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Possible to change mouse sensitivity?
by Linus Hicks 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

Ever since I replaced the mouse that came with one of my computers with a Logitech MX1000, I have noticed that I have difficulty with accurately making small movements with the pointer in X because it moves so fast. I have played around with the mouse preferences, and using 'xset m', but neither one gives me what I want. When I do 'xset m 1/4 1' I get about what I consider to be a normal/usable speed for the mouse when I need to do precise pointing. Of course, that setting eliminates the possibility of getting the pointer across the screen with a flick of the wrist. Most of the articles I have found related to this problem have been about having entries in the XFree86 or xorg config file for two different mouse device names that are actually the same device, and I don't. I have also seen references to psmouse_resolution and psmouse_rate but when I give either of these as a parameter to the kernel, it says they are obsolete and ignores them. My understanding is this mouse is not well supported in xorg until 6.8.3, but I'm still wondering if there is some way to get the kernel to slow it down. Does anybody know of a way to do that, so I can get back the mouse acceleration on fast movements? Oh, by the way, I should probably mention this mouse is on a KVM. I don't know if that could be interfering with the detection algorithm. Thanks for your help. Linus

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Help with some screen command
by Erick Perez 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

Hi, I want to connect to my server, run screen as root and then let another person log in a root also and let him run screen and attach to mine so he can "see" what im doing on the server. I haven't played with screen a lot but it seems a nice feature to teach him how to configure certain things. Sorry for the newbie question. thanks, -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez ------------------------------------------------------------

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Mainpine OCTO+ and CentOS v4
by John Warren 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

I've been having a problem with getting a Mainpine OCTO+ working on CentOS Version 4. I know at some point I'll have to recompile the kernel in order to access all 8 ports but something is still not right. Wvdialconf almost every will id all of the ports. All too often it can fine the modem on at least half the ports on the board. I'm starting to hear that something is not right on V4 when using the mainpine. System config: Dell 2650 dual Xeon with 2GB ram. Has anyone setup a OCTO+ on V4 yet? Thanks John Warren Network Operations Administrator Prudent Rx Inc. 100 Corporate Pointe, Suite 395 Culver City, CA 90230 P: +1 (310)642-1700 x121 F: +1 (310)642-1701 e: jwarren(a)prudentrx.com **Notice of Confidentiality** Please note that the information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure under the law, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited and may subject you to criminal or civil penalties. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by replying to the message and delete the material from any computer. Thank you, Prudent Rx, Inc.

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providing drivers at boot time for SATA
by Jerry Geis 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

I just got a motherboard with the nforce4 chipset. Apparantly the PCI'ids changed for the SATA and the drivers are not loaded or found at install time. What can I do to provide them? I am using CentOS 4.3. Will those new changes to 4.4 handle this? Thanks Jerry

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Problems with installing perl-Gtk2 from kbsingh repros
by Robert Moskowitz 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

I need perl-Gtk2 for TinyCA2. I find it on centos.karan.org After many misteps, I add bout kbsingh-Centos-Extras.repro and kbsingh-Centos-Misc.repro to /etc/yum.repro.d I do a yum install perl-Glib and it finally goes, adding perl-ExtUtils and warning me about user mockbuild does not exist. Then I try install perl-Gtk2 and it fails: yum install perl-Gtk2 Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package perl-Gtk2.i386 0:1.083-1.el4.kb set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: perl-Glib >= 1.082 for package: perl-Gtk2 --> Processing Dependency: perl(Glib) for package: perl-Gtk2 --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: perl-Glib >= 1.082 is needed by package perl-Gtk2 Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Glib) is needed by package perl-Gtk2 It seems that Gtk2 needs a newer Glib. Where do I get it, or how do I fix this? And after I get this I get to build TinyCA. A test that I got that lesson down....

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Kernel build on i386 and nohighmem forbidden?
by Linus Hicks 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

I looked in the release notes, but maybe I missed it. Is it not possible to build a kernel from CentOS 4.3 (using 2.6.9-34.0.1) with HIGHMEM support turned off? This is for a machine with 512mb. When I try to build the kernel, I get _etext undefined symbol on line 100 of pageattr.c in arch/i386/mm. Linus

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CO 4.3 + SATA + udev removing /dev/sda
by Oliver Schulze L. 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hi, I just installed CentOS 4.3 on a PATA drive and later installed 2 SATA2 (300mbit/s) disk drives. The patched sata_via driver detect the drives and I can use them, but only if I manually create the /dev/sda and /dev/sdb files using mknod. My question is: why udev does not create /dev/sda at boot time? Many thanks Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. <oliver(a)samera.com.py>

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RE: [CentOS] LVM repairing or back to regular ext3?
by Plant, Dean 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Paul wrote: > Can anyone point me in the right direction for correcting errors on > an HD when using LVM? I've tried e2fsck and indicates bad block. > I've tried with -b 8193, 16384, and 32768 and no good. > > I've found some info about reiserfsck on google, but this utility > doesn't seem to be included in Centos4.3. I did find it on my old > FC1 box. > > I am thinking now I really should have went with just regular 83 Linux > ext3 partitions. Arrgghhh. > > And if I want to switch to 83 Linux instead of 8e LVM, whats the best > way, or at least a feasible way? I can pop another drive in if I > need to move data around, but I don't see how, as I can't mount the > LVM partition (hda2). > As the previous poster advised, this is probably a hardware fault but for your reference I used the same instructions from this post to fix a corrupt filesystem within LVM. http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/EXT3-filesystem-recovery-in-LVM2.html Use a Centos rescue disk 1) Do startup network interfaces 2) Don't try to automatically mount the filesystems - not even readonly 3) lvm vgchange --ignorelockingfailure -P -a y 4) fdisk -l, and guess which partition is which based on size: the small one was /boot, and the large one was / 5) mkdir /mnt/boot 6) mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/boot 7) Look up the device node for the root filesystem in /mnt/boot/grub/grub.conf 8) A first tentative step, to see if things are working: fsck -n /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 9) Dive in: fsck -f -y /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 10) Wait a while... Be patient. Don't interrupt it 11) Reboot Dean.

