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KDE Screen Saver and Centos 4.3
by BRUCE STANLEY 09 Jul '06

09 Jul '06

In Centos 4.1 I am having to user the Xscreen saver as a work around due to the KDE screen saver not working properly. Has the KDE screen saver been fixed/updated in Centos 4.3, or do you still need to use xscreensaver instead?

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creating a boot floppy
by Jerry Geis 09 Jul '06

09 Jul '06

I am using the following command below to create a boot floppy file. Am I not doing the correct thing? mkbootdisk --device bootfloppy.img 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.Jb5537/vmlinuz': No space left on device cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.Jb5537/initrd.img': No space left on device cat: write error: No space left on device cat: write error: No space left on device Jerry

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 08 Jul '06

08 Jul '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-2006:0574 Important CentOS 4 i386 kernel - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2006:0574 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 kernel - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:51:34 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0574 Important CentOS 4 i386 kernel - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1152327094.29614.52.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0574 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0574.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: kernel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.i586.rpm kernel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.i586.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.i686.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.noarch.rpm kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.i586.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.i586.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.i686.rpm src: kernel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.src.rpm

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vsftpd virtual users are not able to delete the files or folders
by ankush grover 08 Jul '06

08 Jul '06

hey friends, I am using vsftpd version 2.0.1 on Centos4.0. I am trying to create some virtual users who can upload,download and delete the files in their particular directories. I followed the below link to create the virutal users http://linuxsir.zahui.net/html/23/43449.htm I have created a user called "tester" and the entries in the tester file (/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd_user_conf/tester) are anon_world_readable_only=NO user_sub_token=$USER local_root=/var/www/html/testing write_enable=YES anon_upload_enable=YES chown_uploads=YES The problem I am facing is that virtual user is not able to delete the files or folders under /var/www/html/testing directory but this user can upload and download the files or folders on /var/www/html/testing The vsftpd.conf file user_config_dir=/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd_user_conf write_enable=NO anon_upload_enable=NO anon_mkdir_write_enable=NO anon_other_write_enable=NO chroot_local_user=YES guest_enable=YES guest_username=apache listen=YES hide_ids=YES hide_files=lost+found pam_service_name=ftp userlist_enable=YES local_umask=022 anonymous_enable=NO local_enable=YES tcp_wrappers=YES How do I configure vsftp so that virtual users can upload,delete and download the files or folders ? SELinux is off on Centos4.0 and iptables are configured to allow FTP ports. Please let me know if you need any further inputs. Thanks & Regards Ankush Grover

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Re: dell-lnx-pe] Re: RHEL4 vs CentOS-4
by R P Herrold 08 Jul '06

08 Jul '06

[newly cross-posted into the centos mailing list] On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> I understand that the following products [RHEL v the >> CentOS rebuilds] differ in price based on the extend of >> support. Apart from that, is there any other difference >> (i.e. performance, kernel stability etc)? CentOS is an outgrowth of early efforts of Lance Davis in the UK, and has been consciously shaped, structured and recruited by me and a couple of other admins at the end of the RHL series to tap 'the best and the brightest' of the pool of non-Red Hat RPM based distribution developers to build a professonal grade 'community' RPM based successor to RHL; some of us ran the cAos-1 high performance cluster oriented distribution creation to explore some packaging and buildsystem issues, and to build community, tools, and approaches. Once CentOS was viable, it spun off from being a cAos sub-project into the free-standing project it is now; in Enterprise Linux community rebuild space, it has essentially displaced WhiteBox (in part due to the loss of momentum which last years hurricane inflicted on New Orleans, and John Morris' fine effort), had a friendly merger in of David Parsley's Tao, and regularly has binary updates in place and more available than the upstream, due to a massive mirror pool, and a smart, geo-location aware update mirror dispatching system. > I don't think this is really on-topic for the Dell Poweredge list. dunno -- one is commercial and carries front end SLA's, a certification program, etc, some non-freely available source software, and costs; the other is community, organic and consciously without SLA's and the rest, and is not. Each runs just fine on Dell hardware (which I have been using on Dell PowerEdge kit for many, many years, in specing and delivering complex networks to customers) [btw, Matt, et al., thanks for the XPS series -- it makes a stable, sweet and scaldingly fast Linux lovin' desktop] > The differences between CentOS and RHEL are mainly in the > type and level of support you get from each. CentOS support > is whatever you get from IRC, mailing lists or what you > will pay a consultant to answer. The main CentOS IRC channel #centos on irc.freenode.net consciously tries to mix relentlessly On Topic, fast, technically accurate, work safe _teaching_ replies [based loosely on a Socratic method], with a bit of 'floorshow' -- I am one of the 'ringmasters' most weekday US business hours, and we have developed a cadre of 'regulars,' each of whom demonstrates advanced RHCE level expertise in addressing questions in real time from all comers. > The mailing lists and IRC will not spoon feed an answer and > will tell a person that they are an idiot directly versus > telling their bartender at the end of the shift. (smile) part of the floorshow design [the channel op's try to make the channel the one tab in the audience' IRC client left open and on top, so that less skilled admins will 'idle and "read the mail"' in it, to see what happens next, and also soak up both good BOFH skills and accurate RHCE type training ;) ]; a careful observer will note that Off Topic participants are pointed to other more appropriate venues for their inquiries, and cautioned several times before any 'festivities' occur. [I cc the centos list, as a way to publicly thank those participants] > For as much as I can tell, the base Centos is RHEL > recompiled with the same options etc. and the Red Hat > trademarks removed. If your organization does not need any > support then CentOS can be a good match. CentOS are very cautious to be 'very correct' as to respecting intellectual property rights in the rebuild. It is also correct that we expressly strive to match build environments, and use 'ldd' and other tools to verify as close as possible binary compatability to the upstream's binary offerings as we can [some recent packages have been built with non-released compiler variants at the upstream 'PNAELV', and so there are minor known divergences from time to time, which thus far have not affected performance]; we upstream issues, and proposed fixes from the CentOS Bug tracker into Red Hat's Bugzilla regularly, and some of the core are well known participants in the 'Fedora' project RH runs. 'performance, kernel stability' and the rest should be identical - if a deviation is suspected, I hope for and want to see a bug filed; we will track down a substantiated issue reported to our bug tracker; we maintain a reporting address, and respond to security inquiries confidentially and promptly; we have the expected mailing lists, website, wiki, forums, and the rest. Sometimes our art is criticized as not as flashy as some other distributions, but the distribution is not looking to win style shows ;) Commercial support is available from several of the core CentOS developers' companies, on an a la carte basis. - Russ Herrold

