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Fwd: Re: [Dovecot] Timeout when downloading messages
by spart cus 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

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ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY & IBM Thinkpad R40
by Max 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Does anyone have any experience with the combination of a Thinkpad R40 and the ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY video chip? I've had CentOS 4.1, 4.2, and now 4.3 running just great with 1024x768 resolution, but according the IBM specs, this chip is capable of 1280x1024. A quick lspci -v | grep ATI spewed the following: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY (prog-if 00 [VGA]) I can successfully change the settings under the display menu to 1280x1024, but upon restarting X the default greeter crashes. After that, it picks another greeter and allows me to log in, with it still picking 1024x768. I've played around with trying to manually change the settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. I've tried various depth settings to no avail. The section identifying the card in xorg.conf is: Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "radeon" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "ATI Radeon Mobility M6" EndSection According to what I've been reading, that's what is supposed to be there. I've found a few things stating that DRI could be a problem, but I'm not too familiar with this. Also, a friend has an R40 but has the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 chip, instead of the M6 like mine. He's also running CentOS 4.3 and having the exact same problem I'm having. Same deal, according to the IBM specs his chipset as well as mine should be capable of 1280x1024. Any thoughts or related experience with this? If not, it's not a huge deal, I've been using it 1024x768 for well over a year now, but the extra resolution would be wonderful. Thanks! Max

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Re: [CentOS] Server hosed... maybe?
by Jay Leafey 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

I THINK I found the problem. As usual, a user/keyboard disconnect error. :^} I rebooted the box this morning into single-user mode and started looking at config files, comparing them to it's twin. Nothing obvious jumped out (of course). I ran authconfig and turned off LDAP authenticaion, tne rebooted the box. Once it came back up, I was able to log in. I re-ran authconfig and turned LDAP authentication back on and was able to log into a VC or remotely via SSH with no problems. I did see another difference that may or man not have had anything to do with it. The "kernel" line in grub.conf had "console=tty0" at the end, but only on the box I was having problems with. It had been uses with a serial console a while back, but not any more. I'm not sure if removing it had anything to do with the problem, but it's working now. I'm going to try to recreate the problem, so I may have something more definitive later. Anyway, it seems happy now. -- Jay Leafey - Memphis, TN jay.leafey(a)mindless.com

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Server hosed... maybe?
by Jay Leafey 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

I was busy congratulating myself about NOT having a problem with updating my CentOS-4 servers when I ran into a problem with a couple of CentOS-3 servers. The Gods hate the proud... Anyway, I updated two identical servers recently and got the new kernel (2.4.21-40) along with the new initscripts, vixie-cron, squid, and gnupg packages. I waited until the weekend to reboot one of the two boxes and was encouraged to see that it appeared to come up OK and all the servies started with no apparent problems. Later on I tried to log in via SSH and was unable to get in. The login apparently succeeded, but I got no response at all after the password entry. I wasn't able to log in via the console either, same lack of response. I rebooted (ctl-alt-del) into single-user mode, which worked fine, and set up syslog to send all messages to /dev/tty12 for debugging purposes and enabled sysrq, then booted back into runlevel 3. Again, no response after the username/password entry and no messages on tty12 indicating any problems. Just no shell response at all on root or any of the user accounts set up on the system. The box is set up to authenticate against LDAP, but as I mentioned there were no errors from the syslog output that seemed relevant. I'm probably going to set up a shell on one of the virtual consoles to debug this some more, but thought I might ask if anybody else has seen anything like this. All other services (http and a Sun directory server) start up fine, but I cannot get a shell in multi-user mode. I'd like to avoid a rebuild, but that would not be catastrophic as this box is part of a redundant pair. Anybody got any constructive thoughts on this? -- Jay Leafey - Memphis, TN jay.leafey(a)mindless.com

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SATA error
by Fajar Priyanto 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Hi all, Finally I temporarily migrate my mailserver to another box. It has been experiencing troubles with the SATA discs (Maxtor and Western Digital). I then upgraded the kernel to the latest one: 2.6.9-34.ELsmp and now smartd can run. When I do: smartcl -d ata -a /dev/sda, it says some errors but I don't know what does it mean. This is the result: http://pastebin.com/624613 The problems it encoutered were: time out on device. Pls take a look at the pastebin for details. Is the drive still ok? Running smartcl on sdb gives no error. Thanks, -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 15:15:23 up 6:20, 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org

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updating ruby
by Roger D Vargas 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