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installing wireless card
by Steven Vishoot 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

hello, i am trying to install my wireless card ipw3945 (intel pro wireless abg). i have found the three files ipw3945d, ipw3945-firmware and the ipw3945-kmod from Dags site, but when i tried to install the ipw3945-kmod it says it needs kmod-ipw3945 0.0.73. where can i find it? will this work for my wireless card. i am running Centos 4.3 on a hp dv8000t and this is something i would like to see if it will work. TIA Steven "On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows or better'. So I installed Linux."

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Installer ISO with testing kernel?
by Bart Schaefer 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

We're trying to install CentOS 4 on an ASUS P5RD1-VM motherboard, which has the ULI M1573 chipset. This means we need the sata_uli driver, which will be in RHEL4u4 and thus is (I think) in the testing kernel currently available from CentOS. However, that doesn't get us past the fact that the installer doesn't recognize the drives. Does anyone have a recommendation for how we can get this install to work? Can we somehow build an ISO containing the testing kernels? Any other suggestions for how we might get CentOS up and running on this machine before the release of 4.4?

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Vnc Problems
by Mace Eliason 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi I have a Centos server running and have been vncing into it for a couple of months. A while back I was admining another server thru it using firefox. The browser crashed and several services crashed in Centos as well. Ever since then I get the bottom menu in Gnome but none of the open programs show up in it. So If I minimize a program it is gone, and I can't open it again from the desktop. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can fix this. Thanks Mace

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unable to write files bigger than 4GB over NFS
by Tony Schreiner 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

This may not be a CentOS problem, because I'm in a mixed environment. But I put it out in case anybody has any thoughts. I recently replaced a file server, which was on a Pentium III based system running 32-bit CentOS 4.3, with an Opteron based system running Fedora 4. The NFS clients are all CentOS 4.3, some are 32 bit and some are 64 bit. Since the replacement, when I try to write a big file from the 32bit CentOS boxes over NFS to the server, I get "filesize exceed messages" at 2GB. However this used to work with the old server. And I can write big files if I'm logged on to the server. One more oddity, the shared file system on the server is xfs formatted; if I instead mount a reiserfs file system I can successfully write. This part does not make sense to me. And one more, I can write large files from a 32-bit Fedora 4 system to the server over NFS, just not from 32-bit CentOS. I'm exporting with (rw,async) and mounting with (bg,rsize=8192,wsize=8192) Is there some interaction between nfs and xfs that I need to know about? Thanks, Tony Schreiner Boston College

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Syslog
by Sam Drinkard 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Something has killed any writes to /var/log/messages. Syslogd is running. Has been off for some time and I just discovered it. Any hints as to what / where to look since syslogd is running? Sam -- Sam W.Drinkard -- sam(a)wa4phy.net NOAA Cooperative Observer KAGS (snow) http://wa4phy.net Augusta Area Mesonet

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Core Duo Mac Mini + CentOS? Anyone tried yet?
by Chris Mauritz 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Seems like a nice lightweight server platform for non-disk-intensive apps. Cheers,

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RE: [CentOS] Syslog
by Alex Palenschat 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

> No joy. Q. I see a process called "klogd" is running a > different pid > from syslogd. I don't ever recall seeing something as klogd > before?? I > got a sneaking suspicion I stopped something, but if I only knew what > besides syslogd was required. Portmap does not apparently need to be > running, as nothing still has been written to the log file, > and a reboot > did not help. Rats..... > I know this won't help you now, but dconf is a great tool for dealing with exactly this type of situation. I have it configured to send an email every day from each server which tells me every config file that gets edited that day. Go back to the day something stopped working and voila. Hope you can figure your problem out. Alex Palenschat

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If Trying to Recover a Damaged Partition: kbs-CentOS-Extras Has a Tool
by William L. Maltby 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Recently (and for ages, I'm sure) folks have suffered partition destruction and had to try and recover. In the recent thread, the victim eventually had to resort to Google and fond some package that I can not remember now. Well, I was perusing my YumInfo.lst.05, for general info, and I discovered this (potential) little gem. Thought I would pass it on and make it "more googleable" by adding a few keywords at the end of this. Here's the info summary. Name : testdisk Arch : i386 Version: 6.3 Release: 1.el4.kb Size : 480 k Repo : kbs-CentOS-Extras Summary: Tool to check and undelete partition Description: Tool to check and undelete partition. Works with FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, BeFS, CramFS, HFS, JFS, Linux Raid, Linux Swap, LVM, LVM2, NSS, ReiserFS, UFS, XFS I hope it actually "looks for file-system key stuff" instead of just examining the damaged blocks (often just missing the 0x05 (?) valid flag). If so, it looks "Mahvelous Dahling!" to me. We just need to get some time to exercise this, create some test cases and find out how really good it is. As time permits, I'll do some of that, as I'm reconfig bunch of stuff all the time and have some old small disks (and systems to match that I can resurrect... Windows95 from Genuine floppies anybody?) and the interest. I'll add to this thread as things are discovered. Anyone who has done this already, or has firsthand experience, can allow me to continue my on-going learning of new stuff by reporting on this package so I don't invest the time to evaluate this properly. This is just a bunch of searchable words, feel free to augment as appropriate in your POV. MBR, master, boot, recover, restore, lost, damaged, unerase. -- Bill

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Ant
by Jason Bradley Nance 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Does anyone know what happened to Ant in RHEL4? j

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AGI-PHP
by CISCO - Kameko 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

