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CentOS 3 -> logins
by Ugo Bellavance 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Hi, Since I upgraded CentOS from 3 to 4, I get those enties in logwatch. It seems to be caused by cron, opening a session everytime it executes a task. Is that normal? crond: Unknown Entries: session closed for user root: 381 Time(s) session opened for user root by (uid=0): 379 Time(s) session closed for user user: 239 Time(s) session opened for user user by (uid=0): 239 Time(s) session closed for user backup_user: 2 Time(s) session opened for user backup_user by (uid=0): 2 Time(s) -- 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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Yum
by Sam Drinkard 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

This may be considered a newbie question, and for me, yum is a new tool. I have discovered via yum, I am *supposed* to have libf2c (386) and libf2c (x86-64) installed. Searching the two libs, I find I only have the 32-bit version installed, and I need both. Should I use yum to remove the pkgs, and then reinstall, or should I use rpm to do the installs? Again, I'm from the BSD camp, so this is all new to me. Also, are the two libs in question on the distro CD's or do I need to go out and find them, or let yum find them for me and install? Thanks.. -- Snowman

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Postfix+sasl Outlook problem.
by Dominik Składanowski 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

I have mail server on CentOS 4.1. Sasl authorization for SMTP is enabled. Thunderbird sends mail, but Outlook get an error 554, Relay access denied, error number 0x800CCC79 Outlook has a login and password for SMTP enabled. It is strange, because there is no any sign of authorize in maillog when Outlook try to send mail. -- ____________________________________________________________________ D o m i n i k S k ł a d a n o w s k i

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tripwire?
by Scot L. Harris 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Is there a version of tripwire for Centos? I did a quick search in one of the mirrors but did not find one. Possibly I am looking in the wrong place.

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RE: [CentOS] Paranoid Firewalling
by Minica, Nelson (EDS) 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

It will reduce bandwidth, not all, maybe not much, but unestablished TCP connections take less bandwidth than established, with most of the bandwidth being used by the protocol data on top of the established session (even if its just a reject). Nelson

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sending key strokes to applications
by Jerry Geis 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

All, Is there a way to send key strokes to applications under X? I wish to send F11 to mozilla/firefox to put it in full screen mode. Not sure why there is not a command line parameter to do it. Just some utility that could be run that sends a keystroke to an application. THanks Jerry

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snmp values for interface traffic - Centos 3.5/x86_64
by Les Mikesell 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Is there a problem with the values returned from snmp for ethx interface traffic on x86_64? I have cacti graphing several servers that should peak around 200k/s and it sometimes pegs at 100M for periods of time when in fact the interfaces are not busy at all. I did a 'yum update' and rebooted, and things cleared up for a while, but now at least one is going crazy again, so perhaps the reboot just helped until something triggered the condition again. Stopping/starting snmpd doesn't help and the values from ifconfig look sane. I haven't seen anything like it on x86 servers doing otherwise similar things, just the x86_64's. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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Kernel Panic!
by Mark Elam 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Hey all, Long time user of Centos, I really love what you guys are doing here. I have a farm of 50 Centos 4.1 machines. (originally 4.0 updated with yum up to current 4.1). Ever since I updated to the 2.6.9-11 kernel I am getting a lot of kernel panics. 7 machines suffered kernel panics over the weekend. Funny that they were the only ones that are booted into the new kernel! The rest haven't been rebooted yet so they are still at the 2.6.9-5 kernel. They all have similar messages in the logs as show below. Any ideas on where to look for the problem? Has anyone else seen this? Machine info: Typical of all 50 machines: P4 3Ghz 2gb ram U320 SCSI disk w/ lsi scsi controller Intel Workstation boards Nvidia graphics All machines exactly the same, installed w/ kickstart w/ these packages: %packages @ office @ legacy-software-development @ editors @ system-tools @ base-x @ gnome-software-development @ graphics @ smb-server @ development-tools @ printing @ text-internet @ kde-software-development @ kde-desktop @ x-software-development @ mail-server @ legacy-network-server @ sound-and-video @ gnome-desktop @ ftp-server @ network-server @ graphical-internet vnc telnet-server rsh-server kernel-smp grub kernel xemacs rusers-server /var/log/messsages: Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000054 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: printing eip: Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: c016c583 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: *pde = 0bb6d001 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: SMP Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: Modules linked in: nvidia(U) vmnet(U) vmmon(U) nfs nfsd exportfs lockd sunrpc md5 ipv6 parport_pc lp parport autofs4 sr_mod ide_scsi dm_mod button battery ac joydev uhci_hcd ehci_hcd snd_maestro3 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd soundcore e1000 floppy ext3 jbd mptscsih mptbase sd_mod scsi_mod Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: CPU: 1 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c016c583>] Tainted: P VLI Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.9-11.ELsmp) Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: EIP is at iput+0x25/0x61 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: eax: 00000040 ebx: f3a85b74 ecx: f8c7bbb9 edx: f3a85b74 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: esi: f222b89c edi: f222b8a4 ebp: 0000006b esp: f7ceeeec Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: Process kswapd0 (pid: 43, threadinfo=f7cee000 task=f7d1b7b0) Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: Stack: f3a85b74 c016a1d8 00000000 00000092 00000000 f7ffe9e0 c016a553 c0144e2c Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: 00d70a00 00000000 00000061 00000000 00023313 000000d0 00000020 c031ad80 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: 00000002 c031ad80 0000000c c01460b8 c02c5604 00023313 f7ceef9c 00000000 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: Call Trace: Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c016a1d8>] prune_dcache+0x13f/0x18e Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c016a553>] shrink_dcache_memory +0x14/0x2b Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c0144e2c>] shrink_slab+0xf8/0x161 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c01460b8>] balance_pgdat+0x1d2/0x2f8 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c02c5604>] schedule+0x844/0x87a Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c01462a8>] kswapd+0xca/0xcc Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c011f6ee>] autoremove_wake_function +0x0/0x2d Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c02c7296>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c011f6ee>] autoremove_wake_function +0x0/0x2d Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c01461de>] kswapd+0x0/0xcc Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c01041f1>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: Code: ff e9 fa fe ff ff 53 85 c0 89 c3 74 58 83 bb 3c 01 00 00 20 8b 80 a4 00 00 00 8b 40 24 75 08 0f 0b 4c 04 3d e7 2d c0 85 c0 74 0b <8b> 50 14 85 d2 74 04 89 d8 ff d2 8d 43 1c ba 70 fc 31 c0 e8 59 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: <0>Fatal exception: panic in 5 seconds Thanks! Mark Elam

