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Reinstall Windows but preserve CentOS
by Dave Gutteridge 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

I have a computer that dual boots between Windows and CentOS. Each has it's own hard drive. I suddenly have a problem with Windows, and may need to reinstall. I need it for applications like After Effects, Premiere, and other things that I am currently in the middle of a project with. It seems the system has become usnstable, it's preventing me from continuing to work, and I may need to wipe the Windows partition clean and start again. My concern is that if I do that, I will lose the Grub boot loader and not be able to access CentOS again. How can I reinstall Windows with a clean partition, and preserve my dual booting? Dave

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sda of CentOS 4 and hda Windows dual boot possible?
by Robert Hanson 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '05

greetings, since i have a test server in front of me and i have never tried it i request your assistance please. ive always been a fdisk and lilo person i have a fresh CentOS 4 "test" install on a WD120 sata /dev/sda /dev/sda1 / /dev/sda2 /boot /dev/sda3 swap and it just so happens i have a old test 17Gig Maxtor PATA with a fresh Win98 on it from helping my father migrate to a newer cpu and opsys when i go into a fdisk /dev/hda i get this "print" /dev/hda1 c: w95 fat32 lba /dev/hda2 w95 ext lba /dev/hda5 d: w95 fat 32 currently i can boot into the CentOS 4 install and it does not see the PATA drive by default unless i go into fdisk of course. it is not mounted. or i can switch them and boot into win98, whatever is best for this learning test. ive always tried to have 2 or more (hot/cold swapouts) of everything client and server hardwares so i never needed to dual boot. can someone show me what steps they would take using linux rescue to get this "test" situation to dual boot please? i did try with "linux rescue" and was rec'v grub not found errors when running grub-install /dev/sda so im sure i have done something worng. also, i can make the windows pata drive primary or the linux sata primary so please advise what is best. maybe i didnt understand the recent thread re: dual boot situation. thanks in advance and kind regards, - rh -- Robert Hanson Abba Communications http://www.abbacomm.net

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 5, Issue 15
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '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-2005:612 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 kdelibs - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2005:612 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) kdelibs - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 02:59:37 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)papat.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:612 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 kdelibs - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20050729235937.GP1134(a)core.upi.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2005:621 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-612.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/kdelibs-3.3.1-3.11.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/kdelibs-devel-3.3.1-3.11.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

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NFS and Linux Firewall Conflict
by John Hinton 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '05

If I run showmount -e <my_server_ip> from the client, with the firewall set to on on the server, I get rpc mount export: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = No route to host If I turn it off, I can connect. So far, I have 111 and 2049 tcp and udp open and 4002 udp open. Anybody know what I'm missing? Best, John Hinton

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CentOS 4 install DVD
by Robert Hanson 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '05

greetings when CentOS 4 first came out i downloaded the DVD and installed from it several times just fine. should i continue to use it? OR, is there a "newer" one? where on the mirros should i snag it "the best" new one if it exists please? thank you and kind regards, - rh

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filesystem corruption: resize inode not valid
by dan1 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '05

Hello. I am having a problem with one CentOS 4 box I have installed. It worked perfectly for several days, was used as a gateway on my LAN. After having reached the limit of the disk size by copying stuff from a windows box to a samba shared drive on the centOS box, and after making a reboot, the server didn't come up anymore. Looking at it I was thrown to the repair console and when doing an 'e2fsck /dev/md1' there was the following message: "resize inode not valid". >From there on, I can answer to the repair questions, but after finishing the filesystem repair, and redoing a filesystem check (after reboot or not) the same error message comes up. I cannot go out of it and the ext3 filesystem (in software raid 1) seems completely mixed up. Did somebody else have this problem already ? I had a look around the internet and I have seen several people having had this problem these last months. I was using the e2fsck verison 1.35 (current version of CentOS). Thanks for any help one could provide. Daniel

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clamav and centos
by Carlos Arellano 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '05

I am trying to install clamav in centos ia64. Descompresed the file, I run configure but I can get the daemon running (clamd and freshclam). Any one knows how can I install clamav on linux. Este correo fue escaneado y se encuentra libre de virus. Este correo fue escaneado y se encuentra libre de virus.

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RE: [CentOS] NFS and Linux Firewall Conflict
by Brian Bartlett 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Good luck! Many ports are used for NFS and many are continuously changing. I ran into this problem and found this article to be very handy. http://www.lowth.com/LinWiz/nfs_help.html Good luck Brian -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of John Hinton Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 10:45 AM To: CentOS Subject: [CentOS] NFS and Linux Firewall Conflict If I run showmount -e <my_server_ip> from the client, with the firewall set to on on the server, I get rpc mount export: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = No route to host If I turn it off, I can connect. So far, I have 111 and 2049 tcp and udp open and 4002 udp open. Anybody know what I'm missing? Best, John Hinton _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Changing from IDE to SCSI
by Ugo Bellavance 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Hi, If I clone one IDE-equipped server to a SCSI-equipped server, what do I have to do? re-do the label then fstab in rescue mode? Is that all? -- 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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Tyan Thunder K8SE S2892 Report
by Kirk Bocek 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

