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RE: [CentOS] KDE vs Gnome
by Bowie Bailey 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Chris Mauritz wrote: > > Do that many people even use the GUI in a server environment? On the > vast majority of my installs, I don't even include X since the admins > connect via SSH over the net or on the physical console. But perhaps > I'm just not a typical user. I've got the default GUI installed on my > laptop, which appears to be of the Gnome variety. 8-) I install the default Gnome setup on my servers in case I need/want it. Once the server is installed and running properly, I configure the default runlevel to 4 so that the GUI doesn't load under normal conditions. -- Bowie

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rsync and users
by Todd Cary 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Thanks to the encouragement of some people on this list, I am using rsync to synchronize two servers: one is a backup to the other in case the primary one fails. By hand, I inserted the names of the users on the primary server into the backup server. So, now all works well. /usr/bin/rsync -av -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/ My question is what would happen if the users were not on the backup server? Is there anyway to have the users automatically inserted into passwd and group? Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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Kernel downgrade?
by Remco Barendse 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hi list! I've been bitten by a bug in the latest kernel 2.6.9-34.EL and I already removed the old kernel. Are old kernels retained at any place? I need to go back to 2.6.9-22.02 but where can I find it? In the Centos 4.3 directory I find only the latest kernel, not the older ones? Thanks!!

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Jazz drive
by Mace Eliason 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hi We setup a server the other day for a client, and it has a 35gig jazz drive in it. Centos 4.2 recognizes it as a cd disk. How would I go abouts getting it to read and write to it? When I click on the cd-rom disc icon it loads up cd/dvd creator. Shouldn't it just recognize it as an external drive? Thanks

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CENTOS . and WEBSENSE ENTERPRISE Compatibility
by "Juan Manuel Cárdenas N." 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Dear CentOSMailing List. We have a problem with Linux CentOS and Websense Enterpise Vers. 611., I would Like about to it, anyone was experience Installing CentOs and Websense Enterprise with Integration Squid Proxy ?. The following is my Installation Summary: LINUX KERNEL: Linux proxy 2.6.9-34.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Mar 8 00:27:03 CST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Linux version 2.6.9-34.ELsmp (buildcentos@build-i386) (gcc version 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)) #1 SMP Wed Mar 8 00:27:0 3 CST 2006 HARDWARE: HP Proliant ML110/800 HT Proccesor: Pentium IV de 2.8 GHz Memory: 512 MB Hard Disk: 80 GB INTEGRATION WITH SQUID: squid-2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.12 When I Try installing the Websense Suite the Installation Show follow display Welcome to the Websense Enterprise v6.1 installer. InstallShield Wizard Inicializando InstallShield Wizard... Buscando la Java(tm) Virtual Machine... ........ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Setup could not determine Redhat Linux release. Websense does not support the operating system on this machine. There may be difficulties installing and running Websense on this operating system. Consult the Deployment Guide for the supported operating systems. : NOTE: I changed my Old Linux RED HAT 9 for my new Platform . the old installation worked very well but now I have problems for work. I'll appreciate your Help. -- Juan Manuel Cárdenas Tech. Support Director Atlantic Pacific Intl. Corp.- Colombia PBX: 571-315-0484 Direct: 571-221-3872 Mobile: 57-310-229-4995 »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» This email is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author, and do not necessarily represent those of Atlantic Pacific Intl. Corp. or Atlantic Pacific Ltda. If you are not the intended recipient be advised that you have received this email in error, and that any unauthorized use,dissemination, forwarding, disclosure, printing, quoting or copying is strictly prohibited and may be un- lawful, so please contact the sender and destroy all copies of the original message. »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» Este mensaje es confidencial y enviado solo para el uso de la persona a la cual esta dirigido y puede contener información confidencial. Cualquier opinión expresada es solo aquella del autor y no necesariamente representa aquella de Atlantic Pacific Intl. Corp. ó Atlantic Pacific Ltda. Si Ud. no es el destinatario, favor tenga en cuenta que Ud. ha recibido este mensaje por error, y que cualquier uso no autorizado, distribución, reenvio, mención, publicación, impresión o copia de este mensaje esta estrictamente prohibido y puede ser ilegal, por tanto por favor contacte a quien lo envía y destruya todas las copias del mensaje original. »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»

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First SSH now VSFTP
by John Hinton 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Seems the script kiddies are now hitting vsftp with dictionary attacks. I had three boxes showing around 12000 attempts from one IP yesterday. My thoughts are that there should be an upstream solution for this which is then supported by the upstream vendor. Yes, I know there are several 'other' solutions, but I'd really like to stay mainstream and use a supported method for dealing with these issues. I can't help but view them as security issues. Best, John Hinton

