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Openoffice 2.1 install error?
by Robert Moskowitz 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

When I installed OpenOffice 2.1, I installed a number of 'core' rpms: openoffice.org-core01-2.1.0-6.i586.rpm openoffice.org-core02-2.1.0-6.i586.rpm openoffice.org-core03-2.1.0-6.i586.rpm openoffice.org-core03u-2.1.0-6.i586.rpm openoffice.org-core04-2.1.0-6.i586.rpm openoffice.org-core04u-2.1.0-6.i586.rpm openoffice.org-core05-2.1.0-6.i586.rpm openoffice.org-core05u-2.1.0-6.i586.rpm openoffice.org-core06-2.1.0-6.i586.rpm openoffice.org-core07-2.1.0-6.i586.rpm openoffice.org-core08-2.1.0-6.i586.rpm openoffice.org-core09-2.1.0-6.i586.rpm openoffice.org-core10-2.1.0-6.i586.rpm Are they all needed? What are they all in there for? thank you.

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Java headaches
by Robert Moskowitz 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

I lost my harddrive, and have had to reinstall. This time, I am being a bit smarter on imaging, but still got to get things installed... Installing Freemind. It needs Java JRE. So after lots of pain, and reading past messages, I got jre-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.rpm from sun and installed it. Then I tried to follow Jim Perrin's recommendation to install from jpackage.org the java-1.5.0-sum-compat.rpm. Thing is it is complaining about no JDK (not JRE!) yum install java-1.5.0-sun-compat (have jpackage.org repo in yum.repo.d) Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package java-1.5.0-sun-compat.noarch 0:1.5.0.09-1jpp set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: jdk = 2000:1.5.0_09-fcs for package: java-1.5.0-sun-compat --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: jdk = 2000:1.5.0_09-fcs is needed by package java-1.5.0-sun-compat Huh? so i just try Alfred von Campe's Alternatitive commands: /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jre1.5.0_09/bin/java 10 \ --slave /usr/bin/rmiregistry rmiregistry /usr/java/jre1.5.0_09/bin/rmiregistry \ --slave /usr/lib/jvm/jre jre /usr/java/jre1.5.0_09 /usr/sbin/alternatives --set java /usr/java/jre1.5.0_09/bin/java These seem to work but: rpm -ivh jgoodies-forms-1.0.5-2jpp.noarch.rpm error: Failed dependencies: java >= 0:1.4 is needed by jgoodies-forms-1.0.5-2jpp.noarch and java -version yields: java version "1.5.0_09" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_09-b03) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_09-b03, mixed mode, sharing) OK. What is broken here?

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RE: [CentOS] Problems with building a complete kernel
by Mark Hull-Richter 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Not exactly. 1) I will be modifying the kernel and possibly writing one or more device drivers. I'd like to start with a build that works - that's been one of the best ways I've found to ensure that any added or modified code can be reasonably inferred to cause whatever problems I might find. Why is it a problem for one to want to be able to build a working kernel? 2) The build log was clean - where would I find the error log? Wait - that's kind of secondary. I then moved to the instructions in the README file, which are, yes, drastically different - they don't involve rpm, using the exact same source for the exact same kernel. The only fundamental difference is that make doesn't necessarily generate an rpm package (actually, this one does), and I don't need to use rpm for anything. Later on that may be a problem, but not right now. 3) The modification to xfs is a sample based on what I have been assigned to do - I'm not trying to generate the latest and greatest xfs that's available out there. Maybe I should, in the ideal world, but working in corporate America is pretty far from the ideal world. 4) This is all true, but not particularly relevant. I need a base kernel with NO modifications that I can then start to use to create any customizations, like a new device driver or twiddling with some other code that we need to customize because, perhaps, for compatibility reason, we can't just upgrade to a new version of <some_module>. As for the lvm "incompatibility," this is the main one I don't understand. If I am building from the same source as the distribution I am running on this box, why would there be an incompatibility here? Here's what the boot panel displays (copied by hand but missing all indents since it hangs at the end and I don't know if there's a better way to capture the display): Booting (CentOS 2.6.9MHRsmp)' kernel direct mapping nodes[?] up to 10100000000 @ 8000-d000 root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9MHRsmp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x190795] initrd /initrd-2.6.9MHRsmp.img [Linux-initrd @ 0x3706300, 0x18caf6 bytes] . Decompressing Linux...done Booting the kernel audit (1170068438.664:0): initialized Red Hat nash version 4.2.1.8 starting Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found Volume group "VolGroup00" not found ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally! (pid 206) mount: error 6 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none switchresest: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init [system halts] Thanks. mhr -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 5:36 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problems with building a complete kernel 1. There was no need specified for why a custom kernel was needed. If such a need was spelled out, it's possible that much better help could be provided, or it could even be added to the centosplus kernel. 2. No build log or error of any kind was shown to help troubleshoot. And rather than figuring out what went wrong, the user moved to a drastically different set of instructions, which use a drastically different kernel. Doing so without proper understanding could (and likely would) lead to problems down the road. (The install with --nodeps on the howtoforge listing is a nice touch) 3. The user in question seems to have not done homework regarding centos and XFS, and will be modifying the 2.6.9 xfs code instead of using the much nicer xfs code backported by ex-SGI folks specifically for centos. 4. There are many considerations in building a custom kernel for centos, such as the audit libs, utmp compatability, current system compatability (as demonstrated by the lvm troubles) and so on.

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New daylight savings law
by Jerry Geis 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

*Hi All, * I presume the upstream provider is aware of this??? I am in Indiana. Go figure. Jerry ** *---------------- * *New Federal Law—Springing Forward in March, Back in November* Months after Indiana passed the law that got it in step with the rest of the country, the federal government announced a major change in Daylight Saving Time. In Aug. 2005, Congress passed an energy bill that included extending Daylight Saving Time by about a month. Beginning in 2007, DST will start the second Sunday of March and end on the first Sunday of November.

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How to access the internet from load-balanced nodes?
by Igor Zhbanov 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Hello! I have set-up four nodes system: two LVS load balancers (CentOS) and two working nodes (openSUSE). LVS nodes have global IPs, so they able to access the internet and working nodes have only private IPs, so they cannot access internet directly. I use NAT-base load balancing. Now I need to know how give working nodes ability to access the internet? I ask this because I don't know how to write properly iptables rules so LVS balancing packets will not conflict with working nodes internet connections. Should I assign some IP-alias for default gateway for that nodes or something else? Thanks.

