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LVM problems [ was: bad blocks ... ]
by Collins Richey 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

On 6/4/05, John Hinton <webmaster(a)ew3d.com> wrote: > > Otherwise, I did have troubles with a LVM install and decided to never > try that one again... at least for a long time. > Now you have my curiosity aroused. Was this with CentOS3 or 4, ie LVM or LVM2? What problems? We use LVM on all our RH9 setups at work. No problems at all. OTOH, LVM2 is a work in progress that RH chose to pass along. I keep hearing rumors that the support may be more complete in Update 1 whenever that comes along. -- Collins Head teachers of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but the Start button.

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Is mod_auth_ldap in a Centos 4 repo anywhere?
by Ted Kaczmarek 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

Is their a repo with mod_auth_ldap ? Regards, Ted

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bad blocks showing up
by Jerry Geis 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

I am getting a few bad sector messages in my /var/log/messages. I have read where an "fsck -c -c /dev/hda" may be what I need. Before I go doing such things I am looking for confirmation that that is what I should do. Anyone please comment on how to tell linux to not use sectors in my disk. This is stright IDE no raid not nothing at this point /dev/hda is all. Thanks, jerry

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rpmbuild question about debugfiles.list
by Robin Mordasiewicz 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

I am trying to rebuild multimedia rpms for CentOs3.4 I have downloaded povray from thac's site. Near the packaging prt of the build I get an error.... Processing files: povray-debuginfo-3.1g-19.el3 error: Could not open %files file /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/povray31/debugfiles.list: No such file or directory RPM build errors: Could not open %files file /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/povray31/debugfiles.list: No such file or directory I have rebuilt many other rpms without this error. Can someone explain what is going on here.

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Re: [CentOS] Thanks :)
by Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith＠ieee.org> 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

From: Ajay <ajay(a)unisoftindia.net> > and hope that Redhat accepts the existance of this project and finds a > way to utilize it for good of both. You were doing fine up until this point. I think the speculation on Red Hat needs to stop, and I don't know why you had to interject this as well. From what I've seen, I don't think Red Hat is in any legal position to accept the existance of any project, and I no longer want to go down the road of where Red Hat's "hands are tied" on the nagging trademark history. So let's just leave it be. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org

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Re: [CentOS] Vote For CentOS :)
by me＠prestoncrawford.com 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

-------- Original Message -------- > From: Alex White <prata(a)kuei-jin.org> > Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 5:45 PM > To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Vote For CentOS :) > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Johnny Hughes wrote: > | > | No ... not at all. RedHat does not spend any time making sure > that the > | people who use CentOS can get free updates. > | > | They did not put together a world wide mirror network for free that > | everyone can use to get free enterprise level software. > | > | I am sick and tired of people minimizing the work that the CentOS > | Developement Team does. > | > | If you don't want to use CentOS, then don't use it ... but it is not > | easy to maintain a distro based on RHEL ... (or anything else for that > | matter). > | > | So, no, if you like and use CentOS, you should vote for CentOS. > | > | A couple hundred thousand people use it ... and hopefully they > | appreciate the amount of work it takes to maintain. > > Johnny, > > I certainly appreciate all of the work that has gone into CentOS. > I've not done that ballot just yet, but I will certainly be casting > my vote for CentOS. > > Thanks Johnny for the work. I appreciate it as well. In fact I plan on donating one of these days when I get the money. And I'm definitely recommending it to all my friends/family who use Linux. Yes, Red Hat creates RHEL. But by that logic shouldn't the credit be given to each contributor to each individual project that goes into a distro? Red Hat doesn't create mySQL, do they? Or Apache? How about Firefox? Is that Red Hat's baby? Point is, if you keep on saying "give credit where credit is due" you have to pass it down the line to the individual developers, testers, bug-fixers, etc. for the thousands of projects that go into RHEL. Not to mention all the brave Fedora users. So in the end, all things being equal and considering the above, my vote goes for CentOS. Preston