I want to install Ruby on Rails, but I need at least, Ruby 1.8.2. There is no update for ruby in the repositories. How can I find a a ruby 1.8.2 rpm that works in Centos 4.2? -- http://dsgp.blogspot.com | Linux, programación, juegos Have no place I can be since I found Serenity But you can’t take the sky from me ______________________________________________ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com

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Is the SRPM for kernel-2.6.9-34.106.unsupported available?
by Dave Hatton 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Hi, I can't see the SRPM for kernel-2.6.9-34.106.unsupported in the centosplus repo. Is it just kernel-2.6.9-34.EL.src.rpm with an modified .config or were any additional patches added? Thanks Daveh

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kernel source
by Andrew Zahn 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Hi, I am trying to install the kernel src rpm that I've downloaded from the CentOS ftp, kernel-2.6.9-22.EL.src.rpm. I hope to compile the kernel with XFS enabled. However, I have tried to simply run: [root@se4 ~]# rpm -iv kernel-2.6.9-22.EL.src.rpm and it complains back: warning: group builder does not exist - using root warning: user builder does not exist - using root warning: group builder does not exist - using root warning: user builder does not exist - using root warning: group builder does not exist - using root warning: user builder does not exist - using root .... then an rpm -q kernel-2.6.9-22.EL.src.rpm says: package kernel-2.6.9-22.EL.src.rpm is not installed Anyone know what is going on?? ps. I have tried to install the CentOSplus kernel with xfs and that is completely unstable for me. thanks, Andrew

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Extremely slow disk transfers with SATA disks
by Vanja Hrustic 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

I have installed CentOS 4.2, recently, on new computer. Everything seemed to work fine. However, we've found out that disk transfers are incredibly slow, and I just can't figure out what to do in order to fix it. Computer is now running CentOS 4.3 (updated it 1 hour ago), and same thing is still present. I hoped kernel upgrade might fix it, but it didn't. Computer has 2 SATA disks, 200GB (Maxtor 6Y200M0) and 80GB (Maxtor 6L080M0). There are no errors or any other indications of problems in logs/dmesg. Copying 500MB file takes around 210 seconds. Around 2.3MB/sec. Doesn't matter if I am copying from one hard disk to another, or onto the same hard disk. When copying, vmstat shows: r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 0 160 525928 1060 278044 0 0 1609 1112 1387 1146 9 4 39 47 0 0 160 525928 1060 278044 0 0 0 0 1084 745 0 0 100 0 0 0 160 525844 1060 278044 0 0 0 0 1067 795 2 0 98 0 0 0 160 525844 1060 278044 0 0 0 0 1084 745 1 0 99 0 0 0 160 525844 1072 278044 0 0 0 156 1073 757 0 0 100 0 0 1 160 525564 1148 278228 0 0 240 0 1129 1136 2 1 77 20 0 1 160 522708 1176 281256 0 0 1600 0 1283 1155 0 2 0 98 0 1 160 519380 1184 284568 0 0 1672 0 1327 1231 0 2 0 98 3 1 160 516404 1196 287368 0 0 1412 0 1264 1126 1 1 0 98 0 1 160 513524 1196 290424 0 0 1536 0 1353 1926 11 2 0 87 0 3 160 510132 1208 293544 0 0 1544 7348 1407 2163 24 6 0 71 0 1 160 513780 1216 289972 0 0 1412 140 1360 1536 9 3 0 88 2 0 160 515316 1220 288464 0 0 1104 0 1341 2067 47 4 0 49 0 1 160 518996 1216 284608 0 0 1712 0 1333 1676 34 7 0 59 0 1 160 516820 1224 286832 0 0 2052 0 1318 2025 25 4 0 71 1 2 160 512388 1228 291024 0 0 2952 8736 1433 1431 6 4 0 90 2 1 160 504772 1244 295304 0 0 3076 76 1382 1453 15 5 0 80 0 1 160 502340 1252 301096 0 0 3332 0 1358 1624 7 5 0 88 0 1 160 495236 1260 308216 0 0 3588 0 1323 1631 2 3 0 95 1 1 160 487620 1268 315640 0 0 3716 0 1355 1175 7 2 0 91 0 2 160 480708 1276 322120 0 0 3204 16732 1423 1354 2 5 0 93 You can see text version here (in case this got wrapped): http://www.vanja.com/vmstat.txt I've tried vmstat on my machine, with IDE disks, and I've noticed that I ave much less 'cs' (context switches), although it might be because I'm not having as many processes in the background (problematic computer is running KDE :). On my computer, number of blocks in (bi) gets into tens of thousands, while problematic computer has 1500-3000 bs/second. Does anyone know what I might do in order to find what the problem might be? I couldn't find any SATA specific tools, which might help with troubleshooting. hdparm -tT tests show: /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 2408 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1202.98 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 150 MB in 3.02 seconds = 49.61 MB/sec /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 2628 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1313.54 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 166 MB in 3.02 seconds = 54.88 MB/sec All filesystems are ext3. This "problematic" computer has nforce3 motherboard, I have nforce2. Same CentOS, but no SATA on my computer. This really affects complete performance of computer, and any help or ideas are welcome. Btw, no problems with transfer under Windows :( Thanks. Vanja

