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Multi-homed faq or docs needed
by Michael Rock 11 May '05

11 May '05

I tried to implement a multi-homed box using this faq 4.2.1 split access http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html But it says table is invalid. Can someone tell me what the difference is in Centos? I assume the FAQ is leaving out how to add tables to the iproute files? I am trying to have eth0 and eth1 service two different subnets for apache and not act as a router. If I use redhat-network-config and set one or both with default gateways one side will not work. So I assume I need to create two routing table files? Can someone point me in the right direction or a better FAQ. thx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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MIrrored drives won't boot after installation
by Jerry Geis 11 May '05

11 May '05

On Cent OS 4 the very last screen says REBOOT. Before click that do CTRL-ALT_F2 and get a prompt. then enter the following commands. This will allow the software raid arrays to boot. grub find /boot/grub/stage1 device (hd0) /dev/hda root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) This is easier the setting up mdXXX commands after boot. Jerry

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Backing up my server...
by israel.garcia＠cimex.com.cu 11 May '05

11 May '05

Helo, I've just installed a CentOS 4.0, postgress,iptables, ect.. on a P 4 Intel using sotf RAID 1 ...and everything is fine. I bought a HP DLT 40/80G tape device for being use as tape backup to my server. My questions are: 1. What you recomended me to use as a soft backUP. (amanda, dump/restore, TAR scipts, other)? 2. How can I backUP my entire filesystem ..(I mean everything using one the above software)? 3. What software can I use to put this data into my tape device (HP DLT 40/80 G).? 4. Is there only one software which do everything I want? NOTE: I am looking for some software which makes me a quick/easy backUP and quick/easy restore... thanks in advance israel

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 3, Issue 4
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 11 May '05

11 May '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. php-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.src.rpm (built for x86_64 and i386) in CentOS Plus (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 16:41:53 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] php-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.src.rpm (built for x86_64 and i386) in CentOS Plus To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <1115761313.3693.69.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" All, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams has created php-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.src.rpm that works with CentOS-4. After testing this version of php, we have decided to include it in CentOS-Plus for CentOS-4. It is available for i386 and x86_64. There are several files in each distro: x86_64: php-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-devel-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-gd-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-imap-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-ldap-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-mbstring-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-mysql-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-ncurses-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-odbc-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-pear-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-pgsql-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-snmp-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-soap-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-xml-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-xmlrpc-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.x86_64.rpm i386: php-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.i386.rpm php-devel-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.i386.rpm php-gd-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.i386.rpm php-imap-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.i386.rpm php-ldap-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.i386.rpm php-mbstring-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.i386.rpm php-mysql-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.i386.rpm php-ncurses-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.i386.rpm php-odbc-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.i386.rpm php-pear-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.i386.rpm php-pgsql-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.i386.rpm php-snmp-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.i386.rpm php-soap-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.i386.rpm php-xml-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.i386.rpm php-xmlrpc-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.i386.rpm src: php-5.0.4-0.iva.0.centos4.src.rpm You can get these via yum if you enable the CentOS-Plus repository. For a description of the CentOS Plus (and other) repositories, see this link: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-May/005618.html Thank you very much Ignacio :) -- Johnny Hughes

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Yum Error on CentOS 4_64 / libexpat Issues
by Ho Chaw Ming 11 May '05

11 May '05

Dear all I had an issue on CentOS 4_64 with yum that I would like some input on. When running yum, the following errors appear: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 6, in ? import yummain File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 23, in ? import yum File "__init__.py", line 33, in ? File "groups.py", line 3, in ? File "comps.py", line 5, in ? File "/usr/lib64/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in ? import libxml2mod ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlNewDocPI I had tried downloading all the various libxslt* and libxml2* and python and python-devel rpms and running rpm -Uvh --oldpackage --install *.rpm Nothing seems to work however. Anyone with any ideas? I had a separate issue which may be linked (or not). When running /sbin/ldconfig, the folllowing message appears. ldconfig: libraries libexpat.so.0 and libexpat.so.0.4.0 in directory /usr/lib have same soname but different type. root@ <mailto:root@207-150-176-14> [/usr/lib]# ls -all libexpat* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 432298 May 11 01:51 libexpat.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 706 May 11 01:51 libexpat.la* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 May 11 02:19 libexpat.so -> libexpat.so.0.5.0* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 May 11 03:15 libexpat.so.0 -> libexpat.so.0.5.0* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 261635 May 11 01:51 libexpat.so.0.4.0* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 122048 Feb 21 20:00 libexpat.so.0.5.0* Any insight or guidance is appreciated. regards

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centos 4: java crashes on amd64
by Dario Lah 11 May '05

11 May '05

Anyone experiencing problems with java on amd64? Different versions of java are crashing after few minutes. Googling around reveals that problem is probably in JIT. Disabling JIT makes it unusable (slow) but it doesn't crash. Fix anyone? Hint? Regards, Dario

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Re: [CentOS] Hardware RAID Controller
by Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith＠ieee.org> 10 May '05

10 May '05

Ahhh, thanx for the insight. I never liked their use of lackluster i960 33MHz and 66MHz parts. You're lucky if you get 60MBps out of them. -----Original Message----- From: Harald Finnï¿½s <spamcatcher(a)lantrix.no> Sent: May 10, 2005 3:55 PM To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Hardware RAID Controller centos-bounces(a)centos.org wrote on 10.05.2005 22:44:54: > Well, that's because 98% of Promise's products sold are FRAID > (Fake/Free RAID). The card I had in mind was the "real" RAID cards, i.e the SX6000. It was ok while RH8 was the standard and you didn't need to compile a new kernel (ie. you could use the Promise-supplied driver disks). They also had driver source for 2.4 which worked ok as long as you booted from another device and loaded the driver as a module. And actually, the SX6000 worked with the I2O drivers for a little while with a patch supplied by Alan Cox, but after a few kernel updates I gave up on it. I was in contact with Promise support about one year ago, and they told me that they had 2.6 drivers in beta, and that they would inform me when it became available. Needless to say, there's still no 2.6 drivers posted on their download pages. Well, enough bitchin for now... :) Regards, Harald -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org