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802.11g pcmcia card?
by Marko A. Jennings 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Could someone, please, suggest an 802.11g pcmcia card that works well under CentOS 4? Thank you. Marko

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Changing permissions on files that only exist during USB operation
by Dave Gutteridge 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

A while back I got help in getting my Palm Pilot to connect to CentOS, and through the advice I got here I was able to successfully back up my files to the computer using the CentOS default Palm utility. However, I now want to use JPilot to sync and install files. But when I attempt to sync through JPilot, I get the following error: ******************************* Syncing on device /dev/pilot Press the Hotsync button now ******************************* pi_bind Invalid argument Check your serial port and settings Exiting with status SYNC_ERROR_BIND Finished I searched on the net, and it would seem that this is because of a permissions problem with the /dev/pilot files. The advice I am following is here: http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Running_JPilot_as_a_non-privileged_user.ht… On this page the writer says that there are two ways to solve the problem - make the user the owner of the device, or make the device world writable. The author of the page says "making files (especially devices) world-writable should be avoided", but I think I'm not bothered either way. In any case, when it comes to making the device owned by anyone or world-writable, I'm not sure how to proceed. Retracing some of the steps given tome on this list before, I can see that the relevant device files have the following permissions: [root@localhost dev]# ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* /dev/pilot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 3 11:57 /dev/pilot -> ttyUSB1 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Sep 3 11:57 /dev/ttyUSB0 crw------- 1 dave uucp 188, 1 Sep 3 11:57 /dev/ttyUSB1 So, I either want to give the user "dave" permission to use ttyUSB 1 and 0, or make those files world-writable. But where I hit a wall is that I can't figure out how to change the permissions on these files because they only appear when I hot sync the palm, a process that only lasts for a few seconds, maybe 15 or 20 at the most, and also tends to get enough attention from the CPU to make it so it's tough to switch to the command line and enter in any commands in time. I tried the following, but the settings don't seem to stick for the next sync operation: [root@localhost dev]# chown dave /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/ttyUSB1 The advice I got last time on this list did speak about permissions, but unfortunately, I didn't pursue the issue because I thought the issue had been solved when I was able to make the basic connection at all to CentOS. So my question is, how do I change permission on these temporarily existing device files to that JPilot will not return errors? Dave

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sshd ipv6 logging in CentOS4
by Francois Caen 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Hello folks, Since I started using CentOS4, one thing has been bugging me: sshd's ipv6 logging as seen here: Failed password for root from ::ffff:83.220.130.10 port 43511 ssh2 Not a big deal, but I'd be really happy if I could get it to log in ipv4 format like on CentOS3. Any suggestion? Thanks, Francois