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Python in Centos 4
by Kari Salovaara 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hi, I should upgrade Python to 2.4.x due some application needs so. At the moment version is 2.3.4. What do I blow out if I uninstall present version and compile new version manually ? Many thanks in advance, Kari -- Kari Salovaara Hanko, Finland

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Odd installation hang.
by Lamar Owen 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

For the archives: I had an odd installation hang on an older Athlon MB; KT133 I believe. SuSE 10.0 and Fedora Core 5 installers ran fine; CentOS 4.2 and 4.3 hung with the last line on the screen referencing running /sbin/loader (or is that /sbin/installer....don't typically see it enough to remember); the cursor froze at that point. SuSE 10.0 successfully installed on this box. After trying all the normal tricks, like turning ACPI off, using the BIOS IRQ table, etc, I noticed that the FC5 installer mentioned something about disabling IRQ6. IRQ6?!? That's the floppy controller; but there's no floppy drive configured or cabled. Hmmm.... no place in the BIOS to disable the floppy controller ?!? Ok, let's tell it it has a 3.5 1.44MB floppy (even though it doesn't!), and not to stop on floppy errors. Lo and behold, that fixed the hang. Something in the CentOS 4 installer that runs right after /sbin/loader was hanging, unless it had a floppy out there, even when there was no floppy out there. But, and I repeat, SuSE 10.0 installed flawlessly, and the FC5 installer came up fine. But the CentOS 4 installer did not until I told the BIOS to lie about having a floppy. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu

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Shells
by Scott Silva 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

This is giving me some grief, and I couldn't get anything decent from Google. What shell is the best to allow things like vacation to work, but not allow logins. It seems that /bin/false used to work in RedHat 9, but not in Centos 4. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

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Sun quad fast ethernet: Failed to allocate mem resource
by Louis Lagendijk 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hello all, I have this nice Sun quad fast ethernet card that I would like to use in my Centos server. I have used it in the past on my old server without problems. When I insert it in my new server (Epox 8k3a AMD mobo, XP1800 processor) I get the following messages in dmesg: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:00.1[B] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 sunhme.c:v2.02 24/Aug/2003 David S. Miller (davem(a)redhat.com) divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0-3: Quattro HME (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100baseT Ethernet DEC 21153 PCI Bridge eth0: Quattro HME slot 0 (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100baseT Ethernet 08:00:20:b4:2f:6c ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.1[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:1000000@e3000000 for 0000:02:01.1 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1 eth1: Quattro HME slot 1 (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100baseT Ethernet 08:00:20:06:ad:d7 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:02.1[B] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:1000000@e3000000 for 0000:02:02.1 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth2 eth2: Quattro HME slot 2 (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100baseT Ethernet 08:00:20:a7:0e:32 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:03.1[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:1000000@e3000000 for 0000:02:03.1 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth3 eth3: Quattro HME slot 3 (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100baseT Ethernet 08:00:20:43:80:28 the MAC address for eth0 is correct, the other mac-adressess appear to be random. I have been googling around, but have not been able to find a solution. Does anybody hee have an idea what the problem migt be, or how to tackle the problem? for the record: I am running the 2.6.9-34.EL kernel, but had the problem with older kernels as well. As the card worked under Centos 4 on my Asus K7M mobo, it looks as a mobo or bios problem, but I am not sure. Any help is very much appreciated. kind regards, Louis -- Louis Lagendijk <louis(a)lagendijk.xs4all.nl>

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Sendmail vulnerability
by Peter Farrow 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Dear All, I noticed that sendmail rpms were updated by yum a day or so ago, however, how can I check if the versions installed are patched for the recently exposed exploit.... I guess that since I am running sendmail-8.13.1-3 (which appears to be the latest according to yum) and the articles describe 8.13.6 as having the fix that I may be vulnerable.... P.

