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Prepping for system wipe & reload
by David A. Woyciesjes 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Here's the checklist I have so far: 1 - /home partition - separate drive 2 - Files copied to the second drive: /etc/X11/xorg.conf rpm for RPM forge /etc/yum - entire folder /etc/yum/repos.d - entire folder /etc/yum.conf /etc/yumex.conf /etc/yumex.profiles.conf 3 - Files installed via Yum(ex) - Hmmm, need to figure this one out. Any pointers? -- --- David Woyciesjes

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chown command goof up
by David A. Woyciesjes 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Basically, what I typed was: chown -R user2:user2 * chown -R user2:user2 .* chown -R user2:user2 *.* ...all in /home. Duh. I forgot which way recursive went. So, I then did: chown -R root:root * chown -R root:root .* chown -R root:root *.* ...this time in / to try and f things. Duh again. Other items need to have other owners & groups. So, how can I fix this? In MacOSX, there is a utility to fix all permissions on the system. Is there a similar item in CentOS? Here's what I originally wanted to do: Started with user1. Got everything setup just right. Then created user2. I wanted to use all the settings, mail, etc. from user1 for user2. My thought was to just copy everything in /home/user1 to /home/user2, then use chown on all of the files. This is where I got myself into this pickle... Any ideas? -- --- David Woyciesjes

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 24, Issue 7
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '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 lists: CentOS is going international! (Ralph Angenendt) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:57:37 +0100 From: Ralph Angenendt <ralph(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] New mailing lists: CentOS is going international! To: centos(a)centos.org Cc: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <45D0FEF1.5050009(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Guten Tag, bonjour, saudações, hola, ahoj, welkom and of course hello. Ladies and gentlemen, the CentOS mailing lists are going international! Yes, now you can talk about your favourite linux distribution in your favourite language. If - and that is a big if - you are able to talk in - german - french - czech - dutch - the brasilian variant of portuguese - spanish Which should be about, ermm, many people - and maybe *you* are one of them. Let me introduce your hosts for the rest of your lifes: There is Rodrigo Barbosa, who is running the CentOS-pt-br mailing list, because he is one of the people who are speaking this language. If that doesn't make him a good moderator, what else will? Then there is Tru Huynh of CentOS fame who still has time on his hands to run CentOS-fr. Daniel DeKok, resident spell checker (I haven't found an error on the wiki he didn't spot first) is running CentOS-nl. David Hrbáč has offered to run CentOS-cz, hoping that he'll still have some free time after you storm the list. Roger Peña Escobio and Ernesto Pérez Estévez wanted to do us a big favour with running the CentOS-es list, answering the multitude of requests for a spanish CentOS support venue. And Christoph Maser and me are going to run CentOS-de, just so there is a german mailing list also. So give them all a big hand for offering their help! You can find out about and subscribe to the lists at: <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-pt-br/>. <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-de/>. <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-fr/>. <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-nl/>. <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es/>. <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-cz/>. And now go and discuss! Ask questions if you have one! Answer questions if you know the answer! Hope to see you here and there, Ralph ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 24, Issue 7 **********************************************

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R1000 Driver for RTL8110SC NIC on Biostar I945G-M7
by Kirk Bocek 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Executive Summary: Realtek has an r1000 driver for the rtl8110sc NIC at http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads I've posted this in the forums but it looks like all the action for CentOS really happens here on the mailing list. Plus I hope this might help some other lost soul since google failed to connect this motherboard to *any* mention of the r1000. I thought I found a great little motherboard in the Biostar I945G-M7 V.2 for a new HD-capable MythTV frontend box I'm putting together. Imagine my dismay when the CentOS 4.4 installer did not recognize the on-board NIC. I haven't had this happen for *years* when installing on new hardware. Biostar's documentation (*and* their tech-support!) states that this M/B has an RTL8100 on-board. However, once I installed CentOS from DVD, 'lspci -v' revealed: 02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169SC Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp: Unknown device 2304 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 209 I/O ports at de00 [size=256] Memory at fdeff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Once I compiled and installed the r1000 on kernel 2.6.9-42.0.8, loading the driver yielded: eth1: Identified chip type is 'RTL8110SC'. eth1: r10001.05, the Linux device driver for Realtek Ethernet Controllers at 0xde00, 00:e0:4d:04:e8:c3, IRQ 209 Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter Driver version:1.05 Released date:2006/10/25 I checked another host that has a more recent 2.6.18.6 kernel and confirmed that it does *not* have the r1000. So I guess the r1000 isn't part of the kernel yet. You can get the r1000 at: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFi… Some direct links: ftp://202.65.194.211/cn/nic/r1000_v1.05.tgz ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/nic/r1000_v1.05.tgz ftp://209.216.61.149/cn/nic/r1000_v1.05.tgz Kirk Bocek

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iODBC rpm
by Sean Brown 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Does anyone know of a libiodbc rpm for CentOS4? -Thanks

