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X login screen fails on the first try
by Frank Cox 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

I set up a Centos 5 machine a couple of weeks ago and everything was working perfectly. It survived a few reboots and whatnot with no problem. I moved it to another location on Saturday afternoon and, again, it booted up and worked fine. It was rebooted this morning and now the graphical login screen doesn't appear. Everything appears to load normally but once the text login screen appears, that's it. No graphical login screen. If I log in at the text console and type startx I am told that X is already running. If I hit ctrl-alt-f7 at the text login screen I see a completely blank/black screen. If I then hit ctrl-alt-esc the graphical login screen comes up and everything works as it should. If I switch to runlevel 3 and log into the text console and type startx, my desktop shows up just as it should. There are no errors that I can see in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Again, this all worked fine up until this morning and nothing changed. Today I rebooted it several times and I consistently get the behaviour detailed here. So, what could be going wrong and preventing the graphical login screen from loading? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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Sound problems on envidia 6510 in Compaq SR5110NX
by Chuck Mattern 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

I've go a Compaq Presario (SR5110NX) that I've loaded CentOS 5 on and all is well except for the sound card. I understand that OSS supports the chipset but it's not being detected an loaded properly and I've invested a significant amount of time already. I've probably got an old supported card lying around here somewhere but I hat to give up on the principal. I would rather not download the proprietary drivers as that will create a dependency when the kernel is upgraded and I'm shipping this off to a remote law office where I'd like them to be a little more self sufficient than having to have me log in and recompile each time they upgrade a kernel. Any experience or advise with this would be appreciated. Regards, Chuck

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missing source rpm for CESA-2007:0513 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 gimp - security update
by Matthew Miller 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 05:54:53AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing > to the mirrors: > i386: > gimp-2.0.5-7.0.7.el4.i386.rpm > gimp-devel-2.0.5-7.0.7.el4.i386.rpm > src: > gimp-2.0.5-7.0.7.el4.src.rpm Binaries are there, but the src.rpm is missing even from mirror.centos.org. -- Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>

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Centos5-live kernel panic?
by Ted Miller 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

I am fairly sure that I had gotten this to work before, and I know that the Centos4-live disk worked OK, but now (maybe since I upgraded BIOS) I get this sequence after booting the live cd: Creating /var in RAM ... Done Found Centos-live.sqfs but couldn't mount it: Linking /usr to /centos-live/usr /linuxrc: 1208: [: not found Freeing unused kernel memory: 296K freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 684K Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found Try passing init= option to kernel So far I: 1. checked md5 of downloaded .iso 2. burned another copy of CD w/ verify after burn using KD3 3. tried CD in a VMWare machine, and it boots up fine 4. tried failsafe boot option I am guessing that the problem goes back to the "Found centos-live.spfs but couldn't mount it" line, as this mounts OK on the VMWare machine. In case the hardware layout is confusing it, and I really do need to pass an init argument to it, my layout is: IDE 0 Master: None Slave: CD drive IDE 1 Master: CD drive Slave: hdd (windows 2000 boot) IDE 2 (SATA): sda IDE 3 (SATA): sdb IDE 4 (SATA): sdc MB is Gigabyte K8N Ultra 9 nVidia NForce 4 chipset F9c BIOS version AMD64 processor 1gb RAM Glad to supply other info if you tell me what you need and where to find it. Ted Miller Indiana

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Re: [CentOS] Intrusion Detection Systems
by Les Bell 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

John Hinton <webmaster(a)ew3d.com> wrote: >> I did look at snort and actually some people run both snort and OSSEC. I don't remember the reasons. << Simply put, they're different things. Snort is a network IDS which examines network traffic packets, looking for the signatures of various attacks. OSSEC is host IDS which monitors logs for evidence of attacks or misuse on a host OS. In many installations, you need them both. Best, --- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909

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Re: [CentOS] Intrusion Detection Systems
by Lanny Marcus 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

On 27 September 2007, John Hinton <webmaster(a)ew3d.com> wrote: > Message: 50 > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:13:00 -0400 > <snip> > WOW! I just did an install of OSSEC on a couple of servers and so far > I'm very impressed. First, the installation was as good as anything John: Sounds like you are very pleased with OSSEC. Did you look at and discard SNORT? <http://www.snort.org/> -- Lanny Over 800 Magazine titles up to 80% off http://lowcostmagazines.com/

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PHP help required
by umair shakil 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Dear all Salam!!! i am using php+mysql for jffnms. i installed php myadmin for mysql administration. after login to phpmyadmin it says mbstring missing..... i search the yum has php-mbstring.... but when i install it using yum it says: php 4.3.9 update php-snmp update My question is if install php-mbstring, will php be effected and shows abnormal behaviour to jffnms???? Regards, Umair Shakil ETD

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Silly question - Anything faster than rm?
by Jamie Lists 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Maybe this is a silly question, but i have a few million files i need to delete but i can't just reformat the volume. Right now the fastest thing i can think of is nice -20 rm -Rf /folder-i-want-to-delete is there a better or faster way to do this? Thanks, Jamie

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mysql and windows
by Ioannis Vranos 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

CentOS 5.0 x86 provides mysql for free. However I couldn't find a free version of mysql for windows. Isn't there any for windows?

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Able to open TCP session, but unable to receive html content
by Garron Kramer 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

I seem to be having a problem with all of my CentOS5 machines, which do not seem to be a problem with CentOS4.4: [garron@MailScanner ~]$ telnet www.debtbusterloans.com 80 Trying 87.86.7.52... Connected to www.debtbusterloans.com (87.86.7.52). Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:34:24 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727 Pragma: no-cache ... Yet: [root@eagle ~]# telnet www.debtbusterloans.com 80 Trying 87.86.7.52... Connected to www.debtbusterloans.com (87.86.7.52). Escape character is '^]'. GET / Connection closed by foreign host. [root@eagle ~]# --- I've done a tcpdump, and it would appear as if I receive a TCP RST when attempting to request pages - yet this appears to work for other websites. So far, I've been able to narrow down that this is only happening on my CentOS5 machines and not CentOS4.4Server installations. Could anyone please advise? Its the strangest problem - especially as it only affects certain websites. Regards, Garron Kramer

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