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identd removed in Centos4.3?
by Dave Hatton 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hi all, Has identd been removed from the upstream release? If so what replaces it? I see an oidentd rpm on DAG, but I'm curious about what I should be using? Many Thanks Daveh

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 14, Issue 3
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '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. CESA-2006:0279-5: Low CentOS 2 i386 glibc enhancement update (John Newbigin) 2. CESA-2006:0282-6: Low CentOS 2 i386 tzdata enhancement update (John Newbigin) 3. CEBA-2006:0410-001 CentOS 4 i386 yumex - bugfix update (EXTRAS only) (Johnny Hughes) 4. CEBA-2006:0410-001 CentOS 4 x86_64 yumex - bugfix update (EXTRAS Only) (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:19:14 +1000 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0279-5: Low CentOS 2 i386 glibc enhancement update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <4439DCC2.8020806(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHEA-2006:0279-5 glibc enhancement update Files available: glibc-2.2.4-32.25.i386.rpm glibc-common-2.2.4-32.25.i386.rpm glibc-devel-2.2.4-32.25.i386.rpm glibc-profile-2.2.4-32.25.i386.rpm nscd-2.2.4-32.25.i386.rpm glibc-2.2.4-32.25.i686.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:19:19 +1000 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0282-6: Low CentOS 2 i386 tzdata enhancement update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <4439DCC7.8050503(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHEA-2006:0282-6 tzdata enhancement update Files available: tzdata-2006a-2.EL2_1.3.noarch.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:05:15 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2006:0410-001 CentOS 4 i386 yumex - bugfix update (EXTRAS only) To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1144667115.9603.46.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CEBA-2006:0410-001 CentOS 4 i386 yumex - bugfix update (EXTRAS only) A new Yum Extender (yumex) has been released by the developer. Here is the upstream changelog: http://yumex.python-hosting.com/wiki/ReleaseHisory The following files are updated and syncing to the mirrors: i386: yumex-0.99.15-1.0.c4.noarch.rpm src: yumex-0.99.15-1.0.c4.src.rpm

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change grub default boot in windows
by dennis 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

hello to all gurus, How can I change my grub install if I want to make the windows partition the default boot option? Im running Centos 4.3, any suggestion,recommendation will appreciated thank you.. - = [ d E n N i s ] = -

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Jyran Glucky is out of the office.
by jglucky＠blueware.net 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

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CentOS 4 and multi TB storage solutions
by Avtar Gill 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hi, I am currently searching for storage solutions to use in an environment with two CentOS servers. Both are web/MySQL servers hosting several web applications that forward HTTP requests for files to storage servers (all with 3ware cards offering RAID5 arrays) that collectively serve 10TB of images. The data grows by 2TB every year. This has been working so far but this current implementation is facing growing pains so I'm looking at more scalable options. Something that will offer 12TB of storage and room to grow by adding more storage as needed. Currently the Apple Xserve RAID 7TB offerings connected to a QLogic SANbox 5200 fibre switch looks very appealing. Especially considering the Xserve RAIDs are listed in Red Hat's RHEL HCL and Google searches have revealed successful RHEL & Xserve implementations . But since this is still preliminary research having more options for comparison would be nice. Has anyone here had previous experience with the following two products (with CentOS servers of course): http://www.storcase.com/infostation/16bay3u_scsi.asp http://www.aberdeeninc.com/ABCATG/KITX525.htm Any opinions about these vendors and/or products would be greatly appreciated. Also feel free to suggest similar products. Thanks, Avtar Gill

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RE: [CentOS] redirecting some addresses with sendmail
by Mike Kercher 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

centos-bounces(a)centos.org <> scribbled on Sunday, April 09, 2006 3:14 PM: > I have a fully working cyrus+sendmail mail server hosting all > users for foo.com. Company foo has been acquired by company > bar and it has been decided that bar.com is the new domain of > choice. The administrator of bar.com has added a pile of > redirects to send various user(a)bar.com addresses so they come > up to my server at foo.com. My users have changed their From: > addresses to user(a)bar.com and we have a basic working system. > > However, if one user in former company foo mails another user > in the same office their mail now goes offsite to bar.com's > mail server and is then redirected back in again, which works > but is bad for bandwidth. > > Ideally I'd like to teach sendmail that a subset of bar.com > users are now local. However if I try this in the > /etc/aliases file, I get the warning "cannot alias non-local names". > > Has anyone got any better ideas how to do this- or a better > suggestion as to where I should ask this question again? Did you try the virtusertable instead of aliases yet? Mike