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CentOS3 tzdata-2006m
by John R Pierce 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

I don't see the tzdata updates for 2006m in the centos 3 mirrors ?!? http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3/updates/i386/RPMS/ its here for centos4... http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/updates/i386/RPMS/tzdata-2006m-3.el4.no… and here for 2.1, http://mirror.centos.org/centos-2/updates/noarch/tzdata-2006m-3.el2_1.noarc… so where is it for centos3 ?!? my RHN connected RHEL3 system has found tzdata-2006m-3.el3 via up2date should CentOS-3/3/updates have a noarch like 2.1 did ? I note in 4 they are mixed in with the specific architectures...

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unable to mount centos hard drive
by Lance Earl 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

I am considering changing my server from Ubuntu to Centos. I have been tinkering with a box that will eventually become a new server. I am having a problem. This box has two ide drives. Originally I had a Ubuntu desktop installed on hda and then added a Centos server installed on hdb. I wanted to try a different server configuration without overwriting the current install on hdb. With the server on hdb running, I mounted hda and copied some important files from the Ubuntu drive to the Centos drive. I installed a another instance of centos on hda and everything worked fine. With the hda install running, I have attempted to mount hdb so that I can retrieve my files. The problem I have is that when I mount the drive I am taken to the boot directory on hdb and cannot navigate to the directory that holds my files. How do I get access to the rest of the drive? Thanks Lance Earl

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UCD-SNMP rpm
by Matthias Nilsson 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Hi where can i find the UCD-SNMP rpm for nagios ???? in CentOS4.4 Matthias Nilsson U.D.COMM.

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RE: [CentOS] Problems with building a complete kernel
by Mark Hull-Richter 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Yes. Here is what happens: Booting (CentOS 2.6.9MHRsmp)' kernel direct mapping nodes[?] up to 10100000000 @ 8000-d000 root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9MHRsmp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x190795] initrd /initrd-2.6.9MHRsmp.img [Linux-initrd @ 0x3706300, 0x18caf6 bytes] . Decompressing Linux...done Booting the kernel audit (1170068438.664:0): initialized Red Hat nash version 4.2.1.8 starting Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found Volume group "VolGroup00" not found ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally! (pid 206) mount: error 6 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none switchresest: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init Then the system halts. I'm using the same config file as the installed CentOS 2.6.9-42.0.3, and here are my /etc/fstab and grub.conf contents: [root@localhost linux]# cat /etc/fstab # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 [root@localhost linux]# cat /etc/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=2 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu password **************************************************** title CentOS (2.6.9MHRsmp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9MHRsmp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9MHRsmp.img title CentOS (2.6.9MHRsmp2) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9MHRsmp2 ro root=/dev/sda1 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9MHRsmp2.img title CentOS (2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp.img title CentOS (2.6.9-42.0.3.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.img title CentOS-4 x86_64 (2.6.9-42.ELsmp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.ELsmp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp.img title CentOS-4 x86_64-up (2.6.9-42.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.EL.img Any hints, suggestions, comments, etc. would be most welcome. Thanks. mhr -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Marcin Mazurek Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 1:03 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problems with building a complete kernel Mark Hull-Richter (mhull-richter(a)datallegro.com) napisał(a): > I haven't actually made any changes to the kernel yet - I need a working > build, hopefully one that matches my current installation, but a working > build to start. (Otherwise I won't know if the kernel I'm running and > one I've modified contain anything I don't know about....) > > I used the config that the installed version had as my base, and I don't > think I changed anything. I ran make menuconfig and set the version to > something different, then ran make oldconfig to see what changes were > needed (none), then built. In theory, if lvm support was in the > installed kernel, it should have built into my new one, right? > Do You have an initrd file for new kernel? If not You should create one with mkinird. hth -- Marcin Mazurek http://www.netsync.pl/ - :::: - nic-hdl: MM3380-RIPE GnuPG 6687 E661 98B0 AEE6 DA8B 7F48 AEE4 776F 5688 DC89 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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tasks bouncing between CPUs
by Florin Andrei 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

I've a dual core system (see /proc/cpuinfo at the end) running CentOS 4.4 (fully up-to-date) and I'm running a PHP script that's parsing files and dumping the results into a database. Software versions: # rpm -q php php-4.3.9-3.22 # rpm -q MySQL-server-standard MySQL-server-standard-5.0.27-0.rhel4 # uname -srvmpio Linux 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 6 06:21:39 CDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux The thing is, the script process and the MySQL process seem to arbitrarily jump from one CPU to another. That would be fine, I guess, but sometimes both processes are on the same CPU core. Is there a way to keep these processes separate (each one on a different core), or make them "sticky" w.r.t. the CPU cores? # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 35 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 2412.035 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 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 pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni bogomips : 4825.57 processor : 1 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 35 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 2412.035 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 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 pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni bogomips : 4821.52 -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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Beta of 5
by Martin Marques 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Will there be any betas of centos 5? Or should we test the RHEL5 betas? -- 21:50:04 up 2 days, 9:07, 0 users, load average: 0.92, 0.37, 0.18 --------------------------------------------------------- Lic. Martín Marqués | SELECT 'mmarques' || Centro de Telemática | '@' || 'unl.edu.ar'; Universidad Nacional | DBA, Programador, del Litoral | Administrador ---------------------------------------------------------

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UFS (Unix File System) support
by Jordi Espasa Clofent 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Hi, I need to mount a UFS (Unix File System) partition from an external device (ie, live cd). I've seen the kernel-2.6.x-x.x.x.xxx.plus.c4 has UFS support and I've several questions about: ¿How I know what FS are supported by my kernel? ¿Is CentOS LiveCD edition builded with UFS support? ¿Is there another way to get UFS support without the complete installation of a new kernel? Thanks.