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Re: [CentOS] Hardware RAID Controller
by Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith＠ieee.org> 10 May '05

10 May '05

From: Harald Finnï¿½s <spamcatcher(a)lantrix.no> > Promise is crap with Linux in general, > and they really don't support linux at all... Well, that's because 98% of Promise's products sold are FRAID (Fake/Free RAID). They are a "regular" ATA controller slapped with a 16-bit "trick BIOS." That system has the RAID code needed as long as OS is only accessing 16-bit BIOS Int13h Disk Services. The second a 32-bit OS loads, it sees the "raw" disks and doesn't understand them. That's where the 100% _software_ driver comes in, it emulates the volume for the 32-bit OS. Since all of that RAID code -- typically licensed from the same company by _all_ of the countless FRAID/mainboard-FRAID vendors out there -- it can't be GPL. Hence why FRAID products don't have GPL drivers. Except for the 'independent' GPL "ataraid.c" FRAID logic, and the reverse engineered "hptraid.c", "pdcraid" and "silraid.c" companion 'interface' GPL drivers. Of course, there is *0* guarantee those non-vendor implementations will work. I've seen people try to use them and toast their entire volume. _Real_hardware_ RAID cards completely hide the disks from the system. I.e., the system _never_ talks directly to the hard drives, but an intelligent microcontroller or ASIC. The "RAID Brains" is on the card, and the microcontroller or ASIC actually executes that code -- not your main CPU. The driver is then just a simple block driver to send data to/from the host system to the on-board intelligence. Hence why the drivers are typically GPL, there's little to them other than a basic, block SCSI driver. No RAID logic is ever exposed in the kernel driver. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org

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Re: [CentOS] Hardware RAID Controller
by Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith＠ieee.org> 10 May '05

10 May '05

From: Lee W <centos-list(a)unassemble.co.uk> > Ebay UK didn't turn up much (althought there was a few in the US). > However just tried googling a bit more and I've come across a 3ware > Escalade 7506-4LP for about ï¿½200.00 which supports upto 4 drives so that > should be suitable for my purposes, plus it looks quite small (being a > Low-Profile card) so should fit in the rack as well. You can even take the bracket off as long as you can mechanically secure it another way. > Okay I'm getting a bit over my head now. Anyone see any problems > putting 2 of these in the same machine. 3Ware has always supported up to 4 cards in a system. Just make sure the firmwares are the same for each model or expect issues with drivers. > After a few other comments I was thinking of trying 2 x RAID-1's. Why not a 4-drive RAID-0+1? It's far better to do it on a single card. Unless you are thinking of (2) RAID-1, each on their own PCI-X channel, and then a RAID-0 LVM2 stripe across them? In reality, you're really gotta get up to 8 drives in RAID-0+1 before you're going to saturate the 0.5GBps 64-bit @ 66MHz PCI bus. And in all the 1U systems I've seen, I've only seen a maximum of (2) PCI-X channels. You'll want to use one dedicated to your NIC. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org

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Re: [CentOS] alias keeps changing (fwd)
by Michael Rock 10 May '05

10 May '05

To respond to my own post I think I found it at this link under "4.2.1 split access" and hope it applies to Redhat. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html If I reboot I assume I need to create a shell script to automatically add these changes back? --- Michael Rock <mikerocks65(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Thanks. I ended up putting a NIC from a different > name > brand so they would not be identical. I did delete > the garbage out of /etc/sysconfig but it did not > work, > perhaps if I tried deleting the entire config and > starting over it may have worked. > > Now that I have both working how can you have two > default gateways (one for each adapter) so they both > service the separate IP networks independently of > each > other? > > I made sure ip forwarding is turned off in > sysctl.conf. But with default gateway set on both > they > will not respond to outside requests. > > > > Discover Yahoo! > Get on-the-go sports scores, stock quotes, news and > more. Check it out! > http://discover.yahoo.com/mobile.html > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail

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Re: [CentOS] Re: Hardware RAID Controller
by Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith＠ieee.org> 10 May '05

10 May '05

From: Lee W <centos-list(a)unassemble.co.uk> > Thanks for the heads up See my (now dated) "Dissecting ATA RAID Options" article in SysAdmin 2004 April. It covers 4 approaches to ATA RAID: - OS LVM (software) - FRAID (software) - microcontroller+DRAM (hardware) - ASIC+SRAM (hardware) > No, just another toy to play with. I'm currently looking a playing with > Software RAID but would like to have H/W as well. The only time I implement RAID-5 is for lots of reads. E.g., a MySQL server on the Internet. I prefer RAID-0+1 for most operations -- definitely system disks. RAID-3 is nice for desktop data and single user operations.** RAID-4 is best for NFS server and large file transfer servers (A/V). If I'm mega-anal on performance, I'll use multiple hardware RAID-0+1 cards on different PCI-X channels and volumes with a spanned RAID-0 LVM/LVM2 software volume across them. I would kill to have a HP DL585 with (3) Escalade 8506 cards, one on their own PCI-X channel, plus a 10GbE on the final PCI-X channel. [ **NOTE: For 32/64-bit I/O desktops, NetCell's 3 or 5-disc "RAID-XL" is actually the most ideal design I've ever seen. Instead of striped blocks, you have parallel reads/writes. ] > I'm certainly liking what I have seen of the 3Ware card's so far. Stock kernel support since version 2.2.15 (that's 2._2_ ;-). It's nice to be able to move volumes from older cards to newer ones without issue as well. > Their site lists quite a few distros as supported, including RHEL 3 which > from a simplistic guess would also mean that Centos 3 (and possibly 4) > would also be supported. Been using them in servers since Red Hat Linux 5.2. The drivers for most microcontroller or ASIC-driven hardware RAID are rather simplistic, because all the "intelligence" is on-board the card itself. 3Ware's 3DM/3DM2 management suite is a nice addition, although there have been some SCSI IOCTL changes that are rendering the older Escalade 6000 as deprecated. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org

