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RE: [CentOS] Best backup software for linux
by Mark Schoonover 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Barry Brimer wrote: >> We are running backup softwares for incrementals/differentials and >> full backups with variouse softwares currently using dirvish scripts >> + amanda .. what is everyones views on other opensourced backup >> software? is there anything better or other options we have missed? >> We are looking at backula as an option? any thoughts? > > I recommend Arkeia. <http://www.arkeia.com> > > Barry Unless they've changed things since v4.x, I CAN'T reccomend Arkeia. They store the backup database on a local drive, and if you should loose that db, you'll have to manually scan all your tapes before you can retrieve any data. Yes, you can manually backup the db somewhere else, but you can't easily put it on tape. Sure, you could simply dump the contents of each tape to another system with Arkeia's CLI, but in my case, it was 24 hours per AIT3 tape! Since this was in a library, I had 9 tapes to get through. The best backup arrangement I've used is rysnc to another system. I have it worked out in a very nice way to automate offsite storage to my colo. I never recommend Arkeia to anyone... Sorry to be such a stick-in-the-mud about it, but Arkeia let me down in a very severe manner, and I don't wish anyone else to suffer through the same problems I had. HTH Mark

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$HOME variable not set from init script
by Oliver Schulze L. 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

Hi, I'm using Centos 4.4 with: mimedefang.org + spamassassin.org Mimedefang(MD) is a perl program that calls SpamAssassin(SA) perl module. The problem I'm getting is that from update 4.4, SA does not seems to find the $HOME variable only when it is called during system boot. If you later login as root and run: $ service mimedefang restart then SA does indeed find the $HOME variable I checked the /etc/init.d/mimedefang file and the chain of commands seems to be this: /etc/init.d/mimedefang -> daemon function from /etc/init.d/function -> /sbin/runuser SpamAssassin perl module is called from the mimedefang perl program. I'm thinking that /sbin/runuser is the root cause of the problem. My questions are: - does /sbin/runuser set the $HOME at boot time? - should /sbin/runuser be called with the -l option? Thanks Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. Get my e-mail after a captcha test in: http://tinymailto.com/oliver

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Mail forwarding on a dynamic IP address.
by Rajeev R Veedu 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

I have a Cyrus installation with postfix and openXchange. I get the mails from catchall account with procmail and distribute with the mail server. Now I have a new site office where couples of staff members are going to be relocated. Since we have only an ADSL line on site office if there any way I could forward the mails for these staff members to another Mail Server with dynamic IP address? Any input will be really appreciated. Thanks Rajeev R. Veedu.

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ARC SERVE BACKUP.
by Rajeev R Veedu 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

Recently we have started using Arc serve backup. The Arc server and the tape library are connected to a Windows 2000 server machine and the data files are stored on many Samba file servers. I have Linux Client Agents installed on all Linux Machine. Now the problem is that when Arc Serve backup the file it always backup the full files irrespective of setting for a differential backup. I think the Arc serve is not able to set Archive bit on the file system. But it does for windows. Has any one in the list experienced this type of problem? Any advice or guidance would be really appreciated. Thanks Rajeev R. Veedu

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 20, Issue 9
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '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-2006:0714-6: Low CentOS 2 i386 tzdata enhancement update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:33:27 +1000 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0714-6: Low CentOS 2 i386 tzdata enhancement update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <453BFFC7.3050902(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHEA-2006:0714-6 tzdata enhancement update Files available: tzdata-2006m-2.el2_1.noarch.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 20, Issue 9 **********************************************

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Re: BUG in fs/bio.c:99
by J.J. Garcia 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