I had my eye on the Tyan dual-Opteron mobos for awhile. I tried to find a posting *anywhere* sharing experiences with these boards under Linux. No such luck. So placing myself under the heading "Where Angles Fear to Tread," I went ahead and built a system anyway. Here's what I've learned. The specs: Tyan Thunder K8SE S2892, BIOS 1.01 2x Opteron 270, 2Ghz Dual-Core, retail package with fan 2GB RAM (4x SuperTalent 512MB P/N D32RB12P3) 3Ware 9500S-4LP 4 port SATA controller 4x 200GB Segate ST3200826AS 7200.8 SATA (attached to 3Ware controller) 1x 80GB Wester Digital WD800JD-00LSA0 SATA (attached to onboard controller) Antec Truepower 2.0 550W PSU Chenming 901A-0-0 RTL Case Supermicro 5-drive SATA HD Cage CentOS 4.1 x86_64 I thought I bought a plenty large case. Turns out the CPU heat sink at the front of the motherboard sticks up far enough to interfere with the drive bays at the bottom of the case. I had carefully mounted the CPUs, heat sinks and memory before mounting the motherboard. When I tried to insert the motherboard, the front heat sink hit the shelf that supports one of the two internal hard drive cages that come with the Chenming case. I had to peel off the heat sink to get the board in then reinstall it -- something I didn't want to do. If the case was 9" wide instead of 8", this probably wouldn't be an issue. The heat sink sticks up far enough to keep me from reinstalling the internal hard drive cages. Not a problem since I'm using the Supermicro SATA cage, but it bugs me to lose expansion possibilities. Can anyone recommend a "low-rise" Opteron heat sink? I hadn't yet purchased an optical drive and so was planning on booting the install program from a USB key. However I could not get the BIOS to recognize the key. I put 'removable drives' at the top of the boot preferences but it refused to recognize the key. I ended up doing a PXE boot install instead. The install hung once forcing me to restart. But after that the install process was the fastest I've ever seen, taking about seven minutes to copy everything. Booting the first time, I was happy to see that everything was recognized by the system, all three network ports, the Nvidia SATA controller and even the 3Ware controller. However, the boot messages showed: warning: many lost ticks. Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interrupts and several repeating messages: powernow-k8: error - out of sync... Also, /proc/cpuinfo showed each cpu as running at about 1004Mhz with about 900 bogomips. Not what I expected. I decided to press ahead and added a couple of drives the the 3Ware, created a unit, formatted it and began benchmarking the array. The "powernow" messages continued to occur and then the 3Ware driver started issuing error messages. Eventually the system crashed and stopped responding. Googling on the powernow error message let me know that the kernel wizards had started to fix some powernow bugs starting with about kernel 2.6.10. Of course the stock CentOS 4.1 kernel is 2.6.9-11. So I downloaded, compiled and installed kernel 2.6.12.3. On rebooting, the error messages went away and the 3Ware worked without complaint. Now /proc/cpuinfo showed each cpu running at 2009.267 Mhz with 4014.08 bogomips. Ah, much better! In addition, the system came up in with NUMA enabled. Looks like the Red Hat kernel had it turned off by default. I benchmarked disk array performance using Bonnie++ version 1.03a. I ran six benchmarks using 50GB of data, three using 16k blocks and three using 64k blocks. During the raid 0 testing I had two instances of Setiathome running. During the raid 5 testing I had three instances of Setiathome running. Here are the results: Raid 0, 64k Stripes: bonnie++ 1.03a ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP Tyan 50G:16k 49317 99 138307 62 +++++ +++ 46765 80 183180 22 88.9 0 Tyan 50G:16k 48911 98 148421 67 77099 21 46018 79 182136 21 89.8 0 Tyan 50G:16k 49188 98 143615 65 77381 21 46158 78 181181 21 90.5 0 Tyan 50G:64k 49372 99 146417 67 77185 21 45828 78 179758 21 76.7 0 Tyan 50G:64k 48585 98 145376 66 76580 21 45609 78 171888 21 76.3 0 Tyan 50G:64k 46093 92 134903 58 67851 18 45200 77 172103 21 75.6 0 ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create-------- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files:max:min /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP Tyan 16 2524 97 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ 2542 97 +++++ +++ 8670 99 Tyan 16 2385 98 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ 2579 97 +++++ +++ 8408 98 Tyan 16 2627 97 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ 2437 92 +++++ +++ 8671 100 Tyan 16 1582 98 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ 1647 98 +++++ +++ 8488 100 Tyan 16 1399 85 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ 1632 98 +++++ +++ 8476 99 Tyan 16 1654 95 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ 1636 98 +++++ +++ 8405 99 Writes at about 140MB/Sec, reads at about 180MB/Sec. Very nice. Raid 5, 64k Stripes: bonnie++ 1.03a ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP Tyan 50G:16k 33394 68 35889 16 26513 7 44096 75 157248 19 84.1 0 Tyan 50G:16k 32601 67 36058 16 26623 7 43964 75 156970 19 83.3 0 Tyan 50G:16k 37892 77 35702 16 26960 7 44390 75 157084 19 83.5 0 Tyan 50G:64k 36168 74 35560 17 27003 8 43463 75 155179 20 69.1 0 Tyan 50G:64k 32713 68 36187 16 26580 7 43922 76 156752 20 69.2 0 ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create-------- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files:max:min /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP Tyan 16 1561 98 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ 1694 97 +++++ +++ 8428 97 Tyan 16 1672 98 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ 1712 97 +++++ +++ 8751 99 Tyan 16 1542 98 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ 1355 81 +++++ +++ 8986 100 Tyan 16 2534 96 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ 2408 96 +++++ +++ 7945 98 Tyan 16 2382 97 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ 2380 97 +++++ +++ 7989 99 Whoa! Writes drop to about 35MB/Sec under raid 5, about 25% of the raid 0 performance. In fact, it was taking so long that I aborted the last test. Just to be sure that setiathome wasn't interfering, I killed seti and reran a smaller test. Writes increased to about 50MB/Sec without seti running. I was expecting some hit for raid 5 but not this much. Guess I'll stick with the hot rsync backups to other hosts scheme that I'm using now. As a final test, I restarted the 50GB benchmark under raid5 and popped out one of the drives. There was a pause while I guess the 3Ware controller decided that the drive actually went off-line. The writing then continued to the remaining three disks. Checking the controller showed that both the drive and the unit were 'DEGRADED.' After popping the disk back in, I had to remove and re-add the drive to the array configuration then start the rebuild process. At this point the drive showed 'DEGRADED' and the unit showed 'REBUILDING.' The 3Ware drive logged appropriate messages when the disk was removed and replaced. I didn't bother finishing the rebuild, but it looked like it would take a couple of hours to finish if I let the benchmark continue to run. The 3Ware controller is pretty cool. As I said, the driver (3w-9xxx) is included in the 2.6 kernel. 3Ware provides a simple CLI utility for management. They also have a GUI tool but I didn't bother running it. You can create, remove and verify 'units' on a running system. The associated /dev entries are dynamically added and removed as you make changes. Very nice. In summary, the Tyan S2892 plus the 3Ware controller runs well under CentOS 4.1 although you will have to update to a more current kernel than the one provided by Red Hat. Watch your clearance at the front of the motherboard when selecting a case. Comments and corrections are encouraged. Kirk Bocek