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koffice in Centos 4
by Dago Pacheco 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Hi everybody... first of all, this is my first mail for this list and perhaps i won't explain me as clear as i want, because of my English (i speak Spanish), so hope u can help me. Well, I need a good diagram drawer. I have Dia, but i hate it, so I google and found Kivio, from the Koffice suite, but I just can't install it, by yum, by downloading a package... anything. What can I do? Thanks

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Re: [CentOS] Motherboard + 3ware 9650SE suggestions
by David Thompson 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

"Andrew Cotter" wrote: >Hello everyone! > >Working on putting a storage server together and wanted to get some input as >to what motherboards have been working for people with the 3ware 9650SE-12ML >raid board. This is large, bulk storage, 2-tier stuff. This will not be >used for realtime editing of video or something, but a gig nic is almost a >given I hope. > >I have an AMD chip available (AM2 slot) but I can get a new chip if needed. There was a recent thread about this, when I asked the same question. Check the archives. We're running 9650 on intel, so I can't be much help on AM2 motherboards. Maybe you can use a PCIe x16 video slot on AM2; not on intel. Unless you need raid 6, or PCI express, the 9550 (PCI-X) would also be a good choice (and IIRC doesn't require a driver replacement for CentOS 4.4). With the driver you download from 3ware, the 9650 works "real good." Cheers, Dave Thompson UW-Madison

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RPM for Twinkle?
by Robert Moskowitz 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Anyone have an rpm for twinkle? http://www.twinklephone.com/ A new sip softphone.

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Problem installing vlc on CentOS 4.3
by Jura Ernest 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

I'm having a problem installing vlc 0.8.6.2a on 4.3 any one experienced this problem please offer a solution. --------------------------------- What kind of emailer are you? Find out today - get a free analysis of your email personality. Take the quiz at the Yahoo! Mail Championship.

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Upgrading from CentOS 4.3 to 4.4 offline
by Jura Ernest 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

How can I upgrade to CentOS 4.4 from 4.3 if I have no internet connection? Are there upgrade files I can download and use on the offline comp? --------------------------------- What kind of emailer are you? Find out today - get a free analysis of your email personality. Take the quiz at the Yahoo! Mail Championship.

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yum behinf authenticated proxy - Replay
by Blaž Bogataj 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Simply modify yum.conf, add proxy=http://proxy.example.si:80/ proxy_username=some_username proxy_password=some_password work for me. Blaž Bogataj

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Load data in ldap
by Alexander Lopez 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Hi.. I try to load data in ldap server. I am using migration tools... But, When I use the migration tools throw the following message: bdb_db_open: Warning - No DB_CONFIG file found in directory /usr/local/var/openldap-data: (2) Expect poor performance for suffix o=utpl.edu,c=ec. str2entry: invalid value for attributeType objectClass #6 (syntax 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.38) I hope your comments..

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Motherboard + 3ware 9650SE suggestions
by Andrew Cotter 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Hello everyone! Working on putting a storage server together and wanted to get some input as to what motherboards have been working for people with the 3ware 9650SE-12ML raid board. This is large, bulk storage, 2-tier stuff. This will not be used for realtime editing of video or something, but a gig nic is almost a given I hope. I have an AMD chip available (AM2 slot) but I can get a new chip if needed. Side note on the 3Ware, has anyone gotten it to work on openfiler? Can't figure out how to compile the driver since the kernel is a rev or two behind including the driver. Will use Centos but wonld love to try and get openfiler working on this box. Thanks! Andrew

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New mailing lists: CentOS is going international!
by Ralph Angenendt 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Guten Tag, bonjour, saudações, hola, ahoj, welkom and of course hello. Ladies and gentlemen, the CentOS mailing lists are going international! Yes, now you can talk about your favourite linux distribution in your favourite language. If - and that is a big if - you are able to talk in - german - french - czech - dutch - the brasilian variant of portuguese - spanish Which should be about, ermm, many people - and maybe *you* are one of them. Let me introduce your hosts for the rest of your lifes: There is Rodrigo Barbosa, who is running the CentOS-pt-br mailing list, because he is one of the people who are speaking this language. If that doesn't make him a good moderator, what else will? Then there is Tru Huynh of CentOS fame who still has time on his hands to run CentOS-fr. Daniel DeKok, resident spell checker (I haven't found an error on the wiki he didn't spot first) is running CentOS-nl. David Hrbáč has offered to run CentOS-cz, hoping that he'll still have some free time after you storm the list. Roger Peña Escobio and Ernesto Pérez Estévez wanted to do us a big favour with running the CentOS-es list, answering the multitude of requests for a spanish CentOS support venue. And Christoph Maser and me are going to run CentOS-de, just so there is a german mailing list also. So give them all a big hand for offering their help! You can find out about and subscribe to the lists at: <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-pt-br/>. <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-de/>. <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-fr/>. <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-nl/>. <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es/>. <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-cz/>. And now go and discuss! Ask questions if you have one! Answer questions if you know the answer! Hope to see you here and there, Ralph

