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Re: [CentOS] system-display-config doesn't run right - Jay Leafey
by Lanny Marcus 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

Message: 24 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:40:11 -0500 From: Jay Leafey <jay.leafey(a)mindless.com> Subject: Re: [CentOS] system-display-config doesn't run right To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <45FEF52B.9070807(a)mindless.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" <snip> >You should probably try 'system-config-display --reconfig'. It may be >that your current xorg.conf has something not parse-able in it, the >--reconfig switch starts from scratch. Worth a try, anyway. >Remember, paranoia is a good thing, make a copy of your xorg.conf >first! Jay: Thank you for that! I had a very brief fling with FC6 and had terrible problems with xorg.conf, which I tried to fix with system- config-display I will try to remember the --reconfig if I run into that again. Lanny near Cali, Colombia

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 25, Issue 11
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '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-2007:0033 Important CentOS 4 i386 openoffice.org - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2007:0033 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 openoffice.org - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:12:30 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0033 Important CentOS 4 i386 openoffice.org - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1174828350.5469.38.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0033 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0033.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: openoffice.org-1.1.5-10.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.5-10.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm openoffice.org-kde-1.1.5-10.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm openoffice.org-libs-1.1.5-10.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm src: openoffice.org-1.1.5-10.6.0.EL4.src.rpm

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exports options
by Akemi Yagi 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

I have been running a local repository on a CentOS4 server. It serves CentOS4 clients (and FC5, FC6, and SuSE10.x if I bother to mention). My current options for exports is (ro,wdelay,insecure,root_squash). The ro and insecure options were added manually and others are default. I understand 'sync' is the default although it is not shown by exportfs -v. I also found this description in the NFS FAQ: "For the Linux implementation of NFS Version 3, using the "async" export option to allow faster writes is no longer necessary. NFS Version 3 explicitly allows a server to reply before writing data to disk, under controlled circumstances. It allows clients and servers to communicate about the disposition of written data so that in the event of a server reboot, a Version 3 client can detect the reboot and resend the data. In summary, be sure all exports on your Linux NFS servers use the "sync" option by setting it explicitly or by upgrading your nfs-utils package to version 1.0.1 or later. If you need fast writes, be sure your clients mount using NFS Version 3. You may also improve write performance by adding the "wdelay" option to your exports." In other words, the default settings (sync and wdelay) seem to be the best choice. Is this generally true? Are there any cases in which use of, for example, async is more desirable? Akemi

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how can one get a remote acess command prompt on install cd via drac to eject ?
by R Lists06 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

Is there a way to get to get past the cga type centos 4 install screen where it says To begin testing the cd media etc etc...... and shows the OK or SKIP selections... ...and get to a "text shell command prompt" and *eject* the cd so I can reboot the machine from remote??? I have a remote console drac connection, yet for once we sent the hired guns home for the weekend and I am a just a tad bit too far away at the moment to travel to it. Would someone please share if they know? Regards, and thanks in advance. :-) - rh -- Robert - Abba Communications http://www.abbacomm.net/

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Centos 4.4 Problems not i586 compatible
by junk＠realtechtalk.com 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

I have Centos 4.4 i386 installed an on i686. I tried making a mini-test live cd based on this install that just starts bash but it only works on i686 machines and not i586. I only have i386 glibc and all other packages are i386. I copied all of the necessary .so files. I even manually compiled bash using -march=i386 & -mtune=i386 but it will only run on i686. Can anyone explain why? Thanks!

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TightVNC controlling a Mac OSX 10.4.9.
by David A. Woyciesjes 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

Need some pointers here. I've got CentOS 4.4, and I want to control my OSX 10.4.9 box via VNC. It connects, and I get a little dot for the mouse cursor, but just a black screen. I can see the mouse controlling the OSX desktop... Here's the output when I start in a terminal: [d@f ~]$ vncviewer VNC server supports protocol version 3.889 (viewer 3.3) VNC authentication succeeded Desktop name "xxxxxxxx" Connected to VNC server, using protocol version 3.3 VNC server default format: 32 bits per pixel. Most significant byte first in each pixel. True colour: max red 255 green 255 blue 255, shift red 16 green 8 blue 0 Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct Using default colormap which is TrueColor. Pixel format: 16 bits per pixel. Least significant byte first in each pixel. True colour: max red 31 green 63 blue 31, shift red 11 green 5 blue 0 Using shared memory PutImage ShmCleanup called [d@f ~]$ vncviewer --version TightVNC viewer version 1.2.9 -- --- David Woyciesjes