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slashdotted
by Chris Mauritz 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Johnny, I must say that I think you've got the patience of a saint. Good job on taking the high road. 8-) Cheers,

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4.3 upgrade transaction error (smartd & smartctl)
by Ed Morrison 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Anyone else run into this error? Will renaming this files allow to me run a successful yum update? Is there a better way? Transaction Check Error: file /etc/rc.d/init.d/smartd from install of kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.80 conflicts with file from package smartmontools-5.33-3 file /usr/sbin/smartctl from install of kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.80 conflicts with file from package smartmontools-5.33-3 file /usr/sbin/smartd from install of kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.80 conflicts with file from package smartmontools-5.33-3 Thanks. Ed

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ipw2200 & ieee80211 latest versions
by Ian Harper 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Has anyone else had problems compiling the ieee80211 ? I am getting kzalloc errors. I see there was a fix for RHEL but obviously isnt picking up the fact I am on Centos. Ian

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CentOS SPARC Exception
by Henry Rodriguez 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

I'm intalling CentOS Sparc on a Sun Netra T1, and i got a warning that says: the disk geometry (17274, 64, 32 )deosn't match with the disk geometry label (7508, 19, 248). I continued with the installation and after i choose the packages i need, i got an exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1176 in intf.run (id, dispatch, configFileData) File "/local/builder/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.25 //usr /lib/anaconda/text.py", line 510, in run Then the installation aborts. I don't know if one thing is related to the other. WHAT CAN I DO TO SOLVE THE EXCEPTION?? Thanks again.. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.

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Installing: difference between linux and i586 mode
by iagosineiro＠yahoo.es 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hi. When you installing CenOS 4 it offers two options linux and i586. What is the best option for an Pentium III? And for a Pentium IV?

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compiling Zaptel-1.2.4 on CentOS 4.3
by Mark Quitoriano 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hi Guys, Im having a problem compiling zaptel 1.2.4 on CentOS 4.3, anyone encountered this problem before? Here's the error i got: make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-34.EL/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/zaptel-1.2.4 XPPMOD= modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-34.EL-i686' CC [M] /usr/src/zaptel-1.2.4/zaptel.o /usr/src/zaptel-1.2.4/zaptel.c:384: error: syntax error before "zone_lock" /usr/src/zaptel-1.2.4/zaptel.c:384: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `zone_lock' /usr/src/zaptel-1.2.4/zaptel.c:384: error: incompatible types in initialization /usr/src/zaptel-1.2.4/zaptel.c:384: error: initializer element is not constant /usr/src/zaptel-1.2.4/zaptel.c:384: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /usr/src/zaptel-1.2.4/zaptel.c:385: error: syntax error before "chan_lock" /usr/src/zaptel-1.2.4/zaptel.c:385: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `chan_lock' /usr/src/zaptel-1.2.4/zaptel.c:385: error: incompatible types in initialization /usr/src/zaptel-1.2.4/zaptel.c:385: error: initializer element is not constant /usr/src/zaptel-1.2.4/zaptel.c:385: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /usr/src/zaptel-1.2.4/zaptel.c:188: warning: 'fcstab' defined but not used make[2]: *** [/usr/src/zaptel-1.2.4/zaptel.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/src/zaptel-1.2.4] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-34.EL-i686' make: *** [linux26] Error 2 -- Regards, Mark Quitoriano, CCNA Fan the flame... http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=user/register&r=19441

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xpdf
by boricua 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

i want to change the mime type for pdf from ggv to xpdf i cant see to find where to do it appreciate any advice

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pc speaker mess
by Ulrik S. Kofod 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

I wanted to enable my pc speaker and ref. http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=855 this should work: /sbin/modprobe pcspkr and then it worked!!! a little too much I might add, I thought the fire alarm went off ;) a /sbin/modprobe -r pcspkr helped a little, it stopped beeping and just gave one long sound. I couldnt take it anymore so I rebooted it to make it stop. Is this a bug ?? It is a CentOS 4.2 updated last time just before 4.3 was released. best regards Ulrik

