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yum grouplist error
by Alfred von Campe 19 May '06

19 May '06

I keep a local copy of the yum repository using rsync every night. Commands like "yum update" still work, but lately I've been getting the following error: # yum grouplist Setting up Group Process Setting up repositories Error: Caching enabled and local cache: //var/cache/yum/base/ yumgroups.xml does not match checksum My nightly rsync cron job doesn't update this file -- should it? How does one rebuild it? To set up my local repository, I edited the file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo and changed all baseurl entries to use file:///path/to/my/repo instead of http:// mirror.centos/org/... Do I have something misconfigured? Thanks, Alfred

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Visio
by Chris Peikert 19 May '06

19 May '06

Anyone know of an Open Source software comparable to Microsoft Visio?

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Setting default paper size in OpenOffice
by Niki Kovacs 19 May '06

19 May '06

Hi, I'm using the default OpenOffice.org that ships with CentOS 4.3. In OO, I launch "Printer configuration" and set the default paper size from "US Letter" to "A4". OK, and then OK again. But the settings don't seem to be saved, they revert to US Letter every time, which is rather annoying, as I don't set this up for me (but for a bunch of Joe Users), and I can't expect them to manually configure the paper size everytime they want to print something. Any suggestions? Niki Kovacs

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RE: [CentOS] Visio
by Andrew Elliott 19 May '06

19 May '06

Good Afternoon, There's "Dia": http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/ if you're gnome Also, there's "DiaCanvas" which I guess is similar (never used it): http://sourceforge.net/projects/diacanvas/ And of course kivio: http://www.koffice.org/kivio/ if you're a kde fan.... Andrew Elliott Network Services Computar Services Inc. 2191 Thurston Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1G 6C9 Tel: (613) 482-8374 Fax: (613) 737-3611 Email: andrewe(a)computar.ca ________________________________ From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Chris Peikert Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 11:59 AM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: [CentOS] Visio Anyone know of an Open Source software comparable to Microsoft Visio?

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rsync help
by Sam Drinkard 19 May '06

19 May '06

I'm attempting to do an rsync of a whole bunch of files from the machine here to the remote machine. Both user directories have identical file structure, except the remote machine is way behind on keeping up with the local machine. When I tried to run the rsync command from the current directory of "/home/rob/amet/versions/current/archinve/npa/R- save" Below is the command and output. Can somone tell me what I'm doing wrong, or perhaps the correct way to do this? There does not need to be a daemon running on the remote machine does there? # rsync -t R-save vortex:/home/rob/amet/versions/current/archive/npa/R- save rsync: link_stat "/home/rob/amet/versions/20051028/amet/archive/npa/R- save/R-save" failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c (892) [sender=2.6.8] Thanks..... Sam

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Damaged tags in XMMS
by Niki Kovacs 19 May '06

19 May '06

Hi, I just copied 15 GB of Music from my Slackware install over to my laptop running CentOS. Everything's running fine, except a few minor quirks. About 10 to 15% of the 4.000 songs in my collection seem to have broken ID3 tags in XMMS. In the playlist window, there are only truncated fields of a few random letters appearing. But when I right-click on one of these songs, the ID3 info is displayed correctly... that is, in the ID 3 window. I can save as much as I can, the info in the ID3 window stays the same. Any suggestion for that? Niki

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Set default MPlayer -vo?
by Niki Kovacs 19 May '06

19 May '06

Hi, I'm running CentOS 4.3 with the rpmforge and kbs repos enabled. I just installed MPlayer and tried it. It has a small problem. When I want to view myfile.wmv, Mplayer displays the following error message: "Error opening/initialising the selected video_out (-vo) device." So I opened a console, took a peek at the various options (mplayer -vo help), and then the movie worked just fine with mplayer -vo x11. Q: how do I make this option my default, so that when I double-click on a .wmv or .avi in Nautilus, it gets opened with the -vo x11 option? I thought about creating an alias, but there must be some more orthodox way to do that. Cheers, Niki Kovacs

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Sound cards for Centros
by M.Hockings 18 May '06

18 May '06

What sound cards are recognized by Centros? I have installed it on an old 400MHz IBM Aptiva that has Crystal Audio built-in. However it does not seem to recognize that, nor a Sound Blaster, nor a Sound Blaster 16 that I have tried. Any cheapo cards that it would recognize? Mike

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source rpms
by Nick Smith 18 May '06

18 May '06

how can i get the source rpms for the packages installed on my centos 3.6 server? is there a certain repositories i have to add to my yum.conf? Im trying to setup a filtering program "smartfilter" and they want me to point to the source for squid, which i cant seem to find. can anyone shed some light on this for me? someone i was talking to said that centos strips out the source to keep the bulk down, but i was hoping that wasnt the case. thanks for any help. Nick

