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RE: [CentOS] How do I identify my hardware?
by Mark Hull-Richter 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

So if it's not there, does that mean the device is not supported on Linux? Yoik. Neither of the video ids is in the list.... My audio id is there - it is the integrated mobo audio, but it failed initialization - does it need something to be plugged into it to work? Thanks again. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Paul Heinlein Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 1:54 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] How do I identify my hardware? On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > I have two issues with my machine - sound and video. My sound card > is not recognized at all (I think it's on the mobo, but I'm not sure > how to identify it), and I have an ATI dual video card with two > screens, but both show the same output, so I'm guessing that my > CentOS does not know what it is, either (they show up as > unidentified in the config file). What I do is # get plain-language pci listing lspci # get numeric only pci listing lspci -n Match the plain listing with the numeric listing to get the raw PCI ID of the device in question, e.g., # plain language 01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02) # numeric 01:0c.0 0200: 8086:100e (rev 02) Then head to the Linux PCI ID repo and search for the specific ID ($3 to awk :-), in this case, "8086:100e": http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/ In this case, 8086 is an Intel vendor ID and 100e specifies a '82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller' device. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein(a)madboa.com <> www.madboa.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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How do I identify my hardware?
by Mark Hull-Richter 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

I'm a little new to CentOS and very rusty on Linux in general (it's been 7 years since I worked on a Linux kernel), so this may seem like a dumb question. I have two issues with my machine - sound and video. My sound card is not recognized at all (I think it's on the mobo, but I'm not sure how to identify it), and I have an ATI dual video card with two screens, but both show the same output, so I'm guessing that my CentOS does not know what it is, either (they show up as unidentified in the config file). I'm running 2.6.9-42.0.3ELsmp and can't upgrade to a newer kernel for the time being. Any suggestions? Thanks.

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System hangs at "Rebooting System" on VIA KM400 chipsets
by nethub＠gmail.com 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

Hello, We have a number of systems running KM400 chipsets from VIA (Socket A/462). Two different models have produced the same results -- DFI KM400-MLV and MSI KM4M-V. When a /sbin/reboot or /sbin/shutdown -r now is issued, the system does everything you would expect from a reboot, but when it gets to Rebooting System, it hangs and requires a power cycle. The logs do not indicate anything is going wrong. It's not a kernel panic. I've tried appending "acpi=off noapic" or just "apci=off" to grub.conf and neither help. We've tested these boards extensively with various CPU's, hard drives, and RAM and they show no other issues, so it's not hardware defects or hardware compatibility issues. I'm not sure what is going on, but assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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RAID performance design? /home and os
by Christian Nygaard 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

I'm considering how to design a new file server with a 3ware 9650se RAID controller. How much would you estimate the impact to be on sharing /home and the operating system on one raid 6 set? /home is mostly read only accesses with a ratio 10:1 read/write. I'm a little bit concerned that the log writes in /var/log could impact read performance on /home causing disk head movements or that a little/non issue with modern Raid controllers? What would give best performance Scenario 1 8*500G Raid 6 /home and operating system Scenario 2 6*500GB Raid 6 /home 2*250GB Raid 1 operating system Looking for feedback Chris

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Centos 4.4 in a cf card + ramdisk
by Erick Perez 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

I want to install centos 4.4 in a CF card and use a ram disk for operations. It means no hard disk attached to the computer. The machine will only run an antispam antivirus gateway. What documents can I read to make /var and /tmp sit on a ram disk and boot the operating system in read write and switch to read only after booting? thanks, -- ------------------------------------------------------------ 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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How to configure CD-RW in CentOS for cd burning using cdrecord
by balajisundar＠midascomm.com 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

Dear all, I am using CentOS 4.4 Version Now.I want to Burn multi session CD using commands "mkisofs" and "cdrecord" on command prompt. I don't know how to configure the cdwriter(Samsung)? I am able to find the device using "cdrecord -scanbus" but when I want to get next track of already written cd using "cdrecord -dev=X.X.X -msinfo", system displays error and I am unable to get the next track. Previously, I was using Red Hat Linux 7.2, for that I have configured lilo.conf and fstab file as adding "append hdX=ide-scsi" and "iso9660 X,X,X,X 0 0" respectively. I have a scsi card which is already loaded and I can see the entry in "lsmod". Same 7.2 configuration is not working and even I also don't want to continue with that as CentOS supports cd-RW/DVD as default. Can any body help me to figure out the problem and advise me to take necessary steps do fulfill the requirement. I don't want to use K3B or other as I have some data and I want to make this cd burning process automatically in incremental manner into CD. Looking for a fast reply. Thanks in advance.. --Regards S.Balaji