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Yum thing
by Henk van Lingen 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Hi, As there is no (decent) way to specify a particular repo for an particular package with yum, I'm having an odd problem: Although the version numbers differ, I have 2 spamassassin pkgs in different repo's (updates and my own addons) which are seen as updates to eachother: jelsum:/root-# tail -11 /var/log/yum.log Sep 02 04:26:34 Installed: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin.i386 3.1.0-1 Sep 02 04:26:35 Updated: spamassassin.i386 3.1.0-1 Sep 03 05:01:36 Obsoleting: spamassassin.i386 3.0.4-1.el4 Sep 03 05:01:37 Erased: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin Sep 04 04:37:52 Installed: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin.i386 3.1.0-1 Sep 04 04:37:53 Updated: spamassassin.i386 3.1.0-1 Sep 05 04:21:15 Obsoleting: spamassassin.i386 3.0.4-1.el4 Sep 05 04:21:16 Erased: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin Sep 06 04:34:37 Installed: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin.i386 3.1.0-1 Sep 06 04:34:50 Updated: syslinux.i386 3.11-1.2.el4.rf Sep 06 04:34:51 Updated: spamassassin.i386 3.1.0-1 What can be wrong? Cheers, -- Henk van Lingen, Systems & Network Administrator (o- -+ Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University. /\ | phone: +31-30-2535278 v_/_ http://henk.vanlingen.net/ http://www.tuxtown.net/netiquette/

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php mail extensions
by Melinda Odom 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Hi, I have recently had problems with doing a security update from the centos mirrors where the mail extensions were missing from the php package so any ecommerce sites stopped after the update via yum: php i386 4.3.2-25.ent.centos.1 update php-imap i386 4.3.2-25.ent.centos.1 update php-mysql i386 4.3.2-25.ent.centos.1 update php-pgsql i386 4.3.2-25.ent.centos.1 update We reverted back to php-4.3.2-24 to quickly solve the problem. Is there a mirror that has the complete package for CentOS 3.5? Also, am considering upgrading to CentOS 4 so is this easily done from 3.5 and would there be any problems with the packages for 4? Thanks! Sincerely, Melinda Odom www.designhosting.biz 479-471-0891 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/89 - Release Date: 9/2/2005

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Linux Trademarked?
by William Warren 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25529 what's everyone's thoughts on this one? -- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. -- carpe ductum -- "Grab the tape" CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician) Linux user #322099 Machines: 206822 256638 276825 http://counter.li.org/

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Blew away MySQL
by Todd Cary 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Unfortunately, I blew MySQL away by replacing the MySQL control tables with others and not making a copy of the folder. My data is backed up, so that is not a problem, but I cannot reinstall MySQL and create the mysql directory with the control tables (e.g. user, db, host). I have run "yum remove mysql" and "yum install mysql" and "yum install mysql-server" and the control files are not recreated. Any suggestions? Todd -- Ariste Software 200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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Re: [CentOS] OT clamav-milter
by Marko A. Jennings 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

On Sun, September 4, 2005 7:00 pm, Craig White said: > I OT'd this since it is supplied by dag and not centos but running on centos 3.5 > > # service clamav-milter start > Starting Clamav Milter Daemon: clamav-milter: --timeout must not be given if --external is not given > > I updated last week and didn't have any problems. I did restart the system today and for some reason cannot get clamav-milter to start > > ;-( > > Any hints - afaik - nothing changed... > > # cat /etc/sysconfig/clamav-milter > ### Simple config file for clamav-milter, you should > ### read the documentation and tweak it as you wish. > > CLAMAV_FLAGS=" > --config-file=/etc/clamd.conf > --max-children=10 > --force-scan > --quiet > --dont-log-clean > --noreject > -obl local:/var/run/clamav/clamav-milter.sock > If I remember correctly, I added --timeout=0 to CLAMAV_FLAGS in /etc/sysconfig/clamav-milter to rectify this. Marko

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Raid / dual Opteron power issues
by Evan Bursey 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Hi All, I've just started caring for a dual Opteron machine. It has a 3Ware 9500S-12 RAID controller, a Tyan S2882G3NR motherboard, 10 IBM 400GB disk drives, and a 650 watt power supply. It has been behaving itself quite nicely until recently. The poor behavior started when I upgraded the OS from CentOS 4.1 (32 bit) to Centos 4.1 (x86_64). When running in uniprocessor mode, the system appears to work properly. However, when running in SMP mode I get a lot of SCSI disk errors in /var/log/messages. I've upgraded the 3w_9xxx driver and firmware, but no joy (actually, I did get some joy out of recompiling the kernel. Its been several years since I last compiled a kernel and the process has changed for the better). I've been in contact with 3Ware. From the error logs I supplied to them, it looks like the issue is an insufficient power supply. Their rule of thumb is 300W for the motherboard and 35 W for each disk drive. That means that I would need (at a theoretical minimum) a 650 W power supply - which I have. I only notice the problem in SMP mode, not in uniprocessor mode. That suggests to me that (1) I have a boarderline-sufficient power supply that can support one but not two CPUs or (2) there is a problem with the combination of Opteron/3Ware 9500S-12 hardware and the x86_64 SMP kernel. I suppose there are even worse possibilities, but I'd rather not think about those right now. What do you think? Does anyone have any experience with this sort of hardware on x86_64 kernels? Does the 3w_9xxx driver work well on a x86_64 machine? Does anyone have a suggestion as to what capacity power supply I should have? Thank you, Evan

