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Re: [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-5.1 i386 and x86_64
by centos＠911networks.com 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:05:38 +0000 Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> wrote: ... > CentOS-5.1 is based on the upstream release 5.1, and includes > packages from all variants including Server and Client. All 1. Thank you for the outstanding work. I am downloading now. 2. Is there or will there be the appliance version? -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work

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Adding user's and groups
by Joseph L. Casale 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

Is it ok to edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files manually to add users and groups or would this circumvent other required system commands from being executed when adding them at the command line via useradd and groupadd? In reading the docs @ http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-users-tools.htm… I see a user that is created with these utilities is disabled until unlocked with passwd. If someone is creating users for services without home dirs and shell access, how do you handle the password? Looking at the example provided in a doc I am reading, there is "*" in the password field in the passwd file. Is that suggesting it's just not displayed in the doc, or does the "*" have specific meaning? Thanks! jlc

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Obtuse-smtpd and Postfix
by Manuel Leon 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

Hi all.. I would like to switch to CENTOS Postfix from sendmail. My current sendmail, in combination with the very old obtuse-smtpd, allows me: 1. To control who of the internal users can send mail and to which domain or accounts 2. To control who of the internal users can receive mail and from which domain or accounts 3. To obtain a copy of all sent mails 4. To obtain a copy of all received mails Obtuse-smtpd is very easy to configure and very effective. It takes control of all smtp activities over Port 25 and, after filtering and checking, passes the safe mails to sendmail for final delivery. Obtuse can, also, check for addressability, through DNS, of the mail sender and other useful features. Unfortunately, obtuse-smtpd is so old that it works only (don't be surprised) with old sendmail versions. So, I always have to uninstall the in-OS shipped modern sendmail version and replace it with the proper old version. Now: Can Postfix do all this ? Or, at least: Can Postfix work in combination with obtuse-smtpd ? (at the end, obtuse just calls sendmail for the real mail delivery; it only receives mail in port 25 and checks what it receives with its rules, allowing or rejecting at the end) Thanks a lot, in advance. M. Leon

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Replacement for Linux-HA (heartbeat) - RedHat cluster?
by Amos Shapira 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

Hello, I'm beginning to give up on making Linux-HA's heartbeat work for my environment (CentOS x86_64) and am wondering what other option have I got to help me: 1. Use IPVS to maintain a cluster of virtual servers, either master/slave or load-balanced. 2. Use DRBD in master/slave fashion to keep a home-grown application highly-available. The first thing I stumbled upon is RedHat Cluster Suite ( http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/centos_linux_guides/centos_cluster_c…) from which I also saw some packages on my CentOS servers. I've never heard of it before and am just starting to dig its docs, but if someone here can confirm/deny that this is a possible route to take it might save me some time or doubts. Thanks, --Amos

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Searching for beagle
by Olaf Mueller 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

Hi, there was a message in the list at Fri 26 Oct 2007 21:13:58, that beagle was added to centos testing repo. But I could not find it there. Please could someone give me an advice. Thank's a lot! "We have added beagle-0.2.18, tomboy-0.8.1, and mono-1.2.4 to the CentOS-5 testing repo for both x86_64 and i386." Are there any experiences with beagle under centos 5? Is it usable now or will it slow down my desktop like it did under fedora core 6? regards Olaf

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 34, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 02 Dec '07

02 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-2007:1082 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 22:20:41 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:1082 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) firefox - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20071201202041.GP18540(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:1082 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1082.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/firefox-1.5.0.12-0.8.el4.centos.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/firefox-1.5.0.12-0.8.el4.centos.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Centos 5.1 distro: How to upgrade 5.0 to 5.1 with yum??
by Robinson Tiemuqinke 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