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RE: [CentOS] CentOS 2.6.9-42.0.8 issue - no keyboard after reboot
by Mark Hull-Richter 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

I'm still new to CentOS/RHEL and rpm, so let me do this: > I can guarantee that they both build fine on the centos builders and on > a machine with all the x86_64 packages and the only i[3,4,5,6]86 > packages are glibc.i686 and glibc-devel.i386. How do I find this out? If I do an rpm -q -a, I get 250+ lines of output, none of which appear to be specifically identified/identifiable as x86_64.... > You should either be building with plague and a full x86_64 tree ... or > a full tree as described in my first paragraph. Not sure what that means, per se. I'm building with rpm. > Now, as to whether the keyboard works, that could be an issue. Did you > ever try to boot with my SMP kernel and see if there where also issues > with that. Which one is "your" SMP kernel? Told you I'm new at this....

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RE: [CentOS] CentOS 2.6.9-42.0.8 issue - no keyboard after reboot
by Mark Hull-Richter 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

I'm not sure how to answer that. I have a plain installation of CentOS 4.4 for x86_64 SMP (2.6.9-42.0.3), installed from the DVD. I am now running 2.6.9-42.0.8 built from the rpm package http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/updates/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL .src.rpm using the fedora rpmdevtools, kernel-smp-devel and the "development tools" packages (from yum or the DVD). Does that help? -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 2:22 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 2.6.9-42.0.8 issue - no keyboard after reboot > There are huge differences between these two config files, and I'm > wondering what the heck is messed up in the former such that it doesn't > work but the latter does, even on SMP? The one question which has not been addressed yet is 'what does your build environment look like?' This could have everything to do with why you continue to have problems with (re)building things. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Samba4
by John Summerfield 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Has anyone tried flying with Samba 4 (preview)? Experiences, thoughts, advice? -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa(a)coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa(a)coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list

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RE: [CentOS] CentOS 2.6.9-42.0.8 issue - no keyboard after reboot
by Mark Hull-Richter 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

New details: I am running an SMP machine and have been using the kernel-2.6.9-x86_64-smp.config config file, which is the one that I can't get to work. So, I figured, what the heck, I'll just use the kernel-2.6.9-x86_64.config config file instead and just turn on SMP in make menuconfig. Voila! It works. There are huge differences between these two config files, and I'm wondering what the heck is messed up in the former such that it doesn't work but the latter does, even on SMP? Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 12:05 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 2.6.9-42.0.8 issue - no keyboard after reboot > Is there a bug or other problem in the standard USB driver for 42.0.8? > This is frustrating, and it has halted my development. I should be able > to build and run the straight distro rpm without this kind of grief, > shouldn't I? > > Suggestions, comments, etc. welcome. 1. usb drivers work fine here for all my devices (webcam, wireless keyboard/mouse set, memory sticks, and external hard drives and dvd burners.) 2. Um, the whole point of rpm based distributions is that you don't have to build them. That part is done for you. That said, it all rebuilds cleanly if you have a proper build environment. That's one of the things which the centos developers are very picky about. It's also pretty fundamental to the distribution, as it's all rebuilt from the sources of the upstream vendor. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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RE: [CentOS] CentOS 2.6.9-42.0.8 issue - no keyboard after reboot
by Mark Hull-Richter 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

I have now built about six kernels for this and none of them come up right - they all refuse to acknowledge the keyboard, and the mouse is jerky and erratic. I have checked the config to make sure that USB HID devices are recognized, and that the keyboard is the right one (AT). I have tried unplugging and re-plugging the keyboard, switching their positions on the LCD hub, even plugging directly into the motherboard - nothing works. Is there a bug or other problem in the standard USB driver for 42.0.8? This is frustrating, and it has halted my development. I should be able to build and run the straight distro rpm without this kind of grief, shouldn't I? Suggestions, comments, etc. welcome. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Mark Hull-Richter Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 10:33 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 2.6.9-42.0.8 issue - no keyboard after reboot I did this twice now, although the first couple of builds seemed to work ok, they just weren't configured quite right. On my third and fourth builds of the 42.0.8 kernel rpm, when booting, kudzu came up and ran, but the keyboard was somehow not recognized and I had to reboot using the mouse on the login screen (no text appears no matter what I type). I'm using the rpm build strategy from Jim's wiki, which works nicely, but my fallback is a 42.0.3 non-smp kernel. My main question, though, is how did this happen? Is there a config switch or something else I missed? I'm using the base kernel-2.6.9-x86_64-smp.config, and tweaking it to include ext3 and xfs in the kernel (instead of loadable ext3 and no xfs). Why? Well, we need xfs to load so we can find out why it's so damned slow on cached vs. direct i/o. We have some tweaks we put into xfs (current version, using SuSE Linux 9.something) in order to be able to control the way the extents are allocated. We need to be able to do large i/os in large chunks quickly, and that kind of allocation works better than little pieces all over the place. (We're looking at 8Mb chunks and larger.) With direct i/o, we can get around 30-40Mb/s transfer rates, but with cached (i.e., kernel) i/o, we are stuck at 8, which is too slow. It turns out we get better performance from jfs, but we want to use xfs because it is faster with our changes. The main issue here, though, is the failure of CentOS 2.6.9-42.0.8 to recognize the keyboard - why would that happen? Thanks. mhr _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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tcpwrappers hosts.allow netmask problem
by t m 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