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RE: [CentOS] Several problems upgrading CentOS 4.1 to 4.3
by Mike Kercher 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

centos-bounces(a)centos.org <> scribbled on Sunday, April 09, 2006 12:43 AM: > I had a CentOS 4.1 installation (LVM over RAID1), and tried > to do an update to the 4.3 release. > Nothing too fancy, I did all the partitions with the > graphical installer for the > 4.1 Version. %<-----snip > > I'm not a newbie, I have quite a while working with linux, > and I just want to aware people who are going to perform an > update, skipping some version in between or perhaps moving to > 4.3 to be very carefull in the process. > I think this was a experience that was worth telling and > researching to find out what really happend. > Why did you not just 'yum upgrade' to go from 4.1 to 4.3? Mike

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Warm reboot failure
by Tarun Reddy 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

I recently bought a new Compaq Presario sr1710nx with 64-bit Sempron and last week installed Centos 4.3 64-bit on it. Worked like a champ until I attempted a reboot (using "init 6") and the computer hung after finishing the shutdown. Rebooting from cold worked, but without a warm reboot I was hesitant to use Centos. Since FC5 (64-bit as well) came out recently, I tried it and warm reboots work great. So it would seem that it is a kernel/driver issue, but I have no idea where to begin. Also I'm not if additional grub boot parameters might help. I won't be in front of the machine until this weekend, but since everyone else will be gone by them, I'd thought I'd ask you guys if you had any ideas. I really would like to get back the package stability of Centos. Fedora 5's updates are driving me nuts (too many, too often and too major). Any suggestions? (I'm going to try 32-bit Centos this weekend first) Thanks ahead of time, Tarun

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DUP! on ping reply
by Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hello List, I'm running a ping command to monitor our connection to the Internet. Around yesterday, I was getting a lot of (DUP!) text on the replies. Would anyone know what that means? -- Stand before it and there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. Stay with the ancient Tao, Move with the present.

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Several problems upgrading CentOS 4.1 to 4.3
by Ale Feltes Quenhan 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

I had a CentOS 4.1 installation (LVM over RAID1), and tried to do an update to the 4.3 release. Nothing too fancy, I did all the partitions with the graphical installer for the 4.1 Version. First, the installer did not find the previos installation, then I tried with the "upgradeany" option to the kernel, and from there the update ran apparently with no problem. When the boot loader section came, the setup was not able to find the previous working grub configuration, and the "update boot loader" option was disabled, so I marked the "new boot loader configuration" (don't remember the exact string. Then the installation process ended, and I did reboot. The "classic" "Error 15: File not found", from grub came. The description line was indeed, for the 2.6.9-34 (centos 4.3's relase), but I could not boot the system. I went into the "linux rescue" and from there, I started to find out some more weird stuff. First, the kernel package was not installed correctly, the files. /boot/* and /lib/modules/* weren't there, there was no entry on the rpm database, in fact the only probe that the kernel was "installed" was the grub entry. I tried to rebuild my old grub configuration, and boot with the previous kernel version I had. (The rescue disk, did not let me mount the cdrom, and I was without Internet to find out how to enable de /dev entry to acomplish the task). With the old kernel config, I could start my server, but I could not login from the console (tty*). Then I had to reboot in single mode, and from there perform the kernel installation from the 4.3's cdrom. /var/log/messages had this line for every login attempt: login [1234]: Module unknown. As this is a production server, I checked for all the services (ldap, samba, mysql, apache, etc.) and there where all working fine. I could log in from sshd without any problem (besides the bunch I'm writing here of course). Finally, when I checked on all the services and the console login problem, the rest was working as before. I went then to the "yum check-update", and found some "pam-*" update, so I did the corresponding "yum update". After pam's update, I could login again from the console, by the way "crond" tasks weren't working either, when console login was not working. That is not the end of this Crypt's Tale :( Now I have the system, running 4.3, yum does not report any update, but I have several duplicated rpm installed. :( I'm willing to try all this again, in a VMware, just to convince myself that I'm not crazy, and that ghosts does not exist :) upgrade.log has several lines like this: Upgrading kernel-2.6.9-34.EL.i686. error: %pre(kernel-2.6.9-34.EL.i686) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping kernel-2.6.9-34.EL Upgrading kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.EL.i686. error: %pre(kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.EL.i686) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.EL where the pre-install script fail, but how come the installer did not reported any problem during installation? I'm not a newbie, I have quite a while working with linux, and I just want to aware people who are going to perform an update, skipping some version in between or perhaps moving to 4.3 to be very carefull in the process. I think this was a experience that was worth telling and researching to find out what really happend. Best Regards Ale

