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Help: Marvell sk98lin driver missing from Centos 3 PXE initrd.img
by Mike Valenzuela 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

I'm new to the lists so sorry about any faux pas I may have made. Also I apologize for the length, but I wanted to be sure I covered most of the details. I'm trying to do a PXE install on an Intel 1435VP2 server machine. The PXE install has worked on all the older machines in the cluster, so I know PXE is working. However, these new Intel server machines only support PXE booting from their Marvell NIC (I already tried getting the latest BIOS to avoid this hassle). Since the cluster is running open mosix, Centos 3.7 is which the latest which can be used. The kernel and initrd image in the isolinux directory (on cd or in the repos) has no driver for the Marvell NIC. lspci -n and lspci shows the following information for the Marvell NIC : 02:00.0 Class 0200: 11ab:4361 (rev 17) 02:00.0 Ethernet Controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8050 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 17) I have tried the following: cp /tftpboot/linux-install/initrd.img /tmp/initrd.img.gz cp /tftpboot/linux-install/initrd.img /tftpboot/linux-install/initrd.img.orig cd /tmp gzip -d initrd.img.gz mkdir /tmp/initrd.fs mount -o loop initrd.img initrd.fs gzip -d < /mnt/initrd.fs/modules/modules.cgz | cpio -i --make-directories This makes the folders /tmp/2.4.21-40.ELBOOT/i386/ filled with the drivers in the initrd.img file. Then I grabbed a copy of the vanilla 2.4.21-40, went to Intel's website to grab the driver files I needed (turns out that they were included in the vanilla source, hence a patch file of size 0 was generated), and continued to build the sk98lin driver for i386 (I tried both default settings processor type and i386). The first iteration through all I did was make menuconfig and turn on Marvell as a module, the second time I specified processor type as i386. I grabbed the sk98lin.o file and threw it in /tmp/2.4.21-40.ELBOOT/i386/, where all the other drivers were located. To compress this back into a .cgz file I did the following cd /tmp/ find 2.4.21-40.ELBOOT -print | cpio -o -H crc | gzip -9 > modules.cgz Then I made a copied over the modules.cgz in /tmp/initrd.fs/modules. I edited /tmp/initrd.fs/modules/pcitable adding the line: 0x11ab 0x4361 "sk98lin" "Gigabit Ethernet Controller" (With tabs not spaces) I also added the following line to /tmp/initrd.fs/modules/modules.pcimap sk98lin 0x000011ab 0x00004361 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 After unmounting initrd.fs, I re-gziped initrd.img, and copied over /tftpboot/linux-install/initrd.img However, my problem still remains. When I pxe boot, the machine is detected and everything. Just before getting the kickstart file, it complains "Unable to find any devices of the type needed for this installation type". Obviously I did something wrong, but I don't know why it is still broken or how to fix it. I suspect that somehow I built the the sk98lin module incorrectly. Has anyone already made a fix for this initrd file? I'd appreciate an easy download. Thanks in advanced for any pointers and/or help.

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Problem Installing rrdtool
by dennis 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