What command should I use to install agi-php on CentOS. I need it to run a2billing software for asterisk. Regards, SOUZA SIMBOTA KAMEKO TECHNOLOGIES P.O. BOX 1303, BLANTYRE TEL: +265 1 871 000 / +265 1 877 000 FAX: +265 1 871 951 EMAIL: cisco(a)kameko.mw

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e1000 nic problem
by Geert Batsleer 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Hi, I've been experiencing occassional network time-outs with the Intel Gigabit nic's (e1000) in Poweredge systems. I'm not sure if it's a hard or software problem but it occurs on different systems with Centos 4.2 and 4.3 and was wondering if there' s a workaround available like compiling an updated e1000 module or something. kind regards, Geert

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Bulletin Board for CentOS
by Francois Caen 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Hello, I'm looking for a simple web-based forum for Centos 3.x or 4.x. I've used phpBB before, it was a sysadmin's nightmare :-( This time I want something - that doesn't need a security patch every other week - that ships in a nice RPM so I can patch/upgrade easily Any suggestions, free or commercial? Thanks, -- Francois Caen, RHCE, CCNA SpiderMaker, LLC

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ssh session output stalls
by Larry Vaden 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hello, Is anyone else having problems with the ssh session output stalling when ssh'd to another system and the command is running via sudo and a pager is being used (e.g., more)? Too highly reproducible :( to date, all known occurrences have involved Centos 4.3 servers; makes no difference whether client is RHEL WS 4.3, Centos 4.3 or FC 5 or WinDoze. Makes no difference if terminal emulator is Gnome's stock issue or Konsole or Putty. Not sure about SecureCRT. Sometimes one can break loose the logjam; if so: . terminal prompts are stacked left to right vs. vertically . keyboard input is not echo'd . in this event, terminal clear/reset doesn't end if so. Any thoughts? rgds/ldv [vaden@mx1 ~]$ ps auxw | grep -i pts/0 vaden 2475 0.0 0.1 37444 3064 ? S 04:53 0:00 sshd: vaden@pts/0 vaden 2476 0.0 0.0 53964 1480 pts/0 Ss 04:53 0:00 -bash root 2511 0.0 0.0 71284 1312 pts/0 S 04:53 0:00 su - root 2512 0.0 0.0 53968 1492 pts/0 S 04:53 0:00 -bash root 3426 0.0 0.0 2376 288 pts/0 S+ 13:57 0:00 sesh /bin/grep -i unknown /var/log/maillog root 3427 0.1 0.0 51128 784 pts/0 S+ 13:57 0:00 /bin/grep -i unknown /var/log/maillog vaden 3434 0.0 0.0 51072 540 pts/1 R+ 13:58 0:00 grep -i pts/0

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RE: [CentOS] Installing TOO USB Drive
by Mark Schoonover 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Mike wrote: > Eric Davis wrote: > Here is an option, > > Use VMware workstation and point the New Virtual Machine Wizard > to a folder on your external USB drive. Install CentOS there. Be sure > to select Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 so the proper drivers will be > loaded. This will allow your XP system to stay intact and allow you > to run CentOS at the same time. I do this with my Latitude and it > still runs quite fast! This doesn't directly solve your problem but > is an option. > > Eric D > > > On 6/24/06, Phil Schaffner <P.R.Schaffner(a)ieee.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 03:01 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> Mike wrote: >>> Greetings CentOS Fans. >>> >>> I'm working on an Inspiron 9400 Laptop. It supports booting from >>> USB devices, so I'd like to install CentOS on a USB hard drive as >>> an alternative to XP. >>> >> >> this might not help you, but just so you know - CentOS-4 does not >> support installing to or booting from usb drives. You might still be >> able to do it using some trick or the other, but officially its not >> supported. > > Haven't gotten around to trying the CentOS Live CD yet. Does it > support > customization on a USB key (like Knoppix)? > > LiveCD+USB key might serve the OP's purpose as an XP alternative. > (Or - > my preference - just shrink the XP partition and dual-boot if that is > an > option for you [e.g. not somebody else's laptop].) > > Phil > > That's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure I want to fork out $200 > for vmware workstation. Do you know if vmware player would be > sufficient? > > I'm also wondering, if vmware is installed does it add yet another > constant process even when "not" in use? This machine gets heavily > loaded with video editing, music recording and of course gaming... You don't have to purchase VMware W/S, you can download VMware server, create what you need, then convert it to work on VMware player... HTH Mark

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/bin/tar bug
by Paul Griffith 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

It like we may have a bug in tar that ships with Centos. It looks like -o is mapped to --same-owner. Some basic info.... uname -a Linux jazzy 2.6.9-34.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed May 24 08:14:29 CDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.3 (Final) % /bin/tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.14 --same-owner try extracting files with the same ownership --no-same-owner extract files as yourself Compatibility options: -o when creating, same as --old-archive when extracting, same as --no-same-owner and Now a test! #goto tmp dir cd /tmp #become root su - root #create three test files touch afile bfile cfile #verify ownership ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 26 11:16 afile -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 26 11:16 bfile -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 26 11:16 cfile #create a tar archive tar zcvf testoh.tgz afile bfile cfil #become regular user tar -zxof testoh.tgz tar: afile: Cannot change ownership to uid 0, gid 0: Operation not ermitted tar: bfile: Cannot change ownership to uid 0, gid 0: Operation not ermitted tar: cfile: Cannot change ownership to uid 0, gid 0: Operation not ermitted tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors This error should not happen! tar --no-same-owner -zxf testoh.tgz jazzy 328 % ls -l total 4 -rw------- 1 paulg tech 0 Jun 26 11:16 afile -rw------- 1 paulg tech 0 Jun 26 11:16 bfile -rw------- 1 paulg tech 0 Jun 26 11:16 cfile -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 125 Jun 26 11:17 testoh.tgz This works but according to the manpages -o should also work! It looks like -o is mapped to --same-owner jazzy 329 % tar --same-owner -zxf testoh.tgz tar: afile: Cannot change ownership to uid 0, gid 0: Operation not ermitted tar: bfile: Cannot change ownership to uid 0, gid 0: Operation not ermitted tar: cfile: Cannot change ownership to uid 0, gid 0: Operation not ermitted tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Thanks Paul