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 13, Issue 11
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '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-2006:0203-8: Low CentOS 2 i386 ypserv bug fix update (John Newbigin) 2. CESA-2006:0209-5: Low CentOS 2 i386 krb5 bug fix update (John Newbigin) 3. CESA-2005:833-2: Low CentOS 2 i386 emacs bug fix update (John Newbigin) 4. CESA-2005:483-5: Low CentOS 2 i386 nss_db bug fix update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:30:31 +1100 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0203-8: Low CentOS 2 i386 ypserv bug fix update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <44273227.7080109(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: RHBA-2006:0203-8 ypserv bug fix update Files available: ypserv-2.8-9.23.i386.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, 27 Mar 2006 11:30:27 +1100 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0209-5: Low CentOS 2 i386 krb5 bug fix update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <44273223.5060205(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: RHBA-2006:0209-5 krb5 bug fix update Files available: krb5-devel-1.2.2-40.i386.rpm krb5-libs-1.2.2-40.i386.rpm krb5-server-1.2.2-40.i386.rpm krb5-workstation-1.2.2-40.i386.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, 27 Mar 2006 11:30:34 +1100 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:833-2: Low CentOS 2 i386 emacs bug fix update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <4427322A.9000604(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: RHBA-2005:833-2 emacs bug fix update Files available: emacs-20.7-41.3.i386.rpm emacs-el-20.7-41.3.i386.rpm emacs-leim-20.7-41.3.i386.rpm emacs-nox-20.7-41.3.i386.rpm emacs-X11-20.7-41.3.i386.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: 4 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:30:38 +1100 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:483-5: Low CentOS 2 i386 nss_db bug fix update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <4427322E.8080705(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: RHBA-2005:483-5 nss_db bug fix update Files available: nss_db-2.2-13.1.3.i386.rpm nss_db-compat-2.2-13.1.3.i386.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 13, Issue 11 ***********************************************

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Help on custmizing CentOS
by Imtiyaz Ansari 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hi all, I wanted to create a custom CentOS single CD by removing some RPMS from the stock.I am using CentOS 4.2. Does anybody has any documentation or so then please send me, I will be thankful to you. I have tried a little bit but no success. I want to create a bootable CD, Please help ... Waiting for reply............ Regards Imtiyaz

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XLS for php4?
by Howard Fore 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Anyone know where I can find an RPM (or a yum repository) for the PHP4 XSL module? -- Howard Fore, howard.fore(a)gmail.com "The less you know, the more you believe." - U2, Last Night On Earth

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packaging local builds
by James B. Byrne 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

I have built software on unix/Linuix many times, but now I want to move two packages that I have built on one machine to another (both CentOS4.2), and the time seems ripe to discover how to use rpm. The packages are subversion-1.3.0 and swig-1.3.28. How do I turn the the results of the build process into rpms? As I am a digest subscriber, the favour of a direct copy of any reply to the list is appreciated. Regards, Jim -- *** e-mail is not a secure channel *** mailto:byrnejb.<token>@harte-lyne.ca James B. Byrne Harte & Lyne Limited vox: +1 905 561 1241 9 Brockley Drive fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario <token> = hal Canada L8E 3C3

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installation via telnet
by Dave 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

Hello, Is it possible to do a telnet installation of centos 4.x? When i was using fc3 that was doable with a command at the boot prompt like: telnet ip=address netmask=mask gateway=address ksdevice=/dev/eth0 this works now, i.e. the box's ip comes up on the network, pinging it works, but a telnet connection from another unix box immediately gets a connection closed by foreign host msg and all further atempts are refused. Thanks. Dave.

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yum update killed on cleanup stage - anything to worry about?
by Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

Hello everyone, I had to kill yum while it's on the cleanup stage (somehow it stalled so i killed it). Should I be worried about anything in this situation? If so, how do I go about fixing it? Thanks and best regards, Matt -- 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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SPARC
by Anthony Gabrielson 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

Hello, I just wanted to get an idea of whats going on with the SPARC port. I tried to get the ISO provided on the website going with a Sun Blade 100 and hung each in one of two places each time I booted the cd. Thanks, Anthony

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point release security updates?
by Christian Nygaard 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

I have a question regarding security updates for Centos 4. If you are currently running older point releases for example CentOS 4.1 or 4.2, do you have to upgrade to CentOS 4.3 to be able to get the latest security updates or can you simply stick to the old point release? I notice that there is sendmail update in 4.3 but not in 4.2 Cheers, Chris

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Advice on upgrading packages
by Fajar Priyanto 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

Hi all, Regarding packages updates using yum, all this time I only upgrade packages that I think is important, but also at the same time is having little risk of breaking my installation. Such as httpd, ssh, etc. But there are many packages that waits to be updated such as lvm, mdadm, etc. I'm worried that it will break my installation (web and mail server). Like the saying "if it ain't broken, don't fix it". Is there any pitfall that I should avoid of when upgrading packages using yum? Or is it completely save to let yum update the machine automatically? Thank you very much, -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 13:51:01 up 4:41, 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org