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Centos kickstart
by edwin.elifuraha 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Hi Pierre, Thanks for your reply it really help as i did not have that file(discinfo) in my cd,i have included it and now i can boot but stop at disc partitioning setup asking me to choose some options which i have already done them in kickstart file. Can you advice the way forward Regards Edwin

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Where can I get samba-vscan from?
by Rakhesh Sasidharan 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Hi there! Am using CentOS 4.4. Have installed Samba and ClamAV. My understanding is that there's a vfs module (samba-vscan) which I have to install for Samba to virus scan its shares. Where can I get it from? I tried stuff like "yum install samba-vscan" etc but it doesn't seem to be there in the repos. I have RPMForge and the usual CentOS repos enabled. Is this something I have to install from the sources or can I get a binary package from someplace? Thanks, Rakhesh

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Permission error (Mantis bugtracker)
by Jordi Espasa Clofent 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

Hi all, I've installed mantis.noarch and mantis-config-httpd.noarch packages. The problem is I always get the same error in Apache:. You don't have permission to access /mantis on this server. It's curious 'cause: * I work in localhost mode and I've running drupal site and phpMyAdmin without problems. So, Apache works fine. * I've created mantis ddbb according the docs without any problems (mysql -u<user> ... bla bla).In fact, the database is available from phpMyAdmin and from mysql client. * I've check the httpd.conf file and it includes the line Include conf.d/*.conf so the /etc/httpd/conf.d/mantis.conf is available. * I've created the config_ini.php file and modified it with correct database parameters. * I've cheched (and fixed) the mantis.conf file sintaxis. More info: [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qi mysql | grep Version Version : 5.0.22 Vendor: http://centos.org [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qi httpd | grep Version Version : 2.0.52 Vendor: CentOS [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qi php | grep Version Version : 5.1.6 Vendor: CentOS TIA.

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Problems with building a complete kernel
by Mark Hull-Richter 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

I have a plain vanilla Centos source (not 100% sure where we got it from), but I can't seem to get a build that installs correctly. I tried the method described at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel, but rpm doesn't like the output file, and even if I install it with -F, nothing seems to happen - no new kernel, now initrd, nothing. When I tried following the directions in the README file that came with the source, I built the kernel just fine, but the instructions then go on to describe how to modify LILO to make the install work, and my boot loader is GRUB - not sure how to reconcile those two. So, I built yet another kernel (rpm) following the guide at http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_centos, and the rpm built just fine, but when I run mkinitrd, it complains that I don't have the ahci module in my kernel. The only reference I have found to ahci is in my boot setup, and it is already enabled, so, once again, I am stuck. Anyone have any ideas here? I'm running Centos 2.6.9-42.0.3ELsmp on a Dell Precision 390 (P4/HT 3GHz, 2Gb mem, ATI FireGL 4700, 160Gb SATA, ... Thanks (again).

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 23, Issue 8
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '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-2007:0019 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 gtk2 - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2007:0019 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 gtk2 - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:06:38 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0019 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 gtk2 - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1169989598.4954.88.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0019 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0019.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: gtk2-2.4.13-22.i386.rpm gtk2-2.4.13-22.x86_64.rpm gtk2-devel-2.4.13-22.x86_64.rpm src: gtk2-2.4.13-22.src.rpm

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Problems with minicom on CentOS 4.4
by Jarod Wang 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

Hi all I am a newcomer of this ML. And I installed CentOS a couple of hours ago on my i386 box because it is said that CentOS is a community based binary distro of RHEL. Before that I used to use RH9(it is quite out of date for my newly upgraded PC) as my host environment to work on embedded systems. The installation procedure went smoothly and after that everything looked functional, however, I found that the minicom had a problem - When I started it in GNOME terminal window using “minicom -s” for the time, the program halted like this: [root@localhost ~]# minicom -s minicom: WARNING: configuration file not found, using defaults And then I could not input any commands, I had to close the GNOME terminal window manually. I can remember it clearly that this command(minicom -s) should start the configuration procedure of minicom in RH9. Then I tried to reinstall the minicom program by using “yum remove minicom” and then “yum install minicom”, but the problem remains. Could some tell me how to solve this problem? Any hints would be highly appreciated. P. S. the version of my minicom program is: [root@localhost ~]# minicom --version minicom version 2.00.0 (compiled Feb 21 2005) Best regards, Jarod Wang ---- Oracle Asia R&D Center, Shenzhen, P. R. China ___________________________________________________________ Mp3疯狂搜-新歌热歌高速下 http://music.yahoo.com.cn/?source=mail_mailbox_footer

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running 2.6.19 on centos 4.4
by Jerry Geis 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

Hi all, I had to take a machine and compile 2.6.19 on centos 4. I started with /boot/config-2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp. Everything works fine except on boot I get the following error for iptables: Applying iptables firewall rules: iptables-restore v1.2.11: iptables-restore: unable to initializetable 'filter' Error occurred at line: 3 Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-restore --help' for more information. [FAILED] Have I not included something in the kernel? Thanks, Jerry

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Starting MySQL
by Todd Cary 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

When I run # mysql I get this error: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) What do I need to do? The install of MySQL was done as part of the Centos setup. Todd

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File Descriptors
by Matt 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

I installed Squid on CentOS 4.4 and currently it seems to run fine even under the relatively heavy load of 6mbps and hundreds of users. I was told I should increase the file descriptor limit which I beleive is 1024 now. Any easy way to do that? Matt

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 23, Issue 7
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '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-2007:0019 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 gtk2 - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:0019 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) gtk2 - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:09:14 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0019 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 gtk2 - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20070126190914.GG25300(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0019 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0019.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/gtk2-2.4.13-22.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/gtk2-devel-2.4.13-22.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Drive Failing
by Mike Kercher 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

I got an email from smartd yesterday with the following error: SMART Health Status: SERVO IMPENDING FAILURE SEEK ERROR RATE TOO HIGH [asc=5d,ascq=43] I understand this means the drive is probably going to fail. This device is /dev/sda and is part of /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 Is it possible to replace the single failing drive and if so, what would be the steps so that data isn't lost. TIA for any guidance. Mike

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ISA Support in CentOS 4.4?
by Eric B. 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

