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Prblems log rotating a file
by Mário Gamito 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi, I needed to logrotate a fil named qmail-queue.log from qmail-scanner. So i've edit /etc/syslog.conf and changed it to: *.info;qmail-queue.none;auth.none;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages (...) # qmail-queue logs qmail-queue /var/spool/qscan/qmail-queue.log Also, i've edit /etc/logrotate.d/syslog and changed to /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron /var/log/auth /var/spool/qscan/qmail-queue.log { sharedscripts postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true endscript } ---------------------------------------------------- I've restarted the syslog service In the end all i got was the file not being rotated as well as /var/log/messages: Mar 21 08:24:10 mail kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Mar 21 08:24:10 mail kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. Mar 21 08:24:11 mail syslog: klogd shutdown succeeded Mar 21 08:24:11 mail exiting on signal 15 What am i doing wrong ? Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, Mário Gamito

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Dlink DWL G520+
by Charles Yao 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi, Has anyone gotten this card to work in Centos? I'm thinking of moving a few desktops to centos but I'm not sure f the hardware will work. Charles

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4.4 i386 Server CD actually 64-bit?
by Ray Van Dolson 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Just downloaded the CentOS 4.4 i386 Server CD. The md5sum on the file matches: My file: 8ccb89265b16ca551bd04a15b3cf59a1 (CentOS-4.4.ServerCD-i386.iso) md5sum.servercd: 8ccb89265b16ca551bd04a15b3cf59a1 (CentOS-4.4.ServerCD-i386.iso) However, when I boot up with the CD on a Compaq Armada E500 laptop (Pentium III), the following message pops up: "Your CPU does not support long mode. Use a 32bit distribution" If I use my regular CD 1 of the full i386 CentOS 4 install, I don't get this and am able to get into the installer. So is something wrong with the CentOS-4.4.ServerCD-i386.iso file on the mirrors? Thanks, Ray

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Question about stubborn RPM
by Mário Gamito 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi, I've made mysqlf a RPM and installed it. After that i did what i shouldn' do: remove the files it installed. Now, i wnat to install it agai and i can't. Already rebuilt the rpm database ( rpm -vv --rebuilddb), used --force, --replacepkgs, --replacefiles, --justdb, --erase, --initdb, but no good. Been at rpm.org, but found nothing that i already know. Any help would be appreciated. Warm regards, Mário Gamito

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Re: [CentOS] Will Firefox 2.X be included/supported in CentOS 5?
by David G. Miller 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos(a)br-online.de> wrote: > David G. Miller wrote: > >> > Alfred von Campe <alfred(a)110.net> wrote: >> > >> >>> > >I know this mostly depends on what is/will be done upstream, but with >>> > >the recent announcement that Firefox 1.5.X will only receive updates >>> > >until April 24, 2007, is Firefox 2.X in CentOS' future? >>> > > >>> > >Alfred >>> >> > As of beta 2 the answer seems to be "no": >> > > Which beta2? > > Ralph I'm running CentOS 5 beta 2 on a test box. You can find the links to the current beta ISOs, release notes, etc. on the CentOS main web page (the i386 and x86_54 ISOs are under http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.92/isos/) The estimate was for CentOS to trail RHEL 5 by about two weeks. This implies that we should see a production release of CentOS fairly soon but feel free to give the beta a whirl if you want. I'm currently running FC6 and CentOS 4.4 on different boxes for hardware support so I'm trying to get a jump on moving to only running CentOS 5 and not having to chase the latest Fedora version. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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PGP files sent via FTP over SSL (FTPS)
by Karl R. Balsmeier 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Can you send a PGP file over FTPS, and which Centos FTP daemon option supports this?