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Radeon 7000 woes, redux
by Paul Heinlein 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

The Radeon 7000 and the X.org radeon driver have had some well publicized difficulties since CentOS 4.2 (aka RHEL4U2). In short, the 7000 would hang miserably, often completely killing the console. See, e.g., https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170008 On Nov 29, 2005, Red Hat's Mike Harris announced the testing release of xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.21, which ended up solving the problems with my video subsystem. That ticket was later marked closed with an errata release of the xorg-x11 packages: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0072.html I installed that upgrade (xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.25) when it was made available via yum, but never not around to rebooting until the recent 4.3 release. My (PCI, not AGP) Radeon 7000 went on strike again! The console crashes aren't as fatal this time around -- the screen is a mess, but the keyboard and mouse still respond to input (though I can't see what I'm typing) -- but they still render the console unusable. For now, I've reinstalled the radeon_drv.so from Mike Harris' xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.21 interim release -- which, thankfully, I've kept around, because they are no longer available in Mike's chunk of people.redhat.com -- and that's solved the problem. I'll try to send a real bug report once I can isolate what may have changed between .21 and .25, but for now I thought I'd just send a general problem description. -- Paul Heinlein <heinlein(a)madboa.com>

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Naming packages in custom yum repo.
by Jason Ish 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

I need to setup a custom yum repo to supply some packages that are not in CentOS, and some that are but have been patched and/or are different versions. Not much of a big deal. In order to limit conflict with CentOS packages, I am using a prefix other than /usr. All my packages that also have existing versions in CentOS are installed under this new prefix to prevent any conflict with the CentOS package. My main issue is I would like yum (and rpm) to be happy with this coexistence. Is the only way to do this by giving my packages a different name rather than just twiddling the release number? For example, CentOS has libpcap-0.8.3, I need to supply a patched libpcap-0.8.4 but I don't want it to replace the 0.8.3 package, so I've modified the package name to be like <something>.libpcap-0.8.3... I know this may same weird, but is prefixing the package name a sane approach to this? On a related note, I also supply a modified kernel and I don't want yum to replace the kernel when its updated on a CentOS mirror. Is the best way to do this with a the ignore option in the yum repo configuration? Thanks, Jason

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Bind Recursion and Sendmail
by John Hinton 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

Seems that bind by default allows recursion and it's not a good idea. I'm struggling a bit on a couple of systems. These two systems run sendmail and are nameservers. I have sendmail set to do domain lookups and bounce if the domain does not exist. My struggle has been to turn recursion off in bind while allowing sendmail to do these lookups. I've been trying to do this by setting up allow-recursion in the options section of named.conf. Using something like allow-recursion {192.1.1.0/24; 192.34.2.6; }; The IPs have been changed to protect the innocent...... Bind is happy with the entry.. sendmail is not and starts bouncing email. Does anybody have this working and have any hints? I've googled and tested for hours.... Best, John Hinton

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My SSL connection is very slow
by dan1 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

Hello all. I have a problem since months with my CentOS 4 webserver. It came up since I intalled it. The SSL pages are very slow. Typically, I get 2-3 thumbnails from an SSL page, and then nothing during 7 seconds, and then again 2 thumbnails, nothing again, etc.. and so forth during about 30 seconds after what all non loaded images are just discarded (time out). It also happens with the normal HTTP, but much less, and is usable. I must have done an error in the configuration, but I don't know where. I have tried taking the ssl.conf, httpd.conf and php.ini from another clean CentOS server (that does not present this) but after rebooting the services nothing changes. I don't see anything strange in the logs neither. It just takes very long to answer a request. I also tried to stop MySQL and Tomcat, but no chance. Did someone already see that kind of behaviour ? Kind regards, Daniel

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is the latest SSH messed up?
by Mike 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

Greetings. I'm reading a report from a software provider that SSH should be reinstalled and all keys re-generated. They seem to be suggesting a possible security vulnerability in the current SSH. Has anyone here heard of this or been affected by replaced ssh binaries? Mike

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Re: Re: [CentOS] UPS Batteries
by edukes＠alltel.net 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