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Risks of installing i386 rpms on a x86_64 CentOS 4.4 installation
by Devraj Mukherjee 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

Hi Everyone, Are there any risks in installing i386 binaries (via rpm) on a x86_64 installation of CentOS 4.4? Thanks -- "I never look back darling, it distracts from the now", Edna Mode (The Incredibles)

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wireless question
by Jimmy Bradley 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

I've had no luck with getting a wireless card to work. Before I go buy another card, I wanted to see if there is a way I could do this instead. I've got a second wireless router that I'm not using right now. So I would like to find out if there is a way I can make this work. I was thinking about connecting the second wireless router to my pc through the ethernet port, and let the router be my wireless connection instead of a wireless card. Now, is there a way I can get the second router to talk wirelessly to the router that's connected to my broadband modem, and surf the web and everything else that way? Any help would be appreciated. Jim

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Ultra simple mail server config?
by Dave 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hello, I am hoping you folks on the list could advise me on this... Can anyone point me towards a HOW-TO that describes how to transform a normal CentOS install into a very basic POP3/IMAP/SMTP email server? Our current ISP where we host ~15 domains and ~25+ email accounts has a mandatory incoming "auto-discard" spam filter that is far too strict to continue using. Unfortunately, switching ISPs is not an option right now. I am looking at signing up for a basic low-memory CentOS "Virtual Dedicated Server" to handle our own incoming (& outgoing) mail. There will not be a full-time IT person to maintain the server, so simplicity is a must. I am perfectly fine with leaving out complex server-side spam filtering, though I suspect that some basic blacklist usage would be a good idea. Most specifically, I don't want to add the security liability and maintenance requirements of a typical "default" server. (Apache, PHP, MySQL, Bind, etc.) Basically, I want an ultra-basic server that I can set for automatic updates and let it continue running "hands-off" until CentOS 4 is no longer supported with security patches. Does such a HOW-TO exist? If not, and there are experts here willing to help out, I would be happy to write up my experience. Thank you for reading, David ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html

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Raw print queues in CentOS 4.4
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hi All, I have a raw print queue configured in CentOS 4.4 for a printer connected to a Windows PC. The printer doesn't have a Linux driver of any sort, so this was the only way to print to it. The printer is an Okidata dot matrix printer. Users can print to it from a console application, but if they try printing to it from OOo Writer, the printer spits out reams of pages with what looks like postscript code. The very first page has a line that says "%! PS-Adobe-3.0". Even though the print queue is configured as "raw", why are OOo Writer print jobs still sent as postscript documents? I'm don't know too much about printing, postscript, etc., so I don't know if this is normal or if something broke. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux 13:52:05 up 22:47, 2 users, load average: 0.39, 0.36, 0.26

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RE: [CentOS] OOT: Advice on failover rsync setup
by Mark Schoonover 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

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. <snipped> > > It's great, though, for Distaster Recovery off-site backups. See > http://www.effortlessis.com/backupbuddy > for an example I cooked up some time back. I'll have to read this. I wrote my configuration up on how to use rsync for hourly, daily and weekly backups here: http://marks-tech-pages.blogspot.com Rsync really shines, I've totally abandoned backing up to tape. It's nice to have restores run at network speeds. 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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Intel 965 howto Was: Easy upgrade path from beta5 to stable 5?
by David Hrbáč 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Well, I have written that onboard network controller doesn't work... It's not true anymore. A small howto: 1) add pci network card 2) install with "linux all-generic-ide pci=nommconf" 3) update to the latest distro kernel 2.6.9-42.0.3 4) get http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/e1000/e1000-7.3.20.tar.gz 5) do have kernel-headers, rpmbuild ... etc. 6) rpmbuild -ta e1000-7.3.20.tar.gz 7) rpm -ihv /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/e1000-7.3.20-1.i386.rpm 8) boot, remove pci eth, boot :o) Regards, David -------- Původní zpráva -------- Předmět: Re: [CentOS] Easy upgrade path from beta5 to stable 5? Datum: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:35:40 +0100 (CET) Od: David Hrbác( <hrbac.conf(a)seznam.cz> Přeposláno - Komu: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Komu: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Reference: <B9ECBF8D89E7684EB63FF250E8788B1942C4AD(a)BIGLOG.thenap.com> Drew Weaver napsal(a): > S5000 doesn't work at all with Centos 4. > > At least not with the intel boards themselves. > > S3000 works fine, 965/975 doesn't work at all either. > > -Drew Drew, Centos 4.4 works on 965 (I'm talking about Intel DG965OT). Kernel options are "all-generic-ide pci=nommconf". Set sata controller to AHCI mode in BIOS. Onboard network card is not recognized at all. So mobo works, but just buy another board, at least for now. David