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Using CentOS as a file server on a win2K domain
by Ugo Bellavance 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Hi, What I have: - One Win2K server (Exchange, Print and File sharing). - One CentOS server I'd like to transfer the "Print and File sharing" task from the Win2K server to -- 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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out of office replies
by Raghavendra Moktali 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

hi, i just posted a few mins before and got two out of office replies. 1. they were direct from people to me. 2. how to deal with this? (delete them without any noise?) :) thanks Raghavendra

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Nautilus / Desktop Icons
by Henk van Lingen 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Hi, I've a nautilus problem with CentOS 4. It doesn't show the desktop items any more (also after dropping all gnome files/dirs from a users homedir) en the right mouse button menu also doesn't work. Googling around I've found various items about the problem but until now not a clear solution. Some people mention some 'browser mode in nautilus preferences'. But I can't get there. Even if I login with a KDE desktop I can't launch nautilus (nothing happens). Any ideas? I've SELinux enabled, I hope that's not related? 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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Text to Speech on CentOS4
by James B. Byrne 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

I am setting up a laptop (Sony VAIO PCG-4?) for my learning disabled son (age 11). I have previously used MicroSoft 2Kpro and XPpro / Office 2K platforms for text-to-speech applications as that is what most commercial LD Assist software is written for. However, with MS now requiring that one inventories ones entire computer software configuration with them before getting updates to their software coupled with the high risk nature of doing without those updates, I am reluctant to continue this practice. What I am looking for is a robust, good quality, text-to-speech reader that can work with Open Office under CentOS4. I have googled extensively but frankly I need a bit of guidance as to what is the best of breed available. If the package uses/supports ATT Natural Voices as an option then that would be wonderful as I already have the necessary licences for those voices. Does anyone here have any experience with this type of software and can recommend a particular package? Commercial apps. are fine. It is functionality I am after, not economies. My next requirement will be an OCR package equivalent in function and accuracy to AABBY Fine Reader. Any suggestions there? Regards, Jim -- *** e-mail is NOT a secure channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB.<token>@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3CE delivery <token> = hal

