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Re: [CentOS] Intel Matrix SATA RAID drivers
by Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith＠ieee.org> 27 May '05

27 May '05

From: Mickael Maddison <mike(a)kamloopsbc.com> > Hello CentOS, > Does anyone know if there's a driver out there that'll enable CentOS > 4.x to use the Intel Matrix SATA RAID settings on the 915 chipsets? All FRAID cards do is setup the RAID organization in the 16-bit Int13h disk services. In other words, the vendor introduces its own data organization for RAID, instead of relying on the OS. So there's really no such thing as a RAID driver for any FRAID card (Fake/ Free RAID) implementation. It's all software RAID. The system directly drives the ATA channels, which means the OS uses the standard ATA driver. That means that the FRAID card must either: A) Provide the FRAID logic as a kernel module A few do, and it's a massive binary object that is kernel build-specific. The FRAID logic is licensed from a 3rd party, and that 3rd party makes all of its money from that proprietary logic, so it will never be GPL. B) Write a data organization/interface wrapper kernel module to Linux's ataraid.c FRAID logic module. The GPL/reverse engineered hptraid.c, pdcraid.c and silraid.c modules are examples that don't work well at all, and only for a few models of each. C) Write a data organziation/interface wrapper to Linux's LVM/MD instead of the ataraid.c logic module. This is far more ideal and higher performing, but it makes it OS-specific. I believe this might be what the RAIDCore cards do for Linux support. Intelligent, hardware RAID don't have to do A-C, because the RAID logic is on-board in the firmware, driven directly by an on-board microcontroller or ASIC. FRAID cards use your host CPU and software. That's why RAID are so cheap and have *0* additional hardware over a standard ATA controller. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org

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Intel Matrix SATA RAID drivers
by Mickael Maddison 27 May '05

27 May '05

Hello CentOS, Does anyone know if there's a driver out there that'll enable CentOS 4.x to use the Intel Matrix SATA RAID settings on the 915 chipsets? -- Best regards, Mickael mailto:mike@kamloopsbc.com www.MickaelMaddison.com

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Official CentOS CD/DVD Vendor Program
by Johnny Hughes 27 May '05

27 May '05

All, I would like to announce our Official CentOS CD/DVD Vendor Program. We currently have 3 vendors, and 2 more who are putting together their information. (Not bad ... the official program has been going for less than 12 hours :) The details of the program (how to get in it, what they give back to the CentOS Project, etc.) are here: http://www.centos.org/images/CentOS_CD_Vendors.pdf Here is the page that contains the current vendors: http://www.centos.org/vendors The CentOS project has looked at the vendors listed, and we highly recommend them if you want to buy CentOS CDs or DVDs. They give back to the CentOS Project for every CentOS CD/DVD they sell and we greatly appreciate it. If you are a CD/DVD vendor and are interested in being in our official program, see the above guide. If you are a CentOS user looking to buy CDs or DVDs, please use our official vendors to get all your pre-made CDs or DVDs (not just CentOS products) ... and if you are buying other products from them because they are official CentOS vendors, let them know that is the reason :) Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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Still VPN
by Simone 27 May '05

27 May '05

Hi, still trying to understand one thing. I would definitely like to tell iptables to accept all packets coming from remote vpn only if they hit the $VIRTUALVPNINTERFACE. I tried -o ipsec0 but this is not working, looks like ipsec0 device doesn't exist or it is not recognized. I red on the Openswan users list, that Linux kernel 2.6 native ipsec don't create ipsec* interface (if I am not wrong this is something backported on kernel 2.4 RHEL3) just add a route to remote network through eth0, so if I want to ssh the vpn server on his internal ip from the other side of the vpn I need $IPTABLES -A INPUT -i *$EXTIF* -s $MYEXTNETWORK -d $INTIP -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT and this is true for any other rule I would use ipsec0 in, I have to use $EXTIF. Even if I am going to set sshd to listen on a different port, I am a little worried this could harm my machine in any way. Comments are welcome Have a nice day Simone

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 3, Issue 16
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 27 May '05

27 May '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. Official CentOS CD/DVD Vendor Program (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2005:413 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 ImageMagick - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2005:413 Important CentOS 4 i386 ImageMagick - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 10:03:38 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] Official CentOS CD/DVD Vendor Program To: CentOS ML <centos(a)centos.org> Cc: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <1117119818.1469.209.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" All, I would like to announce our Official CentOS CD/DVD Vendor Program. We currently have 3 vendors, and 2 more who are putting together their information. (Not bad ... the official program has been going for less than 12 hours :) The details of the program (how to get in it, what they give back to the CentOS Project, etc.) are here: http://www.centos.org/images/CentOS_CD_Vendors.pdf Here is the page that contains the current vendors: http://www.centos.org/vendors The CentOS project has looked at the vendors listed, and we highly recommend them if you want to buy CentOS CDs or DVDs. They give back to the CentOS Project for every CentOS CD/DVD they sell and we greatly appreciate it. If you are a CD/DVD vendor and are interested in being in our official program, see the above guide. If you are a CentOS user looking to buy CDs or DVDs, please use our official vendors to get all your pre-made CDs or DVDs (not just CentOS products) ... and if you are buying other products from them because they are official CentOS vendors, let them know that is the reason :) Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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bash 3.0 freezes
by jose luis faria 27 May '05

