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Server freeze
by Hugo Perez Casanova 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hi all. Two days ago a server got freezed, not responding at console or by LAN. I noticed both caps lock and scroll lock LEDs at the keyboard flashing. I think this could be a hardware problem, but I don't recall where I read about this flashing indicators. The hardware is an Intel based white box PC running CentOS 3.5 fully updated. Anybody knows what the flashing LEDs means? Regards.

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php help please
by Melinda Odom 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hi, My system uses CentOS 3.5 plus Plesk 7.5.3 reloaded for the server administration for customers. Qmail is the MTA. A couple of days ago I ran yum list updates and there were these packages to update: php i386 4.3.2-25.ent.centos.1 update php-imap i386 4.3.2-25.ent.centos.1 update php-mysql i386 4.3.2-25.ent.centos.1 update php-pgsql i386 4.3.2-25.ent.centos.1 update When I ran yum update they all updated and seemed like everything was fine. Then I found out that all of my ecommerce stores using osCommerce had an error in the admin that could not send mail and it seemed to be isolated to the admin until I tried to put an order through on my test store and other live stores where the same error showed up while trying to checkout so nobody could check out or order anything. This is the error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mail() in /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/admin/includes/classes/email.php on line 502 The server support people eventually put back those php listings to php-4.3.2-24.ent to solve the problem so people could shop. In the meantime the php.ini file had a listing in it called: ; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i"). sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i which was used with php-4.3.2-24 was changed to: ; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i"). sendmail_path = /var/qmail/bin/sendmail -t -i when it was updated to php-4.3.2-25 Now that the server is back using php-4.3.2-24 the listing is: ; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i"). sendmail_path = /var/qmail/bin/sendmail -t -i I have left this as is for the moment. ================================= ================================= Further, support said the reason the yum update caused these problems was because there were no mail extensions in the php updates so they put this line in the yum.conf to keep further conflicts that may arise with Plesk: exclude=mod_ssl* httpd* perl mysql* php* For nearly a year I have been doing yum updates without any line like this in the yum.conf file and am now afraid to run any security updates if my ecommerce stores are going to stop working. Plesk says in any of their updates to check and see if you have this program or better which I have always had a better version than what they suggest on the server. ================================= ================================= Also, in the /etc/redhat-release file I have had this listing from the beginning in it so I could use the Plesk updater within the Plesk server admin area: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 4) The server support people are now telling me to put it to CentOS which I have been asking them about this for months now and only now are they telling me this: CentOS release 3.4 (final) This setting causes the Plesk updater within the Plesk server admin area to have this error so I cannot use this listed as is: Error: You are using CentOS Linux 2.2, but autoinstaller was compiled for RedHat Enterprise Linux 3. Exiting autoinstaller... ================================= Is this line, exclude=mod_ssl* httpd* perl mysql* php* really suppose to be in the yum.conf file? Since Plesk supports CentOS 3.3 and Redhat Enterprise 3 should I be able to update mod_ssl, httpd, perl mysql, and php via yum update without these problems I would think? There is only one problem that is happening now and it is just on my personal domain with my test osCommerce store...I get the order and contact emails but when I log into the admin to send a status email from the orders/edit section the email never hits the server using "tail" to watch for it and I never get the email. However, I can put an order through one of my other store sites and use this order/edit status email function and get the email all the time so this problem is specific to my personal domain only with a fresh install of the osCommerce store so don't understand this at all. I hope I have posted the information necessary and that someone can help me. Thank you. Sincerely, Melinda Odom www.designhosting.biz 479-471-0891 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.15/80 - Release Date: 8/23/2005

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Has anyone got dvd::rip to work in CentOS?
by Dave Gutteridge 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

I feel like Im chasing my own tail round and round in trying to install dvd::rip. Installing the RPM just gets me lost in a world of dependancies. I tried installing manually and all I get is the following: [dave@localhost ~]$ /usr/bin/dvdrip Can't locate Locale/TextDomain.pm in @INC (@INC contains: lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi... ... and it goes on and on. By chance has anyone installed this successfully? Dave

