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Fedora Core 5 EOL on 2007-06-29
by Akemi Yagi 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Ahem, I know this is a CentOS mailing list. BUT, as more and more people migrate from FC to CentOS, I thought placing this reminder here was worthwhile. [I am still running *cough* FC5 on my own desktop, so I am also running out of time] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-June/msg00006.html Happy Centosing! Akemi

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command to show virtual X screens
by Jerry Geis 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Hi all, Is there a command line command that controls which virtual X screen a person is viewing? Sure I can click on one of the 4 virtual X screens but can I control that from the command line. Thanks, Jerry

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vmware server 1.0.4 and centos 4.5 i386 install
by Jerry Geis 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Hi all, I tried to install centos 4.5 i386 as a guest on an AMD x2 machine today. It told me it did not find any install media. I had created an 8G disk for it. Is there a SCSI driver I need to "Add" when prompted? I have never used SCSI and dont know which SCSI controller vmware is emulating. What driver do I need to load? I was then surprised some time later when my machine locked up. Typically my machine is fine. only thing different is today I install vmware server 1.0.4. After the reboot it has been fine again - but I have not restarted vmware. Thanks, Jerry

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Re: [tools] Why FC Packages in Centos Repository?
by Dag Wieers 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, John Lee wrote: > Just curious, but why are there Fedora packages in Centos5 base > repository? (i.e. blahblah.fc6.rpm) Are they compatible with CentOS? That is a very good questions and I personally veel very sad that Red Hat chose to do this. RHEL5 (and CentOS 5) are based on development done on Fedora Core 6. Red Hat started off with Fedora Core 6 when creating RHEL5. After some considerable QA, they were stuck with packages from Fedora Core 6 that were tagged with fc6 and were not rebuild for RHEL5, but verbatim copied from FC6. Because they did not want to recompile and retag these packages, because it required them to redo QA, they chose to ship RHEL5 with the verbatim Fedora Core 6 packages. As a result, CentOS chose to keep the original package names, including the fc6 tag for maximum compatibility. Even when it is confusing as hell ! Be aware though that the fc6-tagged packages in RHEL5 are verbatim copied packages from Fedora Core 6, but that on CentOS 5 the fc6-tagged packages are newly rebuild packages on a CentOS 5 system. CentOS 5 (in contract to RHEL5) is completely self-hosting and CentOS is particularly proud of this. We actually did what Red Hat failed to do. But we have the legacy fc6-tag from RHEL5. I hope this clears it up. PS This also means that some, but not all the Fedora Core 6 packages work on RHEL5. That is one of the confusing parts of reality. In all cases you are better off with el5-tagged packages than fc6-tagged packages. -- -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]

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xorg-x11
by Barton Callender 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Greetings, Are there any xorg-x11-devel or xorg-server-devel rpm for centos 5? Thanks, Barton _________________________________________________________________ Kick back and relax with hot games and cool activities at the Messenger Café. http://www.cafemessenger.com?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_SeptWLtagline

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Re: [CentOS] Network Connection Card Problem?
by Jun Salen 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

On 9/11/07, Jun Salen <nokijun(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >Hi List, > > > >My Mail/Proxy server has from time to time refuse to > >accept accept network connection. If I restart the > >network service, the service will again start to > >accept connection but after some time will again > >refuse connection. I use CentOS 4.5 with Squid, > >DansGuardian, Postfix. Please can someone point me > >what are the possible cause of this. Thank you. > > In addition to my posting above. When I make ping to > other machine from the server, the server will again > restore and accept connection. This is weird, so my > temporary solution is to let the server continually > ping other machine. Please help. Thanks again. > Ping is a very cheap and acceptable solution ! Anyway you'r certainly curious about the problem :-) This is a problem about ARP request. Maybe another machine with low activity share the same IP or your swith/hub is badly configured ! You can use arping to detect any device with the same IP and tcpdump to look for arp request."arp -an" will show you the arp table. Regards > junji > aisalen.wordpress.com > Linux Registered User #253162 > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com ----------------------- When I do /sbin/arp -an in the server box it does not contain entries for ip address where the server, it is ok? I observed that when I ping the server from other machine, it replies but from time to time displays time-out. We use this server for our mail and proxy so it is affecting us when time outs occur. Tsk tsk. junji aisalen.wordpress.com Linux Registered User #253162 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Error trying to install Ktorrent
by Dago Pacheco 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Hi... I was trying to install Ktorrent in my centos 4 x64 (i use kde) and when I typed './configure' i get this error message: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support! How can i solve it?... i'm kinda newbie in linux. Tnaks averybody -- ________________________ Dago Pacheco Encargado de Informática Maestranza Makimet Ltda.