I can't seem to get netmask notations to work in /etc/hosts.allow on my Centos 4.4 systems. The docs seem to indicate that network specifications like 192.168.100.0/24 or 192.168.100.0/255.255.255.0 should work. However, I can only get networks specified like 192.168.100. to work. Anyone know what I'm missing? Thanks, Tom

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How to prevent reading of an xml in a particular directory from browser in apache on Centos4.4
by ankush grover 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

hi friends, I have configured a HelpDesk Ticketing System on Centos4.4. The problem I am facing is that there is a file called "site.xml" which contains the information about database connections and I don't want ppl to be able to read that file through browser. As per the readme.htm of that software if the below entries will be put in .htaccess then nobody can read the xml through browser. <Files ~ ".xml"> Order allow,deny Deny from all Satisfy All </Files> Even though the above entries are there in .htaccess still I am able to read "site.xml" file. How do I prevent the reading of this file ? HelpDesk Ticketing Software is under /var/www/html/request and .htaccess is also under /var/www/html/request. Please let me know if you need any further information. Thanks & Regards Ankush Grover

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problem building lvm2-cluster on ia64
by Greenseid, Joseph M. 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

I am trying to install GFS on an ia64 cluster. I have been going by the Red Hat GFS 6.1 Administrator's Guide, and have built all the source rpms necessary except for one - lvm2-cluster-2.02.06-7.0.RHEL4.src.rpm is failing every single time at this place: gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,liblvm2cmd.so.2.02 \ -Wl,--version-script,.export.sym -lselinux -lsepol -ldl -o liblvm2cmd.so -Wl,-whole-archive liblvm2cmd.a -Wl,-no-whole-archive make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/LVM2.2.02.06/tools' error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1234 (%build) The last few lines of the rpm.tmp.[foo] file is always: ./configure --build=ia64-redhat-linux-gnu --host=ia64-redhat-linux-gnu \ --target=ia64-redhat-linux-gnu \ --program-prefix= \ --prefix=/usr \ --exec-prefix=/usr \ --bindir=/usr/bin \ --sbindir=/usr/sbin \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --datadir=/usr/share \ --includedir=/usr/include \ --libdir=/usr/lib \ --libexecdir=/usr/libexec \ --localstatedir=/var \ --sharedstatedir=/usr/com \ --mandir=/usr/share/man \ --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-clvmd=all --with-cluster=shared --with-user= --with-group= --enable-dmeventd --enable-cmdlib make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT I am assuming it is somewhere in this "make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" compilation that it is bailing. The other 14 RPMs for both RH Cluster Suite and GFS have all built fine, it is literally only this one that is giving me any trouble. Has anyone seen this, or have any suggestions? Thanks, --Joe

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Orinoco mini-pci card not working
by Edward Milstein 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Hello All, I have a Dell C800 laptop which boots and runs wonderfully with centos 4.4 except for the wireless card.. The card works fine with other OS'es but not centos.. I have read a ton of postings in various places about conflicts with orinoco_cs and host_ap, etc etc.. I have tried to add blacklist entries to /etc/hotplug/blacklist, I have tried changing the alias in /etc/modules.conf and I have tried to remove and reload modules by hand, all to no avail. I was hoping someone here could give a suggestion as I have spent the too many hours on this thus far.. Thanks in advance, -ed-

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Audio File Conversion: Extract CDDA from Music CD and Save as MP3 on Hard Drive
by Lanny Marcus 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

I'm using CentOS 4.4. It looks like I can use Sound Juicer (I normally use GNOME) or KAudio Creator in KDE to do this. I've been looking for gstreamer-plugins-mp3 with the Lame MP3 codec, but the files I find quickly are for early versions of Fedora Core. If someone can give me a URL for a version that will work on CentOS 4.4, that will be greatly appreciated. Or, another Application that will do this job better. Goal is to extract selected tracks from music CDs (CDDA), convert them to MP3 and save on the hard drive, for transfer to my cell phone. TIA, Lanny

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yum (still)
by Mário Gamito 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Hi, Ok, i've set the proxy, the username and the password in yum.conf Restarted yum, and now i get: [root@localhost ~]# yum update Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: update Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: update I can resolve names (browse the web, etc.) Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, Mário Gamito