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OT clamav-milter
by Craig White 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

I OT'd this since it is supplied by dag and not centos but running on centos 3.5 # service clamav-milter start Starting Clamav Milter Daemon: clamav-milter: --timeout must not be given if --external is not given I updated last week and didn't have any problems. I did restart the system today and for some reason cannot get clamav-milter to start ;-( Any hints - afaik - nothing changed... # cat /etc/sysconfig/clamav-milter ### Simple config file for clamav-milter, you should ### read the documentation and tweak it as you wish. CLAMAV_FLAGS=" --config-file=/etc/clamd.conf --max-children=10 --force-scan --quiet --dont-log-clean --noreject -obl local:/var/run/clamav/clamav-milter.sock " Craig

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booting from a +2TB disk
by Akop Pogosian 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

I have been trying to install CentOS 4.1 on a new server today. The installation went fine but the system doesn't boot. It doesn't even get to the Grub screen. The system has a 3ware 9500 series controller and 12 250GB SATA disks which are configured for RAID5 with one hot spare. I searched on the web and noticed that this is a Grub (and Lilo) limitation. Is there any way around it other than setting up a smaller RAID device? -akop

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Re: [CentOS] mysql
by Ed Morrison 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

chris hammond wrote: > You need to install mysql-server. Sounds like mysql is installed > which is the client but not the server. > Well, now that I'm totally embarressed I would like to crawl back under the rock I just came out from under. Could I be more newbie in my ignorance...... Thank you all for your help. Ed

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Re: [CentOS] mysql
by Ed Morrison 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

chris hammond wrote: > Look in /etc/init.d and see if mysqld exists. If it does, try to > start it with > /etc/init.d/mysqld start > > Until mysqld is started, mysql will not be able to talk to it. > Hi Chris, Thanks for your help. Apparently mysqld does not exist on the system. Not sure why this is. Has anyone else run into this issue? [root@helpdesk sbin]# locate mysqld /usr/share/doc/mysql-3.23.58/mysqld_error.txt /usr/share/man/man1/mysqld.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mysqld_multi.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mysqldump.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/safe_mysqld.1.gz /usr/bin/mysqld_multi /usr/bin/mysqldumpslow /usr/bin/mysqldump /usr/include/mysql/mysqld_error.h [root@helpdesk sbin]# /usr/bin/mysqld_multi Couldn't find the mysqld binary! Tried: /usr/libexec/mysqld Couldn't find the mysqladmin binary! Tried: /usr/bin/mysqladmin Error with an option, see mysqld_multi --help for more info! Thanks, Ed

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Re: [CentOS] mysql
by chris hammond 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

You need to install mysql-server. Sounds like mysql is installed which is the client but not the server. Chris >>>edward.morrison(a)gmail.com 09/04/05 5:18 pm >>> chris hammond wrote: >Look in /etc/init.d and see if mysqld exists. If it does, try to >start it with >/etc/init.d/mysqld start > >Until mysqld is started, mysql will not be able to talk to it. > Hi Chris, Thanks for your help. Apparently mysqld does not exist on the system. Not sure why this is. Has anyone else run into this issue? [root@helpdesk sbin]# locate mysqld /usr/share/doc/mysql-3.23.58/mysqld_error.txt /usr/share/man/man1/mysqld.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mysqld_multi.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mysqldump.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/safe_mysqld.1.gz /usr/bin/mysqld_multi /usr/bin/mysqldumpslow /usr/bin/mysqldump /usr/include/mysql/mysqld_error.h [root@helpdesk sbin]# /usr/bin/mysqld_multi Couldn't find the mysqld binary! Tried: /usr/libexec/mysqld Couldn't find the mysqladmin binary! Tried: /usr/bin/mysqladmin Error with an option, see mysqld_multi --help for more info! Thanks, Ed CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Re: [CentOS] mysql
by chris hammond 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

