Dell Laptop, I works properly, except I can't install the printers. I don't have the System > Administration > Printers What am I missing? -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work

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antivirus sniffer/scanner for networks
by eric＠austinconventioncenter.com 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Is anyone aware of a package that can detect viri on the network & possibly alert when there are? Here is the scenario: Our network is utilized by guest users all the time, sometimes into the thousands. We see guests from all over with a variety of OSs & hardware, all of which, we have no control or say in that matter. I am looking for something that I can run in promiscuous mode and/or on a span port that will sniff for viri and then alert/log when it sees a virus. We can then track down the culprits' ip/mac and shut off the switch port he/she is connected to and then visit with the guest to help them clean their machine. Given the nature of our network and our guests' needs, an inline solution is not an option. Although, I recall that squid supports WCCP, I'm not sure that it would do what I am requesting. I also looked at snort+libclamav, but the info was inconclusive. We are a CentOs shop and I have a spare dual xeon box that I can use for the task. Thanks, Eric

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network config files in centos 5 changing - more information
by Jerry Geis 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Log file shows: MAC address issue. Apr 25 08:32:19 fsdsigns kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> Link [APCH] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 209 Apr 25 08:32:19 fsdsigns kernel: forcedeth: using HIGHDMA Apr 25 08:32:19 fsdsigns kernel: 0000:00:07.0: Invalid Mac address detected: 19:ea:64:4d:1a:00 Apr 25 08:32:19 fsdsigns kernel: Please complain to your hardware vendor. Switching to a random MAC. Apr 25 08:32:19 fsdsigns kernel: eth1: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01458:e000 bound to 0000:00:07.0 Now I had an Asus motherboard and was getting this error. I said fine and got tired of messing with it and bought a Gigabyte motherboard. Now I am having the same issue. Its complaining about a bad MAC address. I actually have 2 identical boxes. One has this issue the other seems to be OK. The network settings are not changing every time I boot up. So - How can I tell centos to STOP changing my ifcfg-eth* config files? Thanks so much, Jerry

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CentOS 5.0 x86: Splash screens
by Ioannis Vranos 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

CentOS 5.0 x86. Is there any easy, point and click way, to install GNOME splash screens?

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CentOS 5 fresh install fails at io scheduler setup
by Mark Hull-Richter 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

As long as I'm still awake, I tried to install CentOS 5 (earlier) from a DVD I downloaded via bittorrent about a week or so ago. It boots fine, but once it starts to load the kernel (in graphics mode), it gets to the point where it announces the four i/o schedulers and then stops dead. No disk activity, no DVD activity, nada. Is there a known problem here and if so what, or is this a new one? Thanks, and good night. -- Mark Hull-Richter, Linux Kernel Engineer DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com) 85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 949-680-3082 - Office 949-330-7691 - fax

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Evolution problem - not sending/receiving any more
by Mark Hull-Richter 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Not at all clear on what happened. I haven't downloaded my mail from gmail into Evolution for a couple of days, and today I changed my gmail password. Even though I told Evolution to forget my passwords and had to reenter them, I am unable to receive any email from the server. I get a quick "retrieving Pop summary" and then the window vanishes and nothing gets downloaded. When I try to send email, I get a window that says "Unable to authenticate to SMTP server" and a few other things. I have triple-checked the password (couldn't get here if I didn't know it), so what else could be the problem? I swear I didn't change ANYTHING else. -- Mark Hull-Richter, Linux Kernel Engineer DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com) 85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 949-680-3082 - Office 949-330-7691 - fax

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Re: [CentOS] hi
by Les Bell 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