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How to configure SquidGuard with blacklist
by Indunil Jayasooriya 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hi, I am ruunig Squid on my CentOs 4.4 box. I want to filter sites. I think Squid guard is one choise for it. I need a blacklist as well. I am looking for rpms to set it up with squid. Who is running squidguard and a blacklist happily with squid. help is expected. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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spamdoptions?
by R Lists06 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Apologies for not finding it in my searching yet... I think it is my "sometimers" kickin' in... ;-> I am looking for info on the granularity knob control for number of extra spamd daemons on startup. ...AND if one has enough processors and ram memory, how to know how many "extra" to have available to speed up scanning and such under load. On CentOS machines would that be under SPAMDOPTIONS ? - rh -- Robert - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net

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comentator's article
by Jimmy Bradley 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

This is an article I came across on zdnet.com. You may or may not agree with it. Personally, I don't. Anyway, here's the link to it. I thought some of you might want to read it, and form your own opinion. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=769 Thanks for the help on the wireless problem. Jim

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rsync doesn't update directory ownership
by Fajar Priyanto 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hi all, Has anyone encountered this: On ServerA, I make this directory: /var/ftp/pub/userA with ownership root.root It gets rsynced to serverB with this command: rsync -avzgorp --delete -e ssh /var/ftp/pub/ root@serverB:/var/ftp/pub/ However, when I change the ownership of /var/ftp/pub/userA to userA.userA, this change is not rsync-ed to serverB. Is there any option to achieve this? Thank you very much. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 8:17pm up 12:35, 2.6.16.13-4-default GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org

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RE: [CentOS] rsync doesn't update directory ownership
by Mark Schoonover 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Fajar Priyanto wrote: >Hi all, >Has anyone encountered this: >On ServerA, I make this directory: >/var/ftp/pub/userA with ownership root.root >It gets rsynced to serverB with this command: >rsync -avzgorp --delete -e ssh /var/ftp/pub/ root@serverB:/var/ftp/pub/ >However, when I change the ownership of /var/ftp/pub/userA to userA.userA, >this change is not rsync-ed to serverB. >Is there any option to achieve this? >Thank you very much. >-- >Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial >http://linux2.arinet.org >8:17pm up 12:35, 2.6.16.13-4-default GNU/Linux >Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org 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 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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downgrading mysql
by CentOS List 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hi, I had upgraded mysql from mysql-4.1.20-1.RHEL4.1 to mysql-5.0.22-1.centos.1 via CentOS plus. Now I would like to downgrade it back to the 4.1 version. How can i get this done? thanks LC

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dkms
by Tony Schreiner 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

First, I want to thank Karanbir for the centos extras repo. I have a question about dkms. I have several Dell PowerEdge systems with Centos 4, and kbs-CentOS- Extras and dell-software repos enabled. Is there any possible conflict if I allow yum to update dkms from dell-software instead of kbs-CentOS-Extras? Currently the i386 architecture has version 2.0.11- in dell-software and 2.0.10-1 in kbs-CentOS-Extras. Cheers, Tony Schreiner Boston College

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PostgreSQL 8.2?
by Benjamin Smith 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

I've been using RPMs for PG 8.1 from CentosPlus for some time now. I've been very happy with them, and they've been wonderfully stable. http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/centosplus/x86_64/RPMS/ But now 8.2 is out. Are there any plans to support PG 8.2 in CentosPlus, or should I go ahead with RPMS directly from PG? http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.2.1/linux/rpms/redhat/rhel-as-4-x86… Thanks, -Ben -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978

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OOT: Advice on failover rsync setup
by Fajar Priyanto 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hi all, 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 with Master and Slave configuration (when the master is down, slave serves. and when master is up again, slaves gives up the service back to master). We thought of using rsync to synchronize the two directory on each server. B -----> A with: rsync -avzgorp -e ssh root@serverB:/var/ftp/pub/ /var/ftp/pub/ A -----> B with: rsync -avzgorp --delete -e ssh /var/ftp/pub/ root@serverB:/var/ftp/pub/ (note: using --delete) We want those command to make sure that the most current and complete /var/ftp/pub is on A and we put those command on A only. So, are we on the right direction? Or is there any better way? Thank you very much, -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 3:44pm up 6:53, 2.6.16.13-4-default GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org