hi to all, im currently installing rrdtool-1.2.15 with my box CentOS 4.3 final ,before i installed rrdtools there 2 files suggested need to installed the FreeType 2 and libart_lgpl 2.3 everything is fine when installed two files but when i try to installed rrdtool when i issue command ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.15 this should the output ,any suggestion what's the problem ,thanks to all in advance [root@support rrdtool-1.2.15]# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.15 checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes Audit Compilation Environment checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B checking whether ln -s works... yes checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking dlfcn.h usability... yes checking dlfcn.h presence... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for g77... g77 checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes checking whether g77 accepts -g... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768 checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for objdir... .libs checking for ar... ar checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking if gcc static flag works... yes checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes configure: creating libtool appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking for g77 option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if g77 PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if g77 supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the g77 linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if gcc likes the -fno-strict-aliasing flag... yes checking if gcc likes the -Wall flag... yes checking if gcc likes the -std=gnu99 flag... yes checking if gcc likes the -pedantic flag... yes checking if gcc likes the -Wshadow flag... yes checking if gcc likes the -Wpointer-arith flag... yes checking if gcc likes the -Wcast-align flag... yes checking if gcc likes the -Wmissing-prototypes flag... yes checking if gcc likes the -Wmissing-declarations flag... yes checking if gcc likes the -Wnested-externs flag... yes checking if gcc likes the -Winline flag... yes checking if gcc likes the -W flag... yes Checking for Header Files checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes checking for library containing opendir... none required checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes checking fcntl.h usability... yes checking fcntl.h presence... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes checking time.h usability... yes checking time.h presence... yes checking for time.h... yes checking locale.h usability... yes checking locale.h presence... yes checking for locale.h... yes checking fp_class.h usability... no checking fp_class.h presence... no checking for fp_class.h... no checking malloc.h usability... yes checking malloc.h presence... yes checking for malloc.h... yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking ieeefp.h usability... no checking ieeefp.h presence... no checking for ieeefp.h... no checking math.h usability... yes checking math.h presence... yes checking for math.h... yes checking sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking sys/times.h usability... yes checking sys/times.h presence... yes checking for sys/times.h... yes checking sys/param.h usability... yes checking sys/param.h presence... yes checking for sys/param.h... yes checking sys/resource.h usability... yes checking sys/resource.h presence... yes checking for sys/resource.h... yes checking float.h usability... yes checking float.h presence... yes checking for float.h... yes checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h checking for acos... no checking for acos in -lm... yes Test Library Functions checking for strftime... yes checking for vprintf... yes checking for _doprnt... no checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no checking for tzset... yes checking for mbstowcs... yes checking for opendir... yes checking for readdir... yes checking for chdir... yes checking for chroot... yes checking for getuid... yes checking for setlocale... yes checking for strerror... yes checking for strerror_r... yes checking for snprintf... yes checking for vsnprintf... yes checking for fpclass... no checking for class... no checking for fp_class... no checking for isnan... yes checking for memmove... yes checking for strchr... yes checking for mktime... yes checking for getrusage... yes checking for gettimeofday... yes checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for getpagesize... yes checking for working mmap... yes IEEE Math Checks checking for fpclassify... no checking for fpclassify with <math.h>... yes checking for finite... yes checking for isinf... yes checking if IEEE math works out of the box... yes Resolve Portability Issues checking if realloc can deal with NULL... yes checking if ctime_r need special care to act posixly correct... no checking for the pthreads library -lpthreads... no checking whether pthreads work without any flags... no checking whether pthreads work with -Kthread... no checking whether pthreads work with -kthread... no checking for the pthreads library -llthread... no checking whether pthreads work with -pthread... yes checking for joinable pthread attribute... PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE checking if more special flags are required for pthreads... no checking for cc_r... gcc checking do we need malloc/malloc.h... nope, works out of the box Findr 3rd-Party Libraries checking for art_vpath_add_point in -lart_lgpl_2... yes checking libart_lgpl/libart.h usability... no checking libart_lgpl/libart.h presence... no checking for libart_lgpl/libart.h... no checking for pkg-config... pkg-config configure: WARNING: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * I found a copy of pkgconfig, but there is no libart-2.0.pc file around. You may want to set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable to point to its location. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- configure: WARNING: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * I could not find a working copy of libart-2.0. Check config.log for hints on why this is the case. Maybe you need to set LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS appropriately so that compiler and the linker can find libart_lgpl_2 and its header files. If you have not installed libart-2.0, you can get it either from its original home on ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libart_lgpl/2.3/ You can find also find an archive copy on http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs The last tested version of libart-2.0 is 2.3.17. LIBS=-lm LDFLAGS= CPPFLAGS= -I/usr/include/libart-2.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- checking for zlibVersion in -lz... yes checking zlib.h usability... yes checking zlib.h presence... yes checking for zlib.h... yes checking for png_access_version_number in -lpng... yes checking png.h usability... yes checking png.h presence... yes checking for png.h... yes checking for FT_Init_FreeType in -lfreetype... yes checking ft2build.h usability... no checking ft2build.h presence... no checking for ft2build.h... no checking for pkg-config... (cached) pkg-config configure: WARNING: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * I found a copy of pkgconfig, but there is no freetype2.pc file around. You may want to set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable to point to its location. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- configure: WARNING: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * I could not find a working copy of freetype2. Check config.log for hints on why this is the case. Maybe you need to set LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS appropriately so that compiler and the linker can find libfreetype and its header files. If you have not installed freetype2, you can get it either from its original home on http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freetype/ You can find also find an archive copy on http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs The last tested version of freetype2 is 2.1.10. LIBS=-lpng -lz -lm LDFLAGS= CPPFLAGS= -I/usr/include/freetype2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- configure: error: Please fix the library issues listed above and try again.

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RE: [CentOS] OT WAS: Johnny's postfix/dovecot/squirrelmail/virus scanning+ Centos4 Walk Through...
by Alex Palenschat 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

> > This website say "hacked..." > > Please i seafch a lot for a guide with these products... if > anyone have > the guide, please put the url or something like... > > Thanks a lot. OK, I'll bite. I'm aware of how annoying it is to have someone peering over your shoulder when you are in the middle of a crisis asking questions, but I'm curious what it is that is making johnny's site so vulnerable. Is it forum software? I hope it's not a hack against a package in the base... Anyway, just wondering because I have user's complaining about the fact that I don't have their forum up and running. They may have to wait for a long time. Alex

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Building a basic router with two nic's
by centos 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

I need help setting up a basic routing between two nic's on my CentOS desktop. I thought I'd understood the basics, but ... I don,t want a nat router, just packets forwarded back and fort. This is what I thought would do the trick, but didn't. Can someone please give me some pointers or links so I can get this right. # echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # route add -net 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth1 # route add -net 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.150 eth1 # # route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.2.0 192.168.1.150 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.150 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1

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Johnny's postfix/dovecot/squirrelmail/virus scanning + Centos4 Walk Through...
by Chris Mauritz 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Is anyone mirroring Johnny's write up on this? As fate would have it, I've finally got some time to sit down and configure a spare box to be my new mail server and Johnny's site has been defaced again. :-( Sigh....I even checked to make sure it was up this morning, drove to the office so I could do everything from the terminal and my handy dandy roadmap is gone.... Any pointers to another source would be greatly appreciated. Best regards,

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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] 16 Aug '06

16 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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