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Bugs in 3Ware 9.2? -- FWD: [Bug 121434] Extremely high iowait with 3Ware array and moderate disk activity
by Bryan J. Smith 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Just came in from Bugzilla ... Subject: [Bug 121434] Extremely high iowait with 3Ware array and moderate disk activity https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121434 ------- Additional Comments From thomas.oulevey(a)elonex.ch 2005-07-29 08:55 EST ------- Hello, About the Linux 2.4 driver, we realized that we have big problem with the 9.2 driver. The 9.1.5.2 was fine. In fact the 9.2 firmware delivered (FE9X 2.06.00.009) with the driver is buggy if you use more than 1 unit. (Hotspares are considered as an unit.). We got a new firmware from 3ware support and it solves the problem. With some tweaking and 5 x RAID 5 volume on 3 x 3ware card (capacity around 5TB) we got with the iozone test 160MB/s write and 270MB/s Read. If you want more detailed information contact me.

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USB ethernet driver?
by centos＠911networks.com 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Hi, I have a new networking card for my laptop: Linksys USBVPN1. It's a USB networking with a build-in firewall. I have CentOS 4.1 with the latest yum update. When I plug it in, CentOS does not even recognize it. I have check, /var/log/messages and nothing in the dmesg. Layer 1 works, I do have proper link connection, the correct lights come up both on the switch and on the USBVPN1. Any suggestion on which modprobe 'what' to use to enable the discovery. -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work Cisco/Microsoft

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Mail problem
by Marius Nicolaescu 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

I have a problem finding the log from centos. I have installed qmail and i receive a lot of infected mails and i can't stop them because i don't know the ip from where they came. I know that in log files it is kept that ip but i havent't find it. In /var/log/ maillog it is a list but it does not have the ip of the mails. Can anyone help me? Another problem I have with Auto-responder from mail, it's not working at all and i d'ont know why. -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://linux.bitdefender.com/

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 5, Issue 14
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '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-2005:640 Important CentOS 4 ia64 fetchmail - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2005:640 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) fetchmail - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2005:582 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) httpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2005:582 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 httpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2005:640 Important CentOS 3 ia64 fetchmail - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2005:640 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) fetchmail - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2005:582 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) httpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2005:582 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 httpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:09:16 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)papat.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:640 Important CentOS 4 ia64 fetchmail - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20050729100916.GH1134(a)core.upi.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2005:640 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-640.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-6.el4.2.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

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OT: DVD and other things
by Paul 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 08:44 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 08:44 -0400, Peter Arremann wrote: > > *sighs* BS level exceeded... > > DVD-RAM is the most reliable, long-term optical archiving format. Well other than the name, it does not have anything in common with DVD because IIRC it's a Magneto Optical drive ... totally different Tech. Paul

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Japanese Language Support?
by Dave Gutteridge 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

When I installed CentOS, I was careful to install Japanese language support. However, now that CentOS is running, I can't seem to get Japanese language input going. I clicked on the top menu bar to add the "Input Method Switcher", and now there is a little white square on the top panel. If I click on it, gives me the option of using ASCII input, or to "Add or Remove". If I click on "Add or Remove", I get an "Add or Remove Languages" dialoge box, which is empty. There are no languages to add to the list of selections, and nothing in the area marked "Languages shown in menu" either. There are also no options to install languages. I went to Applications | System Settings | Add/Remove Applications to look for language settings, but they weren't there. How do I get my Japanese language input up and running? Dave

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Re: [CentOS] K3b or another alternative for CentOS 3.5?
by Rohan Walsh 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

> Karanbir Singh wrote: > Graveman works well under most conditions - and seems lesser resource > intensive compared with k3b. From the package description "Graveman! > provides a graphical user interface for handling common CD/DVD burning > tasks. It can burn Audio CDs, Data CDs and DVDs, duplicate CDs, and > clean rewritable CD/DVD media." > > You might need to look around to see who has it packaged for CentOS3/EL3 > > - K Dag's package works well for me on CentOS 4 http://dag.wieers.com/packages/graveman/ it is packaged for fc2,3,4,5 and el4, I haven't been able to compile from the src.rpm for fc1, maybe it will for el3. The only problem I've had is it doesn't detect verbatim pocket cd-rw, so I use k3b for that. on another (offtopic) subject, I get the list in digest, does anyone know how I can get my replies to go in the right thread? can I get specific messages resent to me or something so I can reply and have it work right? Rohan

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Version of php on Centros 4.1
by Todd Cary 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

What version of php is installed on 4.1? Todd --

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centos 4 and hardware compatibility
by Powell, Don 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Is centos 4 compatible with gateway 7400 server. We have some spare gateway 7400 servers with 2 intel Pentium iii (FC-PGA Socket 370) processors operating at 667 mhz. Are there any compatibility issues? Fully supported? ^^ Have a Wonderful Day ^^ Don R. Powell Systems Software Specialist II Department of Insurance Application Development & Maintenance 300 Capitol Mall, Suite 1400 Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 492-3384 (916) 327-3481 FAX powelld(a)insurance.ca.gov <mailto:powelld@insurance.ca.gov>

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modules.conf changes in kernel 2.6
by Robin Mordasiewicz 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

I used to be able to modify my modules.conf file so that certain NIC cards would load specific drivers. Has this changed in kernel 2.6 i.e. <snip /etc/modules.conf> alias eth0 e100 alias eth1 e1000 </snip> It used to be that I could reverse this order and eth0 would be the GigE card.

