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Sun depricates JRE 1.4.2, what impact on Centos?
by Robert Moskowitz 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

From a different list: "JRE from SUN is getting depracated: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html" Centos comes with the 1.4.2-gcj-compat rpm. What impact does this all have? I do have JRE 1.6.0_05 installed on most of my systems (I see that update 10 is the now current version).

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Trouble Donating on centos.org
by Kurt Hansen 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hello, I tried making a donation via the centos.org website but was blocked by PayPal. I tried today and a few weeks ago. The error I got in both instances was: "The card you entered cannot be used for this payment. Please enter a different credit or debit card number." This strikes me as a strange response. It didn't say the card was declined; it said it "cannot be used." Also, the response was awfully quick so it didn't seem to be from the credit card processor, but from PayPal. I setup e-commerce sites so am very familiar with on-line credit card processing. Also, I just used this card online a couple of days ago successfully, and I know I have plenty of available credit. Has anybody else gotten an error like this? I suspect PayPal is blocking this, not my credit card company. I suspect, too, PayPal is doing this to reduce their own costs rather than protect centos.org or me from a fraudulent transaction. I have a PayPal account that was set up a few years back as a test based on a PayPal offer to me, have never used beyond setting up, but which PayPal has suspended. I'm not interested in using this account nor jumping through the hoops they require. I may have entered this credit card in that account. I suspect PayPal is blocking this credit card number to push me to re-open my PayPal account. Am I just being paranoid? Take care, Kurt Hansen

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Getting a disk driver from 3ware installed.
by Steve Campbell 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

We are having a little problem with a raid array, and it appears that the disk driver may be at fault. A disk driver for the kernel we are running, 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5.i386, has been downloaded from 3ware's site. The only documentation included says to run "linux dd". I'm assuming this is at the boot prompt upon startup, and not installation (I hope). I have found some old threads about this for Centos 4, but it kinda drifted away and never really gave much info on what to do with the files that were downloaded. Can anyone tell me what I'm supposed to do with this downloaded zipped file to get it to use the driver, please? Thanks Steve Campbell

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adduser vs. useradd
by Niki Kovacs 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hi, To add a user to the system on the commandline, I usually use the adduser command. # adduser newuser And that's it. I've been using that command probably out of an old habit, since I've been a long-time Slackware user before. But now I wanted to dig a bit deeper, and some details puzzle me. Whereas on Slackware, 'adduser' is an interactive shell script to create a user so that basically you don't have to memorize all the 'useradd' switches, CentOS' 'adduser' is a mere symbolic link to 'useradd'. But when I add a new user (# adduser newuser), I don't use any switches, say to specify the shell, the home directory, the password expiration delay, etcetera. I understand that it is Red Hat (CentOS) tradition to create a separate group for each user. For example, user kikinovak also belongs to a group kikinovak. And when I create a new user 'newuser', the 'newuser' group also got somehow created. Plus, the new user also seems to have his own user profile, with a default .bashrc and so on. My only explanation for that is that CentOS' 'useradd' command doesn't work like the traditional UNIX useradd command and uses a few switches by default. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Any light on this? Niki

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clamav-update and missing dependencies
by Timothy Kesten 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hi Folks, again: try to update clam* and get error-message Missing Dependency: libclamav.so.4(CLAMAV_PUBLIC) is needed by package perl-Mail-ClamAV Missing Dependency: libclamav.so.4 is needed by package perl-Mail-ClamAV libclamav.so.4 is on my system [admin@server ~]$ locate libclamav /usr/lib/libclamav.so /usr/lib/libclamav.so.4 /usr/lib/libclamav.so.4.0.4 /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libclamav.pc [admin@server ~]$ What goes woring? CentOS 5 update clam* to 14:06:39 : Packages to update 14:06:39 : ---> clamav - 0.94.1-1.el5.rf.i386 14:06:39 : ---> clamav-db - 0.94.1-1.el5.rf.i386 14:06:39 : ---> clamav-devel - 0.94.1-1.el5.rf.i386 14:06:39 : ---> clamd - 0.94.1-1.el5.rf.i386 Thx Timothy

