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Centos 5.2 install problem
by Michael Kress 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi, I'm trying a fresh install on a x86_64 (Supermicro X7dbe, 2xIntel Xeon X5450, 8 GB, 3WARE 9650SE-8LPML, 3 disks in RAID 5). The format takes quite long (2,7 TB), that seems to be normal, but then the first boot will not take place, instead the system loops. Any hints? The message follows: Regards Michael Mounting root filesystem. mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' Setting up other filesystems. Setting up new root fs setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory Switching to new root and running init. unmounting old /dev unmounting old /proc unmounting old /sys switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! -- Michael Kress, kress(a)hal.saar.de http://www.michael-kress.de / http://kress.net P E N G U I N S A R E C O O L

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OT: bash script for passwd and shadow manipulation
by Erick Perez 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Hi, i need to extract some information from the /etc/passwd file to be used as a command input in a mail software. My /etc/passwd looks like: k.thomas:x:1918:100:Kimaura Thomas:/home/users/k.thomas:/bin/usersh My main issue here is that the fifth field contains spaces and spanish chars with accent. I currently do not posess the skill to understand how to use cut to extract all the field. So far, cut returns the name up to the space, so in this case it will return Kimaura and not Kimaura Thomas. Can you please point me to internet examples of tools (sed, awk, grep or cut) that will help me accomplish this, or maybe provide the code? And here is the code (not the best...im still learninng..) #!/bin/bash # Passwd to Zimbra import # This script modifies the displayName field in the Zimbra mailserver # This script will parse /etc/passwd and extracts field 1 and field 5 # field 1 is the username. # field 5 is the name in long format of the username # # domain="oj.gob.pa" # file="zimbranames.file" # x=0 # echo ''>$file # # for linia in `cat /etc/passwd` # do # user=`echo $linia|cut -f1 -d":"` # nombre=`echo $linia|cut -f5 -d":"` # echo "zmprov ma $user@$domain displayName $nombre">>$file # x=$[x+1] # done # echo "$x accounts exported to \"$PWD/$file\"" # sleep 5 Thanks in advance. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez ------------------------------------------------------------

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rsync to mirrors failing
by Robert Moskowitz 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

I try: rsync -auv rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.2/updates/i386/ ..... And get rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (104) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(614) [receiver=2.6.8] And then, if I keep trying, eventually rsync 'works' and I get my updates. What is causing this?

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OT: Testing copytruncate
by Gerhardus.Geldenhuis＠gta-travel.com 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Hi I am trying to simulate the behaviour when a file gets copy-truncated or any other option selected in logrotate. As a start, I have written a quick script to create values in a file at high rate. #!/usr/bin/perl open FILE, ">testdata" or die $!; for (my $i = 1; $i <= 10000000; $i++){ print FILE "$i\n"; # sleep 1; } close FILE and a logrotate.conf file that rotates the file /home/blah/testfileopen/testdata { copytruncate daily rotate 2 size=10M } It works but the copy truncate messes up the file the application is writing to... or it might be my simplistic perl script. I can't to a head on the testdata file. A hexdump reveals some strange errors which I believe is the cause of the problems, why I dont know. 0000000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 * 1028000 3232 3635 3235 0a31 3232 3635 3235 0a32 1028010 3232 3635 3235 0a33 3232 3635 3235 0a34 The truncated file is fine and is perfectly readable. So I have two questions really: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Given a well written program what is the potential data loss if any when doing a copy truncate logrotate. and * why does the file get such strange entries when truncated and is there an easy fix for it? Regards ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