"Dave" <matthew_17_20(a)msn.com> wrote: >> Hi I just joined I have a serer who's purpose life is to be a fileserver/print server right now it is running windows 98 because it is an older computer look at an alternate os such as this will this allow windows based machines to talk to it save files retrieve files and also how difficult is it to install. << Dave, I'll point you to two documents to get you started. First: http://www.lesbell.com.au/Home.nsf/web/Introduction+to+Linux?OpenDocument "Linux will appeal to you if: You are the kind of person who likes to "get under the hood" and tinker. You find pointing and clicking to be a very limiting way of expressing yourself. You want to develop or run applications for small- and medium-sized enterprises. You have a few Windows computers and need a firewall to connect them to the Internet, or a file server, or an intranet server, or . . ." "Essentially, using Windows is a bit like being a passenger in a Boeing 747. It's smooth, it's comfortable albeit cramped and you have an entertainment screen right in front of you. But after take-off, you can't change your mind about where you're going and you're not going to see any interesting scenery en-route. Using Linux is like piloting your own plane: you decided where you're going, and when; you can fly high or fly low and enjoy the scenery. But you can't just leap into the pilot's seat and crank the ignition - some training and some preparation are necessary." If you find this article incomprehensible or a bit tiring to read, you might like to consider whether you'd prefer to be a pilot or a passenger. Learning about Linux will involve a lot of reading. If you'd like to know more about setting up a basic file/print server for a small network of Windows machines, then see: http://www.lesbell.com.au/Home.nsf/web/Samba:+A+Linux+Server+for+your+Windo… Best, --- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909

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Centos 5 where is rndc.conf and named.conf?
by Robert Moskowitz 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

In /var/named/chroot/etc there is no rndc.conf or named.conf. Where are they? Webmin built a named.conf, but it is missing many of the 'default' entries. And it did not set up the symbolic link to /etc I am trying to follow instructions at: http://www.wains.be/index.php/2007/02/04/centos-chroot-dns-with-bind/

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Saving digikam photos for update to Centos 5
by Richard E Miles 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

I will be installing Centos 5 soon and would like to know how to save my digikam photos from centos 4.4 for inclusion in the centos 5 digikam version. I have a external usb 2.0 hard drive to save the messages on. I know how to savethe messages on the hard drive. I am interested in knowing should I save the entire pictures directory or only the photos from my albums. I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me. -- Richard Miles Federal Way WA. USA registered linux user 46097

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Centos 5 and slocate
by Robert Moskowitz 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

What happened????? Where is slocate? what package did I not install? Or is there something newer and better?

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totem plugins/codecs
by Ioannis Vranos 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Has anyone managed to configure totem to playback DVDs etc? Currently I have installed xine for doing these.

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Regarding fork bomb in a CentOS 4.4 Server!
by israel.garcia＠cimex.com.cu 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Mike, I know if someone has root access to my server I'm dead!, but in this case a non-root user can take down your server if he just run just :(){ :|:& };: Ulimit -u get this: [israel@node1 ~]$ ulimit -u 3072 So, I change /etc/securitty/limit.conf and add this lines to limit to 100 process to users * soft nproc 100 * hard nproc 100 Now: [israel@node1 ~]$ ulimit -u 100 And a non-root user CAN NOT take down your server.. My last question is? Why is not CentOS configured by default to aboid this known thigs? Regards; Israel >I quicker way to take down a machine is this: ># dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/port bs=1M count=2 >Should take a little less than a second to kernel panic your machine. >As Jim mentioned, have a look at limits.conf to help fix your fork bomb >problem...just don't set it too low!! >(if someone has root access, they have *several* ways to take down your >machine, including 'reboot', and 'shutdown'...) >Cheers, >Mike >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces at centos.org <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> >> [mailto:HYPERLINK "http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos"centos-bounces at centos.org <mailto:HYPERLINK> ] On Behalf Of >> israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> >> Sent: April 24, 2007 3:26 PM >> To: centos at centos.org <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> >> Subject: [CentOS] Regarding fork bomb in a CentOS 4.4 Server! >> >> >> Hi again, I was reading from the net >> http://www.kriptopolis.org/node/4067 about a forkbomb and ran >> it from a root console in a non-critical machine running >> CentOS4.4 and the serevr goes down... the command I ran was >> :(){ :|:& };: > >> Please, does anyone knows how to aboid this on CentOS?

