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c5-testing
by John R Pierce 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

is there a list more sutiable for c5-testing discussions? I'd like to install the php-5.2.9 on there, but I'm getting a dependency problem # yum update --enablerepo=c5-testing php Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net * base: updates.interworx.info * updates: mirrors.cmich.edu * addons: mirror.stanford.edu * extras: mirrors.xmission.com Excluding Packages from Red Hat Enterprise 5 - RPMforge.net - dag Finished Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Base Finished Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Updates Finished 271 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package php.i386 0:5.2.9-2.el5.centos set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.9-2.el5.centos for package: php --> Processing Dependency: php-cli = 5.2.9-2.el5.centos for package: php --> Running transaction check ---> Package php.i386 0:5.2.9-2.el5.centos set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.9-2.el5.centos for package: php ---> Package php-cli.i386 0:5.2.9-2.el5.centos set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.9-2.el5.centos for package: php-cli --> Finished Dependency Resolution php-5.2.9-2.el5.centos.i386 from c5-testing has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.9-2.el5.centos is needed by package php-5.2.9-2.el5.centos.i386 (c5-testing) php-cli-5.2.9-2.el5.centos.i386 from c5-testing has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.9-2.el5.centos is needed by package php-cli-5.2.9-2.el5.centos.i386 (c5-testing) Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.9-2.el5.centos is needed by package php-5.2.9-2.el5.centos.i386 (c5-testing) Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.9-2.el5.centos is needed by package php-cli-5.2.9-2.el5.centos.i386 (c5-testing) and, when I list whats in c5-testing that matches php\*, I don't see that php-common at all. # yum list --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c5-testing php\* Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Installed Packages php.i386 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 installed php-cli.i386 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 installed php-common.i386 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 installed php-gd.i386 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 installed php-ldap.i386 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 installed php-mbstring.i386 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 installed php-mcrypt.i386 5.1.6-15.el5.centos.1 installed php-mysql.i386 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 installed php-pdo.i386 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 installed php-pear.noarch 1:1.4.9-4.el5.1 installed php-pear-Date.noarch 1.4.7-2.el5.centos installed php-pgsql.i386 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 installed php-xml.i386 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 installed phpmyadmin.noarch 2.11.9.5-1.el5.rf installed Available Packages php.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-bcmath.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-cli.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-common.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-dba.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-debuginfo.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-devel.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-gd.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-imap.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-ldap.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-mbstring.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-mysql.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-ncurses.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-odbc.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-pdo.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-pear.noarch 1:1.5.1-2.el5s2 c5-testing php-pgsql.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-snmp.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-soap.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-suhosin.i386 0.9.25-1.el5.centos c5-testing php-suhosin-debuginfo.i386 0.9.25-1.el5.centos c5-testing php-xml.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing php-xmlrpc.i386 5.2.9-2.el5.centos c5-testing

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A bit more on the Firefox 3.5.issue
by Ron Blizzard 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

I set up a CentOS desktop computer for my brother and his kids. When Firefox 3.5 came out he decided to download and install it like he would Windows (he doesn't yet understand the repository system). He's been telling me that it works fine, even though I was skeptical due to my experience with Firefox 3.5 on CentOS 5.3. Then today, he says, "Oh, by the way, the CentOS computer has been rebooting itself every now and then." What?! (This is where he is in Linux -- doesn't realize that it's not like Windows, that it's not supposed to reboot randomly.) "Does it do it when you're in Firefox?" "Yes." He's okay, though, just a matter of uninstalling his home root version of Firefox -- I've been updating his computer with yum, so he still has the newest *repository* release of Firefox also. At any rate, just to let everyone know, whatever the issue is with Firefox 3.5 and *some* CentOS 5.3 computers (an Xorg graphics card incompatibility issue?) -- it goes beyond the RPM package released by Michael Harris. As for myself, I'm just going to wait for the repository Firefox 3.5 upgrade. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3

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Million linux virtual machines
by Bob Hoffman 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

