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users & groups
by Hiep Nguyen 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

hi all, i just installed centos 5 with minimal options. i don't have gui yet, how do i get to see all users & groups created on my box? thanks, t. hiep

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CentOS 5 sysreport
by Alfred von Campe 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

I stumbled across this issue because I requested to install the sysreport package in my kickstart file. Anaconda complains that such a package doesn't exist. There is a bug report about this already (http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2492) but it's certainly a strange situation. 1. Anaconda doesn't think the package sysreport exists 2. yum thinks it exists: # yum list sysreport Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Available Packages sysreport.noarch 1.4.3-13.el5 base 3. But installing with yum fails: # yum install sysreport Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Package sos - 1.7-9.1.el5.noarch already installed and latest version Nothing to do 4. The sysreport file from the sos package fails to run: # sysreport Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/sysreport", line 31, in ? import sos.policyredhat ImportError: No module named sos.policyredhat 5. But if you extract /usr/sbin/sysreport from the sysreport package using rpm2cpio for instance, it works just fine. So it would be nice if yum would allow installing the sysreport package (see step 3 above) as that would appear to solve all the problems. Alfred

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Re: [CentOS] Looking for a howto site
by Bill Campbell 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007, Alfredo Perez wrote: >Hi > >I have been googling without success so I thought >to ask the following question to the list: > >I was wondering if any of you know of a site >that shows how to setup a wireless access point >using Centos. You might look at http://www.linux-sxs.org/ Bill -- INTERNET: bill(a)celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your consul, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget ye were our countrymen. -- Samuel Adams (American Patriot)

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blue-ray disk mounting
by Jerry Geis 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

Is there a way to mount a blue-ray DVD? it says it is a UDF-fs Jerry

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LOTD with CentOS 5
by Michael A. Peters 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

Howdy folks - I just moved my laptop from Fedora to CentOS. FC6 was running rather sweet, then they decided to EOL it, and F8 - while it had some nice new features, it was just way to quirky for me. I no longer enjoy re-installing the OS quite so often, hence my move to CentOS. So I installed CentOS 5 on my laptop, and built a bunch of packages, making "yet another" repo for CentOS. These are primarily straight rebuilds (in mock) of Fedora 8 source rpm's - taking care to avoid anything that conflicts with or replaces CentOS packages. I know there are a dozen or so addon repos already - and if you are happy with them, stick with them. My goal was to stay as close to Fedora 8 packaging for these addon packages as possible, benefiting from their packaging guidelines, and also to not replace the stable very well tested CentOS packages. [yjl-misc] does not replace any CentOS packages and has stuff from F8 everything like AbiWord, Gnumeric, Bluefish, BitTorrent, etc. as well as some multimedia related libraries. [yjl-livna] has rebuilds of stuff from rpm.livna.org - mostly multimedia related, including xine and totem-xine. Depends on [yjl-misc]. [yjl-php] has php 5.2.5 and does replace the CentOS php, it should probably only be used if something you are doing requires php 5.2.x. For those interested: http://www.pennywasted.info/centos/yjl.php

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Help with UML editor?
by Scott Ehrlich 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

A colleague, using CentOS 5 64-bit, installed by me, asked me for the following assistance: "The site I was trying to get to was http://www.eclipsedownload.com/. I downloaded the EclipseUML free version, but it's obviously not giving me the information I need. I have Java packages in Eclipse that I would like to display in a class diagram to show how they relate to one another. Theoretically, we have/had licenses for the Omondo tool. I believe the studio edition will do what I need. If we have no licenses, I can download the tool I used previously (http://www.soyatec.com/main.php) but that may have been the cause of my Eclipse crashing. Then again, it crashes once a day or so now, so I don't know if the Soyatec's eUML2 tool will make it any worse. If you find another tool I can use or test, please let me know. I could use it as soon as possible." Thanks for any assistance. Scott

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Re: [CentOS] Looking for a howto site
by MHR 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

On Dec 11, 2007 8:09 AM, Alfredo Perez <alfredoj69(a)rogers.com> wrote: > Hi > > I have been googling without success so I thought > to ask the following question to the list: > > I was wondering if any of you know of a site > that shows how to setup a wireless access point > using Centos. > Please clarify - are you asking how to use CentOS to access a wireless router, either to set it up or just to use it, or how to use a CentOS machine as a router to be a wireless access point? The former is pretty much just like any other router setup - open a browser to point at the router and set it up like any other (even Windows non-wizard setup). The latter I don't know. Thanks. mhr

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Problem with local base repo
by Robert Moskowitz 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

Last night my rsync got some 'new' files for the base repo and new repodata. This morning, I set a server to upgrade from 5 to 5.1 by setting it to access my local base and updates repos. I got the following error: Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for openssh-clients to pack into transaction set. media://1195929637.060433%231/CentOS/openssh-clients-4.3p2-24.el5.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media> Trying other mirror. Error: failed to retrieve CentOS/openssh-clients-4.3p2-24.el5.i386.rpm from base error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media>

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locate rpm spec files
by Tom Brown 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

Hi I _have_ to use the following software versions on CentOS4 and RHEL4 Apache 2.0.53 mod_jk 1.2.22 Tomcat 5.5.9 Java 1.5.0_06 Can anyone point me to the spec files for these that i can use against the source tar balls or better yet a source rpm? thanks!