Hi, I'm trying to get my ISA modem to work on CentOS 4.4, but I am having trouble. I have a stock installation of the CentOS 4.4, and did a yum upgrade to ensure everything is the latest, however, I can't seem to detect or see the ISA modem. I remember back in the 2.2 kernel days, the need for isapnptools, however, from what I read that is supposed to already be included in the 2.6 kernel. When I check the /proc directory, I don't see a /proc/isa or /proc/isapnp that I would have expected to find. I am relatively sure that the modem is a real modem (not a winmodem), but I don't understand why I can't even seem to locate it anywhere. I have manually set the jumpers on the modem to Com1, but that hasn't helped any either. Is the stock 2.6.9-42.EL kernel compiled with ISA support? Do i need to rebuild the kernel by hand? Is there anything I need to do to enable ISA support in CentOS4.4? If I do need to rebuild the kernel, what Thanks! Eric

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Centos 4.4 perl modules. where are they?
by Erick Perez 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

I need to install VICIDIAL (cause is a free outbound call solution) and vicidial wants the following perl modules: MD5 Digest::MD5 Digest::SHA1 readline Bundle::CPAN DBI (found the rpm perl-DBI) DBD::mysql (found the RPM perl-DBD-Mysql) Net::Telnet Time::HiRes Net::Server OLE::Storage_Lite Spreadsheet::ParseExcel I do not want to taint the installation if an RPM is available on the DVD or in centos extras/plus. How can I check what RPM will provide such perl modules? thanks in advance. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 ------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: [CentOS] Problems with building a complete kernel
by Mark Hull-Richter 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

I haven't actually made any changes to the kernel yet - I need a working build, hopefully one that matches my current installation, but a working build to start. (Otherwise I won't know if the kernel I'm running and one I've modified contain anything I don't know about....) I used the config that the installed version had as my base, and I don't think I changed anything. I ran make menuconfig and set the version to something different, then ran make oldconfig to see what changes were needed (none), then built. In theory, if lvm support was in the installed kernel, it should have built into my new one, right? I'll be making a minor mod to xfs first, then there's a device driver we want to add (I think). I got a ton of "attempt to assign to nonexistent symbol" notices after exiting make menuconfig - I'm assuming that these are harmless. Thanks again. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 3:47 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problems with building a complete kernel On 1/26/07, Mark Hull-Richter <mhull-richter(a)datallegro.com> wrote: > My bad - I rechecked and it is the correct source. AND I found that the > make install (with make modules_install first) takes care of GRUB for > me. > > BUT: > > Now I can't boot because the installed Centos 4.4 was from the > distribution DVD, and it depends on the lvm to load. My build doesn't > know about the lvm and it refuses to boot - it dies coming up with an > error from lvm, followed by two more where it can't find a file system, > then the kernel panics (and hangs the machine). > > How do I get around lvm? Build your kernel with lvm support. It sounds like you're changing far more than you need to in the config. If you follow the how-to on the centos wiki, you'd only be changing the things you need to, and all else will stay the same. This keeps you from running into things like you're experiencing. Again, are you certain you need to rebuild? What feature is it that you need? -- 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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officejet 7310
by Jerry Geis 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

Has anyone gotten centos 4 to print on an officejet 7310? I have tried jetdirect with pcl and postcript no go... I have tried smb but it does seem to be browsable as its not listed and when I specify I enter the IP address for server and I dont know what the share is. Windows XP connects and prints fine. THanks, Jerry

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Installing DCC on CentOS 4.4
by Indunil Jayasooriya 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

Hi, I want to install dcc on CentOS 4.4 as I am ruunig Dual-Sendmail with amavisd-new. I am looking for DCC RPM pkg. I searchrd bit I could not find any RPM pkg. Pls help me to find DCC RPM pkg. Have you installed DCC on CentOS 4.4. then Pls guide me. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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Microsoft makes hard call for input
by kenkensmile＠netscape.net 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

hi all, you might be interested in this article. cheers, joe A Sydney software engineer has been embroiled in a controversy in which Microsoft stands accused of trying to use him as a paid proxy to finesse entries on the Wikipedia site. Doug Mahugh, Microsoft "technical evangelist", emailed the engineer, Rick Jelliffe, on Monday, hoping to use Mr Jelliffe's expertise to modify a number of technical articles in the online encyclopedia. Mr Jelliffe holds an economics degree from the University of Sydney and is chief technical officer at Topologi, a Pyrmont software company. But the Microsoft approach has been interpreted as an attempt to disguise its hand in the editing process. Wikipedia allows anyone to add to and modify articles, and relies on volunteer moderators to correct inaccuracies. But Microsoft has rejected suggestions it was being sneaky or underhanded by approaching Mr Jelliffe. In the email to Mr Jelliffe, which Mr Mahugh has since published online, Mr Jelliffe was asked if he would be interested in correcting "errors" and "slanted language" found in Wikipedia entries relating to rival computer software standards, one of which was developed by Microsoft. The email encouraged Mr Jelliffe to disclose his deal with Microsoft in his blog, and reassured him that Microsoft did not have to approve any of the Wikipedia edits before they were made. Mr Jelliffe's disclosure of the offer on his blog sparked a flurry of criticism. He denied he was pro-Microsoft. "Full disclosure was part of the deal! I wouldn't have been interested otherwise," he wrote. Mr Jelliffe has refused to add to his published comments. A Microsoft spokeswoman, Catherine Brooker, said no money had changed hands, but did not say whether the contract had been withdrawn. source http://www.theage.com.au/news/biztech/microsoft-makes-hard-call-for-input/2… ________________________________________________________________________ Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- 2 GB of storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection.