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SATA RAID card recommendation?
by Florin Andrei 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

I need a SATA RAID PCI card that works well with CentOS and is fully supported. Mandatory features: - works with the drivers already in the kernel, no additional drivers - can do RAID 0, 1 and 5 - hotswap - allows to monitor the status of the array and of each individual drive via a script (ideally run from cron) - works with very large SATA drives Nice to have features but not mandatory: - small battery to keep the array alive until the write buffers are flushed after a power loss Anyone having positive experience with SATA RAID, please comment. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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Firefox 2
by Josep M. 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hello. I use Centos 4.4 x86_64 with firefox 1.5.0.10 64 bits with nspluginwrapper and runs reasonable well. I would like know if there is rpm packages for firefox 2.0.0.2 or 2.0.0.3 and if will run well under Centos x86_64 if someone has tried. Thanks Josep --------------------------------- LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com

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Re: [CentOS] Will Firefox 2.X be included/supported in CentOS 5?
by David G. Miller 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Alfred von Campe <alfred(a)110.net> wrote: > I know this mostly depends on what is/will be done upstream, but with > the recent announcement that Firefox 1.5.X will only receive updates > until April 24, 2007, is Firefox 2.X in CentOS' future? > > Alfred As of beta 2 the answer seems to be "no": [dave@fold ~]# rpm -q firefox firefox-1.5.0.8-1.el5.centos.1 [dave@fold ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.92 (Beta) This was discussed extensively on the fedora list. Red Hat will continue to provide updates to Firefox 1.5 as per their support agreement for RHEL. RH *may* choose to upgrade RHEL 5 to Firefox 2.0 but whatever version is the official version will be supported as long as the RHEL release is supported. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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VIA C3 Nehemiah Locks Up
by Chris Miller 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hello, I've got an EPIA-M series motherboard in a system that has locked up twice under random conditions. Nothing is logged to the console or logs, the system just hangs. The system is installed with CentOS 4.4 and running the 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL i686 kernel. I am aware that older C3 processors had the CMOV problem, but that is resolved in the later boards (procinfo below). I've seen a few posts about similar problems, but it's not clear whether this is a bad board, or if there's an issue with the kernel. cpuspeed was running, I've since disabled and stopped the service as it's been rumored to cause problems. This was mentioned in this bug report that is still open : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1270 Can anyone confirm that there are no known problems with the VIA C3 Nehemiah Model 9 and CentOS, or if some (kernel) tweaks are required to make these systems stable? Regards, Chris Board Info : http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_i… # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 9 model name : VIA Nehemiah stepping : 8 cpu MHz : 534.860 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge cmov pat mmx fxsr sse rng rng_en ace ace_en bogomips : 1070.44 # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105 [Rhine-III] (rev 8b) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03)

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Will Firefox 2.X be included/supported in CentOS 5?
by Alfred von Campe 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

I know this mostly depends on what is/will be done upstream, but with the recent announcement that Firefox 1.5.X will only receive updates until April 24, 2007, is Firefox 2.X in CentOS' future? Alfred

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HP DL585 G2 -- no nics
by Castello, Jean-pierre 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hello try to boot with pci=nommconf kernel option. Regards, Jean-Pierre

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Vsftpd/Centos Issue: Client Time Display Wrong
by Karl R. Balsmeier 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi, We have patched Centos 4.4 to work properly with the recent DST changes, but our customers are reporting wrong FTP client timestamps based on which areas they live in. What are the two main mechanisms in Centos that control time? I know about /etc/localtime and TZDATA, is there something we may have missed? Or is this perhaps a VSFTPd thing and I could go bug that list? To be clear, -i'm asking: How would you verify your Centos system was completely sound and properly set for time changes like DST? I did all of our servers going back all the way to Solaris 7, but this seems uniquely to do with my centos4.3 machines running vsftpd. If you can drop a command line or two on me to determine the time settings are OK, that would be a great start. Notice i'm not asking for a solution to the whole issue, but just a starter set of 'grep this, enter that' forensics, so I can nail down which of the two mechanisms are in error, specific to centos 4.3, 4.4. -karlski

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apache error
by Mark Quitoriano 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi, i restarted my apache and now im getting this error. Stopping httpd: [FAILED] Starting httpd: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs [FAILED]