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OT: Tux500 Linux Marketing Program
by Max Hetrick 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I found this on my Newsforge newsletter this morning. A group has put together a marketing program attempting to get some cash together for Linux to get a sponsorship sticker on an Indy 500 car. CentOS is on the list of folks who have contributed. Only $25 so far. http://tux500.com/stats.php - Contributor list I thought it was a neat idea, plus it mentions CentOS. They look to have raised a little over $7,600 so far. They need at least $25,000 to even get a small sponsorship logo on a car. At any rate, I wanted to pass it along. Regards, Max -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGLfOzHoeeepPau2ERAoeTAKCP4OeG7zPDP2EcQ3oDwXp/QwZKMQCff5d5 z8jim3aSNylvkQomVh8zPrI= =bvFn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Regarding fork bomb in a CentOS 4.4 Server!
by israel.garcia＠cimex.com.cu 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Hi again, I was reading from the net http://www.kriptopolis.org/node/4067 about a forkbomb and ran it from a root console in a non-critical machine running CentOS4.4 and the serevr goes down... the command I ran was :(){ :|:& };: Please, does anyone knows how to aboid this on CentOS? regards, Israel

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Help making gnokii (cvs version) rpm for CentOS 5
by ArcosCom Linux User 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Hi, I'm trying to package gnokii (using FC6 SRPM as base). I can build it without problems, my problem is that I want to upgrade it from CVS version. I download the cvs version (from cvs, because "current" tar.gz appears to be broken) but ... ¿How can I convert this CVS version to a "peseudo release" to make a diff from 0.6.14 and add the patch into the SOURCES? Thanks

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Upgrading from 4.4 to 5
by israel.garcia＠cimex.com.cu 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Hi, I have one centOS 4.4 with apache and some services. I want to upgrade to version 5 running: Yum -y -c /etc/yum.repos.d/base_centos upgrade Where the file bases_centos has: [base] name=CentOS-5 - Base baseurl=ftp://repository.mydomain/centos/5/os/i386 gpgcheck=0 timeout=1800 And, repository.mydomain is a mirror of mirror.centos.org It began to download all headers until I get this error: Error: Missing Dependency: libnewt.so.0.51 is needed by package crypto-utils Error: Missing Dependency: libnewt.so.0.51 is needed by package newt-perl Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies Error: Package initscripts needs kernel < 2.6.12, this is not available. Error: Package autofs needs kernel < 2.6.17, this is not available. Error: Package kudzu needs kernel < 2.6.13, this is not available. Error: Package hal needs kernel < 2.6.17, this is not available. Error: Package newt-perl needs libnewt.so.0.51, this is not available. Error: Package lksctp-tools needs kernel < 2.6.10, this is not available. Error: Package crypto-utils needs libnewt.so.0.51, this is not available. [root@node1 yum.repos.d]# Any ideas? Saludos, Israel

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Annoying Mouse Tricks
by Mark Weaver 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Hi All, Something that just has been annoying the daylights out of me for the past 9 months with no resolution in site. I've got a Hawking HKS 104 4 port KVM connecting my Linux workstation, 2 servers, and my wife's windows workstation to one monitor, mouse, and keyboard. No matter how I toggle back and forth whether by keyboard or directly on the device once I come back to the linux desktop scroll wheel on mouse no longer functions. Except for a brief time while running CentOS 4.4 it's always been this way. I've googled until there were just no more places left on the internet and searched through CentOS archives until I'd read everything from balls to bones without finding any helpful information. Does anyone have any ideas or thoughts on how a fella might resolve this? When I restart the machine (Linux) the scroll mouse works normally, that is until I toggle to the windows machine and back again or to one of the servers and back again. Then the mouse functions like a two button mouse not having a scroll wheel. I appear to be stuck in KVM hell with this. -- Mark "If you have found a very wise man, then you've found a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough to learn from his own stupidity." ============================================== Powered by CentOS5 (RHEL5)

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Olivier Castien/Roncq/Infofrance/FRA/TZG est absent.
by Olivier_Castien＠zieglergroup.com 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Je serai absent(e) à partir du 23/04/2007 de retour le 01/05/2007. Je répondrai à votre message dès mon retour. En cas d'urgence, vous pouvez contacter l'équipe technique d'infofrance.

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switch to kde in centos5
by Jay 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

* switchdesk kde command does not work. WHat is an easy wath to switch to / from kde / gnome? Thanks -J *

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A little bit OT
by Mário Gamito 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Hi, Is there anyone here using Openfire Jabber server with CentOS 4.4 LDAP ? If so, how do I map the vCard fields with the LDAP info ? I'm completely lost here :( Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, Mário Gamito

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