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New kernel causes kernel panic/unable to mount root
by Martyn Drake 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hi, I've just moved over to an Opteron 246 dedicated server and have used up2date to install the latest kernel (2.4.21-27.0.4.Elsmp). However, when the machine reboots it never comes back up and according to the datacentre technicians, this is what's happening: VFS: Cannot open root device"806" or 08:06 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 08:06 The technician then needs to reboot with the original kernel (2.4.21-27.0.2.Elsmp) to get it to work. Apparently there are no third party modules/drivers loaded. This didn't occur when I did exactly the same thing with a dual Xeon 3.06Ghz machine. Both machines use SATA drives. Any ideas? Any pointers are greatly appreciated. Incidently, lilo.conf currently looks like this: prompt timeout=50 default=linux boot=/dev/sda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b message=/boot/message linear image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmp label=newlinux initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmp.img read-only root=/dev/sda6 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.4.EL label=2.4.21-27.0.4.E initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-27.0.4.EL.img read-only root=/dev/sda6 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp label=linux initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp.img read-only root=/dev/sda6 Regards, Martyn

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Re: CentOS Digest, Vol 4, Issue 10
by Lance Lucas 10 May '05

10 May '05

>Message: 55 >Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:01:56 +0800 >From: Mark Quitoriano <markquitoriano(a)gmail.com> >Subject: Re: [CentOS] bind and caching-nameserver >To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> >Message-ID: <6b542ec9050510000161fff8d3(a)mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >well that's my problem with bind. once i cut myself to the internet i >can't resolve all domain. i did this as a test i ping google.com first >while i am connected to the net and then i disconnect my cable and try >to ping it again but it can't resolve google.com anymore, my >resolve.conf is "nameserver 127.0.0.1", and i don't know how to >configure bind to cache domain's ip addressess at least 1 day or so. This seems like normal behavior to me. If by "cut myself to the internet", you mean physical disconnection (or all ports blocked), then how would ping receive a reply from google.com? You may be able to make DNS lookup requests, with dig or nslookup, but ping requires an actual connection to the address being queried, which it seems to be disconnected for you (dialup?). Lance Lucas

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RE: [CentOS] bind and caching-nameserver
by Marc Powell 10 May '05

10 May '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Mark Quitoriano > Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 2:02 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] bind and caching-nameserver > > well that's my problem with bind. once i cut myself to the internet i > can't resolve all domain. i did this as a test i ping google.com first > while i am connected to the net and then i disconnect my cable and try > to ping it again but it can't resolve google.com anymore, my > resolve.conf is "nameserver 127.0.0.1", and i don't know how to > configure bind to cache domain's ip addressess at least 1 day or so. There are a number of programs designed for this type of situation. pdnsd (http://www.phys.uu.nl/~rombouts/pdnsd.html) looks like it's just what you're looking for. If not, try searching for 'dns proxy', 'dns cache' or 'dns proxy cache' on freshmeat or google. -- Marc

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bind and caching-nameserver
by Mark Quitoriano 10 May '05

10 May '05

i was thinking if is it possible to cache some urls in bind? I just want to do when you send the command "ping domain.com" even if you are disconnected to the internet it will still resolve the ip of domain.com -- Regards, Mark Quitoriano, CCNA http://www.atamanetworks.com

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Re: [CentOS] alias keeps changing (fwd)
by Michael Rock 10 May '05

10 May '05

Thanks. I ended up putting a NIC from a different name brand so they would not be identical. I did delete the garbage out of /etc/sysconfig but it did not work, perhaps if I tried deleting the entire config and starting over it may have worked. Now that I have both working how can you have two default gateways (one for each adapter) so they both service the separate IP networks independently of each other? I made sure ip forwarding is turned off in sysctl.conf. But with default gateway set on both they will not respond to outside requests. Discover Yahoo! Get on-the-go sports scores, stock quotes, news and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/mobile.html

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS Convert Question
by Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith＠ieee.org> 10 May '05