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Re: [CentOS] Sound cards for CentOS
by Bernard Lheureux 18 May '06

18 May '06

Max H. wrote: I totaly agree with you, and I wanted to tell especialy to M.Hockings that I am sorry if my answer appeared to be a little agressive, it was not that way I wanted to tell... Linux is freedom and should stay like it... Use it the way you want... of course, I think the problem with your sound card could be solved with isapnp, because those sound cards (on older IBM Aptiva) were often ISA cards, that's maybe why it is not correctly detected... > Bernard Lheureux wrote: >> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 07:41 -0400, M.Hockings wrote: >> A soundcard for a server ???? >> Why ??? What do you want to do with that machine, CentOS is built for >> SERVER PURPOSES and if you want to make a workstation linux-based I >> advise you to prefarably use Fedora Core or another desktop optimized >> distribution but CentOS (not Centros ;-)) is based on RedHat Enterprise >> Linux and is done to be a SERVER SOLUTION... >> > > Works just fine as enterprise workstations for myself...Sure CentOS is > based of RHEL, but it's not specific only to the server/enterprise > niche. I run it on a personal laptop for a workstation and a personal > desktop at home for a workstation. Yes, they are both running "server" > packages, but CentOS is great for both. I install it many other places > as only a server, it does a great job there too. I'll be watching DVD's > on my CentOS install after I leave work on my trip. Does this mean I'm > using it wrong... you can use it for whatever you want. That is what's > great about Linux. ;) > > Max > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > M$-Internet Exploder est le cancer de l'Internet, voyez pourquoi ici : http://www.aful.org/publi/articles/msie_et_la_securite/index_html/view -----------------> http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ <----------------- -- (°- Bernard Lheureux Gestionnaire des MailingLists ML, TechML, LinuxML //\ http://www.bbsoft4.org/Mailinglists.htm ** MailTo:root@bbsoft4.org v_/_ http://www.bbsoft4.org/ <<<<<< * >>>>>> http://www.portalinux.org/

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user trubles
by unknown＠example.com 18 May '06

18 May '06

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Buy CentOS CDs/DVDs in France?
by Niki Kovacs 18 May '06

18 May '06

Hi, I'd like to buy a set of CentOS CDs: 4CDs + 1 DVD. I'm on dialup, so this is the best solution for me. Plus, usually CDs from the store are better quality and tend to last longer in my humble experience. Normally I buy my CDs at ikarios.fr, but strangely, they only sell Centos 3.7 CDs. I mailed them about 2 weeks ago, but got no answer. Anyone knows where's the best place to get these when I'm in France? Cheers, Niki Kovacs

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PHP register_globals
by kenkensmile＠netscape.net 18 May '06

18 May '06

Hi I am trying to turn on register_globals, but I am failing. someone trold me that I should change php.ini and I did it. ? - register_globals = Off - register_globals = On I made a php test page html/test.php <?php phpinfo(); ?> and checked it, but I can not make it. output_buffering no value no value output_handler no value no value post_max_size 8M 8M precision 14 14 register_argc_argv On On register_globals Off Off I am using CentOs 4.3 and installed php-4.3.9-3.12 php-mbstring-4.3.9-3.12 php-gd-4.3.9-3.12. Does anyone help me to trun on register_globals please? Thenks for your help. Cheers, Joe ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com

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K3b, cdrdao and chmod +s
by Niki Kovacs 18 May '06

18 May '06

Hi, I just managed to get a fairly coherent configuration for our public "salle multimedia" with CentOS 4.3. I used the rpmforge and the KBS repos for additional software. There's only one soft that I had to rebuild: K3B. The included version's translation is just one big mess. I remember from my Slack days not so long ago that K3B is rather easy to build, so I downloaded the source from the K3B site, built and compiled with checkinstall, and everything went smooth. K3B's vanilla version requires cdrdao to be installed. I found a RHEL4 RPM on rpm.pbone.net and installed it. On startup, K3B performs various checks about the system configuration, and as it was to be expected, it suggested to run cdrdao with root rights. I knew this from Slack, so I just did a chmod +s /usr/bin/cdrdao. Now I'm puzzled about something. In the Gnome Terminal, /usr/bin/cdrdao with the new rights (-rwsr-sr-x) appears as a red block, reminding the entrance of the "Nuclear weapons" block in an old James Bond movie. Was that chmod +s a no-no? Will it eat my three cats? Niki Kovacs

