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gconftool
by Jerry Geis 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 11:44 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: >/ On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:36 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: />/ > On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:54 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: />/ > > I am using gconftool to set a number of parameters up automatically... />/ > > However, the one parameter I cannot find is under root />/ > > you should be able to set the "automatic login" on first boot up. />/ > > />/ > > This found under "Applications", "System settings", "Login screen", then />/ > > automatic login. />/ > > />/ > > Can someone point me to that setting? />/ > > />/ > You can't automatically login as root ... as that would be extremely />/ > unsafe and a very, Very, VERY bad thing to do :) />/ > _______________________________________________ />/ />/ >In fact, it is my opinion (I know, but I thought I would share my />/ >opinion in this case) that one should never even login to the GUI screen />/ >as root at all. But that is enabled by default upstream (so it is not />/ >changed in CentOS) and you can login as root to gnome or KDE if you />/ >want ... it is disabled on all my machines so that root can not login to />/ >the GUI. />/ />/ />/ John, />/ />/ Sorry for the missunderstanding... I am not trying to have root auto login. />/ I am trying to auto login a differnet user. />/ />/ I was just pointing out that root had to set that setting up. The user cannot do that... />/ Sorry for the confusion. />/ />/ / >AH ... much better :) >If you open what you said ... >"Applications" -> "System settings" -> "Login screen" >then on there is a "Automatic Login" section under the "General Tab" ... >at least for CentOS 4. John, I realize I can change the setting there using the mouse to select the applications, system setting login screen, etc... (i am also using 4.2) - however, I wish to do this with gconftool on the command line. When I setup a machine I do not want to take the time to set it up using the mouse. just run a quick command that uses gconftool to do it along with other things.... Jerry

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gconftool
by Jerry Geis 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

I am using gconftool to set a number of parameters up automatically... However, the one parameter I cannot find is under root you should be able to set the "automatic login" on first boot up. This found under "Applications", "System settings", "Login screen", then automatic login. Can someone point me to that setting? THanks, Jerry

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rsync to a port other than 22
by Ed Morrison 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

I am trying to use rsinc to tranfer my ftp directory from one server to another. I have port 22 closed off due to port knocking and I am trying to direct rsync to use another port. Unfortunately I can't seem to get it to use the specified port. Here is my command, if someone could point out my error I would appreciate it: rsync -avr --port=XXX xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/var/ftp /var/ftp The error this generates is: ssh: connect to host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22: Connection refused rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359) Thanks, Ed

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gconftool
by Jerry Geis 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:36 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: >/ On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:54 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: />/ > I am using gconftool to set a number of parameters up automatically... />/ > However, the one parameter I cannot find is under root />/ > you should be able to set the "automatic login" on first boot up. />/ > />/ > This found under "Applications", "System settings", "Login screen", then />/ > automatic login. />/ > />/ > Can someone point me to that setting? />/ > />/ You can't automatically login as root ... as that would be extremely />/ unsafe and a very, Very, VERY bad thing to do :) />/ _______________________________________________ / >In fact, it is my opinion (I know, but I thought I would share my >opinion in this case) that one should never even login to the GUI screen >as root at all. But that is enabled by default upstream (so it is not >changed in CentOS) and you can login as root to gnome or KDE if you >want ... it is disabled on all my machines so that root can not login to >the GUI. John, Sorry for the missunderstanding... I am not trying to have root auto login. I am trying to auto login a differnet user. I was just pointing out that root had to set that setting up. The user cannot do that... Sorry for the confusion. Jerry

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Netcard don't up
by Adriano Frare 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Dear Friends I have 2 netcards (eth0 to Internet and eth1 to internal network) in CENTOS 4.2, bit when I boot system the up eth0 and et1i [OK]. When I run ifconfig the eth1 has not IP configure, then I run command ifdown eth1 and ifup eth1, after eth1 is work perfect. Below I show file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt # for the documentation of these parameters. IPV6INIT=no ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=no PEERDNS=yes TYPE=Ethernet DEVICE=eth1 HWADDR=00:60:08:3e:0a:d1 BOOTPROTO=none NETMASK=255.255.255.0 IPADDR=192.168.1.1 and route-eth1 GATEWAY0=192.168.1.1 NETMASK0=255.255.255.0 ADDRESS0=192.168.1.0 When I run ifup eth1 , follow messages show me. ifup eth1 RTNETLINK answers: File exists When I run command route -n , follow messages show me. # route -n 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 But I don't know net 169.254.0.0. Thanks Adriano

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CENTOS3.6: taskset crash
by Castello, Jean-pierre (TS/Linux-HPC) 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hello I am using memtester V4.0.5 on x86_64 arch (4x PROC-4GB total) and it works fine. When I want to launch it on only one CPU with the taskset cmd the machine crashes. here is the cmd i am using taskset 0x00000002 ./memester 1000 known issue ? Thanks Jean-Pierre

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Cdrecord problems
by Dexter Stowers 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hi, I am having problems with cdrecord. Here is my information from scanbus: [root@Eurisko3 ~]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilli ng Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ bugzilla Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this versio n. scsidev: 'ATA' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'SAMSUNG ' 'CDRW/DVD SM-308B' 'T100' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * Is there something that I am missing here? I do not have problems burning iso's with my Solaris box at the office. Thanks! -- Dexter Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success. It's the ingredient that enables a person with average ability to successfully compete with those who have far more. Ability is important--dependability is critical! See You At The Top

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building a new kernel, problems booting without initrd
by Richard Hubbell 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hello all, Grabbed a new kernel (from kernel.org) to build a custom kernel but it won't boot. I followed the directions at redhat to setup a box without initrd (which I don't want and don't need to use). But the system hangs. Has anyone built a custom kernel without using initrd? I'm using CentOS 4.2. It hangs at or after "Freeing unused memory" Thanks. excerpt from the page: (http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/) Udev without initrd Install Fedore Core as usual and reboot. Execute the following commands mkdir /tmp/dev mount --move /dev /tmp/dev sbin/MAKEDEV null console zero mount --move /tmp/dev /dev Install your kernel without an initrd. Reboot. You will get some SELinux errors, and syslogd will not work as expected.