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yum behinf authenticated proxy
by Mário Gamito 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Hi, I've just installed a CentOS 4.4 and i'm behind a proxy with authentication. Does anyone know the parameters for the environment variable "http_proxy" so i can make a "yum update" ? Usually i'd do a $ export http_proxy="proxy.domaion.foo:3128" but this is not the case of an authenticated proxy. Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, Mário Gamito

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playing with SO_BROADCAST on centos
by Jerry Geis 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

I have a small program that I am broadcasting out on port 36 and attempting to receive information back. Using "tcpdump port 36" I can see 2 devices responding to me but I get no data. The response my program gets is: Size IP Address Subnet MAC Address ID 20 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 00-00-00-00-00-00 Does someone know what I might not be doing correct? Running the same program under windows works, running it under wine on linux works it just doesnt work on linux. I have iptables disabled at this time. Thanks for nay suggestions. Jerry ---------------------------- tcpdump -x port 36 ------------------------- tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes 08:42:49.286701 IP devcentos64.msgnet.com.36 > 255.255.255.255.36: UDP, length 20 0x0000: 4500 0030 0000 4000 4011 790b c0a8 010a E..0..@.@.y..... 0x0010: ffff ffff 0024 0024 001c ca61 4321 3039 .....$.$...aC!09 0x0020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 08:42:49.286976 IP ecov132.msgnet.com.36 > devcentos64.msgnet.com.36: UDP, length 20 0x0000: 4500 0030 03c2 0000 8011 b2f2 c0a8 01ae E..0............ 0x0010: c0a8 010a 0024 0024 001c a0e2 4321 3039 .....$.$....C!09 0x0020: c0a8 01ae ffff 0000 0001 3cd0 67ff 0001 ..........<.g... 08:42:49.286990 IP ecov432_testing.msgnet.com.36 > devcentos64.msgnet.com.36: UDP, length 20 0x0000: 4500 0030 091a 0000 8011 ad8f c0a8 01b9 E..0............ 0x0010: c0a8 010a 0024 0024 001c b581 4321 3039 .....$.$....C!09 0x0020: c0a8 01b9 ffff ff00 0001 3cd0 5449 0001 ..........<.TI.. My program is: int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int error; int total = 0; int socket_handle; enum { NMP_PORT = 36, NMP_MAGIC = 0x4321, NMP_LIST = 12345, NMP_SET_IP, NMP_SET_MASK }; typedef union { unsigned char b[4]; uint32_t v; } IPADDR; typedef struct { unsigned char b[6]; } MACADDR; typedef struct { unsigned short magic; unsigned short code; IPADDR ip; IPADDR mask; MACADDR mac; ushort Deviceid; } HD_NMP; HD_NMP nmp; struct sockaddr_in broadcast_address; bzero((char *) &broadcast_address, sizeof(broadcast_address)); broadcast_address.sin_family = AF_INET; broadcast_address.sin_port = htons(NMP_PORT); broadcast_address.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("255.255.255.255"); socket_handle = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP); if(socket_handle >= 0) { int byes = 1; fd_set read_set; struct timeval tm; if(setsockopt(socket_handle, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST, &byes, sizeof(byes)) >= 0) { if(bind(socket_handle, (struct sockaddr *) &broadcast_address, sizeof(broadcast_address)) < 0) { printf("bind error\n"); } memset(&nmp, 0, sizeof(nmp)); nmp.magic = IWord(NMP_MAGIC); nmp.code = IWord(NMP_LIST); sendto(socket_handle, &nmp, sizeof(nmp), 0, (struct sockaddr *) &broadcast_address, sizeof(broadcast_address)); printf("%-4s %-15s %-15s %-17s %6s\n", "Size", "IP Address", "Subnet", "MAC Address", "ID"); while(1) { tm.tv_sec = 0; tm.tv_usec = 500000; FD_ZERO(&read_set); FD_SET(socket_handle, &read_set); error = select(socket_handle + 1, &read_set, NULL, NULL, &tm); if(error <= 0) { break; } else { char ip_str[100]; char mac_str[100]; char mask_str[100]; error = recvfrom(socket_handle, &nmp, sizeof(nmp), 0, NULL, 0); if(error < 0) { printf("errno=%d %s\n", errno, strerror(errno)); continue; } else if(nmp.code != IWord(NMP_LIST)) { printf("unknown return\n"); continue; } else { sprintf(ip_str, "%d.%d.%d.%d ", nmp.ip.b[0], nmp.ip.b[1], nmp.ip.b[2], nmp.ip.b[3]); sprintf(mask_str, "%d.%d.%d.%d ", nmp.mask.b[0], nmp.mask.b[1], nmp.mask.b[2], nmp.mask.b[3]); sprintf(mac_str, "%02X-%02X-%02X-%02X-%02X-%02X", nmp.mac.b[0], nmp.mac.b[1], nmp.mac.b[2], nmp.mac.b[3], nmp.mac.b[4], nmp.mac.b[5]); printf(" %2d %-15s %-15s %-15s\n", error, ip_str, mask_str, mac_str); total++; } } } } close(socket_handle); } return(0); }