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Re: [CentOS] Install and Run mysql 4.x
by Al Sparks 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

> You don't have to initialize mysql db : it will be done > automagically when you'll start the mysqld service for the first > time (service mysqld start) ... > Have a look in the mysqld init script (that rpm/yum provides you > so gently) , especially in the start() function ... Well, I guess that's a DOH on my part. Of course they'd provide and use the init scripts in /etc/init.d. This may have something to do with all the previous things I've attempted after the install, but when I actually invoke the script it says the startup fails. However, the mysql.log shows that the database successfully starts, and I'm able to get a mysql prompt. Thanks for your help. === Al

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Hellllp Pl: Centos 4.4 Default LVM install boot/recovery problem
by Sanjay Arora 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hello all Nill experience with LVM. Have a Default Centos 4.4 install updated till a week ago with three HDDs. System's not booting up since my staff pulled out the plug due to a short circuit nearby. Machine is a PIII 550 MHz, with 3 HDDs 40 GB, 120 GB (Actually is bigger but my bios detects only upto 120 GB) & 20 GB...about half filled with data & the backup server taken out in the short circuit. Upon bootup, the system starts with root, kernel & initrd notices, then says Uncompressing Linux then spits out the Error....CRC Error -- System Halted. Booted from the CD in reinstall mode where anaconda looks for linux installations on the HDD and asks about upgrade, reinstall or fresh partition/create partition/delete partition for reinstall, but the installer does not detect any linux installation on the HDD. I aborted at that stage. Now my system is a default linux installation where I have used the autopartitioning done by the system (LVM2) and almost all of my data is either in /home directory or couple of directories in the / I am willing to do a reinstall if my data is preserved. What do I need to do to diagnose the problem? and pointers to recovering from this problem and various tradeoffs. Can't lose data, as already have lost backup server (smps, motherboard, hdd circuitry all short-circuited, so no hope there). LVM howto was not much of a help as it seems to mostly have how to expand or reduce lvm and similar issues. Please keep in mind that I am a user and not sys-admin, though I can use command-line, if instructions & how-tos are there. Please help. With best regards and thanks in anticipation. Sanjay.

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Install and Run mysql 4.x
by Al Sparks 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

You know, I suppose I could simply install the tarball, I've successfully installed mysql in the past that way. However, I thought I'd use yum, install the redhat/CentOS way, and I am amazed how hard it is to get this thing working. I admit to not having become all that familiar with mysql. Anyway, when I run # mysql_install_db --user=mysql I get a bunch of errors: 070321 11:50:43 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/help_topic.frm' (errno: 13) So I find out where the file is, and cd /var/lib/mysql and to confirm I do a ls ./mysql/help_relation.frm I run # mysql_install_db --user=mysql Same error. I'll be glad for some help, but a secondary point I'd like to make is, what's the point in having packages if a lot of this stuff isn't already taken care of? Obviously the yum package manager puts the mysql distro in different places than the mysql tarball does by default. But shouldn't the package's config files take all that into account? Why is this so hard? === Al

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Linux at command
by Frank M. Ramaekers 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

I'm having a problem with the Linux (unix) at command. I have a program/script that needs to run another program/script within seconds. Unfortunately the at command only accepts minutes as input. Therefore, scheduling a command within a minute (i.e. adding 1 minute to the current time), can cause the command to run within 1 to 60 seconds. (Add 1 minute to a time such as 11:43:59 will cause it to run at 11:44:00, one second later.) I don't quite understand why unix has this limitation. Is there something else I should be considering? TIA, Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer; MCP, MCP+I, MCSE & RHCE American Income Life Insurance Company Phone: (254) 761-6649 Fax: (254) 741-5777