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RE: [CentOS] wireless question
by Mark Schoonover 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Brent wrote: > TO get this router to work you going to need to flash a new firmware > on it. Most routers do not support a bridge mode. Check DD-WRT to see > if you have a compatible router you can flash DD-WRT too. > > http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/index.php I use dd-wrt on the Buffalo WAP, and it's very nice. I replaced my Linksys with the Buffalo only because the Buffalo was cheaper, around $55. Dd-wrt is pretty easy to figure out. HTH Mark

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Thunderbird package chrome icon
by Paul Kopacz 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hello, Since starting to use the Thunderbird package provided through the CentOS yum repos (currently using thunderbird-1.5.0.9-0.1.el4.centos4), my co-worker and I have noticed that we no longer have a Thunderbird icon in the title bar of any of the Thunderbird application windows. I was able to fix this by creating the directory /usr/lib/thunderbird-1.5.0.9/chrome/icons/default/ and copying into it the (attached) file default.xpm. The binary download bundle from the mozilla.org site includes that file (and several others under the chrome/icons directory) while the package from the CentOS repos does not. Is there something that I'm missing? Please note that I am not talking about the desktop integration (i.e. the thunderbird.desktop file and the thunderbird.png file in the /usr/share/pixmaps directory). That part works fine. Thanks very much, Paul Kopacz

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mark and route traffic in a bridge
by Roberto Pereyra 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hi all !! I would to like to mark and route some kind of traffic (ie: outbound www, now by simplicity) ---inet1--------eth0------------| | | linux | --eth1------- clientes ---inet2(90.0.0.1)--------eth2-| | I have eth0 and eth1 bridged (eth2 is not bridged). I would to route www outbound clients traffic through eth2. This scheme works ? I wrote this scripts: a) add this line to /etc/iproute2/rt_tables 200 web b) I assign ip to eth2: /sbin/ifconfig eth2 90.0.0.2 c) Mark outbound www packets from clients: /usr/local/sbin/iptables -A PREROUTING -t mangle -m physdev --physdev-in eth1 -p tcp --dport 80 -j MARK --set-mark 2 d) I routing this marked packets /sbin/ip rule add fwmark 2 table web /sbin/ip route add default via 90.0.0.1 dev eth2 table web e) Now I run iptraf listen eth2 but through eth2 is nothing of traffic. What's a doing wrong ? How I can do it with a bridge ? Thanks in advance for any hint and excuse my english. roberto -- Ing. Roberto Pereyra ContenidosOnline Looking for Linux Virtual Private Servers ? Click here: http://www.spry.com/hosting-affiliate/scripts/t.php?a_aid=426&a_bid=56

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How long it takes to determine the Domainname
by Daniel Rindt 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hello, i try to install via a kickstart file. But the install process is stalled, please see the attached File. I wait more than 5 Minutes... Thanks in Advance. Daniel

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libMrm.so.3
by Dirk Roessler 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

I need to install libMrm.so.3 on my computer that has Centos4.3. However, I am not experienced with Centos4.3 so far. I do not know where to find this library for Centos4.3 and how to install it. Is there something like apt? Using system-config-packages I cannot find any intelligent way to search for programs and package. Dirk

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mark and route traffic in a bridge
by Roberto Pereyra 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hi all !! I would to like to mark and route some kind of traffic (ie: outbound www, now by simplicity) ---inet1--------eth0------------| | | linux |--eth1------- clientes ---inet2(90.0.0.1)--------eth2-| | I have eth0 and eth1 bridged (eth2 is not bridged). I would to route www outbound clients traffic through eth2. This scheme works ? I wrote this scripts: a) add this line to /etc/iproute2/rt_tables 200 web b) I assign ip to eth2: /sbin/ifconfig eth2 90.0.0.2 c) Mark outbound www packets from clients: /usr/local/sbin/iptables -A PREROUTING -t mangle -m physdev --physdev-in eth1 -p tcp --dport 80 -j MARK --set-mark 2 d) I routing this marked packets /sbin/ip rule add fwmark 2 table web /sbin/ip route add default via 90.0.0.1 dev eth2 table web e) Now I run iptraf listen eth2 but through eth2 is nothing of traffic. What's a doing wrong ? How I can do it with a bridge ? Thanks in advance for any hint and excuse my english. roberto -- Ing. Roberto Pereyra ContenidosOnline Looking for Linux Virtual Private Servers ? Click here: http://www.spry.com/hosting-affiliate/scripts/t.php?a_aid=426&a_bid=56