Look in /etc/init.d and see if mysqld exists. If it does, try to start it with /etc/init.d/mysqld start Until mysqld is started, mysql will not be able to talk to it. Chris >>>edward.morrison(a)gmail.com 09/04/05 5:02 pm >>> I just installed CentOS 3.5. Included in the install was mysql. When trying to start it using: service mysqld start. The system responds with mysqld not recpognized as a service. When trying to use /usr/bin/mysql I receive this error: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2). A search of the system does not reveal mysql.sock. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any assistance. Ed CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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mysql
by Ed Morrison 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

I just installed CentOS 3.5. Included in the install was mysql. When trying to start it using: service mysqld start. The system responds with mysqld not recpognized as a service. When trying to use /usr/bin/mysql I receive this error: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2). A search of the system does not reveal mysql.sock. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any assistance. Ed

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Equivalent command
by Sam Drinkard 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

Is there an equivalent command or application to "sockstat" as in the BSD camp under CentOS? How about systat ? Thanks... -- Snowman

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 7, Issue 3
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '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. CESA-2005-586-01 Important CentOS 3 i386, x86_64 - security update (CENTOSPLUS only) (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 18:23:21 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005-586-01 Important CentOS 3 i386, x86_64 - security update (CENTOSPLUS only) To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20050903162321.GA28627(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 07:57:16AM +0300, Pasi Pirhonen wrote: > Hi, > > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-586.html > ... i386 and x86_64 rebuilds i386: centosplus/i386/RPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.i386.rpm centosplus/i386/SRPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.src.rpm x86_64: centosplus/x86_64/RPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.x86_64.rpm centosplus/x86_64/SRPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.src.rpm Tru -- Tru Huynh (CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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Incompatible Libraries
by Sam Drinkard 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

Fellow users, I'm running into some rather odd behavior trying to compile some software, and would like to know if there is maybe a fix or if I should revert back to a 32-bit version of Centos. I'm trying to compile NCAR Graphics, as well as some other weather related software on this machine which is running the Centos 4.1 x86-64 version. It's a dual Xeon processor. I've installed all the required rpms, i.e., xdevel, xaw, etc. The problem I'm seeing is during linking of the various packages, where I get messages of "skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so when searching for -lXaw". I see similar other messages when trying to link to -L X11, and so forth and so on. I've got the correct paths set in the makefiles, but not sure I understand why the libs are being shown as incompatible. If any of you have built ncarg on the x86-64 OS, I'd sure like to hear from you, and what you did to effect the compile. Thanks.. Sam -- Snowman

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[OT] Services for Unix being built into Win2K3-R2
by Johnny Hughes 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

I found this article about Microsoft SFU being built into the new Windows 2003 Server R2 very interesting. http://news.com.com/Microsoft+makes+Unix+changes/2100-1016_3-5845790.html?t… What does this signify? Is Windows ready to really co-exist with Unix / Linux ... or are they going to try and provide similar functionality because they recognize it is better technology moving forward?

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Accents in filenames on vfat filesystem
by dan1 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

Hello. I am trying to create a text file that contains an accent like 'é' in it's filename on a vfat filesystem. This generates an error like the following: "testé.txt" E212: Can't open file for writing I have made a 'modprobe nls_cp850' and 'modprobe nls_iso8859-1' to load those needed modules. Then I mounted my FAT32 partition like this: mount -t vfat -o iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 /dev/hdb1 /samba_backups The mount succeeded but I still cannot create or copy a file that has an accent in it's filename. Of course I can create without any problem a file without any accent once the filesystem mounted the same way. It seems that other people on other systems are having no problems. Does somebody knows what happens and what I am doing wrong, and that would have any suggestion ? Thank you. Daniel

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CentOS bootstrapper for chroot(2) environment
by Jan Kratochvil 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

Hi, just some script built along: Unattended install & run CentOS-4.1 just using chroot(1). Mostly a surprise for me it was so easy to reach that goal. It requires rpm(1) based host OS and it was tested only on Fedora Core 4. I needed it to do only a bit customized CentOS kernel package rebuild. Regards, Lace

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tar question
by Todd Cary 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

Basic tar question: I have created a ar file with tar -prvf /tmp/ib_backup.tar /opt/interbase/data/* The file has been copied to another box and I want to untar the file into /opt/interbase/data/ I am not sure about the syntax; how to specify where I want the data to be placed. Here is my start of the command: tar -xvf /tmp/ib_backup.tar #The tar file is in /tmp Todd -- Ariste Software 200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 7, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '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. CESA-2005-586-01 Important CentOS 3 ia64, s390, s390x firefox - security update (CENTOSPLUS only) (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 07:57:16 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)papat.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005-586-01 Important CentOS 3 ia64, s390, s390x firefox - security update (CENTOSPLUS only) To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20050903045716.GA11490(a)core.upi.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-586.html backported to compile agaist CentOS-3 level software. This is my bad. I forgot the damn thing while the firefox security update came out. ia64: centosplus/ia64/RPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.ia64.rpm centosplus/ia64/SRPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.src.rpm s390: centosplus/s390/RPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.s390.rpm centosplus/s390/SRPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.src.rpm s390x: centosplus/s390x/RPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.s390x.rpm centosplus/s390x/SRPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.src.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