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RE: [CentOS] DRBD module for latest kernel
by Nielsen, Steve 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Doh. Thanks. Steve -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Will McDonald Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 10:56 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] DRBD module for latest kernel On 26/06/06, Nielsen, Steve <SNielsen(a)comscore.com> wrote: > Will there be a matching DRBD kernel module package for the latest > kernel that is in the updates repository? > > The kernel version in the updates is: > kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.i686.rpm but I don't see a matching DRBD > module in updates. Looks like they're all there in the Extras repository... http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/4/extras/i386/RPMS/ [wmcdonald@archive RPMS]$ pwd /repos/centos/4/extras/i386/RPMS [wmcdonald@archive RPMS]$ ls kernel-module-drbd* | grep 34.0.1 kernel-module-drbd-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL-0.7.17-1.c4.i686.rpm kernel-module-drbd-2.6.9-34.0.1.ELhugemem-0.7.17-1.c4.i686.rpm kernel-module-drbd-2.6.9-34.0.1.ELsmp-0.7.17-1.c4.i686.rpm Will. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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DRBD module for latest kernel
by Nielsen, Steve 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Will there be a matching DRBD kernel module package for the latest kernel that is in the updates repository? The kernel version in the updates is: kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.i686.rpm but I don't see a matching DRBD module in updates. Thanks, Steve

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How do you set the refresh frequency for the X server?
by Alfred von Campe 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

During the kickstart installation of the CentOS 4.3 systems I recently built, anaconda probed for the video card (Intel 945) and monitor (NEC MultiSync 2070NX). The optimal setting for this monitor is 1600x1200 @ 60Hz. The X server is configured to use 1600x1200, but it is using a higher refresh rate, which causes the monitor to display an error message, and it also locks you out of the on-screen- menu. How do you translate a 60Hz refresh frequency into the appropriate horizontal sync and vertical refresh frequencies in the xorg.conf file? I can't find anything to change in system-config- display. Any suggestions? Thanks, Alfred

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Logos on free distribution presentation
by Alain Reguera 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hello, I want to present CentOS in my LUG. I am thinking in make a translation (to Spanish) of some of the topics on the CentOS official web site (like About, Purpose, ...), some of the wiki (for the history), the Johnny's article on the linux-magazine's issue#65, and the statistics posted by Johnny some time ago. References will be included too. Now get 2 questions for you guys: 1. Would I use the CentOS logo for this, just to put it on the very top of the document?. This document will be totally free and will be archived in the LUG classroom for other peoples and students to read it and for freely distribution of it too, after the presentation. Just a little of promotion to the very great job. 2. If so, where would I download an appropriate one? I've read the "Are there any requirements on the use of CentOS Logos and artwork?" post in the web site faq section and want to be sure that what I'm doing goes in the right way. I will appreciate any suggestion and topics that you think I would add to the presentation. My Best Regards, Al.

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clock goes MUCH faster than normal on dual-core (solution)
by Chris Mauritz 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Just in case anyone else gets bitten, I noticed that a bunch of my dual core opteron machines were losing time sync pretty fast (gaining a few days every few days...heh). I searched back on the list and found some messages about passing a clock parameter in grub.conf. The following worked for me: clock=pmtmr These are systems using the Supermicro H8SLL-i boards and Opteron 175-185 cpus and running CentOS 4.3. Cheers,

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CentOS-4.4 - Some major changes on the way
by Johnny Hughes 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

I would like to take the time to inform people that CentOS-4.4 will contain some major changes. The changes are significant enough that I would like to spell out some of them now, probably at least a month before the release of the upstream "EL4 update 4" is released. The Mozilla Suite (Browser, Mail, Chat clients) will be replaced by SeaMonkey. This is due to Mozilla's change in policy and support for older versions. The Firefox 1.0.x (currently 1.0.8) web browser will be replaced by Firefox 1.5.x (currently 1.5.0.3). We currently have a version of Firefox 1.5.x in the CentOSPlus repo. That version will be replaced by the EL4 version after some more testing ... and the new version will be rolled into CentOS-4.4 in the Base repository when CentOS-4.4 is released. The Thunderbird 1.0.x (currently 1.0.8) will be upgraded to Thunderbird 1.5.x (currently 1.5.0.2). The OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 will be replaced by OpenOffice 1.1.5. This allows better sharing of files between OpenOffice.org 2.0 and CentOS clients. ------------------------------- All these changes will be implemented upstream and rolled out in the released source code, so they will be incorporated into CentOS as well. We will fully test these packages prior to release of the CentOS-4.4 ISOs, however these changes are fairly substantial. I would also like to remind people who are more cautious that CentOS has a vault that will contain CentOS-4.3 after we shift the main mirrors to CentOS-4.4. The vault is available at: http://vault.centos.org/ I am not suggesting that people don't upgrade (as security updates would require one to maintain the current version), but I am just providing information so that if the updates break something, you can easily get back to a known previous version. We have not had any problems so far with the new packages in our testing, and they will be deemed STABLE by upstream when they are released, however these changes are by far the most significant since the release of CentOS-4 and I think they deserve some special attention. Thanks, Johnny Hughes CentOS-4 Lead Developer

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 16, Issue 9
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