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G4-400mhz enough for CentOS 4.3?
by Chris Mauritz 18 May '06

18 May '06

It's that time again. I'm stuck with a bunch of older Powermac G4's that I either need to repurpose or give the heave ho. I've not tried CentOS on Mac hardware before. Would the following config be suitable for a (somewhat slow) workstation? PowerMac G4 400mhz 256mb RAM 40gig ATA disk Some sort of dual-head ATI video setup with 64mb VRAM (I've forgotten which cards they are) Cheers,

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IMAP version
by Andrew Cotter 18 May '06

18 May '06

I run a number of Centos 3 & 4 servers, and the question is not specific to them, but I am assuming the answer would apply just the same. Is there any way to verify the version of IMAP (IMAP4 vs older) running on a server? I have a RH 7.X box up and has the standard email config. Not looking for the sendmail version, but a way to determine what IMAP standard it is using. Andrew

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mysql problems
by William Warren 17 May '06

17 May '06

I installed plesk(first mistake at least here..<G>) and it got in my way in some area more than it helped. The first thing it did was deny root access to mysqld and i could not find the username and password for adding another database. I removed plesk and mysql. when i used yum to reinstall mysql i was then told root @ localhost was denied. I removed mysql again and nuked all of the mysql files i could find that were left behind. Now when i reinstall it won't even start. Any ideas? -- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. -- carpe ductum -- "Grab the tape" CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician) Linux user #322099 Machines: 206822 256638 276825 http://counter.li.org/

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Installing a RPM with yum
by Claudio Castro 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi all, this is my first post... Here the situation, I've installed php 4 with yum, using the default CentOS repositories, but now I realize that I need the Informix extensions and others like unixodbc, gd etc. This last two packages where in the repository so I search with yum and I found them, and install them, but not the Informix one. So here my question, when I install a RPM package, then, how I change or add extensions?? the same with Apache and ssl support . Any help would be apreciated Regards. Claudio

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JPEG support by gd ?
by MA 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi, Does anyone knows if the gd lib bundled in CentOS 4.3 supports JPEG ? I have this software that makes a call to ImageCreateFromJPEG and fails. If not, hoe to remake the RPM from the SRPM ? Any help would be apreciated. Warm Regards, MA

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problem in installing koffice 1.5 from source
by ankush grover 17 May '06

17 May '06

hey friends, I am trying to install koffice 1.5 from source (tar.gz). All the packages needed for koffice are installed that is Qt qt-config-3.3.3-9.3 qt-designer-3.3.3-9.3 qt-3.3.3-9.3 qt-devel-3.3.3-9.3 arts-* kdebase-* kdelibs-devel-3.3.1-3.14 kdelibs-3.3.1-3.14 but I am getting the below error while running the command "./configure" checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation! Can somebody tell me what is missing or the path for qt libraries & headers so that I can give it with ./configure command Thanks & Regards Ankush Grover

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problems with kickstart %post and python/snack gui
by Brian Gehrich 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi All, I'm trying to migrate from Fedora Core 4 to a more stable linux deployment of Centos 4.3. I'm using kickstart to do an automated installation of minimal packages and then doing configuration in the %post section. I do this by calling serveral custom system-config-local-* scripts that I have written along with system-config-network-tui (aka netconfig). The problem that I am having is that these scripts display properly, but do not accept input from the console. When anything is typed, it goes directly to the screen (including escape characters for arrows, escape, etc...). I've tried both a minimal installation and a "everything" installation and the results are the same. If I run the same command chrooted to /mnt/sysimage from the tty1 shell it works properly. Here are the relevant sections of my kickstart config... %post set -x ## post install script ## ## setup the environment ## export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_ALL=C export TERM=linux ## switch to tty3 ## /usr/bin/chvt 3 exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3 ## configure network on eth0 ## /usr/sbin/netconfig ## switch back to tty1 ## /usr/bin/chvt 1 ## end post install script ## Any ideas? Any help is appreciated. FYI, this works fine on Fedora Core 4... Thanks, Brian

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Configuring a Kodak EZ200 Webcam in CentOS 4.3
by José Alburquerque 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi. I hate to ask because I'm not sure if this is one of those questions that don't "deserve an answer" but here goes: My friend gave me a Kodak EZ-200 Webcam (USB) recently and I'm trying to configure it for use under CentOS 4.3. I did a little research on the web and found that the Kodak EZ200 is supported using gphoto2 (http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html - search "EZ200" to see that it is in the list of supported cameras). My system has gphoto2-2.1.4-7 installed (I think this a system package), but when I look for EZ200 support (using 'gphoto2 --list-cameras'), the EZ200 is not listed. I also did an 'rpm -ql gphoto2' and noticed that there is no "shared object file" (libgphoto2_kodak_*.so) for the EZ200. Is it that the EZ200 is only supported in a "newer" version of gphoto2? Is it alright for me to install a newer version? I noticed that the gphoto2 website (http://www.gphoto.org/) has a tarball (version 2.1.99) that includes a spec file which I can certainly use to build an rpm. (Mind you, I just don't want to "break" my system or anything like that, although I would really like to get some use out of this webcam). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely Jose Alburquerque