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bacula on centos
by Dustin Krysak 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Are there any known issues with using bacula with centos 4.2? How about a recipe of some kind? Thanks in advance! dnk

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rsync and passwords
by Todd Cary 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

To synchronize my server with the "standby" server, I run the following: rsync -a -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/ As expected, I am asked for a password from the destination computer. Is there a way to avoid that so I can make a crontab to run the rsync nightly? Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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news server innd can't connect
by Kai Sandsengen 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

I am setting up a news server and can't connect. I do not run selinux and have turned of the firewall when testing. # telnet 127.0.0.1 119 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused the server I believe is up running # ps -efl | grep innd 4 S root 8340 4981 0 76 0 - 1094 pipe_w 13:18 pts/2 00:00:00 grep innd Are there anyone that can the answer why I cant connect? And what command can I use to see for how long the innd has been running? kai

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OpenOffice startup help
by ryan 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

I am using OpenOffice Quickstarter ( http://segfaultskde.berlios.de/index.php?content=oooqs ) to help speed up the loading of open office 2.0 when using KDE. Also, I've told KDE to issue the command oofromtemplate -invisible by putting it in a simple script in .kde/Autostart For some reason, when oooqs has the settings below (screenshot link - http://users.zoominternet.net/~ryanag/oofficeqs.png ) everything works perfectly. Open Office loads from a cold start in about 3.5 seconds. When I don't use the oooqs, the script does not work - it prevents open office from loading. Does anyone have any idea what oooqs is doing that makes my script work? Since I'm using Open Office 2.0 I don't expect to find anything in the official Red Hat docs.

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Selecting a compatible motherboard
by Todd Cary 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

One of my servers is not compatible with Centos 4, so I want to replace the motherboard with a compatible one. I came across this site and would appreciate any comments on whether I can rely on selecting a board that is listed as compatible with Unix? http://www.dealtime.com/xPP-motherboards--asustek~V-rows For instance, the ASUS P5P800 Motherboard? Thank you.... Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 10, Issue 3
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

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. CEBA-2005:1210-1 CentOS 4 x86_64 jfsutils - bugfix update (CENTOSPLUS Only) (Johnny Hughes) 2. CEBA-2005:1210-1 CentOS 4 i386 jfsutils - bugfix update (CENTOSPLUS Only) (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:36:50 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2005:1210-1 CentOS 4 x86_64 jfsutils - bugfix update (CENTOSPLUS Only) To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1134239810.3919.27.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2005:1210-1 CentOS 4 x86_64 jfsutils - bugfix update (CENTOSPLUS Only) This package is for the version of jfsutils is that is included in the centosplus repo for CentOS-4 ... this is not an update to the main CentOS-4 repo. The JFS team has released a new version of jfsutils and this has been incorporated into this CentOS Plus version. x86_64: jfsutils-1.1.10-2.x86_64.rpm src: jfsutils-1.1.10-2.src.rpm

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sendmail problems errors
by Steven Vishoot 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

hello, i am having problems with sendmail when i am trying to restart it. this morning i woke up and found it not working and when i tried restarting it belched out these errors at me. [root@dusty init.d]# ./sendmail start Starting sendmail: 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 91: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 588: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory [FAILED] this is what the sendmail.cf file says at line 91: # file containing names of hosts for which we receive email Fw/etc/mail/local-host-names and also at line 588: # this is equivalent to setting class "t" Ft/etc/mail/trusted-users Troot Tdaemon Tuucp now what am i missing. i am using centos 4.2 x86_64 thanks Steven "On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows or better'. So I installed Linux."

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sg device
by Tony Schreiner 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

What is the "sg" device? The reason I ask, is that I have a file server running CentOS 4.2 on a Dell Precision 1650. Disks are attached via QLogic FC. I backup to a Qualstar TLS-4222 tape changer, with AIT-2 tapes, which is connected over an Adaptec 29160 Ultra 160 SCSI. The software I'm using is Legato Networker version 7.1.2. I'm backing up a bit under 1 TB a month with this. Quite frequently these days (meaning once a month or two), the Networker software loses the ability to control the tape changer. Mount, unmount commands just don't work any more. The only way I can seem to fix it, is to use the Networker admin software to remove the robot, and tape device, and then recreate it with the Networker jbconfig command. The jbconfig command detects the Qualstar, and then detects /dev/sg3 as the tape device. Now Networker can use this device to move tapes around in the robot, but not to read and write. So I have to delete / dev/sg3 from the Networker configuration, and then add /dev/nst0. And then it works (for a while). So I'm wondering, why the software is setting me up with /dev/sg3 instead of /dev/nst0; and is there anything I can do about it. Bonus question if anyone else had a similar issue. Thanks, Tony Schreiner Boston College

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Anyone here install Java Studio Creator with CentOS 4?
by Preston Crawford 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

I tried yesterday. During the install it yacks at trying to install the application server that comes with Java Studio Creator. Complains about lacking libstdc++ or compat-libstdc++ or something like that. Anyone see this or know what to do about it? I ask here in case there is some trick to getting a piece of software (that's obviously looking for one version of libstdc++) to see what's installed. According to this page (http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/reference/docs/Start…) it works with RHEL 2.1. What changed so drastically in this regard between there and here? Preston

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Anyone run lighttpd + fastcgi + PHP?
by Preston Crawford 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

I have a website that needs to run Squirrelmail (which is PHP based), but I'd like to get it feeding into Ruby on Rails as well. I'm looking at lighttpd because it seems to be easier to get it integrated with Rails. I'm curious, though, how difficult it is to get PHP running with it in this configuration. Overall lighttpd seems to be pretty easy to use. However, it looks like I may have to recompile PHP. I was curious to see if anyone has done this with CentOS or if there are RPMs out there in the world that would allow me to avoid this. Preston

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Post postinstall configuration
by Matt Lawrence 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