Hi, Redhat announced RHEL 5.1 on Nov 07, so hopefully CentOS 5.1 will be ready shortly. But I get kind of nervous of the arrival of 5.1. My problem is: I have hundreds Centos 5.0 boxes just finished installation and I will continue to install and upgrade hundreds more in next few months. With the arrival of Centos 5.1, I don't like to reinstall them anymore but continuous upgrade instead -- if this is possible? Currently I download the Centos 5.0 upgrade packages from mirror sites on Internet (.../centos/5/updates/{SRPMS,i386,x86_64}/...), with the arrival of Centos 5.1, are the existing Centos 5.0 update packages will be removed in honor of Centos 5.1 updates? or it will stay? And how about the Centos 5.1's default packages in distro? Give an example here: 2.6.18-8.1.15 version kernel is the most recently updated kernel for Centos 5.0 distro, if the Centos 5.1 distro comes with 2.6.18-8.1.10000 kernel and in the first few weeks there are no kernel updates for 5.1, then how can I upgrade my kernel to 2.6.18-8.1.10000 naturally -- will the 2.6.18-8.1.10000 shows in the same update sources directories(.../centos/5/updates/{SRPMS,i386,x86_64/...)? A similar question is: are the update diretories contains only updates for 5.1 distro, or both 5.0 and 5.1? Any clarifications are greatly appreciated. --Robinson ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Re: [CentOS] RESOLVED: Slightly OT: Conexant fax/modem not faxing with sendfax
by MHR 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

On Dec 1, 2007 5:23 PM, Robert <kerplop(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > All the more reason to quit wasting your time with that junk and go shopping for a USRobotics Courier v.everything -- external if you have a serial port available. I notice that there are several on ebay right now. If it has no manual included, download one from the mfr. > Lesson learned - I just hate to give on the free approach as long as it seems to be viable. (sigh) Thanks. mhr

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Deleting a user?
by Amos Shapira 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

Hello, I've compiled linux-ha heartbeat into an RPM but when I try to install it (after "yum erase heartbeat*") it complains that the user hacluster still exists: # rpm -ivh heartbeat-2.1.2-1.x86_64.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] useradd: user hacluster exists error: %pre(heartbeat-2.1.2-1.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 9 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping heartbeat-2.1.2-1 I ran "userdel -r hacluster" which just disabled the user login then edited /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to remove this user completely, but I still get this error. What else can I do to remove this user and help useradd succeed? I'd rather not force script-skipping if at all possible. Thanks, --Amos

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Looking for Insights
by Shawn Everett 01 Dec '07

01 Dec '07

Hi Guys, I had a strange problem yesterday and I'm curious as to what everyone thinks. I have a client with a Red Hat Enterprise 2.1 cluster. All quality HP equipment with an MSA 500 storage array acting as the shared storage between the two nodes in the cluster. This cluster is configured for reliability and not load balancing. All work is handled by one node or the other not both. There are two 100GB RAID 5 logical drives in the MSA500. Linux sees them as /dev/md2 and /dev/md3 respectively. Running cat /proc/mdstat shows them as "active multipath" and otherwise healthy. There is a nightly shell script that runs and backs up information via tar to a USB external drive. The last thing the script does before unmounting the USB drive is to run the sync command. Yesterday it was noticed that the backup script was hung. A quick check via "ps aux" showed the backup script and a sync process still hanging around from Monday night. All attempts to stop these processed failed and it was decided a reboot was the best fix. All production services where shut down as much as possible. Because of the locked processes the machine would hot shut down properly and was physically turned off. On reboot the drives in the server were checked via e2fsck with no problems. The shared storage: md2 and md3 also mounted without errors. All services started properly. No errors about md2 or md3 were reported in dmesg or /var/log/messages Strangely, all files added via Samba after Monday are gone. This is limited to only one device: md3. Everything else is fine. Checking the two drives/partitions that make up md3 show none of the missing files. Any brilliant thoughts as to where those files might have gone would be appreciated. The files lost are not critical so there are no major problems but it's a puzzle I can't quite figure out. Shawn

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