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installing on 915GAVL motherboard kernel bombs and/or X bombs
by Jerry Geis 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

I got a new box today. 915GAVL motherboard. Celeron 2.4G 1 GIG mem 80GIG SATA drive. When I boot centos I have had various stages of success. Once I got as far as partitioning the disk manually and X blew and the machine rebooted. Couple times I have had kernel crashes at different stages of install. I have not has trouble installing before and was wondering if there are suggestions. I did try installing without X "linux text pci=noapci" and that stopped also. All anaconda says is "install exited abnormally". I went ot the hardware monitor portion and seems stable CPU temp at around 48-50C. Any ideas? Jerry

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question on cut
by Jerry Geis 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

I am trying to use cut to tell me the suffix of a file. for example: echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | cut -d . -f 1- I was expecting to get .log or log but I get the entire string echoed back. doing the opposite gave me what I expected: echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | cut -d . -f 1 gives me /home/silentm/log/file I am trying to find a way to test if the file ends in .log? How might I do that. Thanks, Jerry

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nfsstat -m equivalent
by Mark Belanger 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Is there an equivalent command to nfsstat -m on Centos 3.4? On solaris it reports statistics for each NFS mounted file system i.e.: /mount/point from host:/some/path Flags: vers=3,proto=tcp,sec=sys,hard,intr,link,symlink,acl,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,retrans=5,timeo=50 Attr cache: acregmin=3,acregmax=60,acdirmin=30,acdirmax=60 On a related topic, how can I make a Centos3.4 nfs server export the filesystem with an rsize/wsize of 32K. I believe the kernel supports it: $ grep MAXBL /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-27.EL/include/linux/nfsd/const.h #define NFSSVC_MAXBLKSIZE (32*1024) #define NFSSVC_MAXBLKSIZE (2*PAGE_SIZE) Although I'm confused by this similar file from the glibc-kernheaders package. $ grep MAX /usr/include/linux/nfsd/const.h #define NFSSVC_MAXVERS 3 #define NFSSVC_MAXBLKSIZE (8*1024) -Mark -- Mark Belanger LTX Corporation

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question on cut -solved
by Jerry Geis 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Mark, Thanks thats what I was looking for... Jerry Jerry Geis wrote: >/ I am trying to use cut to tell me the suffix of a file. />/ for example: echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | cut -d . -f 1- />/ />/ I was expecting to get .log or log but I get the entire string echoed back. />/ />/ doing the opposite gave me what I expected: />/ echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | cut -d . -f 1 />/ gives me />/ /home/silentm/log/file />/ />/ I am trying to find a way to test if the file ends in .log? / Awk will do it: # echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | awk -F. '{print $NF}' log The benefit of awk is that you don't have to know how many dots are in the file. $NF just prints the last one. -Mark

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question on cut
by Jerry Geis 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

when I do the the cut -d "." -f 2- I get 2 fields. If my file was /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log I get machine.log not just "log" the suffix?? Jerry

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Re: [CentOS] question on cut
by Jeff Stacey 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

with /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log you would need to use echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | cut -d . -f3 echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | cut -d . -f1 *-> /home/silentm/log/file echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | cut -d . -f2 *-> machine echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | cut -d . -f3 *-> log HTH - Jeff >>> geisj(a)pagestation.com 9/2/2005 9:00 AM >>> I am trying to use cut to tell me the suffix of a file. for example: echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | cut -d . -f 1- I was expecting to get .log or log but I get the entire string echoed back. doing the opposite gave me what I expected: echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | cut -d . -f 1 gives me /home/silentm/log/file I am trying to find a way to test if the file ends in .log? How might I do that. Thanks, Jerry _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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system reboots after shutdown
by User Lists 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Hi all, When i want to shutdown my laptop (the result is the same from command line as from gdm), screen gets blank, but computer restarts. APM is disabled (this laptop doesn't support it), and disabling ACPI is no solution, because it controls the fan. Kernel version is 2.6.9-11.EL and CPU is Pentium Centrino. Laptop is an AIRIS 840. I use different distros (ubuntu, debian and knoppix) to reproduce this problem without a result. How can I solve this problem?. Thank you for your help. __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Regístrate ya - http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com/

