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AW: [CentOS] Archive-to-DVD
by Marc Rebischke 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi folks, Here's the situation. I have a group of engineers who love to save things to disk. Now that the filer is getting full, they are interested in archiving some of those things to DVD. The tress containing the things they want to archive are specified like so: /path/path/path/A/04?? /path/path/path/B/04?? /path/path/path/A/05?? /path/path/path/B/05?? /path/path/path/A/06?? /path/path/path/B/06?? ...and there are things in A and B which do not match the specifications. The total amount of data in this specificaiton is around 30GB, and this is not distributed equally through the specification. What I'm hoping for is a program that I can feed in directory specifications like the above, and it will produce for me DVD images (.iso files) containing these trees in such a format that when the engineers want file $X, I can give them the DVD (or the whole stack, if required) and say "there you go" without having to go through a restore process. I don't want something which creates it's own archive format which spans the DVDs (ie split-tar or ufsdump). I would settle for a program that produces a list of files such that I can create DVD images on my own. Does anyone have any ideas how I might go about doing this, before I roll my own solution? -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | dave(a)xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com ######################### Hi David, Well, it would be interesting if every path You mentioned (e.g. path/path/path/A/04??) will fit on a DVD. You could create several iso-images with "mkisofs" (e.g. "mkisofs -o /path1.iso path/path/path/A/04??"). Writing to dvd : growisofs /path1.iso Also check the man-pages for those commands to find more parameters. Regards Marc Rebischke

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Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop - SOLVED
by MHR 07 May '08

07 May '08

I can't think of a better word for this than "weird." I went back and reread most of the emails on the original thread, and both Ross and Bill suggested that something about "misc" might be off. So, I created a new mount point called "other," pointed fstab at it, modified my scripts and symlinks that used to reference /misc, and rebooted. Voila! /other was automounted, as I wanted, and there's only one icon on the desktop for it. I did notice along the way that /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit had a mount -a with a -t list of types of FSs to mount, which did not include ext2 or ext3. I added those, and that did not help the /misc situation. Apparently, there is something funny about /misc in FC8 (is that true in CentOS?). Anyway, problem solved, thanks to all, enjoy your day, etc., etc. mhr

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Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box
by Lanny Marcus 07 May '08

07 May '08

On 03 May 2008, Kai Schaetzl <maillists AT conactive.com> wrote: >Message: 9 ?Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 16:31:50 +0200 >Message-ID: <VA.000031c9.0166573a(a)news.conactive.com> >Lanny Marcus wrote on Sat, 3 May 2008 07:28:10 -0500: > Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 >Ok. I just asked because you never mentioned you had actually checked. >Just a kernel missing when you update is not proof ;-) >I see that you have priority protections in place. Disable all your >extra repos, then disable the protections (basically go back to your >inital repo setup) and then do a check-update. You are using the >mirrorlist and not a specific CentOS mirror, do you? Kai: This is a follow on to my prior reply to this. I removed the plugins=1 line in /etc/yum.conf and I removed 6 repositories. Then, I did "yum clean all" and got "Cleaning up Everything". Then, I did "yum update" and got, "No packages marked for update/obsoletion". Then, "yum update kernel" and got "No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion". Then the yum.conf file type is shown as Cisco VPN Settings, so I couldn't open/view it with a text editor. The last thing I did was to copy these files on my box and replace the files on my wife's box with my files: (a) etc/yum/folder (b) etc/yum.repos.d (c) /etc/yum.conf file Same problem. It is as if there is a YUM or RPM database, somewhere, that believes the Kernel has been updated, and it has not been updated? I find it very hard to believe that the Kernel was in fact updated, but that it is still shown as the original Kernel that was on the CentOS5 Install DVD. So, this continues to be a an unsolved mystery, but not like the ReiserFS guy. :-) >BTW: I notice that your mail is missing any threading information, so >that it doesn't thread at all. I see that other people who use Gmail do >get the threading information, so there's probably some option not >activated in your Gmail account. I changed the setting for my subscription to the CentOS Mailing list, from the Daily Digest to Individual messages. This reply is to your message that was in the Digest I received Sunday morning. In the future, I will be replying to individual messages (using Gmail on the web or with Evolution), so, hopefully, the threading will be better, if not perfect. Gmail doesn't use Folders, they use Labels, and I don't have that working on the web yet, but I can move the CentOS messages into the CentOS Label in Evolution and because it's IMAP, they get moved into the CentOS Label on the web too. Something else for me to check out, but that's on the Gmail web site somewhere and will be much easier to cure than this mystery about the kernel update on one box. All of your ideas about the problem updating the Kernel in my wife's box are very much appreciated! I believe now that when I updated the Kernel (and 2 other packages) on my box and on my daughter's box, it was with PUP and then later, I did a "yum update" to update everything else on those boxes. If there is some place I can check in a yum database or RPM database on her box, to verify the kernel version that's really installed (probably the original one), please let me know where that is. Thanks much! Lanny