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squirrelmail with postfix and dovecot
by Carlos Arellano 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

I've install squirrelmail, postfix an dovecot, i already configured squirrelmail whit conf.pl and manually, but wen i try to acces <http://myserver/webmail> http://myserver/webmail Any pages are faund, the files that make alias ara ok. What can I do Thanks. Este correo fue escaneado y se encuentra libre de virus. Este correo fue escaneado y se encuentra libre de virus.

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[CentOS] New to CentOS, and wondering about application availability
by Dave Gutteridge 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Centos Mailing List, Hello. I have just recently installed CentOS on my home computer, and just joined this mailing list. I have a lot of questions so I will have quite a few postings in the next few days. I was using Fedora Core 4 for a few weeks, but it was unstable and had trouble reading some of my DVD drives and other issues. So, I decided to switch to another distribution. I saw on one site that the three distros being nominated for best distribution by user's vote were Ubuntu, CentOS, and Fedora Core. I tried Ubuntu, but the installer kept failing. So I went to CentOS. Anyway, long story short, CentOS looks and feels just like Fedora (which I like), and it reads all my DVD drives normally, so I think I could be happy with it. But... When I tried to install Xine, using yum, it said it could not find it. And then I went looking for an RPM for Xine, and they're all for Red Hat or Fedora. I tried installing an RPM for Fedora anyway, reasoning that maybe they were the same in more than just looks, but no dice. As I looked around the net, it seems that applications all seem to have specific builds for Red Hat, Fedora, a couple of Debian builds... but no CentOS. Going by the amount of available information and support, Fedora is the primary Linux distribution, and CentOS hardly even exists. Can't I have it all? Stability, the ability to read my DVD drives, *and* a variety of applications? Is there any kind of resource for instructions on installing CentOS like there is this one for Fedora: http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html Dave

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 5, Issue 13
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '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-2005:603-01: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 dhcpcd security update (John Newbigin) 2. CESA-2005:612 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 kdelibs - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2005:612 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 kdelibs - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:57:30 +1000 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:603-01: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 dhcpcd security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <42E8115A.1090908(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHSA-2005:603-01 Moderate: dhcpcd security update Files available: dhcpcd-1.3.20pl0-2.i386.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:01:33 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:612 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 kdelibs - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1122505293.15761.14.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:612 kdelibs security update for CentOS 4 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-612.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: kdelibs-3.3.1-3.11.i386.rpm kdelibs-devel-3.3.1-3.11.i386.rpm src: kdelibs-3.3.1-3.11.src.rpm

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what the best ? apt-get? yum or urpmi ?
by Security 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Hello, I must make a choice concerning the use of a tool used to update rpms: yum, urpmi or apt-get. Personally, I use urpmi every day, without real problems (the dependences, even those of Perl are very well managed), the "hdlist" can be used in several forms , it contains a lot of funtions but, it is not integrated into up2date and does not have a graphic interface that fits Centos3 without break all depedencies. There are also the two others: yum and apt-get. Because Centos uses yum, I would like to have a feedback: speed of calculations for the dependences, comparative with apt-get. There are already opinions on the question (yum is easy to install, more flexible, but less powerful. and to connect itself itself to the sources + download the lists of packages even if no update is avaible...... grrr). So, Wthat need I to use for a Centos-like ditribution? (It's to intagrate the tool on Gralinux final) apt-get + synaptic?? yum+yumi???urpmi in command line only ??? Thanks :) jean-seb

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vsftpd and Kickstart
by Ken Leyba 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

I'm trying to setup a kickstart server that will use ftp. I created a user account and put the ISO images in /home/centos. I created a directory /home/centos/disc1 and mounted the first ISO image there. When I try to do the ftp install I keep getting an error "Unable to retrieve ftp://my.ftpserver.com//home/centos/disc1/CentOS/base/netstg2.img" I tried different versions of the ftp directory but the error above is using /home/centos/disc1. If I manually ftp into the machine and cd to /home/centos/disc1/CentOS/base/ I can get netstg2.img. However if I do it like this it won't work: ftp> get /home/centos/disc1/CentOS/base/netstg2.img local: ./home/centos/disc1/CentOS/base/netstg2.img remote: /home/centos/disc1/CentOS/base/netstg2.img local: ./home/centos/disc1/CentOS/base/netstg2.img: No such file or directory ftp> pwd 257 "/home/centos" So, I don't know if vsftpd isn't configured correctly or if I'm not doing something right with the kickstart install. I haven't created a kickstart file yet or mounted the other CD's, I just want to get the install part working first. Ken -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -Pablo Picasso

