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determine state of monitor using /proc/acpi directory and centos 5
by Jerry Geis 20 May '07

20 May '07

Is there a method using /proc/acpi directroy tree to see if the attached monitor is on or off? Thanks, Jerry

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Oddity with 4.5 and linode.com
by Stephen Harris 19 May '07

19 May '07

I just did a "yum update" on my linode instance to update from 4.4 to 4.5. That worked just fine. But on reboot it took 3 minutes to do the "checking for new hardware" stage. I initially thought that's because of a new release, so I did another reboot. That also took 2 minutes. OK, a minor issue (I don't reboot often) but... dunno if this is a UML issue or a linode specific issue, but 2 minutes in kudzu is a little odd! -- rgds Stephen

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Re: Now I can't shutdown [was: Screen blanks after initial setup (Centos 5)]
by Bart Schaefer 19 May '07

19 May '07

(Any list admins reading: This silliness with the multihop block list is getting really old.) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer(a)gmail.com> Date: May 13, 2007 12:29 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Now I can't shutdown [was: Screen blanks after initial setup (Centos 5)] To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> On 5/12/07, Itay <centos(a)nospammail.net> wrote: > > And I can't shutdown it, not even with the power button. There's no reset button? Have you tried holding the power button down for 6-10 seconds?

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Re: [CentOS-announce] CentOS 4.5 is released for i386, x86_64, and ia64
by Chris Date 19 May '07

19 May '07

>If you are currently using another version CentOS-4 version, using this >command will upgrade you to CentOS-4.5: > >yum update That doesn't work with a fresh install of 4.2 (from the Linux Magazine cover DVD, April '06). 'yum update' gives the following output: -------------------------- # yum update Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 25 kB 00:06 update : ################################################## 104/104 Added 104 new packages, deleted 0 old in 2.20 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 40 kB 00:17 http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. -------------------------- I encountered this problem a long time ago but haven't had time to look at it more closely since. Now would be a good time to solve it, so I'd welcome any ideas. Cheers, Chris

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Problem reading smbfs mounted filesystems
by Andy Allen 19 May '07

19 May '07

Mounted smbfs directories/files using line in fstab (CentOS 4.4) - mounts OK, but when I attempt to open files, I get the message "Error loading document ..... The operation on <document> was started with an invalid parameter". Any help appreciated please. Thanks, Andy

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Crazy idea for a portable CentOS installation
by Bart Schaefer 19 May '07

19 May '07

I've got CentOS up and running on my hp pavilion laptop. There wasn't enough space on the internal hard drive to shrink the NTFS partition and install CentOS there, and I didn't want to go through the exercise of copying everything to a new larger internal drive until I knew 5 was going to work, so it's installed on an external USB drive -- except for /boot which had to be on the internal drive in order for grub to properly dual-boot XP and CentOS. Now the thought occurs to me: Is there some way I can easily carry this external drive to another machine, plug it in, and boot up the same CentOS installation? There are two constraints: (1) There is no /boot on this drive, so I have to re-create that, and (2) I don't want to have the /etc configuration that works with my laptop destroyed by whatever kudzu finds on any other machine I might plug in to, so I need a separate /etc. Which leads to my question: Can I somehow: * copy /boot and /etc onto separate partitions on either this USB drive or a thumb drive [let's say a thumb drive for clarity in the rest of this paragraph], and * re-run grub to install a boot loader on the thumb drive, such that * the end result is that when I boot the laptop from the internal disk with the CentOS USB plugged in, I get exactly what I have now, but * when I boot from the thumb I get the root from the CentOS USB with the thumb /boot and /etc mounted over it? Kudzu could thus do whatever it needs to for the current hardware in the thumb /etc, without changing the original /etc, but everything else would be exactly as it is when I boot the laptop. Is there any chance at all this will work? I assume to change the boot device and reassign the /boot and /etc mount points I'll have to boot from the rescue CD. I've never done a grub reinstall by hand before (always used lilo in the past) so I'd appreciate pointers to the specifics of doing that for CentOS 5.

