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Merry Christmas ! and a tiny question
by Kari Salovaara 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

Hi all, I hope You have had nice Christmas Eve. My question: I've updated version 4.4, in that version of Gimp is 2.0.5 and the up-to-date version at Gimp website is 2.2.13 (stable). There seems to be 2.2.8 for FC3 but that's not the newest and thus I don't want to get it. How I should proceed when, - I want the latest stable version, - want to get some optional packages - want to be able to update these progs - I want to be able to upgrade this machine to new Centos 4.5 and Centos 5 in future Should I proceed using source code of Gimp and all packages (if they do not exist in my machine already) ? This question may sound a little naive but this is my home machine which I use also much for my works and I'm not willing to re-install it often (and I'm lazy too). Best regards, Kari -- Kari Salovaara Hanko, Finland

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Kickstart Questions
by Elrako X. Harkonnen 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

Hi, We dont run DHCP in our environment where I build our servers, is it required to get a first IP address to hit my kickstart server running on my xandros debian laptop? Just been a couple years since I last did some kickstart builds and I dont have system-config-kickstart running on a machine here in my home lab. I can turn on DHCP on my linux laptop perhaps, but just wanted to check in here before I over-engineer something. I have a line in the kickstart file that gives the machine it's network addressing like this (fictional IPs): network --device eth0 --bootproto *static* --*ip* 192.168.25.4 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.25.1 --nameserver 192.168.25.2,192.168.25.3 --hostname myhost4.mydomain.com it's right under these: (#question, it does go at the end, in the position I have it in right?) ----snip---------- # KICKSTART FOR STANDARD SERVER install cdrom lang en_US.UTF-8 langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us # what's this for? I found it in an example file. # %include /tmp/netconfig firewall --disabled selinux --disabled # what's this for? Also found in example file. %include /tmp/authconfig # xconfig --startxonboot # #####Question: Do I just leave this 'xconfig' statement out completely since I dont run X? timezone --utc America/Los_Angeles bootloader --location=mbr --append="rhgb quiet" ###################################################################### ## DISK CONFIGURATION # Partitioning # Using the default partition table. clearpart --all --initlabel # can I add the '--drives=sda' sda section to the end of the above line? i got from example file wanted to combine with initlabel statement.. # clearpart --all --drives=sda part / --fstype "ext3" --size=1012 --ondisk=sda # do i need to call the sda scsi disk out if there are no IDE drives? part /boot --fstype "ext3" --size=256 --ondisk=sda part swap --size=8192 --ondisk=sda part /home --fstype "ext3" --size=8192 --ondisk=sda part /var --fstype "ext3" --size=8192 --ondisk=sda part /tmp --fstype "ext3" --size=1012 --ondisk=sda part /usr --fstype "ext3" --size=4096 --ondisk=sda part /var --fstype "ext3" --size=40960 --grow --ondisk=sda ###################################################################### ## PACKAGES %packages ## Standard packages @base @development-tools kernel network --device eth0 --bootproto *static* --*ip* 192.168.25.4 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.25.1 --nameserver 192.168.25.2,192.168.25.3 --hostname myhost.mydomain.com

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Re: [CentOS] centos 5 beta 2 status
by Mike Seda 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

Hi All, Once centos 5 beta 2 is released, what will be the url for downloading it? Thx, Mike Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com Thu Dec 21 14:46:23 UTC 2006 * Previous message: [CentOS] centos 5 beta 2 status * Next message: [CentOS] 64-bit Java? * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 01:26 +0900, Shawn wrote: > > HI, > > > But, you > > will get a "CentOS" quality product when we release it, beta or not. > > I don't want to read too much into what you say so I assume this means > that like RHEL5 betas, these betas are not upgradeable to a final > release version. > Every effort will be made to make CentOS-5 final be able to be an upgrade target of CentOS-5 beta. There may be some small individual issues (ie, a package is include as a test in the Beta, but upstream provider rolls back to an older package for release ... this has happened a couple times already in the past). For those kinds of issues, if you upgrade from Beta to Final, you will have to manually revert the older packages back ... We are obviously tied to the released Source Code, so there could be other issues, but it is one of our goals that the beta can be upgraded to the final. (My main workstation is an upgraded CentOS-4.0 beta 1 all the way up at each release to now CentOS-4.4 :P) Upgrades from CentOS-3 or 4 to CentOS-5 might be much harder ... and would most probably not be recommended, but possible. Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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BlockHosts with CenOS 4.4?
by Iain Lee 24 Dec '06

24 Dec '06

I'm trying (and failing) to use BlockHosts to stop thousands of FTP login attempts. BlockHosts works fine with ssh but not with vsftp. I've found the problem but not the solution at http://www.aczoom.com/cms/forums/blockhosts/vsftp-hanging Can anyone could help with either getting BlockHosts to work or suggesting another method?