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VDQ Grub
by Beartooth 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Very Dumb Question : I have tried about four times now, using an old pentium2 with two hard drives (20 GB and 30 GB) to install both CentOS 4.4 and Fedora Core 6 in such a way as to enable dual-boot between them. I've tried it by installing 4.4 first, and then FC6. I've tried it by installing FC6 first, and then 4.4. I've tried it with and without giving the installer permission to use both drives. I always end up with ability to boot only to one OS, usually the one installed last. Between tries I wipe both drives with DBAN. Surely there must be something I'm doing wrong, obvious to many but not to me. Clue, please? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora Core 6; CXO 5.0.1; Pine 4.64, Pan 0.119; Privoxy 3.0.3; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.16, Opera 9.10, Firefox 1.5 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.

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error message RFE
by Ted Miller 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

I would like to file a bug report for the error message: kernel: floppy0: data CRC error: track 77, head 1, sector 3, size 2 The error is real, it is the message that is in error. Where do I file this? Ted Miller Indiana, USA

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adjusting transmit (tx) and receive thresholds
by James Marcinek 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Hello all, I get warning displays on my system display that refer to threshold increases. Can someone recommend making adjustments for network cards based off of practical experience? Thanks, James

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trying to remove cyrus-sasl
by Gordon McLellan 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

I'm trying to remove the packages for cyrus-sasl using yum, but for some reason, yum wants to uninstall everything related to e-mail, as well as X-Windows, Gnome, etc etc. yum remove cyrus-sasl Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 0 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 81 Package(s) Total download size: 0 Is this ok [y/N]: n Exiting on user Command How can I just remove cyrus, without uninstalling my entire desktop? Thanks, Gordon

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xeon quad core?
by Gordon McLellan 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Can anyone share their experience with installing RHEL / Centos (latest production release) on the Dell 2950 (or 2900) with the quad-core e5310 processor? Does anyone know what chipset Dell is using on this box? I've got one on the way, and I'm hoping to use centos as the 'host' OS for several virtual machines (some of them Windows pigs), running vmware server. some of the specifics in case they are relevant: Single Xeon Quad Core E5310 processor, 1066mHz fsb 16 gigabytes DDR2 667mHz ram Dell Perc 5/i raid controller, configured for raid 1 Dual 146gb SAS drives Intel Pro/1000PT dual port PCIe nic Any and all input is appreciated! Gordon

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Re: VDQ Grub
by Andy 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:16:28 +0000 (UTC) > From: Beartooth <Beartooth(a)swva.net> > Subject: [CentOS] VDQ Grub > Very Dumb Question : I have tried about four times now, using an old > pentium2 with two hard drives (20 GB and 30 GB) to install both CentOS 4.4 > and Fedora Core 6 in such a way as to enable dual-boot between them. > > I've tried it by installing 4.4 first, and then FC6. I've tried it by > installing FC6 first, and then 4.4. I've tried it with and without giving > the installer permission to use both drives. > > I always end up with ability to boot only to one OS, usually the one > installed last. Between tries I wipe both drives with DBAN. > > Surely there must be something I'm doing wrong, obvious to many but not to > me. Clue, please? The way it works for me is: 1) Install distro 1 on the first drive, and let it put its GRUB into the MBR of the drive. Mostly that is what installers want to do by default 2) Install distro 2 on the second drive but make it put its GRUB in the root partition of the second drive. Looking at the RHEL installation guide, this will be done via the "Configure advanced boot loader" option in the Bootloader Configuration phase 3) Once the installation of distro 2 is complete, boot into distro 1 and modify /boot/grub/menu.lst to include: title Distro 2 rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 If there is any chance that you will want distro 2 to be the default at some stage, put this before distro 1, which will look like: title Fedora Core (2.6.14-1.1656_FC4) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4.img and modify the default= 0 to 1 Then if you later want distro 2 to be default you can change it back to 0 again. Doing it this way round avoids confusion if distro 1 gets a kernel upgrade and a new title line is added. I can recommend the following for GRUB wisdom: * http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/blog/saikee * A grub menu booting 100+ systems of Dos, Windows, Linux, BSD and Solaris: http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=143973 * Just booting tips: http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=144294 * Saikee's grub booting tips: http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?p=837905#post837905 Andy Goss

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Porting to RISC
by Daniel Rindt 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Hello Everyone, for a small embedded System i would like to install CentOS, but it is a RISC System. So my Question is it possible to rebuild some SRPMs for RISC? Thanks in Advance Daniel