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Re: 4g/4g
by Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith＠ieee.org> 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

From: "Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith(a)ieee.org>" > Hmmm, maybe I haven't built from a stock kernel in a long time. ;-> > All I know is that I've seen it in several other distros. I thought the > whole purpose of the 4Gi/4Gi model was to give a support/performance > point between the 1Gi/3Gi and full 64GiB model. Okay, I did some elementary research and it appears it was never adopted in the stock 2.4 kernel. Although 2.6 seems to have been designed for it -- although I see the issues you were talking about, largely when user >2GiB. I'd be interested in finding out if they have the same issues with the 64GiB mode and formal PAE36 paging. Anyhoo, my apologies on that _poor_ assumption. Given my lack of exposure to stock kernels, I should have kept my mouth shut. I don't know why I didn't put 2-2 together. But it should be noted that it's no longer a Red Hat-only thing. I've seen several non-Red Hat (or long-gone Red Hat forked) distros who are using it. I should have made my responses in that context. Again, my apologies for that. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org

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Re: Using CentOS as a file server on a win2K domain
by Jeff Stacey 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

You can configure samba to be a domain member server http://ca.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/domain-member.htm… you don't have to use ldap just kerberos Jeff >>> ugob(a)camo-route.com 7/27/2005 1:31 PM >>> Carlos Arellano wrote: > Use samba is easy think to do.. http://us4.samba.org/samba/ I know, but I don't want to manage users on 2 servers... What helps with that? Winbind? -- 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. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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The connection was refused when attempting to contact hostname:5500
by Joeffrey Betita 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

hello i successfully installed oracle 10g on CentOS 3 i can login at http://hostname:5500/em but after restarting the PC all i get is "The connection was refused when attempting to contact hostname:5500" thank you very much for your help. rgds, Joeffrey

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RE: [CentOS] CentOS and Red Hat SATA drivers
by Kaplan, Andrew H. 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Hi there -- The version number associated with the driver is 0. There is no further information available other than it was listed within the driver disk creation utility as a Red Hat Enterprise 3 driver. Versions 3.3 and 3.4 are the only two of the 3.x line that support the x86_64 architecture. Which version of the two would you recommend as a starting off point? -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 12:57 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Red Hat SATA drivers On Wed, July 27, 2005 11:51 am, Kaplan, Andrew H. said: > Hi there -- > > I was going to experiment with a CentOS x86_64 install in the following > manner: > One of our new dual-xeon servers is using an Adaptec SATA controller card > that > has drivers available for Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 and Enterprise Linux > 3.0. > I was going to create the drivers for one or the other and then attempt an > install via the linux dd command. My question is, would either of these > drivers > work with a version of CentOS, and if so what version could I use? Thanks. Maybe ... Usually, the kernel version for the driver needs to match the kernel it is built for. So, you would use CentOS-3 or CentOS-2.1 and get the ISO that you need, based on the driver. We did not release a CentOS-3.0 ... so there is not a CD for that. What update # is the RHEL driver for (ie, RHEL-4 Update 2, etc.) You can find old CDs and trees here: http://vault.centos.org/ -- Johnny Hughes <http://www.HughesJR.com/> _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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CentOS and Red Hat SATA drivers
by Kaplan, Andrew H. 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Hi there -- I was going to experiment with a CentOS x86_64 install in the following manner: One of our new dual-xeon servers is using an Adaptec SATA controller card that has drivers available for Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 and Enterprise Linux 3.0. I was going to create the drivers for one or the other and then attempt an install via the linux dd command. My question is, would either of these drivers work with a version of CentOS, and if so what version could I use? Thanks.

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RHCS/RHGFS rpms
by Feizhou 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

built for Centos 4, source from RHEL RHCS/RHGFS rpms in ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/os/RH{CS|GFS} kernel related rpms are built against i686 only. http://chantaipo.cjb.net:8080/pub/centos/4/RH{CS|GFS}/i386 only up2date works at the moment if you want to try them out.

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SATA controller compatibility
by Michael Thon 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Greetings - I'm looking to put some cheap storage into my server, which is running centos 3. I'm looking at the Maxtor SATA/150 PCI Card and a big maxtor sata drive. I would like to make sure that CentOS has driver for this controller. I looked in Red Hat's hardware database and did some google'ing but I couldn't find any info to confirm that this card is compatible. Any ideas where else to look? Thanks Mike

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Looking for RPM perl-Net-Server-SMTP
by Nikos Zaharioudakis 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Hi everybody, Has anyone come across the perl-Net-Server-SMTP rpm ? Any hint really appreciated -- ########################################3 Zaharioudakis Nikos mob: +30 6947204063

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Extending LVM2 logical volumes [ was: Demonizing ... ]
by Collins Richey 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