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Yum weirdness
by Sorin Srbu 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Hi all, Running CentOS 5.2 x86. Tried to do a yum update on the command line a while ago and an error stating "No module named yum" popped up. I then tried importing the yum module by first entering "python" in a terminal window and then "import yum", for which I was rewarded with a "ImportError: No module named yum". Then I downloaded a yum rpm-package via pbone.net. I got this one http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/8092652/com/yum-3.2.8-9.el5.cen… and then did an rpm -Uvh on the rpm-file, then tried running yum again with no success. I still got the no module named yum-message. I further did a rpm -q yum* and was told that the above rpm wasn't installed, so I redid the install but added --force, but yum still gives the error message. Running rpm -V yum* rpm* python* gives package yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1.noarch.rpm is not installed package rpm* is not installed package python* is not installed Which is kinda weird, unless I'm missing something really obvious... On a hunch I ran yum extender from the startmenu, or whatever it's called in CentOS, and this works. It says yum v3.2.8 IIRC is invoked. I got a list of updated packages, the ones Karanbir announced recently and they installed fine w/o any problem. Yum has run fine when I used it about three-four weeks ago. Same problem is seen on three of my workstations. The fourth, a server running the latest x86-PAE kernel runs yum just fine on the command line. The answers I find searching the web more or less replicates the above steps I've already done, so I'm kind off at a loss here on what to do next to have yum on the command-line working. Can you guys help? Thanks. -- BW, Sorin ----------------------------------------------------------- # Sorin Srbu [Sysadmin] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem, Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se ----------------------------------------------------------- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 45, Issue 16
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

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-2008:0977 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2008:0976 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 thunderbird - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2008:0617 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) vim - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2008:0978 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CEBA-2008:0992 CentOS 5 x86_64 dmraid Update (Karanbir Singh) 6. CEBA-2008:0992 CentOS 5 i386 dmraid Update (Karanbir Singh) 7. CESA-2008:0580 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 vim Update (Karanbir Singh) 8. CESA-2008:0580 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 vim Update (Karanbir Singh) 9. CESA-2008:1001 Important CentOS 5 i386 tog-pegasus Update (Karanbir Singh) 10. CESA-2008:1001 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 tog-pegasus Update (Karanbir Singh) 11. CESA-2008:0617 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 vim security update (Karanbir Singh) 12. CESA-2008:0617 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 vim security update (Karanbir Singh) 13. CEBA-2008:1009 CentOS 5 i386 cman Update (Karanbir Singh) 14. CEBA-2008:1009 CentOS 5 x86_64 cman Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:25:23 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0977 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 seamonkey - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081126162523.GV11171(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0977 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0977.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64; updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-28.el4.centos.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated
by Ray Leventhal 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Hi all, Please pardon my newbie-ness on this issue....I've a / partition which is full (quite suddenly, actually) and I'm not sure how to fix this. I've searched for uneeded logs, etc in /var/log and /tmp to no avail. The system is CentOS 5.2 and is not connected to the internet, serves as a local LAN server running stock stuff...sendmail, dovecot, apache..nothing strange or special going on. I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order (would appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really stumped as to where the space is being eaten up. Thanks in advance, -Ray My layout is: #df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 131G 130G 0 100% / /dev/sdc1 271G 156G 102G 61% /home /dev/sdd1 271G 4.5G 253G 2% /home/905 /dev/sda1 99M 29M 66M 31% /boot tmpfs 442M 0 442M 0% /dev/shm # cat /etc/fstab /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/home/905 /home/905 ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 # cat /etc/mtab /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 / ext3 rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /home ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/sdd1 /home/905 ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0 sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0

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enable repo download and save but no install
by Jerry Geis 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Is there a way to enable a repo, and ask it to download a package and all dependencies and save these files to a given directory then some time later execute a command to install those files that were saved. Is that possible? I would like to take a snapshot of something like VLC on dag and always install those same vlc packages and dependencies that were saved locally. Not go out over the net and install them the next time. I'm not concerned about updates to this package. Jerry

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Looking for an application to work with Centos
by John Plemons 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

I'm looking for a application, and or ideas on how to .... Set up a web page that can be cataloged by search engines capturing all of the part numbers in a db. This page would be tied to a MySql or other Linux DB so that people can also do a basic on site part number search.. We have 150,000 different part numbers, we would like all 150,000 picked up by the different search engines. Can anyone come up with any ideas?? The platform is a basic P4 running Centos 5, disk space isn't much of an issue, I have 100 gig available for the application. The only other application on the machine is a picture server for off site auctions, so CPU load isn't major factor. Thanks, john

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[Q] what is difference between CENTOS and ORACLE unbreak Linux
by mcclnx mcc 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

ORACLE unbreak Linux and CENTOS both source code come from Redhat LINUX. Does there have other difference between CENTOS and ORACLE Linux? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 付費才容量無上限？Yahoo!奇摩電子信箱2.0免費給你，信件永遠不必刪！ http://tw.mg0.mail.yahoo.com/dc/landing

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