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sata_nv, CentOS 4 update 2 and hang during post-install
by Zube 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Good day. Thanks in advance for any help. I have a Tyan S2895 (Thunder K8WE) with 2 275 Opterons and the latest (1.02) bios. It appears to have an nVidia nForce SATA chipset which connects to a 250gb WD Caviar SATA drive. Using the CentOS 4 update 2 x86_64 DVD, the install is peachy until half-way through the "performing post install configuration" bit. Then it hangs forever. I have tried: disabling RAID in the bios mem=256M on the command line a text install -- the hang was at the 50% marker a memory check -- all clean according to memtest86+ 1.65 CentOS 4 update 1 on cd smaller root partition without any change in behavior. I then installed an old Adaptec 29160N and an old SCSI disk and turned off the SATA bits in the BIOS. CentOS installs just fine. Has anyone else seen this issue? If it's a problem only with the nVidia SATA drivers, anyone have a recommendation for a SATA card that could be used instead of the onboard stuff? RAID is not necessary. Thanks again. Cheers, Zube

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Volume of patches for CentOS vs Fedora
by Steve Bergman 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

I'm trying to come to a decision between CentOS 4.2 and Fedora Core 4 for use on a server. One of the things the server will be serving is X desktops so there are some advantages to Fedora. However, one thing I can't help but notice is that the patch volume for FC4 from Oct 11 2005 thru the present compared to CentOS 4.2 for the same period is about 5 times greater. In fact, since June, there are 899 RPMs in the FC4 updates directory for FC4 which seems absolutely insane. CentOS is a smaller distro, but not that much smaller. Also, I understand that CentOS's parent distro (from a prominent North American Linux Distributor) is supposed to be better tested before release than Fedora. But still, there must be some other factor to explain the disparity. Like CentOS only releasing a patch for security problems and not bug fixes or something like that. Could someone enlighten me? Thanks, Steve Bergman

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HP storageworks DAT72 USB external tape drive and centos 4.2
by Kim Gabrielsen 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

hi, i've bought at HP storageworks DAT72 USB external tape drive and i'm trying to make it work under centos 4.2 first the hard facts: os - centos 4.2 kernel 2.4.9-22.0.2.EL MB - MSI 8kn diamong 4gb ram the problem is that i don't see the drive. i'd expected that a device called st0 would appear but it's not the case. watching the messages file when unplugging the device and the replugging it is: Jan 27 13:47:36 miraculix kernel: usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using address 6 Jan 27 13:47:41 miraculix kernel: usb 1-8: control timeout on ep0in Jan 27 13:47:42 miraculix kernel: usb 1-8: device not accepting address 6, error -71 Jan 27 13:47:42 miraculix kernel: usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using address 7 Jan 27 13:47:47 miraculix kernel: usb 1-8: control timeout on ep0in Jan 27 13:47:48 miraculix kernel: usb 1-8: device not accepting address 7, error -71 Jan 27 13:48:16 miraculix kernel: usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using address 8 Jan 27 13:48:21 miraculix kernel: usb 1-7: control timeout on ep0in Jan 27 13:48:22 miraculix kernel: usb 1-7: device not accepting address 8, error -71 Jan 27 13:48:22 miraculix kernel: usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using address 9 Jan 27 13:48:27 miraculix kernel: usb 1-7: control timeout on ep0in Jan 27 13:48:28 miraculix kernel: usb 1-7: device not accepting address 9, error -71 Jan 27 13:49:01 miraculix kernel: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using address 10 Jan 27 13:49:07 miraculix kernel: usb 1-1: control timeout on ep0in Jan 27 13:49:07 miraculix kernel: usb 1-1: device not accepting address 10, error -71 Jan 27 13:49:07 miraculix kernel: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using address 11 Jan 27 13:49:12 miraculix kernel: usb 1-1: control timeout on ep0in Jan 27 13:49:13 miraculix kernel: usb 1-1: device not accepting address 11, error -71 but i don't know what it means. the documentation on the drives says the the two drivers usb_storage and st should be loaded and the drive should work out of the box. but it doesn't. i'm loading both drivers after startup using this command: modprobe usb_storage and modbrobe st what am i missing????? any help appreciated. br kim gabrielsen