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R (statistics package) on CentOS-5 ?
by Kay Diederichs 07 May '08

07 May '08

Dear all, the statistics package R (www.r-project.org) was available for CentOS-4, but I need it for CentOS-5 (64bit). RPMforge has R-2.5.1 for CentOS-4, so I thought I'd try to install that on CentOS-5. However, yum complains about missing ggv, and the specfile indeed says that R requires ggv, which is not in CentOS-5 (it has kghostview). I could probably install with "rpm -Uvh --nodeps", but the question is rather: has anybody built R for CentOS-5 ? thanks for any insight, Kay

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irc cloak
by James Bunnell 07 May '08

07 May '08

What are the requirements to get a Centos IRC cloak in freenode? Thanks in advance.

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Latest version of clamav-milter
by Sam Drinkard 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi folks, Can someone tell me the latest version of clamav-milter x84_64? I just yum installed it but it is version 0.88.2.el4kb, and the version on my server is 0.93. Is the difference between the two due to being different platforms? Thanks.. Sam

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Yum + priorities plugin question
by jleaver+centos＠reachone.com 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hello all! I've recently started using the priorities plugin as part of my best practices. It's very effective, and prevents nasty things from happening (like atrpms upgrading python and disabling yum.) I'm wondering if there's a simple and elegant way to allow package-name-based exclusions. For example: For my mysql cluster, I'd prefer to have the latest mysql and mysql-server packages which I can get from utterramblings (Thanks Jason!), however, to do so while using the priorities plugin, I'd need to make that repo an equal priority with base, so that it'll upgrade. I've worked around the problem by creating a duplicate repo with the exceptions as an includepkg and a priority equal to that of base, but it seems less than elegant, and I know it results in double the internet traffic for the repo mirror, which is less than friendly. Does anyone know if there's a more elegant way to deal with this issue, or might this be an appropriate feature request for the plugin developer? Sincerely, Jacob Leaver Sr. System Administrator ReachONE Internet

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VSFTPD with LDAP
by Jake 07 May '08

07 May '08

It appears as I have VSFTPD allowing access authenticating to my LDAP server correctly. I did this by configuring my server to authenticate to my LDAP server from the GUI using System -> Administration -> Authentication. However now when I look at /var/log/secure it says authentication failure. How is this possible and how do I correct this? --Thanks, Jake

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centOS xen domU kernel
by David Hláčik 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi, how can i make actual xen kernel to work under my domU virtual machines? When i will provide as kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen as ramdisk /boot/initrd-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen.img , it will not work becouse of error that root device does not exists. And when it is booting it is showing that raid md0 and my logical volumes does not exists - like those on dom0. I believe it is becouse of ram disk. What is the best approach to solve this .. in official way? Can i use same ramdisk as for dom0, how? or should i create a new one for xen ... Thanks in advance!

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File Permissions or Partition Write/Read for everyone
by Victor Padro 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hello all, I am kinda new to Linux, FreeBSD...most Windows user, anyway. I got a little problem here maybe you can help me solve it. I just bought a new 500Gb HDD which i formated using ext3 under Centos 5, my plan was to use it under FreeNAS as another Backup File Disk(It has already like 400gb of data), when I try to access the disk via samba/cifs I just have the read attribute or permission, how can i change the whole partition permission rights to be accessible to write/read for everyone? (I will mantain the security using samba users and groups of course.), or do I have to apply the chmod comand to the main folder? I'm really stuck here. Thank you Victor. P.S. Sorry for my english.

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