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Building bacula RPM from Karanbir's repo
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Hi all, Has anyone tried to rebuild bacula from the source RPM provided on Karanbir's CentOS yum repo? Every time I give it a go, I'm given this error during the configure stage: checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one make[1]: Entering directory `/home/rpmbuilder/rpmbuild/BUILD/depkgs/mtx-1.2.17kes' make[1]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rpmbuilder/rpmbuild/BUILD/depkgs/mtx-1.2.17kes' make: *** [mtx] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /home/rpmbuilder/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.1839 (%build) I've tried specifying the host type in the spec file itself by entering the following: --host=x86_64-centos-linux-gnu and --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu but neither have worked. This is my first go at building bacula, so I'm pretty sure I'm missing something: I just don't know what. Do I need to enter a macro in my .rpmmacros file? Currently: %_topdir %(echo "$HOME")/rpmbuild %_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp Is the spec file hosed? Something else entirely? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Systems Aligned Inc. www.systemsaligned.com

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GUI Server settings not present
by Todd Cary 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

I have installed the minimum and used yum and groupinstall to install "System Tools" "Web Server" yet the GUI Server Settings does not contain the Web server or Samba (Samba was installed with "yum install samba"); it just contains Services. Have I missed something here? Todd -- Ariste Software 200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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[OT] 3Ware 9.2.1.1 firmware for 9000 series released
by Kirk Bocek 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Here are the version numbers I get after installing the 9.2.1.1 release: Model 9500S-4LP Firmware FE9X 2.08.00.003 Driver 2.26.03.019fw BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.052 Boot Loader BL9X 2.02.00.001 A bit confusing. I thought I saw a map of code set releases to various version numbers but I couldn't find it on 3Ware's site. On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 at 9:20am, Bryan J. Smith wrote > Claims to have fixed the write performance issues with > multiple volumes. Haven't tried it personally (I do not have > a 9500S card, and I have only installed one once for a > client). > > NOTE: This (9.2.1.1) is an actual, formal, supported release > -- not an unsupported engineering release.

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Can't mount FAT32 partition
by Dave Gutteridge 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

I am trying to mount a FAT32 partition in CentOS. I'm following the instructions on this page: http://www.linuxforum.com/linux_tutorials/14/1.php This is the line I put into /etc/fstab /dev/hda /mnt/windows vfat users,owner,rw,umask=000 0 0 And this is the error I get: [root@localhost mnt]# mount -a mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda, or too many mounted file systems What is the cause of this error? For reference, this is the output of fsisk: [root@localhost mnt]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3649 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 3649 29310561 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Disk /dev/hdb: 30.7 GB, 30738677760 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3737 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 3644 29270398+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 3645 3737 747022+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) Dave

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[OT] DNS - asking for your opinion
by Simone 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Hi list, I first apologise because this is really off topic, but I would really appreciate your opinion on this. I have had a very hard time configuring a DNS server to answer reverse dns queries, and I would like to have your opinion on my provider behaviour. We have 3 classless subnets and asked the provider to delegate reverse dns. They configured their server and emailed me all was fine but i it didn't work for one subnet, so I mailed back and they assure their side was all perfectly configured. I finally find out (spending lot of time and thanks to www.dnsstuff.com) that they configured 2 zones like 128/27.x.x.x.in-addr.arpa and one as 128-27.x.x.x.in-addr.arpa, so my server was not able to answer queries because I had all zones 128/27.x.x.x.in-addr.arpa. As said before it is my first time configuring Bind and I am sure the more experienced would have notice and solved it quite soon, but still I wonder why to use different convention (without telling us) and even if this is correct (red the http://rfc.net/rfc2317.html and they always use "/" not "-" ). Hope I won't be banned from the list for this email...... Thanks for your time reading this Simone

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Show ShutDown steps
by BRUCE STANLEY 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Is there a way to make Centos 4.1 show you the shutdown steps it is executing without having to hit a key on the keyboard (such as in Fedora Core 2 or Red Hat 9)?

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My CentOs 4.1 desktop starts to freez ( non-responsive) with 100% cpu usage
by mohamed yusuf 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

It starts to become a non-responsive from time to time with 100% cpu usage eventhough there is no applications running except a browser. I have been running centos 4 for the past 6 months without any problem with regular update. Now, I have to reboot whenever it shows signs of a non-response. It starts to exhibit this behaviour a cople of days ago. I could not figure it out the reason and need help. Is there any tools to troubleshoot this ? I have tried top, system monitor.. I have attache screen shoot of system monitor if it helps. Mohamed Yusuf __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca

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'Many' packages installed - CentOS 4.1
by Tom Brown 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Hi Installed my first CentOS box last night after coming from Whitebox - This is perhaps me being stupid but on install i opted for 'Custom' install as i prefer minimal and then build as i suit. I went through the list of things to install and removed everything apart from networking. Install happenned and tons of stull ended up being installed including X openoffice and the like - Why was that when i de-selected everything apart from networking? It was very much bloatware and not what i want on a server. thanks for any hints