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Some quick mrtg help
by Joe Klemmer 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Ok, I'm having a major brain hemorrhage or something. I just can't get mrtg setup on my box. I've done it before and it's not like it's brain surgery but there's a mental block or something that I just can't get around. All I want to do is have a nice, simple graph of the traffic on the box and the gateway in the standard day/week/month/year thing. I've got the mrtg rpm installed and it's all there. Could someone just give me a quick kickstart on this? Just something to dislodge the blockage. I'd be forever in your debt. Thank you, Joe

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Webcam software
by Thomas E Dukes 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Hello, I have a wireless webcam, Linksys WVC11B, that has its own internal network ip address. Is there any CentOS/Linux software that will allow me to capture the image and view it from the outside? TIA

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Updated Yum Docs
by Mike Stankovic 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

The docs in http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/ do not reflect yum of today ie the yum plugins. Where can updated yum docs be found? By browsing lists such as fedora-devel, centos one can see how the plugins have "stumbled in" but newbies/anyone wanting to pickup on the new features has nothing to read. Note there are yumex docs at the above location but my query relates to yum $ grep yum /var/log/rpmpkgs centos-yumconf-4-4.5.noarch.rpm yum-2.4.2-2.centos4.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-protectbase-1.1-1.c4.noarch.rpm yum-utils-0.5-1.c4.noarch.rpm yumex-0.99.11-1.0.c4.noarch.rpm ----------------------------------------------- Improve the mailing list by performing a simple search before posting and reading the faq/etiquette. Thank you!! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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SELINUX?
by Chris Peikert 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

While downloading almost all the guilds I came across a SELINUX Guide. Whats that for?

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Re: How to query the new style mirrorlist ?
by Steven Shiau 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Hi Karanbir: I suggest it's better to have releasever=4.3 work for the new mirrorlist, since releasever=4.3 is working with baseurl, i.e baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.3/os/i386/ It's better to be consistent that releasever=4.3 works with new mirrorlist, i.e. mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=4.3&arch=i386&repo=os Thanks. -- Steven

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cheep laser printer recomendations
by rado 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hi! I would like to hear what printers go good w/our operating system. While back, I should have checked w/y'all like I'm doing now but I just went ahead and bought a Konica-Minolta PagePro 1350W. Now that W at the end of 1350 is a huge word that means WINDOWS! grrrr! It's a great printer 21pgs/min etc but it doesn't like linux at all and their tech spt will tell you as much. I googled round while back...there is some stuff there w/it and windows but I have had no luck. I got it sold for what I pd. 150 bucks and now I want something good that we know works really well w/linux.. Whatcha all think? thx John Rose

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RE: [CentOS] heartbeat, drbd init scripts and chkconfig
by Nielsen, Steve 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

(sorry to keep top posting... outlook sucks). Johnny, The approach we took was to use the yum plugin protectbase since we have our own internal repository. I noticed when we protected the repository the plugin prints out "protected N RPMs" but does not print out what it protected (even with higher debugging). I thought it would be useful to have it print the package names/repos on protected RPMs. So, I patched the protect base plugin to do that. I would like to submit the patch. Would that patch go to you or somewhere else? BTW, thanks for your help on this. Thanks, Steve -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 2:36 PM To: CentOS ML Subject: RE: [CentOS] heartbeat, drbd init scripts and chkconfig On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 14:57 -0400, Nielsen, Steve wrote: > Johnny, > > I applied the patch (by hand since it would not apply cleanly) to 4.3's > chkconfig and it appears to fix the issue I was having. > > Generally, what are the next steps with this type of situation ? Does > centos patch and release or wait for redhat to patch and release? We will wait for RH to patch this issue. You can use the older chkconfig and ntsysv from my 4.2 link or patch yourself. > > If we decide internally to patch chkconfig rpm ourselves what are the > best practices to prevent over ride of a new chkconfig from you guys > which may not have the patch applied? The best way to prevent overwriting is to exempt the package from updates until it is fixed...but I suspect that the patch will be in any new version. If you use yum for updates, edit /etc/yum.conf and add a line that says: exclude=chkconfig ntsysv OR if you use up2date, edit the file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date and change this line: pkgSkipList=kernel*; to this: pkgSkipList=kernel*;chkconfig;ntsysv; Thanks, Johnny Hughes > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Johnny Hughes > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 1:25 PM > To: CentOS ML > Subject: Re: [CentOS] heartbeat, drbd init scripts and chkconfig > > On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 13:17 -0400, Nielsen, Steve wrote: > > Hi, > > > > ... snip ... > > To re-create this problem just install the 2 packages (heartbeat and > > drbd) then chkconfig off one and chkconfig list both services. > > > > OK ... I can confirm this problem ... turning off one of these turns on > the other. > > No idea why. > > The older version of chkconfig and ntsysv (from 4.2) does not have this > problem: > > http://vault.centos.org/4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/ > > I suspect that this is also caused by this bug: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182729 > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >

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kernel panics on bootup
by Fong Vang 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Is there a way to disable the auto reboot when the kernel panics during bootup? I tried passing "panic=0" using grub but it still reboots automatically. I need to at least pause it long enough to read the screen to determine the cause of the panic. Thanks for any help.