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Using Centos
by Alex Chen 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

We need to resell systems that run commercial software on Linux. We were using Red Hat ES 3 originally. But we later realize that we cannot redistribute RHES without paying them huge subscription fee because of the trademark. I came across CentOS from WBEL mailing list. This looks like a godsend to me. I have some questions regarding CentOS. I would appreciate it if someone can provide me the answers: 1. Can I use your package to install a machine for resell? Is there fee involved? Do you have any EULA that I can get? 2. I believe it is RHES based, what is the version matrix corresponding to Red Hat ES? 3. Does it have extra stuff other than vanilla RHES added? 4. If I decide to do the rebuild myself to remove the RH trademark stuff, what packages should I modify? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Alex

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Re: su, context(selinux?) 2nd prompt
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

On Wed, 2006-25-01 at 12:06 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > >> Remove multiple from the pam file. > >> > > > > editing /etc/pam.d/su, changing > > session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_selinux.so open multiple > > to > > session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_selinux.so open > > > > Did the trick, thanks Dan! > > > > # rpm -q -f /etc/pam.d/su > > coreutils-5.2.1-31.2 > > > > > You can actually remove the pam_selinux.so lines from the su file > altogether. We have done this for FC5 and it works > fine. In strict or MLS Policy you will be required to run newrole but > in targeted everything should just work. I'm seeing the same behaviour with telnetd. I had to install it for a client that runs a text based app which Windows users telnet into (it's only open to the local network, and the app loads immediately after login). When a user logs in via telnet, the same question appears. I told my client to just accept the default answer, which is "no". Ideally, I'd like to remove the option all together. I assume it's possible to turn it off like it was for "su", but I'm not sure which file to edit. /etc/pam.d/login looks like the closest one, specifically this line: # pam_selinux.so open should be the last session rule session required pam_selinux.so multiple open I'm not sure though. Any tips? Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 i686 GNU/Linux 16:34:54 up 9:34, 5 users, load average: 0.06, 0.35, 0.43

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CentOS 4.2 Install - Can't Surf Web
by Charles Sliger 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

I just installed CentOS 4.2 on a system that was running RedHat 9. Now the browser (Mozilla Firefox) can't connect to web sites via their name (www.google.com <http://www.google.com/> ). It can however connect if the IP address is used (66.102.7.147). Also the 'dig' command times out with either the name or the IP address. Has anyone else seen this? Any pointers would be most appreciated. Regards, Chaz Charles L. Sliger, Information Systems Engineer, chaz(a)bctonline.com "no matter where you go, there you are..."

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djbdns rpm for centos [dnk]
by Dustin Krysak 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Can anyone point me to a good one for use? It would be cool if it was from a repo for updates, etc. Thanks in advance! Dustin

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Vacation messages...
by Francois Meehan 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Hi all, Is there a way to implement "out of office" messages for outlook client that are connected by IMAP to a Dovecot-Postfix Centos 4.1 server? I have heard of an application called vacation, but could not find recent rpm for it. Regards, François

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md5sum rpms >> list
by Andrew Rice 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Does anyone know in centos how to create an md5sum list based on the current rpms that I have installed right now on my box? I tried something like rpm -q -v | md5sum >> list but didnt work. Andrew

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RE: [CentOS] Hidden networking device configuration
by Bowie Bailey 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Barry Brimer wrote: > > Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:15:59PM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > > I am trying to configure load balancing for a couple of CentOS4 > > > > servers. > > Have a look at the Piranha/LVS direct routing information here: > <http://www.redhat.com/magazine/014dec05/departments/tips_tricks/> > > You will have to scroll down the page to find it. Interesting. I'm not too familiar with iptables, but based on that tip and what I've read from the man page, I should be able to do this for a webserver: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d 192.168.1.20 \ --dport 80 -j REDIRECT This should allow my machine to accept packets destined for the virtual IP (on port 80) and redirect them to localhost. Did I mess anything up there? Just a couple of questions come up here: 1) Do I still need to enable ip_forward? 2) When the server replies to the client, will the reply be sent from the proper virtual IP address? -- Bowie

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