27 May '05

Hello centos users, I download the bash 3.0 and compile it in CentOS 4.0 with or withiut all patchs. But when I execute the comand ls -l it freezes. Any idea? -- :) cumprimentos -------------------------- José Luís Faria

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mouse issues in centos 4
by Mark Elam 27 May '05

27 May '05

Hi all, I am the IT department here at my office, I take care of everything pretty much. I chose Centos4 to deploy to my 50 workstations as it was the most compatible with the RHEL. We need the RHEL compatibility for support contract for different tools we use. So far it has been great. I have noticed a few issues since having 50 machines all exactly the same installed with centos 4. I have them clustered, and generally they work well. I often see random loss of the mouse cursor, which results in having to restart X. (really pisses the engineers off) I cannot seem to track down why this is happening. Nothing in any logs give any clue to what is happening. I thought it may have to do with VMware, as this is installed on 80% of these machines, and most of the time it happened when users were using Vmware. But recently I have seen the problem on machines without VMware running or even installed. I have also noticed a similar issue with a Wacom tablet. The user will be using it for some amount of time and then it stops working. At first it is assigned /dev/input/event3, the kernel module (wacom.o) is loaded and everything is fine. It will then stop working after a while, behind the scenes the system thinks the tablet has been unplugged and replugged, then assigns it /dev/input/event4. This of course doesn't work because in the xorg.conf file it is looking for it at event3. I am not sure if these are related or not. But the symptoms seem similar. Of course the wacom tablet is USB and the mouse issues are with PS/2 mice. So they may be unrelated. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks for your time. -- ############################################################################# Mark Elam Direct: 408.869.4029 IT Administrator Cell: 408.221.2689 Mobilygen Corporation melam(a)mobilygen.com #############################################################################

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can't locate /etc/ini.d/mysqld file!
by israel.garcia＠cimex.com.cu 26 May '05

26 May '05

List, I installed my server and I want to start Mysql, but I can not find the file /etc/ini.d/mysqld .. [root@netflow ntop]# rpm -qa|grep mysql mysqlclient10-3.23.58-4.RHEL4.1 libdbi-dbd-mysql-0.6.5-10.RHEL4.1 mysql-4.1.10a-1.RHEL4.1 mysql-devel-4.1.10a-1.RHEL4.1 Am I missing some mysql rpm from Cds? regards. israel

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Re: [Centos] Mounting Netware Volumes
by Nels Lindquist 26 May '05

26 May '05

On 24 Mar 2005 at 19:33, Paul wrote: > Well I dug though the RH's site and in the release notes for AS 3.95 ite > mentionsed that ncpfs has been deprecated. I can't find the release > notes for 4, but assume that they must have removed support in the > kernel along with the package. Try installing the kernel-unsupported module. Both ncpfs.o and ipx.o (should you still require it) are in that module, at least for CentOS 3.x--haven't looked at 4.0 yet myself. ---- Nels Lindquist <*> Information Systems Manager Morningstar Air Express Inc.

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Re: Demonizing generic Linux issues as Fedora Core-only issues -- this thread has ended ...
by Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith＠ieee.org> 26 May '05

26 May '05

From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> > If you believe that, you have to believe that Red Hat's programmers > are always better than the original upstream program author. How do you assert that? It has _nothing_ to do with my statement. You keep thinking there is this absolute "black/white" on why developers, vendors, etc... do this or that. There are reasons to upgrade to a newer version, and there are other reasons to backport. One is _not_ better than the other, or developers are not any more or less "smart" if they do. What I said was it is _harder_ for a distro to take the take to backport fixes and minimize impact to existing compatibility than to merely just rely and ship the latest version from a developer. There are reasons to upgrade (features, project support, etc...) and there are reason to backport (minimal impact, regression tested inter-package compatibility, etc...). There is no "black/white" on which one is "better." I just merely stated _why_ SLA guaranteed distros do the "backport," which is more difficult to accommodate because the project developers/support typically are just focused on the next version, and you have to replicate much of their knowledge/expertise internally (instead of just taking their next version with the patches/fixes). > I'll agree that they are good and on the average do a good job, but > that stops far short of saying that they know better than the > perl (etc.) teams what version you should be running. And _where_ did I say that? All I said was that _backporting_ is done to _minimize_ impact to the _entire_ set of _all_ packages that have been "regression tested" into a released, SLA guaranteed distro. That's what RHEL/SLES are about. At what point are you going to stop seeing what I saw as a black/white thing and realize that RHEL/SLES have _different_ foci than what you may want, and _that's_ why you're not getting what you want in stock CentOS? Is it really that hard to understand? When you understand that there is a pro/con to "staying current" v. "backports," and why distros like RHEL/SLES are typically "anal" to the "backport" side -- which seemingly conflicts with what you want, then we can talk. Until then, you seem to want to assert that what I'm saying is something about "better" when that is _not_ what I'm saying. I'm trying to explain "why" -- _not_ "better." End of thread. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org

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