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Weird NFS problem
by Frank Cox 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

I have a weird NFS problem here. I am trying to set up a machine with Centos 5 on it. First time I've tried Centos, but it looks like it's going to be the real thing for some machines that I look after that are intended to be long-term "just works" application servers. I plan to start reading and participating in this mailing list now, so Hello to everyone! My name is Frank Cox and I own and operate the Melville Theatre in Melville Saskatchewan, Canada. My first attempt to install Centos 5 was from ISO files that I put on my fileserver, which is the method that I use to install Fedora. Boot off a boot CD, point it to the appropriate directrory on the fileserver, and let 'er rip. That didn't work this time. I got to the point where I told the boot CD where to find the ISO files on the fileserver, and the whole thing hung up. I found an error message on one of the consoles that said something to the effect of "server fileserver not responding, still trying". And that's as far as I got. I tried this a half-dozen times with the same result. I thought maybe it just didn't like my fileserver for some reason, so I put the ISO files on another of my computers and set up an NFS share on that computer. Same thing again. I gave up and put Centos 5 onto CD's, booted from CD number 1 and just swapped CD's until I'm done. I thought that solved everything but now I have something even weirder. I mounted my fileserver like this: mount fileserver:/nas/NASDisk-00002/files /mnt/fileserver That's exactly the same way that I mount it on my Fedora machines. The fileserver mounts without error, and it appears at first glance to work. I can "cd /mnt/fileserver/where-ever" and use ls to view the files that are in the directories. However, if I try to read the files on the fileserver, my terminal hangs up. All I can do is view the directories on my fileserver. Doing anything that reads any file on the fileserver locks up my terminal. Logging in again from another terminal and viewing /var/log/messages tells me this: nfs: server fileserver not responding, still trying This appears to be the same problem that I had when I was installing the operating system. Normally if the installer can't find the NFS share due to a typo or whatever, it just tells me "Can't find the images" and that's all there is to it. But the installer hung up at the point where it was supposed to start reading the images so I think it could find them but couldn't read them either. This exact same procedure works fine from my Fedora machines. What in the world is going on here? If I can't get NFS to work on this machine I'm going to be up the creek because I use LTSP on it to run several terminals. I haven't tried web browsing from that machine yet, but the ethernet card is obviously working because I did a "yum update" and a few "yum installs" with no problem. It is an Intel motherboard and CPU with integrated everything. I strongly suspect that I'm doing something stupid here and can't see the obvious. Can someone give me a steer? Thanks in advance for any assistance. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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searching for yum packages necessary for mail gateway
by Rogelio Bastardo 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

I'm looking for the Red Hat equivalent of this Debian statement "apt-get –y install postfix mailscanner spamassassin bind9 clamav ssh webmin webmin-core logwatch libspf2-0 libmail-spf-query-perl" "yum search" can't find some of the packages. Is there some sort of online DB or something that I can search through to see which repository I need to enable for some of those programs?

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Openoffice 2.3 on centos 5 issue
by beast 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

I have just install OOo 2.3 on new centos 5 box. However OO keep open registration wizard everytime launched, even though i already select "i do not want to register". I've been playing with "$HOME/.openoffice.org2/" but still no luck. This problem did not happen on FC6, so i guess its not OOo bug. --beast

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