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screen saver under centos 5
by Jerry Geis 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Hi all, I am using centos 5. I need the screen to always be on. I have gone into System -> Preferences -> Screen saver and then I unchecked the "Activate screen saver when computer is IDLE" setting. I also edited the xorg.conf and commented out the dpms line. However, my screen is still going into some kind of screen saver. What else is there to disable? Thanks, Jerry

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system crash by "find"
by Akemi Yagi 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Is it possible to crash a system just by running the find command? I connected to a machine running CentOS 5.0 x86_64 and issued a command: find / -name filename -print Now, this machine is not responding to a ping. I cannot see what happened until I get to the box tomorrow morning. Although I seldom do a find / , I had never seen this sort of problem before. Akemi

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Dependency CentOS 5
by CentOS List 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Hi, While running yum update, --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: geronimo-specs = 1.0-0.M2.2jpp.12.el5.centos for package: geronimo-specs-compat --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: geronimo-specs = 1.0-0.M2.2jpp.12.el5.centos is needed by package geronimo-specs-compat What am i missing here? Thanks. Best Regards

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LPRng
by Mogens Kjaer 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

I have a redhat 9 server I would like to migrate (install Centos on a new machine, and move the necessary files) to Centos 5. On the RH9 machine, I use LPRng for printing. This was mainly choosen because it makes it easy to control access to the printers using /etc/lpd.perms, something I never figured out how to do in cups. All printer queues are raw printers, the printer driver in Windows takes care of the rest. Anyone having success with LPRng on a newer RHEL/Centos? Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08 Email: mk(a)crc.dk Homepage: http://www.crc.dk

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centos 5 - iintruder alert, intruder alert
by R Lists06 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

CentOS 5 - Intruder alert Somebody that uses windows has infiltrated the upstream. Alert, alert, weeeeep weeeeeeeeepppp bweeeeeeeeeepppppp screeeeeccchhhhhh :-) [root@tstream11 ~]# ls -axl /bin/tracert lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 20 17:56 /bin/tracert -> traceroute - rh -- Abba Communications Internet Spokane, WA www.abbacomm.net

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mirrorlist(for nagios or snort)
by Pitshou Asingalembi Mbema 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

hi, i want to know how i can find a mirror for installing nagios in centos 4. Because when i do yum search nagios or yum install nagios i don't receive a response.I don't know if somebody can give me a website like apt-get.org(unofficial apt repositories). thanks

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CentOS 4.4 - added disk prevents system from booting past initrd
by Simen Thoresen 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Hi people, I ran into one of these silly issues I'd like to share as I think the reason behind it may be a flaw in the current initrds. The setup; Dual-Xeon Intel-chipset motherboard. SATA-disk attached to ICH, onboard Adaptec SCSI-controller. Installed system, updated packages, no problems. Basic, non-LVM partition setup - OS-disk is /dev/sda, single filesystem-partition /dev/sda1 is labeled LABEL=/, and fstab uses the label to access the filesystem. I now add a SCSI-disk (previously used) to the onboard SCSI-controller, and the fun starts. The onboard controller is identified as scsi0 and scsi1, the SATA-disk sits on scsi2. SCSI-disk is thus /dev/sda, and SATA-disk becomes /dev/sdb. This should not be a problem as the fstab refers to the partition by label and not device name. And then disaster! While booting, the system issues 'Checking root filesystem' (I'm not 100% sure about the output here), and craps out on a badly broken /dev/sda1. On the SCSI-disk, /dev/sda1 is an extended partition, with /dev/sda5 being the partition that holds the filesystem. Thus fsck'ing /dev/sda1 does not bring any useful. But why? Why does the initrd insist on fsck'in /dev/sda1, when it should check LABEL=/? Is there something I'm not getting here? -S -- Simen Thoresen, Dolphin ICS Systems Administration and Wulfkit Support

