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Re: [CentOS] How to add to EPEL wishlist?
by Radu-Cristian FOTESCU 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

> Wrong list? The subject line was a question. EPEL stands for... you know what. And CentOS is a rebuild of... you know what. Therefore, I suspect that CentOS users would/should/could be interested in adding EPEL as an extra repository. You know, there is more than Karan[bir] and DAG on Earth... But yes, it might be a wrong list, for different reasons than you thought of. R-C __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Vsftpd problem
by Tony Molloy 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

Hi all, I have a filesystem which I need to make available through ftp ( vsftpd ). I have this as separate filesystem as it needs to be available through apache and NFS also. It's our local mirror. I've set up vsftpd and put a test directory in /var/ftp/pub and it works. However I can't seem to get it to see the separate /mirrors filesystem. I've tried using symlinks as below in /var/ftp/pub. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 26 10:53 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 22 12:11 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25 Jun 22 12:21 .message drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 22 15:25 TEST lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 26 10:53 mirrors -> /mirrors I this case the TEST directory works but the mirrors directory does not. ftp> cd mirrors 550 Failed to change directory. I've also tried using mount --bind to remount the the /mirrors filesystem as /var/ftp/pub/mirrors. When I do this I can see the contents of /var/ftp/pub/mirrors drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 22 15:25 TEST drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Jun 23 07:54 mirrors ls -al /var/ftp/pub/mirrors/ drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Jun 23 07:54 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 26 11:04 .. drwxr-xr-x 9 1000 1000 4096 May 18 00:19 centos drwxr-xr-x 6 ftp 803 4096 Mar 15 13:11 config-linux drwxr-xr-x 4 apache apache 4096 Sep 21 2006 custom-repos However when I try to ftp to it I can't see the mirrors directory -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 25 Jun 22 12:21 .message drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp ftp 4096 Jun 22 15:25 TEST Finally I've tried mounting it directly under /var/ftp/pub/mirrors -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25 Jun 22 12:21 .message drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 22 15:25 TEST drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Jun 23 07:54 mirrors But when I ftp into the box again I can't see the mirrors directory ftp> ls 227 Entering Passive Mode (10,220,1,157,168,142) 150 Here comes the directory listing. drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp ftp 4096 Jun 22 15:25 TEST 226 Directory send OK. Is this a permissions problem or does vsftpd not allow separate filesystems to be seen. Regards, Tony

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snmpd log messages
by Paul R. Ganci 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

I updated to CentOS 4.5 yesterday and now I am finding the snmpd daemon is logging reams and reams of these messages: May 20 10:40:03 mx01 snmpd[2572]: Connection from - 127.0.0.1 May 20 10:40:03 mx01 snmpd[2572]: transport socket = 12 Is there a way to turn off this useless logging? I am getting these every 5 minutes (every time MRTG updates my MailScanner statistics). So far what I tried was to take off the -a switch when starting snmpd. That didn't help. This snmpd behavior is new from CentOS 4.4. -- Paul (ganci(a)nurdog.com)

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Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms
by Robert Moskowitz 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

I am making some progress on my Centos 5 notebook build. So I am looking at Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0. Should I install them? Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing improved here and wait for 3.0? (well I have not even had a chance to look at Thunderbird 2.0, that is new)? I have the install steps we covered here back on 2/2/07; but are there rpms? I did not find anything over at ATrpms. Some advice would be greatly appreciated.

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empty /var/log/messages
by beast 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

I have one centos 4.0 server which /var/log/messages was always empty (0 bytes). I wonder what has been blocking the syslog to write the log. Other (syslog) log files are fine, only messages. /etc/syslog.conf: # Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher. # Don't log private authentication messages! *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;spampd.none -/var/log/messages .thanks

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one application receive all key commands
by Jerry Geis 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

Is there a way in centos 4 or 5 to have one application receive all keyboard events - no matter what is running. Some applications bind keys etc... and I need to get those keys no matter what and not have the application see them at all. Is there a way to do that? Jerry

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logwatch reports not benig emailed
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

Hello, I have a couple of CentOS 5 servers, and third running in a FC6 domU. I've configured postfix on those servers to not deliver any email to the local system, but to instead relay mail to an internal mail server. I also set up /etc/aliases to send all mail to root to me, ksandhu. I can send mail on the command line, and I get it at my email address, delivered to the internal mail server: great! But, every night when logwatch runs, the damned reports never make it to my mailbox. What's worse is that I can manually run logwatch (logwatch --mailto root), and I get the report in my mailbox! All CentOS 5 servers are exhibiting the same behaviour. I've setup postfix like I always have. CentOS 4 servers with the same config are sending their logwatch reports properly. I've tried explicitly setting the path to sendmail in /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf: mailer = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t" but, it hasn't helped. Does anyone have any ideas? I must be missing something obvious. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux 12:14:54 up 16 days, 3:01, 3 users, load average: 0.99, 0.38, 0.23

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OpenCA for Centos
by Robert Moskowitz 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

OpenCA has rpm for FC4: https://www.openca.org/projects/openca/downloads.shtml Will that work for Centos 5? Gee I should just spin up a box, try it and see if it crashes and burns....... Given the interest in OpenCA in edu and k-12, it would be nice to see this readily available. Of course I am biased, as I lurk on the various edu PKI forum.

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Re: [CentOS] Re: empty /var/log/messages
by David G. Miller 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

On Tuesday 26 June 2007, beast wrote: > > On 26/06/07 13:42 +0100, Seán O Sullivan wrote: > >>>> > >>> I have one centos 4.0 server which /var/log/messages was always >>>> > >>> empty (0 bytes). I wonder what has been blocking the syslog to write >>>> > >>> the log. >>>> >>> > >> >>> > >> Firstly, I'd suggest updating to 4.5. >>> > > > > This is the production machine and has been runing for years, so > > upgrading OS is not not my first option :) > > > >>> > >> Secondly, is /tmp mounted with noexec option? >>> > > > > No afaik. > > > > root# mount | grep var > > /dev/hda4 on /var type ext3 (rw) > > > >> > >forgot to add, check /var/log/messages.* for current syslog messages >> > > > > root# ls -l messages* > > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 25 11:11 messages > > -rw------- 1 root root 32480831 Jun 3 00:04 messages.1.gz > > -rw------- 1 root root 81601061 May 27 00:13 messages.2.gz > > -rw------- 1 root root 905460 May 20 00:01 messages.3.gz > > -rw------- 1 root root 1055604 May 13 00:01 messages.4.gz > > > > Note: previous messages.gz was having gigantic size because recent bug > > in spamassassin, it logs all spampd log thats why I disable it on the > > syslog.conf. But after few days I notice that messages were always > > empty, even I restart syslog and then mv and touch messages > > > >From my own experience there is one trivial way to cause this. How much space is left on whatever partition /var is mounted on? Your comment about SA causing the huge log reminded me of the time I filled /var due to spewage from a bad configuration. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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CentOS5 on Dell Latitude D620, Docking Station & Dual Monitors???
by Matt Shields 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

I've got a Dell Latitude D620, dell docking station and a Dell 2007WFP (20" widescreen lcd). With XP I had the laptop screen and the lcd working as dual screens. But for the life of me I cannot get CentOS5 to work with dual screens. Anyone have this working? I would greatly appreciate any assistance. -matt

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