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Clock applet crashes
by Dick Roth 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

First things first: Kernel 2.6.9-34.EL, CentOS 4.2, Clock Applet "Clock 2.8.1", calendar client is Evolution 2.0.2. The problem: when clicking on the clock applet to open the calendar page all is well. However, when clicking again to close the calendar page, the applet crashes; "The Application "clock-applet" has quit unexpectedly." Has anyone experienced this problem? It's not a critical problem, but can get annoying at times. Thanks for any help out there, Dick -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" --Benjamin Franklin 1775

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ntp server
by Jerry Geis 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

I thought I'd play with making my system an ntp server. I did the "service ntpd start" it started OK. on my laptop I did "ntpdate IP" and it says no server for sync found. My firewall has open ntp:udp What did I miss? Thanks, Jerry

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RE: [CentOS] heartbeat, drbd init scripts and chkconfig
by Nielsen, Steve 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Johnny, I applied the patch (by hand since it would not apply cleanly) to 4.3's chkconfig and it appears to fix the issue I was having. Generally, what are the next steps with this type of situation ? Does centos patch and release or wait for redhat to patch and release? If we decide internally to patch chkconfig rpm ourselves what are the best practices to prevent over ride of a new chkconfig from you guys which may not have the patch applied? Thanks for your quick response. Steve -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 1:25 PM To: CentOS ML Subject: Re: [CentOS] heartbeat, drbd init scripts and chkconfig On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 13:17 -0400, Nielsen, Steve wrote: > Hi, > > ... snip ... > To re-create this problem just install the 2 packages (heartbeat and > drbd) then chkconfig off one and chkconfig list both services. > OK ... I can confirm this problem ... turning off one of these turns on the other. No idea why. The older version of chkconfig and ntsysv (from 4.2) does not have this problem: http://vault.centos.org/4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/ I suspect that this is also caused by this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182729 Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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OT Animation software
by Sam Drinkard 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Sorry for posting OT, but I know there is a huge user base here and just wanted to ask. I'm looking for something to animate some weather images, either png's .ps's or single page .pdf. I am aware of the AniS java animation, but I think that is a little (lot) beyond my skill level to set up. Would be nice to have something I could drop into CentOS and plug'n'play, but I'm able to do a little setup of software. Thanks... Sam

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heartbeat, drbd init scripts and chkconfig
by Nielsen, Steve 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hi, We are using the heartbeat and drbd packages from latest centos (4.3) extras repository. Upon installation of both packages I noticed that if you "chkconfig heartbeat off" that will cause drbd to chkconfig'ed on. And visa versa. After doing some trouble shooting it turns out the "BEGIN INIT INFO" sections appear to be the cause. drbd has: ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: drbd # Required-Start: $network $syslog sshd # Required-Stop: # Default-Start: 3 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 2 6 # Description: Control drbd resources. ### END INIT INFO heartbeat has: ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Description: heartbeat is a basic high-availability subsystem. # It will start services at initialization, and when machines go up # or down. This version will also perform IP address takeover using # gratuitous ARPs. It works correctly for a 2-node configuration, # and is extensible to larger configurations. # # It implements the following kinds of heartbeats: # - Bidirectional Serial Rings ("raw" serial ports) # - UDP/IP broadcast (ethernet, etc) # - UDP/IP multicast (ethernet, etc) # - Unicast heartbeats # - "ping" heartbeats (for routers, switches, etc.) # (to be used for breaking ties in 2-node systems # and monitoring networking availability) # # Short-Description: High-availability services. # Required-Start: $network $time $syslog # Required-Stop: $network $time $syslog # Default-Start: 3 5 # Default-Stop: 0 6 ### END INIT INFO Is this a bug in how chkconfig handles the "INIT INFO" sections or the way its supposed to work? I don't see any reference to the other in the "INIT INFO" sections so I would not think its supposed to work this way. Can someone offer some clarification ? To re-create this problem just install the 2 packages (heartbeat and drbd) then chkconfig off one and chkconfig list both services. Thanks, Steve

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KDE vs Gnome
by Chris Peikert 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

