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Re: [CentOS] /etc/passwd.rpmnew changes "x" to "*"
by Matt Seitz (matseitz) 29 Jun '08

29 Jun '08

> From: John R Pierce <pierce(a)hogranch.com> > > * tells it to look in /etc/shadow, where I'd expect you would > find said > "x" for no login. I'm confused. My current "/etc/passwd" has "x" in the password field for user "root", and I can log in as root. The CentOS documentation also says that "x" means "use /etc/shadow": http://www.centos.org/docs/4/4.5/System_Administration_Guide/s2-redhat-conf… http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-isa-en-4/s1-acctsgrps-rhlspec.html -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems, Inc. .:|:.:|:.

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5.1 to 5.2 upgrade - perfectly smoothe
by Tim Alberts 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

I run 3 servers and I upgraded them from 5.1 to 5.2 this week without even a single glitch. So now that I've been running CentOS for a couple months, I wanted to take a minute to say... Thank you to CentOS, everyone on the list for the occasional technical support (and thanks to the upstream vendor).

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libgtk-x11-2.0.la missing on CentOS 5.2
by Kuang-Chun Cheng 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

Hi, I just upgrade to CentOS 5.2. I try to compile my gtk2 application using GNU autotools and found the following error: ... grep: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.la' is not a valid libtool archive ... I check both gtk2-devel-2.10.4-20.el5 & gtk-2.10.4-20.el5, the /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.la is missing. Is this a CentOS 5.2 bug of packaging ? Or how I can ask libtool not to look for libgtk-x11-2.0.la ? Thanks a lot. Regards KC

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MPEG video under Fedora 9
by Timothy Murphy 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

Could some kind soul state as briefly and clearly as possible what is required to play a .mpg video file under Fedora 9/KDE/Firefox? On my laptop I see from System Settings=>Advanced=>File Associations that I am given a choice for mpeg video files of GXine Video Player Gnome MPlayer MPlayer Movie Player Kaffeine As a sample .mpg file I've taken /usr/share/apps/k3b/extra/k3bphotosvcd.mpg . [Maybe that is a bad example; if so could some guru suggest a better one? One incidental difficulty in solving multimedia problems under Fedora is that supposed solutions rarely give a sample file on which the solution can be tested. Perhaps a selection of multimedia files for testing would be useful. Is there such a thing anywhere?] I'm not clear also if Firefox has its own, different, set of File Associations? Or will it read those set by Fedora/KDE? I understand that the Fedora developers have a religious objection to telling us how to play ungodly video files, or even telling us where we can get this information. But it would be nice if a standard godless informant could be agreed on ...

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Kernel - pata_via
by Grzesiek 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

Why standard Centos 5.2 kernel does not have a module "pata_via." I have an old motherboard and IDE drive. The standard kernel does not work. Kernel include a module "pata_via" only in centosplus. It is a bug?

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chkconfig update fails
by Kai Schaetzl 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

My update to 5.2 fails on one machine because of this error: Transaction Check Error: file /etc/init.d from install of chkconfig-1.3.30.1-2 conflicts with file from package AcronisAgentLinux-9.5.8076-1 file /etc/init.d from install of chkconfig-1.3.30.1-2 conflicts with file from package TrueImageAgent-9.5.8076-1 Obviously, both packages created (completely unnecessarily) the /etc/init.d symlink. I'm going to report this to them, but what's the best course of action to continue now? There doesn't seem to be a "force" option for yum? Install that single file via rpm with force? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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gnome desktop XDMCP in domU
by David Hláčik 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

Hello, i have CentOS on xen as domU, i have installed "yum groupinstall Gnome Desktop ... " . I want to access Gnome Desktoup through XDMCP protocol, but unfortunately X server will not start when there is no graphical output where to start. How can i solve this problem? And of course i have edited gdm.conf and added to [XDMCP] Enable = True. Thanks in advance! David

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Automatic site selection for dowload
by tech 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

I would like to ask that more flexibility be built into automatically choosing sites for downloading. I have just upgraded to CentOS 5.2. When I look for a mirror, I get many choices from Taiwan. Since I am in Hong Kong this makes sense geographically but .... not in terms of bandwidth. Although Taiwan is very close, it is almost the slowest connection I can make. Some .jp sites are good but I find .sg or the US is usually best. This morning I tried to update to the new kernel (92.1.6). My system seemed to die during the download. After some investigation, I found that Yum et al is being defaulted to .tw sites. (base, updates, add ons all go to .tw.) I have now been sitting at base primary.xml.gz for over 15 minutes and am only about 50% done. Is it possible when deciding these default sites to look at actual bandwidth and not just geographical closeness? Mel

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/etc/passwd.rpmnew changes "x" to "*"
by Matt Seitz (matseitz) 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

What would be the effect of changing the password field in "/etc/passwd" from "x" to "*"? I noticed I have an "/etc/passwd.rpmnew" file which changes the password of many service accounts from "x" to "*". I am wondering if I should merge those changes into my "/etc/passwd" file. -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems, Inc. .:|:.:|:.

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28 Jun '08

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