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Re: [CentOS] Vote For CentOS :)
by Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith＠ieee.org> 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

From: Robert <kerplop(a)sbcglobal.net> > You noticed that statement, too, huh? Yes. That's why I now sound like a broken record: We _all_ stand on the shoulders of others No one should be considered more important than anyone else, at least when it comes to GPL software and redistribution. The great thing about any GPL project is that if you don't like them, the project, etc... you can choose another. Unfortunately, too many people think you must comment negatively on the original, or the fork. There is all this "versus" and "absolutes" non-sense that drives me wild. > That begs the questions: > Why am I here then? > Why are you (not you, BS) here then? I don't claim to be innocent. But other than stupidly engaging on the "GPL license/trademarks" stuff, I maintain a 100% _technical_ focus in my commentary. I could care less about credit, brandnames, marketing, etc... > Why are we running CentOS? From dictionary.com: 3. Worth > in usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit: > the value of an education. I think people get confused on "value." Yes, if RHEL wasn't available in SRPM form, or didn't exist, then CentOS probably wouldn't exist (at least as we know it). And sure, without CentOS, RHEL would still go on. But that doesn't mean CentOS doesn't have value. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org

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installation count?
by Todd Blake 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

Out of curiousity...I wonder if anyone has an idea of how many centos installations are out there?

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CentOS/RHEL versioning scheme?
by Morten Kjeldgaard 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

I am a bit puzzled at the versioning scheme of the RedHat clone family. RedHat seems to use integer 4, Tao and Centos does the same. If you do rpm -q --qf '%{version}\n' -f /etc/redhat-release you get '4'. However, Scientific Linux uses 4.0, and that seems to me to be a more logical choise, since presumable there are going to be versions 4.1, 4.2, etc. Is there any good reason for the version of package centos-release NOT to be 4.0? It has a significance in automated scripts trying to work out which distribution and version you are running, and it seems silly to treat the different RHEL4 clones differently. It would make sense for CentOS to coordinate/agree_upon a common scheme among the different distributions. Cheers, Morten PS: Perhaps someone can provide info about other RHEL clone distros! -- Morten Kjeldgaard, Asc. professor, Ph.D. Department of Molecular Biology, Aarhus University Gustav Wieds Vej 10 C, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark Lab +45 89425026 * Mobile +45 51860147 * Fax +45 86123178 Home +45 86188180 * ICQ 27224900 * http://www.bioxray.dk/~mok

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Re: [CentOS] Attempting custom CentOS4 network install
by Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith＠ieee.org> 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

From: Ajay <ajay(a)unisoftindia.net> > A new hdlist and hdlist2 is sucessfully regenerated in CentOS/base dir > with a small reduction in file size of hdlist, but the network install fails > at the end of "Preparing RPM transaction" screen with the message > "install exited abnormally" and shuts down. > Am I missing something? I've had this happen when there is a conflict between some core packages. It's a PITA to resolve because, as you found out first-hand, you don't know it until you're half-way through an install. My approach has been to only add packages I know are safe and won't conflict with core FC/RHEL packages, and then install any additional from either an internal APT-RPM or YUM-RPM repository. I typically do the latter to fetch system updates anyway, including creation of RPMs for key configuration files (and updates). E.g., "CONFIG_BS-2.1.noarch.rpm" (the package name conviniently matching my initials if anyone hasn't noticed that yet ;-). From: Sean O'Connell <oconnell(a)soe.ucsd.edu> > Ajay- > It would be far simpler to setup a yum repository for the additional > packages, create a custom yum.conf (or repo file for the repo), and then > install that yum.conf or repo file in %post and then follow that up with > a > yum -t -y install foo bar baz I remember Seth talking awhile back on a Fedora list about the next generation installer (Anaconda-based?) being able to pull from YUM-RPM repositories at install-time for network installs. Has anyone been tracking that development? -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org

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