El lun, 23-10-2006 a las 16:28 +0400, Kirill Korotaev escribió: > J.J.Garcia, > > in july 2006 you reported hit of bio.c:99 bug on CentOs kernel: > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-July/067539.html > > Recently, we also hit the same bug, so maybe you can provide some details on: > 1. whether it is doesn't work for you or was fixed. > 2. how it was triggered > 3. whether you know the fast way to reproduce > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Kirill Hi Kirill, Since then no more news from this subject, sorry about it. You can follow the full story of my testing at CentOS Bug Tracker with 1419 id, http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1419 Actually i'm running the stock kernel 42.0.3 in affected host with a lil more stability appreciated than previous kernels released but not really stable in certain situations (heavy i/o load on external usb 2.0 disk). [root@fattybox ~]# cat /etc/grub.conf | grep vmlinuz-`uname -r` kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 ACPI=off vga=0x307 selinux=0 [root@fattybox ~]# dmesg | grep ACPI ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 ACPI=off vga=0x307 selinux=0 ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040816 ACPI: Interpreter disabled. What's sure, the system was running rock solid with 4.3 release and 22.0.2 kernel. From that point, any update to kernel or pkgs to 4.4 (34.x.x to 42.x.x) i get the same issue. The call trace (taken from 1419 id. at bug tracker and re-pasted here) is almost allways the same, and it happends normally when lot of i/o work is performed on an USB external disk, locally or via NFS/exported. Call Trace: [<c016deb4>] bio_put+0x27/0x28 [<c016d698>] end_bio_bh_io_sync+0x33/0x37 [<c016ea55>] bio_endio+0x4f/0x54 [<c0251ce5>] __end_that_request_first+0xea/0x1ab [<d841cdd1>] scsi_end_request+0x1b/0x174 [scsi_mod] [<d841d268>] scsi_io_completion+0x20b/0x417 [scsi_mod] [<d841800c>] scsi_finish_command+0xad/0xb1 [scsi_mod] [<d8417f31>] scsi_softirq+0xba/0xc2 [scsi_mod] [<c0126a9d>] __do_softirq+0x35/0x79 [<c010934c>] do_softirq+0x46/0x4d Don't know for you, but im using on that host an PCI/USB 2.0 card, im not having issues/tested yet same situation for hosts with native USB 2.0. [root@fattybox ~]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:09.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 00:09.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 00:09.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev 6a) For stock kernel 42.0.3 i had 2 panics, one of them related to fs/bio.c: [root@spoolbox crash]# grep -R 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL 192.168.0.6-2006* 192.168.0.6-2006-10-10-05:39/log:EFLAGS: 00010082 (2.6.9-42.0.3.EL) 192.168.0.6-2006-10-12-10:21/log:EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.9-42.0.3.EL) [root@spoolbox crash]# tail -n 38 192.168.0.6-2006-10-12-10:21/log ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/bio.c:99! invalid operand: 0000 [#1] Modules linked in: vfat fat imm eeprom i2c_viapro nfsd exportfs nfs_acl lp netconsole netdump autofs4 via686a i2c_sensor i2c_isa i2c_dev i2c_core rfcomm l2cap lockd sunrpc ip_nat_ftp ip_conntrack_ftp ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat ipt_REJECT ipt_state ip_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables dm_multipath hci_usb bluetooth sd_mod usb_storage scsi_mod ohci_hcd ehci_hcd parport_pc parport snd_via82xx snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore 8139too mii dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror ext3 jbd dm_mod CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c0171399>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.9-42.0.3.EL) EIP is at bio_destructor+0x19/0x3a eax: 00000008 ebx: c2356b00 ecx: cddf1f50 edx: c036d880 esi: 00001000 edi: c0170d59 ebp: 00000000 esp: c03fff24 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process usb-storage (pid: 2030, threadinfo=c03ff000 task=d5c9e130) Stack: c2356b00 c01715a8 c0170d8c c2356b00 c0172149 00001000 c2356b00 00000000 c03fff6c c0258da9 c8c4386c 00000000 00000000 00005000 00002000 c8c4386c d56de720 d57c6340 00000001 d840add1 00000001 d5509560 c8c4386c d57c6340 Call Trace: [<c01715a8>] bio_put+0x27/0x28 [<c0170d8c>] end_bio_bh_io_sync+0x33/0x37 [<c0172149>] bio_endio+0x4f/0x54 [<c0258da9>] __end_that_request_first+0xea/0x1ab [<d840add1>] scsi_end_request+0x1b/0x174 [scsi_mod] [<d840b268>] scsi_io_completion+0x20b/0x417 [scsi_mod] [<d840600c>] scsi_finish_command+0xad/0xb1 [scsi_mod] [<d8405f31>] scsi_softirq+0xba/0xc2 [scsi_mod] [<c0129a8d>] __do_softirq+0x35/0x79 [<c0109446>] do_softirq+0x46/0x4d ======================= [<c01089f7>] do_IRQ+0x2b3/0x2bf [<c031983c>] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 [<c0316019>] __down_interruptible+0x13f/0x24a [<c0120049>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xc [<c0316137>] __down_failed_interruptible+0x7/0xc [<d83f4b13>] .text.lock.usb+0xf/0x78 [usb_storage] [<c0318d7e>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14 [<d83f3d24>] usb_stor_control_thread+0x0/0x417 [usb_storage] [<d83f3d24>] usb_stor_control_thread+0x0/0x417 [usb_storage] [<c01041dd>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Code: 4d 1a 00 e9 cc c9 ff ff e8 cd 4d 1a 00 e9 26 ca ff ff 53 89 c3 8b 40 10 c1 e8 1c 89 c2 c1 e2 04 81 c2 00 d8 36 c0 83 f8 05 7e 08 <0f> 0b 63 00 f0 d8 32 c0 8b 43 30 8b 52 0c e8 90 ce fd ff 89 d8 [root@spoolbox crash]# tail -n 31 192.168.0.6-2006-10-10-05:39/log kernel BUG at kernel/panic.c:75! invalid operand: 0000 [#1] Modules linked in: nls_utf8 ppp_deflate zlib_deflate ppp_async crc_ccitt ppp_generic slhc vfat fat imm eeprom i2c_viapro nfsd exportfs nfs_acl lp netconsole netdump autofs4 via686a i2c_sensor i2c_isa i2c_dev i2c_core rfcomm l2cap lockd sunrpc ip_nat_ftp ip_conntrack_ftp ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat ipt_REJECT ipt_state ip_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables dm_multipath hci_usb bluetooth sd_mod usb_storage scsi_mod ohci_hcd ehci_hcd parport_pc parport snd_via82xx snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore 8139too mii dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror ext3 jbd dm_mod CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c0123db2>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010082 (2.6.9-42.0.3.EL) EIP is at panic+0x47/0x142 eax: 00000065 ebx: c2356b00 ecx: c032a703 edx: d75fbe40 esi: d75fbe8c edi: d75fbe94 ebp: 00000000 esp: d75fbe48 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process kswapd0 (pid: 41, threadinfo=d75fb000 task=d75fc050) Stack: c2356b00 c014b87e c0322158 c032c3b3 00000295 c2356b10 00000000 d75fbe8c c036e120 c0155ba7 d75fbe94 c2356a20 00000000 c015602f 0000000e ffffffff c2356b00 00000000 00000000 c1290400 c01557c6 c036c9b4 00000286 00000000 Call Trace: [<c014b87e>] find_get_pages+0xb6/0xf4 [<c0155ba7>] pagevec_lookup+0x17/0x1d [<c015602f>] invalidate_mapping_pages+0xb2/0xc5 [<c01557c6>] __pagevec_release+0x15/0x1d [<c016eceb>] remove_inode_buffers+0x12/0x112 [<c01899a8>] prune_icache+0x1a7/0x354 [<c0189b69>] shrink_icache_memory+0x14/0x2b [<c015630b>] shrink_slab+0xf7/0x14c [<c015794b>] balance_pgdat+0x1b3/0x2cb [<c0157b1c>] kswapd+0xb9/0xbb [<c0121853>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d [<c0318d7e>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14 [<c0121853>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d [<c0157a63>] kswapd+0x0/0xbb [<c01041dd>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Code: 40 c0 e8 3b 5d 0c 00 68 60 7f 40 c0 68 03 a7 32 c0 e8 64 0b 00 00 83 c4 0c 83 3d 1c a8 42 c0 00 75 09 83 3d 18 a8 42 c0 00 74 08 <0f> 0b 4b 00 26 a7 32 c0 31 c0 e8 53 97 ff ff 31 d2 b9 60 7f 40 Finally, to reproduce iirc i simply have to perform two r/w commands concurrently, i.e an 'dd' command writing to that external usb disk and at the same time a second r/w operation operation to that disk, i.e. via nfs or even on console, after hours/secs the condition is triggered. I know usb external disks are used with scsi emulation from the point of view of kernel and they are not a really good approach for massive data storing (rather using scsi units mainly/directly) but i have almost a TB on that disks... By the way i use the workaround of not writing concurrently to that disk for a long time or for long chunks... heh, no more clues unless i rescue the old 4.3 and 22.0.2 raw hd/image for that old host serving as NAS. Don't know if all of this will be helping, anyway... Good luck! Jose.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 3.8 and ESS ES1878 sound chip?
by ragu＠vsnl.com 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