10 May '05

admin(a)dougware.net <admin(a)dougware.net> wrote: > I need a network based distributed operating system, something like > Intermezzo or Coda to keep two servers in sync on one partition. I have a > server at work and at home that I want to keep a MyDocuments partition in > sync. NFS will not work because I need a offline or online solution. The newer autofs allows you to automount multiple systems. So you could have it mount a local share if the server isn't available, then automate rsync updates the local to the server when the server is detected. There are also other network filesystems that offer what you need. > RSYNC will not work, who many inconsistancies from files being created > and removed. I've never had this issue at all with my users. I maintain a "~/work" directory and a "~/worksync" directory. I know whatever I have in "work" stays on the server, and what is in "worksync" is synchronized between the local and the server. On the portables, work is a symlink to worksync, so they have no, non-synced storage. I really think this is more of a workflow issue than a technology one. > Will GFS work for my needs when they release U1 for CentOS? If > not, does anyone have any coda or intermezzo rpms for CentOS4? Hmmm, my use of GFS has always been very, very different. I guess it could be used for such though? From: Greg Knaddison <greg.knaddison(a)gmail.com> > I really like having things stored in a version control system (e.g. > cvs, svn, git, arch). That way your machine at home is the repository > and you can use a "cvs checkout documents/taxes" to get all of those > documents and also do an update to see which ones have changed locally > and need to be committed back to the server. Mega-dittos there! Version control is wholly undervalued for everything, and solves the overwhelming majority of workflow and other issues -- even just for 1 person on their own (let alone multiple people working together). Hell, I'd just be happy if someone would do a "ci -l filename" before and after editing a file as root. RCS is so simplistic to use, yet so powerful for just standalone configuration file management. And ,v files are always importable to any other revision controll system. Of course, at the same time, I'm an evil man who _loves_ to catch people who modify /etc files, forget, but it leaves the system in a state that is not usable or at least not bootable the next time. By simply using rcsdiff from the last time I edited -- pointing out the changes, line-by-line, until someone fesses up. In reality, my ultimate goal is to get them to just do a "ci -l filename" as well, so they can revert to what they had before if needbe. > Subversion is a bit more efficient than cvs. It handles binaries inherently too, all will being CVS client syntax compatible. Combined with its WebDAV-DeltaV option via Apache 2, it's absolutely awesome for less technical users as well (who aren't commonly CVS familiar). > I haven't looked heavily at git or arch, but they have smart people working > on them. > Personal disk space is cheap...why not keep all revisions of your documents :) The great thing about modern, reverse-delta revisioning programs is that they don't eat up a lot of disk space either. They revision very tight, especially Subversions for many common binary formats. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org

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CentOS Convert Question
by admin＠dougware.net 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hi, First, I want to say that I have fallen in love with CentOS4. I have been using RedHat since the 5.x days. After RedHat dropped the stable system to go to a unstable system and a Enterprise system I felt like I was being left out in the cold. I quickly found out about WhiteBox and used it for quite a while. Then I learned about CentOS...and switched to it for my server needs. I have switched to CentOS4 and it is an awsome stable operating system. I just wanted to add my praise before I asked my question. I need a network based distributed operating system, something like Intermezzo or Coda to keep two servers in sync on one partition. I have a server at work and at home that I want to keep a MyDocuments partition in sync. NFS will not work because I need a offline or online solution. RSYNC will not work, who many inconsistancies from files being created and removed. Will GFS work for my needs when they release U1 for CentOS? If not, does anyone have any coda or intermezzo rpms for CentOS4? Thanks again, Doug Eubanks admin(a)dougware.net

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RE: MIrrored drives won't boot after installation
by Kevin Pendleton 10 May '05

10 May '05

Chris, Grub needs to be configured to boot of either drive, run the two install lines referenced in this doc and you should be good: http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.d.stribblehill/mirrored_grub.html Kevin On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 12:00 +0000, centos-request(a)centos.org wrote: > Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:25:26 -0400 > From: "Chris Mason" <lists(a)masonc.com> > Subject: RE: [CentOS] MIrrored drives won't boot after installation > To: "'CentOS mailing list'" <centos(a)centos.org> > Message-ID: <20050426023208.C929092C3FC(a)mercury.mason.home> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > When you configure the drives as RAID1 the installer never request where > > to install the boot record. If configuring with one drive (no raid) the > > installer will ask where to install the record. > > > > Gerald > > So how do I fix this? I really need to get a mirrored drive system up and > running. > > Chris Mason > US Number: (646)722-0001 US Fax (815)301-9759

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Re: [CentOS] MIrrored drives won't boot after installation
by Brett Moss 10 May '05

10 May '05

--- "Chris Mason (Lists)" <lists(a)masonc.com> wrote: > I have a p4 motherboard with 2 ide interfaces, I > connect 2 40 GB drives as > hda and hdc, I install Centos 4 from a CDROM, and > partition the drives as 2 > x raid partition each plus a swap partition on hda, > the make md0 and md1 to > install /boot and / respectively. Install goes well, > everything looks great, > go to reboot from drives, and all I get is "grub" > but no boot. I have tried > this ten times, doesn't seem I can get around it. > > I have to configure this server so that the drives > are mirrored. I have > installed redhat 9 in this configuration without > problems. > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > > > Chris Mason hello chris, i had a similar problem with two scsi drives and ended up rebooting into rescue mode and installing and configuring lilo. machine comes up with no problems at all now. remember to run the lilo command after configuring. hth, brett __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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Re: [CentOS] alias keeps changing (fwd)
by Maciej Zenczykowski 10 May '05

10 May '05

I'd suggest looking around the ifcfg-eth* files (somewhere in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts I think) nad commenting out HWADDR= lines, if that works, then try reversing the HWADDR lines - this will reverse the numbers of the ethernet cards (ie making eth0 eth1 and eth1 eth0) but should result in a stable configuration till next hardware change. And you problem? IMHO, when the system boots up, one card gets the name eth0, the other eth1, when checking HWADDR the first eth0 card matches the ifcfg-eth1 HWADDR MAC address and is thus renamed to eth1, which fails, since eth1 already exists, and thus gets a random name, while the second eth1 matches the ifcfg-eth0 HWADDR MAC address and is thus renamed to eth0. In the end the physical eth1 is eth0 and the physical eth0 gets a random dev* name. This should probably be fixed sometime... first rename all devices to random names and only afterwards rename then to eth* according to the configuration files. Cheers, MaZe. PS. alternatively you can open the case and switch the two network cards, they'll be detected in reverse order and the previous renaming problem should vanish. On Mon, 9 May 2005, Michael Rock wrote: > btw - the two NIC cards are identical Intel Pro100S > and I also tried latest drivers. > > --- Michael Rock <mikerocks65(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> Hi, I have a problem when adding a second NIC card. >> It will not configure to eth1 and keeps changing its >> device name on reboot to dev and a number, like >> dev8761. >> >> I tried changing BIOS setting, plug/play on/off and >> forcing IRQ for PCI slots. But no difference. >> >> centos-3-4.2 >> >> Any ideas? thx >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam >> protection around >> http://mail.yahoo.com >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS(a)centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Make Yahoo! your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >