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vsftpd: users can delete files they don't possess
by Kai Schaetzl 17 May '06

17 May '06

FTP users can delete files in their home directory they don't possess (including files belonging to root:root!) with vsftpd. I have reproduced that with vsftpd 1.1 on Suse and 2.0 on CentOS. I don't think this should happen at all. I can't see that the documentation at http://vsftpd.beasts.org/vsftpd_conf.html mentions this problem at all. How can I stop this? Kai

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OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 vs. 2.0.2
by Niki Kovacs 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hi, I recently migrated from Slackware 10.2 to CentOS 4.3, upon advice of fellow Slacker and CentOS user Daniel de Kok. Been working very intensively for the last three weeks with it, and I must say: I really like it. This is the Real Work(tm) Distro I was always looking for! There's a practical reason for this: beginning on June 1st I will be chief sysadmin of our village's town hall. Don't be too impressed... besides the mayor and his dog, we're 900 people living here, mostly farmers... But the village got a nice budget to build an even nicer public "salle multimedia", the house is ready (with a nice view over the South French hills), and here's the scenario. About ten PC's will be acquired new, so they will be equipped with a shiny CentOS 4.3. The remaining PC's in the town hall will either get some light Linux distro (Slack with XFCE or something like this)... but some people here desperately cling to their Windows 98 or Windows XP and don't want this Linux thing. At least two Windows machines here are equipped with the latest OpenOffice.org. Now there's a slight compatibility issue. OO 2.0.x defaults to the .odt file format, which OO 1.2.2 can't read. I know that stock rpm's from openoffice.org *can* be installed, but I think it would be a pity to ruin the otherwise great artwork consistency (I have to seduce the new Linux users, remember). The latest Fedora 5 came out, and I see that there's a source rpm available at rpm.pbone.net. Unfortunately, I'm on dialup here, and there's no chance I can get this until next week. Plus, I'm only a beginner with source RPM's, and OO is somewhat of a bear to compile. Now what if one of the gurus here gave it a shot? Got some bandwidth and some CPU to spare? Or maybe evaluate my chances as to the outcome? Or is it better to tell the Windows people to default to .sxw and stick with the present version (which, I must say, looks quite bug-free)? Cheers, Niki Kovacs

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NFS and firewall issues
by Niki Kovacs 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hi, I have a small home LAN, where one machine (192.168.1.1) connects to the internet via dialup (no DSL here) and shares the connection with IP masquerading. To achieve this, I tried out various recipes found on the internet, and finally put this in /etc/rc.d/rc.local: --8<------ rc.local ------------ #!/bin/sh # # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts. # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff. touch /var/lock/subsys/local # Setup IP Masquerading iptables -F; iptables -t nat -F; iptables -t mangle -F iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE # Secure it iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -i ! ppp0 -j ACCEPT iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -A FORWARD -i ppp0 -o ppp0 -j REJECT --8<--------------------------- I don't understand much about iptables. Documentation about it is on my TODO list (I'll keep it for after my death:oD). Now I have a problem. I fiddled a bit with NFS, and I had a firewall-related problem with it. In short, when iptables (the firewall) runs, I can't do an NFS mount. But as soon as I stop it (service iptables stop), NFS mounts are possible. Now what can I do to 1) go on sharing my ppp connection 2) be able to do NFS mounts while 3) still having a reasonable secure system? Cheers, Niki Kovacs

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Loading GNOME with GDM
by Hairul Ikmal Mohamad Fuzi 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hi, We have a few PC with CentOS 4 installed. By default, it runs to runlevel 5, which displays the GDM. I'm just wondering, how do I actually make the GDM to start GNOME automatically (after a successful login) for all normal user account without having to add 'exec gnome-session' in every user's ~/.xinitrc? The current scenario is, only successful 'root' logins starts the GNOME, while other normal user successful login is presented with the minimalist window manager (which is equivalent to 'Default System Session' from the GDM menu). I'd appreciate if anyone could help me to figure this one out. Thanks! -Ikmal