I'm building kickstart files for use in doing automated installs of various systems. I would prefer to do fairly minimal amounts of work in the "%post" and postpone further installation and configuration until after the first reboot (or even later). It should be easy enough to add something to rc.local that will download scripts and run them, but I'm wondering if there is a preferred technique. I haven't found anything in the Red Hat documentation I've read so far. This isn't about figuring out a way to do the update, it's about trying to follow the "Law Of Least Astonishment". I've dealt with too many really screwed up systems that had customised stuff everywhere and nothing worked as expected. Suggestions? -- Matt

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Netcell RAID cards
by Ugo Bellavance 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

Hi, Anyone tried netcell products on Centos 3 or 4? They claim driverless operation under WinXP, but in linux the only doc that is related with CentOS would be the Fedora core 2 (http://www.netcell.com/support/Fedora_Core2_readme.txt) and requires a kernel rebuild. I'd like to know if it would be possible to install CentOS directly on drives on such a card, without needing a build box... http://www.tomshardware.com/2003/11/28/kill_scsi_ii/ Regards, -- Ugo -> Please don't send a copy of your reply by e-mail. I read the list. -> Please avoid top-posting, long signatures and HTML, and cut the irrelevant parts in your replies.

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RE: Keeping data on 2 servers in sync !
by Jonathan Darton 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

On 12/7/05, Denis Croombs <denis(a)croombs.org> wrote: > On 12/6/05, Jonathan Darton <jdarton(a)ibigroup.com> wrote: > >> >I want to build 2 servers (both running samba) to provide file > >> >storage to 2 offices (approx 100 miles apart, linked via DSL) but all > >> >data writen to 1 server must also be saved to the other server. > >> >Both servers would also allow users to access the data via a VPN thus > >> >allowing 1 office with a failed server to access the other server via > >> >the vpn and still see the data from both offices. > >> >I currently have 1 server working but we want to add the second > >> >office to the system. (Currently 1 office has 10 users and the second > >> >office has 1 user connected via VPN ) but the second office will have > >> >20 within 12 > >> months > >> >and the first will have 35 soon )) > >> > >> >Has anyone done anything like this ? > >> > >> I am currently synchronizing multiple office locations using a program > >> called unison. Unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) is > >> a very well written program that can perform 2 way file > >> synchronization. There are many configurable options with unison and I > recommend that you check it out. > >> In each office I have a PII350 128RAM Fedora or CentOS server running > >> unison and the files are accessed via samba. I also configure samba to > >> hide (veto) all of the temporary files used during synchronization. > >> For redundancy I place a slave server with each master server that > >> backs up all the user data / file system using rsync. This way if one > >> of my $5 PII servers catches fire I can automatically switch over with no > downtime for the users. > >> > >> The only downfall I have encountered is with Autocad files not > >> properly reading the synchronized .dwl lock file and more than one > >> user working on the same file. As a work around for this I have > >> configured Unison to keep a backup of the last 20 versions of a file. > >> This way I can always hit my backups to retreive lost data. As a side > >> note, if anyone knows a work around for the stubborn autocad dwl lock > file let me know :))! > >> > >> In any case my implementation has allowed me to synchronize file > >> systems between 4 offices (3 in Canada, 1 in USA), using recycled > >> hardware that was otherwise going to be donated/trashed. > >> > >> Let me know if you have any further questions. > > > >I'm about to do a Unison setup on two CentOS servers, so I'm thrilled to > see this response. I also work with Architects >>sometimes, so I'm > interested to hear about the dwl lock file issue. > > > >My one compound question: how are you invoking Unison? In batch mode, with > cron? How often? Wat other options did you > >consider before settling on the scheme you use? > > I see the project is no longer supported, do you have rpms for it ? > > Thanks >It's not that it's no longer supported, really, just that the project >that initiated it is not an officially-funded academic project. It has >actually been updated since the termination of the project, it looks >like. >I haven't installed it on CentOS yet but I got FC4 rpms from fedora >extras (I just typed 'yum install unison' and it worked). I think it's >in pretty common usage in RHEL too, so it can't be too hard to find >for CentOS, right? (But let us know what you turn up :-)). I created a script that is run by cron every minute. The script creates a lock file for the session, rsyncs the changes to the backup server, synchronizes offices using unison, deletes the lock file. Unison is executed in "batch" and "silent" mode so that no output is generated and mailed by cron. One other thing you need to consider is the size of the file system you are trying to synchronize. I have a very large directory structure in two offices which required running unison a second time splitting up the synchronization into two sessions. This can easily be done by ignoring a certain path/paths and then synchronizing them in the next session. If you are thinking of synchronizing between more than 2 locations, you need to plan the fastest route (ie. A<->B<->C or B<->A<->C). I have had no problems synchronizing between more than two locations. For all of my implementations using Fedora or CentOS operating systems I have downloaded the unison source, installed the ocaml compiler (easy to find for centos/fedora use google) and compiled from source. I have never had a problem. Another benefit to the implementation that I have been using is the fact that employees in each office can work on files on the server as long as the internal network is functioning, regardless if the synchronization link / externel connection is working. The synchronization is basically transparent to the user, and if it happens to go down it will pick up where it left off as soon as it can regain a connection. Let me know if you require any further information. A. Jonathan Darton, B.COMM CIS System Consultant

