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How to send in donations via check? and some other suggestions.
by Mike 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Greetings. I have just successfully updated a RH-9 file server to CentOS-3.1. I'm VERY impressed. I have a client who has 4 Redhat servers (1 x 7.3 and 3 x 9.0) that I would like to migrate to CentOS-3.1. Question: My client is willing to send a donation for these boxes but they just want to send you (caosity.org) a check that will cover the next couple of years. Who do we make the check out to? Where do we send the check? And if a bulk donation via check is OK, then please publish the payee information on the website. Another suggestion... Under the "Contribute to the CaOS Foundation", I think it might be useful to specifically list the current help or tasks wanted/needed for the foundation. Just my $0.10 worth ($0.02 adjusted for inflation). Michael Chinn

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how to install centos 3.1 with sata support for sis 964
by Niels Przybilla 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Hi, can anybody help me on this subject ? Perhpas somebody has a how to to create a new install cd with a working kernel image for this sata raid controller Best regards Niels SF-Design Int. Trade Department Uhlandstrasse 167 10719 Berlin Tel:0049-163-2587799 Fax:0049-30-88 91 77 25

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Moving from WhiteBox to CentOS 3.1
by Petr Klima 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Hello I am leaving Whitebox because of lack of up to date sec. updates. Did any body try to "upgrade" WBEL to CentOS? Any dificulty or problems? Thanks Petr Klima

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CentOS-2 errata
by John Newbigin 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded the the centos mirror RHSA-2004:233-01 Updated cvs package fixes security issues RHSA-2004:234-01 Updated Ethereal packages fix security issues RHSA-2004:236-01 Updated krb5 packages available Files available: cvs-1.11.1p1-16.i386.rpm ethereal-0.10.3-0.AS21.3.i386.rpm ethereal-gnome-0.10.3-0.AS21.3.i386.rpm krb5-devel-1.2.2-27.i386.rpm krb5-libs-1.2.2-27.i386.rpm krb5-server-1.2.2-27.i386.rpm krb5-workstation-1.2.2-27.i386.rpm 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 School of Information Technology Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.it.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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Moving from Fedora core 1 to CentOS
by John Antrosiglio 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

Hi All, I know you can migrate from RH9 to CentOS but what I was wondering was if anyone has migrated from Fedora core 1 to Centos. If not, I'll moving everything, email, apache, samba, etc.. to a new CentOS machine and do a fresh install of CentOS on the current Fedora Core 1 machine. Just looking for a easier way of getting off Fedora. Thanks, John

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Upgrade from RH-9 to CentOS-3.1, any issues?
by Mike 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

Greetings, I've got 4 Redhat-9 servers in a production environment and I don't feel like moving to RHEL. So I'm testing CentOS-3.1 now. So far so good. I'd like to get these servers moved over in the next month or so to a better "supported" OS. Are there any issues I should be aware of in upgrades these RH-9 boxes? Should I be able to just stick in the Centos-3.1 CDROM and choose upgrade? Thanks, Michael