> > From: Chris Mauritz <chrism(a)imntv.com> > Date: 2006/03/24 Fri PM 01:17:52 EST > To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] UPS Batteries > > edukes(a)alltel.net wrote: > >> From: Mark Schoonover <schoon(a)amgt.com> > >> Date: 2006/03/24 Fri PM 12:22:21 EST > >> To: 'CentOS mailing list' <centos(a)centos.org> > >> Subject: RE: [CentOS] UPS Batteries > >> > >> edukes(a)alltel.net <mailto:edukes@alltel.net> tapped at Friday, March 24, > >> 2006 6:21 AM: > >> > >> > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> This may be a really stupid question, but can a gel type marine > >>> battery be used in a UPS? > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> > >> I don't think so. Gelcells are different than the sealed lead acid batteries > >> found in UPS's. They have different charging requirements, and will > >> discharge differently than SLAs. Probably best to purchase replacement > >> batteries from the manufacturer... > >> > >> HTH > >> > > Thanks for the info!! > > > > Depending on the vendor of the UPS, you may be able to cheaply replace > the original batteries. APC has a program called "ChargeUPS" or > somesuch that sends you replacement batteries and allows you to send > your old batteries back to them "freight pre-paid" so you don't have to > deal with disposing of them properly (which can be a pain in the behind > in some areas). The reason I asked the question was I was looking at buying a used APC 1400 with no battery. It seems shipping for the battery is about as much as the battery itself. Do you know a particular model of APC that is compatible with CentOS? Thanks!!

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MaraDNS, any experience with it?
by William L. Maltby 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

Setting up a server for my private net, thought I'd take the opportunity to learn some new stuff. Ran across this, http://www.maradns.org/ and thought I might give it a try. Web page says compiled on CentOS 3. Unfortunately no rpms available from the usual CentOS repos. If it looks decent, I figured I'd speak to the provider about getting it into CentOS. It uses a FreeBSD-like copyleft. TIA for any info. Bill

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centos4 install freezing on Compaq Workstation ap250
by Dave 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

Hello, I'm trying to install Centos4 on a Compaq Professional Workstation AP250. I'm doing this via serial terminal as this box does not have a monitor and install is getting to the running of /sbin/loader then it freezes. I've tried linux text console=ttyS0 and added combinations of: nousb noathlon apm=off acpi=off nothing is working. Some urgency! Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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wmv
by boricua 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

how do you get helix to play wmv files

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Re: RE: [CentOS] UPS Batteries
by edukes＠alltel.net 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

> > From: Mark Schoonover <schoon(a)amgt.com> > Date: 2006/03/24 Fri PM 12:22:21 EST > To: 'CentOS mailing list' <centos(a)centos.org> > Subject: RE: [CentOS] UPS Batteries > > edukes(a)alltel.net <mailto:edukes@alltel.net> tapped at Friday, March 24, > 2006 6:21 AM: > > > Hello, > > > > This may be a really stupid question, but can a gel type marine > > battery be used in a UPS? > > > > Thanks > > > I don't think so. Gelcells are different than the sealed lead acid batteries > found in UPS's. They have different charging requirements, and will > discharge differently than SLAs. Probably best to purchase replacement > batteries from the manufacturer... > > HTH Thanks for the info!! Eddie

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CentOS 4.3 Jigdo
by Maciej Żenczykowski 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

I've made rudimentary jigdo files available at: http://mirror.tcs.ii.uj.edu.pl/jigdo/ i386: bin1of4 bin2of4 bin3of4 bin4of4 CDs binDVD srcDVD x86_64: binDVD Usage requires replacing the [Servers] parts inside the jigdo files with an appropriate mirror (file:/, http://, ftp://) This should allow recreation of the above mentioned files from any complete set of their contents (a mirror or DVD from CDs or vice versa). (jigdo is available from dag/dries/rpmforge repo). Cheers, MaZe.

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httpd not starting after 4.3 update
by Jerry Geis 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 01:13 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: >/ After updating to 4.3 I cant get httpd to startup. />/ I see no messages in /var/log/message other that httpd failed. />/ />/ I see no errors in /var/log/httpd/error_log />/ />/ there is mention in ssl_error_log that no RSA or DSA certificate is found. />/ I dont know what to do about that.I tried starting in the non fork mode />/ but all it does is give me a prompt no error message . />/ />/ Also of note I am having issue with sshd. It starts up but I cannot connect />/ to the machine. />/ />/ I have been at this for a couple hours now. trying anything... />/ />/ Jerry / >Please look hard at your selinux. I suspect that is where your problems >lie if it is turned on. Johnny and all, My selinux is turned off. doing rpm -qa | grep httpd does not show duplicate packages. Is there a way to "freshen" the new packages for 4.3. Kind of a way to reload the packages without SCRAPPING the partition and starting from scratch? just a thought. Is there someway to tell what httpd doesnt like? When I run httpd with options to check config files and things like that it runs an prints a couple lines and prints status OK. So the exe is running just not as a background process. Thanks Jerry