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interactive %pre in kickstart?
by Florin Andrei 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Here's what I'm currently doing in ks.cfg: %pre #!/bin/sh echo -n "Please enter blah: " read blah echo $blah > /tmp/ks-blah I know that "read blah" works fine, because after that I see the variable in the /tmp file. The problem is, echo doesn't seem to work at this stage. This pretty much kills the idea of an interactive %pre script. I was thinking to collect in %pre the information that is different from one system to another (and cannot be deduced automatically by kickstart), then the user can walk away and the system is installed and configured completely by kickstart. If %pre cannot be made interactive, then I'll have to move the customization after reboot, which is less than ideal. P.S.: I guess I could automatically generate a whole lot of ks.cfg files on the kickstart server, and just tell the user to point the installer to the appropriate ks.cfg, instead of entering some info manually at the %pre stage. But somehow generating hundreds of ks.cfg files seems very ugly. I'd rather keep that algorithm in one single ks.cfg and let the user enter a couple things in the %pre stage. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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samba-devel
by David Hrbáč 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi, Where can I find samba-devel package? I'm trying to release samba-pdbsql. Thanks, David Hrbáč

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Full NTFS support
by Feizhou 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ Anybody interested? Someone built a package for RHEL4...

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CentOS 5 (beta): tomcat/keystore issue
by Paul Heinlein 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

I (somewhat sadly, imo) need to run Tomcat/SSL on a public-facing machine at work. I was really, really hoping I could use the GCJ-compiled version of Tomcat supplied in the base repository. I can't get Tomcat to read a Java keystore created with the keytool utility provided (in java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp.110). The Sun and GNU keytools produce different keystores. I'll use the Tomcat nomenclature to describe the differences. Obviously, I'm looking for the correct "algorithm" (i.e., certificate signing algorithm) setting: Toolset keystoreType algorithm ------- ------------ --------- Sun JKS SunX509 GNU GKR ??? The Tomcat that ships with CentOS 4.92 defaults to assuming keystoreType="JKS" and algorithm="SunX509" so that in /etc/tomcat5/server.xml the Connector tag will assume those values, e.g., <Connector port="8443" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" [....] scheme="https" secure="true" sslProtocol="TLS" keystoreType="JKS" algorithm="SunX509" /> With those settings -- either implicitly (since they're the default) or explicitly -- Tomcat fails to start an SSL listener. The catalina.out log reports: SEVERE: Exception trying to load keystore /path/to/keystore java.security.KeyStoreException: JKS If I set keystoreType="gkr", the error changes: SEVERE: Error initializing endpoint java.io.IOException: SunX509 I've taken some wild stabs at guessing the algorithm string ("X.509", "X509", "GnuX509", "GNU-CRYPTOX509", and some others), to no avail. My keystore seems to be valid, since "keytool -list" run against it produces the expected output. My google-foo has failed me completely. Help, anyone? -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein(a)madboa.com <> www.madboa.com

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A few issues
by Mark Hull-Richter 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

1) Is this the right place for kernel internals questions and if not, what is? (Refresher: I am relatively new to Linux kernel internals, but not kernels in general. I've work on Unix and proprietary kernels, including my first seven years as a professional developing a whole system from the ground up.) 2) I noticed this morning that my GLMatrix screensaver is not working any more. I poked around and found a whole bunch of others that stopped working, including all the GLxxx screensavers. Any particular reason for this? The matrix one worked a couple of days ago even when I had to futz with the screen resolution and monitor resolution settings. 3) Now that I mention it, I'm still having trouble running the display configuration settings applet (it comes and asks for the root password, then disappears). What's up with that? This happens here at work and also at home.... 4) With but one partition left to convert from NTFS to ext3, this one had to be the difficult one. It's my old C: partition from which I used to boot Windows. Three times now, with cp and tar, it has hung somewhere in the Documents and Settings directory and nothing brings it back. I managed to hang my whole system with a bad shell function, but the reboot brought everything back. I've gone to a directory-by-directory backup, excluding the D&S until tonight, but I was wondering if anyone knows why that one would be so difficult. I have no lack of disk space, so that's definitely not the problem. It stopped on one of the music player settings databases, slowing down at each one progressively until it hit the one that hung it, and these were hung for hours, so I'm pretty sure it wasn't just me being impatient. Probably OT.... Thanks. Mark Hull-Richter Linux Kernel Engineer (949) 680-3082 - Office (949) 680-3001 - Fax (949) 632-8403 - Mobile mhull-richter(a)datallegro.com <mailto:mhull-richter@datallegro.com> www.datallegro.com <http://www.datallegro.com> <http://www.datallegro.com/index.htm>