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Updated squid package fixes security vulnerability
by Lance Davis 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is an update to squid for CentOS 3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-242.html refers. Updated files are :- updates/i386/RPMS/squid-2.5.STABLE3-6.3E.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/squid-2.5.STABLE3-6.3E.src.rpm These are available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/ and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update to the latest version 'yum update squid' should be sufficient. Lance -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAxx8mcEnkTQJeUTsRArVOAJ49J7CsvJLf6AEjNweRojk3vV/0hgCfbdYl dxrJ6iis9lTJSkSoIr761uM= =OR4S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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Updated krb5 packages correct buffer overflow
by Lance Davis 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is an update to krb5 for CentOS 3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-236.html refers. Updated files are :- updates/i386/RPMS/krb5-devel-1.2.7-24.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/krb5-libs-1.2.7-24.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/krb5-server-1.2.7-24.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/krb5-workstation-1.2.7-24.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/krb5-libs-1.2.7-24.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/krb5-1.2.7-24.src.rpm These are available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/ and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update to the latest version 'yum update krb5' should be sufficient. Lance -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAxx6QcEnkTQJeUTsRAji7AKCD+Ncg9MyFgZJMnlZy2646VvcnCwCggYmp Spg9W9K9874lQBKXCmYs5fU= =iNHd -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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Updated ethereal package fixes security issues
by Lance Davis 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is an update to ethereal for CentOS 3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-234.html refers. Updated files are :- updates/i386/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.3-0.30E.2.centos.0.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/ethereal-gnome-0.10.3-0.30E.2.centos.0.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.3-0.30E.2.centos.0.src.rpm These are available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/ and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update to the latest version 'yum update ethereal' should be sufficient. Lance -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAxx2zcEnkTQJeUTsRAo9RAJ4jTT5ty91KHnCq4P5AaKA3X6z73gCdGFRf Rp3ySG4U3nZkQZEpdyhBM/Y= =EOfs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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Updated cvs package fixes security issues
by Lance Davis 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is an update to cvs for CentOS 3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-233.html refers. Updated files are :- updates/i386/RPMS/cvs-1.11.2-24.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/cvs-1.11.2-24.src.rpm These are available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/ and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update to the latest version 'yum update cvs' should be sufficient. Lance -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAxxzjcEnkTQJeUTsRAqp4AJwK/C1AOzHlqqkBfpKZmgjON8zooACeLze4 Z/mr2mfb8JLXT9J14RkiCVI= =F5Hh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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NIC detection by anaconda
by Lauro L. A. Whately 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

Hello all, I'm not able to install CentOS in a motherboard with a onboard 3Com gigabit nic (3c904/Syskonnect). Although there's a device driver for the Syskonnect (sk98lin) in the linux kernel, the installation program is asking for this interface module. I tried to create a device disk, but without success. Maybe I'm missing some information about the modules detection by the installation. How could I check the modules in the iso image ? or how could I insert a new module in the iso image ? Anyone could gime me some help on this problem ? TIA, Lauro Whately.

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Differences CentOS 3.1 and RedHat 9
by c.xxx＠gmx.net 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

Hello everybody, I would like to port a larger package to CentOS 3.1. The package has been designed for RedHat 9. Does anybody know the differences? Can anybody give me a pointer to a list of differences? This could save me a lot of work. Thanks in advance Chris

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MD5Sum for CentOS-3.1 DVD iso?
by kevin 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Hi everyone, I have a DVD which installs everything just like the 3 cds does, appears to be okay. Haven't tested it much though. I created my dvd iso from the 3 cd iso's. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4e40b1384e81331123b32b967222ccdf CentOS-3.1-i386-DVD.iso ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Wood South of France. Content-Type=message/rfc822 Content-Description=embedded message Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 09:52:17 -0700 (PDT) From: "Mark R. Miller" <markryanmiller(a)yahoo.com> To: centos(a)caosity.org Subject: [Centos] MD5Sum for CentOS-3.1 DVD iso? Hello everyone. Thanks to everyone who made this project possible. This is my first post, although I have looked at the archives. I haven't found an answer to this in the archives, so I thought I would post it here. I've downloaded the DVD iso for CentOS-3.1 from BitTorrent, and I'm leaving my torrent open for another day or so to help out. I see there is an MD5Sum file for the torrent file, but I can't find one for the DVD ISO file itself. Have I overlooked something, or can we get one added to the master MD5Sum file? Maybe BitTorrent takes care of checking the hash, but it would be nice to confirm after a download is done. Here's what I get as the hash for this file. Can anyone tell me if this is correct? 903d537593e634474a013665cf88e499 *CentOS-3.1-i386.dvd.iso Thank you. Mark Miller Mountain View, California

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kernel panic
by khaled fawzy 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

dear sir; i am using centos 3.1 on a test server . i install oracle 10g and it works fine . but after installing a patch for oracle i have the following error : error while loading shared library /etc/libwait.so can't open shared file and after rebooting i have the same error plus " kernel panic " so is there any thing that i can do to get my system working ? and from where can i get the aproperate oracle patchs for centos ? thanks in advance . khaled