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CentOS 3.3 is gone
by John Newbigin 10 May '05

10 May '05

Now that http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.3/updates/i386/RPMS/ is gone (be it by design or error) I assume that all the patches for a CentOS-3.3 box can be found in http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.4/updates/i386/RPMS/ Can anyone confirm this? In other words, Does the 3.4 updates directory contain updates to 3.3 and 3.4? If the answer is Yes: Good. Now what about 3.1? Should those updates be in the 3.4 directory as well? If the answer is No: What am I meant to do with my CentOS-3.3 media? I can not install with it anymore because I can't get patches. The management of these update directories always causes me confusion though it should be simple. John. -- 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

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gamin update for Centos4?
by Harald Finnås 10 May '05

10 May '05

Just wondering if anyone has an updated gamin rpm for CentOS4? My courier-imap service seems to die once a week because gamin stops responding... Regards, Harald

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Re: [CentOS] alias keeps changing
by Michael Rock 10 May '05

10 May '05

btw - the two NIC cards are identical Intel Pro100S and I also tried latest drivers. --- Michael Rock <mikerocks65(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, I have a problem when adding a second NIC card. > It will not configure to eth1 and keeps changing its > device name on reboot to dev and a number, like > dev8761. > > I tried changing BIOS setting, plug/play on/off and > forcing IRQ for PCI slots. But no difference. > > centos-3-4.2 > > Any ideas? thx > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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segmentation fault issue
by Badli Al Rashid 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hai all, I have a machine running centos3.4, once in a while trying to run yum, i got a segmentation fault. Anyone could give me an advice as im already runnig the latest patches etc. I had already checked the harddrive but it give out no error results. Has anyone ever come across the segmentation problem in yum. Or any advice in troubleshooting it ? Thanks

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minimum install for CentOS 4 and Oracle 9i
by tito.basa 10 May '05

10 May '05

hi! having problems installing Oracle 9i Database 9.2.0.4.0 on CentOS 4 with the error: Error in invoking target install of makefile ins_plsql.mk this is what i so far dug up on Google http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-February/002507.html http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.shtml can you point me to a link on a minimum installation (package list if possible) guide for Oracle 9i to work on CentOS 4 and also as required a secure setup as always? TIA tito

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alias keeps changing
by Michael Rock 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hi, I have a problem when adding a second NIC card. It will not configure to eth1 and keeps changing its device name on reboot to dev and a number, like dev8761. I tried changing BIOS setting, plug/play on/off and forcing IRQ for PCI slots. But no difference. centos-3-4.2 Any ideas? thx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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BWM
by Rudi Starcevic 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hi, I'm trying to install bwm on my Centos box without joy so far. # yum check-update # yum install bwm Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: CentOS-3 - Addons Server: CentOS-3 - Base Server: CentOS-3 - Extras Server: CentOS-3 - Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Cannot find a package matching bwm No actions to take # yum search bwm Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: CentOS-3 - Addons Server: CentOS-3 - Base Server: CentOS-3 - Extras Server: CentOS-3 - Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Looking in available packages for a providing package No packages found Looking in installed packages for a providing package No packages found Hmm ... can you help me get 'bwm' installed? Thanks. Regards, Rudi.

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DNS probelms
by James B. Byrne 09 May '05

09 May '05

I think that I have answered my own question. I replaced the nameserver 0.0.0.0 line with the ip address that the locally running named is configured to listen on and the problem went away. Jim -- *** e-mail is not a secure channel *** mailto:byrnejb.<token>@harte-lyne.ca James B. Byrne Harte & Lyne Limited vox: +1 905 561 1241 9 Brockley Drive fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario <token> = hal Canada L8E 3C3

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Centos 4 and UPSs with USB interfaces
by Nigel Kendrick 09 May '05

09 May '05

Can anyone tell me whether 4 has better native support for UPSs with a USB monitoring interface? Thanks Nigel

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DNS configuration problem
by James B. Byrne 09 May '05

09 May '05

I have introduced some error in my dns resolution and I would like some help fixing it as I cannot seem to detect what I have done wrong. Briefly the setup is this: name servers: DNS01 - 216.185.71.33 DNS02 - 209.47.176.33 DNS03 - 216.185.71.34 DNS04 - 209.47.176.34 - offline DNS01 is a master DNS02-04 are slaves of 216.185.71.33 All are listed as authoritative for the zone test.com The following tests are run from a caching name server configured to forward queries as follows: /etc/resolv.conf search hamilton.harte-lyne.ca harte-lyne.ca harte-lyne.com halisp.net nameserver 0.0.0.0 nameserver 216.185.71.33 nameserver 209.47.176.33 Extract from /etc/named.conf ... forwarders { 216.185.71.33; 209.47.176.33; 216.185.71.34; 209.47.176.34; }; forward first; }; ... The intent of our setup is that if any server goes offline then the remaining servers will continue to answer queries. To further protect against outages DNS02 and DNS04 (currently offline) are on a separate netblock at a physically remote location. However, this is not what appears to happen when I test it. This are the results that I get when DNS01-03 are all online together. # dig @a.root-servers.net pop3.test.com +trace ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> @a.root-servers.net pop3.test.com +trace ;; global options: printcmd . 518400 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;; Received 436 bytes from 198.41.0.4#53(a.root-servers.net) in 750 ms com. 172800 IN NS A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. ;; Received 506 bytes from 192.33.4.12#53(C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 38 ms test.com. 172800 IN NS dns01.harte-lyne.ca. test.com. 172800 IN NS dns02.harte-lyne.ca. test.com. 172800 IN NS dns03.harte-lyne.ca. ;; Received 107 bytes from 192.5.6.30#53(A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET) in 41 ms pop3.test.com. 38400 IN CNAME imap.test.com. imap.test.com. 38400 IN CNAME imap.halisp.net. imap.halisp.net. 38400 IN CNAME imap-07.halisp.net. imap-07.halisp.net. 38400 IN CNAME imap-07.harte- lyne.ca. imap-07.harte-lyne.ca. 86400 IN CNAME inet07.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca. inet07.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca. 86400 IN A 216.185.71.27 harte-lyne.ca. 86400 IN NS dns01.harte- lyne.ca. harte-lyne.ca. 86400 IN NS dns02.harte- lyne.ca. harte-lyne.ca. 86400 IN NS dns03.harte- lyne.ca. harte-lyne.ca. 86400 IN NS dns04.harte- lyne.ca. ;; Received 329 bytes from 216.185.71.33#53(dns01.harte-lyne.ca) in 2 ms However, if named on DNS01 is stopped and left running on DNS02 and DNS03 then this happens: ]# dig @a.root-servers.net pop3.test.com +trace ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> @a.root-servers.net pop3.test.com +trace ;; global options: printcmd . 518400 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 518400 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;; Received 436 bytes from 198.41.0.4#53(a.root-servers.net) in 37 ms dig: Couldn't find server 'I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET': Name or service not known So. The question is, what am I doing wrong? It has to be something simple but I cannot see it for the life of me. Any and all help greatly appreciated. Jim -- *** e-mail is not a secure channel *** mailto:byrnejb.<token>@harte-lyne.ca James B. Byrne Harte & Lyne Limited vox: +1 905 561 1241 9 Brockley Drive fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario <token> = hal Canada L8E 3C3