If someone posted already, forgive me I get the digest. http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/43480/108/ Scientists get a million Linux kernels to run at once Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, have run more than a million Linux kernels as virtual machines. (how long before shared hosts use this....lol) The technique will allow them to effectively observe behaviour found in malicious botnets, or networks of infected machines that can operate on the scale of a million nodes. One of the researchers Ron Minnich, said they are often difficult to analyze since they are geographically spread all over the world. However using virtual machine and a Thunderbird supercomputing cluster for the demonstration, the team was able to run VMS at a similar scale as a botnet. This allows cyber researchers to watch how botnets work and explore ways to stop them in their tracks said Minnich. The largest number of kernals that had been run at once was 20,000 kernels. However the more kernels that can be run at once the more effective cyber security professionals can be in combating the global botnet problem. The hope is one day to emulate the computer network of a small nation, or even one as large as the United States, in order to 'virtualise' and monitor a cyber attack." "The sheer size of the Internet makes it very difficult to understand in even a limited way," said Minnich. It has been estimated that the team will need to run 100 million CPUs by 2018 in order to build a computer that will run at the speeds they need.

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CentOS Project Infrastructure
by Marcus Moeller 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Dear Community, I recently started thinking about how to make a project like CentOS more transparent and open (especially for new contributors). The http://wiki.centos.org/Team page (which Dag created about a year ago) lists about 20 (more or less active) members, divided into core and community contributors. I personally do not like that kind of distinction. Of course there should be something like a 'board' and clear responsibilities (release management and such), but at least the board should be elected by all active members. As we are a community of ppl with high technical skills probably only persons with a valuable number of contributions and knowledge will be elected to the board. A board member could of course be responsible for core dev tasks, too. The board itself could consist of a mix of technical, marketing, or legal orientated ppl. To make this happen, the new maintainer process has to be clarified first. I am thinking about a (frequently maintained) list of open tasks e.g. maintained within trac, from which a new (and even existing) maintainer could choose one. Of course suggestions for task that are not listed there could be published on the ML. The 'Team' page should list major tasks one is working on or responsible for. If one needs help (e.g. I am in need of help for the website update), he/she could add a note to this task list (and maybe even announce on the ML) with contact details (wiki homepage). Other areas of taking part should and are already covered on: http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute But some aspects are still unclear: THE WIKI: For me a wiki is a collaboration platform which should be accessible to every contributor in the same manner (except the front and user pages). That means there should be a join process (where you have to agree to the cc license) which then leads to EditGroup membership. I do not see a good reason why new articles should first be published on the ML. A user should be able to add a new article and then announce it on the ML (if necessary). Same on the personal pages. Of course it makes sense that new users introduce theirself on the ML but they should already have access to their own personal page, before. A comment function could be a good feature but in a comparatively small community like ours, most of everything can be discussed via ML or could be handled through page changelog. I personally see no reason to honor authorship of created pages besides the wiki page history. THE BUGTRACKER: The CentOS bugtracker contains a lot of upstream bugs that cannot be fixed here. We have to make sure that these are tracked upstream and fixed there. THE CONTRIB REPO: This repository has been re-invited in CentOS 5.3 but it's still unclear what it's meant to be for. Could it contain non-free packages. Should'nt oss packages better be pushed to EPEL/RPMFusion or even RPMForge? Where should spec files go? Is there an SVN with write access and an automated build process, already? Barriers on this site should be lowered when it's clear what the repo is meant for. QA: Some of you might know that CentOS has got an QA process before releases. This is an closed process and invite only. There where some reasons for it (e.g. some ppl only took part in the beta program to get early access to upcoming releases) but an invite only QA could not be the solution. This process should be open to all members. BARRIERS: Overall, the barriers for new contributors are much too high. This can also be fixed with something like a mentorship program where longtime developers take care about new maintainers. Best Regards Marcus Moeller

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disable virtual terminals during kickstart installation
by James A. Peltier 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Hi All, I'm trying to figure out where the inittab is for a pxeboot/kickstart installation so that I can disable virtual terminals that allow for interactive input such as CTRL+ALT+F2. I've looked in the /etc directories for the pxeboot initrd as well as the stage2 and minstg2 files. Am I missing something grossly obvious here? -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director HPC Coordinator Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier(a)sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier MSN : subatomic_spam(a)hotmail.com The point of the HPC scheduler is to keep everyone equally unhappy.