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Upgrade install using CentOS-3.1 ISO images
by Bart Schaefer 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Cutting straight to the chase: When, if ever, does the installer offer an option to upgrade an existing installation, rather than wanting to reformat the disks? More details than you may want: I recently acquired a new PC chassis, with no operating system but with a Serial-ATA disk (which I was not expecting when I ordered it). I set the BIOS for legacy IDE mode and installed RedHat 9, then attempted to upgrade the kernel to add SATA support, without much luck. Searching for the SATA driver modules I found CentOS and decided to try it. I downloaded the three ISO images to another PC, burned CDs, and set about to upgrade my RH9. However, the installer never offered me the option of upgrading (keeping my existing filesystems) -- no matter what steps I tried using when starting the installer, by the time it got to the page for disk partitioning it always wanted to start from scratch and blow the existing partitions away. I finally concluded that I hadn't put anything important on the disks during my struggle with RH9, so I went ahead with the clean install. Everything is working nicely at this point, so thanks for that. However, there are some other RH9 systems around the office that may need to be upgraded at some point, and they definitely can't be wiped clean in the process. Is there a way to upgrade from RH9 to CentOS? Any remarks about upgrading from even older RedHat releases?

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MD5Sum for CentOS-3.1 DVD iso?
by Mark R. Miller 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Hello everyone. Thanks to everyone who made this project possible. This is my first post, although I have looked at the archives. I haven't found an answer to this in the archives, so I thought I would post it here. I've downloaded the DVD iso for CentOS-3.1 from BitTorrent, and I'm leaving my torrent open for another day or so to help out. I see there is an MD5Sum file for the torrent file, but I can't find one for the DVD ISO file itself. Have I overlooked something, or can we get one added to the master MD5Sum file? Maybe BitTorrent takes care of checking the hash, but it would be nice to confirm after a download is done. Here's what I get as the hash for this file. Can anyone tell me if this is correct? 903d537593e634474a013665cf88e499 *CentOS-3.1-i386.dvd.iso Thank you. Mark Miller Mountain View, California

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3.1 on ASUS SK8V SATA problem
by C. Linus Hicks 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

This is my first post to this mailing list, although I have been reading it for a while. Please forgive the length of my message. Also, great work! I'm trying to get Centos-3 running on an ASUS SK8V Opteron motherboard in a way that is useful for me. I've had some success, but now I'm stuck on a problem with the SATA driver. Okay, so I got it up on the network by replacing sk98lin with the one from 2.4.26. While I'm pretty confident that's not a supported thing to do, the machine is pretty useless to me off the network. I know I could throw a supported adapter in it, but it works as is. By the way, my intention is to get a native amd64 distribution of Linux running and my preference is that it be a RedHat derivative. I am not able to tell from the cAos web site whether there are any plans to release an amd64 version of Centos. The only reference I see to that platform is in the FAQ and looks specific to cAos. There are amd64 sources on RedHat's web site for rhel3. My experience of Centos so far is of it being i386 centric. So, the problem I hit. I installed Centos-3 using the iso images onto a couple of SCSI drives I have in the system, then got the 2.4.21-15 kernel update and enabled SATA support. Through a series of modprobes, I got it to recognize the drive. However, it didn't find a valid partition table, and the geometry is way off. My SATA disk is a WD740GD, a 74GB drive. Fdisk thinks it is 30MB, 255 heads, 63 sector/track, 3 cylinders. Have I done something wrong, or is the VIA SATA support in this kernel just not gonna hack it? The SK8V uses the VIA VT8237 southbridge chipset if anyone knows about this. Thanks for any help. -- C. Linus Hicks <lhicks(a)nc.rr.com>

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What is the update version of CentOS-2?
by jack＠leadershipbynumbers.com 31 May '04