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Kernel bug in software RAID?
by Matt Lawrence 09 May '05

09 May '05

After doing lots of research, it seems that there is a known bug in the software RAID for various versions of the 2.6 kernel. It seems to be affecting a system that a friend of mine has put together, so I'm guessing that RH has not back ported a fix into the released kernel. Does anyone here have any idea when a fix will make it into the CentOS4 distribution? Matt Lawrence "Your friendly neighborhood sysadmin" 512.838.2645 T/L 678-2645 512.351.1061 (cell)

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Centos 4, bind slow responses when no cache
by Ted Kaczmarek 09 May '05

09 May '05

I have a Centos 4.0, bind-9.2.4-2 as a master and and FC2 bind-9.2.3-13 slave setup. Their seem to be a delay on the Centos 4 when asking for anything that is not in its cache. Doing some tcpdumps I see the AUTH response came back, but like a 3 second delay after that before server sends response to client. Both server have the same config other than one being a master and the other a slave. Their are no delays on the FC2. Googled on this with no joy. Any ideas? Ted

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Non Distro Repositories ( Addons / Extras / Contrib / CentOSPlus )
by Karanbir Singh 09 May '05

09 May '05

The aim of this post is to try and explain the non-distro specific repositories hosted and run by CentOS. Aside from the main Distribution repositories ( OS, Updates, ISO's ) we also run the following repositories for each Release. 1. Addons : Contains packages required in order to build the main Distribution or packages produced by SRPMS built in the main Distribution, but not included in the main Redhat package tree (mysql- server in CentOS-3.x falls into this category). Packages contained in the addons repository should be considered essentially a part of the core distribution, but may not be in the main Redhat Package tree. 2. Extras : Packages built and maintained by the CentOS developers, that add functionality to the core distribution. These packages have undergone some basic testing, should track upstream release versions fairly closely and will never replace any core distribution package. 3. Contrib : Packages contributed by the CentOS Users, which do not overlap with any of the core Distribution packages. These packages have not been tested by the CentOS developers, and may not track upstream version releases very closely. 4. CentOSPlus : Packages contributed by CentOS Developers and the Users. These packages might replace rpm's included in the core Distribution. You should understand the implications of enabling and using packages from this repository. ---- We welcome contributions into the Contrib and CentOSPlus repository. Post a message on the CentOS-Devel mailing list with details of packages you would like to contribute, one of the CentOS developers will then pick it up and work with you on the issue. You might want to make sure that the same package is not already easily available from some other mainstream repository. And, you should be willing to maintain the packages in sync with upstream releases and fix's. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ GnuPG Public Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

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Re: [CentOS] ACLs iin Centos 4
by Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith＠ieee.org> 09 May '05

09 May '05

On Fri, May 6, 2005 9:32 am, Peter Farrow said: > Hi There, > It seems the default installer with Centos 4, enables DACs and the extra > ACLs which DUMP cannot handle.... > so I get errors like "DUMP: ACLs in inode #nnnn won't be dumped" > since DUMP and RESTORE is integral to my back policy for some 30+ > machines I would like to know if its possible to turn off the extra ACLs > in the file system as I really don't need them... > Can tune2fs do this for me or do I have to re-build the filesystems with > some option that I currently don't know... For Ext3, I have switched to Jorg's STAR because it has done POSIX ACLs for awhile. But when I want to use dump, I have switched to XFS (and its xfsdump), since 2001. You can install with XFS from the installer. The nice thing about XFS, like Ext3, is that it hasn't changed in structure since the mid-'90s. Unlike IBM JFS, which was ported from OS/2 instead of AIX (largely because of Project Monterey -- see any full and accurate history on the SCO v. IBM lawsuit for more on the reasons why) and lacked a lot of the UNIX/inode structures, XFS was ported directly and fully from Irix to Linux. Which means that POSIX ACLs, Quota, NFS and other things worked off-the-bat in Linux. In fact, the SGI XFS team was responsible for a _lot_ of the new VFS interfaces of 2.5.3-onward, largely because they had already ported them from Irix to Linux for XFS support. I.e., a lot of the new features of the Linux 2.6 kernel at the VFS that _all_ filesystems benefit from were from Irix's XFS codebase. As of Linux 2.6 (and late 2.4.25+ kernels?), all of the core support structures that XFS needs are now standard. Other than one bug in XFS 1.0 (fixed some 3 years ago, resulting in the XFS 1.1 release), XFS has been rock-solid and reliable for me. The only major thing that had to change from Irix to Linux was the default block size (to match the default paging of the x86 architecture from MIPS). -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org