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RE: [CentOS] Server Tutorials but written in Spanish
by CentOS 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Message: 36 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:17:37 -0500 From: "Erick Perez" <eaperezh(a)gmail.com> Subject: [CentOS] Server Tutorials but written in Spanish To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <d08ac7230702052117s218b0450q5882161466c9421d(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed <snip> >I am looking for tutorials about: >How to setup postfix with centos, dovecot, creating rpm, apache,bind Erick: On the CentOS web site is a link to documentation. They have all of the RHEL manuals in English. I downloaded 6 of the 8 English language .pdf files. Suggest you go to the RH web site for RHEL manuals in Spanish. They have 4 of the RHEL manuals available in Spanish. <http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/es/> GL, Lanny near Cali, Colombia

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SquidGuard
by Jun Salen 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Hi list, Has anyone here use SquidGuard for their Squid proxy running in CentOS4.4 to block list of bad sites? Is the RPM available using yum? Any feedback using this software appreciated. Thank you very much. junji linux registered user #253162 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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CentOS 4 Samba - Excel 2002/2003 bug
by Rodrigo Barbosa 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is a nasty bug on samba, up to 3.0.10, which causes Excel to incorrectly think a file was changes by someone else. This is a know issue, fixed on samba 3.0.11 (stock). A patch was also applied to samba on RHEL 3, but was NOT on RHEL 4. This patch (samba-3.0.9-excel.patch) will apply cleanly on samba-3.0.10-1.4E.9, and build without a glinch. This issue is NOT solves by http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324491 (has it on a machine with Office SP3 installed). Maybe we can get a centosplus version of samba with this patch applied ? []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFz7+rpdyWzQ5b5ckRAnX9AKCVm1x5fxyTdrjFa8kLzHLCft7tvACffTJa kpT1XyvlDjOdMoI12djA/h0= =6b5J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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xawtv lib issue.
by Doc Schneider 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

I'm trying to make xawtv work on my CentOS 4.4 i386 boxen. It fails with this error: This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.9-42.0.8.EL) load_codec_info_from_plugin: dlopen failed for /usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_ffmpeg.so: /usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_ffmpeg.so: undefined symbol: avcodec_init Segmentation fault I yum installed all the rpms it wanted but still no go. I know someone else was having this same issue and asked in the centos forums. Does anyone know how to resolve this? Thanks, -- -Doc

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Centos 4.4 Samba passwd chat
by Neil Jolly 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

I' just setting up a samba server using centos and get you don't have permission to change you password on the windows xp client. Just wondered what others are using for the passwd chat line in smb.conf. Mine is: *New*password* %nn *Retype*new*password* %nn *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* Also tried setting passwd chat debug = Yes but that seems to have no effect in the log output. Thanks, Neil Jolly

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CentOS 3 vs. CentOS 4 Memory Utilization
by hkclark＠gmail.com 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

I'm helping some folks who have a CentOS 3 i386 server with 512MB of RAM. The output of 'free' looks like: $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 511428 497956 13472 0 29868 178280 -/+ buffers/cache: 289808 221620 Swap: 2040244 120644 1919600 The box does not even have X installed... it's basically a web application and email server. They would like to upgrade to CentOS 4, but are concerned that it could be considerably more "memory hungry" and lead to memory starvation (they don't want to add more RAM to the box at this time, although that could be an option down the road). I ran some tests under VMWare with fresh installations of CentOS 3 and CentOS 4 (both using a "minimal install", the same as the server in question) and CentOS 4 seemed to only use 10-25MB more memory. However, it's hard to know how this will translate into real-world performance over time and with the application installed. Does anyone have any experience that would suggest how much more memory a non-X server like this might require? If the application(s) on the server stay the same, do you think we would run into issues where memory would be depleted to a level that would cause concern? Many thanks, KC

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asrock 775 dual-vsta mb and linux with sata raid
by Sam Giraffe 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

Hello, I have the subject mentioned mb and I am trying to install centos 4.4 with sata raid enabled, but linux is not seeing the drives? I tried to load via sata raid driver, no luck there. I guess I could try legacy mode in the bios, but I was hoping there is another way around to load linux with the raid? Thanks....

