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Customizing Gnome
by Alfred von Campe 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

This is not really CentOS specific, but I'm using and supporting Gnome on CentOS 4.3 systems, and there are a few Gnome issues that I haven't been able to resolve that I thought this list might be able to help with. On my home CentOS 4.3 system, which was originally a CentOS 3.X system (i.e., I ran Gnome from the same user account then as I do now), when I log in to the Gnome desktop, I only have a "menu bar" at the bottom of the screen. On the new 4.3 systems at work, I have a menu bar at the top of the screen and another bar at the bottom of the screen. Each one is about half the height of the one on my home system. It appears that some setting in a Gnome configuration file in my home directory must be causing this, but I haven't figure out which one. Any ideas? The next issue is that one of my users asked me if it was possible to add additional entries to the Applications menu. I haven't found anything in the on-line help to point me in the right direction. Finally, another user would like to be able to open up a Terminal window with the working directory set to whatever is currently shown in the Nautilus file browser, and again, I haven't found a way to do this. I do realize that you can drag a folder icon from a Nautilus window to a Terminal window and that it will past the path into the Terminal window which you can use as an argument to cd, but it's not as elegant as say right-clicking on a folder and picking "Open in Terminal Window". Any pointer to a fine manual to read are appreciated, as are outright solutions of course :-). Alfred

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Running firefox on a remote host on centos-4
by Joshua Baker-LePain 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Back in the day (read: before the latest firefox update), I used to be able to ssh to a remote box, run 'firefox -local', and have that box fire up its own firefox session even if I was running firefox on the system from I which I sshed. Those days seem to be gone. No matter what I try, if I've got firefox running on my local desktop, the remote firefox command just fires off another instance of the local firefox session. I've got several boxes running monitoring daemons reporting via http only to the localhost, so this was a handy feature for me. Is there any official way to get it back? If not, I guess I'll have to hack a 'localfirefox' script that doesn't do the nasty mozilla-xremote-client trick. Ah, progress... *sigh* -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

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Big Thanks to Johnny
by Chris Mauritz 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

As a result of following Johnny's handy dandy guide, the postfix/clamav/spamassassin/squirrelmail/dovecot install on one of my new 4.3 boxes was mostly painless. I've been using postfix and keeping in touch with Wietse since 98-ish so I'm quite comfy with postfix, but all this new fangled mail scanning stuff is a bit confusing to an old dog like me. :-) It seems to mostly work, although one of the components seems to have a hair trigger and flags known-clean binary attachments and dumps them into the "hold" bin. I guess my next task is to figure out how to corral that cruft into a "bulk" folder like gmail or figure out how to turn down the naughty threshold a bit. In any case, it probably would have taken me days to sort it all out without Johnny's guide. Thanks! I'm hoping to get things to the point that I'm comfortable downloading mail onto my little HTC Wizard (Cingular 8125) mobile windows/phone thing without worrying too much about catching a social disease. :) Cheers, Chris

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Managing updates to non-centos packages
by Lucas Chan 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Hi, I'm looking for some documentation (or advice) on how to best manage a -mostly- upstream binary compatible CentOS installation. I enabled the rpmforge repository in order to install a few packages not available in base/updates/centosplus. But, now when I do a "yum check-update" yum wants to update a whole stack of packages because it's found newer versions at rpmforge. Is there a way to tell yum to only pull updates from rpmforge for packages that were initially installed from rpmforge? I've been using the includepkgs directive with some success; although installing a package that has a dozen or so dependancies (from rpmforge) quickly makes this method seem not so elegant. Is there a better way? I'm going around in circles a bit with the official yum documentation. Obviously what I'm aiming for is to be as close to 100% binary compatible with the upstream provider as possible, and to also easily pull the latest updates for all my packages. Thanks in advance, I hope you're all having a good week. Regards, LC.

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ntpd 4.2.0 'broadcastclient' broken
by Thomas Brown [pft] 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

I'm running latest CentOS 4.3 (2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp) and found that the included 'ntpd' 4.2.0a(a)1.1190-r will not accept NTP broadcast packets. There is a documented bug in ntpd 4.2.0 to this effect, resolved way back in 2004: https://ntp.isc.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=267 Any chance someone can include a more recent version of 'ntpd' in the next CentOS RPM update distribution? The current stable version is 4.2.2p3, 8/5/2006. Thanks! -Tom

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Bluetooth anyone?
by Robert Moskowitz 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Can anyone give me some pointers for bluetooth? I see the bluetooth service is running. I plug my usb bluetooth adapter in. And nothing. And Kudzu does not discover the adapter Are there drivers I have to install?

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Where to get last firefox for Centos please?
by Josep M. 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Hello All. Before was in centosplus repository http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.3/centosplus/i386/RPMS/ But now 1.5.0.2 is last release, I know that never versions have security updates, but don't know if Linux versions of firefox was affected or not. Thanks in advance --------------------------------- LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com

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Where is wpa_gui?
by Robert Moskowitz 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

I am seeing references to wpa_gui on the madwifi WiKi. But I do not see it in the Enterprise Redhat 4 directories with the other madwifi and wpa_supplicant rpms. only wpa_cli Anyone have information as to the whereabouts of this program?

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Building a live CD and live PXE
by John Newbigin 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

I have updated my instructions on how to roll your own CentOS-4 Live CD. I also made a script which does it all for you. I have also got instructions on how to turn the Live CD into a PXE bootable Live version. All the details can be found here: http://www.byteclub.net/wiki/CentOS_Live John. -- 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

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RE: [CentOS] XFS and CentOS 4.3
by Kemal Bozdağ 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Hi all, I'm looking turkish knowledge for centos... anybody help me please thank you very much Kemal Bozdağ Devri Alem Turizm Yatırım Danışmanlık A.Ş. Cumhuriyet Cad. No 217 Harbiye 34373 İSTANBUL T 0212 444 83 83 D 0212 368 17 03 F 0212 368 17 19 www.devrialem.com -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:18 PM To: CentOS ML Subject: Re: [CentOS] XFS and CentOS 4.3 On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 14:13 +1000, Mark Strong wrote: > Hi All, after looking around for info on XFS(the filesystem) and its use > on CentOS and/or RHEL 4. There seems to be a lot of noise about 4K > Stacks (especially on linux-xfs(a)oss.sgi.com) > > So what is the best way to get XFS working with CentOS 4.3 ? And not > have something like this happening. > > A quote from the xfs list at sgi > >On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 at 10:29am, Andrew Elwell wrote > > > >using the 2.6.9-34 centosplus SMP kernel (3GHz P4 with > >hyperthreading enabled) > > > >what we normally (~once a day) is simply > > > >do_IRQ: stack overflow: 416 > >[<c0107a27>] > > >You don't want to use the XFS in the centosplus kernel. It has major > >known issues with 4K stacks (leading to overflows). Use the > >kernel-module-xfs (or somesuch) RPM instead, and you should have better > >luck. > > Do I need a kernel with 8K stacks? > > and is this > > http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/kernel-module-xfs-2.6.9-34… > > the "kernel-module-xfs" RPM he was talking about (or equivalent for > `uname -r` equals 2.6.9-34.ELsmp). > > > Regards > Mark Strong > Personally, I would not use xfs on Linux ... maybe take a look here: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060814 And see what several debain devel's say about XFS. RedHat says it is not stable enough to use in RHEL. I don't think everyone can be wrong. If you really want to use it, you can use the module you referenced above and our kernel. The standard RHEL kernel will not compile w/ anything except 4k stacks (that is how the CentOS kernel is released too) ... so if you want to do that, you'll need to figure it out.

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