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Centos convert to rhel?
by Bob Hoffman 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Hate to ask, but after reading the last few months of centos history online I am worried. And to learn the lead guy seems to have absconded with the cash and left all the hard working devs high and dry..well that is scary. They all worked so hard and who knows what will happen now. If centos falls I have no choice but to go to redhat. I am wondering if the conversion will be easy or a complete reinstall. I ponder the worries I think we are all faced with here. I think all of us would follow a fork... Whatever they end up calling it. But I am worried about the immediate future for the project. None of those guys deserve what is happening to them and all of us are affected. If anyone lives near Lance, perhaps a good call to the local news station and some you tube stuff may get him to release the project to the team who wants to continue. But an option to go full redhat is one I am now considering.. Discuss?

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Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis
by James B. Byrne 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Since 2004 or so, I have donated each year to the CentOS project, at the requested rate, for each of our servers. While I never really gave the matter any thought (fool that I am) I presumed that any organisation that solicited funds would, at a minimum, be incorporated, have a board of directors, duly appointed officers and hold all corporate identity elements such as internet domain names, brand trademarks and such as corporate property. Evidently, my beliefs in this matter were sadly unfounded. Now, I appreciate that whilst somewhat embarrassing, the immediate matter is easily resolved, turning as it does on retention or depreciation of the centos.org domain. Presumably those who donated bandwidth and servers to the CentOS.old project will in the main continue to support the CentOS.new project. Equally, unless some injury that has not yet come to light has been done to them, it seems likely that most of the current maintainers will move their loyalties and future technical contributions to CentOS.new. However, having been bitten once, I feel that I must ask this more formal question. What steps, if any, have been taken to establish the CentOS project as a separate legal entity distinct from any individual contributor? What protections are being put in place to prevent future misappropriations of donations and advertising revenue, even if it turns out that no such thing has as yet happened? Sincerely,

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how to disable scim
by Charles E Campbell Jr 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hello: I keep getting these An IOException occurred at scim_bridge_client_imcontext_set_cursor_location () messages -- and I'd like to turn them off. I won't mind having scim just plain turned off. However, in using Google, I find a hint such as "right click on the tray, ..." -- so where's the tray? A second part of that hint suggested using System:Administration:Language Support -- there's a "Language" (which allows me to select my default language) but nothing about scim. So, any hints about how to nuke scim? Regards, Chip Campbell -- someday I'll have a good signature, I'm sure of it...

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Upgrade fm 4.7 to 5.3: mptscsi module?
by Curt Mills 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

First issue: I did an upgrade from 4.7 to 5.3 on an HP DL380G3 box. I got yum working again and upgraded 160+ packages. During that process I saw: ------------------------------------------- Installing : kernel-PAE [157/322] WARNING: No module mptscsi found for kernel 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5PAE, continuing anyway Installing : kernel [158/322] WARNING: No module mptscsi found for kernel 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5, continuing anyway ------------------------------------------- Since I'm running with SCSI drives on that box and lsmod shows me this: ------------------------------------------- # ./lsmod | grep mpt mptctl 31301 1 mptsas 37193 0 scsi_transport_sas 30529 1 mptsas mptspi 23625 0 scsi_transport_spi 26305 1 mptspi mptfc 21829 0 mptscsih 36929 3 mptsas,mptspi,mptfc scsi_transport_fc 37449 1 mptfc mptbase 76901 5 mptctl,mptsas,mptspi,mptfc,mptscsih scsi_mod 141589 17 mptctl,ib_iser,iscsi_tcp,libiscsi,scsi_transport_iscsi,scsi_dh,st,sg,mptsas,scsi_transport_sas,mptspi,scsi_transport_spi,mptfc,mptscsih,scsi_transport_fc,cciss,sd_mod ------------------------------------------- I'm a bit worried about rebooting the system. Should I be? Did some other driver take over the responsibilities of the mptscsi driver? Second issue: I also had to remove some repositories from yum, do a "yum clean all", and still manually remove a few more packages before yup update would work. There are still quite a few "el4" packages left on the system even now. History: # history 1006 yum update;date 1007 yum clean all 1008 yum update;date 1009 yum remove freetype-utils cyrus-imapd-murder cyrus-imapd-nntp 1010 yum update;date 1011 yum remove seamonkey 1012 yum update;date 1013 rpm -qa | grep -i el4 Some of the el4 packages that are left are probably one's that I installed by hand outside the yum repository scheme, but certainly not all of them are. I expected the upgrade off DVD and then the "yum update" to take care of most of those. -- Curt Mills, WE7U hacker at fluke dot com Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math!" "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates!" -- WE7U "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" Please be advised that this email may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy or re-transmit this email. If you have received this email in error, please notify us by email by replying to the sender and by telephone (call us collect at +1 202-828-0850) and delete this message and any attachments. Thank you in advance for your cooperation and assistance. In addition, Danaher and its subsidiaries disclaim that the content of this email constitutes an offer to enter into, or the acceptance of, any contract or agreement or any amendment thereto; provided that the foregoing disclaimer does not invalidate the binding effect of any digital or other electronic reproduction of a manual signature that is included in any attachment to this email.