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Dell Poweredge 4300 + PARC 2 (Megaraid) Centos 4
by William Suffill 09 May '05

09 May '05

After 4 days of agrevation I felt it was best I post to the list before I break something or hurt myself. It seems that 2.6 from other posts seemed to kill support for this card in particular since LSI has EOL'd it. Although I've managed to download megaraid-2.00.3 which does support this card and build an object on a sperate box. Although the installer seems to require a driver disk and a .ko (kernel object). I'm pretty much at a loss as to where to go from there. I've never built a driver disk so it's been and uphill struggle just to get this far. It's been some long days for both techs here and seems to get so far but not far enough since the box is still unusable. I much rather solve this issue then run a legacy distro that will pick up the card as is so any assistance would be greatly appreciate. -- William

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Removing custom kernels?
by Preston Crawford 09 May '05

09 May '05

Is this possible. I did my first one yesterday in order to get my iPod mini to work with the EL kernel. It worked well. Everything went smoothly, but I don't like what I named it. So I'd like to take one more shot at it. If I do, is there a way to remove the old one cleanly? Modules and everything. Also, if do recompile the kernel again, do I need fresh source, or can I just do a make clean, rename the setting in the Makefile for the name, then go through all the usual steps. Thanks, Preston

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Dell Powervault 132T tape library
by Carlos Scott 09 May '05

09 May '05

Hello all. I'm struggling to get Centos 4 to recognize my Dell Powervaul 132T tape changer. The system doesnt create a device node for it. [root@orion scotty]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: DAT DAT72-052 Rev: A060 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: ULTRIUM-TD2 Rev: 37RH Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi3 Channel: 01 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: PE/PV Model: 1x8 SCSI BP Rev: 1.1 Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi3 Channel: 02 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: MegaRAID Model: LD0 RAID5 39760R Rev: 350O Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 It does recognize the tape device as sg1, but not the changer [root@orion scotty]# /usr/sbin/mtx -f /dev/sg1 inquiry Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'IBM ' Product ID: 'ULTRIUM-TD2 ' Revision: '37RH' Attached Changer: No I corrected the typo in the /etc/hotplug/scsi.agent file: --> 8) TYPE=changer ; MOUDLE=sg ;; corrected to --> 8) TYPE=changer ; MODULE=sg ;; and also added the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf options scsi_mod max_luns=128 I rebuilt the initrd but it still doest work. If anyone could point me in the right direction i'd be really thankfull Cheers thanks in advance. NOTA CONFIDENCIAL: La información contenida en este E-mail es confidencial y sólo puede ser utilizada por la persona o la compañía a la cual está dirigido y/o por el emisor. Si no es el receptor autorizado, cualquier retención, difusión, distribución o copia de este mensaje es prohibida y será sancionada por la ley. Si por error recibe este mensaje, favor reenviarlo y borrar el mensaje recibido inmediatamente. CONFIDENTIAL NOTE: The information in this E-mail is intended to be confidential and only for use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and/or the issuer. If you are not the intended recipient, any retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited and sanctioned by law. If you receive this message by error, please immediately send it back and delete the message received. CORREO DE USO INSTITUCIONAL MINISTERIO DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA

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RE: [CentOS] Centos 4 / Postfix / SMTP - SORTED
by Marc Powell 09 May '05

09 May '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Nigel Kendrick > Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 8:05 AM > To: 'CentOS mailing list' > Subject: RE: [CentOS] Centos 4 / Postfix / SMTP - SORTED > > OHMYGOD I am a grade 1 pillock: > > All sites hosting our mail servers have Zen as their ISP but where I am > now > it's using BT - so I guess it's not a good idea to try and use Zen's > server > from a BT account - mind you some kind of error return when I tried to > connect might have helped! Most mail servers will return a '550 Relaying not allowed' error message. If Zen doesn't do that then it's a configuration decision on their part. -- Marc

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mailscanner on centos4
by Francois Caen 09 May '05

09 May '05

Anyone here running mailscanner on CentOS4? I'm using the latest MS with sendmail on x86_64 dual-Xeon. Messages seem to vanish after arriving, not even showing in mqueue.in . Anyone else with a similar setup, working or not? Thanks, Francois Caen

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centos4+opengroupware
by Mark Quitoriano 09 May '05

09 May '05

anyone implemented opengroupware with centos? hows the perforamance? and i know there's a repo(apt-get) for opengroupware anyone know it? -- Regards, Mark Quitoriano, CCNA http://www.atamanetworks.com

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Time is Fleeting: CentOS 4 question
by Bill Diamond 09 May '05

09 May '05

I have recently built a new server using CentOS4. I've found one major oddity: time resolution is completely whacked. I'm not using an external time source nor am I relying on NTP for time resolution. For some reason, time on this server moves forward at a far more rapid rate. Right now, all my other systems show Sunday May 8, 3:19 pm. The CentOS server thinks its Monday May 9, 3:54 pm. I just reset it about four hours ago to the correct time. I'm using an inexpensive eMachines T6212 AMD Athon 64 processor and 1 GB RAM. Can anyone suggest a reason why this server thinks it's 25 hours in the future and growing more distant with each minute? Thanks, Bill -- Bill Diamond <bill(a)billdiamond.com>

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Re: passwordless ssh
by rado 08 May '05