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How to diagnose "Unable to handle kernel paging request" kernel panic?
by Jim King 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Does anyone know how to diagnose the error "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address xxxxxx"? I got this error (followed by a panic and a crash) on a server running CentOS 4.4 with the 2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp kernel. The machine is based on an Intel 975XBX2 motherboard (975X chipset). I have built several of these and they have been extremely stable. This one is an Asterisk PBX. It was up for over a month before this crash. Here is the exact kernel build info, from the restart log: "Linux version 2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp (mockbuild(a)builder6.centos.org) (gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)) #1 SMP Tue Jan 30 12:33:47 EST 2007" Does the call trace indicate something to do with the ext3 file system? I am not running RAID on this machine, it is just a single drive with LVM. Any help that the list could be would be really great. Thanks, Jim Here is the /var/log/messages entry: Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 7c4ad43d Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: printing eip: Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: f8892ad2 Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: *pde = 00000000 Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: Oops: 0002 [#1] Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: SMP Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: Modules linked in: zttranscode(U) wctdm24xxp(U) zaptel(U) md5 ipv6 parport_pc lp parport autofs4 sunrpc crc_ccitt button battery ac hw_random sky2 e1000 floppy dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror ext3 jbd dm_mod ata_piix libata sd_mod scsi_mod Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: CPU: 0 Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: EIP: 0060:[<f8892ad2>] Not tainted VLI Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp) Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: EIP is at journal_grab_journal_head +0x26/0x42 [jbd] Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: eax: 1e14ae0f ebx: cc9e5284 ecx: 7c4ad439 edx: cc9e5284 Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: esi: c1114300 edi: 00000000 ebp: c89e5284 esp: f7cfee24 Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: Process kswapd0 (pid: 51, threadinfo=f7cfe000 task=f7d276f0) Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: Stack: f888d9f0 00000000 f7ec5a00 f88c44d3 000000d0 f3c4f678 f7cfef58 c015d323 Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: f3c4f678 c1114300 c0149c7f 00000001 00000001 00000010 00000000 f7cfeec8 Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: f7cfee64 f7cfee64 00000002 00000001 c11142c0 c11142e0 c1114140 c1114160 Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: Call Trace: Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: [<f888d9f0>] journal_try_to_free_buffers +0x5d/0xc5 [jbd] Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: [<f88c44d3>] ext3_releasepage+0x0/0x54 [ext3] Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: [<c015d323>] try_to_release_page+0x34/0x46 Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: [<c0149c7f>] shrink_list+0x293/0x3ed Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: [<c0149fb6>] shrink_cache+0x1dd/0x34d Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: [<c0144e78>] get_writeback_state+0x30/0x35 Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: [<c0180c1e>] mb_cache_shrink_fn+0x56/0x131 Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: [<c0149776>] shrink_slab+0x7e/0x161 Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: [<c014a674>] shrink_zone+0xa7/0xb6 Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: [<c014aa6f>] balance_pgdat+0x1c5/0x30e Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: [<c02d27c9>] schedule+0x86d/0x8db Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: [<c0120420>] prepare_to_wait+0x12/0x4c Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: [<c014ac82>] kswapd+0xca/0xcc Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: [<c01204f5>] autoremove_wake_function +0x0/0x2d Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: [<c02d47f2>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14 Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: [<c01204f5>] autoremove_wake_function +0x0/0x2d Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: [<c014abb8>] kswapd+0x0/0xcc Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: [<c01041f5>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: Code: 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 89 c2 31 c9 eb 0b f3 90 8b 02 a9 00 00 10 00 75 f5 f0 0f ba 2a 14 19 c0 85 c0 75 ec 8b 02 f6 c4 20 74 06 8b 4a 28 <ff> 41 04 8b 02 a9 00 00 10 00 75 08 0f 0b 11 02 58 42 89 f8 f0 Apr 25 11:29:25 amd kernel: <0>Fatal exception: panic in 5 seconds

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Re: [CentOS] recording sound: how 2 control recording level?
by Andy 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

fredex wrote: >> >> I'm wondering if I should change my desktop to KDE and try with its sound >> tools. I suppose it couldn't harm anything to try. > You can use KDE if you want, of course system-wide settings and > user-wide settings apply in both. You can also run under GNOME, or even > add to the GNOME menus the KDE applications that you like. Also CentOS 5 > is far superior to CentOS 4, regarding user apps and tools, so perhaps > you may want to give CentOS 5.0 a try, it is very good and *faster*! I have just installed CentOS 5, but there is no Audacity package for it yet, and nothing comes near Audacity.

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installing raid1 via serial terminal during install
by Dave 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Hello, I'm wanting to install centos via serial terminal on to a box without monitor. It will be administered remotely via ssh. I've got two disks in it and would like to use raid1 with this system, but i'd like to get this going preferably during or immediately after the install. My problem as i see it is installing grub on to both hard disks, you have to get a shell window during the install for that otherwise the box won't boot. Does anyone have this working? Thanks. Dave.

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