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Licences
by Ugo Bellavance 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Hi, I'm looking for a way to determine the licenses of packages we're using. Is there a command (rpm, yum, up2date...) that will take the package name as argument and return me the licence? Or is everything included with Centos 4 GPL? That is the only licence I found in the repositories... I remember that RH had the habit of putting all the applicable licences on the distros' CD. Thanks, -- Ugo -> Please don't send a copy of your reply by e-mail. I read the list. -> Please avoid top-posting, long signatures and HTML, and cut the irrelevant parts in your replies.

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Xen in my financial news
by Robert 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

this was in my financial news today. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20051206/bs_nf/39937 if i may inquire, is anyone here using this effectively and reliably on CentOS? ive seen some other threads yet didnt pay but cursory attention - rh -- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net

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odd vmplayer problem
by Les Mikesell 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Is anyone using vmplayer with centos4.2 as the host? I have several machines where it works great other than an error that says "*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice" in the xterm window where it is started. However, on one machine it will start to boot windows virtual machines (both win2000 and XP) and they hang about 3/4 through where the progress bar goes across the screen - and of course this is the machine where I really want to run it. The machine is an IBM eserver with dual xeons and 4 gigs RAM. A very similar but not quite identical machine with less RAM does not have the same problem. Could the memory be an issue? This same machine that has trouble with the windows virtual machines works OK with the downloadable Browser Appliance vm which turns out to be a basic ubuntu installation. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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up2date command to install kernel source
by Jerry Geis 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Thanks that link explained a few things.... However it still mentions downloading the kernel source yourself then installing... I was looking for a command that goes and grabs the source rpm.... something like "up2date kernel-source" or something like that - to go grab the correct kernel source... I can do "up2date mozilla" for instance and it gets it and installs it. I am looking for something similaiar for the kernel source src.rpm. THanks, Jerry On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 10:50 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: >/ What is the correct command using up2date and yum />/ to install the kernel source package. / http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/10/kernel-26-on-fedora-based-systems.html -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> http://centos.ivazquez.net/ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell Support
by C.M. Connelly 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

We run CentOS on our Dell kit (servers, workstations, desktops, even some laptops) and haven't had any problems with warranty support from them for hardware issues. I would never call them about software support, which we don't pay for. If I were running RHEL more widely (I do have one install on a server), I suspect that Dell would push me toward calling Red Hat directly anyway. Dell has decent Linux support for various distros. Officially, they only support RHEL (and theoretically SuSE), but there's community support available for most other reasonably popular distros (notably Debian). Dell's Linux Community Website, <http://linux.dell.com/>, has pointers to various resources. If you want to run anything other than RHEL, you can get support from the various mailing lists (especially linux-poweredge and linux-precision). I know that people have gotten Dell's OpenManage (OMSA) stuff running on other distros. I've also had no problems with Dell's DKMS and OMSA packages on CentOS (CentOS is, after all, supposed to be almost identical to RHEL). I recently did a bunch of BIOS upgrades from the Linux command line with Dell's packages (sans OMSA) and they worked well, too. Also, the x86_64 CentOS code seems to run fine on our Dell Precision Workstations with EM64T processors. The issues there are the same you'd see running on any other AMD64 hardware -- some packages aren't built for 64-bit systems; some may not be buildable. I can't speak for any great advantages to using the 64-bit code; most of the work that's being done on those machines Claire -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Claire Connelly cmc(a)math.hmc.edu Systems Administrator (909) 621-8754 Department of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

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up2date command to install kernel source
by Jerry Geis 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

What is the correct command using up2date and yum to install the kernel source package. Thanks, jerry