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unstable kernel after update to CentOS 4.5
by Kai Schaetzl 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

On Saturday I finally upgraded a machine from CentOS 4.3 (I think) to 4.5 via yum. Seemed to went fine. However, during the following night /home got mounted read-only because of an EXT3-fs error. The next night happened the same. Also, today, I saw the first-ever kernel crash on this machine. The machine is about three years old or so, went into production two years ago with CentOS 4.1 or so and has been rock stable since then. The fs errors, no kernel crashes, no other "weird" occurences. As the problems are now happening right after upgrading to a new kernel I rather suspect a bug in the kernel (or some module) than a hardware problem. No RAID, no LVM, a few partitions on an IDE disk. I didn't file it as a bug yet. I want to first gather some more information or get some help. Here are some details. Kernel was updated from 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL to 2.6.9-55.0.12.EL. There is not a single package update missing now. Dec 9 04:30:35 nx10 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hda3): htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #1330023: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=10264, inode=808542775, rec_len=13621, name_len=100 Dec 9 04:30:35 nx10 kernel: Aborting journal on device hda3. Dec 9 04:30:35 nx10 kernel: ext3_abort called. Dec 9 04:30:35 nx10 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hda3): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal Dec 9 04:30:35 nx10 kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only The second error tonight happened about 5 minutes earlier. With exactly the same directory inode. http://www.google.de/search?as_q=centos+rec_len+4+0&hl=de&num=30&btnG=Googl… tory&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&cr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=&saf e=images shows this error is very scarce (I also tried it with fedora and got a few more). It seems to be related to heavy disk i/o, but only under certain (hardware?) circumstances and may be a bug introduced in some Fedora kernel and this krept into RHEL/CentOS 4.4/4.5. Once this happens that filesystem (in my case /home) is read-only and the machine just hangs when one tries to shutdown (probably when unmounting) or remount ro (for a file check). After a hard reset the automatic fschk in dmesg lists only an few orphan inode cleanups. Also, I found that dmesg delivers me an output of the iptables logging (which is on kern.=debug) before the problem is fixed with a reset. Can I use fsdebug safely on that system while mounted? I'm not familiar with it and just stumbled over a mention of it. I tried it on a machine here on a mounted device and there was no problem. That other machine is in a remote data center, so options are a bit limited. The kernel crash from today starts like this: Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 8f38df23 Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: printing eip: Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: c019190b Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: *pde = 00000000 Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: Modules linked in: ipt_REJECT ipt_limit ipt_state ipt_LOG iptable_filter ip_tables ip_conntrack_ftp ip_conntrack md5 ipv6 autofs4 i2c_dev i2c_core sunrpc dm_mirror dm_mod button battery ac 8139too mii ext3 jbd ata_piix libata sd_mod scsi_mod Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: CPU: 0 Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c019190b>] Not tainted VLI Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282 (2.6.9-55.0.12.EL) Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: EIP is at seq_escape+0x21/0xaa Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: eax: 8f38df23 ebx: c0370260 ecx: d35a9151 edx: d35aa000 Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: esi: c518c200 edi: c518c200 ebp: c032f9d9 esp: c63d9f28 Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: Process mv (pid: 16585, threadinfo=c63d9000 task=cee5a1b0) Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: Stack: d35aa000 8f38df23 c0370260 c518c200 dfe08982 00000000 c018e0e3 c03702c0 Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: c518c200 00000000 dfe08982 c019157f 00000151 00000000 00000400 b7fd5000 Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: 0000000c 00000000 0000000b 00000000 c0371300 cea00b80 00000400 c63d9fac Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: Call Trace: Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: [<c018e0e3>] show_vfsmnt+0x28/0xf5 Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: [<c019157f>] seq_read+0x1c3/0x2bd Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: [<c016c91b>] vfs_read+0xb6/0xe2 Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: [<c016cb30>] sys_read+0x3c/0x62 Dec 10 10:30:01 nx10 kernel: [<c031b777>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb I wonder if I can go back to 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL. Should I expect problems with other updated packages? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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