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Building i386 packages on a x86_64 system
by Bernhard Gschaider 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi! Is there an easy way to do that? I looked around and the way that is usually advertised is setarch i386 rpmbuild --target=i386 --rebuild .... but for the SRPMs I've tried it always fails at tests in the Spec-File (like %ifnarch x86_64) The RPM I try to build doesn't compile anything (it just wraps a TAR-File), so setting up mock isn't necessary in my opinion. Is there any way to use the --target-switch? Thanks

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centos 4.4 dns problem -
by Bob Goodwin 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Upon installing Centos 4.4 a second time it worked "out of the box" as expected. Sorry that I caused a stir over a non-problem. I still have no idea what I did that may have caused dns to fail, I think I made all the same choices and entries the second time around? However doing this in the wee hours I had no interruptions or distractions ... Should anyone be interested the dns servers are: cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 12.189.32.61 nameserver 208.67.222.222 nameserver 208.67.220.220 but there may be a problem here: service named status rndc: connect failed: connection refused I'm not certain about that but next is to run yum update and do some other configuration to satisfy my own preferences. Thanks much to all. Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia

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Shell Question
by Al Sparks 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

So I list out some directories, and I redirect the output to a file called "out". I do it with: find . $ -type d ! -name . -prune $' > out I then go into "out" using my favorite editor and remove any directories I don't want to search. When I do a find `cat out` -name 'something*' I get an error on any directories with whitespace in them. When I try to place quotes around that name, it doesn't work, nor does putting a backslash in front of the space help. Any shell experts out there have any ideas? === Al

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How to properly bridge the network to CentOS under Parallels on a Macbook Pro?
by Olaf Greve 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi all, I have recently acquired a Macbook Pro (sweet machine!) from my employer, and one of the tasks the machine has to do is to run a distributed software development platform (called Splice) under Linux. For this task, I have chosen the trusty CentOS 4.4, and I have it set up in Parallels. So far, so good. Now then, the network does work within CentOS, but I want to assign it a fixed IP address, such that the DDS layer of the distributed platform can transparently communicate to (and from) the virtual machine. More specifically, the entire network, in which the Splice DDS runs, is a 192.168.1.x local network. There are already two 'real' (i.e. not virtual) machines, with IPs 192.168.1.4 and 192.168.1.42, which both work swell with one another. Now, the Macbook itself has the IP address 192.168.1.121, but the bridged network connection is a DHCP range, running from 10.211.55.1 - 10.211.55.254, and I want to be able to 'see' the VM from anywhere within the 192.168.1.x network. Presently, from the VM I can already see the machines in the 192.168.1.x network, but the other way round not. When the VM is e.g. assigned the address 10.211.55.4, I cannot ping that address from the other machines in the 192.168.1.x network. Note, from that network I can ping correctly to 192.168.1.121. The main question then becomes: how can I 'see' the VM from the 192.168.1.x network? I *think* I have to change something in the parallels network or parallels NAT configuation, but I am not certain what it should be set to, and I do not want to risk messing up all sorts of settings. Also, in CentOS I do know how to set a fixed IP address, but I am not certain if perhaps I have to add a 'direct route' or so. Does anyone know if this is (also) necessary? Thanks in advance for any and all answers, and cheers, Olafo

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CentOS 5 Beta - Yum Updates?
by Styma, Robert E (Robert) 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