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LDAP howto using ds-base and ds-admin and related consoles
by Rob Kampen 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hi, I have previously used openLDAP and read many of their howto documents for establishing an LDAP server. RH and CentOS provide <brand>-ds-base and related rpms and I like what I see and read about the product. I found the wiki article on installing the rpms and getting it running on a server - so far so good. Then I fall into a big hole. What are the key items that need to be put in place to actually make it useful for my domain? Is there a document somewhere for those of us that want to bridge from openLDAP to the RH based product? I have read many hundreds of pages, have purchased O'reilly's LDAP System Administration but cannot seem to get my dirsrv based LDAP to function. I do understand that ds uses LDIF files to store and set things up, but seem unable to grasp the arcane entries that need to exist so I can access it with a basic LDAP client to load my users etc. Also I guess there are certain schemas that need to be used to allow basic functions to work. My wish list: linux user authentication and authorization windows user authentication and authorization (via samba?) customer contact list (name, address, company, phone numbers, email addresses) - this last one to be used by Thunderbird and my SIP phone system - both of which profess to speak LDAP I'm sure there are many small business folk that would like something like this, however I cannot find a template with all my searches, so for those of you with better LDAP and or google skills - please point me in the right direction. Thanks Rob

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(no subject)
by rray_1＠comcast.net 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

I have 2 video devices LML33 and PV155 $ lspci 06:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Zoran Corporation ZR36057PQC Video cutting chipset (rev 02) 07:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 07:08.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) 07:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 07:09.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) 07:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 07:0a.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) 07:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 07:0b.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) $ udevinfo -q path -n /dev/video0 /class/video4linux/video0 $ udevinfo -a -p /class/video4linux/video0 Udevinfo starts with the device specified by the devpath and then walks up the chain of parent devices. It prints for every device found, all possible attributes in the udev rules key format. A rule to match, can be composed by the attributes of the device and the attributes from one single parent device. looking at device '/class/video4linux/video0': KERNEL=="video0" SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux" SYSFS{name}=="LML33_0_" SYSFS{dev}=="81:0" $ udevinfo -q path -n /dev/video1 no record for 'video1' in database $ udevinfo -q path -n /dev/video2 no record for 'video2' in database $ udevinfo -q path -n /dev/video3 no record for 'video3' in database $ udevinfo -q path -n /dev/video4 no record for 'video4' in database The problem is sometimes when I boot the LML33 is /dev/video0 and sometimes /dev/video4 I tried a udev rule SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux", SYSFS{name}=="LML33_0_",SYMLINK="lml33" but it doesn't work What do I need to do to get consistant device naming? I am using CentOS 5.3, kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.centos.plus, and udev-095-14.20.el5_3 package Thanks Richard Ray

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 53, Issue 10
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CESA-2009:1180 Important CentOS 4 i386 bind - security and bug fix update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2009:1180 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 bind - security and bug fix update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2009:1185 Critical CentOS 3 i386 seamonkey - security update (Tru Huynh) 4. CESA-2009:1185 Critical CentOS 3 x86_64 seamonkey - security update (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:55:19 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1180 Important CentOS 4 i386 bind - security and bug fix update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090730195519.GC27006(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1180 bind security update for CentOS 4 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1180.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/bind-9.2.4-30.el4_8.4.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/bind-chroot-9.2.4-30.el4_8.4.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/bind-devel-9.2.4-30.el4_8.4.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/bind-libs-9.2.4-30.el4_8.4.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/bind-utils-9.2.4-30.el4_8.4.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/bind-9.2.4-30.el4_8.4.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-4 i386 installations by running the command: yum update bind Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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files not showing up in an nfs mounted filesysetm in timely manner
by Blackburn, Marvin 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

We have and nfs mount from a windows pc nfs server. A file is created on the server, but can take as long as 50 seconds to become available on the client. We are running Centos 5.2 (final), using NFS version 3. Is there anything we can do from the client side to see the file more quickly. The files are very small, usually about 1k _____________________________________ "He's no failure. He's not dead yet." William Lloyd George