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 24, Issue 6
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '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-2007:0008 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 dbus - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:0008 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) dbus - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:53:39 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0008 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 dbus - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20070210105339.GK11744(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0008 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0008.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/dbus-0.22-12.EL.8.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/dbus-devel-0.22-12.EL.8.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/dbus-glib-0.22-12.EL.8.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/dbus-python-0.22-12.EL.8.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/dbus-x11-0.22-12.EL.8.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Re: Problems loading CentOS 4.4 on ASUS M2N-MX mobo
by Ed Burgstaler 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Feizhou ... thank you for the reply. Feizhou wrote: "When you get the grub screen, hit esc to stop the count down. Edit the kernel line and add 'acpi=off' to the list of kernel parameters. Then boot (run) that grub entry. After you have got in, edit all your kernel parameters to add acpi=off. That is how I get Centos 64-bit to run stably on my Asus manufactured board. Asus BIOSes are crap and their acpi table setup is lousy." I only have one question ... if it does successfully boot using the "acpi=off" parameter how do I actually edit all of the kernel parameters to reflect the change? What file do I edit ... need some hand holding here if you don't mind. Thanks again Ed

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How to setup viralator
by Indunil Jayasooriya 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Hi, I want to setup viaralator with squid and clamav. I have never set it up . Is anybody out there who has set ip up on CentOS 4.4. If so, Pls guide me with nessasary info. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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tzdata
by Steve Campbell 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

I read a few days back on the list where the tzdata rpm was to take care of the new DST rules. I run CentOS 3 servers, and did a 'yum update tzdata' , but received a 2006a update of the rpm. Is this proper? It sure didn't fix anything. Thanks Steve Campbell campbell(a)cnpapers.com Charleston Newspapers

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problem with CentOS Live CD booting
by Dale 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Hi all, Trying to boot a server with the CentOS 4.4 LiveCD (have a crashed HD that I am trying to recover data from). The CD boots fine, gets past asking for the keyboard type, then asks for a password. It will stay at the login prompt for a few seconds, then whether I type anything or not, it gives a fast error message, something about mixer not attached (it goes by too fast to read the entire thing), the CD spins a bit then I get a blank screen and nothing else. Anyone have any ideas? I have even tried this on with the drives removed. The machine is am HP LP1 Netserver, dual PIII 1ghz processors 3.25gb ram and when installed, SCSI drives. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Thanks Dale

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Re: [CentOS] SATA controller Dell Optiplex 745
by kuilin lu 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

as far as to CentOS 4.4, a work-around solution for Optiplex 745 ICH8 controller is to add "all-generic-ide" as a kernel parameter during installation. The sata disk is recognised as "/dev/hda" , but the disk speed is actually normal, as the followings: hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 4776 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2388.36 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 182 MB in 3.02 seconds = 60.29 MB/sec please dont't forget to add "all-generic-ide" again in grub.conf at the first boot. sles 10 (2.6.16.21-0.8-smp) works well on Optiplex 745. So I think a final solution is using RHEL 5 that we should be waiting at this moment. I ask everyone's pardon for my poor english.

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Intel 3000 and 5000 chipsets?
by Mike 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Greetings. HP claims RHEL 4 supports their servers with the Intel 3000 and 5000 chipsets. Has anyone had any trouble/success building machines that use this? For example, CentOS 4.4 on http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015M-T+.cfm Thx. Mike

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Disabling Password authenitication with SSH
by Ski Dawg 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Hello everyone, We are setting up a server at work, and we have run into something that I am not sure how to resolve. We have set up sshd (OpenSSH server) on the machine. We have placed ssh keys into each user's home directory that needs to access the system (and they work). We want to disable everyone from logging in, using a password, utilizing ssh keys only to access the system. I have modified /etc/ssh/sshd_conf to have these settings: ChallengeResponseAuthentication no PasswordAuthentication no UsePAM no I then restarted the ssh daemon (/etc/init.d/sshd restart), but it still allows the user to login using their password. What am I missing? Searching google, only turned up the changes that I made above, so I am unclear what else that I need to do. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. -- Doug Registered Linux User #285548 (http://counter.li.org) ---------------------------------------- Random Thought: If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. -- John Kenneth Galbraith

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RE: [CentOS] CentOS 2.6.9-42.0.8 issue - no keyboard after reboot
by Mark Hull-Richter 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Where do I find your xfs source? Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 10:55 AM To: CentOS ML Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 2.6.9-42.0.8 issue - no keyboard after reboot <redacted> If you are building in xfs from the 2.6.9 series kernel an using that version, you are asking for trouble. I have provided xfs kernel modules that contain the latest code from SGI that can be installed against either the standard kernels or the CentOS Plus kernels. If you value your data .. DO NOT USE the 2.6.9 standard xfs kernel code.

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Steps to create a mirrored CentOS system?
by Dale 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Hi all, I am about to re-build one of my boxes with CentOS 4.4 I would like to set it up as a simple mirrored system. The box is a 1U server and has 3 SCSI drive bays. I can use 1 drive as the OS drive and the other 2 for the content (basically websites) or can just use 2 drives and mirror those. What would you folks recommend? Thanks Dale

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CentOS 2.6.9-42.0.8 issue - no keyboard after reboot
by Mark Hull-Richter 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