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. EOL notfication for CentOS-4/axp (alpha) (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:55:59 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] EOL notfication for CentOS-4/axp (alpha) To: centos-announce(a)centos.org, centos-devel(a)centos.org, centos(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20060625105559.GZ14498(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, Unless someone else does pick it up for keeping it up, i'll stop maintaining it at end of August 2006. Until then it's only security maintained and no enhancements are made. I don't get into details behind this as it would just make things look too ugly. I honestly hate that i have to do this, i really do. -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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EOL notfication for CentOS-4/axp (alpha)
by Pasi Pirhonen 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Hi, Unless someone else does pick it up for keeping it up, i'll stop maintaining it at end of August 2006. Until then it's only security maintained and no enhancements are made. I don't get into details behind this as it would just make things look too ugly. I honestly hate that i have to do this, i really do. -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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DRBD Problem
by centos＠bathnetworks.com 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Hi all, I've been wrestling with a problem with drdb and centos. I have successfully created one drbd resource, but when I try the create a 2nd, I get an error on one of the nodes: Lower device is already mounted. Command 'drbdsetup /dev/drbd1 disk /dev/hdd1 internal -1' terminated with exit code 20 The partition is not mounted from fstab etc and is newly created with parted after wiping this disk with dd. On the node with the problem I see: cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 3 0 60034968 hda 3 1 514048 hda1 3 2 1534207 hda2 3 3 57986617 hda3 22 0 120060864 hdc 22 1 114688003 hdc1 22 64 117220824 hdd 22 65 114688003 hdd1 253 0 117219800 dm-0 253 1 114688003 dm-1 147 0 114556928 drbd0 On the other node the dm-0 and dm-1 do not occur. Being new to Linux, I am not sure where these come from. I have tried google, but nothing makes sense. This maybe a red herring, but dm-1 has the same number of blocks as hdd1 which I am trying to mount so I'm guessing that this is the cause of the problem. As I have tried changing every thing I can except the mb/processor and reinstalling, I'm really stuck. HELP Please. Rob

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Evolution bug in CentOS 4.3
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

Hi Everyone, A client has an email in Evolution with an attachment: CNH_Specialized_Bid_Letter_Web_Ex_#1.doc When the file is opened directly from Evolution, OOo Writer complains: /home/rob/.evolution/cache/tmp/evolution-tmp-inF1Pe/CNH_Specialized_Bid_Letter_Web_Ex_ does not exist. But, the user's Evolution temp cache has a copy of the file: -rw-rw---- 1 rob rob 30208 Jun 23 00:43 CNH_Specialized_Bid_Letter_Web_Ex_#1.doc This problem appears to be similar to this bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341482 It's not exactly the same: the effect is, though. I want to see if the posted patch will work. But, I'm also wondering if this is on the upstream distro's radar for U4. I search their bugzilla - didn't find anything. Anyone else run into this? Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.16-1.2115_FC4 i686 GNU/Linux 10:28:54 up 3:58, 3 users, load average: 0.69, 0.66, 0.46

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command to echo size of images
by Jerry Geis 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

All, Is there a command line program in centos to echo back the size of an image (gif,jpg,png)? I did see that file image.jpg sometimes works but reports the wrong image size. I see xview image.jpg reports the correct size but I dont want to see the image just get its size. Thanks for any suggestions. Jerry

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Need help configuring additional serial ports
by Alfred von Campe 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

I installed a 2 port serial PCI card on a system running CentOS 4.3, but I can't get the additional serial ports to work. The card I used is from StarTech (http://www.startech.com/Product/ItemDetail.aspx? productid=PCI2S550&c=US). When it is detected by kudzu, it shows up as a "NetMos Technologies PCI 9835 Multi I/O Controller". I've included the output of "lspci" and "cat /proc/pci" below. The (very sparse) instructions for Linux support for this card state that you should look for the string "serial port x" in the contents of /proc/pci, and then use that information with the setserial command to configure the port as follows: # setserial /dev/ttyS2 port 0xc000 uart 16550 irq 11 baud_base 115200 The problem is that I can't find the equivalent of the "0xc000" and the IRQ on my system in the contents of /proc/pci. Here is what the built-in, working serial port looks like: # setserial -a /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 500, divisor: 0 closing_wait: 30000 Flags: spd_normal skip_test auto_irq Any ideas how to get these serial ports working? Thanks, Alfred # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 03) 0a:0a.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01) # cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Class 0600: PCI device 8086:2770 (rev 2). Bus 0, device 2, function 0: Class 0300: PCI device 8086:2772 (rev 2). IRQ 5. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0100000 [0xd017ffff]. I/O at 0x30c0 [0x30c7]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xc0000000 [0xcfffffff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0180000 [0xd01bffff]. Bus 0, device 2, function 1: Class 0380: PCI device 8086:2776 (rev 2). Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0200000 [0xd027ffff]. Bus 0, device 27, function 0: Class 0403: PCI device 8086:27d8 (rev 1). IRQ 11. Non-prefetchable 64 bit memory at 0xd01c0000 [0xd01c3fff]. Bus 0, device 28, function 0: Class 0604: PCI device 8086:27d0 (rev 1). IRQ 10. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=4. Bus 0, device 28, function 1: Class 0604: PCI device 8086:27d2 (rev 1). IRQ 5. Bus 0, device 29, function 0: Class 0c03: PCI device 8086:27c8 (rev 1). IRQ 11. I/O at 0x3000 [0x301f]. Bus 0, device 29, function 1: Class 0c03: PCI device 8086:27c9 (rev 1). IRQ 9. I/O at 0x3020 [0x303f]. Bus 0, device 29, function 2: Class 0c03: PCI device 8086:27ca (rev 1). IRQ 11. I/O at 0x3040 [0x305f]. Bus 0, device 29, function 3: Class 0c03: PCI device 8086:27cb (rev 1). IRQ 5. I/O at 0x3060 [0x307f]. Bus 0, device 29, function 7: Class 0c03: PCI device 8086:27cc (rev 1). IRQ 11. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd03c4000 [0xd03c43ff]. Bus 0, device 30, function 0: Class 0604: PCI device 8086:244e (rev 225). Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=4. Bus 0, device 31, function 0: Class 0601: PCI device 8086:27b8 (rev 1). Bus 0, device 31, function 2: Class 0101: PCI device 8086:27c0 (rev 1). IRQ 9. I/O at 0x30b0 [0x30bf]. Bus 0, device 31, function 3: Class 0c05: PCI device 8086:27da (rev 1). IRQ 9. I/O at 0x3080 [0x309f]. Bus 2, device 0, function 0: Class 0200: PCI device 8086:108c (rev 3). IRQ 5. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0080000 [0xd009ffff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd007ffff]. I/O at 0x4000 [0x401f]. Bus 10, device 10, function 0: Class 0700: PCI device 9710:9835 (rev 1). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0x5030 [0x5037]. I/O at 0x5028 [0x502f]. I/O at 0x5020 [0x5027]. I/O at 0x5018 [0x501f]. I/O at 0x5010 [0x5017]. I/O at 0x5000 [0x500f].