Aleksandar >> the onboard sound card is ISA. Is there an easy way to get isapnp kernel >> module for CentOS 3.8, other than recompiling the kernel This card can be configured and you can make it work using 'isapnptools' . http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/ Best .... -- Raghavendra Bhat Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking -- Richard M. Stallman Regards Raghavendra Bhat

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CentOS 3.8 Kernel Update with NVIDIA Video Card
by Akemi Yagi 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

> On Oct 20, 2006, at 22:22, Corwin Burgess wrote: > > 1. Download the latest driver packager from NVIDIA (e.g., NVIDIA- > Linux-x86-1.0-8774-pkg1.run) Nvidia issued a patched version 8776 as of 10-19-2006 that takes care of the bug mentioned in this thread. > 3. Log in as root and run ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8774-pkg1.run and > answer the prompts If you know the default answers are all acceptable, you can run this command without having to answer questions: ./NVIDIA-Linuxxxxxxx.run -a -q -N --ui=none Akemi

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kdelibs update missing src.rpm
by Matthew Miller 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

I looked on several mirrors, and nowhere seems to have it. -- Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>

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Keyboard Fails at Login Prompt
by Eric H Christensen 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just setup an old box with CentOS 4 and I'm having a very strange problem. The keyboard is functional throughout the startup process of the machine. I get the login prompt and I get just enough time to type in "root" and hit the enter button before the keyboard fails. I've tried a different keyboard but still the same problem. After a few repeated trials I've found that the keyboard will stop functioning after about 5 seconds from when the login prompt appears on the screen. Does anyone have any ideas on this problem? Thanks, Eric -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBRTl/0MX5so7y5L2YAQKM8BAAouSyEh6Vqkc4Q0Ayf9j2PCRqy+eyrSMD wsCZCJsHgcWh5/5YA5BMka3Vn0TcmVsR1Cn1n1CJivupVyWAb3zlggE1KY5fzzf+ JFyfwxLcS064trlYl7b2U7B0wAD+S533Y0hFWW/S4klWxN1tYcnOJqT2ctiKjKVN hp1Y0Qry7/tKFCRkRZYt86EkPwMMnoxKOPj13gGwO/4obLS5GQDrOwaPa68iAiKO Wy7onVA0/DHgugfzkg6HGsCcew8dfdiDavy5hpwljCI8W8G+Li3qAst82fQ5RPIB PC4HAxt4lDBM2fEIy/4zT0WdTAEdId5zLwLeLXmh1vIdHK6zzgMkItugeol2d/G7 GMKRQbG5x+hFA3XkQfrC1mkS8gFNO9Kh4Z5iyscxh5XAbKgYK0+qVFVyCLNtO6o2 TOsF+mH4oydzS1XqzqWTwDXMy+qqlDABUTfCy4/VCwFUaUOvlfXfYyAuLS2zSK6Z myvFKjvIh84+7lfTLFnY8xoXG9QnBRy9udwHWIZ05qLuUQAAl3nUKgLUtvWqU6CW i0Wb3KfCtGMK+JvFp/gHkHL84ROAXYr0PNNB8E6Oc+0MGIj1zgj8/T6nZ6HeP7no 3ahUHijncAYgruiQm1KhGWrRuxtoLW7X0DBDt3GBvNJfBUE0wqpf5FmcAPqtrlC1 8KU0Yq+pEqY= =JQdU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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