I think im using Gnome but im not sure. As for using logout command it didn't work that's why I got puzzled and had to ask online since I couldn't find the GUI one which was there but apparently im too blind to see. Speaking of GUI side of things that's why I made the comment about no search features in CentOS. None of my menus offer a search feature in the GUI so I would have to research the command line search feature. I know its FIND but I couldn't figure out how to pull up the Help info on FIND to figure out how to use it. As for the HELP option in the GUI strangly it doesn't contain any information so I would assume it didn't get loaded in the Install. As for the Manuals like I stated before.I just got the valid link last night to the right manuals and I am in the process of printing them out. Im a newb to Linux and so far Linux has not been newb friendly even though the people are. Finding Newb Linux info isn't easy either that's why I been mainly using this mail list. I know I know everyone says to use Google and if I would of found it on Google I wouldn't of asked here. Hopefully as I learn Linux more I will know how to search for the information better to get the answers I am looking for. My next quest is to figure out how to tell if certain hardware drivers are loaded and if not how to download and load em. I been doing everything from basic install and when I noticed the NIC Card was working without having to do anything else I stopped there. Now that I have the manuals printed or will soon I will go through everything to see what there is to see. Thanks again.

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SELinux policy change in new update?
by Toby Schaefer 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hello all, I’ve recently run some updates on my CentOS4 installation via yum, and about a week after putting them into production I’m getting the follow reports in logwatch: WARNING: Kernel Errors Present audit(1144312701.146:806): avc: denied { ioctl } for pid=7589 comm="wget" name="error_log" dev=dm-0 in...: 1 Time(s) audit(1144312701.146:807): avc: denied { ioctl } for pid=7589 comm="wget" name="error_log" dev=dm-0 in...: 1 Time(s) audit(1144312722.110:808): avc: denied { ioctl } for pid=7595 comm="perl" name="error_log" dev=dm-0 in...: 1 Time(s) audit(1144312743.210:809): avc: denied { ioctl } for pid=7601 comm="perl" name="error_log" dev=dm-0 in...: 1 Time(s) audit(1144312747.159:810): avc: denied { ioctl } for pid=7603 comm="perl" name="error_log" dev=dm-0 in...: 1 Time(s) Was this caused by a recent update? My tripwire logs don’t show anything funny going on, and otherwise the server hasn’t changed a bit. Any help, insight, or RTFM's would be greatly appreciated. :) Thanks, Toby

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Chances of 4.3+ version with latest kernel
by Jerry Geis 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

All, I had a terrible time installing 4.2 on an ASUS NFORCE x86_64 motherboard. I did manage to get it working... Also the compaq V4000 laptop same issues. I thought I would try 4.3 and see if it was better... Seems to be the same really. All the "fixes" the kernel needs were not included in the 4.3 kernel. What are the changes of a 4.3+ version that runs a 2.6.16 kernel? I know this is not compatible to RH stuff but it sure would be sweet! The centos team is doing a great job. Again... just a thought. Jerry

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Acrobat Reader broken on CentOS 4.3
by Ron Loftin 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

I have had Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.1 installed on my CentOS 4.2 desktop and it worked fine. After upgrading to 4.3, I can't get it to come up anymore. I downloaded Acrobat Reader 7.0.5 and it does the same. I'd appreciate any suggestions on what to look for, since the executable and the startup scripts are not giving me any useful errors to chase. -- Ron Loftin reloftin(a)twcny.rr.com "God, root, what is difference ?" Piter from UserFriendly

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RE: [CentOS] Thanks
by Bowie Bailey 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Chris Peikert wrote: > As for rebooting vs logging out ... I still haven't figured out how > to log out. For Gnome: Click on Actions, click on Log Out. I don't have KDE installed, but there should be a log out option on the menus somewhere for it too. -- Bowie

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Re: How to query the new style mirrorlist ?
by Steven Shiau 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hi Karanbir: Got it, no special reason for 4.3, so 4 is working. Thanks. -- Steven

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 14, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '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. CEEA-2006:0277 CentOS 4 i386 tzdata - enchancement update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CEEA-2006:0277 CentOS 4 x86_64 tzdata - enchancement update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 18:40:36 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEEA-2006:0277 CentOS 4 i386 tzdata - enchancement update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1144366836.31680.235.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2006:0277 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2006-0277.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: tzdata-2006a-2.EL4.noarch.rpm src: tzdata-2006a-2.EL4.src.rpm

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MySQL 4.1 on CentOS 3
by Craig White 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Have a situation where I am either going to have to update entire system to CentOS 4 (don't want to do that) or install MySQL 4 on CentOS 3 system. I can see rpm's for RHEL 3 on MySQL's web site. I didn't see any packages for MySQL 4 in dev.centos.org or centosplus so I would suspect that the MySQL site is where I should get them. Anybody recommend otherwise? Other than doing an dump of all the db's prior to installing, should I do anything else? Craig

