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Help Wanted With kPPP
by Glen Roy 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

Hi all. Firstly, I apologize if this question has been asked before, which I'm sure it has. I'm only new to Linux although I have been 'dabbling' for awhile now with Ubuntu, Fedora Core 4, SimplyMEPIS, Xandros to name a few. I found Centos 4.1 on the cover disk of the September issue of APC Magazine and thought I'd give it a go. I want to learn linux and thought this one was the most compatible with RedHat. I know Fedora comes close but I had a few headaches with it. Anyway, what I need to know is the following. I need all users to be able to dial into the Internet using either kppp or whatever without being asked for a root password. I only have dial-up, thanks to Telstra. I've searched for days and tried various things but no luck. Please help me out with simple, step-by-step instructions aimed at a new user. I tried changing permissions, creating dialout group and adding users but no luck. Hope to hear from someone soon in regards to this issue. PS: It doesn't necessarily have to be kppp but any easy to use dialer.

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Sata DVD
by Sam Drinkard 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

List, Are Sata DVD drives/recorders supported in CentOS, and if so, what needs to be done to read/write to them. On my initial install, the machine would boot from the drive, but I wound up having to use a regular ide cd-rom drive to do the install. The drive in question is a Plextor 716. Sure a waste of a good drive if I can't get to it. Thanks.. -- Snowman

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centos 4.1 gnome desktop default 3 icons
by Jerry Geis 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

I am wanting to remove the 3 default icons on the gnome desktop. the computer, the users home, and the trashcan icon. How do I do that? Thanks, Jerry

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Users logged in vs. not
by Sam Drinkard 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

I'm seeing a user logged in if I do a "who" but I find by looking at "last" that user logged out after 28 minutes. Is something not being updated for some reason? Netstat does not find the user logged in, nor are there any processes associated with that pty. ??? Sam -- Snowman

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OT: EVDO cards / service with CentOS
by Barry Brimer 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Does anyone have any experience (good or bad) with using EVDO high speed wireless broadband service under CentOS? I am looking for high speed / low cost internet connectivity for an office that is in an area without DSL or Cable. My idea was to use EVDO from either Verizon or Sprint with a PCMCIA to PCI adapter card that I could stick into a CentOS machine that is used as the router/firewall. If anyone has any specific experience with these, please let me know. Thanks, Barry

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OT Apache Question
by kevin.kempter＠dataintellect.com 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Hi LIst; I would like to bring apache up to listen on an lternate port (like 81 instead of 80) however if I change the listen value in the httpd.conf file then it fails to start saying that : (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address :81 any Ideas??

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Recommendation for HTML editor
by Dave Gutteridge 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

I was playing around with Nvu, and discovered it has serious problems. Mainly that it reformats one's code regardless of whether or not one selects the "Don't reformat code" option. I know there are a few HTML editors out there, so I'm not asking if they exist. What I'm wondering if there are those on this list who may have a recommendation for one they like and why. I'm also asking on some other lists. Although I'm looking for editors that will run on CentOS, I can understand if this strays too much from the topic of the list. PLease email me off list if you feel that would be more appropriate. Dave

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RE: [CentOS] Recommendation On Ping And Alert Tool
by Todd Reed 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