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perl module
by hiep＠ee.ucr.edu 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Hi list, I have trouble install the following perl modules to my Centos 4.2 server and I need help Digest::SHA1 Digest::HMAC Net::DNS Time::HiRes HTML::Tagset HTML::Parser Pod::Usage Parse::Syslog Statistics::Distributions I tried "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and then "install Pod::Usage" and I got the following errors: CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata Warning: Found only 0 objects in /root/.cpan/Metadata CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: Bad hostname 'ftp.perl.org'] Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Trying with "/usr/bin/links -source" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz ERROR at dump.c:188: Host not found System call "/usr/bin/links -source "ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz" > /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt" returned status 1 (wstat 256) Warning: expected file [/root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz] doesn't exist Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O -" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz --09:54:41-- ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz => `-' Resolving ftp.perl.org... failed: Name or service not known. System call "/usr/bin/wget -O - "ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz" > /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt" returned status 1 (wstat 256) Warning: expected file [/root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz] doesn't exist Issuing "/usr/kerberos/bin/ftp -n" ftp: ftp.perl.org: unknown host Not connected. Local directory now /root/.cpan/sources/authors Not connected. Not connected. Not connected. Not connected. Not connected. Not connected. Bad luck... Still failed! Can't access URL ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz. Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file () are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/' Could not fetch authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: Bad hostname 'ftp.perl.org'] Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Trying with "/usr/bin/links -source" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz ERROR at dump.c:188: Host not found System call "/usr/bin/links -source "ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz" > /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt" returned status 1 (wstat 256) Warning: expected file [/root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz] doesn't exist Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O -" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz --09:54:47-- ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz => `-' Resolving ftp.perl.org... failed: Name or service not known. System call "/usr/bin/wget -O - "ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz" > /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt" returned status 1 (wstat 256) Warning: expected file [/root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz] doesn't exist Issuing "/usr/kerberos/bin/ftp -n" ftp: ftp.perl.org: unknown host Not connected. Local directory now /root/.cpan/sources/modules Not connected. Not connected. Not connected. Not connected. Not connected. Not connected. Bad luck... Still failed! Can't access URL ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz. Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file () are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/' Could not fetch modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: Bad hostname 'ftp.perl.org'] Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz Trying with "/usr/bin/links -source" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz ERROR at dump.c:188: Host not found System call "/usr/bin/links -source "ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz" > /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data" returned status 1 (wstat 256) Warning: expected file [/root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz] doesn't exist Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O -" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz --09:54:53-- ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz => `-' Resolving ftp.perl.org... failed: Name or service not known. System call "/usr/bin/wget -O - "ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz" > /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data" returned status 1 (wstat 256) Warning: expected file [/root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz] doesn't exist Issuing "/usr/kerberos/bin/ftp -n" ftp: ftp.perl.org: unknown host Not connected. Local directory now /root/.cpan/sources/modules Not connected. Not connected. Not connected. Not connected. Not connected. Not connected. Bad luck... Still failed! Can't access URL ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz. Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file () are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/' Could not fetch modules/03modlist.data.gz Going to write /root/.cpan/Metadata Warning: Cannot install Pod::Usage, don't know what it is. Try the command i /Pod::Usage/ to find objects with matching identifiers. Then I tried to download individual module and install it manually, but I got dependency warnings. Please help!!! Thanks. JC

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Manual update
by Jean Lee 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Hi all, I have a problem :). On my CentOS workstation, I had glib2-2.4.7-1 installed. This is the last version which is provided by the CentOS distribution However, I need to install a software which requires an higher glib2 version so : I took the source of glib2-2.8.4-1 on the gtk+ web site and creates the rpm installation file with "chkinstall" I obtained the glib2-2.8.4-1.i386.rpm file Then I execute yum to update the glib2 package : yum localupdate glib2-2.8.4-1.i386.rpm And know, I have a lot of problems. Surely because some library files where overwritten with the newer version files (Right or wrong ?).... Is there a way to recover the problem ? (Now, I can't launch a terminal under gnome) Well, I have broken the distribution and I feel that I will have to reinstall it. For the next time that I will try to update a package manually : Is there a safe way to update manually the glib2 library without crashing all the distribution ? Or is there a way to install the latest version of glib2 in order to have the two libraries versions installed (glib2-2.4.7-1 and glib2-2.8.4-1)? or something else ????? Thank you for your answers, Jean LEE

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Hald
by Sam Drinkard 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

No manpage or other info in the system about the hald or hal. What little I did find on a RH site did not really enlighten me that much. Is there some obscure documentation somewhere about the hald and its assets and attributes? -- Snowman

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CPU usage from top
by Bowie Bailey 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

I'm seeing some strange results from top on CentOS 4.0. When it first starts, it reports low CPU usage. The next refresh (and subsequent) refreshes, it shows high CPU usage. In both cases, there is nothing shown in the process list that is using much CPU. What is causing this? Here is some truncated output from a single run of "top -b -n 2": ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- top - 10:22:02 up 34 days, 14:36, 2 users, load average: 0.98, 0.56, 0.51 Tasks: 116 total, 1 running, 115 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 3.7% us, 0.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 94.2% id, 1.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1034676k total, 610804k used, 423872k free, 35796k buffers Swap: 1052248k total, 14220k used, 1038028k free, 314524k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 16412 root 16 0 2280 864 664 R 5.6 0.1 0:00.06 top 1 root 16 0 3148 516 464 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.91 init 2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.32 migration/0 3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.34 ksoftirqd/0 4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.32 migration/1 5 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.39 ksoftirqd/1 6 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 events/0 7 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/1 8 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.18 khelper 9 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0 top - 10:22:05 up 34 days, 14:36, 2 users, load average: 0.98, 0.56, 0.51 Tasks: 116 total, 1 running, 115 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 49.1% us, 1.6% sy, 0.0% ni, 48.8% id, 0.2% wa, 0.2% hi, 0.2% si Mem: 1034676k total, 610804k used, 423872k free, 35800k buffers Swap: 1052248k total, 14220k used, 1038028k free, 314520k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 16412 root 17 0 2288 960 748 R 1.6 0.1 0:00.11 top 16052 bowieb 16 0 8288 2232 1812 S 0.3 0.2 0:03.04 sshd 1 root 16 0 3148 516 464 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.91 init 2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.32 migration/0 3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.34 ksoftirqd/0 4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.32 migration/1 5 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.39 ksoftirqd/1 6 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 events/0 7 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/1 8 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.18 khelper 9 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Notice 3.7% usage on the first one and 49.1% usage on the second. I suspect that top isn't showing me everything. I know that some versions of top had problems with showing proper CPU usage for threaded applications. Is that still a problem with the current version of top? Bowie

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RE: [CentOS] cs & gfs
by Bowie Bailey 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