31 May '04

I'm pretty sure that I'm not asking the question correctly, but I'd like to host a database that is supported with RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.1 with Update 2 (Q2 2003), so I'm assuming CentOS-2 fills the bill. However, when I run this application, I get some weird CPU cycling that I can't trace to any specific task. So, perhaps my install is not as current as I think it is. I have run yum for both upgrade and update. Thanks, Jack Jack(a)skillstogrowon.com

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Tape drive problems
by syv 30 May '04

30 May '04

Hi, Hi, I have been googling, and can't find anything that will help me: mt -f /dev/st0 status /dev/st0: No such device or address Any suggestion? I am using CentOS 3 [RHEL ES3 without the licenses] The tape drive is recognized at boot [from dmesg] scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 <Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs blk: queue d3e53014, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) (scsi0:A:11): 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 32, 16bit) Vendor: EXABYTE Model: VXA-2 Rev: 100E Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 blk: queue d37a7e14, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) st: Version 20030406, bufsize 32768, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 11, lun 0 scsi : 0 hosts left. I also get: cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: none dir -l /proc/scsi/scsi -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 26 16:23 /proc/scsi/scsi Here is the output of lsmod: Module Size Used by Not tainted nls_iso8859-1 3516 0 (autoclean) nls_cp437 5148 0 (autoclean) vfat 13036 0 (autoclean) fat 38872 0 (autoclean) [vfat] raid1 15020 0 (unused) raid0 3976 0 (unused) linear 2088 0 (unused) loop 12120 0 ide-tape 53264 0 (autoclean) soundcore 6468 0 (autoclean) st 31716 0 (autoclean) ide-cd 35680 0 (autoclean) cdrom 33696 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd] autofs 13364 0 (autoclean) (unused) e1000 76096 1 floppy 58160 0 (autoclean) sg 36972 0 (autoclean) scsi_mod 110376 2 (autoclean) [st sg] microcode 5848 0 (autoclean) keybdev 2976 0 (unused) mousedev 5524 0 hid 22212 0 (unused) input 5920 0 [keybdev mousedev hid] ehci-hcd 20136 0 (unused) usb-uhci 26412 0 (unused) usbcore 79424 1 [hid ehci-hcd usb-uhci] ext3 88104 2 jbd 52464 2 [ext3] Here is the kernel: uname -r 2.4.21-15.EL.c0 -- Thanks centos(a)911networks.com When the network has to work

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LHA security vulnerabilities
by khaled fawzy 30 May '04

30 May '04

Dear sir; i am using redhat 9 on a production server and i plan to migrate to centos 3.1. the issue now is redhat 9 vulnerable to LHA package security vulnerabilities . and if so how can i solve this vulnerabilities till i implemment the upgrade. thanks in advance.

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CentOS-2 errata
by John Newbigin 27 May '04

27 May '04

The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded the the centos mirror RHSA-2004:174 Updated utempter package fixes vulnerability RHSA-2004:178 An updated LHA package fixes security vulnerabilities RHSA-2004:219 Updated tcpdump packages fix various vulnerabilities John. -- John Newbigin - Computer Systems Officer School of Information Technology Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.it.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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Removing older kernel packages
by Taco Scargo 26 May '04

26 May '04

Hello, I have problems removing older kernels from my Centos machines using yum. Can somebody tell me how to remove specific versions ? [root@web2 root]# rpm -qa | grep kernel-2 kernel-2.4.21-15.EL.c0 kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0 kernel-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0 Is what I have installed.... And [root@web2 root]# yum remove kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0 Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: CentOS-3.1 - Addons Server: CentOS-3.1 - Base Server: CentOS-3.1 - Extras Server: CentOS-3.1 - Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Erase: No matches for kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0 No actions to take is what I get. Thanks, Taco

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Updated utempter package fixes vulnerability
by Lance Davis 26 May '04

26 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is an update to utempter for CentOS 3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-174.html refers. Updated files are :- updates/i386/RPMS/utempter-0.5.5-1.3EL.0.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/utempter-0.5.5-1.3EL.0.arc.rpm These are available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/ and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update to the latest version 'yum update utempter' should be sufficient. Lance -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAtItGcEnkTQJeUTsRAqEhAJ43iSV6tLFprunPifl2ruDGKtOwkgCfemDS Qx9IC/AnaJLQgCxT0K0RWCg= =p2Vi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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Updated LHA package fixes security vulnerabilities
by Lance Davis 26 May '04