I previously used Nagios and because of the painful configurations, I found OpenNMS. It does all I need and more, being more easier than Nagios. It uses PostgreSQL and runs on top of Tomcat4. Here is how I installed OpenNMS and it's prereqs. It's rough, but it works. Installing Java and Tomcat -------------- Download SDK and JRE to Local PC. Use SCP to copy them to the server in the /downloads directory mkdir /usr/local/java cp /downloads/j2sdk-1_4_2_09-linux-i586.bin /usr/local/java cp /downloads/j2re-1_4_2_09-linux-i586.bin /usr/local/java cd /usr/local/java chmod +x * ./j2sdk-1_4_2_09-linux-i586.bin ./j2re-1_4_2_09-linux-i586.bin rm -rf *.bin chown -R root:root j2sdk1.4.2_09 chown -R root:root j2re1.4.2_09 ln -s j2sdk1.4.2_09 j2sdk ln -s j2re1.4.2_09 j2jre nano -w /etc/profile if ! echo ${PATH} | grep -q /usr/local/java/j2sdk/bin ; then export PATH=/usr/local/java/j2sdk/bin:${PATH} fi if ! echo ${PATH} | grep -q /usr/local/java/j2re/bin ; then export PATH=/usr/java/local/j2re/bin:${PATH} fi export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/j2sdk export CLASSPATH=.:/usr/local/java/j2sdk/lib/tools.jar:/usr/local/java/j2re/lib/rt. jar exit su - java -version java version "1.4.2_09" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_09-b05) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_09-b05, mixed mode) cd /downloads groupadd -g 220 tomcat useradd -u 220 -g tomcat -c "Tomcat" -r -d /usr/local/tomcat -s "/sbin/nologin" tomcat wget http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/apache/jakarta/tomcat-4/v4.1.31/bin/jakarta-tomca t-4.1.31.tar.gz cp jakarta-tomcat-4.1.31.tar.gz /usr/local cd /usr/local tar -zxvf jakarta-tomcat-4.1.31.tar.gz rm *.gz chown -R tomcat:tomcat /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.31 ln -s jakarta-tomcat-4.1.31 tomcat nano -w /etc/sysconfig/iptables Add port 8080 to ip tables service iptables restart nano -w /etc/profile Add: CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat echo $CATALINA_HOME nano -w /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat ADD CONTENT: #!/bin/sh # # Startup script for the Jakarta Tomcat Java Servlets and JSP server # # chkconfig: - 85 15 # description: Jakarta Tomcat Java Servlets and JSP server # processname: tomcat # pidfile: /var/run/tomcat.pid # config: # Source function library. . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions # Source networking configuration. . /etc/sysconfig/network # Check that networking is up. [ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0# Set Tomcat environment. export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/j2sdk export CLASSPATH=.:/usr/local/java/j2sdk/lib/tools.jar:/usr/local/java/j2re/lib/rt. jar export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat export CATALINA_OPTS="-Dbuild.compiler.emacs=true" export PATH=/usr/local/java/j2sdk/bin:/usr/local/local/j2re/bin:$PATH [ -f /usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh ] || exit 0 [ -f /usr/local/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh ] || exit 0 export PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin # See how we were called. case "$1" in start) # Start daemon. echo -n "Starting Tomcat: " /usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh RETVAL=$? echo [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/tomcat ;; stop) # Stop daemons. echo -n "Shutting down Tomcat: " /usr/local/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh RETVAL=$? echo [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/tomcat ;; restart) $0 stop $0 start ;; condrestart) [ -e /var/lock/subsys/tomcat ] && $0 restart ;; status) status tomcat ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}" exit 1 esac exit 0 chown root:root /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat chkconfig --add tomcat chkconfig tomcat on Go to: http://localhost:8080 Note: It will take about 15 seconds to pull up. -------------- Installing RRDTool yum install rrdtool -------------- Configuring SNMP yum -y install net-snmp-utils cd /etc/snmp mv snmpd.conf snmpd.conf.old nano -w snmpd.conf Add: rocommunity <password> chkconfig snmpd on service snmpd start snmpwalk -v 1 -c <password> localhost system -------------- Configuring Postgresql service postgresql start chkconfig postgresql on nano -w /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf add/change: tcpip_socket = true add/change: shared_buffers = 1024 nano -w /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf change (remove comment): host all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust change: local all all trust service postgresql restart -------------- Configuring OpenNMS cd /downloads wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/opennms/opennms-1.2.4-1_cento s4.i386.rpm wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/opennms/opennms-docs-1.2.4-1_ centos4.i386.rpm wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/opennms/opennms-webapp-1.2.4- 1_centos4.i386.rpm rpm -i opennms-1.2.4-1_centos4.i386.rpm --nodeps rpm -i opennms-docs-1.2.4-1_centos4.i386.rpm --nodeps rpm -i opennms-webapp-1.2.4-1_centos4.i386.rpm --nodeps cd /opt/OpenNMS/bin ./runjava -s ./install -disU ./install -y -w $CATALINA_HOME/webapps -W $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib cd /opt/OpenNMS/etc nano -w discovery-configuration.xml Change the begin and end IP address to 127.0.0.1, or service tomcat restart /opt/OpenNMS/bin/opennms.sh start chkconfig opennms on opennms -v status Goto: http://localhost:8080/opennms/ login with admin:admin Change password >On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 12:54, Kennedy Clark wrote: > > >>A bit off topic, but I keep looking for an answer to this question and >>coming up with nothing... so I thought I would go to the gurus. :-) >> >>Can anyone recommend a good package for pinging other devices and >>sending an email/alert when they go down? I'm aware of all kinds of >>more complex things with GUIs and a zillion other bells and whistles >>we aren't looking for, but we just want a simple tool (could be daemon >>or something run from cron) that runs every 1 - 5 minutes and alerts >>us when stuff disappears. Would need some basic logic like only >>sending one email/alert when something goes down (vs sending an email >>every 1-5 minutes until it comes back up). :-) We need to avoid a >>requirement for an X-windows GUI, but a web-GUI would probably be fine >>(a GUI-less command-line thing would probably be best). >> >> > >This probably isn't the best anymore, but I've had it running with >no particular problems for 5 or 6 years - before any of the others >like it were available. It is all-perl, has one server process to >collate the responses and rate-limit the alarms, one network probe >for all the remotely checks, and optional local clients for some >things that can only be tested locally. It is fairly easy to add >custom tests for local applications. > http://spong.sourceforge.net/ > > > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 7, Issue 14
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '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. CENTOSPLUS CESA-2005:785 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x) firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2005:785 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 01:11:08 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)papat.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CENTOSPLUS CESA-2005:785 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x) firefox - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20050923221108.GI15823(a)core.upi.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2005:785 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-785.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: centosplus/s390/RPMS/firefox-1.0.7-1.4.1.centos3.s390.rpm s390x: centosplus/s390x/RPMS/firefox-1.0.7-1.4.1.centos3.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

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Sound device has been blown away
by Dave Gutteridge 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Well, I spoke to soon. After installing gstreamer-ffmpeg, and creating an .asoundrc file, I thought everything was perfect. All my music applications were handling MP3s, FireFox was playing sounds, everything was sweet. And so I played some music in Rhythmbox. That lasted about four or five songs, and then suddenly, the sound cut out. And at the same time, my keyboard became unresponsive. I could close applications with my mouse, but couldn't type anything in any application. So I rebooted. And when I did, I got a "new hardware detected" old- school interface. It said my Kenwood Audio device had been removed, and I could either remove it's configuration, keep it, or do nothing. I chose to keep it. Then the boot up continued. When finally logged in again, I tried playing some music. No go. So I checked the System Settings | Soundcard Detection utility, and guess what - the Kenwood device is gone. There are no more tabs, there's just one device option, the SB Live device which may or may not be the default motherboard sound device. In any case, it has no speakers and it's not the Kenwood Audio device, which is still attached to my computer and is the device I want to use. What happened to my sound card and how do I get it back? Dave

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