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scp partition "not a regular file"
by henry ritzlmayr 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi list, should it be possible to scp a partition with this command: scp /dev/sda7 backupserver:/backup/sda7.img I always get "not a regular file" - which is a clear and understandable error, but my googling tells me that some people are doing this - and it seems to work - at least at their systems. I know that I can avoid this by simply doing dd if=/dev/sda7 | ssh backupserver dd of=/backup/sda7.img So its not a big deal - just curious. System here is a fully updated CentOS 5.2 x86_64 if that matters any thoughts? Henry

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Graphical net install
by Test 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Is it at all possible to do a graphical netinstall ? I am using centos 5.2, and i have been doing net installs (pxe) for a while in console mode... -- Test <test(a)remedial-teacher.nl>

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GUI FTP
by Gopinath Achari 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

hi, how to upload and download file from a ftp server using GUI. ftp client. upload and download to and from ftp server works fine when done done from command prompt but not working from GUI ftp client Ex. Gftp. is there any modifications to be done on the server, regards gopinath

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Problem in Wireless Card Setup in Dell Precision M90
by Ashish Vijaywargiya 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hello Friends, This is my first post on CentOS mailing list. I am using CentOS since last 3 years and using Linux since 2003. I am Java Based ERP(http://ofbiz.apache.org/) developer and I truly appreciate the stability of CentOS as the Desktop machine for the developers. In the early 2003 I was using CentOS 4 then I moved to CentOS 5 stable release then before 1.5 month I installed CentOS 5.2 (Took all the available updates for 5.2 version). I am using Dell Precision M90 Laptop. My Wireless card details is "Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG". On the CentOS 5.2 I am not able to configure the wireless card on CentOS 5.2 although my wireless card was working fine with CentOS 5.1. I have installed the package dkms-ipw3945.noarch and it has installed all the dependent package for wireless card to work properly. When I put command modprobe ipw3945 then it didn't give any error. My LED is glowing properly. >From the Network Manager I have added my Wireless card into the list of Network Devices and from there I activated my device. But when I try to Join the Wireless Network then it "Deactivate" the status of my wireless device. I have spent more then 10 hours on this and now I am looking to have some community help on my problem. Any help or pointer on this would be greatly appreciated . If anybodsy of you can share the step by step learning document on Wireless Setup on Red Hat Derivatives then please let me know. Thanks in advance for any help . -- Ashish Vijaywargiya Indore (M.P), India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indore

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Network installation from CD
by Dag Wieers 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hi, In a corporate environment we are not allowed to use DHCP/PXE for doing network installations. This means we have to look for other solutions. Our solution is to use an ISO image (mounted via a KVM solution) to kick off the network installation. A big problem currently is that the order of the network interfaces is arbitrary (depends on the order of the drivers loaded) and is not influence by the order of the PCI slots. So in our case we have a bunch of e1000, bnx2 and tg3 in systems we have to install. The first onboard interface (usually tg3 or bnx2) almost never is eth0, but instead can be eth2, eth3 or higher. (Depending on the number of "other" NICs) This is problematic because Anaconda never gives a very good analysis of why the download of the kickstart fails. Very unpleasant if you want system deployements done by Service Operations. So our solution was to provide ksdevice=MAC-ADDRESS , which works fine in the first phase for downloading the kickstart file, but then the kickstart file again has a network-directive with a --device= parameter to configure the network again in the second phase. Here is where the trouble starts. The --device= cannot handle MAC addresses, in other words if we ommit the --device= parameter we get a list of interfaces, which we do not want because the list does not indicate which one is the right interface. Using ksdevice=bootif and providing BOOTIF=MAC-ADDRESS on the commandline does not help either because the second phase always wants to reconfigure the network. In fact we don't want the second phase to reconfigure the network, we want it to keep the working network configuration from the first phase which worked fine for downloading the kickstart file. So here's my question: Is there a way to have the second phase network configuration NOT take place, or have it use the interface that was correctly downloading the kickstart file ? I could not find it anywhere and none of my tests seem to indicate that this is at all possible. This is on RHEL/CentOS 4.6. -- -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list

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USB to SATA / eSATA adapter compatibility
by Rudi Ahlers 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hi all, Does anyone know if this USB to SATA / e-SATA adapter will work on Linux? http://www.vantecusa.com/front/product/view_detail/266 Their website and knowledgebase doesn't say anything about it, so I'm checking the list to try my luck :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers

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Rpmbuild and how to disable automatic dependency list creation.
by Friedrich Clausen 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hello All, When I build RPM packages, rpmbuild always scans all the executables, shared libs, perl scripts, etc. to find out which external libraries the application depends on. This is normally a Good Thing but I am currently packaging an in-house, self contained application. I could almost use a tarball but an RPM provides better manageability and also allows post-installation tasks. All shared libraries are under a single prefix, which is not in the system-wide ld.so.conf - it is configured in the startup script of the application. However, rpmbuild finds all these dependencies and adds them to the list of "Requires", which is not desirable in this case. My question therefore is - how can I tell rpmbuild to stop automatically creating a dependency list? The best I can come up with at the moment is to add the following to my ~/.rpmmacros (line numbers added by me): [1] %__os_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note [2] %__find_requires /bin/true [3] %__perl_requires /bin/true So: [1] - Stop it stripping already stripped binaries. [2] and [3] - This stops it doing the automatic dependency list creation. This seems a bit heavy handed though, is there another, cleaner way to do it? Regards, Fred.

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Reformatting a USB drive
by Todd Cary 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

I have a USB drive that has been formatted as NTFS. Can I reformat it? I have identified these properties about it /dev/sda1 /media/Extrnl_Bkup Not sure what to do next since the GUI will not mount a NTFS disk (expected). Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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Moving folder just vanished??
by Stewart Williams 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hi all, Can anyone explain or give an clues as to what just happened? I'm running CentOS 5.2 as a desktop with Gnome. Fully up to date, etc. I was dragging a folder of image (.jpg) files to another folder on the same filesystem (LVM ext3) with the mouse and as I dropped the folder into the new folder - poof! - it disappeared like a puff of smoke. I've searched everywhere for the files/and or folder and they are totally gone. I must also point out that the filesystem was an encrypted one using fuse-encfs. In all my years of using Linux, I've never seen this happen before. Sadly I have no backup as I'd just copied them from an SD card to the HDD then formated the card - maybe I was too quick doing that step. Thanks

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Strange message at boot time
by Niki Kovacs 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '08

Hi, I'm usually booting all machines here with 'vga=788 quiet' options in menu.lst, so I see what services start, but it's not too verbose at the same time. One message that puzzles me is the very first one after GRUB starts init: "Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range." Anyone knows what that means? Niki

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