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wireless card for CentOS
by Aleksandar Milivojevic 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Hi, I'll need to buy a new wireless card. I need a recommendation for PCMCIA wireless card that simply works with CentOS out of the box. By "works out of the box", I mean that it doesn't need ndis wrapper (or whatever it is called), kernel hacks, or whatever. Thanks

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libmysqlclient not found, while compiling PowerDNS
by Devraj Mukherjee 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Hi Everyone, I am trying to build the PowerDNS rpm from the source rpms powerdns-2.9.20-3.MIND.src.rpm, it requires opendbx-devel which I am trying to build from the instructions at (http://www.linuxnetworks.de/opendbx/download/index.html) I have subscribe to centosplus for packages like mysql5 and php5. I have the following MySQL packages installed [root@charlie ~]# rpm -qa | grep mysql mysql-server-5.0.22-1.centos.1 mysql-5.0.22-1.centos.1 mysqlclient10-3.23.58-9.2.c4 php-mysql-5.1.6-1.2.1.centos mysqlclient14-devel-4.1.14-4.2.c4.1 mysqlclient10-devel-3.23.58-9.2.c4 mysqlclient14-4.1.14-4.2.c4.1 postfix-2.2.10-1.RHEL4.2.mysql_pgsql.c4 mysql-devel-5.0.22-1.centos.1 I am unable to compile opendbx, if I issue the command rpmbuild -ta opendbx-1.0.3.tar.gz it fails with the following mesasges checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient_r... no checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no configure: error: mysql library (libmysqlclient) not found error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.40942 (%build) Any ideas why my mysql client libraries can't be found by the various build processes? Thanks. -- "I never look back darling, it distracts from the now", Edna Mode (The Incredibles)

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Limiting files when using rsync
by Todd Cary 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

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 -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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cyrus-sasl errors: SQL engine 'mysql' not supported
by dennis 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Hi, I was wondering if I could get a little help with troubleshooting/configuring the cyrus-sasl package for Centos 4.4 to build properly with mysql support,for my mail server ' not supported myhost postfix/smtpd[3641]: SQL engine 'mysqlJan 21 10:55:27 myhost postfix/smtpd[3641]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available when I put the following in /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf pwcheck_method: auxprop auxprop_plugin: sql sql_engine: mysql sql_hostnames: localhost sql_user: vmail sql_passwd: password sql_database: postfix sql_select: select clear from postfix_users where email='%u@%r' smtpaccess='Y' Hope you can help me,thank you very much. Sincerly' dennis

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Cluster with two i386 pcs!
by israel.garcia＠cimex.com.cu 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

I want to make a cluster with two simple (INTEL SATA) pcs using CentOS, my question is? Is there something easiest than Linux RedHat Cluster Manager to make a cluster using CentOS with just two pcs? Regards, Israel

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Re: [CentOS] Installing 4.4 - problem on 386
by Jussi Hirvi 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

I tried installing with several options (noacpi noapm; noprobe; noprobe skipddc noacpi noapm nodma). Always I get the same error. BUT this is not in fac a CentOS problem at all, because I get the same error always when I boot from hd (Fedora Core), IF there is a CD in the CD-ROM drive. (I tried with CentOS 1/4, CentOS 2/4 and a HP printer software CD.) It must be something with the CD drive! Maybe I just have to try another CD drive. - Jussi H. Mike Fedyk (mfedyk(a)mikefedyk.com) kirjoitteli (18.1.2007 18:23): try booting with "noapm". Jussi Hirvi (greenspot(a)greenspot.fi) kirjoitteli (18.1.2007 14:14): >> Greetings, list! >> >> I get kernel panic while trying to install CentOS 4.4 on an oldish PC. >> >> The machine is P III 500 MHz (this info is displayed at the beginning of >> boot). 256M RAM at the moment (I plan to add more later). I have 386 version >> of the installer. >> >> The boot begins ok - I get the "CentOS" screen (from CD-ROM), and the boot >> process after that begins ok, until... >> >> I hope the following helps you understand the problem: >> >> ------------------- >> >> mounting [etc. etc.] >> running install... >> running /sbin/loader >> >> [After this there is kernel panic with a lot of cryptic texts. Here's some >> that seems to be relevant: ] >> >> Call Trace: >> cdrom_start_packet_command [code...] >> cdrom_timer_expiry [code] >> ide_do_rw_cdrom [code] >> start_rewuest [code] >> ide_do_request [code] >> ide_timer_expiry [code] >> ide_timer_expiry [code] >> run_timer_softirq [code] >> __do_softirq [code] >> do_softirq [code] >> ============== >> do_IRQ [code] >> common_interrupt [code] >> default_idle [code] >> apm_cpu_idle [code] >> cpu_idle [code] >> start_keernel [code] >> Code: [code] >> <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt >> >> ---------------------- >> >> What could I try to get this working? >> >> Thanks, >> Jussi Hirvi >> Helsinki >> >> -- >> Jussi Hirvi * Green Spot >> Topeliuksenkatu 15 C * 00250 Helsinki * Finland >> Tel. & fax +358-9-493 981 >> Mobile +358-40-771 2098 (only text messages) >> jussi.hirvi(a)greenspot.fi * http://www.greenspot.fi/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS(a)centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 23, Issue 6
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 20 Jan '07