26 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is an update to LHA for CentOS 3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-178.html refers. Updated files are :- updates/i386/RPMS/lha-1.14i-10.2.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/lha-1.14i-10.2.src.rpm These are available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/ and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update to the latest version 'yum update lha' should be sufficient. Lance -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAtIrDcEnkTQJeUTsRAtvwAJ0X6meTPh2v8agr6X6TbmFdUC+NlACdFu/K Dz9JST2qg003nEKmSOZzWRM= =vDUt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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Updated tcpdump package fixes various vulnerabilities
by Lance Davis 26 May '04

26 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is an update to tcpdump for CentOS 3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-219.html refers. Updated files are :- updates/i386/RPMS/tcpdump-3.7.2-7.E3.2.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/libpcap-0.7.2-7.E3.2.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/tcpdump-3.7.2-7.E3.2.src.rpm These are available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/ and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update to the latest version 'yum update tcpdump libpcap' should be sufficient. Lance -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAtIpCcEnkTQJeUTsRAmxwAJ9/gtwpj9jun4f6yRQEZX2zePiOTwCeIBse mToK5gmpULQecvATCOYulps= =yvBc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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Q: No Reiserfs in Kernel
by Tech Support 24 May '04

24 May '04

Hello, I have a quick question. I am currious why reiserfs isn't compiled into the kernel? Although RHEL doesn't include the tools to manage reiserfs it includes the kernel drivers. Thanks, Bill

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RHEL 3 Update 2
by syv 24 May '04

24 May '04

The new upcoming release of Centos 3.2, will it be RHEL Update 2? or a refresh? -- Thanks syv(a)911networks.com When the network has to work

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Centos 3.1 - up2date 2 - another package
by lance＠uklinux.net 24 May '04

24 May '04

Yet another package release as part of update 2 - gnome-panel now accepts rectangular as well as square buttons ..... Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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rhn-applet-gui
by Johnny Hughes 21 May '04

21 May '04

After doing the updates, my yum and my up2date both tell me the system is totally updated, and it is ... however, my rhn-applet says there are 781 updates ... and it lists as updates packages with exactly the same version ... and even some packages with older versions. Any Ideas? The rhn-applet is: rhn-applet-2.1.4-3.centos.1 Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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CentOS 3.1 update2 packages released
by lance＠uklinux.net 21 May '04

21 May '04

The CentOS 3.1 update2 packages have now been released. They are available on mirror.centos.org and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update just run 'yum update' Please bugzilla any problems. There was a problem with the pam build in testing not being linked against the laus library, so the released version is a .c0 so that anyone who has installed the testing version will get the real one on updating. The only package that is missing from these updates is rhgb - that needs some artwork and testing and will be done in the next couple of days. The new anaconda and firstboot will be built into a new set of isos - release 3.2 , within the next week or so. Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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CentOS-3.1 update2
by lance＠uklinux.net 20 May '04

20 May '04

Unless anyone shouts I intend to push all the update2/testing stuff into updates for 3.1 later on today - say about 22:00 UTC All the security related updates have already been released. I am not convinced that lack of feedback means that there are no problems, more likely it means that not many people have tested the stuff, but I have had no serious problems and cant do any more testing. The only problem I did see was that the CentOS gpg key had to be re-imported after the update, I assume due to the rpm upgrade. If anyone wants a chance to test the CentOS-3.1 update2 stuff then please shout and I will hold back the release. To test it just uncomment the [testing] repo in yum.conf (but not the gpgcheck line). Any issues either email or post to bugzilla. Thanks Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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CentOS-2 updates
by John Newbigin 20 May '04