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 7, Issue 1
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '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. CESA-2005:0831-001 Important CentOS 4 i386 php - security update (CENTOSPLUS only) (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2005:0831-001 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 php - security update (CENTOSPLUS only) (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:06:57 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:0831-001 Important CentOS 4 i386 php - security update (CENTOSPLUS only) To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1125522417.10751.37.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2005:0831-001 Important CentOS 4 i386 php - security update This CESA is for the version of php is that is included in the centosplus repo for CentOS-4 ... this is not an update to the main CentOS-4 repo. ---------------- Name : php Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 5.0.4 Vendor: CentOS Release : 3.centos4 Build Date: 31 Aug 2005 12:15:26 AM UTC Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: C4i386-build Group : Development/Languages Source RPM: php-5.0.4-3.centos4.src.rpm License: The PHP License Packager : Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> URL : http://www.php.net/ Summary : The PHP HTML-embedded scripting language. (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) Description : PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP attempts to make it easy for developers to write dynamically generated webpages. PHP also offers built-in database integration for several commercial and non-commercial database management systems, so writing a database-enabled webpage with PHP is fairly simple. The most common use of PHP coding is probably as a replacement for CGI scripts. The mod_php module enables the Apache Web server to understand and process the embedded PHP language in Web pages. ---------------- Update Information: This update is considered important by the CentOS Development Team. A bug was discovered in the PEAR XML-RPC Server package included in PHP. If a PHP script is used which implements an XML-RPC Server using the PEAR XML-RPC package, then it is possible for a remote attacker to construct an XML-RPC request which can cause PHP to execute arbitrary PHP commands as the 'apache' user. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-2498 to this issue. All Users of PHP-5 from the CentOSPlus Repo should upgrade to these updated packages. More info is available at: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-748.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-August/msg00118.h… ------------------------ The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: php-5.0.4-3.centos4.i386.rpm php-bcmath-5.0.4-3.centos4.i386.rpm php-dba-5.0.4-3.centos4.i386.rpm php-devel-5.0.4-3.centos4.i386.rpm php-gd-5.0.4-3.centos4.i386.rpm php-imap-5.0.4-3.centos4.i386.rpm php-ldap-5.0.4-3.centos4.i386.rpm php-mbstring-5.0.4-3.centos4.i386.rpm php-mysql-5.0.4-3.centos4.i386.rpm php-ncurses-5.0.4-3.centos4.i386.rpm php-odbc-5.0.4-3.centos4.i386.rpm php-pear-5.0.4-3.centos4.i386.rpm php-pgsql-5.0.4-3.centos4.i386.rpm php-snmp-5.0.4-3.centos4.i386.rpm php-soap-5.0.4-3.centos4.i386.rpm php-xml-5.0.4-3.centos4.i386.rpm php-xmlrpc-5.0.4-3.centos4.i386.rpm src: php-5.0.4-3.centos4.src.rpm

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Mod_auth_mysql
by Thomas E Dukes 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Hello, I just upgraded from WBEL 4 to Centos 4.1 per the FAQ. I'm pretty sure after running 'yum update', mysql and apache were updated. I was previously using mod_auth_mysql under WBEL 4 to password protect several directories but now things seem to be broken. When I go to a password protected directory I get an Internal Server Error 500. The only explanation in the error log is "no user file?" Any ideas? TIA

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Re: [CentOS] Trying to control the torrent of spam...
by Kirk Bocek 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

> On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 11:01, Preston Crawford wrote: > If you were running your own MTA I would recommend you implement > greylisting. This would eliminate >98% of spam with little or nor > impact to your MTA servers resources. On my CentOS 3.5 sendmail server I simply added: FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl dnl # dnl # dnsbl - DNS based Blackhole List/Black List/Rejection list dnl # See http://www.sendmail.org/m4/features.html#dnsbl dnl # FEATURE(`dnsbl', `bl.spamcop.net', `"Spam blocked see: http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?"$&{client_addr}')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl', `relays.ordb.org', `"Spam blocked see: http://ordb.org/lookup/?host="$&{client_addr}')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl', `cbl.abuseat.org', `"Spam blocked see: http://cbl.abuseat.org/lookup.cgi?ip="$&{client_addr}')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl', `sbl.spamhaus.org', `"Spam blocked see: http://spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip="$&{client_addr}')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl', `list.dsbl.org', `"Spam blocked see: http://dsbl.org/listing?"$&{client_addr}')dnl to my sendmail.mc file. I'm sure it will work in CentOS 4. I forget where I found the instructions for blacklisting. This has dramatically reduced the spam on my server. Kirk Bocek

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