20 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. New members of the team (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:33:08 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] New members of the team To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1169289188.5425.3.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I would like to take the time to introduce some new members of the CentOS team. We have added some new team members to better handle / respond to bugs.centos.org issues. They are: Stephen Smoogen (aka smooge on IRC) Matthew Miller Both these guys are regulars on the CentOS lists and are experienced at supporting distros, they will be a great asset for the CentOS Project. Also performing more duties is Ralph Angenendt (aka range on IRC). Ralph is our current wiki master and he has also decided to manage the CentOS mailing lists. We will be setting up and managing some "Alternative Language" lists in the near future (probably German, Spanish and Portuguese to start). We have also added an internal QA team with John Newbigin (CentOS-2 Developer), Ralph Angenendt and Stephen Smoogen to work on CentOS-5 QA. So, not only are we moving forward with CentOS-5 beta, but we are also gaining strength in other areas of the Project too. Thanks to John, Stephen, Matthew and Ralph for their commitment to donate their time and experience to CentOS. We will all be better for it. -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Developer

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Preventing a user from moving "up" directories
by Todd Cary 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

I am in the process of setting up a new server. In the process I cannot remember what I need to set so that an FTP user cannot move upward in the directory tree of the user's directory. The FTP server is VSFTP. The user's directory is owned by the user and the permissions are 775. Isn't there a setting in httpd.conf to prevent that? Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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NFS 64-bit client crash with 32-bit server
by bigendian＠gmail.com 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

I have an unusual scenario where a new 64-bit multi-core Opteron Centos 4.4client crashes when writing a large file on a 32-bit NFS server. The problem happens on the same client with either Centos 4.4 or SuSE 9.3 32-bit NFS servers. Additionally the problem is reproducible with another identical 64-bit Centos 4.4 client. I'm not certain that the problem is tied to a 32-bit (as opposed to 64-bit) NFS server, but it doesn't happen on a local file system. The crash appears to be some sort of kernel panic, but I don't have the details as physical access to the server isn't easy. The crashes seem to happen when creating files over 2GB in size, but there doesn' seem to be a fixed size that triggers the problem. Sometimes I can get file sizes as high as 3GB before the crash, but it's ususally at the 2.3GB to 2.6GB range that it happens. Are there known issues with Centos 4.4 and NFS that I might be running into? Thanks, Tom

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Question with MailScanner?
by Indunil Jayasooriya 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

Hi, I am happily running sendmail with MailScanner on CentOS 4.4. But I have an question. My question is that there are huge number of mails in /var/spool/mqueue.in . Why is that? My hard disk would go to waste. Can I delete them? or are these real mails. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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Install Drupal
by John Jack 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

I want to install Drupal on a linux box. I want to know the steps & procedure to install drupal. Should I start by installing PHP, MySQL and Apache or the other round. John

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FastTrack vnc package
by Josh Kelley 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

The permissions are apparently set incorrectly on the vnc SRPM in the FastTrack repo on mirror; I get "permission denied" when I try to mirror it. Thanks. Josh Kelley

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Problems w/ CentOS 4.4 ....
by William A. Mahaffey III 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

.... I just installed CentOS 4.4 yesterday P.M., on my 2.4 GHz P4 box, Foxconn i865 mbd, 2 GB DDR400 RAM (4 X 512 MB), 1 X 20 GB HDD (hda), 1 X 160 GB HDD (hdb), 1 X LG GSA H22N DVD reader/burner (hdc), 1 X 400 GB HDD (hdd), Coolmax CP500-T PSU. I wiped SuSE 9.2 off of the 20 GB drive & installed CentOS. The other 2 drives were already ext3 FS & will be mounted as /home & /work when I get everything sorted out & going. The install went smoothly, I installed as a server, plus added all of the developement stuff. When I removed the DVD & rebooted, everything was AOK, except that the booted OS apparently didn't see the DVD drive. When I put the DVD back in to add some more software, it never automounted, & I never could get it manually mounted. I pored through dmesg output (& posted to other lists), but no luck. I eventually came up with the following question: Since this is a relatively new burner, could it be that it is unsupported under CentOS 4.4 ? I also googled & searched the archives (manually) this A.M., but no say either way. Sooooooooo: what did I mess up so that CentOS 4.4 can't see the DVD drive that I used to install it :-) ? Thanks in advance for your time. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.