20 May '04

The following updates have been uploaded to the mirror for CentOS-2 RHSA-2004:172 Updated mc packages resolve several vulnerabilities RHSA-2004:180 Updated libpng packages fix crash RHSA-2004:190 Updated cvs package fixes security issue RHSA-2004:191 Updated cadaver package fixes security vulnerability in neon RHSA-2004:192 Updated rsync package fixes security issue See the rh errara for details. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html To update your machine just run # yum update John. -- John Newbigin - Computer Systems Officer School of Information Technology Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.it.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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Updated libpng package fixes crash
by Lance Davis 19 May '04

19 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is an update to libpng for CentOS 3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-180.html refers. Updated files are :- updates/i386/RPMS/libpng-1.2.2-21.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/libpng-devel-1.2.2-21.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/libpng10-1.0.13-12.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/libpng10-devel-1.0.13-12.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/libpng-1.2.2-21.src.rpm updates/i386/SRPMSlibpng10-1.0.13-12.src.rpm These are available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/ and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update to the latest version 'yum update libpng libpng10' should be sufficient. Lance -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAq+EwcEnkTQJeUTsRAlVYAJ9cIBmDgllf7gy0lUHb1hqZzirOzQCff6HP B6k3haHJWciZJg2+JJMUfkM= =Lf6t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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Updated rsync package fixes security issue
by Lance Davis 19 May '04

19 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is an update to rsync for CentOS 3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-192.html refers. Updated files are :- updates/i386/RPMS/rsync-2.5.7-4.3E.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/rsync-2.5.7-4.3E.src.rpm These are available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/ and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update to the latest version 'yum update rsync' should be sufficient. Lance -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAq+BYcEnkTQJeUTsRAhydAJ9RgWudH3je4CWdBORVuRx9e2HnDQCeOFXu GC5vfy1B7mbwEAFU5YAN6xI= =C4KL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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Important Change to mirror.caosity.org, mirror.centos.org
by lance＠uklinux.net 19 May '04

19 May '04

mirror.caosity.org is going to become a cluster of 3 servers - using round-robin dns. all uploads need to be done in future to master.caosity.org which will be the new mirror master - the others will sync off of that one. Please make sure that all scripts etc that do uploading are changed to upload to master.caosity.org Once the rr dns records are in place you may find that you may not be able to upload any more as you may hit the wrong server ... Lance ps orc, greg, troj, jnewbiggin please confirm -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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Updated cvs package fixes security issue
by Lance Davis 19 May '04

19 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is an update to cvs for CentOS 3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-190.html refers. Updated files are :- updates/i386/RPMS/cvs-1.11.2-22.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/cvs-1.11.2-22.src.rpm These are available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/ and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update to the latest version 'yum update cvs' should be sufficient. Although I have noticed that the update2 upgrade of rpm appears to lose the installed gpg key - so you will also need to rpm --import http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-3 Lance -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAq0HEcEnkTQJeUTsRAtd3AJ91x9n7dRYXUZSaT/0etlC00gH68wCglX/v hAMUfeK4ySjwobCCLnKyv6E= =LLfi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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Updated kdelibs resolve URI security issues
by Lance Davis 18 May '04

18 May '04

There is an update to kdelibs for CentOS 3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-222.html refers. Updated files are :- updates/i386/RPMS/kdelibs-3.1.3-6.4.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/kdelibs-devel-3.1.3-6.4.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/kdelibs-3.1.3-6.4.src.rpm These are available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/ and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update to the latest version 'yum update kdelibs' should be sufficient. Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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CentOS-2 Updated kdelibs packages resolve URI security issues
by John Newbigin 17 May '04

17 May '04

kdelibs-2.2.2-11 has been built and uploaded to the centos mirror. See https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-222.html for details. I'll try and get something in place for publishing a pretty looking errata message. Is there anything like that for centos-3? John. -- John Newbigin - Computer Systems Officer School of Information Technology Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.it.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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Updated kernel package for CentOS 3.1 fixes various issues
by Lance Davis 14 May '04

