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sandisk mp3 player
by Dave 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hello, Got a 2gb mp3 player. The issue is it needs a usb2 card and the only available one is on a centos 5.1 box. I was wondering how do i get this device to show up? I'd like to share it's directories via samba, so that windows users can manipulate it's files, add more, etc. Thanks. Dave.

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Install question
by Jeffrey Ross 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

I have been running Fedora for a number of years and have decided that for my mailserver system (which doubles as a small time web server) I want to go to an OS that has a supported lifespan of more than a year, especially since this machine has in the past been up longer than a year without reboots. The machine that it will ultimately host the OS is a dual processor P3 machine with 2GB of RAM (the machine was free and is normally running idle so cpu isn't an issue), I also plan on (continuing to) running software RAID 1 on this system. So I'm not rushed into an install I plan on installing the OS on different hardware My questions are several. 1) The build hardware is only a single processor with 768MB of memory (also a P3) what if anything will I need to do to enable the second processor? (I'll make provisions for a larger swap space at build time) 2) The build hardware won't have a second disk usable for RAID, is it possible to build the RAID as degraded during the install? Or am I better off building it as a non RAID system and transfer everything to a RAID disk later? 3) The system bios will allow me to boot off the network, can I do an install from that boot? there is no CD/DVD reader in the box, nor is there a floppy drive. USB (flash?) may possible, but it is USB1.0 (1.1?) and quite slow and I'm not 100% positive the BIOS will support booting from a USB device. Any other caveats to be aware of? My experience with linux has been several Fedora (core) releases some Redhad releases prior to that, and many many many years ago slackware (when the install was a stack of diskettes!) TIA, Jeff

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Request on Cent OS insight
by stephen goldman 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

Hello List, I am getting familar with CentOS and using Rel 4.6. My goal is to get a automated update *(email)* of system updates. I found the link below in the WIKI. Additionally I have enable "yum" to run as a service int 345 and started it. yum update from the command line works fine- There are three scripts indicated on the web link below : http://wiki.centos.org/YumCheckOrInstallUpdates usr/bin/yum-check ( not on the machine) /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron: ( not on the machine) there a is file named yum.cron at this location- [root@bmc-4 cron.daily]# cat yum.cron #!/bin/sh if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/yum ]; then /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum /usr/bin/yum -R 10 -e 0 -d 0 -y shell /etc/yum/yum-daily.yum fi etc/sysconfig/yum-check: (not on the machine) I am not sure what to do with the information provided. Can others point me in a direction please.. The documentation is not clear. Thanks, Stephen Stephen Goldman Systems Administrator MIT Biology 617-452-2595 sgoldman(a)mit.edu

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saslauth in postfix 2.2 on CentOS 4
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

Hi All, I have a mail server with CentOS 4 (fully updated) running dovecot and postfix. I have a couple of virtual domains, so I've setup postfix and dovecot accordingly. That is, dovecot is doing the auth for internal hosts, and postfix is handling sending/receiving for both domains. What I want to do now is open up pop3s and smtp over TLS, which will give me access to my two domains from external clients. The pop3s bit was easy, and my tests have been successful. The hard bit is the smtp over TLS. Since I'm using dovecot to handle the authentication, how do I tell postfix that the sasl auth should be passed to dovecot? I know how to do this in CentOS 5 since it has postfix 2.3, and that version has support for dovecot authentication. So far, I haven't been able to figure out how to do the same thing in CentOS 4 and postfix 2.2. Any tips? Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.22.9-61.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux 14:41:05 up 4 days, 13:10, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.06, 0.07

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System freezes with i8042_panic_blink on suspend
by Olaf Mueller 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

Hello, I am using CentOS 4.6 (2.6.9-67.plus.c4) on a toshiba tecra 8000 notebook. If closing the panel, "Panel Power On/Off" is enabled in bios, the notebook does suspend. But after opening the panel, the notebook completely freezes. If the suspend only takes a few minutes, then everything is working fine. But if the suspend takes a time more than five or ten minutes, the system completely freezes. The error message is: [<c032bbe7>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [<c032007b>] xfrm_find_acq_byseq+0x100/0x10f Badness in i8042_panic_blink at drivers/input/serio/i8042.c:992 [<c0254fe6>] i8042_panic_blink+0x188/0x1a0 [<c0123ea2>] panic+0xf7/0x142 [<c010cd7a>] set_rtc_mmss+0x6c/0x204 My system: # cat /etc/grub.conf | grep kernel kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.plus.c4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 noapic acpi=off rhgb quiet # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 02) 00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 12) 00:05.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:05.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:05.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:05.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:09.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port (rev 23) 00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 05) 00:0b.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 05) 05:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI The system freezes too, if com-ports and sound is disabled in bios. Could the network controller 'RaLink' causes this problem? I am using the centosplus kernel cause of its support for isa sound cards. Is there an other kernel with that I could avoid this panic? Thank you very much! regards Olaf

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 34, Issue 14
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

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-2007:1166 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 libexif - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2007:1166 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 libexif - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2007:1177 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 autofs5 - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2007:1177 Important CentOS 4 i386 autofs5 - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2007:1083 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2007:1083 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 7. CESA-2007:1104 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 kernel - security update (Johnny Hughes) 8. CESA-2007:1104 Important CentOS 4 i386 kernel - security update (Johnny Hughes) 9. CESA-2007:1104 Important CentOS 4 ia64 kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 10. CESA-2007:1083 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 thunderbird - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:13:17 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:1166 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 libexif - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <476BE61D.4080708(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:1166 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1166.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: libexif-0.5.12-5.1.0.2.el4_6.1.i386.rpm libexif-devel-0.5.12-5.1.0.2.el4_6.1.i386.rpm src: libexif-0.5.12-5.1.0.2.el4_6.1.src.rpm

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centos 5.1 vnc crashing
by Jerry Geis 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

Hi all, I was running centos 4.5 with not issues on my main box. I updated to (fresh install) to 5.1 Things run fine except I use vnc alot from home to connect back into my machine and sometimes on connecting it is crashing the vnc session and then it kills my entire login session. Is anyone else having this on 5.1? This is my modules section in xorg.conf Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "dri" Load "vnc" EndSection It worked flawlessly on centos 4.5. Any ideas about how to get it not to crash. Jerry

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4.6 update overwrote my /usr/lib/python2.3/site.py file
by Jeff Larsen 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

We had some custom additions to our site.py file for a third party application. 'yum update' to 4.6 overwrote the file with no backup or warning. Not hard to repair, but it did have me worried there for a few minutes when the application failed to start. Is this a python issue, an upstream issue or a CentOS issue? Can something be done about it going forward? Jeff

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SCSI bad block table display
by Hugh E Cruickshank 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi All: Is there a utility available that will allow for the dump/display of the bad track table of a SCSI drive. We had this capability on SCO OSR5 but I have not been able to locate anything similar for Linux. The closest I have found is the badblocks utility that is part of the e2fsprogs package but this appears to only test for bad blocks not display the current bad block table contents. I have done quite a bit of searching with Google but either it does not exist or (more than likely) I am using the wrong search parameters. TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

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yum updates
by centos＠911networks.com 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi, Is there a way to still do the yum updates but not update the openoffice. Right now, I do it one at a time. -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work

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