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RE: [CentOS] Planning Mail Server (with low resources)
by Magnus Hedemark 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Your hardware specs exceed that of the box that was serving mail to *more* students about 8 years ago at Duke University. That box, if memory serves, was a Pentium 90MHz running Solaris x86. Though it did have the benefit of SCSI disks. If you can serve only POP3 instead of IMAP, that box will have no problem serving that many users and more. If you're going to do IMAP, I suggest trying out Dovecot and doing some comparative benchmarks before you settle on Cyrus. I made the switch on a dual Pentium III 800MHz box, 256MB RAM, 20GB disk, and the performance difference was staggering. I agree with using Postfix instead of Sendmail. Some of the other things like virus scanning and spam filtering is something the old Duke mail server never had to worry about, and admittedly that adds a big unknown into the equation. I'll echo the sentiments of the other folks and say that /usr needs to be bigger. Also, I highly recommend putting everything but /boot into LVM so that you can take advantage of more disk later on.

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slow usb hard disk performance.
by Peter Farrow 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Dear All, I tried a USB2 Maxtor One touch II external hard disk on a couple of my Centos 4.2 boxes and found it initiallised the SCSI subsystem ok and added device "sda". But the performance is miserable, yet the same hardware running XP the performance is satisfactory. HDPARM gives results varying from 120k/sec to , at its peak 4.75M/s on a USB 2 machine, still very poor by any stretch. On a twin CPU USB 1 machine it give a steady 1M/sec, which is consistently slow, which is better than erratically slow ( :-) ) Still dog slow, wondered if anyone has seen this, and wondered if the firewire interface would be better? (I need to get a cable to try this). P.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 10, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

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-2005:840 Important CentOS 3 i386 xpdf - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2005:840 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 xpdf - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2005:850 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 imap - security update (Tru Huynh) 4. CESA-2005:850 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 imap - security update (Tru Huynh) 5. CESA-2005:840 Important CentOS 4 ia64 xpdf security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2005:840 Important CentOS 4 axp xpdf security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2005:848 Moderate CentOS 4 axp libc-client security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2005:848 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 libc-client security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 9. CESA-2005:840 Important CentOS 3 ia64 xpdf security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 10. CESA-2005:850 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 imap security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 11. CESA-2005:840 Important CentOS 4 i386 xpdf security update (Johnny Hughes) 12. CESA-2005:840 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 xpdf security update (Johnny Hughes) 13. CESA-2005:848 Moderate CentOS 4x86_64 libc-client security update (Johnny Hughes) 14. CESA-2005:848 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 libc-client security update (Johnny Hughes) 15. CESA-2005:840 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) xpdf security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 16. CESA-2005:850 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) imap security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 17. CESA-2005:840 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) xpdf security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 18. CESA-2005:848 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) libc-client security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 19. CEEA-2005:1206-001 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 php - enhancement update (CENTOSPLUS only) (Johnny Hughes) 20. CEEA-2005:1206-001 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 php - enhancement update (CENTOSPLUS only) (Johnny Hughes) 21. CESA-2005:840-01: Important CentOS 2 i386 xpdf security update (John Newbigin) 22. CESA-2005:850-01: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 imap security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 17:19:16 +0100 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:840 Important CentOS 3 i386 xpdf - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20051206161916.GA4465(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:840 xpdf security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-840.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/xpdf-2.02-9.7.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/xpdf-2.02-9.7.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update xpdf Tru -- Tru Huynh (CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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Re: [users] CentOS 4.2 dag repo problem.
by Dag Wieers 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > | [root@forge dag]# gunzip -c repodata/primary.xml.gz \ > > | > | xsltproc /home/admin/primarytoshasum.xslt - \ > > | > | sha1sum -c > rpms.txt > > | sha1sum: WARNING: 22 of 2910 computed checksums did NOT match > > | [root@forge dag]# grep -v "OK$" rpms.txt > | [root@forge dag]# > > What was it now? createrepo checksum cache corruption bug :-( (See the createrepo -c command) So it only affected new-yum style metadata (also called repomd). And that's why subsequent runs to create new metadata all failed. (up2date, smart, apt and old-yum were not affected) > Ah yes, thanks for repairing it :) You're welcome. Sorry it took so long. Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]

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