14 May '04

There is an updated kernel available for CentOS-3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-188.html refers. Updated files are :- Common Files i386/updates/RPMS/kernel-BOOT-2.4.21-15.EL.c0.i386.rpm i386/updates/RPMS/kernel-doc-2.4.21-15.EL.c0.i386.rpm i386/updates/RPMS/kernel-source-2.4.21-15.EL.c0.i386.rpm athlon specific i386/updates/RPMS/kernel-2.4.21-15.EL.c0.athlon.rpm i386/updates/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.4.21-15.EL.c0.athlon.rpm i386/updates/RPMS/kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-15.EL.c0.athlon.rpm i386/updates/RPMSkernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-15.EL.c0.athlon.rpm i686 specific i386/updates/RPMS/kernel-2.4.21-15.EL.c0.i686.rpm i386/updates/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.4.21-15.EL.c0.i686.rpm i386/updates/RPMS/kernel-hugemem-2.4.21-15.EL.c0.i686.rpm i386/updates/RPMS/kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-15.EL.c0.i686.rpm i386/updates/RPMS/kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-15.EL.c0.i686.rpm i386/updates/RPMS/kernel-hugemem-unsupported-2.4.21-15.EL.c0.i686.rpm source rpm i386/updates/SRPMS/kernel-2.4.21-15.EL.c0.src.rpm These are available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/ and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update to the latest version 'yum update kernel' should be sufficient. Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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CentOS-2 Final finally released
by John Newbigin 14 May '04

14 May '04

At long last I have uploaded CentOS-2 Final to the centos mirrors :) Some information on CentOS-2 is available here http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/centos-2/index.htm as well as the caos web site. Surely no one will find any bugs or problems, but if you do, email is better for me ATM than IRC. John. -- John Newbigin - Computer Systems Officer School of Information Technology Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.it.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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New CentOS contrib packages and 3rd party repos
by Lance Davis 13 May '04

13 May '04

A number of new packages are now in the contrib repository including cluster manager, courier-imap, maildrop and piranha - amongst others - thanks to bilbo for these. (we are still waiting for some of the src.rpms) There are also kernels for i586 in the contrib section. contrib packages are supplied by third parties, not (necessarily) tested by CentOS developers and not GPG signed by Centos. contrib is available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/contrib and should be on all mirrors. There is also a 3rd party yum repository for CentOS-3 at http://people.best-off.org/~rhel-devel/centos-3/ with lots of perl nodules amongst other stuff. The link above provides details of how to configure yum.conf to use the repo. Dag Wieers also provides a repository of rpms for Rhel3 that will (mostly) work with CentOS - http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/ If you do come across any there that dont work properly then please let either Dag or us know. You can add Dag's repository to your yum.conf by adding :- [dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el3/en/$basearch/dag We welcome 3rd party repositories as being a good way of finding additional software for CentOS, however the CentOS developers do not test the packages and cannot provide support for them. We will list 3rd party repositories on the CentOS website and also mirror them where practical/legal . Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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Updated ipsec-tools fixes vulnerabilities in racoon (the ISAKMP daemon)
by Lance Davis 13 May '04

13 May '04

There is an update to ipsec-tools for CentOS 3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-165.html refers. Updated files are :- updates/i386/RPMS/ipsec-tools-0.2.5-0.4.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/ipsec-tools-0.2.5-0.4.src.rpm which is also dependant on :- updates/i386/RPMS/initscripts-7.31.13.EL-1.centos.1.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/initscripts-7.31.13.EL-1.centos.1.src.rpm These are available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/ and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update to the latest version 'yum update ipsec-tools' should be sufficient. Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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RHEL 3 new updates
by Farkas Levente 13 May '04

13 May '04

hi, it seems RH release a few dozens of updates in the last few days: (https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel3as-errata.html) when we can expect these fro centos? thanks in advance. yours. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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MC
by Jakub Wojtanowski 13 May '04

13 May '04

I used mc-4.6.0-9.i386.rpm and it worked fine, but I wanted to know why rpm --rebuild didn't work. As for Tom's advice I don't have /etc/popt . Guess I need to create one Best Regards Cooba > I used the following link > ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/redhat/updates/9/en/os/i386/mc-4.6.0-7.9.i386.rp > m which is running fine on my system.