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How to query the new style mirrorlist ?
by Steven Shiau 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hi, >From CentOS 4.3, I saw the yum repository setting /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo is something like: -------------------- mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch… -------------------- Is that possible I can query the result by lynx ? I have a script to get the URL and path in old yum repository style, but broken in this. When I use "lynx http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=4.3&arch=i386&repo=os", it shows me "4.3 hasnt been released yet". I need to get the result like the baseurl style "http://free.nchc.org.tw/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/" or a list of urls. Thanks in advance. -- Steven Shiau

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Apache - mod_proxy
by Tom Brown 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

This is really an apache question but if anyone knows offhand it would be nice to know... How do i build a standalone mod_proxy.so module that i can use to load into an apache install that has loadable module support compiled in? thanks

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RE: [CentOS] cheep laser printer recomendations
by Mike Kercher 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of rado > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 3:55 PM > To: centos msg list > Subject: [CentOS] cheep laser printer recomendations > > Hi! > I would like to hear what printers go good w/our > operating system. > > While back, I should have checked w/y'all like I'm > doing now but I just went ahead and bought a Konica-Minolta > PagePro 1350W. Now that W at the end of 1350 is a huge word > that means WINDOWS! grrrr! It's a great printer 21pgs/min etc > but it doesn't like linux at all and their tech spt will tell > you as much. I googled round while back...there is some stuff > there w/it and windows but I have had no luck. I got it sold > for what I pd. 150 bucks and now I want something good that > we know works really well w/linux.. > > Whatcha all think? > > thx > > John Rose > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I'd grab a Laserjet 4100N/TN/DTN off Ebay for about $200 or so. Mike

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Screen sizes
by Chris Peikert 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

How do you resize the screen to fit everything in it? I cant tell what the resolution is set at but would like to change it.

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How to install network Printers
by Chris Peikert 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

I have a windows XP machine with a printer shared out. How do I attach to my workstation and install that printer on the CentOS box so I can print out things?

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w stopped working after upgrading procps
by Chris Croome 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hi I have just installed a lot of updates on a CentOS 4 box and w appears to have stopped working -- this machine has 3 or 4 people connected via ssh, yet this is all that is outputted: # w 20:46:32 up 301 days, 3:21, 0 users, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.04 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT "rpmverify procps" returns nothing so the package hasn't been messed with. I don't want to reboot the server -- does any have any suggestions what could be done to get w working again? Thanks Chris -- Chris Croome <chris(a)webarchitects.co.uk> web design http://www.webarchitects.co.uk/ web content management http://mkdoc.com/

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OT - Samba 3.0.22 Security Update
by Mike Stankovic 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

For those who have the 3.0.21b or 3.0.21c, Samba 3.0.22 was released as a security update (about a week ago). (I just saw someone on the centos list with 3.0.21c so i thought I'd post this announcement for all others.) The downside to getting non-distro updates from upstream is that you are responsible for watching out for security releases. For those with the CentOS version (samba-3.0.10-1.4E.6) it already includes all available errata. Official Announcement from samba.org:- Security Release: Samba 3.0.22 Available for Download This is a security release of Samba. The Samba 3.0.21 release series (including the patch releases a through c) has been discovered to expose the clear text of the server's machine account credentials in the winbind log files when the log level is set to 5 or higher. Details can be found in the online release notes or in the original security announcement for CAN-2006-1059. The Samba 3.0.22 source code can be downloaded now. The GnuPG signature for the uncompressed tarball is also available. If you prefer to download just the diff from 3.0.21c to 3.0.22, the patch file (gpg signature) is also available. Precompiled packages for Fedora Core 4, RedHat 9, all SuSE Linux products, and Solaris are available in the Binary_Packages download area. Packages for other platforms will be available shortly. ----------------------------------------------- Improve the mailing list by performing a simple search before posting and reading the faq/etiquette. Thank you!! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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GNUe tools on CentOS
by Gates, Robert L . 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Everyone, Does anyone use the GNUe tool suite on CentOS? Any gotcha's ? We are running CentOS 4.3. Bob

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additional yum repos for 4.3
by Nat Gross 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hi; On my Fedora Systems [/etc/yum.repos.d] I have the following repos: dag.repo dries.repo fedora-extras.repo fedora.repo fedora-updates.repo freshrpms.repo livna.repo Two questions: 1) Where can I get a .repo file (with centos url's of course) for the baseic stuff like updates and extras. 1b) Can I use redhat repos? 2) What about the other guys, livna, dag, dries, freshrpms. Which one of these is safe to use on a production server in conjunction with the repos used in answer to question 1 above? 2b Are the url's the same? Thank you all. nat, a centos newbie.