[ context from the previous thread ] On Saturday 28 May 2005 14:41, Collins Richey wrote: > On 5/28/05, Lamar Owen <lowen(a)pari.edu> wrote: > > Sure. LVM. > I'm curious about this. At work we haven't finished our evaluation of > RHEL3/RHEL4 (CentOS is out of the question, since SLA is king here). > Most of our servers and desktops are RH9 legacy, and we use LVM on all > of them. It's my understanding that RHEL4(CentOS4) only offers LVM2, > and it doesn't appear that you can extend an ext3 filesystem using > LVM2 tools. If that is indeed true, why woud LVM be "measurably > better? While I am no LVM expert, it seems that ext2online does what you want. My CentOS4 box here has ext2online included; I have not had a chance to try it out, so I can't comment on how well it works. However, what I have read is that the LVM2 metadata format is more robust and removes many of the limitations of LVM1. In trying to check on this, I looked for specific information on how this was the case, but have not been able to at this point. The ext2/3 filesystem wasn't designed for resizing online, so it's quite nice one can do it at all; but it appears the LVM2 approach is to rely on the e2fsprogs to do the work, so, taking you question literally, no, there is no LVM2 tool to resize; you would do a two-step, resizing the logical volume then resizing the filesystem with e2fsprogs. But, having never had opportunity to do this, I have no direct experience with it. --- So, has anyone found an equivalent (even multiple commands that I could put in a script) for the e2fsadm utility to extend a logical volume? Anyone who has experience with ext2online? -- Collins Head teachers of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but the Start button.

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Fighting some install issues with a new box
by Sean O'Connell 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Folks- I have had a machine dropped in my lap that I am trying to get CentOS 4.1 to run on as a first pass (the hope is for it to eventually run Rocks -- http://www.rocksclusters.org , which uses CentOS 4.x as its underlying OS). The machine has 2 Opteron 250DP (2.4GHz) with 4 GB of RAM. It is using a Tyan Thunder K8WE (S2895A2NRF) motherboard with an nVidia nForce chipset -- http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8we.html. It is configured to boot from an SATA drive (80GB) and then use 3Ware 8506-8 card with 8x250GB SATA drives in a big raid 5 as a data store. So, CentOS appears to recognize the nics and find the boot drive well enough to go through a complete install. Now this is where things get "interesting" .. the install process hung for a very long period of time during the "installing grub" phase (this was a cd install, so no post or anything, done off-line). It finally rebooted, but it just hangs at the "GRUB Loading stage2..." If I boot the machine using the 4.1 install cd in rescue mode, I can see the filesystem (the OS is installed). /etc/grub.conf doesn't look unreasonable. One oddball thing is that I cannot see the 3ware card at all (doesn't show up in lspci output). Any thoughts? Anyone set up a similar beastie? Thanks. Sean

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mount a partition when syste start
by Carlos Arellano 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

I want mount a partition permanent I mount a partition whit mount /dev/sdb1 /folder But when the system restart already isn't mounted that partition How can I do that? Thanks. Este correo fue escaneado y se encuentra libre de virus. Este correo fue escaneado y se encuentra libre de virus.

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K3b or another alternative for CentOS 3.5?
by User Lists 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Hi all, Somebody knows any application (gui if it is possible) to write CDs under Centos 3.5??. Thank you very much. __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Regístrate ya - http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com/

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Software to monitor security logs and email ISPs?
by Preston Crawford 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

I know they have software that does this. I'm just not sure which one it is. Basically here's the scoop. I'm on a cable modem connection with Comcast. I have a firewall router and I run a firewall on CentOS as well. All the same, other computers (probably zombies or hackers) are attempting brute force attacks on a couple of ports on my computer. I've just sat and watched them for some time. Not thinking that much of it. But I'd like to actually do something about it and inform the ISPs of said computers that that computer is compromised or being used by a hacker. I know there is software out there that will monitor your logs, reverse trace the IP address, and contact the ISP saying that at X time on X day X IP address tried to brute force hack my machine. I guess it's one of those things where I'm sick of seeing it come up in my security log, so I'd like to start sending email to the ISPs to tell them to do their job and enforce their rules for all the Windoze users out there. But I don't want to take the time to do it manually. Any suggestions? Preston

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IDE RAID support
by Joseph T Mai 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Sorry if this has been asked previously. Does CentOS support IDE hardware RAID on HP DL320? Thanks, -j

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 5, Issue 12
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '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-2005:582 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 httpd - security update (fixed) (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2005:582 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 httpd - security update (fixed) (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2005:640-01: Low CentOS 2 i386 xxx security update (John Newbigin) 4. CESA-2005:640-01: Important CentOS 2 i386 fetchmail security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:05:47 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:582 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 httpd - security update (fixed) To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20050725140547.GA21516(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:582 (resend with correct CentOS patch/version) httpd security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-582.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/httpd-2.0.46-46.2.ent.centos.1.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/httpd-devel-2.0.46-46.2.ent.centos.1.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/mod_ssl-2.0.46-46.2.ent.centos.1.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/httpd-2.0.46-46.2.ent.centos.1.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update httpd\* mod_ssl 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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Centos Mail
by Marius Nicolaescu 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