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kickstart from harddisk to harddisk?
by Dogsbody 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

Please help with a problem that is slowly driving me nuts :-/ *Quick problem* Can I kickstart an install by reading all the files from a single partition on the system and installing onto all the spare space on the same drive? I am using `harddrive --partition=sda1 --dir=/` but it doesn't seem to work!! *Longer version* I have a server that has no CD-ROM and that I would like to install a custom version of CentOS onto. This is supplied as an ISO image. The server is in a datacentre so I can't setup other machines to boot off however a single boot server is available for diagnostics only. So far I have - Netbooted the machine - Wiped all partitions and created a single 800MB partition - Made this ext2 (kickstart seems to need ext2) - Mounted this drive and downloaded the ISO to it - Mounted the ISO as loopback - Copied all the data from the ISO into the disk - Setup extlinux and used the isolinux config - Modified the kickstart file... Changed `cdrom` to `harddrive --partition=sda1 --dir=/` Removed the line `clearpart --all` - Reboot Now, the system boots from disk, vmlinuz and initrd.img both unpack and execute fine! (so the syslinux/extlinux seems to be working great) and pages of system startup scroll past. It seems to then start asking for questions that should be covered by the kickstart file including asking where all the files are on the disk and then showing me the disk with all the files on! :-/ "What partition and directory on that partition hold the CD (iso9660) images" After all of this I feel so close yet so far! Thank you very much in advance Dan

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 25, Issue 10
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '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-2007:0124 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 file - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:0124 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) file - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2007:0124 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) file - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2007:0124 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 file - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2007:0124 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 file - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:21:06 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0124 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 file - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20070323222106.GJ14147(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0124 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0124.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/file-4.10-3.EL4.5.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Binding an ip address to an username with SQUID passwod file
by Indunil Jayasooriya 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

Hi List, I want to bind an ip address to a username with squid by using squid password file. I am using ncsa_auth programme. Below are line that I have added to squid.conf file. auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/squid/squid_passwd auth_param basic children 5 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours auth_param basic casesensitive off acl ncsa_users proxy_auth REQUIRED http_access allow ncsa_users We are currently browsing internet with usernames and passwords. But the problem is a user can access internet from all the workstation with his username and password. I do not need it. I only want a user to access internet from his machine. Solution to that is binding an ip address to an username. Then, A user can access internet from that particular ip. I searche a lot from the internet. I found some info. I tried a lot. But I still have not been able to solve this issue. Some info I found from the Internet says perl script can do it. pls see below ulrs for it. http://iits.uap.edu.ph/~jpira/footnotes/squid.html<http://iits.uap.edu.ph/%7Ejpira/footnotes/squid.html> http://www.visolve.com/squid/squid30/externalsupport.php Pls note that I am not a programmer. So I do not know any perl nor do I know any python stuff. So I do not want to go with above urls. But, I found an easy method from squid list. Pls see below URLS . http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200208/0033.html http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200208/0029.html These above URLS are fine for me. The above URLS say, put the IP add in squid passwd I did it. Pls see below for my squid_passwd file. [root@worldnet ~]# cat /etc/squid/squid_passwd indunil:TeiAQ3uqXDQNg:192.168.101.25 www:Oi4THedCcN0nQ web:qsTaT6v2loN5g It has bound user indunil to ip address 192.168.101.25 . But user indunil still can access internet from any ip . Why is that? Where did I go wrong? I think that it is an easy task. Pls help me to solve this issue. It is urgent. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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Video drivers, bittorrent and Centos 5?
by Scott R Ehrlich 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

At home I have CentOS 4.4 running on a Compaq Presario with an ATI Radeon 200G video chipset. Naturally, the linux driver support ATI offers are pretty crappy, thus many postings to many web sites on problems and possible resolutions. I forget where, and natually I didn't bookmark it, but there was one web site that provided the exact working solution. From then on, my video support worked flawlessly. Now, with CentOS 5 coming out, what support will there be for this type of card? My installation came from a bittorrent DVD. The problem I have with this method is how trustworthy seeded sites are for the download? If I am downloading 4, 5, or 6 CDs from a .gov, .mil, or .edu site, I feel it will be much more trustworthy. Granted, I could also outright pay for media from the CentOS organization. If someone can convince me that bittorrent is a 100% safe way to retrieve a copy of the OS with no tampering, then I'll feel more comfortable. Otherwise, I will want to completely redo my machine with CentOS 5, from partitioning on up. Thanks for any feedback/insights. Scott

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