I am new to CentOS. I mostly use Fedora Core. I installed the CentOS 5 Beta on a test machine from the DVD. I configured it with both KDE and Gnome. I am using the default YUM configurtion which loaded with the DVD. Unlike FC7T2, CentOS 5 Beta does not seem to pick up Yum updates. Is this by design or do I need to add repos to my /etc/yum.repos.d? Thanks for any suggestions Bob Styma

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About packets for via c7, optimizing
by devel 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

optimizing for via c7. Any packet specific for via c7? Openssl, kernel,apache,php, mysql, -- -- Devel in Precio http://www.pas-world.com

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centos 4.4 dns problem -
by Bob Goodwin 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

I've just installed Centos 4.4 on a computer, replacing FC6, and the first thing I find is that DNS does not work no matter what I have in /etc/resolv.conf. It should at least work with my ISP's assigned server but doesn't. Numerical URL's work via the browser and ping. Is there something else I need to attend to? I hope this is the right list for such questions. Thanks. Bob Goodwin

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How to bind a username to an ip address with squid
by Indunil Jayasooriya 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi ALL, I am running squid with ncsa support. Each user has a username and passowrd to access Internet. Now the probles is that user now can access Internet with his username and password from all the workstations. I do not need it. So, I think if I bind username to ip address, user can access Internet from that particular pc having that ip address. How to do it? -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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How to add time to squid log
by Indunil Jayasooriya 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi, I have the need of adding time to squid log. The commad tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log does not provide the time when a user acesses the internet. I want to enable this feature. How to enable ? - Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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Dedicated Servers
by Jean Figarella 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi, A little bit off topic here, but I was wondering if anybody knows about a good dedicate server provider, that offers CentOS (but ofcourse) as a os choice, and that is very reliable. I am using SuperbServer, but as of this moment 2007/03/19 1406 America/NewYork time, my server is down do to a power outage at one of their facilities in VA. This is the second outage in less that 5 months. Unacceptable. But yes, any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks

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RE: [CentOS] Dedicated Servers
by Robert Becker Cope 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Jean Figarella <jfigarella(a)vecna.com> wrote: > I am using SuperbServer, but as of this moment 2007/03/19 1406 > America/NewYork time, my server is down do to a power outage at one of > their facilities in VA. This is the second outage in less that 5 > months. Unacceptable. Interesting. I've been coloed there for years and have never had the slightest issue. In fact, a hurricane flooded the area and I never even noticed. They were supposedly on backup power for days. Do you know what datacenter you're in? robert

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kickstart: transfer info between %pre and %post
by Florin Andrei 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

I collect some info with the %pre script. But I really want to execute some programs, based on that info, during a chrooted %post. The problem is, %pre and chrooted %post do not share any part of the filesystem. In %pre the hard-drives are not yet formatted, while in a chrooted %post the installer's root is not available. How to transfer info between these two stages? One idea would be to upload a file to the kickstart fileserver. That's ugly in many ways. Any other idea? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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Xten Voip LInux client
by Robert Moskowitz 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

from: http://www.xten.com/index.php?menu=download Seems to be working fine. just untar and run. But now I have to do some real voice testing. Not to my desk phone 2 feet away and get blasted with feedback!

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centos raid 1 question
by Mark Quitoriano 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Hi, im having this on my screen and dmesg im not sure if this is an error message. btw im using centos 4.4 with 2 x 200GB PATA drives. md: md0: sync done. RAID1 conf printout: --- wd:2 rd:2 disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:hda2 disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:hdc2 md: delaying resync of md5 until md3 has finished resync (they share one or more physical units) md: syncing RAID array md5 md: minimum _guaranteed_ reconstruction speed: 1000 KB/sec/disc. md: using maximum available idle IO bandwith (but not more than 200000 KB/sec) for reconstruction. md: using 128k window, over a total of 2048192 blocks. md: md5: sync done. RAID1 conf printout: --- wd:2 rd:2 disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:hda6 disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:hdc6 md: syncing RAID array md3 md: minimum _guaranteed_ reconstruction speed: 1000 KB/sec/disc. md: using maximum available idle IO bandwith (but not more than 200000 KB/sec) for reconstruction. md: using 128k window, over a total of 6144768 blocks. md: resuming recovery of md3 from checkpoint. md: md3: sync done. RAID1 conf printout: --- wd:2 rd:2 disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:hda3 disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:hdc3 Thanks!