I have a problem finding the log from centos. I have installed qmail and i receive a lot of infected mails and i can't stop them because i don't know the ip from where they came. I know that in log files it is kept that ip but i havent't find it. In /var/log/ maillog it is a list but it does not have the ip of the mails. Can anyone help me? Another problem I have with Auto-responder from mail, it's not working at all. Good luck and thank you. -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://linux.bitdefender.com/

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Intel based Mac and CentOS scores a win!
by Todd Rittinger 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Interesting article on multi-booting the developer Intel based Mac with MacOS, WinXP and you guessed it: CentOS! Way to go, especially since Fedora kernel panicked on them.... http://www.jasbone.com/blog/archives/2005/07/multibooting_in.html cya, TR -- Todd Rittinger TLC Solutions www.tlcsolutions.ca

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Not booting without keyboad.
by Ugo Bellavance 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Hi, I'm running CentOS 3 on a Dell celeron 500/256 MB. It won't boot without a keyboard and that is a problem for me. I know it is not a perfect setup, but I'd like to have it boot w/o a keyboard. The Bios doesn't seem to care too much about the fact that no keyboard is plugged in, as it loads Grub and starts booting the kernel. It hangs, usually around Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 Any ideas? Thanks, -- 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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Trying to compile, incompatible libraries? Cento4
by Edward Croft 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

I get the errors: zip4_lnx.a(generic.o)(.text+0xb16): more undefined references to `__ctype_b' follow zip4_lnx.a(libdl.so): undefined reference to `_dl_close(a)GLIBC_2.0' zip4_lnx.a(libdl.so): undefined reference to `_dl_catch_error(a)GLIBC_2.0' zip4_lnx.a(libdl.so): undefined reference to `_dl_addr(a)GLIBC_2.0' zip4_lnx.a(libdl.so): undefined reference to `_dl_lookup_versioned_symbol_skip(a)GLIBC_2.0' zip4_lnx.a(libdl.so): undefined reference to `_dl_lookup_versioned_symbol(a)GLIBC_2.0' zip4_lnx.a(libdl.so): undefined reference to `_dl_lookup_symbol(a)GLIBC_2.0' zip4_lnx.a(libdl.so): undefined reference to `_dl_loaded(a)GLIBC_2.1' zip4_lnx.a(libdl.so): undefined reference to `_dl_open(a)GLIBC_2.0' zip4_lnx.a(libdl.so): undefined reference to `_dl_signal_error(a)GLIBC_2.0' zip4_lnx.a(libdl.so): undefined reference to `_dl_global_scope(a)GLIBC_2.0' zip4_lnx.a(libdl.so): undefined reference to `_dl_lookup_symbol_skip(a)GLIBC_2.0' I have the compatibility libraries installed. I have tried using gcc296, gcc, and gcc4 and still get the message. The library,libdl.so.2 is in /lib with a symlink to /usr/lib/libdl.so Using CentOS 4.0. -- If the sane say the insane are insane, What if the sane are insane? Would that make the insane sane? Explains a lot in Washington! --E. Croft

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CESA-2005:587 missing devhelp src.rpm
by Matthew Miller 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

> src: > devhelp-0.9.2-2.4.6.src.rpm > mozilla-1.7.10-1.4.1.centos4.src.rpm The mozilla src.rpm is there, but the devhelp one seems to be missing from the mirrors.... -- Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 76 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Install Problems Centos 4.1
by Peter Farrow 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Dear All, I have a K8S-MX Asus Athlon 64 Motherboard with a 754 pin 3000+ CPU, which I cam trying to install 4.1 Centos 64 bit. The problem seems to arise when installing onto Mirrored disks, I have noticed that from Centos 4 onwards it tries to rebuild the arrays as it installs which slows the whole process right down across all platforms I have tried it on. In addition, the install process bails out at random times with random errors eg. "Disk Full", "error loading this package or that package", Error reading DVD etc... now I have burnt several copies of the DVD, tested them fully, tried installing from CD, even changed the hardware to a twin Opteron system, changed the RAM changed this disks and tried everything but it still seems really touch and go as to wether the install will complete. I haven't managed it yet on the Asus platform it took about 12 goes on the opteron platform. Yet Centos 3.4 installs no problem. Finally the last straw was the boot loader problem with occurs either immediately after reboot after install or on one of the boots soon after, and I have to do this to fix it: -------------------------------------- grub> root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd grub> setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 16 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/grub.conf"... succeeded Done. grub> root (hd1,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd grub> setup (hd1) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd1)"... 16 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd1) (hd1)1+16 p (hd1,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/grub.conf"... succeeded Done. grub> quit ------------------ Has anyone else seen these tedious unpredicatble errors on install that seems to have arrived with version 4 onwards...? Regards Pete

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