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SAMBA and Clamav
by Adriano Frare 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Dear Friends, When I configure the SMB.CONF to using active clamav with vfs the directory shared don't more access. See below the configuratiom of file smb.conf [BACKUP] path = /data/bkp comment = Backup browseable = yes public = yes read only = no share modes = yes guest ok = yes create mode = 0777 # Configuracao Lixeira recycle:exclude = *.tmp *.temp *.o *.obj ~$* recycle:keeptree = True recycle:touch = True recycle:versions = True recycle:noversions = .doc|.xls|.ppt recycle:repository = .lixeira/%U recycle:maxsize = 10000000 vfs objects = recycle, vscand-clamav # Anti-Virus #vfs object = vscan-clamav vscan-clamav:config-file = /etc/samba/vscan-clamav.conf I am using SAMBA version 3.0.21c on CENTOS 4.3 Thanks Adriano

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CentOS 3.6 yum update signiture question
by mrrs 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Greetings all - I just downloaded the 3.6 isos, and installed them. I had no problems on the install. When I did a yum -y update to catch everything up, it ran for a while, then I got the following error message: ------- Downloading Packages warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 025e513b Error: Could not find the GPG Key necessary to validate pkg /var/cache/yum/update/packages/netpbm-devel-9.24-11.30.4.i386.rpm Error: You may want to run yum clean or remove the file: /var/cache/yum/update/packages/netpbm-devel-9.24-11.30.4.i386.rpm Error: You may also check that you have the correct GPG keys installed [root@susan root]# ------- I ran yum clean and deleted the file as suggested, with no change. Does this file use a different key than the others? Is there something else I need to download to make this work? Thank you for your assisstance... markus __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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YUM Plugins: I seem to be "unplugged"?
by William L. Maltby 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Have followed all instructions, googled and read Johnny's November post, went to Duke (not physically, web-spherically, although it's only 45 minutes away),... and still can't see how I have protectbase operational. Installed: [root@wlmlfs08 ~]# yum -C --disablerepo=rpmforge list|grep yum centos-yumconf.noarch 4-4.5 installed yum.noarch 2.4.2-2.centos4 installed yum-plugin-fastestmirror.noarch 0.2.4-3.c4 installed yum-utils.noarch 0.5-1.c4 installed yumex.noarch 0.99.11-1.0.c4 installed Haven't been able to find a protect base python plugin from CentOS, although I clearly recall it being said that CentOS supported it and the fastest mirrors. Need to get it from the Duke plugin web page? Or what did I do wrong? TIA -- Bill

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CentOS FastTrack repository
by Johnny Hughes 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

The upstream provider has started a new channel called fastrack. It is detailed here (see the whole thread): https://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2006-April/msg00001.html CentOS will also build the fastrack SRPMS. We have created separate repositories in CentOS-3 and CentOS-4 called fasttrack. (I know the spelling is different, that is by design. We don't want to use the name of the upstream provider's program. Same as our use of CSGFS for Cluster Suite / Global File System, and not the upstream acronyms.) The purpose of the CentOS-FastTrack repo is to provide Bugfix and Enhancement updates for people who choose to do these updates BETWEEN the point releases. For example, there are currently 7 SRPMS that have been built for the CentOS-4 fasttrack repo ... they are here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/fasttrack/SRPMS/ These changes (or maybe newer ones for those packages) will be rolled into the CentOS-4.4 when the time comes. What fasttrack will do is level out the update cycle for those who want to do bugfix and enhancement updates that way ... the packages are fully tested and part of the CentOS tree. If you want to get the latest bugfix and enhancement updates as soon as they are available, you can use the fasttrack repo. If you want your bugfix and enhancements to happen exactly as they do now (at point release time), don't use the fasttrack repo. Security updates will continue to happen as they do now. ------------------ To enable the fasttrack repo for CentOS-4, save this .repo file: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/fasttrack/CentOS-fasttrack.repo to your /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory. ---------------- To enable fasttrack for CentOS-3, you will need to add an entry in your /etc/yum.conf file. See this Readme for instructions on that entry: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/fasttrack/Readme.txt Before anyone asks ... CentOS-3.7 is in progress; therefore, the CentOS-3 fasttrack repo is currently not populated. If will be populated shortly after CentOS-3.7 is released. --------------- CentOS does not CONTAIN the upstream provider's product and is not affiliated in any way with the upstream provider or their products. CentOS is built from publicly available, open source SRPMS. If you have any questions ... see these links: http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=2 http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=13 --------------- Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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