From: Karanbir Singh [mailto:mail-lists@karan.org] > > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > From: Karanbir Singh [mailto:mail-lists@karan.org] > > > >>Jure Pecar wrote: > >> > >>>On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:41:19 -0600 > >>>Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists(a)hughesjr.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>We just built some more i686 packages that Karanbir is going to test in > >>>>the next day or so. > >>>> > >>>>If they work even fairly well, we will make them available for testing. > >>> > >>>Any progress on this? > >> > >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-December/000946.html > > > > I don't remember seeing this. Is the announce list mirrored to this > > one, or do I need to subscribe to yet another mailing list to get > > these announcements? > > the annouce list is posted in digest form to this list, one post per > day , on days when there is a post in the announce list. Ok, I guess I just missed this one. On a question more related to the original subject... I have a server using cs and gfs that is built from the source rpms on http://rpm.karan.org/el4/csgfs/SRPMS/ (modified only enough to compile on the latest kernel without hugemem). Is it safe (or even possible) to update these from the official distribution, or do I need to remove the current stuff and rebuild the cluster using the official rpms? I would like to get to a point where this can be kept up to date with a 'yum update' command now that it's in the CentOS distribution. Bowie

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To add or to reinstall - 4.2
by Robert Moskowitz 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

That is the question. I don't know what I did NOT accept, but Firefox does not seem to be installed on a recently set up server. So is there some easy way to go through the install stuff from CDs to add this or do I punt? Then I have to reread the stuff to set up YUM again.

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memory problems
by Tom De Blende 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Hi, Since we upgraded our server to 3.6, it runs out of memory. This is what I can find in syslog (multiple similar entries): Dec 7 19:52:42 gcclo77 kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 31375 (nagios). Dec 7 19:52:43 gcclo77 kernel: Mem-info: Dec 7 19:52:43 gcclo77 kernel: Zone:DMA freepages: 2927 min: 0 low: 0 high: 0 Dec 7 19:52:43 gcclo77 kernel: Zone:Normal freepages: 737 min: 766 low: 4031 high: 5791 Dec 7 19:52:43 gcclo77 kernel: Zone:HighMem freepages: 126 min: 255 low: 510 high: 765 Dec 7 19:52:43 gcclo77 kernel: Free pages: 3790 ( 126 HighMem) Dec 7 19:52:43 gcclo77 kernel: ( Active: 162420/241, inactive_laundry: 0, inactive_clean: 0, free: 3790 ) Dec 7 19:52:43 gcclo77 kernel: aa:0 ac:0 id:0 il:0 ic:0 fr:2927 Dec 7 19:52:43 gcclo77 kernel: aa:157445 ac:1554 id:301 il:0 ic:0 fr:737 Dec 7 19:52:43 gcclo77 kernel: aa:2791 ac:569 id:1 il:0 ic:0 fr:126 Dec 7 19:52:43 gcclo77 kernel: 3*4kB 2*8kB 4*16kB 3*32kB 4*64kB 2*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 2*4096kB = 11708kB) Dec 7 19:52:43 gcclo77 kernel: 49*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2948kB) Dec 7 19:52:43 gcclo77 kernel: 0*4kB 1*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 504kB) Dec 7 19:52:44 gcclo77 kernel: Swap cache: add 861742, delete 858950, find 7617227/7652707, race 0+36 Dec 7 19:52:44 gcclo77 kernel: 13082 pages of slabcache Dec 7 19:52:44 gcclo77 kernel: 9852 pages of kernel stacks Dec 7 19:52:44 gcclo77 kernel: 17191 lowmem pagetables, 28807 highmem pagetables Dec 7 19:52:44 gcclo77 kernel: 32 bounce buffer pages, 32 are on the emergency list Dec 7 19:52:44 gcclo77 kernel: Free swap: 0kB Dec 7 19:52:44 gcclo77 kernel: 262138 pages of RAM Dec 7 19:52:44 gcclo77 kernel: 32762 pages of HIGHMEM Dec 7 19:52:44 gcclo77 kernel: 5784 reserved pages Dec 7 19:52:44 gcclo77 kernel: 7450 pages shared Dec 7 19:52:45 gcclo77 kernel: 2792 pages swap cached Dec 7 19:52:45 gcclo77 kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 31401 (nagios). Dec 7 19:52:45 gcclo77 kernel: Mem-info: Dec 7 19:52:45 gcclo77 kernel: Zone:DMA freepages: 2927 min: 0 low: 0 high: 0 Dec 7 19:52:45 gcclo77 kernel: Zone:Normal freepages: 753 min: 766 low: 4031 high: 5791 Dec 7 19:52:45 gcclo77 kernel: Zone:HighMem freepages: 126 min: 255 low: 510 high: 765 Dec 7 19:52:45 gcclo77 kernel: Free pages: 3806 ( 126 HighMem) Dec 7 19:52:45 gcclo77 kernel: ( Active: 162136/453, inactive_laundry: 72, inactive_clean: 0, free: 3806 ) Dec 7 19:52:45 gcclo77 kernel: aa:0 ac:0 id:0 il:0 ic:0 fr:2927 Dec 7 19:52:45 gcclo77 kernel: aa:157502 ac:1554 id:172 il:72 ic:0 fr:753 Dec 7 19:52:46 gcclo77 kernel: aa:2666 ac:439 id:256 il:0 ic:0 fr:126 Dec 7 19:52:46 gcclo77 kernel: 3*4kB 2*8kB 4*16kB 3*32kB 4*64kB 2*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 2*4096kB = 11708kB) Dec 7 19:52:46 gcclo77 kernel: 65*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3012kB) Dec 7 19:52:46 gcclo77 kernel: 0*4kB 1*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 504kB) Dec 7 19:52:46 gcclo77 kernel: Swap cache: add 861742, delete 858950, find 7617227/7652707, race 0+36 Dec 7 19:52:46 gcclo77 kernel: 13082 pages of slabcache Dec 7 19:52:46 gcclo77 kernel: 9852 pages of kernel stacks Dec 7 19:52:46 gcclo77 kernel: 17178 lowmem pagetables, 28807 highmem pagetables Dec 7 19:52:46 gcclo77 kernel: 32 bounce buffer pages, 32 are on the emergency list Dec 7 19:52:47 gcclo77 kernel: Free swap: 0kB Dec 7 19:52:47 gcclo77 kernel: 262138 pages of RAM Dec 7 19:52:47 gcclo77 kernel: 32762 pages of HIGHMEM Dec 7 19:52:47 gcclo77 kernel: 5784 reserved pages Dec 7 19:52:47 gcclo77 kernel: 7020 pages shared Dec 7 19:52:47 gcclo77 kernel: 2792 pages swap cached Anyone any ideas as to what causes this? Thanks! Tom