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RE: [CentOS] Problems with building a complete kernel
by Mark Hull-Richter 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

My bad - I rechecked and it is the correct source. AND I found that the make install (with make modules_install first) takes care of GRUB for me. BUT: Now I can't boot because the installed Centos 4.4 was from the distribution DVD, and it depends on the lvm to load. My build doesn't know about the lvm and it refuses to boot - it dies coming up with an error from lvm, followed by two more where it can't find a file system, then the kernel panics (and hangs the machine). How do I get around lvm? Thanks (again). -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Will McDonald Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 4:21 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problems with building a complete kernel On 26/01/07, Mark Hull-Richter <mhull-richter(a)datallegro.com> wrote: > Thanks - I'm still working on it. > > Does anyone know where there is a clean, working source for Centos > 2.6.9-42.0.3 (supposedly the 4.4 final)? I'm pretty sure the one I have > is NOT the right one.... The source tarball should be included in the SRPM for your kernel, I'd imagine. http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4.4/updates/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-42.0.3. EL.src.rpm Once installed (if installed as root) it'll be in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES, otherwise it'll be in wherever your .rpmmacros file points. Will. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Setting up HP OfficeJet 5610 fax on CentOS 4.4 shared
by Rakhesh Sasidharan 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Hi there, As the subject says, I'm trying to set up an HP OfficeJet 5610 on CentOS 4.4 for shared use across my machines. I've managed to get printing (through HPLIP/ CUPS/ SAMBA) and scanning (through SANE) shared; but I'm unable to get fax shared working. Is it possible to do that? The instructions on the HPLIP page talk about installing the 5610 as a fax device and then faxing using hp-sendfax and hp-toolbox etc. But what I want to do is to share the fax device itself on the network -- like the printer and scanner -- any ideas on how I can achieve that? Thanks, Rakhesh ps. I am using CentOS-server. No GUI etc. So would prefer CLI oriented solutions. Thanks.

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oom killer: gfp=mask=0xd1 - bug w/ EM64T?
by Lance Lierheimer 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Hi - Running into the error below when copying over large files via ssh. This occurs even when I have vm.overcommit_memory=2 set in /etc/sysctl.conf. The research I've done indicates that this is a bio-uses-GFP_DMA bug with EM64T. I'm running CentOS 4.4 with the 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp x86_64 kernel on the following hardware: 2 x Intel Xeon CPU 5148 @ 2.33GHz Supermicro X7DB8 motherboard Is there a patch or workaround for this, or some parameter that I can pass to the kernel at boot? Any help would be appreciated. thanks, Lance ***** oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd1 Mem-info Node 0 DMA per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 cpu 1 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 cpu 1 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 cpu 2 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 cpu 2 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 cpu 3 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 cpu 3 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 Node 0 Normal per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 cpu 1 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 cpu 1 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 cpu 2 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 cpu 2 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 cpu 3 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 cpu 3 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 Node 0 HighMem per-cpu: empty Free pages: 16203544kB (0kB HighMem) Active:6029 inactive:29822 dirty:25578 writeback:1 unstable:0 free:4050886 slab:5003 mapped:4627 pagetables:272 Node 0 DMA free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:2 all_unreclaimable? yes protections[]: 0 0 0 Node 0 Normal free:16203608kB min:4216kB low:8432kB high:12648kB active:24116kB inactive:119288kB present:17809408kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no protections[]: 0 0 0 Node 0 HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:256kB high:384kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no protections[]: 0 0 0 Node 0 DMA: 0*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 0kB Node 0 Normal: 1412*4kB 611*8kB 189*16kB 219*32kB 106*64kB 15*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 3948*4096kB = 16203608kB Node 0 HighMem: empty Swap cache: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0, race 0+0 Free swap: 16450552kB 4456448 pages of RAM 353637 reserved pages 97288 pages shared 0 pages swap cached (etc... oom killer kills off other processes) -- Lance Lierheimer Sr. Systems Engineer Greenplum www.greenplum.com lance at greenplum.com

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RE: [CentOS] Limiting files when using rsync
by Mark Schoonover 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Todd Cary wrote: > Mark - > > Thanks! That did it. > > > /usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/ > My next step will be to brush the dust off of my Perl book and write > a crontab script to backup nightly. > > Question: I may not be using the term "backup" absolutely correctly. > The destination server is a "standby" server. This is if the source > server fails, all I have to do is change the router to point to the > standby server. These are in a home office and I do not consider > myself a system administrator; just someone who knows enough to keep > the server running (it's main task is FTPing). Do you have any > suggestions about using rsync as I am doing? > Todd, If all you want to do is mirror the main server to the backup server, your command is almost correct. You'll want to add --delete on the commandline. This will cause rsync to remove any files from the destination before sending them from the source. This will create a mirror of your main server to your backup server. You don't need to go to all the overhead of running Perl to crontab this up. Just drop your rsync command into a file, make it executable then add it to root's crontab file. It'll run just fine after that. One other thing nonrsync related - top posting, and sending HTML to the list. Makes it hard to respond to your questions. Just remember to use text only, and post responses at the bottom of your emails. Things just tread much easier from top to bottom. Thanks! Mark Schoonover IS Manager American Geotechnical - California, Nevada and Arizona V-> 858.450.4040 F-> 714.685.3909 C-> 858.472.3816 * software development * systems administration * networking * security *

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RE: [CentOS] Limiting files when using rsync
by Mark Schoonover 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Todd Cary wrote: > Mark Schoonover wrote: >> Todd Cary wrote: >> >>> Mark - >>> >>> Thanks! That did it. >>> >>> >>> /usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/ >>> My next step will be to brush the dust off of my Perl book and write >>> a crontab script to backup nightly. >>> >>> Question: I may not be using the term "backup" absolutely correctly. >>> The destination server is a "standby" server. This is if the source >>> server fails, all I have to do is change the router to point to the >>> standby server. These are in a home office and I do not consider >>> myself a system administrator; just someone who knows enough to keep >>> the server running (it's main task is FTPing). Do you have any >>> suggestions about using rsync as I am doing? >>> >>> >> >> Todd, >> >> If all you want to do is mirror the main server to the backup >> server, your command is almost correct. You'll want to add --delete >> on the commandline. This will cause rsync to remove any files from >> the destination before sending them from the source. This will >> create a mirror of your main server to your backup server. >> >> You don't need to go to all the overhead of running Perl to crontab >> this up. Just drop your rsync command into a file, make it >> executable then add it to root's crontab file. It'll run just fine >> after that. >> >> One other thing nonrsync related - top posting, and sending HTML to >> the list. Makes it hard to respond to your questions. Just remember >> to use text only, and post responses at the bottom of your emails. >> Things just tread much easier from top to bottom. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Mark Schoonover >> IS Manager >> American Geotechnical - California, Nevada and Arizona >> V-> 858.450.4040 F-> 714.685.3909 C-> 858.472.3816 >> * software development * systems administration * networking * >> security * >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS(a)centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> >> > Mark - > > Yes, the bottom post vs. the top post is a continual problem for me > since my business accounts ask for top post (almost demand it) and > Thunderbird does not have an option for each email address as it does > for email mode. I'll try to remember to swap it back and forth. > > Concerning the --delete switch, if I use it, will files created by a > user on the destination server remain? Though it is a standby server, > there are times when it is used by staff. > > The main reason I will use Perl is to create the backup files of the > Interbase databases and then scp (or rsync) them to the other server. > > Many thanks for the tips.... > > Todd Todd, I understand about top posting issues. I don't do it all the time, especially with coworkers and friends. Since we're the only two in the conversation, we know the history of the email. To someone that's just started reading our thread, everything will be in order, all they have to do is to read from top to bottom. No, the --delete switch will only delete files from the destination server. Now, if the destination server is also having files changed, then rsync is not for you. Rsync is a one way transfer of files, you can't do bidirectional rsync. For that you'll have to use Unison instead. I do the exact same thing with my Mysql servers. I used mysqldump to backup my databases to a directory. Then, using rsync, I copy them all to an offsite backup server. The --excludes option, also has --includes, or better yet, --include-files=filestorsync.txt, then put /home/ /interbasebackups, in that .txt file, one per line. That will tell rsync to grab everything in /home, and /interbasebackups. No need for Perl in this situation. You've really got all the info on the basics of rsync. Now, it's a matter of just creating test scripts, reading the man page, etc. Thanks! Mark Schoonover IS Manager American Geotechnical V: 858-450-4040 - F: 714-685-3909 - C: 858-472-3816 "Stop the Earth!! I want off!!"