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PHP5 questions
by Kai Schaetzl 15 May '06

15 May '06

If I install PHP5 from centosplus it will replace PHP4, is this correct? Or is there a way to have it installed in parallel? I know I can't run both modules at the same time, but I'd prefer having them installed in parallel, so I can switch back/between easier. When I try updating I get a dependency warning from php-eaccelerator (from dag repo) - can I ignore that? Searching thru my list archive I find it mentioned several times that eaccelerator works with PHP5, but it's not clear if and what package. Thanks. Kai

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Requirements for building source RPM's?
by Niki Kovacs 15 May '06

15 May '06

Hi, I have CentOS 4.3. On install, I chose the 'Personal Desktop' option without bothering about customizing. I'm on dialup, so I try to choose a mixture of rpm and yum, e. g. I do 'yum install something', take a peek at what is needed, and then install as much as I can from the CD's using rpm -ivh. I want to build an app (cdlabelgen and its frontend gtkcdlabel) from a source RPM, since the binary has a few encoding weirdnesses. I've never built a source RPM (using Slack before), now I wonder: what tools (packages) do I need for this, besides rpm-build, gcc, autoconf etc.? Niki Kovacs

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4.3 ServerCD
by Michael Grinnell 15 May '06

15 May '06

I'm building some new servers next week, and I'm wondering if I should wait for the 4.3 ServerCD or just use the 4.2 ServerCD. Is there an ETA on 4.3? Thanks for the great work, Michael Grinnell

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Basic SAMBA setup
by Niki Kovacs 15 May '06

15 May '06

Hi, I want to setup a simple SAMBA file server, in its most simple configuration first, and then fine-tune that gradually. I've never worked with SAMBA before, so I based myself on Carla Schroder's "Linux Cookbook", chapter XX: SAMBA. Here's what I did, following the step-by-step instructions and reading the explanations as to what-does-what: # mkdir -m 777 /shares Rename /etc/samba/smb.conf to something else (old.sambaconfig) and then edit a new smb.conf from scratch, which looks like this: --8<-------------------- [global] workgroup = workgroup netbios name = windbag server string = Anonymous local file server security = share browseable = yes hosts allow = 192.168.1. [share1] path = /shares comment = Test files read only = No guest ok = Yes --8<--------------------- I tested this configuration with testparm, and it looked OK. Next I restarted SAMBA (service smb restart) and checked the status (service smb status). After this I tried (on the same machine) to connect to my file server: $ smbclient -L windbag But there I got a "Failed to connect". Now what? Niki Kovacs

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pop3d and iptables lockup
by Bowie Bailey 15 May '06

15 May '06

I am having a problem implementing iptables with Courier's pop3 daemon. If I disable iptables, everything works fine. As soon as I enable it, pop3 will stop working for messages over 32K. Small messages will go through with no problems, but large ones will time out. I get this message from OE: "Your POP3 server has not responded in 60 seconds." And an option to stop or continue waiting. I can wait as long as I want, but it will not download the message. This problem only exists with connections coming from outside our network. Connections from within the network can download large messages with no problems. Has anyone seen this before? I would like to implement iptables for more security, but I can't do it if this problem persists. My server is: P4 2.8, 1GB RAM CentOS 4.3 (fully patched) Courier 0.53.1 My iptables rules were initially created with system-config-securitylevel and then modified from there. The current rules are: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt in out source destination RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt in out source destination RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt in out source destination Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references) target prot opt in out source destination ACCEPT all -- lo * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 ACCEPT icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 255 ACCEPT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state RELATED,ESTABLISHED ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:25 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:110 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:53 ACCEPT udp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW udp dpt:53 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:587 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:80 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 172.16.0.0/16 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:22 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:443 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:995 REJECT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-host-prohibited I have found information on Google indicating that this might be a problem with the MTU or MSS setting, but the solutions given seemed to be aimed at the end user rather than the server. I tried them anyway, but they didn't seem to help. This is what was generally suggested: iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN \ -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu It didn't get any hits on the FORWARD chain. I put it on the OUTPUT chain and it got some hits there, but didn't have any effect on the problem. I also tried the --set-mss option with the same lack of results. I appreciate any suggestions. -- Bowie

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Setting a different LANG variable for a single GTK application?
by Niki Kovacs 15 May '06

