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Oracle instantclient on CentOS 4.4 with DBD::Oracle
by Matt Martz 11 May '07

11 May '07

Does anyone have experience on installing the Oracle instantclient and DBD::Oracle on CentOS 4.4. I have been having several issues with getting the RPMs from Oracle's site working with DBD::Oracle. I can get the oracle instant client to install without issue. But I cannot compile/install DBD::Oracle using cpan or cpan2rpm. I found http://freshrpms.net/docs/oracle/ which has a nosrc rpm for the oracle instant client but I cannot find the ZIP files that are referenced in the SPEC file as Oracle has released a new version. When I try to build perl-DBD-Oracle-1.16-4.el4.src.rpm from that page it errors out...When I try to install perl-DBD-Oracle-1.16-4.el4.i386.rpm it says it cannot locate the .so files that the instantclient installed although I know they are there. I am not sure where that package is assuming the files should be so I cannot symlink them. Any assistance would be wonderful. Thanks! -- Matt Martz CentOS Mirror Admin mdmartz(a)gflug.net

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Screensavers for CentOS 5.0
by Mark Hull-Richter 10 May '07

10 May '07

Probably a stupid question, but here goes anyway. Are there any other screensavers available besides the four supplied in the release? Or is there a way to use the ones that came with 4.4 in 5.0?.... Thanks. -- Mark Hull-Richter DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com) 85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 949-680-3082 - Office 949-330-7691 - fax

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iFolder server on Centos 5
by Dave 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hi, Does anyone have iFolder server going on Centos 5? I'd like to secure and try it from another nonlocal machine, and was wondering any problems? Thanks. Dave.

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Lost file associations, only application/octet-stream
by Leonardo Pinheiro 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hi, After updating from CentOS 4.92 to 5 through manual hacks and 'yum update' (see http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-April/079023.html) I've lost all gnome file associations. Now every file is identified as application/octet-stream or text/plain or x-directory/normal (for directories). I've checked everything with 'rpm -Va' but couldn't find problem related to mime types. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Leonardo

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CentOS Install From Scratch on XFS File System
by Brent L. Bates 10 May '07

10 May '07

I'm thinking about switching to CentOS 4.4 x86_64 from another RH based version. However, I need to install it from scratch and I need EVERYTHING (including /boot & /) on XFS file systems. Does the default installer allow this? If not, how difficult would it be to make the necessary changes. I've done a lot of Google searching and searching of the CentOS site, but haven't found an answer anyplace. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research Center FAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 Email: B.L.BATES(a)larc.nasa.gov http://www.vigyan.com/~blbates/

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Problems running programs compiled unter Centos 5 on Centos 4 machines
by Bernhard Gschaider 10 May '07

10 May '07

I know this is quite a handwaving, stupid question, but I don't know where else to ask it and maybe somebody here can at least point me into the right direction, because I'm stuck. I have a program package that were using here (OpenFOAM for those who know it). My problem is that when I compile and link this package on CentOS 5, it won't run on CentOS 4.x-machines but stops with a floating-point-exception. The funny thing is that my experiments with strace and gdb indicate that the problems occur during the loading of an .so (that does not belong to the package). I was able to remove that so from the build, the program then failed with similar symptoms at another library. Has anyone here seen similar behaviour and what would be a possible solution? (to compile under 5 in such a way that it runs on 4) My problem is, that moving all machines to CentOS 5 is not possible, because our cluster-solution (Rocks) is based on 4. Any hints (how trivial they may appear to you) are most welcome.

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Scripting question
by Frank M. Ramaekers 10 May '07

10 May '07

I'm writing a script that has logging via a simple routine: LogIt() { Msg="$1" echo "$THISSCRIPT: $Msg" echo "$Msg" >>$LogFile } #A portion of this script sends a file via ftp: # ftp -vn >$tempfile <<$$EOD : : $$EOD #Then reads the temporary file to log while read line do LogIt $line Done <$tempfile rm -f $tempfile -------------------------------------- All worked fine when I tested the ftp to a temporary file and reading it back to log the output, but once I created it as a cron entry (or so it seems) it now seems to take each line up to the first space: Connected 220-TCP/IP Copyright 220 Remote 331 230 250 200 local: 227 150-About : : See anything I'm doing wrong....any better way of handling this? TIA, Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer; MCP, MCP+I, MCSE & RHCE American Income Life Insurance Company Phone: (254) 761-6649 Fax: (254) 741-5777

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RE: [CentOS] Disable window scaling during kickstart
by Plant, Dean 10 May '07

10 May '07

Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 06:34:54PM +0100, Plant, Dean wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> Due to a problem with CentOS 5 and one of our firewalls I am having >> to disable tcp window scaling to stop network connections grinding >> to a halt. I am also trying to Kickstart CentOS 5 machines through >> the firewall so need to disable window scaling at install time. >> >> I have added to the kickstart file >> >> %pre >> echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling >> >> But the install still hangs while transferring the stage2.img >> >> Should the above %pre work or do I need to do something else to >> disable window scaling during the install. >> >> In case anyone's interested CentOS 5 is the first time we have >> suffered this problem both CentOS 3&4 worked without issue. > > Weird issue. Haven't seen anyone else have it (at least on this > list). > > Can you switch over to your shell console when the hang happens and > examine the value of tcp_window_scaling to see if maybe it gets reset > somehow? I believe %pre should work.... > Weird... Tell me about it, I spent a lot of time head scratching trying to figure out why network connections would just mysteriously hang. Eventually found reference to a problem with tcp_window_scaling and firewalls and after disabling tcp_window_scaling on my test CentOS 5 box, everything started working. The install does not get far enough for the shell console to be available, it hangs at the transferring stage2.img. Dean

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Disable window scaling during kickstart
by Plant, Dean 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hello List, Due to a problem with CentOS 5 and one of our firewalls I am having to disable tcp window scaling to stop network connections grinding to a halt. I am also trying to Kickstart CentOS 5 machines through the firewall so need to disable window scaling at install time. I have added to the kickstart file %pre echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling But the install still hangs while transferring the stage2.img Should the above %pre work or do I need to do something else to disable window scaling during the install. In case anyone's interested CentOS 5 is the first time we have suffered this problem both CentOS 3&4 worked without issue. Thanks Dean

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 and Broadcom wireless
by David G. Miller 10 May '07

10 May '07

"Bart Schaefer" <barton.schaefer(a)gmail.com> wrote: > SoftMAC: Scanning finished > > SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to 00:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee > > SoftMAC: Cannot associate without being authenticated, requested authentication > > SoftMAC: Already requested authentication, waiting... > > SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to 00:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee. > > SoftMAC: Open Authentication with 00:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee failed, error code: 13 > > bcm43xx: Radio turned off That was as far as I got several months ago under FC6 when the native bcm43xx driver came out. There is (was?) a bugzilla for bcm43xx problems. I was able to get it to work only as long as I turned off authentication at my WAP. I recently tried bcm43xx with CentOS5 and the system froze during boot. This was with an x86_64 kernel. I went back to ndiswrapper which seems to work. I had an odd lockup/panic problem that was resolved with the 1.43 version of ndiswrapper. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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