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RE: [CentOS] Limiting files when using rsync
by Mark Schoonover 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Peter Serwe wrote: > Todd Cary wrote: >> Mark - >> >> Thanks! That did it. >> >> /usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/ >> My next step will be to brush the dust off of my Perl book and write >> a crontab script to backup nightly. >> >> Question: I may not be using the term "backup" absolutely correctly. >> The destination server is a "standby" server. This is if the source >> server fails, all I have to do is change the router to point to the >> standby server. These are in a home office and I do not consider >> myself a system administrator; just someone who knows enough to keep >> the server running (it's main task is FTPing). Do you have any >> suggestions about using rsync as I am doing? > I'm confused *what* in the world would make you want to write perl > for this purpose when two lines of bash would serve the purpose > (admirably). > > #!/bin/bash > /usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/ > > If for some reason, you wanted to do something sexier or more dynamic > in terms of the source/destination, that would add 4 more lines to > make it something like: > > #!/bin/bash > for dir in 'ls -1 /home/' > do > /usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/$dir/ > 192.168.0.22:/home/$dir/ > done > > You can even nest loops and iterate multiple parameters. > > Peter Peter, Was this just an example of using a for loop?? I wouldn't do this with rsync, it can handle recursive directories on its own. Putting it in a for loop, then calling rsync over and over again, will take a huge performance hit because rsync will have to build the file list for each directory in /home. Just point it to /home, and all will be fine. Thanks! Mark Schoonover IS Manager American Geotechnical V: 858-450-4040 - F: 714-685-3909 - C: 858-472-3816 "Stop the Earth!! I want off!!"

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Re-running CPAN setup
by Erick Perez 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

I just ran for the first time perl -MCPAN -e shell and answered all the question, but i made a mistake and selected an incorrect mirror. How can I rerun this perl setup? -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 ------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: [CentOS] Limiting files when using rsync
by Mark Schoonover 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Todd Cary wrote: > I use the following command to sync the home directory on the two > computers, however I would like not to send the "dot" files e.g. > ".ssh". Can that be done, and if so, how would I construct the > command line? > > /usr/bin/rsync -av -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/ > > Many thanks.... > > Todd Todd, I'm pretty sure you need to --exclude '.*' on the command line, buh I usually put all my excludes in a file and --exclude-from=rsync.excludes. Thanks! Mark Schoonover IS Manager American Geotechnical V: 858-450-4040 - F: 714-685-3909 - C: 858-472-3816 "Stop the Earth!! I want off!!"

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How to whitellist and blacklist domains in amavisd-new.
by Indunil Jayasooriya 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Hi, I want to know how to whilelist or blacklist domains in amavisd-new. By now, I have already added a whiltelist and a blacklist with email addresses in following way. in amavisd.conf file , belwo two lines @whitelist_sender_maps = read_hash("$MYHOME/white.lst"); @blacklist_sender_maps = read_hash("$MYHOME/black.lst"); then , I did below two , touch /var/amavis/white.lst touch /var/amavis/black.lst Then I added email addresse per line in these two files. Now I need to know how to whiltelist or blacklist entire domains. (NOT email adddressess) Pls help . -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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Squid 2.6 RPM
by Matt 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

CentOS 4.4 includes squid-2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.12. Can anyone tell me where to find a 2.6 rpm? Matt

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RE: [CentOS] Problems with building a complete kernel
by Mark Hull-Richter 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Thanks - I'm still working on it. Does anyone know where there is a clean, working source for Centos 2.6.9-42.0.3 (supposedly the 4.4 final)? I'm pretty sure the one I have is NOT the right one.... -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:47 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problems with building a complete kernel On 1/25/07, Mark Hull-Richter <mhull-richter(a)datallegro.com> wrote: > I have a plain vanilla Centos source (not 100% sure where we got it > from), but I can't seem to get a build that installs correctly. Welcome to the joy of building custom kernels. > I tried the method described at > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel, but rpm doesn't like the > output file, and even if I install it with -F, nothing seems to happen - > no new kernel, now initrd, nothing. Something in your build process has likely failed. Also, -F is to 'freshen' an existing package. This is something you most definitely DO NOT want to do with a kernel. > When I tried following the directions in the README file that came with > the source, I built the kernel just fine, but the instructions then go > on to describe how to modify LILO to make the install work, and my boot > loader is GRUB - not sure how to reconcile those two. Look at your /etc/grub.conf and add a stanza like the others, but with your kernel info. It should be pretty straight forward. > > So, I built yet another kernel (rpm) following the guide at > http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_centos, and the rpm built > just fine, but when I run mkinitrd, it complains that I don't have the > ahci module in my kernel. The only reference I have found to ahci is in > my boot setup, and it is already enabled, so, once again, I am stuck. > Anyone have any ideas here? Yes. Follow one guide at a time. This will keep you from dragging your problem around with you. Troubleshoot why your build failed the first time around. > > I'm running Centos 2.6.9-42.0.3ELsmp on a Dell Precision 390 (P4/HT > 3GHz, 2Gb mem, ATI FireGL 4700, 160Gb SATA, ... Seems fairly common hardware. Are you sure you need to rebuild? Perhaps the centos wiki was not stern enough in discouraging custom builds for a plethora of reasons. What feature is it that you wish to enable in your custom kernel? -- 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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Badness in i8042_panic_blink at drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 992
by yogeshwar sonawane 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Hi all, I am getting this error while kernel hangs. I am using CentOS 4.4 (x86_64) on Dual Opteron 4 way SMP machine. After searching, i didn't found a sound answer. If anybody know the solution, plz let me know. Thanks in advance, Yogeshwar