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vtund segfault
by Daniel Bruno 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

I configured a tunnel where the server is a CentOS 5 x86_64 with compress. In the client don't have problem but in the message log of the server show this erro: vtund[15145]: segfault at 0000000000000040 rip 0000000000409774 rsp 00007fff88d548d0 error 4 I did the same configuration on another server, but i686 and had no problems. Packs: vtun-3.0.2-1.el5.rf x86_64 lzo2-2.02-3.el5.rf x86_64 Any idea? Thanks, -- Daniel Bruno http://danielbruno.eti.br danielbruno(a)projetofedora.org

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vnc - single application or a "remote localhost" on Firefox
by Frank Cox 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Normally I use VNC-over-SSH to provide a complete desktop to a remote user. Is there a way to provide a single application to a user instead of a complete desktop? In this case I am looking for a method to provide remote report-viewing access to LedgerSMB for a company's outside accountant. LedgerSMB runs through a web browser (i.e. http://localhost/ledgersmb) so he doesn't need or want remote access to anything other than one instance of Firefox. In other words, normally the remote users crank up a VNC session and see their full desktop. For this instance I would like to have him see only a Firefox session. A ssh session like "ssh -X user@remotehost firefox" works. But it's painfully slow. On the other hand, VNC has a reasonable amount of snap. The other approach would be to somehow do use some kind of ssh port-forwarding under Firefox so he could run Firefox locally on his own computer, and somehow access http://localhost/ledgersmb on the remote machine. Is there such a thing as a "remote localhost" that would work like that? I don't want to open anything other than ssh on the application server to the big scary world. To complicate things a bit more, the accountant runs Windows on his computer. Maybe there is a simple way to accomplish this feat and I'm just not seeing it? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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Re: [CentOS] Laptop hd incorrect
by chandlercody＠gmail.com 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Thank you for the help and info! ------Original Message------ From: Lanny Marcus Sender: centos-bounces(a)centos.org To: CentOS mailing list ReplyTo: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Laptop hd incorrect Sent: Aug 12, 2009 2:45 PM On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:07 PM, <chandlercody(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reply! Looking at the specs the hd is sata. Also the documents for rhel are they the same for centos? I'm looking for items to help me learn/gain knowledge. Should be binary equivalent with RHEL, so the upstream documentation for RHEL should be fine. There may be some differences in the updating procedures, but other than that, I think it should be the same. If I'm wrong, someone more knowledgeable, hopefully will jump in and correct me. Suggest you download the Live CD and burn that and test it on your laptop to see if it is going to work OK on your HW. It can be problematic on a laptop, especially if it is very new. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Sent on the Now Network� from my Sprint® BlackBerry

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Re: [CentOS] Laptop hd incorrect
by chandlercody＠gmail.com 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Thanks for the reply! Looking at the specs the hd is sata. Also the documents for rhel are they the same for centos? I'm looking for items to help me learn/gain knowledge. Thank You Cody ------Original Message------ From: Robert Heller Sender: centos-bounces(a)centos.org To: CentOS mailing list Cc: CentOS(a)centos.org ReplyTo: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Laptop hd incorrect Sent: Aug 12, 2009 1:19 PM At Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:40:11 +0000 CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> wrote: > > > Hello > > I'm new to linux and am trying to install centos 5.3 on my laptop > and it has an ata drive but centos does not see the had or cdrom. > Googleing does not give me much to check. The laptop is a hp-g60 249wm, > latest bios update. The bios does not have any ability to change drive > information. The bios basically allows me to only set time, date and > boot item. Any advice or direction is appreciated! Is the drive IDE (PATA) or SATA? If SATA, you will need a proper SATA driver. As a *guess* (which worked for the SATA controller on my desktop motherboard), try adding the 'irqpoll' kernel parameter: Boot: linux irqpoll > > Thank you > Cody > Sent on the Now NetworkÂ™ from my SprintÂ® BlackBerryMIME-Version: 1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller(a)deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ Sent on the Now Network� from my Sprint® BlackBerry

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vpn
by chloe K 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Hi Where remote and local address and subnet I can put for vpn configuration in linux box? Thank you __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo..com.

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