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FTP timout
by Abd El-Hameed Ayad 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hi all, I have 2 CentOS 3.5 boxes & i do backups on the LAN Recently, I always get FTP timout error with large files "700 MB and more" . i tried to log and do manual backup with FTP command and i also got the same result "FTP timeout" i tried to google and i did # modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp but still get the same timeout message Any one can help??? Hameed

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 6, Issue 12
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '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-2005:755-01: Critical CentOS 2 i386 elm security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:10:58 +1000 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:755-01: Critical CentOS 2 i386 elm security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <430BAD02.8050102(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHSA-2005:755-01 Critical: elm security update Files available: elm-2.5.6-6.i386.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 6, Issue 12 **********************************************

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Re: [CentOS] OT: BIOS upgrades and booting without a floppy drive
by David Thompson 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Bart Schaefer wrote: >I see there's a D865GBF BIOS upgrade on the Intel site, dating from >May. Problem is it comes only as either a Windows installer, or a >bootable floppy -- and not only does this machine not have a floppy >drive, but the case configuration is such that the DVD-ROM drive >blocks access to the floppy connector on the motherboard, so I'm >looking at minor surgery just to stick one in temporarily. > >Is there any clever way around this? Some way to make a bootable CD >from the floppy image, for example? Or must I grit my teeth and bring >out the screwdrivers? If you're set up to do PXE, you can boot a floppy image over the network via PXELINUX/MEMDISK and get rid of the physical media altogether. http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php Dave Thompson UW-Madison

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logrotate broken on 4.1
by scott.list 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hi all: logrotate is broken on my stock 4.1 install. After hunting and hunting I found there is a bug filed with Redhat on the issue. logrotate fails becasue my /tmp partition is mounted noexec. I understand it is that way for security reasons. The box in question is on a dedicated hosting site and that's the way it was handed off to me, built. Some said setting TMPDIR=/var/tmp;export TMPDIR would fix it. My /var/tmp is not on a noexec partition so I'm good there. Setting TMPDIR however does not fix it. I've tried adding the variable in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate, I tried it after a prerotate inside the actual syslog logrotate file, netiher worked. I finally had to remount /tmp and remove the noexec. I have the stock 4.1 logrotate, I understand some later versions *may* address the TMPDIR but I hate to start straying off the stock/stable path since the main reason I am running Centos4.1 is to have a stable server platform that is maintained via yum update alone. Has anyone fixed this on 4.1? Or have a workaround besides setting /tmp to exec or changing logrotate versions? Thanks, Soctt

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xfs module not loading
by Fong Vang 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

I'm trying to add XFS and ReiserFS to CentOS, integrating with Kickstart. I think I'm fairly close. I've added xfs.ko and reiserfs.ko to modules.cgz in initrd. Several of my partitions now specify --fstype=xfs. I can see tty5 mkfs.xfs is creating the XFS file systems. The system currently installs completely via kickstart, but it does not mount the XFS file systems while in the kick process. /mnt/sysimage/etc/fstab is populated correctly. In tty2, lsmod does not show that the xfs module is loaded (ext3 is in the list). I tried loading it manually with modprobe and insmod but I don't think it's loading (no error message at all -- no error). BTW, as with Fedora, I also specified 'xfs' as an option to syslinux/pxelinux. What else am I missing? Thanks for any help.

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Arial font missing for openoffice 1.9+ SOLVED
by Jerry Geis 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Fantastic - thanks, Does this help ... http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ ? Regards, .sha Jerry Geis wrote: >/ I am trying to run ooimpress for openoffice 1.9+ />/ I have it installed and running but the powerpoint I loaded has />/ an arial font selected and that font does not seem to be />/ present in centos 4 . />/ />/ How can I put it there for openoffice to use.. />/ />/ THanks />/ />/ Jerry /

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mount.cifs and UID mapping
by Petr Fischer 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hi! I have mounted samba disk with mount.cifs (smbmount has problems with codepage [Czech] - I can't use it). How do I map the server UID/GID to client UID/GID? (I can't have the same UIDs/GIDs on all computers.) Classic mount parameters uid/gid can't be used if "CIFS Unix extensions" are used on Samba server. Google has not answered my questions (maybe I asked wrong). Thanks, pf

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