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backup exec client for centos/linux?
by Karl R. Balsmeier 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Hi, am just setting up some devboxes and would like to start backing CVS up to tape using our existing setup -anyone heard about a backup exec client for linux/rhel? I used to use HP Dataprotector 5.1 and it worked fine -any word on this other client would be great. am searching symantec/veritas site high and low... -karl

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Best Board Your Ever Ran CentOS On?
by Karl R. Balsmeier 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Hi, Whats' the best motherboard you ever ran CentOS on? --------- Don't read this unless you have lots o' spare time, and please, no flamers or kook-jobs with wierd attitudes, this is just plain old hardware as it relates to centos talk -no politic or mean folks. Background (why I ask about centos-friendly hardware): As I order alot of servers, I have alot of vendors telling me all sorts of stuff. It gets pretty extreme sometimes. I play poker each Sat. eve with a Google Engineer, but we never talk about work. One day we might, but I thought i'd ask the list, because there are alot of vendors out there who contradict just about everything I see on the list that I consider to be excellent advice, given by really talented and positive-minded folks, true professionals. One thing I remember reading about Google is that they choose commodity hardware and engineer the $%^&* out of it and basically add it into a hive/clusterlike existence where it metes out it's daily java/mail/database/ftp/memcache sessions. The modular nature of the hardware allows both scaling, and spontaneuous disaster recovery of very high quality. http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5875433.html I have chosen to follow the same logic, or at least continue down the path of those before me that made this choice. From my view, my CentOS machines that never break, run happiest on AMD-friendly boards, with older onboard Broadcomm GBnics that support NIC bonding and handle excess internet & internal snmp (cacti & nagios) traffic without blowing up. I can rave about Crucial (Micron) RAM, and AMD Opteron CPU's, and Seagate & Fujitsu SCSI SCA 80 pin drives, Chenbro 2U rackmount 6* SCA cases, Zippy redundant power supplies, LSI Logic MegaRAID 320-2 controllers -but the basis of it all is the board. It's got all the other parts no one talks about. It's the source of many a dmesg output. With the right board, life is much much easier. Right now I run using Tyan S288@UG3NR-D Dual Core Opteron SCSI SATA GBe LAN boards. I have a vendor that consistently says they get complaints on Tyan boards, but out of the cluster, none of mine have ever died. The Dells die, and get replaced. The remaining Sun's, seem to never die even though I wish they would. Not that i'm a fan of Tyan, -but oddly enough this particular board works great. I noticed alot of the hardware advice Johnny gives (hardware & advice/fixes) just so happens to coincide with vendors saying the exact oppposite thing. They say go with ATI and broadcomm right when he's actually helping someone fix something related to one of those components. Sometimes on the same day. If we as engineers are to have any say in our industry, it's going to happen when we all talk outside the box of BS theory and FUD or over-analysis or analysis-for-analysis'-sake. Right now Intel has things such that it's actually a little difficult to find a stock 2U production linux system unless you actually break it down part-by-part and vet the whole thing. Just curious about your opinions and advice -is there a spec you follow that you like? Way back when, you'd either order a Supermicro-type system, or get a VA Linux type machine. What do you do now? If you happen to be trying to spec out a solid Linux server, I can say that the spec I arrived at handles over 100,000,000 page views a week -that's 1/3rd of CNET. It's all CentOS, the whole thing. A percentage of you might have travelled across them, especially if you happen to read news on the web. Commodity is the way to go. Get 40 servers for the price of one commercial vendor machine. CentOS is very real my friends -let's talk hardware! Maybe we can help the centos project out by doing so. I have to say, i'm sticking with my own hardware choices, -so please don't view this as someone trying to get a hardware spec for free -the intention here is to solidify our own base as centos users, sysadmins. -krb

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mount initrd
by Denis Machard 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Hi, I try to mount the file /boot/initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp but I have a error [root@localhost ~]# cp /boot/initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp.img /root/ [root@localhost ~]# mv initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp.img initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp.gz [root@localhost ~]# gunzip initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp.gz [root@localhost ~]# mount initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp /tmp -o loop [root@localhost ~]# mount: you must specify the filesystem type why ? Denis

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problem with CUPS
by Rajeev R Veedu 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

I have made a CUPS print server and unable to load printer driver nor able to install the printer on the windows machine. The error I am getting is as below: - "Windows can not locate suitable printer driver. Contact your administratorxxxxx" I can print test page from the cups panel and the printer works fine. I tried to upload the driver through windows machine by right clicking the properties saying no and clicking advance property tab, the new driver tab is not highlighted. Is it anything related to permission problem? I am using Centos 4.3 + samba 3.0.22. Please find below my SMB.conf file and would really appreciate if some one could tell me where I am going wrong! Thanks Rajeev [Global] load printers = yes passwd chat debug = Yes idmap gid = 10000-20000 admin users = root host msdfs = Yes wins server = 192.168.1.223 null passwords = Yes domain master = No winbind use default domain = Yes public = yes passwd program = /etc/passwd %u template shell = /bin/bash lock directory = /tmp/samba dns proxy = No netbios name = PrintSrv printing = cups writeable = yes server string = Print Server printing = cups writeable = yes server string = Print Server idmap uid = 10000-20000 password server = 192.168.1.225 winbind nested groups = Yes unix password sync = Yes local master = No workgroup = DOMAIN os level = 0 update encrypted = Yes printcap name = cups security = DOMAIN preferred master = No winbind separator = / winbind cache time = 10 [Data-01] comment = Data-01 path = /Data create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777 guest ok = Yes [Home] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S public = no writable = yes printable = no create mask = 0640 directory mask = 0755 browsable = no [printers] comment = All Printers browseable = yes printable = yes writeable = yes path = /var/tmp guest ok = yes print command = lpr -r -P'%p' -J'%j' -U'%U' %s [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/drivers/ create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 guest ok = yes write list = rvrajeev