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Broken mirrors
by Alan Sparks 08 Jul '06

08 Jul '06

My repojanitor updates broke this morning due to problems at at least a couple of mirror sites: ftp://mirror.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/centos/4/updates/x86_64/RPMS/ ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4/updates/x86_64/RPMS Appears the squirrelmail and openoffice updates there are some sort of symlink rather than plain files. Broke wget. -Alan =========== Alan Sparks, UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator <asparks(a)doublesparks.net>

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Upgrade 3.4 --> 3.7 went awry: rpmdb hosed
by Bart Schaefer 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

I installed CentOS 3.4 from a CD image I'd burned a while ago, and then attempted to update with yum to 3.7. All the packages installed OK, but at the very end of final cleanup I got an error message from db4 saying to "RUN RECOVERY". I did "rpm --rebuilddb" which may have been the wrong thing -- it issued an error about "pages missing". I then ran it again, and it came back with no errors, but after rebooting (for the kernel update) "rpm -qa" lists only a dozen packages or so, of which "rpm" is not one, and "yum check-update" chokes, showing Null for $releasever and the empty string for $basearch. This was a brand-new system, so I'm thinking I'll just download the 3.7 ISOs and re-install, but on the off chance there's some other way to recover from this I thought I'd ask. There doesn't seem to be anything missing other than a large chunk of the RPM database itself.

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Clamav and Postfix
by Alex Palenschat 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Hello all, I am trying to replace a RH 7.1 (ouch!) box that has been running postfix 1.x/clamav/SA/amavisd-new on which the amavis/PF/SA packages have not been updated because of the way they were built/configured. I would like to use CentOS to do this. Having followed the thread regarding perl versioning issues with the latest version of amavisd-new and CentOS Base I am thinking I should pursue another path. I would like to have a solution that follows the distro path as closely as possible (using code supplied by the distro if possible or at least something I can install from a reputable yum repo) and this perhaps comes before using the latest version of amavisd-new. That being said, I'd like to ask if there are others out there on the list using clamav and Postfix together on CentOS and if so, how are you doing it and what did you have to do in order to get it working? Thanks in advance, Alex Palenschat

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Centos 4.3: VPN recommend/ howto anyone?
by Karl R. Balsmeier 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Hi, I'm just curious about setting up a new VPN here in the office part of our enterprise, as well as a second in our 75+ node data center co-location facility. Needing to stomp out the ****dows L2TP node here, just too many side-issues with config. I'd like it to run the same OS as all of our servers, e.g. Centos 4.3. Any recommedations on which software/server/client rpm's/targ.gz's to run? Any pointers at existing of wiki-able HOWTO's under Centos I can check out? As usual, if it's not been documented yet, i'd sincerely contribute what I can to the process of rendering a complete document for the future use of the community. -karlski

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Yum Update
by Gerald 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Why is it when i do a "yum list all kernel*" I only get 4 packages returned from the centosplus repo when in fact there are many many more if I go look in the RPMS folder where it's pulling the packages from? I'm trying to install the basic unsupported kernel (smp) to get XFS support but it doesn't appear when i do a yum list nor can i seem to get it to install when i specify the rpm name itself. As if it isn't there when clearly it is..

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