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RE: [CentOS] cs & gfs
by Bowie Bailey 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

From: Karanbir Singh [mailto:mail-lists@karan.org] > > Jure Pecar wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:41:19 -0600 > > Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists(a)hughesjr.com> wrote: > > > >>We just built some more i686 packages that Karanbir is going to test in > >>the next day or so. > >> > >>If they work even fairly well, we will make them available for testing. > > > > Any progress on this? > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-December/000946.html I don't remember seeing this. Is the announce list mirrored to this one, or do I need to subscribe to yet another mailing list to get these announcements? Bowie

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Server displaying ?
by scott 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

I figure this is an apache issue, but I dont' know where to look. Since moving my website from an older Redhat installation to my new Centos 4 server (all updates installed), all my web pages display a "?" anywhere I have a non-breaking space. If I do a view source in my browser I see the " " character, but when looking at it on my server via ssh, I see a vertical bar, similar, but not a pipe. And when looking at the source on a different browser I see a ASCII 160 character. But on all browsers, I'm seeing a ? on the display, instead of the non-breaking space. Anyone know what I need to configure/correct/change in Apache to correct this? Thanks, Scott

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cs & gfs
by Jure Pečar 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Hi all, I was informed[1] that gfs & rhcs packages are in the works but that there are some problems with the code. What are these problems? Can we do anything to help test / solve them? [1] http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2005/07/25/everyone_loves_a_cluster_as_… -- Jure Pečar http://jure.pecar.org

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mailing list traffic
by Robert Hanson 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

is it just me and my mail servers going wacko or is there a ton of traffic on the mailing list today? - rh -- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net

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new dell B120 laptop
by Jerry Geis 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

>Jerry Geis wrote: >/ I am installing 4.2 on the new dell $499 B120 laptop. />/ Centos installs just fine. however, when rebooting />/ it is starting udev and then says Disabling IRQ#11 and stops. />/ />/ Any ideas on why that would be?? />/ / >Do you have a USB devices plugged in? I reinstalled CentOS 4.2 on my >laptop this past weekend. I forgot to unplug my USB mouse during >installation and had the same "Disabling IRQ 11" stop. I ended up >unplugging my mouse and restarting the install and then it was very happy. >Max Nothing but the network is pluged in. Jerry

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gdm-restart/gdm-safe-restart
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Hi all, On a CentOS 4.2, x86_64 system, I created a new session that is selectable from the sessions list in GDM. To make GDM see the changes, I ran the following: gdm-safe-restart That's supposed to make GDM re-read it's config files. Well, it worked, but instead of staying on vt7, GDM moved to vt9. At first it looked liked GDM had died, but I ran ps aux|grep gdm, and found it running on vt9. Odd, that. I then tried a gdm-restart, and GDM disappeared again. It had moved to vt10. Odder, still. I was only able to get GDM to restart on vt7 by killing the GDM process, or by changing the server's run level from 5, to 3 and back to 5. On a CentOS 4.2, i386 box, gdm-safe-restart and gdm-restart function as I expected them to: GDM restarts and stays on vt7. I also didn't notice any problems on a FC4 box. There isn't much of anything in terms of documentation on gdm-safe-restart and gdm-restart. I'm fairly sure I'm using them correctly. Anyone else notice this behaviour? Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Systems Aligned Inc. www.systemsaligned.com

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Query: Filesystems
by Maciej Żenczykowski 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Hello, Just a few quick, but not very simple questions...: Do any Linux filesystems (besides XFS) support freezing? (ie. in conjuction with LVM snapshots this can allow a mounted filesystem to be frozen [freezing all processes writing to this filesystem] in a valid state (with possibly dangling unlinked files), the device can be snapshotted via LVM, and the original filesystem unfrozen - the snapshot now contains a valid snapshot in time of the original filesystem - with no corruption. Can this (freezing) be used for the root filesystem or other important filesystems? ie. might it cause something vitally important to freeze? Can a snapshotted LVM (the snapshot, not the original filesystem) be modified (I assume snapshots are purely readonly...) - so as to remove the dangling deleted/unlinked files and possibly modify the uuid (I realize there is a nouuid mount option for XFS). And the last question: is there some sort of filesystem which supports generating 'in-filesystem' snapshots (ie. some sort of copy-on-write block semantics applicable both to files and directories combined with both a root rw directory to access current files and a ro /snapshot/YYMMDD-HHMMSS hierarchy to access snapshots from past dates with the possibility of deleting them at will (ie. generate a snapshot every hour, after 24 hours leave only every 6th one, after 7 days leave only dailies, after a month leave only weeklies etc... - much too complicated, but it's easier to get the basic idea across on a larger example - probably organized via cronjob). I realise such a solution would not be foolproof (if the disk goes bad or the filesystem goes haywire it's pretty much useless) so a hard-copy would still need to be maintained (probably via freeze/snapshot/unfreeze/dump it somewhere else) - but this would be useful for the users (the ability to restore past deleted files...) In a way this could possibly be realized via some twidling with rsync (although for space efficiency this would require copy-on-write hardlinks or something like that) but I see no way of doing this without wasting a lot of space (at least 1 copy of the snapshoted filesystem, the rest could probably be hardlinked). And to maintain full R/O status, this would need to be a seperate partition, etc... Any comments/ideas? Cheers, MaZe.