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nscd crashes
by Josh Kelley 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

I've had problems with nscd crashing every few days on my CentOS 4 mail server for a while now. The problems started maybe around CentOS 4.2, although I don't remember for sure. My debugging efforts let me to disable nscd's persistent cache, and that seemed to work for a while, but since upgrading to CentOS 4.4, the crashes have started again. When nscd crashes, the rest of the system becomes unreliable. Dovecot hangs when new users attempt to log in (fixed or worked around by switching Dovecot versions), and MIMEDefang (which we use for mail filtering) starts failing when it tries to process mail. A bit more information about our configuration: We use nss_ldap and pam_ldap against a failover pair of Fedora Directory Servers. nscd is also crashing on another of our servers (a fileserver) but with less regularlity; on our other servers, it works fine, even without disabling the persistent cache. Has anyone seen similar problems with nscd? Any tips for debugging it? I can use gdb, strace, etc. if I have to, but that can be time consuming, and it's hard to take the time to do that when people are yelling about the mail server being down. (Does CentOS provide debuginfo RPMs?) Thanks. Josh Kelley

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qt3-devel packages
by Devraj Mukherjee 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Hi Everyone, I am trying to build rpms for a product called Rivendell for CentOS 4.4 (http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/) One of the packages requires a package called qt3 and qt3-devel All searches reveal this package to be available for SuSE. Any ideas if this is available for CentOS/EL4? Or a src.rpm that I can use? Thanks for your time. [root@foreground ~]# rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/libradio-*rpm error: Failed dependencies: qt3 is needed by libradio-0.97.4-1.i386 qt3-devel is needed by libradio-devel-0.97.4-1.i386 [root@foreground ~]# -- "I never look back darling, it distracts from the now", Edna Mode (The Incredibles)

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RE: [CentOS] OOT: Advice on failover rsync setup
by Mark Schoonover 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

John Summerfield wrote: > Mark Schoonover wrote: >> Benjamin Smith wrote: >>> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 04:41, Karanbir Singh wrote: >>>> Fajar Priyanto wrote: >>>>> I have a task on setting up a cluster of 2 servers for providing >>>>> ftp service. We use RH's Cluster suite. However the cluster setup >>>>> is lack of shared network storage, so the /var/ftp/pub is mounted >>>>> on each server. The cluster is set >>>>> >>>>> So, are we on the right direction? Or is there any better way? >>>>> Thank you very much, >>>>> >>>> have you considered using drbd ? >>> Well, I was going to suggest using RAID1 with one of the partitions >>> being a network block device, but this looks even better! >>> >>> Rsync is great for period backups (not more than once per day or so) >> >> I run rsync every hour on multi-terrabyte systems with no problems. >> The NASes do have a private GB network to push the data through, so >> the user network doesn't see the network traffic generated by rsync. >> I can have anywhere from just a couple hundred megs, to 100 gigs of >> data change inside of an hour. > > OTOH I found running rsync daily over the Internet to backup a Linux > box impractical; it used heaps of RAM (and swap) and ran for hours. > Fortunately, its excessive use of swap (several times real RAM) didn't > lead to thrashing. > This seems rather odd performance for rsync. As I type this, I'm sending 800GB to a new server, and rsync is using 28MB of RAM. I don't think network speed is an issue with how much RAM/SWAP is getting used by rsync. Could you post your rsync command, I'm curious to what your running. What version of rsync are you using?? > Now, I run a hand-crafted script that makes a compressed ISO > (mkzftree) and I rsync that. I'm maintaining a backup filesystem of > about 8 Mbytes remotely now; the rsync runs for a little over two > hours daily. That's what I love about *NIX, more than one way to skin a cat! Thanks! Mark Schoonover IS Manager American Geotechnical - California, Nevada and Arizona V-> 858.450.4040 F-> 714.685.3909 C-> 858.472.3816 * software development * systems administration * networking * security *

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RE: [CentOS] rsync and users
by Mark Schoonover 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Todd Cary wrote: > Thanks to the encouragement of some people on this list, I am using > rsync to synchronize two servers: one is a backup to the other in case > the primary one fails. By hand, I inserted the names of the users on > the primary server into the backup server. So, now all works well. > > /usr/bin/rsync -av -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/ > > My question is what would happen if the users were not on the backup They just get set to the UID/GID of the source server. > server? > > Is there anyway to have the users automatically inserted into passwd > and group? I'd investigate NIS to fix this issue. Thanks! Mark Schoonover IS Manager American Geotechnical - California, Nevada and Arizona V-> 858.450.4040 F-> 714.685.3909 C-> 858.472.3816

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RE: [CentOS] rsync doesn't update directory ownership
by Mark Schoonover 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

Fajar Priyanto wrote: >On Wednesday 24 January 2007 00:27, Mark Schoonover wrote: >> Fajar, >> >> Your rsync command contains extraneous options. The -a actually is a >> shortcut for -rlptogoD, so all you really need is -avz as options. If you >> could provide an ls -la of the source and remote directories, that would >> help tremendously. One thing that comes to mind is to be sure that >> userA.userA has the same UID & GID on both servers. In my case, where I'm >> rsyncing to a remote server and the UID/GID don't match, you'll just get >> numeric IDs as owners and groups on the remote side. So, try eliminating >> the duplicate options first, be sure UID/GID are the same on both servers. >> Let us know how it goes. >> >> HTH > >Hello Mark, >Thank you very much for the correction. I will try it as soon as I get back to >office in a few hours. >In the mean time, I want to confirm that: >- yes, the users has the same uid/gid on both servers Fajar, What version of rsync are you using on each machine?? Thanks! Mark Schoonover IS Manager American Geotechnical - California, Nevada and Arizona V-> 858.450.4040 F-> 714.685.3909 C-> 858.472.3816

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