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Is the unsupported kernel considered stable-ish?
by Troy Engel 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

I have a need to use the unsupported kernel for one feature only (AFP/Appletalk support). Never having had to use it before, I'm unsure of what's all in it other than reading it's config file. From those that do use it -- is it considered stable enough to use in lightweight production? I'm debating the use of it versus wasting my time rebuilding the normal kernel with AFP enabled. Seeing as how this is an underpowered machine (Duron 900/512mb), using a prebuilt would be nice. -te ps: why oh why did RH decide to disable this? a simple upgrade of a RH9 machine now turns ugly. :-/ Do they think nobody uses Appletalk anymore? WTH. -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com

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RE: [CentOS] UPS Batteries
by Mark Schoonover 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

edukes(a)alltel.net <mailto:edukes@alltel.net> tapped at Friday, March 24, 2006 6:21 AM: > Hello, > > This may be a really stupid question, but can a gel type marine > battery be used in a UPS? > > Thanks I don't think so. Gelcells are different than the sealed lead acid batteries found in UPS's. They have different charging requirements, and will discharge differently than SLAs. Probably best to purchase replacement batteries from the manufacturer... HTH Thanks! Mark Schoonover IS Manager American Geotechnical - California, Nevada and Arizona V-> 858.450.4040 F-> 714.685.3909 C-> 858.472.3816 "Don't tell me I'm burning the candle at both ends, just tell me where to get more wax!"

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evolution can't send/receive
by rado 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

on one of my boxes...all at once evolution can't pop the server..can't send or anything... any suggestions? thx John Rose ps...I have not upgraded to 4.3 so this is surely not an issue there

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module kernel for adaptec 2110s in CenOS 4.2
by iagosineiro＠yahoo.es 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

Hi. I've used ghost for change the ide disk for an array of scsi in raid using an adaptec controller 2110s. Now when I boot it didn't boot correctly. Looking for in Internet (http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_46_4969.shtm) I guest that I have to rebuild the initial ramdisk to contain the proper kernel modules for the adaptec controller. But what is the kernel module for 2110s in kernel 2.6.x? I also have to adding a line in /etc/modprobe.conf, but I don't know the format for that. Thanks in advance. Iago.

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Transferring user quotas?
by Kai Schaetzl 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

Is there a way of transferring user quotas from one machine to another? Where does the quota get stored? Non of the scarce documentation for the quota commands tells this. Apparently it can't be in the aquota.* files since I can repquota without them. Or does it get saved in some humanly unreadable filesystem information? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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Evolution Updated RPM
by Brent DiNicola 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

I realize that the Evolution included with 4.3 is not really 2.0, but it is not 2.4/2.6 either. Has anyone out there tried or successfully updated Evolution to the 2.6 version (or even 2.4) on CentOS? The OS is doing great on the desktop, I am however trying to use a Scalix connector that relies on some major changes that were done around 2.4 version of Evolution and it's Data Server. I have done a bit of digging and so far, to update to Evolution 2.4+ you would need a newer form of glib2 installed, which at that point would be a core update. Anyone have any luck or advice on this? Perhaps someone got the Scalix connector working on older Evolution (which would be ok with me). Thanks Brent -- Brent DiNicola The Whitewolf of Imrryr <centos .AT. elric.net> http://www.elric.net Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed here are from my dog. Any liabilities fall to the dog.

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Something keep modifying cups config
by Reuben D. Budiardja 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

Hello, I have the following line in my /etc/cups/mime.types uncommented : application/octet-stream so that Windows machine which can use the printer driver can print through the cups printer set up on a CentOS box. But something keep changing the file by commenting out the line. So sometimes printing from Windows would stop working and it the cups error_log I see: E [21/Mar/2006:12:58:34 -0500] print_job: Unsupported format 'application/octet-stream'! I [21/Mar/2006:12:58:34 -0500] Hint: Do you have the raw file printing rules enabled? All I need is usually just uncomment that line in /etc/cups/mime.types and restart cups. So I couldn't figure out what keeps changing the files. Am I not supposed to edit the file directly, or am I missing something else here ? Thanks for any help. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Dept. Physics and Astronomy University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

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