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Installing from a usb drive
by Emmanuel Seyman 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Hi, all. We've make custom isos of CentOS and having trouble during the installation. Here's what we did : Add our rpms to CentOS/RPMS Add a folder of scripts and two kickstart files to the base directory run "pkgorder /path/to/base i386 CentOS > /tmp/foo.txt" run "genhdlist --fileorder /tmp/foo.txt /path/to/base" rerun the pkgorder command Add a custom group to CentOS/base/comps.xml run "buildinstall --pkgorder /tmp/foo.txt --version 4.2 --product "CentOS" --release "BAR_V1" --discs "BAR" --prodpath CentOS --comp BARv1 /path/to/base" change isolinux/isolinux.cfg to add two labels, one for each ks file run "mkisofs -o foobar.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -R -J -v /path/to/base" to generate the DVD iso. This iso works fine when we burn it to dvd and install from it but when we boot from DVD and select the kickstart file that installs from a USB drive, we get the following error : "trying to mount already-mounted image!" Could anybody explain why ? Emmanuel

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Bricolage in a repository
by Keith Morse 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Just wondering if any folks have seen this in a repository with it's myriad of perl dependencies.

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Hosed CPAN installation on CNT4.x
by Ed Morrison 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Hi: I've hosed my CPAN installation and need to get CPAN.pm back. What do I need to install via yum to get it back? I have tried: yum -y install perl-libwww-perl yum -y install Omni-foomatic perl-XML-Parser system-config-printer system-config-printer-gui perl-libxml-perl foomatic perl-libxml-enno perl-XML-Dumper perl-XML-Encoding Without success. Thanks Ed

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x86 uniprocessor 4GB memory
by Bruno Sousa 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Hi there, I'm currently using CentOS 4.3 (Server edition) in a HP DC 5100 with the IntelR 915GV chipset, powered by a PIV 3.0GHZ. Now I'm facing a problem, with memory. I got myself 4GB of memory, the system bios detects it correctly, but in Linux can only see around 3.5gb memory. With the default kernel-smp (I use hyperthread) or with kernel-hugemem , I have the same results. Is there any way to workaround this issue? Thanks in advance, Bruno Sousa

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Squirrel mail search tool fails
by Paul 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

When I do a search in squirrelmail, it will start giving several results, but then fails. I use squirrelmail via https. maillog reveils: file message-body-search.c: line 391 (message_body_search_ctx): assertion failed: (input->v_offset <= part->physical_pos) Squirrel mail browser interface reveils: ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server. Query: SEARCH CHARSET UTF-8 ALL TEXT {4} "text" Current versions (all up to date) squirrelmail-1.4.6-5.el4.centos4 dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 openssh-server-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.12 Can someone point me in a direction? I just cut-over to CentOS4.3 (fresh install) from FC1 and this is the first bug which I have never seen before. Thanks. -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^| || \ | Budvar ######|| ||'|"\,__. | _..._...______ ===|=||_|__|...] "(@)'(@)""""**|(@)(@)*****(@)I

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RE: [CentOS] x86 uniprocessor 4GB memory (fwd)
by Maciej Żenczykowski 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

If you have an AGP video card which you aren't actually using you can try selecting the minimum possible AGP apperture (window whatever) size (possibly even disable it?). This might help. Also removing the AGP card and using a junk 1-8MB svga card will also possibly work. In my experience the linear framebuffer of video cards is by far the greatest memory hog these days. Cheers, MaZe. On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Bruno Sousa wrote: > Hi there, > > It seems like the bios of this machine doesn't have any type of > configuration regarding the memory mapping. > I'm already using the kernel-hugemem , but the problem remains. > What else can be done? > > By the way, if the machine had more than one cpu, the problem would remain? > > Best regards, > Bruno Sousa > > -----Mensagem original----- > De: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] Em nome de > James Pearson > Enviada: quinta-feira, 22 de Junho de 2006 15:54 > Para: CentOS mailing list > Assunto: Re: [CentOS] x86 uniprocessor 4GB memory > > Bruno Sousa wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I'm currently using CentOS 4.3 (Server edition) in a HP DC 5100 with the >> IntelR 915GV chipset, powered by a PIV 3.0GHZ. >> >> Now I'm facing a problem, with memory. >> >> I got myself 4GB of memory, the system bios detects it correctly, but in >> Linux can only see around 3.5gb memory. With the default kernel-smp (I use >> hyperthread) or with kernel-hugemem , I have the same results. >> >> Is there any way to workaround this issue? > > It is probably the 4Gb memory hole issue - various 'things' reserve > memory below 4GB so hiding the real memory from the OS. > > Your BIOS may have a mapping option to map some of this hidden real > memory to above 4Gb - however, you need to use a hugemem kernel to > access this memory. > > James Pearson > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > >

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OT -- BASH
by Robert 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Can someone explain why this: find . -depth -print0 | cpio --null -pmd /tmp/test will copy all files in and below the current directory -and- this: find . -depth -print | grep -v .iso$ | wc -l will count all the non-iso files -and- this: find . -depth -print | grep .iso$ | wc -l will count *only* the iso files -but- this: find . -depth -print0 | grep -v .iso$ | cpio --null -pmd /tmp/test doesn't copy *anything*? Any suggestions for a work-around would also be most welcome.