15 May '06

Hi, I just installed GtkCDLabel, a nifty little app to create CD covers in a matter of minutes, if not seconds, and which I've been using on a daily basis on Slackware (previous system). I've encountered some encoding issues. Whenever my CD text contains french special characters like é, è, à and ç, the resulting .ps file displays martian characters instead. 'printenv' shows me that the default LANG variable on my system is fr_FR.UTF-8. So I tried to start the app from the terminal with: $ LANG=fr_FR && gtkcdlabel ... and everything worked fine. The problem is now including this workaround in the corresponding .desktop menu entry in /usr/share/applications. When I try to replace Exec=gtkcdlabel by Exec='LANG=fr_FR && gtkcdlabel' ... GNOME complains about an error. My second attempt included an alias in /etc/bashrc, which resulted in a partial success. Typing 'gtkcdlabel' in gnome-terminal, I get the correct result. But when the app is launched from the desktop menu, it is unimpressed by the alias. Which leaves me clueless. Is there any other place where I could define a more global alias? Niki Kovacs

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wireless card on amd64 and notebook
by Jerry Geis 15 May '06

15 May '06

>Jerry Geis wrote: >>/ All, />>/ />>/ Over the weekend I purchased a linksys wireless-g PCI card />>/ for use in my amd64 box. I downloaded ndiswrapper, compiled, installed, />>/ tried to load the driver off the CDROM and it was a no-go. />>/ />>/ I have do this on another box with an amd sempron. Difference being />>/ 32 bit versus 64 bit... />>/ />>/ Seems there are no 64 bit drivers for the wireless card. />>/ />>/ Anyone have a wireless card working on a 64 bit machine? />>/ What was the card and driver? / >I've been noticing this more and more as I've been playing with new >batches of 64-bit machines. Johnny seems to have hit the nail on the >head when he mentioned something to the effect of "if you're doing >straightforward vanilla server things, x86_64 works fine." Since I >don't have any situations (currently) where I need all the extra address >space (no big honking databases 'round here or machines with more than a >few gigs of RAM), I think I'm just going to revert to the x86 32-bit >build to keep my compatibility options open. >Did you ever get everything working satisfactorily on your athlon_64 >notebook? Did you run the 32-bit or 64-bit version of CentOS? >Cheers, Chris, After alot of fuss I did get my compaq R4000 working OK. I had to put the latest kernel from kernel.org on it and recompile. This fixed the SLOOWWW ness issue. Finding ATI drivers fixed the display issues. Personally I dont like the 1280x800 display. Too small more my taste. I miss at least having 1600x1200 on my old dell insipron. Jerry

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CentOS4 and SiS190 LAN chipset
by Nigel Kendrick 15 May '06

15 May '06

I have an Asus Pundit AE3 setup as an Asterisk server (Asterisk at Home) and the only quirk so far is that the onboard SiS190 LAN chipset is not detected and so I have fitted a full height card for now, but as it's a small barebones design this means I cannot fit the case cover. I have the option of throwing in a low-profile LAN card or compiling the OS/drivers - I have looked into this but it means downloading the SRPMs and (for me) working in unfamiliar territory. Is there a simpler way with a pre-compiled driver that I can load as a module? Thanks Nigel Kendrick

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wireless card on amd64
by Jerry Geis 15 May '06

15 May '06

All, Over the weekend I purchased a linksys wireless-g PCI card for use in my amd64 box. I downloaded ndiswrapper, compiled, installed, tried to load the driver off the CDROM and it was a no-go. I have do this on another box with an amd sempron. Difference being 32 bit versus 64 bit... Seems there are no 64 bit drivers for the wireless card. Anyone have a wireless card working on a 64 bit machine? What was the card and driver? Thanks, Jerry

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PDF viewer?
by Niki Kovacs 15 May '06

15 May '06

Hi, I'm looking for a usable PDF viewer with CentOS 4.3. On my previous install (Slack running XFCE with a handful of GNOME libs), I used Evince, which is just great. Looks like this is an Achilles' heel in CentOS, as I tested three available PDF viewers (ggv, gsview, acroread) with various PDF documents downloaded from the internet (which all display perfectly with Evince): either the result is just ugly, like Lego for the very young. Or the document can't be opened at all and produces an error. Which is annoying, as I have to install this in a production environment in about two weeks. Any suggestions? Niki Kovacs

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NFS versus ISCSI
by Bruno Sousa 15 May '06

15 May '06

Hello ! I was wondering if anyone has done any kind of benchmarks regarding having a NFS export or using ISCSI. If not, is there any idea in how to do those benchmarks. In my case I will us NFS or ISCSI to export some space to run a mysql server, oracle 10g and ordinary file share. At this point I have 3 iscsi "servers" and 3 isci clients, each one running one service. All the servers are connect at 1Gbps. Best regards, Bruno Sousa

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Firefox 1.5.0.3 in CentOSPlus?
by Mike Stankovic 14 May '06