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excluding using up2date?
by Sharon Kimble 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Is it possible to exclude one package from a repo whilst using the up2date icon please? If so, how do I do it? Sharon. -- 13:34:23 up 2 days, 3:23, 3 users, load average: 2.70, 1.92, 1.67 A taste of linux http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ Centos 4.2, KDE 3.4.3-1.0, OpenOffice 2.0 Registered Linux user 334501

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new dell B120 laptop and ehci_hcd
by Jerry Geis 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

>/Jerry Geis wrote: />// I am installing 4.2 on the new dell $499 B120 laptop. //>/ Centos installs just fine. however, when rebooting />/ it is starting udev and then says Disabling IRQ#11 and stops. />/ />/ Any ideas on why that would be?? />/ / >/Do you have a USB devices plugged in? I reinstalled CentOS 4.2 on my />/laptop this past weekend. I forgot to unplug my USB mouse during />/installation and had the same "Disabling IRQ 11" stop. I ended up />/unplugging my mouse and restarting the install and then it was very happy. / >/Max / >Nothing but the network is pluged in. >Jerry I was able to boot into the "linux rescue" mode and did more /proc/interrupts and Irq 7,10 and 11 are ehci_hcd. What is going on with the USB that it will not boot in normal mode? Install booted and installed normally, linux rescue booted (although I still saw messages about disabling IRQ #11). I see that same message on a normal boot but it never continues after that... Any ideas, why USB is stopping this laptop from booting? Jerry

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new dell B120 laptop
by Jerry Geis 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

I am installing 4.2 on the new dell $499 B120 laptop. Centos installs just fine. however, when rebooting it is starting udev and then says Disabling IRQ#11 and stops. Any ideas on why that would be?? THanks, Jerry

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submount/supermount
by Mario Tadej 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Hello, Does anybody runs supermount or submount or anything else. If yes can describe how did it establish. Thanks in advance Mario Tadej

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x86_64 kernel compilation
by John Logsdon 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

If I can squeeze a message between the discussions on security (:-)) I have been trying to compile a kernel on an x86_64 box under CentOS4.1 and now 4.2. The problem is that neither make xconfig or make gconfig work: make gconfig * * Unable to find the GTK+ installation. Please make sure that * the GTK+ 2.0 development package is correctly installed... * You need gtk+-2.0, glib-2.0 and libglade-2.0. * make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/.tmp_gtkcheck] Error 1 make: *** [gconfig] Error 2 and a similar message for xconfig: make xconfig HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/qconf /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/qconf] Error 1 make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 Yet I have the following libraries installed: compat-glibc.i386 1:2.3.2-95.30 installed compat-glibc.x86_64 1:2.3.2-95.30 installed compat-glibc-headers.x86_64 1:2.3.2-95.30 installed glibc.i686 2.3.4-2.13 installed glibc.x86_64 2.3.4-2.13 installed glibc-common.x86_64 2.3.4-2.13 installed glibc-devel.x86_64 2.3.4-2.13 installed glibc-devel.i386 2.3.4-2.13 installed glibc-headers.x86_64 2.3.4-2.13 installed glibc-kernheaders.x86_64 2.4-9.1.98.EL installed glibc-utils.x86_64 2.3.4-2.13 installed gtk+.i386 1:1.2.10-33 installed gtk+.x86_64 1:1.2.10-33.centos4 installed gtk+-devel.x86_64 1:1.2.10-33.centos4 installed gtk-engines.i386 1:0.12-6.el4 installed gtk-engines.x86_64 1:0.12-6.el4 installed gtk2.x86_64 2.4.13-18 installed gtk2.i386 2.4.13-18 installed gtk2-devel.x86_64 2.4.13-18 installed gtk2-engines.x86_64 2.2.0-7.el4 installed gtk2-engines.i386 2.2.0-7.el4 installed libglade2.i386 2.4.0-5 installed libglade2.x86_64 2.4.0-5 installed pygtk2.x86_64 2.4.0-1 installed pygtk2-libglade.x86_64 2.4.0-1 installed Since menuconfig is totally unusable, I am quite stuck. I have regularly compiled on an x86 box with virtually identical installation and I have compared the libraries but can't see what I have missed. The kernel version is 2.6.14.3 which is the latest stable but this happens with older kernels. There have been suggestions of various patches to a makefile which I have tried but to no avail. So I think it may be a library issue. So can anyone with an x86_64 box on which they have successfully compiled a kernel post me their output from: yum list | egrep gtk\|glibc\|glade | grep installed ... or even the complete yum list (privately to save bandwidth!) TIA John John Logsdon "Try to make things as simple Quantex Research Ltd, Manchester UK as possible but not simpler" j.logsdon(a)quantex-research.com a.einstein(a)relativity.org +44(0)161 445 4951/G:+44(0)7717758675 www.quantex-research.com

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Planning Mail Server (with low resources)
by Alain Reguera 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Hello, I'm planning the installation of the school's Mail Server. This is the first time I get in administration. I've been reading about postfix, cyrus and the first page in the guide of HughesJR.com[2] about installing postfix-cyrus, but due my low hardware resources, I ask for suggestions to see If what I need can be done (and|or) stable. Hardware: Pentium III 1.4Ghz 256 RAM 40 GB HD-IDE Soft: CentOS 4.2 Postfix Cyrus-IMAPd MailScanner Spanassassin Partitioning(in MB)[1]: / 1.000 /boot/ 100 /home/ 15.000 /swap/ 512 /tmp/ 500 /usr/ 1.000 /var/ 5.000 /var/log/ 2.000 /var/spool/mail/ 14.800 The server will serve around 2000 students, but only 80(maybe 100) concurrent at time. I would like to make a very basic installation, 'cause as you can see, I am with a very low hardware resources. This host will be mail dedicated. In the near future the hard would be upgraded(maybe a nu computer). Now, I need something to show in a working environment. I'll appreciate any suggestion. I've never been involved in this. I used to program with php, but now, it has been delegated :| to me (chosen between other tasks). Some orientation (and|or) readings will be great too, even while, I'll continue reading about partitioning[3] (think my first step). thanks in advanced for your time. [1] http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/disk-partitioning.html [2] http://www.hughesjr.com/content/view/9/30/Guides [3] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/intro.html

