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Local mirroring of the CentOS repos
by Kai Schaetzl 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

I figured I try if I can mirror the base and updates repos locally. There's no tutorial for that, only one about creating your own repo of packages which is not the same. So, I just mirrored all the stuff with wget and changed the baseurl in the repo files and hoped that's enough. Works. So easy you don't need a tutorial. *But* I then realized that the updates directory contains *all* updates, not just the latest. Which means if I don't regularly check I may get old versions mirrored I don't want. It also means that I get a lot of unwanted files at the time I start to mirror. And I cannot delete old files as these would again be mirrored in. An obvious solution would be to check each day and tell wget (or whatever software I use) to ignore files older than 24 hours. Still, this means the initial download has to get them all and I have to delete all unwanted old files manually. Is there a better solution? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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Which pop3 server
by Miark 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

What's the best package for a plain-jane pop3 server? Miark

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RE: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

On 18 November 2007, Alain Spineux aspineux at gmail.com wrote: <snip> >BartPE found that WinME was installed on that box and it died there. >If you have any ideas about how I can make the BartPE CD, on a non >WInME box, they will be much appreciated! TIA, Lanny Making the BartPE CD on a WinME box is apparently impossible. Here's what it says on this URL: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/faq/#12 "Can Windows 9x/ME be used to build BartPE? No, absolutely not!" This box is dead in the water, with respect to booting WinXP, because of the corrupted or missing user32.dll. We only have this one box with WinXP, so unless there's another solution for me to rescue WinXP, I will need to format and reinstall WinXP and CentOS5. TIA, Lanny

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nx.x86_64
by Michael Velez 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hello all, Lately, I've been getting the following error when I try to install the nx.x86_64 package with yum: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/NX: cpio: rename The package never gets installed so I get this error every time I run yum. Does anybody know how to resolve this? Thank you, Michael

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

On Nov 18, 2007 4:38 PM, MrKiwi <mrkiwi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The problem is the mbr - i had the same problem trying to > put a replacement sata drive into a machine - it had > previously had centos on it, and i was trying to install xp. > > The solution for me was to use a dos boot disk and run > fdisk /mbr > however im not sure how that will affect your dual boot > situation. > > Anyway ... the mbr issue will get you going in the right > direction. Apparently xp cd gets hung if it cant make sense > of the mbr, even if other disks exist with window-happy mbrs. Mr. Kiwi: Thank you! I have a feeling this is the only path. I am going to wait until the long Thanksgiving weekend and if another possible solution doesn't appear, I think I will try what you suggested, before I wipe the drive. If I fdisk /mbr and am then able to restore the user32.dll file in WinXP, hopefully, after that, I could reinstall GRUB and have my dual boot box working again. If not, probably I will need to wipe the HD and install both OS's again. Lanny

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RE: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

On 18 November 2007, Alain Spineux aspineux at gmail.com wrote: <snip> >I remember a got this problem multiple time. The XP CD (and also self made >autoinstall CD) was refusing to boot if the HD was allready partitioned with >an "incompatible" fdisk tool. It was usually on test machine and I had >not problem doing a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 >and then reinstall all the machine from scratch, or if the installed >OS were important then I used some imaging or backup tools. But the reset of the >partition was mandatory. >You could try to use the very powerful BartPE live CD do restore your DLL. Alain: Thank you for recommending BartPE! I downloaded BartPE on this side of the box (CentOS 5), but I couldn't unzip it in Linux. I moved it over to our Windows ME box and unzipped it there. Since I cannot start WinXP on this box, I can't run BartPE on this box at this time. I was hoping BartPE would ask me to let it read the WinXP files from the CD (on the WinME box), but no joy. This is the only box we have that has WinXP on it and it is crippled. From what it said on the site for BartPE, I was hoping it would permit me to make the CD on our WinME box: >4. Now PE Builder will ask to search for windows installation files. If you don't have your windows XP setup/installation files on your >system you must insert the original Microsoft Windows XP installation/setup CD at this point. BartPE found that WinME was installed on that box and it died there. If you have any ideas about how I can make the BartPE CD, on a non WInME box, they will be much appreciated! TIA, Lanny

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Re: [centos] dual boot box: winxp & centos 5: impossible to restore winxp?
by Lanny Marcus 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

On Nov 18, 2007 1:05 PM, <gjgowey(a)tmo.blackberry.net> wrote: > Have you disconnected all your usb hardware before trying the repair? I've repaired my box >more times than I can count and the only time I've seen lots of hdd activity is when I had some >weird hardware attached. Geoff: Thank you for this information. On this box, there's no USB attached at this time. In the future, what you wrote might come in handy! The only things connected now are the monitor, keyboard, speakers, mouse and a printer connected via Parallel cable. Lanny

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Problems with Postfix and Perl
by Timothy Kesten 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hi Folks, I've new installed my CentOS5 Box. It works well but postfix. I use fetchmail and in maillog are these error message: Error in processing, id=04451-04, mime_decode-1 FAILED: Can't locate object method "seek" via package "File::Temp" at /usr/ lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Parser.pm line 816, <GEN14> line 142. (in reply to end of DATA command)) What's wrong? Any hints Thx Timothy

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Re: [centos] dual boot box: winxp & centos 5: impossible to restorewinxp? -- antair restored
by gjgowey＠tmo.blackberry.net 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Have you disconnected all your usb hardware before trying the repair? I've repaired my box more times than I can count and the only time I've seen lots of hdd activity is when I had some weird hardware attached. Geoff Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -----Original Message----- From: gjgowey(a)tmo.blackberry.net Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:01:11 Subject: [centos] dual boot box: winxp & centos 5: impossible to restorewinxp? -- antair restored We rarely use M$ Windows, but I let my daughter surf pbskids.org while using Windows and a Trojan Horse modified or deleted the user32.dll file. I found the instructions on the Microsoft Support web site, and it would be very easy for me to expand a new copy of user32.dll if I could get the MS WinXP CD to work. It boots OK, I press a key so it will search hardware and it then has hard drive activity for a long, long time. My impression is that Microsoft does not want this to work on dual boot boxes. I've tried this on dual boot boxes with Windows ME and Windows 98 SE and it works fine. Dell sent me two (2) new WinXP CDs (one in English and one in Spanish) but the problem apparently is not that I have a defective WinXP CD from Dell. Has anyone been able to restore WinXP on a dual boot box? TIA! -- Lanny --------------------------------------------------------- Over 800 Magazine titles up to 85% off http://lowcostmagazines.com/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld.

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pure-ftpd-1.0.22
by David Hrbáč 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hi, anyone successfully compiled http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/snapshots/pure-ftpd-1.0.22.tar.b… Thanks, David

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