I did this twice now, although the first couple of builds seemed to work ok, they just weren't configured quite right. On my third and fourth builds of the 42.0.8 kernel rpm, when booting, kudzu came up and ran, but the keyboard was somehow not recognized and I had to reboot using the mouse on the login screen (no text appears no matter what I type). I'm using the rpm build strategy from Jim's wiki, which works nicely, but my fallback is a 42.0.3 non-smp kernel. My main question, though, is how did this happen? Is there a config switch or something else I missed? I'm using the base kernel-2.6.9-x86_64-smp.config, and tweaking it to include ext3 and xfs in the kernel (instead of loadable ext3 and no xfs). Why? Well, we need xfs to load so we can find out why it's so damned slow on cached vs. direct i/o. We have some tweaks we put into xfs (current version, using SuSE Linux 9.something) in order to be able to control the way the extents are allocated. We need to be able to do large i/os in large chunks quickly, and that kind of allocation works better than little pieces all over the place. (We're looking at 8Mb chunks and larger.) With direct i/o, we can get around 30-40Mb/s transfer rates, but with cached (i.e., kernel) i/o, we are stuck at 8, which is too slow. It turns out we get better performance from jfs, but we want to use xfs because it is faster with our changes. The main issue here, though, is the failure of CentOS 2.6.9-42.0.8 to recognize the keyboard - why would that happen? Thanks. mhr

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RE: [CentOS] Problem with 2.6.11.4 kernel and e1000 driver -Correction
by Mark Hull-Richter 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

We're looking at 2.6.16 or higher now, and also 2.6.9-42.0.8 (CentOS 4.4 updated) - thanks. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Peter Kjellstrom Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 11:02 PM To: centos(a)centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problem with 2.6.11.4 kernel and e1000 driver -Correction On Wednesday 07 February 2007 03:21, Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > 1) I'm actually not building a custom kernel per se, just one from the > standard 2.6.11.4 with our configuration. I may be adding a custom > driver, but unless I can get the standard kernel to boot,... Custom is defined as not-a-centos-one. > 2) I have been told that after 2.6.11.4, support for the Infiniband > driver is dropped, and we need that. Both Centos-4.3 and 4.4 (2.6.9-34.xx and -42.xx) has comparable or newer infiniband drivers though I recommend that you download and install ofed-1.1 (and that you use latest 4.4, 2.6.9-42.0.8). If you do feel the need to use a kernel.org kernel then I _really_ recommend using a newer one than what you tried. 1) do you think the first ever infiniband drop for the mainline kernel is what you want? 2) how many security problems do you think there are in that old kernel? (hint: quite a few). So go with 2.6.19.x for x as large as you can find. /Peter > If this is not the case, I would > be delighted to know that and proceed accordingly. I'm not sure, but I > believe that CentOS version 5 will not happen soon enough for what we > need. > > Thanks. > > mhr

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RE: [CentOS] Problem with 2.6.11.4 kernel and e1000 driver -Correction
by Mark Hull-Richter 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

I hear you, and this would not be my best choice either. New issue coming shortly, with the 42.0.8 distribution rpm.... Thanks, all! mhr -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 4:27 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problem with 2.6.11.4 kernel and e1000 driver -Correction > Again, this works exactly as is on 32-bit builds. It only fails on the > 64 bit build. Is this a completely clean x86_64 box you're building on? Any i386 packages on it? You could very likely be getting cross-chatter across library arch versions if not. <soap box>This is one of the reasons I recommend against doing stuff like this. You introduce loads more variables into your sys-admin time vs duties vs system stability matrix. In addition, if you build fresh on every new box, you can end up with sporadic and unreproducible problems due to subtle differences. </soap box> -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 24, Issue 5
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '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-2007:0008 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 dbus - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2007:0008 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 dbus - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:06:35 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0008 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 dbus - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1170986795.5611.7.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0008 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0008.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: dbus-0.22-12.EL.8.i386.rpm dbus-0.22-12.EL.8.x86_64.rpm dbus-devel-0.22-12.EL.8.x86_64.rpm dbus-glib-0.22-12.EL.8.i386.rpm dbus-glib-0.22-12.EL.8.x86_64.rpm dbus-python-0.22-12.EL.8.x86_64.rpm dbus-x11-0.22-12.EL.8.x86_64.rpm src: dbus-0.22-12.EL.8.src.rpm

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SATA controller Dell Optiplex 745
by Henk van Lingen 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Hi, The CentOS 4.4 installation doesn't work on a Optiplex 745 because it doesn't support the sata controller. Is there a known work-around? (smaller prob: dvi video doesn't work at install time, vga only) If only we had CentOS 5 :-) Cheers, -- Henk van Lingen, Systems Administrator & DBA (o- -+ Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University. /\ | phone: +31-30-2534107 v_/_ http://henk.vanlingen.net/ http://www.tuxtown.net/netiquette/

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What is the diffrence between port filtering and packet filtering ?
by Indunil Jayasooriya 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Hi all, I want to set up a firewall on CentOS 4.4. I wnat to know the diiffrence between port filtering and packet filtering ? Can iptables do both? Is there another pkg better than this? if so, pls let me know. The purpose of this is to setup a firewall for production use. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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