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Dell PE2970 with ATI RN50
by James Bensley 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hey Guys, I'm having a few troubles trying to get Cent OS 5.2 displaying correctly on my Dell PowerEdge 2970 (I also have two PowerVault NF500 III's but they are just getting a little screen lag at the minute, the 2970 is getting white artifacts when I drag a window!). Can anyone help me locate and correctly install some drivers. The 2970 has an onbaord ATI RN50 as its an AMD board/CPU combo thus its RN50 chipset. I have look at the Dell website for Red Hat 5 drivers but there aren't any for video? Would the Red Hat 4 drivers be OK? Also, I rang ATI and they said try going back to the Dell and installing the general Chip set drivers as that would probably include the onbaord graphics? I could do with some help on this one as I have never had to install drivers for a Linux OS before as I normalaly work with Linux on workstations which is always straight forward. Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated. regards, James. -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT/MU/U dpu s: a--> C++>$ U+> L++> B-> P+> E?> W+++>$ N K W++ O M++>$ V- PS+++ PE++ Y+ PGP t 5 X+ R- tv+ b+> DI D+++ G+ e(+++++) h--(++) r++ z++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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bioinformatics repository?
by Davide Cittaro 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hi all, I'm new to Centos, just moved here from Gentoo Linux. I have to install a server for bioinformatics purposes and I see that default yum repositories do not include any bioinformatics software (i.e. ncbi-toolkit, blat, and others). I'm googling a bit but I can't find a valuable solution: which is (or which are) the best repository I should add to have a satisfying list of bioinfo rpm? Thanks d /* Davide Cittaro Cogentech - Consortium for Genomic Technologies via adamello, 16 20139 Milano Italy tel.: +39(02)574303007 e-mail: davide.cittaro(a)ifom-ieo-campus.it */

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Centos 4 Yumdownloader vs yum-downloadonly on Centos 5
by Vandaman 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Peter Kjellstrom <cap(a)nsc.liu.se> wrote: > For completeness, yumdownloader is a command/program that > comes with the > yum-utils package on centos 4 and 5. > Yumdownloader on centos 4 does not add the functionality of the yum --downloadonly feature in Centos 5 from the yum-downloadonly-1.1.10-9.el5 I was replying to Peter Kjellstrom http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-November/068300.html as the original thread was about yum --downloadonly not present in centos 4. Regards, Vandaman.

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ntop from rpmforge
by John R Pierce 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

I installed ntop on a centos5.2 system (which got all yum updates a few days ago)... # rpm -q ntop rrdtool ntop-3.3.8-1.el5.rf rrdtool-1.2.28-1.el5.rf went through the password configuration when I start it, its erroring. # service ntop start Starting ntop: Processing file /etc/ntop.conf for parameters... Mon Nov 24 23:56:36 2008 NOTE: Interface merge enabled by default Mon Nov 24 23:56:36 2008 Initializing gdbm databases FATAL ERROR: Unrecognized/unprocessed ntop options... --user ntop, --db-file-path /var/ntop, run ntop --help for usage information Common problems: -B "filter expressions" (quotes are required) --use-syslog=facilty (the = is required) [FAILED] ooops! near as I can tell, tis getting those options from /etc/ntop.conf and I've done a bit of futzzing in there to try and sort it out but to no avail. before I go and break things totally, what did I do wrong?? if I run ntop --daemon from the command prompt, it seems to work fine. # ntop @/etc/ntop.conf --daemon Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 NOTE: Interface merge enabled by default Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Initializing gdbm databases Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 ntop v.3.3.8 (Dag Apt RPM Repository) Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Configured on Oct 6 2008 1:40:18, built on Oct 6 2008 01:41:15. Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Copyright 1998-2007 by Luca Deri <deri(a)ntop.org> Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Get the freshest ntop from http://www.ntop.org/ Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 NOTE: ntop is running from 'ntop' Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 NOTE: (but see warning on man page for the --instance parameter) Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 NOTE: ntop libraries are in '/usr/lib' Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Initializing ntop Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 No patterns to load: protocol guessing disabled. Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Checking eth0 for additional devices Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Resetting traffic statistics for device eth0 Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Initializing device eth0 (0) Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 DLT: Device 0 [eth0] is 1, mtu 1514, header 14 Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Initializing gdbm databases Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: Loading MAC address table. Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: Checking for MAC address table file Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: File '/etc/ntop/specialMAC.txt.gz' does not need to be reloaded Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: ntop continues ok Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: Checking for MAC address table file Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: File '/etc/ntop/oui.txt.gz' does not need to be reloaded Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: ntop continues ok Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Fingerprint: Loading signature file Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Fingerprint: Checking for Fingerprint file... file Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Fingerprint: Loading file '/etc/ntop/etter.finger.os.gz' Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Fingerprint: ...loaded 0 records Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 INIT: Parent process is exiting (this is normal) Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 INIT: Bye bye: I'm becoming a daemon...

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XFS or JFS on CentOS 5?
by Ray Van Dolson 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hi folks... trying to pick between jfs and xfs for a filesystem. In the past we've used jfs with CentOS + centosplus, however, an older post indicated that this may not be the best choice as the version of jfs included with the centosplus kernel would only be as new as the version that was included in the 2.6.18 kernel as RH doesn't backport fixes... It looks like xfs isn't part of the centosplus kernel, but instead is provided as a kmod -- so I'm thinking it might be the better choice based purely on the fact that it's likely to be current. Is my understanding correct there? What would stop us from building a kmod-jfs against the latest jfs from the up-upstream kernel and not building jfs.ko in the centosplus kernel at all? It looks like jfsutils is a fairly recent version... Thanks, Ray

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