14 May '06

Seeing Fedora have released 1.5.0.3 for fc5 isn't it time for CentOS to rebuild 1.5.0.3 for CentOSPlus or does the current rpm have the patches? I recall last times goof in FC5 firefox appearing in the CentOS one so I assume that CentOSPlus needs to rebuild the FC5 one again. __________________________________________________ Improve the mailing list by performing a simple search before posting and reading the FAQ/etiquette. Protect the integrity of your installation with the yum plugins. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Thin client server setup
by Mace Eliason 14 May '06

14 May '06

Hi, I am thinking of settting up a thin client server setup. I would like to set it up to work with linux and windows. I was going to use Symbiont but it says it needs a different version of linux to install. Has anyone used it with Centos before? Would it be easier to just install LTSP and set it up. I would like to b have a small box that does the dhcp and then allows users to logon to windows or linux terminal servers. Thanks for any suggestions. Mace

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Midi Playback on CentOS 4
by Barry Brimer 14 May '06

14 May '06

I am trying to get MIDI playback working on my CentOS 4 machine. Ultimately, I would like to have it working inside Firefox as well. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Barry

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Serverworks HT1000 chipset drivers (Supermicro H8SSL motherboard)
by Chris Mauritz 14 May '06

14 May '06

Anyone using boards with this chipset? I've gotten some dual core single cpu boxes along with the physical dual cpu boxes I just received and they're using the Serverworks HT1000 (Broadcom 5785) chipset. My CentOS 4.2 DVD doesn't want to recognize the chipset so I can't see any of the SATA drives in the integrated SATA ports. Drives on 3Ware cards work as expected, but I was hoping to also make use of the integrated SATA ports. I'm downloading 4.3 via bitorrent now, but I suspect that isn't going to solve the problem without some command line magic. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Cheers,

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Changing Console Display Settings
by John Hinton 13 May '06

13 May '06

Hmm.. after all these years I actually have a monitor on my desk beside me going through a couple of KVMs to our racks. So, I hope to make more use of direct console connections instead of shelling in. But, now.... the text has always been huge and the interface clunky. And after a bit of googling around, and file searching on the system, I can't seem to find where or if there is a way to change the default console display settings. I sure would be nice to go to a higher resolution so to speak. Can anybody point me in the right direction on where to look? Note, these systems are all server installs.. no stinkin' GUIs. ;) Thanks, John Hinton

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 15, Issue 5
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 13 May '06

13 May '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. CentOS 4 i386 Live CD (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 16:14:40 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CentOS 4 i386 Live CD To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Cc: distro(a)distrowatch.com Message-ID: <1147468480.5015.107.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The CentOS Development team is pleased to announce the availability of the first CentOS 4 i386 Live CD. This CD is based on our CentOSPlus Kernel and the CentOS-4.3 i386 distribution. It can be used a Workstation, with the following software: Open Office 1.1.2 Evolution 2.0.2 Firefox 1.5.0.2 Gimp 2.0.5 k3b 0.11.14 (for burning CDs and DVDs) Gaim 2.0.0 xchat 2.4.0 Built in support for the NVIDIA and ATI proprietary drivers. ---------------------- It is also a great recovery / rescue tool containing the following: Read / write access to XFS, JFS, ext3, ext2, NTFS, reiserfs. LVM2 graphical tool GNU Parted <http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/> CLI partition tool QtParted <http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/> GUI partition tool PartImage <http://www.partimage.org/> partition imager EVMS <http://evms.sourceforge.net/> Enterprise volume management smb4K <http://smb4k.berlios.de/> GUI SMB tool ClamAV <http://www.clamav.net/> for virus scanning chkrootkit <http://www.chkrootkit.org/> for finding potential root kits MemTest86+ <http://www.memtest.org/> memory tester System Log Viewer ----------------------------- The CentOS-4.3 i386 Live CD is available for download from the following mirrors (currently syncing to the mirrors): http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4/isos/i386/ Filename: CentOS-4.3-i386-LiveCD.iso Size: 717729792 MD5Sum: dbfe8c62a2f586486a8ab75411d5caf9 Thanks, The CentOS Development Team

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Acrobat Reader from dag
by Maciej Żenczykowski 13 May '06

13 May '06

Hi! I was wondering if the acroread from your site is somehow stripped of web browser support (dag for RHEL4/CentOS4.3)? Can't seem to find the howto or other files anywhere... Cheers, MaZe.