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DNS zone delegation
by Gopinath Achari 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hi, i have configured a Master DNS server, i have also created records to delegate a zone to child dns server But when named service is started it says Jul 31 14:33:30 localhost named[21581]: dns.zone:9: ignoring out-of-zone data (child.dns.com) I am using bind-9.3.4-10.P1.el5_3.3. on CEntos 5.2 Please help. Thanks in advance. how to delegate the zone, is there any other configuration needed my zone file ... $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA dns.com. root.dns.com. ( 1997022700 ; Serial 28800 ; Refresh 14400 ; Retry 3600000 ; Expire 86400 ) ; Minimum IN NS dns.com. child.dns.com. IN NS ns.child.dns.com. 101 IN PTR dns.com. @ IN A 192.168.1.101 ns.child IN A 192.168.1.107 www 0 IN A 192.168.1.101 www 0 IN A 192.168.1.102

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Somewhat OT: OpenOffice.org Headless issues as non-root user
by Sergio Belkin 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hi, I've installed recently OpenOffice.org 3.1 on Centos 5.3. I use OOo in headless mode. I have no problem when running as root, but I'd prefer run it as non-root user (oooserver user). When I run the script in debug mode this is the output: sh -x /tmp/ooo-headless-nonroot start + . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions ++ TEXTDOMAIN=initscripts ++ umask 022 ++ PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin ++ export PATH ++ '[' -z '' ']' ++ COLUMNS=80 ++ '[' -z '' ']' +++ /sbin/consoletype ++ CONSOLETYPE=pty ++ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/i18n -a -z '' ']' ++ . /etc/profile.d/lang.sh +++ sourced=0 +++ for langfile in /etc/sysconfig/i18n '$HOME/.i18n' +++ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/i18n ']' +++ . /etc/sysconfig/i18n ++++ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ++++ SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 +++ sourced=1 +++ for langfile in /etc/sysconfig/i18n '$HOME/.i18n' +++ '[' -f /root/.i18n ']' +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ '[' 1 = 1 ']' +++ '[' -n en_US.UTF-8 ']' +++ export LANG +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_ADDRESS +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_CTYPE +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_COLLATE +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_IDENTIFICATION +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_MEASUREMENT +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_MESSAGES +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_MONETARY +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_NAME +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_NUMERIC +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_PAPER +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_TELEPHONE +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_TIME +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_ALL +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LANGUAGE +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LINGUAS +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset _XKB_CHARSET ++++ /sbin/consoletype +++ consoletype=pty +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ '[' -n en_US.UTF-8 ']' +++ case $LANG in +++ '[' xterm = linux ']' +++ unset SYSFONTACM SYSFONT +++ unset sourced +++ unset langfile ++ '[' -z '' ']' ++ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/init ']' ++ . /etc/sysconfig/init +++ BOOTUP=color +++ GRAPHICAL=yes +++ RES_COL=60 +++ MOVE_TO_COL='echo -en \033[60G' +++ SETCOLOR_SUCCESS='echo -en \033[0;32m' +++ SETCOLOR_FAILURE='echo -en \033[0;31m' +++ SETCOLOR_WARNING='echo -en \033[0;33m' +++ SETCOLOR_NORMAL='echo -en \033[0;39m' +++ LOGLEVEL=3 +++ PROMPT=yes +++ AUTOSWAP=no ++ '[' pty = serial ']' ++ '[' color '!=' verbose ']' ++ INITLOG_ARGS=-q ++ __sed_discard_ignored_files='/$~\|\.bak\|\.orig\|\.rpmnew\|\.rpmorig\|\.rpmsave$$/d' + ooffice=/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin + prog='OpenOffice.org Headless' + pidfile=/var/run/ooo-headless/ooo-headless.pid + lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/ooo-headless + OPTIONS='-headless -nofirststartwizard -nologo -norestore -invisible -accept=socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.Service' + RETVAL=0 + case "$1" in + start + echo -n 'Starting OpenOffice.org Headless: ' Starting OpenOffice.org Headless: + su oooserver '-c /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin -headless -nofirststartwizard -nologo -norestore -invisible -accept=socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.Service >/dev/null 2>&1 &' End oif Output You can see the ps output too: root 19432 0.0 0.2 4908 1228 pts/0 S+ 10:46 0:00 | \_ su oooserver -c /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin -headless -nofirststartwizard -nologo -norestore -invisible -accept=socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.Service >/dev/null 2>&1 & 500 19433 0.0 0.2 4484 1040 ? Ss 10:46 0:00 | \_ bash -c /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin -headless -nofirststartwizard -nologo -norestore -invisible -accept=socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.Service >/dev/null 2>&1 & 500 19434 6.4 5.0 100492 22520 ? Sl 10:46 0:00 | \_ /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin -headless -nofirststartwizard -nologo -norestore -invisible -accept=socket,host=localhost,port=2002 Problem is that it fails at listening on port 2002 and it never creates pid file: ls -ld /var/run/ooo-headless/ drwxr-xr-x 2 oooserver oooserver 4096 Jul 30 15:07 /var/run/ooo-headless/ Please could you help me to root as non-root user? Thanks in advance! -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -

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