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Folding@Home in CentOS/Solaris Zone
by Alain M. Lafon 19 May '07

19 May '07

Hi there, I tried the Folding@Home client under CentOS(2.4.21) which is run in a Solaris Container/Zone on a x86 machine. Apparently this won't work ad hoc, since the downloaded Core file won't start: ... [16:44:49] Project: 3041 (Run 1, Clone 669, Gen 22) [16:44:49]=20 [16:44:49] FATAL: Couldn't start core work threadFATAL: Couldn't start core checkpoint timer thread [16:44:49] Folding@home Core Shutdown: UNKNOWN_ERROR [16:44:49] CoreStatus =3D 0 (0) [16:44:49] Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x0 [16:44:49] Deleting current work unit & continuing... [16:44:49] - Preparing to get new work unit... ... If somebody has a similar setup, I'd be glad to be given a hint. Alain M. Lafon -- Pfaffenwaldring 48C, 70569 Stuttgart ''_.._'' Tel.: +49711/9734074 ·|= =|· http://www.gefechtsdienst.de/preek \||/

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 27, Issue 11
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 19 May '07

19 May '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-2007:0353 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 evolution - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2007:0353 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 evolution - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2007:0345 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 vixie-cron - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2007:0345 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 vixie-cron - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2007:0358 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 squirrelmail - security (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2007:0358 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 squirrelmail - security (Johnny Hughes) 7. CESA-2007:0356 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 libpng - security update (Johnny Hughes) 8. CESA-2007:0356 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 libpng - security update (Johnny Hughes) 9. CESA-2007:0353 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) evolution - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 10. CESA-2007:0345 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) vixie-cron - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 11. CESA-2007:0358 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) squirrelmail - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 12. CESA-2007:0353 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) evolution - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 13. CESA-2007:0345 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) vixie-cron - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 14. CESA-2007:0358 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) squirrelmail - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 15. CESA-2007:0356 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 libpng - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 16. CESA-2007:0356 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) libpng - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 17. CESA-2007:0356 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 libpng - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 18. CESA-2007:0356 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) libpng - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 07:42:55 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0353 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 evolution - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1179492175.3130.228.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0353 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0353.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: evolution-2.0.2-35.0.2.el4.x86_64.rpm evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.2.el4.x86_64.rpm src: evolution-2.0.2-35.0.2.el4.src.rpm

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Windows mobile ICS
by devel 19 May '07

19 May '07

Hello, Anyone know how to connect ICS or CPAN of GPRS with bluetooth or USB in centos 4.4 -- -- Publicidad http://www.pas-world.com

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installed centos 4.4 and want to stay with it
by Mikael Kermorgant 19 May '07

19 May '07

Hello, I installed CentOS 4.4 (for the first time) around a month ago (minimal install) and I just typed "yum update". I was surprised to see a big list of updates and feared an upgrade to centos 4.5 or 5.0 so I stopped the process with CTRL+C. What could I do to check everything is ok and stay with CentOS release 4.4 ? Thanks in advance, -- Mikael Kermorgant PS : here's a substract of yum update output : [root@azimbra ~]# yum update Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories dell-software 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 kbs-CentOS-Extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 15 kB 00:00 dell-softw: ################################################## 75/75 Added 2 new packages, deleted 2 old in 0.07 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 25 kB 00:00 update : ################################################## 104/104 Added 104 new packages, deleted 393 old in 0.68 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 580 kB 00:01 base : ################################################## 1518/1518 Added 513 new packages, deleted 494 old in 4.70 seconds Resolving Dependencies iputils-20020927-19.EL4.5 100% |=========================| 10 kB 00:00 ---> Package iputils.i386 0:20020927-19.EL4.5 set to be updated ---> Downloading header for words to pack into transaction set. unzip-5.51-9.EL4.5.i386.r 100% |=========================| 8.5 kB 00:00 ---> Package unzip.i386 0:5.51-9.EL4.5 set to be updated ---> Downloading header for rhpl to pack into transaction set.

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