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DAG repo problem (continuation)
by Dominik Składanowski 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Hello list. Continuing previous topic: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-November/015586.html, I would like to ask: anybody has the same problem? Still I can't update this few packages. Regards. -- ____________________________________________________________________ D o m i n i k S k ł a d a n o w s k i

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Tape Device
by Mauricio Merlin 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

What module I can run for my IDE Device Tape? In the Debian use modprobe ide_tape Error: FATAL: Module ide_tape not found. Tanks -- Cimed Ind. de Med. Ltda Mauricio Merlin Machado Analista de Suporte Tel. (11)2244-7257

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Samba Server requirement
by Sreenath G 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Hi all, I am using CentOS 4(equivalent to RHEL 4) with Samba Version 3.0.10-1.4E.I have mount a folder(say "//linuxsrv/projectname" in my "/mnt/projectname") from my Development server which is a Debian Sarge box.My requirement is that whenever the Samba server running on Debian Box is restarted,I have to recognize it and unmount the "server folder" and then mount it again or shortly I have to recognize the Samba server status of the Debian box.Is it possible by any configuration editing in /etc/smb.conf or anything like that. Please help me as I am not a Linux guru. -- regards Sreenath.G

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RE: Keeping data on 2 servers in sync !
by Jonathan Darton 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

>I want to build 2 servers (both running samba) to provide file storage to 2 >offices (approx 100 miles apart, linked via DSL) but all data writen to 1 >server must also be saved to the other server. >Both servers would also allow users to access the data via a VPN thus >allowing 1 office with a failed server to access the other server via the >vpn and still see the data from both offices. >I currently have 1 server working but we want to add the second office to >the system. (Currently 1 office has 10 users and the second office has 1 >user connected via VPN ) but the second office will have 20 within 12 months >and the first will have 35 soon )) >Has anyone done anything like this ? I am currently synchronizing multiple office locations using a program called unison. Unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) is a very well written program that can perform 2 way file synchronization. There are many configurable options with unison and I recommend that you check it out. In each office I have a PII350 128RAM Fedora or CentOS server running unison and the files are accessed via samba. I also configure samba to hide (veto) all of the temporary files used during synchronization. For redundancy I place a slave server with each master server that backs up all the user data / file system using rsync. This way if one of my $5 PII servers catches fire I can automatically switch over with no downtime for the users. The only downfall I have encountered is with Autocad files not properly reading the synchronized .dwl lock file and more than one user working on the same file. As a work around for this I have configured Unison to keep a backup of the last 20 versions of a file. This way I can always hit my backups to retreive lost data. As a side note, if anyone knows a work around for the stubborn autocad dwl lock file let me know :))! In any case my implementation has allowed me to synchronize file systems between 4 offices (3 in Canada, 1 in USA), using recycled hardware that was otherwise going to be donated/trashed. Let me know if you have any further questions. AJ Darton, B.COMM CIS System Consultant

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Dovecot w/ MySQL support and CentOS
by Jeffrey Tadlock 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

I am converting a Debian box running Postfix, Courier and MySQL to a CentOS box running Postfix, Dovecot and MySQL. I have the Postfix with MySQL support taken care of with the RPM from the centosplus repo. It appears that the stock RPM for Dovecot comes with Postgres, but not MySQL support. It looks like I need to download the source RPM and then rebuild it with MySQL support. Could someone outline the steps I need to do this or point me to a good resource? I have not worked with source RPMs in the past, but it looks like it is time to learn! Also, if I build it from a source RPM, should I then exclude it from my repos to keep a future update from overriding the one I built? Thanks! Jeffrey

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CBQ - Centos 4.2
by Adriano Frare 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Dear Friends, How I Install CBQ in CENTOS 4.2 ? Thanks Adriano

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Missed disk array during centos installation!
by Victor Manuel Acosta Montaña 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Hi all, i´m a newby and i have a HP lc 3 server 600 mb ram 3 raid 0 HD and i´m getting this error when i try to install CentOS on it: "...No hard drives found ...OK?" and then server reboots. My question is: Do i need a raid driver to avoid this issue? if so, how i can get the right driver for my box? Any help will be helpfull... thanks and regards!

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CentOS 4.2beta on Sun Ultra 5 (sparc64)
by Magnus Hedemark 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

I just wanted to bring some attention to the experimental build of CentOS that Pasi put together for sparc64 architecture. I installed it for the first time last night on a Sun Ultra 5 (333MHz, 256MB RAM, upgraded to 40GB hard disk). I installed it over a serial console as this is a headless system. Install went flawlessly. After the install was done and it booted up, I ssh'd in as root, and within 5 minutes had it participating in my LDAP/Kerberos/NFS environment. Logged out, logged back in with my regular user account with X11 forwarding enabled, and started firing up GUI apps. The box is a little memory starved, and I think with 512MB it would be a lot better, but it is quite usable! App startup time is longer than what my Athlon64 3700+ has me accustomed to but once the apps are running, they are snappy & stable. If you have an old 64 bit Sun workstation kicking around collecting dust, I think it would be worthwhile to try this build out and post your results to Pasi's centos-sparc mailing list. With any luck, maybe we can get to the point where this is an officially supported architecture. Some apps are still missing, as is to be expected with a new architecture. Most notably, OpenOffice.org is not there. I did run firefox, gimp, thunderbird, and xchat flawlessly though. I can't comment at all on local X11 console support because my sun boxes run headless. This is inspiring me to save up for a loaded Sun E420R or E450 to run at home and replace my Duron-based web/mail server.

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Gnomebaker for centos 4.2
by carlopmart 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Hi all, Somebody knows from what repo can I download gnomebaker rpm for Centos 4.2 ??? Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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