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Building Mail Server, Need Advice
by Ajay Sharma 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hello, We're getting around to upgrading our mail server and here are the quick specs: MegaRAID SCSI 320-2X http://www.lsilogic.com/products/megaraid/scsi_320_2x.html TYAN Transport TA26 B2882T26U8H 2U Barebone Server-Rackmount - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16856152007 plus RAM, CPU and 4 SCSI drives setup in a RAID-5 Is that MegaRAID controller supported in CentOS4.3 out of the box? I really don't want to muck around with driver disks and the like. Anyone else have suggestions? Thanks, Ajay -- Satyajot (Ajay) Sharma REVShare System Administrator

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HP DL360, tg3 driver, bonding and link flapping
by Michael Grinnell 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hi *, I'm running into a problem configuring bonding on an HP DL 360 G4p, running 4.3 + tg3 driver version 3.43f. I'm connecting eth0 and eth1 to a Cisco 2948 (CatOS 8.1(3)) and receiving flapping notices. The ethernet address is that of the primary interface. I have tried several different modes, including balance-rr (0), active-backup (1), and balance-alb (6). All have the same problem. More detailed info follows. 2.6.9-34.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Mar 8 00:27:03 CST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/ Linux [root@centos-test ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0 DEVICE=bond0 IPADDR=192.168.100.71 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.100.0 BROADCAST=192.168.100.255 GATEWAY=192.168.100.1 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=none USERCTL=no [root@centos-test ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 USERCTL=no ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes BOOTPROTO=none [root@centos-test ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 DEVICE=eth1 USERCTL=no ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes BOOTPROTO=none [root@centos-test~]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf alias eth0 tg3 alias eth1 tg3 alias bond0 bonding options bond0 mode=0 miimon=100 alias scsi_hostadapter cciss alias usb-controller ohci-hcd [root@centos-test ~]# modinfo tg3 filename: /lib/modules/2.6.9-34.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/net/tg3.ko author: David S. Miller (davem(a)redhat.com) and Jeff Garzik (jgarzik(a)pobox.com) description: Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet driver license: GPL version: 3.43f 7AC5B2FE640CA3E42CEB7C1 parm: tg3_debug:Tigon3 bitmapped debugging message enable value vermagic: 2.6.9-34.ELsmp SMP 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4 Port Name Status Vlan Level Duplex Speed Type ----- ------------------ ---------- ---------- ------ ------ ----- ------------ 2/11 Port 11 connected 256 normal a-full a-100 10/100BaseTX 2/12 Port 12 connected 256 normal a-full a-100 10/100BaseTX 2006 Jun 22 16:01:01 EDT -05:00 %ETHC-5-PORTTOSTP:Port 2/11 joined bridge port 2/11 2006 Jun 22 16:01:01 EDT -05:00 %ETHC-5-PORTTOSTP:Port 2/12 joined bridge port 2/12 2006 Jun 22 16:01:02 EDT -05:00 %SYS-4-P2_WARN: 1/Host 00:14:38:4c:e1:ee is flapping between port 2/12 and port 2/11 2006 Jun 22 16:01:19 EDT -05:00 %SYS-4-P2_WARN: 1/Host 00:14:38:4c:e1:ee is flapping between port 2/11 and port 2/12 I found http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/0605.1/0008.html but it wasn't very helpful. Other users seem to have it "just work." If anybody has run into this, I would appreciate some pointers. Thanks, Michael Grinnell Network Security Administrator The American University

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RE: [CentOS] CentOS-4.4 - Some major changes on the way
by Nielsen, Steve 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Just curious... are there preview packages of seamonkey available anywhere for download ? Steve -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 6:03 AM To: CentOS ML Subject: [CentOS] CentOS-4.4 - Some major changes on the way I would like to take the time to inform people that CentOS-4.4 will contain some major changes. The changes are significant enough that I would like to spell out some of them now, probably at least a month before the release of the upstream "EL4 update 4" is released. The Mozilla Suite (Browser, Mail, Chat clients) will be replaced by SeaMonkey. This is due to Mozilla's change in policy and support for older versions. The Firefox 1.0.x (currently 1.0.8) web browser will be replaced by Firefox 1.5.x (currently 1.5.0.3). We currently have a version of Firefox 1.5.x in the CentOSPlus repo. That version will be replaced by the EL4 version after some more testing ... and the new version will be rolled into CentOS-4.4 in the Base repository when CentOS-4.4 is released. The Thunderbird 1.0.x (currently 1.0.8) will be upgraded to Thunderbird 1.5.x (currently 1.5.0.2). The OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 will be replaced by OpenOffice 1.1.5. This allows better sharing of files between OpenOffice.org 2.0 and CentOS clients. ------------------------------- All these changes will be implemented upstream and rolled out in the released source code, so they will be incorporated into CentOS as well. We will fully test these packages prior to release of the CentOS-4.4 ISOs, however these changes are fairly substantial. I would also like to remind people who are more cautious that CentOS has a vault that will contain CentOS-4.3 after we shift the main mirrors to CentOS-4.4. The vault is available at: http://vault.centos.org/ I am not suggesting that people don't upgrade (as security updates would require one to maintain the current version), but I am just providing information so that if the updates break something, you can easily get back to a known previous version. We have not had any problems so far with the new packages in our testing, and they will be deemed STABLE by upstream when they are released, however these changes are by far the most significant since the release of CentOS-4 and I think they deserve some special attention. Thanks, Johnny Hughes CentOS-4 Lead Developer