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS vs. RHEL Advanced Platform
by Jeff 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Thank you Matt, It is the Global File Sharing and clustering that I would like for future implementation. Jeff TheAdvanced Platform adds in things like GFS/Clustering which CentOS hasin the past rebuilt alongside of CentOS 4. I would be surprised to see thatgo away as long as RedHat is still making the SRPMs available as they havein the past. Otherwise, I see no technical differences between RHEL5 and RHEL5 AP - therest are subscription/support differences.Matt-- Matt HyclakDepartment of Mathematics Department of Social WorkOhio University(740) 593-1263_______________________________________________CentOS mailing listCentOS@centos.orghttp://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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Need help in securing maildir so that root user should not able to read anyother user's mail
by ankush grover 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Hi friends, My company is currently using Exchange Servers for Mail Server solutions but now they want to move to Linux Servers due to heavy cost involved with the Exchange Users.We will be using the latest version of Centos. So the kind of solution we are looking is below: a) Postfix or Sendmail as MTA. b) Dovecot or Cyrus Imap with Quota as Pop & Imap server. c) Security of Maildir means even root user should not be able to read any user's mail. d) Global Address Book on Ldap or any other. e) Using samba/ldap for client authentication. Most concerned part here is part c as we don't want any user to be able to read any other user's mail including root. Regards Ankush

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Documentation and howto
by Andrea Carpani 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Hi all. I'm really intrested on how the CentOS team rebuilds all of the packages from the src rmps: build environment, setup, tips and tricks. Is there documentation about this somewhere? Thanks. -- Andrea Carpani <andrea.carpani(a)criticalpath.net> Critical Path

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automated install over network
by Dave 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Hello, I've got a machine i'd like to put CentOS 4.4 on. Unfortunately this machine doesn't have a rom in it, just a floppy and a network card. I was wondering if i could boot it, then have it pick up what it needs to start the install off the network and do an unattended install vi nfs? Or, if that's not possible would it be possible to boot and load CentOS completely from the network bypassing the hard disk altogether? I don't need x on this box, in fact it doesn't have a monitor, most of the work it will do will be via ssh, or unattended stuff. Thanks. Dave.

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Centos 5 [Beta] on 3ware 9650se controller
by Jason Harper 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that CentOS 5 Beta (or likely final) supports the 3ware 9650se card. Since 3ware hasn't released a driver disk yet, I put one together. It supports CentOS 5 Beta, and may/should support Final. If anyone is interested, I've posted it here: http://www.truedesign.org/3ware-centos5/ Jason

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phpMyAdmin high Memory usage
by Matthew Martz 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

I installed phpMyAdmin on CentOS 4.4. When accessing phpMyAdmin the memory usage jumps. Memory usage for http jumps to 700MB spawning 4-5 httpd processes (about 3GB of ram). Mysql also jumps to using close to 600MB in some cases This is a Daul Dual core Xeon 3GHz machine with 4 GB of 667Mhz ram. Should I be seeing this spike in Memory usage? The spikes only last about 5 seconds but my manager doesn't want to see those jumps. The databases appear to be about 450MB-600MB. On a side note I had a requirement from the dev group here to set php to a maximum memory usage of 1GB due to the large files that are being parsed via a web page. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Matthew Martz CentOS Mirror Admin mdmartz(a)gflug.net