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 22, Issue 4
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 24 Dec '06

24 Dec '06

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Copying my system to another drive
by Christophe 24 Dec '06

24 Dec '06

Hi, I'm trying to copy my CentOS install to a new drive. - old drive is /dev/hda and had hda1 : /boot hda2 : swap hda3 lvm hda5 : lvm hda4 : /usr/local - new drive is /dev/hdb hdb1 : /boot hdb2 : swap hdb3 : / I decided to get rid of lvm which is useless to me. I've created and formated the new partitions and copied anything from the old drive to the new one excepted the /dev entries by issuing some cp -a With grub I did root (hd1,0) then setup (hd1) I've also modified the content of hdb1 /boot/grub/grub.conf and passed param root=/dev/hdb3 to the kernel I didn't find how to created all the /dev entries but I read somewhere that 2.6 kernels create them at boot time. So, what is the problem ? (I boot my server by selecting the new drive from the BIOS boot devices menu) : boot goes until 'checking root filesystem', then complains about something really wrong on /dev/hdb3 and send me to a kind of rescue shell. I did a fsck on /dev/hdb3 which says the volume is clean Don't know what I've missed and what I have to fix... just in case, cat /proc/mounts gives me rootfs / rootfs rw 0,0 /proc /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0 none /dev tmpfs rw 0 0 /proc /proc proc rw,nodirattime 0 0 /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 /sys /sys sysfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 Thanks and merry Christmas to all ! ___________________________________________________________________________ Découvrez une nouvelle façon d'obtenir des réponses à toutes vos questions ! Profitez des connaissances, des opinions et des expériences des internautes sur Yahoo! Questions/Réponses http://fr.answers.yahoo.com

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 22, Issue 3
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

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-2006:0749 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 tar - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2006:0749 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) tar - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2006:0749 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 tar - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2006:0749 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) tar - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2006:0759 Critical CentOS 3 ia64 seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2006:0759 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x) seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2006:0749 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 tar - security update (Johnny Hughes) 8. CESA-2006:0749 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 tar - security update (Johnny Hughes) 9. CESA-2006:0759-01 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x) seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 10. CESA-2006:0759 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 seamonkey - security update (Johnny Hughes) 11. CESA-2006:0759 Critical CentOS 4 i386 seamonkey - security update (Johnny Hughes) 12. CESA-2006:0758 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 Firefox - security update (Johnny Hughes) 13. CESA-2006:0760 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 Thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 14. CESA-2006:0758 Critical CentOS 4 i386 Firefox - security update (Johnny Hughes) 15. CESA-2006:0760 Critical CentOS 4 i386 Thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 16. CESA-2006:0759 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 17. CESA-2006:0758 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 23:47:12 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0749 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 tar - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20061222214711.GF12634(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0749 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0749.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/tar-1.14-12.RHEL4.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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recommneded tape drives
by Dustin Krysak 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

Hi there, I am pricing out a dell 840 (low end file server) that will run latest centos. Can anyone recommend a good tape drive/card combo with centos? The drives (to be backed up) in it will be a raid 0 - 500gb. Thanks in advance! Dustin

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How to connect to a Windows PC in LAN
by Ha Thai Duong 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Hi I am a new bee to Linux in general. Please accept my apologies if the question is not appropriate. I have a LAN with 2 computers: One is CentOS and one is Windows XP. I am trying to transfer file between 2 computers using LAN. Can you please tell me how to do it? I have tried Samba from the Applications menu. Add a directory in there. Set it to Read only and Allow access to everyone. I couldn't see the CentOS from Windows computer. I have tried the Network Servers. There is Windows Network there. When i click to see inside that, there is nothing. I tried to see the all the services are running. The winbind status is winbindd dead but subsys locked. Thanks a lot for your help. I do appreciate that.

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Slightly OT: DNS -force client always use authoritative
by Karl R. Balsmeier 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Is there a specific way to set a name server so that clients are always *forced* to use an autoritative name server? UltraDNS and some others have mentioned little features they have, but it only hints at the possibility that somewhere in the DNS spec. -karlski

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