08 May '05

> > > > > does anyone know of anything specific that Centos is doing here? or what > > can be my problem? > > Try making sure that the permissions for the /root/.ssh directory is > 700, and the permissions on the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys is 600. > > Also try looking at your logs if that doesn't help. Whenever I've had > any problem like you're describing, it was being logged, which in turn > clued me in on the problem. > > -Ryan > Nope. > > > or what can be my problem? > > Check your permissions on both the client and server. > > chmod -R 0700 ~/.ssh > > -- > Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez(a)ivazquez.net> > http://centos.ivazquez.net/ > Thx Ryan and Ignacio you guys were so right w/your replies...I just kept concentrating on permissions.. I would make a change and right away do: chmod -R 700 /root/.ssh I did not do chmod 600 /root/.ssh/authorized_keys as it didn't seem to need be...for sure I would have if I couldn't get it working. I was aware that permissions were a major player here but thought I had them right but didn't... well, sure appreciate your replies john rose -- rado <rado(a)rivers-bend.com>

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hardware problem trust usb2.0 pci card
by Michel Daggelinckx 08 May '05

08 May '05

after installing this card centos 3.4 detected and configured it ok. i'm unable to use any device on the card. tryed it with creative thumbdrive (mass storage device) an samsung usb2 dvd writer. suspecting the card to be defective i replaced it but didn't help centos detected the via chipset alright and loaded the modules. any ideas?

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Gnome-terminal buffer problems?
by Preston Crawford 08 May '05

08 May '05

Is anyone else having these. Using like slrn and ncftp I'm running into situations where scrolling too far down the buffer doesn't seem to roll correctly (for lack of a better term). Has anyone else encountered this and is there a fix? Preston

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newer ZLIB and ZLIB-DEVEL
by Robert Hanson 08 May '05

08 May '05

Greetings, I have need of a newer ZLIB and/or maybe the ZLIB-DEVEL. I need 1.2.2 or later and was told to go to www.zlib.net On that site, it mentions... zlib for Linux, both shared and static plus headers (RPM format, many architectures) so what I am wondering is this, is there a new ZLIB coming down the "upstream" pipe now or quickly? if there a specific YUM command to snag from another repository(ies) that you and the developers trust? if not, which one should I grab from www.zlib.net that will not cause me any future problems with "yum" or any other situations etc? TIA and regards, - rh

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Thanks for all the help and advice
by Preston Crawford 08 May '05

08 May '05

I went with CentOS today and I couldn't be happier. I'm definitely excited to be part of this community. Now I just have to remember (after years of using the default SuSE install of Java/Ant/Tomcat/Eclipse, etc.) where the best place to put my Java apps is. Preston

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One more not so important question...
by Preston Crawford 07 May '05

07 May '05

Is there a repository of cool splashes for GDM, backgrounds, etc. yet? Not that I *need* them. Just sometimes fun to spruce up your workstation with a little eye candy that represents your new distro of choice. :-) Preston

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OpenOffice Conversion
by Alex White 07 May '05

07 May '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 List, I have a rather unique question, that perhaps can be answered easily here.I did search google and only came up with one app that does this exact thing; however, it's an expensive tool. Thusly, not my cup of tea. I have need to convert approximately 100 documents in Openoffice's native format to Microsoft Word's native format. Apparently, someone's manager wants all of the documents in Word (just this once) for whatever reason and going back and saving each individual file as a Word document seems excessive. Does anyone know of a conversion tool that is native to linux (preferrably) that could do this? Or even a Windows app would suffice truly. TIA - -- Alex White prata(a)kuei-jin.org Fingerprint = 58DC 9199 CE73 74E8 B2C1 442E ACF5 92E0 E068 C46C gpg key location: http://www.kuei-jin.org/GPG-KEY-PRATA ~From the withered tree, a flower blooms --Zen Proverb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCel+lrPWS4OBoxGwRAuI3AKC0fM10AJ61xPrul13GM0V7kVsxywCggryG fA+++bZYxl5ZayaoVjpVTaM= =+DPv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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passwordless ssh
by rado 07 May '05

07 May '05

Hi, I am just migrating to Centos from fedora core 3. I have 3 boxes involved here: Box A --Fedora 3 (doing the dns, http, sendmail serving duties) Box B --CentOS Box C --CentOS I used to run root passwordless ssh both ways from boxes A and B mainly set up to keep the 2 boxes in sync w/rsync ... these 2 boxes normally ran one being the slave and the other being the master...the master did all the serving duties...if something happened where the master couldn't do it anymore, then the slave becomes master. I have tried and tried the following #ssh-keygen -t dsa (and rsa using authorized_keys(2) or both depending...) when it asks for passphrase...just enter and enter # scp /root/.ssh/id_dsa.pub boxA:/root/.ssh/ # ssh boxB #<password> boxbshell # cat /root/.ssh/id_dsa.pub >>/root/.ssh/authorized_key or key2 or both. # exit boxashell # ssh boxb <password> will NOT let me do passwordless now then I have gotten it to work by using the following /root/.ssh/.config : Host remotehost User remoteuser Compression yes Protocol 2 RSAAuthentication yes StrictHostKeyChecking no ForwardAgent yes ForwardX11 yes IdentityFile /home/localuser/.ssh/id_remotehost_dsa taken from: http://www.davz.net/static/howto/sshkeys I can get it to work from 2 boxes both ways...but when I set up the 3rd box, it works but one of the other boxes that was good does not do it anymore. I go back edit the authorized_key files.... check the other boxes make sure they still work set up the faulty box again...get it working then one of the other good boxes doesn't work I then start looking into the .config file...has some pretty dangerous things in it that I really don't care for but that's where I am right now. does anyone know of anything specific that Centos is doing here? or what can be my problem? BTW I am NOT using selinux only as a warn thx John Rose -- ...and I woke up 2 days later in the back yard talking to Elvis!

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