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selinux ntp samba error message
by Brett Serkez 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Just prior to the time change, I made sure that ntpd and my timezone files were properly setup. Since this time, I've noticed the following errors: audit(1173310084.404:5): avc: denied { read } for pid=8634 comm="ntpd" name="unexpected.tdb" dev=md1 ino=147662 scontext=root:system_r:ntpd_t tcontext=root:object_r:samba_var_t tclass=file I've not successfully (so far) been able to find the selinux setting that is denying this access. I am running a reasonably standard (i.e. minimally customized) CentOS V4.4 system and have to believe there is a general change that should be made. Has anyone else seen these errors? Has anyone else resolved this issue and can describe how to resolve? Brett

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GNU Telephony Centos repository
by Robert Moskowitz 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

The Gnu Telephony site: http://wiki.gnutelephony.org Has a Centos repo: http://dist.gnutelephony.org/RPMS/ But I caught some text stating that this is for Centos 4.2. Is it really? Is there a difference; i.e. would it be safe to install these on Centos 4.4? Really I am after Twinkle, and it seems there is a lot you need to actually get Twinkle installed...

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HP DL585 G2 -- no nics
by David Mackintosh 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Hi folks, I've just spent about six hours messing around with an HP DL585 G2 server trying to get CentOS to go. This box is a dual-CPU with dual cores and 10GB of RAM total. According to the datasheet, the POST screens, and the BIOS, it has the Broadcom embedded NICs in it. The problem boils down to the installed OS (4.4 x86_64) not seeing the NICs. If you do an lspci on the system after installing from local media the only unknown device is one of the built-in hardware health monitors. And since the NICs don't show up in the pci table, there's nothing for the drivers I downloaded from the HP website to hook to. What's interesting is that in the process of trying to get this thing going I've installed two old (2002 vintage) 3Com 905cxl PCI cards in the system -- again, the BIOS (or whatever the built in hardware diagnostics program is called) sees them, but the running OS does not. This implies I've done or missed something trivially stupid, and after banging my head against this box and the monumentally unhelpful HP "documentation" I was wondering if someone had been down this road before. Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks! -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | dave(a)xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com

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RE: [CentOS] net.ipv4 TCP/IP Optimizations = sysctl.conf?
by Plant, Dean 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Karl R. Balsmeier wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >> On 3/19/07, Karl R. Balsmeier <karl(a)klxsystems.net> wrote: >> >>> If I execute these via command line, will they persist after a >>> reboot? >>> >>> Or, should I be putting these into a file like /etc/sysctl.conf? >>> >> >> They will only persist if they are put in /etc/sysctl.conf. Whether >> they do what you want.. is another question. >> >> > oh, they do what I want, they make things much much faster from a > performance standpoint... > I spent some time trying to tune the IP stack on one of our backup servers without much improvement. Would you be willing to share your test results/thoughts on the settings you posted? Thanks Dean.

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RE: Need help in securing maildir so that root user
by Jun Salen 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

How much cost do you currently spending in your Exchange setup, can you give me an idea so that I know how much I am saved using my current setup. Postfix, Courier, ClamAV, SpamAssasin, Roundcube and MailScanner. All this under the roof of CentOS. Thanks. ---------------------------- My company is currently using Exchange Servers for Mail Server solutions but now they want to move to Linux Servers due to heavy cost involved with the Exchange Users.We will be using the latest version of Centos. So the kind of solution we are looking is below: junji linux registered user #253162 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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dual core optimization
by Mark Quitoriano 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Hi, is this done by centos automatically? or do i need to config something?

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net.ipv4 TCP/IP Optimizations = sysctl.conf?
by Karl R. Balsmeier 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

If I execute these via command line, will they persist after a reboot? Or, should I be putting these into a file like /etc/sysctl.conf? --------------snip-------------- /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog=2048 /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout=30 /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl=10 /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_probes=7 /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time=1800 /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets=360000 /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries=3 /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_rmem="4096 87380 16777216" /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_wmem="4096 87380 16777216" /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_mem="8388608 8388608 8388608" --------------snip--------------- p.s. these are meant for a specific technology we use, so not sure if everyone reading would be best served by using them, mileage may vary! : / -karlski

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