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RE: [CentOS] Apache Security
by King, John (Greg) (LMIT-HOU) 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Just as an fyi on a good checklist for linux (not comprehensive but a good start) http://www.cisecurity.org/bench_linux.html And some good areas via google on secure centos installations. If they do it again then it wont be your perl script obviously as you mentioned disabling the script, but if not, is your script configured with use strict and taint? Is every var in the script checked to ensure the data is within an allowed range? Does the perl script rely on third-party modules? If so you might check there as well. The rest is an assumption that you may have php installed on the system and someone may have used a php script as a gateway into your system. Even though the box has been compromised you may get lucky if this is related to apache by looking at the timestamp on the files in /tmp and correlate those with your apache logs. If so check your php logs as well(if you enabled it in /etc/php.ini). Are you running in safe mode? There are some things you can do to help reduce the amount of damage a vulnerable php script can do: safe_mode = On safe_mode_gid = On safe_mode_include_dir = /path where any include files you trust reside. Read only by apache process safe_mode_exec_dir = /path to area where you allow any executables to be called from php scripts Also (not restricted to safe mode) is if this is a home server you can also restrict where php scripts can 'roam': open_basedir = /var/www/html (for example) will prevent php scripts from going outside the /var/www/html area. If your done debugging any web code set this display_errors = off And turn on php file logging log_errors = On error_log = /var/log/phplogfilename.log Unless you need to allow file uploads turn that off too file_uploads = Off The same goes for treating URLs as files allow_url_fopen = Off Also make sure all the files in /var/www/html or whatever are not owned by the apache process so they cannot be over-written if at all possible. -Greg -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Matthew T. O'Connor Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 11:53 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Apache Security Hello, I have a server running CentOS 4.3 with all the latest updates. The server in question has been hacked by spammers a few times. The details of the hack have been basically the same every time. I find some directory created by the apache user account in /tmp. The new directory contains an html file, and a list of email addresses to spam and a perl script that spams all those email addresses with the html file. My question is why is this happening? Obviously it's some apache exploit. I have removed mod_perl, that didn't help. I have now changed the permissions on the perl executable, that might help we will see, but that doesn't address the core problem. How is it that someone can upload arbitrary files to my server and then execute an arbitrary command via apache. Is this a know problem? Have others seen it? What can I do to help prevent this? Thanks, Matt _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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RE: [CentOS] Apache Security
by mike.redan＠bell.ca 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hello, I have a server running CentOS 4.3 with all the latest updates. The server in question has been hacked by spammers a few times. The details of the hack have been basically the same every time. I find some directory created by the apache user account in /tmp. The new directory contains an html file, and a list of email addresses to spam and a perl script that spams all those email addresses with the html file. My question is why is this happening? Obviously it's some apache exploit. Why is this obvious? What else is exposed to the internet on this server? They could be coming in another way, then creating files owned by the apache user to make it look like an Apache problem. Is SSH exposed to the internet? Maybe there is a user with a weak password or something. I have removed mod_perl, that didn't help. I have now changed the permissions on the perl executable, that might help we will see, but that doesn't address the core problem. How is it that someone can upload arbitrary files to my server and then execute an arbitrary command via apache. What is exposed via apache? Are there any custom applications/CGI's? Is this a know problem? Have others seen it? What can I do to help prevent this? Thanks, Matt _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Tracking down whats causing a high load?
by Ian mu 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hiya, Currently running Centos 4.2 x86_64 dist on a dual 3G xeon, 2G ram, scsi setupand everythings been running fine on it for some time. Then at 4am last night something kicked in (have mrtg running monitoring when) and since then its been running a load of about 1.5 (normally around 0.4). CPU usage is Cpu(s): 1.1% us, 0.6% sy, 0.0% ni, 97.9% id, 0.2% wa, 0.1% hi, 0.1%si. Can't see any new processes that would cause the load, just wondering is there any way to try and track down whats actually causing this? It's not excessive load, but want to add some new services and wary now, its something that seems wrong given the sudden increase at 4am (think thats when some o.s housekeeping tasks are normally scheduled, but there's none running that I can see that started today). Just hoping someone may have some tips on checking whats always waiting or how to isolate whats happening. As said, ps -ef shows no new processes, and cpu usage is very low. Tia, Ian

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Adobe Reader 7.0.8 on x86_64 system
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hi Everyone, [yes, this is about a proprietary product, but I'm just asking for some tips/pointers] Has anyone tried installing the new Adobe Reader (7.0.8) RPM from Adobe on a CentOS 4.3 x86_64 box? I just attempted an upgrade from AdobeReader_enu-7.0.1-1 (also RPM install), and I'm getting this error: error: Failed dependencies: libGLU.so.1 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-7.0.8-1.i386 It looks like Adboe wants the i386 version of that library, which is provided by xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU.i386. However, I already have the x86_64 version installed. What's stranger is that I was able to install the previous version without any problems. Any tips/suggestions/flames appreciated. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.16-1.2111_FC4 i686 GNU/Linux 01:17:39 up 3 days, 18:46, 2 users, load average: 1.23, 0.56, 0.41

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completely custom rpm's
by Tom Brown 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hi During a 'normal' install i have to add a bunch of users and modify some files such as DNS, Syslog, ssh key files etc While i can do this with a shell script post install it would be VERY neat to just have all these changes packaged up into an rpm and i can then just rpm -i this post install. Can i do this and if so can anyone point me to a how-to that would help me through the steps required. thanks

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