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http://www.net-dns.org/ and perl-Net-DNS-0.48-1 upgrade direction needed
by R Lists06 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Greetings :-) On this particular production centos 4 mail server system if I rpm -qa | grep perl I get... perl-Filter-1.30-6 newt-perl-1.08-7 perl-DateManip-5.42a-3 perl-libwww-perl-5.79-5 perl-XML-Encoding-1.01-26 perl-Time-HiRes-1.55-3 perl-URI-1.30-4 mod_perl-1.99_16-4.centos4 perl-HTML-Tagset-3.03-30 perl-Parse-Yapp-1.05-32 perl-XML-Parser-2.34-5 perl-XML-Dumper-0.71-2 perl-libxml-enno-1.02-31 perl-Digest-SHA1-2.07-5 perl-Net-DNS-0.48-1 <------------- **** perl-DBI-1.40-8 perl-HTML-Parser-3.35-6 perl-libxml-perl-0.07-30 perl-Digest-HMAC-1.01-13 perl-5.8.5-36.RHEL4 right now I am focusing on perl-Net-DNS-0.48-1 and I want to figure out how to migrate to the latest version of Net::DNS on the http://www.net-dns.org/ website or learn if .59 has been rolled into the upstream and therefore to centos 4 or ??? i ask this as I am leary of upgrading production centos servers via CPAN I am looking to list wisdom to get some direction to help solve this one first please. I have researched the basics yet if I may please get a little help to continue going in the right direction I would be most grateful. I am sure I will want to add or upgrade some of the others as well. Ummm much of this is in relation to Spamassassin 3.1.7 issues Please chime in on creating a new RPM or using CPAN and any other ways that you folks are dealing with this pleasae? Thank you and kind regards - rh -- Robert - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net

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Re: [CentOS] Cluster with two i386 pcs!
by israel.garcia＠cimex.com.cu 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

>> John, thanks for your answer, I think I'm looking for a hihg performance >> cluster with two pcs... Apache, Mailscanner/Postfix, mysqld and squid >> are going to run in this cluster.. >> >Each of those apps has its own requirements for a shared workload <cluster. frankly, I have no idea how a squid cluster could or would work. >webservers like apache are most frequently clustered by being put behind >a load balancing router such as BigIP from F5. this is $$$$$$. >mysql has its own clustering support, I'm not very familiar with it. >typically, these require shared storage. >not sure why you'd need to cluster a mail server other than high >availability, this typically requires shared storage for the spool files >and such. >I have no idea how you'd loadbalance cluster a squid cacheing proxy >between two systems with discrete SATA drives. maybe if the squid cache >was stored on a NFS server? >frankly, with that workload, and the hardware resources you described, >you'd probably get the best performance by balancing the applications >across the two systems. whichever app requires the most resource, put >it on one, put the rest on the other. if the 'other' is overloaded, >move another task to the first. John, I'm reading now some stuff of clustering from internet, thanks for your opinion, let me ask you, (maybe a stupid question), which are the common applications used on cluster's systems? Web? Regards, Israel

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 23, Issue 5
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 19 Jan '07

19 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-2007:0013-01: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 kernel security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:58:19 +1100 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0013-01: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 kernel security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <45B041DB.5030908(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHSA-2007:0013-01 Moderate: kernel security update Files available: kernel-BOOT-2.4.9-e.71.i386.rpm kernel-doc-2.4.9-e.71.i386.rpm kernel-headers-2.4.9-e.71.i386.rpm kernel-source-2.4.9-e.71.i386.rpm kernel-2.4.9-e.71.i686.rpm kernel-debug-2.4.9-e.71.i686.rpm kernel-enterprise-2.4.9-e.71.i686.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.9-e.71.i686.rpm kernel-summit-2.4.9-e.71.i686.rpm kernel-2.4.9-e.71.athlon.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.9-e.71.athlon.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 23, Issue 5 **********************************************

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