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MC
by Jakub Wojtanowski 11 May '04

11 May '04

I've tried to install midnight commander on centos3.1 final. No luck in installing it via yum install. When I download src.rpm from centos2 updates SRPMS I couldn't rebuild it. RPM --rebuild mc*.src.rpm didn't work (no rebuild option). What can I do then ? Best Regards Cooba

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Samba + CUPS error
by Kelvin Param 11 May '04

11 May '04

Hello. I've been trying to set CentOS 3.1 as a print server for PC running NT4 using Samba + CUPS. I've successfully done this with Fedora Core 1 but have encountered the following error after running cupsaddsmb in CentOS 3.1: WERR_INVALID_PRINTER_NAME. This error also occurs with FC1, but is solved by restarting the smb service i.e. service smb restart. Run cupsaddsmb again after restarting smb and, cupsaddsmb will succeed. However, restarting the smb service does not solve the problem with CentOS 3.1. Here's the relevant excerpt of my /etc/samba/smb.conf file (which works in FC1): [global] # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name workgroup = SOMEGROUP # server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field server string = Samba Server # This option is important for security. It allows you to restrict # connections to machines which are on your local network. The # following example restricts access to two C class networks and # the "loopback" interface. For more examples of the syntax see # the smb.conf man page ; hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127. # if you want to automatically load your printer list rather # than setting them up individually then you'll need this printcap name = cups load printers = yes # It should not be necessary to spell out the print system type unless # yours is non-standard. Currently supported print systems include: # bsd, sysv, plp, lprng, aix, hpux, qnx printing = cups # NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to # specifically define each individual printer [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print guest ok = yes writable = no printable = yes printer admin = root [print$] comment = Print Drivers path = /etc/samba/drivers browseable = yes guest ok = no read only = yes write list = root I'd appreciate a solution, tips, pointers, etc. Thanks in advance. Kelvin Param

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OpenOffice.org with Java Enabled
by Johnny Hughes 11 May '04

11 May '04

I am currently building the latest SRPM of openoffice.org with java enabled (using Sun Java SDK version j2dk1.4.2_04-b05). If it builds, is anyone else interested in having the binary and source RPMS? If there is an interest, maybe we can get it into the contrib section of the CentOS mirrors. After it builds, I can verify the requirements ... but I think the only extra thing required will be the latest Sun Java Runtime Environment (at least j2re1.4.2_04) installed. Thanks Johnny Hughes

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OpenOffice.org bug in version openoffice.org-1.1.0-15.EL
by Johnny Hughes 10 May '04

10 May '04

All, There is a bug in OpenOffice.org in version openoffice.org-1.1.0-15.EL where the help file doesn't open if you select help. Here is the bug and the fix: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122263 Basically, edit the file /usr/bin/ooffice and find <value>'$lang'</value> then replace it with <value>$lang</value>. I have tested this on both CentOS and WhiteBox Enterprise Linux and the fix works. This error has been corrected in FedoraCore with version openoffice.org-1.1.0-16. Supposedly to be released soon for RHEL...but if you can't wait, fix it now. -Johnny Hughes

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Suggestions
by syv 07 May '04

07 May '04

What's the best way to install/update: * Gnome from 2.2 to 2.6 * Mozilla to Firefox They are not in the yum packages. It would be great if they would, or is there a yum repository with it. -- Thanks syv(a)911networks.com When the network has to work

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Newbie Questions - Yum, etc.
by Peter J. Mignone 06 May '04

06 May '04

Hi All: My name is Peter J. Mignone and I have a little Linux experience. From what I have read about CentOS, it appears very interesting so I am trying it out. I get a header.info error when I tried yum which I have never used. How do you set up yum? Where do you point it, etc.? If my understanding is correct about the licensing, I should turn off anything pertaining to the Red Hat Network. Is there anything else that should be removed? Is there any restrictions on rpm for Red Hat enterprise. In other words, If I find a rpm on say rpmfind.net for red hat could it be used? Thank You! -- Pete

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