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how to swap CTRL and Caps Lock in console mode
by Primorec 13 May '06

13 May '06

Hi ALL, I am not able to find the file which controls the keyboard mapping. I would like to swap CTRL and Caps Lock keys. NO, thhere is no problem with X11. That part was easy to fix. I've commented out one line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I would like to swap the keys in __console__ mode YES, I've modified the file /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map.gz It did not make any difference. Keys CTRL and Caps Lock are not swapped. Any hint/advice/RTFM_pointer is more than welcome Igor -- I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.

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Keyboard layout switching bug: workaround?
by Niki Kovacs 13 May '06

13 May '06

Hi, I'm an Austrian writer living in Montpezat (South France). I've been 100% GNU/Linux for the past five years, and I recently switched from Slackware to CentOS, for the sake of comfort. Overall impression: I like it! I have a few problems to solve yet in my migration effort, mostly minor annoyances. First things first. I need three different keyboard layouts: de, fr_CH and fr. I'm used to toggle between these. Now this doesn't seem to work with CentOS 4.3. (My system is in french, so I have to translate Menu entries back to english, I don't know if they will be accurate...). Anyway. Applications -> Preferences -> Keyboard opens the keyboard configuration window. There's a section called "Agencement" in french, guess this will be "layout". When I try to add a layout, I get the following error message: (again, translating back from french) --- XKB configuration error during activation. Probably an internal X server error. ... --- I close the error message window. The new layout seems to be added. But when I try to toggle keyboard layouts (default: pressing [Alt] + [AltGr]), I get something that could be best described as a martian layout. Lots of nonsense. Now how could I fix this? When using XFCE with Slack, before the days of a keyboard switching plugin, I just manually defined some commands like 'setxkbmap [some options] -layout fr_CH', and then assigned these to some keyboard shortcuts. Is this a viable solution here? Or what would you recommend? This is rather annoying, since I type text in three languages (I also work as a translator), and I'm a bit stuck here. Any suggestions? Niki Kovacs

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SSH
by unknown＠example.com 13 May '06

13 May '06

Hi. I`m trying to connect with another computer, but i have the mmessage "time out". TO do SSH its there any special procedure i must follow up? or i just can type ssh user@server? i have CentOs 4 and SSHd its already running ----------------------------------------------------------- Sign up and get your 30GB webmail at www.30gigs.com now!

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CentOS mailing list probe message (fwd)
by Dag Wieers 12 May '06

12 May '06

With the latest message I send to the CentOS list I got this strange 'probe' message. The included bounce example has nothing to do with my email-adres, but rather with someone subscribed to the list. So it seems that somehow the mailinglist manager is sending bounces to the wrong email-adres. Or I do not understand the 'probe' message (and the included bounce message) at all. Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: centos-bounces+88b00897fa730a013c0f2ecda1f082e22416f412(a)centos.org To: dag(a)wieers.com Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 14:54:41 +0000 Subject: CentOS mailing list probe message X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.9 required=3.0 tests=FROM_LOCAL_HEX,NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=no version=3.1.1 This is a probe message. You can ignore this message. The CentOS mailing list has received a number of bounces from you, indicating that there may be a problem delivering messages to dag(a)wieers.com. A bounce sample is attached below. Please examine this message to make sure there are no problems with your email address. You may want to check with your mail administrator for more help. If you are reading this, you don't need to do anything to remain an enabled member of the mailing list. If this message had bounced, you would not be reading it, and your membership would have been disabled. Normally when you are disabled, you receive occasional messages asking you to re-enable your subscription. You can also visit your membership page at http://lists.centos.org/mailman/options/centos/dag%40wieers.com On your membership page, you can change various delivery options such as your email address and whether you get digests or not. As a reminder, your membership password is mazaec If you have any questions or problems, you can contact the list owner at centos-owner(a)centos.org

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Are there any known roadmaps for RHEL/CENTOS 5?
by "Petr \"Qaxi\" Klíma" 12 May '06

12 May '06

hi i can not find any info on RH ... -- Petr Klíma e-mail: qaxi(a)seznam.cz

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My GNU-CentOS Desktop
by Mike Stankovic 12 May '06

12 May '06

I took a lil trip and decided to bring my rhel-converted-to-centos desktop with me. I have a few screenshots at http://s78.photobucket.com/albums/j90/centosdesktop/ In addition to CentOS Base/Extras/Plus, I have kbs and rpmforge repos. As you can see in one screenshot i have yum utils and about 80 protected packages. I've added Open-Office.org 2.0.1, Gnuchess, artwork from Gnome and wine from kbs repo to run the chess apps/windows media player. Not bad eh! __________________________________________________ Improve the mailing list by performing a simple search before posting and reading the FAQ/etiquette. Protect the integrity of your installation with the yum plugins. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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