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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 3, Issue 1
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 02 May '05

02 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. CESA-2005-0502-001: Low CentOS 2 i386 update 7 (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 19:48:14 +1000 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005-0502-001: Low CentOS 2 i386 update 7 To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <4275F75E.9030600(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: RHBA-2004:665 Updated dialog package RHBA-2004:671 util-linux bug fix update RHBA-2004:701 Updated xinitrc package RHBA-2005:023 psmisc bug fix update RHBA-2005:024 procps bug fix update RHBA-2005:041 man-pages-ja bug fix update RHBA-2005:052 net-tools bug fix update RHBA-2005:054 logrotate bug fix update RHBA-2005:055 amanda bug fix update RHBA-2005:064 pam bug fix update RHBA-2005:115 chkconfig bug fix update RHBA-2005:117 initscripts bug fix update RHBA-2005:179 raidtools bug fix update RHBA-2005:226 libtiff bug fix update RHBA-2005:240 postgresql bug fix update RHBA-2005:310 lsof bug fix update RHEA-2004:097 Updated mt-st package supports additional tape drives Files available: dialog-0.9a-5.1.AS21.i386.rpm util-linux-2.11f-20.6.i386.rpm xinitrc-3.20.2-1.noarch.rpm psmisc-20.1-3.i386.rpm procps-2.0.7-11.23.i386.rpm procps-X11-2.0.7-11.23.i386.rpm man-pages-ja-20041215-1.EL2.1.0.noarch.rpm net-tools-1.60-19.AS21.3.i386.rpm logrotate-3.5.9-2.i386.rpm amanda-2.4.4p3-1.21as.1.i386.rpm amanda-client-2.4.4p3-1.21as.1.i386.rpm amanda-devel-2.4.4p3-1.21as.1.i386.rpm amanda-server-2.4.4p3-1.21as.1.i386.rpm pam-0.75-46.64.i386.rpm pam-devel-0.75-46.64.i386.rpm chkconfig-1.3.13.2-0.2.1.i386.rpm ntsysv-1.3.13.2-0.2.1.i386.rpm initscripts-6.47.14-1.c2.1.i386.rpm raidtools-1.00.3-8.EL2.1.i386.rpm libtiff-3.5.7-29.el2.i386.rpm libtiff-devel-3.5.7-29.el2.i386.rpm postgresql-7.1.3-7.rhel2.1AS.i386.rpm postgresql-contrib-7.1.3-7.rhel2.1AS.i386.rpm postgresql-devel-7.1.3-7.rhel2.1AS.i386.rpm postgresql-docs-7.1.3-7.rhel2.1AS.i386.rpm postgresql-jdbc-7.1.3-7.rhel2.1AS.i386.rpm postgresql-libs-7.1.3-7.rhel2.1AS.i386.rpm postgresql-odbc-7.1.3-7.rhel2.1AS.i386.rpm postgresql-perl-7.1.3-7.rhel2.1AS.i386.rpm postgresql-python-7.1.3-7.rhel2.1AS.i386.rpm postgresql-server-7.1.3-7.rhel2.1AS.i386.rpm postgresql-tcl-7.1.3-7.rhel2.1AS.i386.rpm postgresql-test-7.1.3-7.rhel2.1AS.i386.rpm postgresql-tk-7.1.3-7.rhel2.1AS.i386.rpm lsof-4.51-2.1.i386.rpm mt-st-0.6-3.i386.rpm As yet there is no official announcement from Red Hat. The release notes are well hidden but don't say much anyway. I have removed a number of superseded updates from the mirror. From now on the mirror will only have the most recent and the previous update available. I will keep an archive of all updates if you even need something historical. More info will be posted soon. 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 3, Issue 1 *********************************************

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yum pinning rpms
by Collins Richey 02 May '05

02 May '05

I did a little googling for this, but only found meaningless references, since pin has too, too common other meanings. Is there a way to pin a version of a particular package with yum/rpm? I have the rpms for the beta 2.0 version of OpenOffice installed, so I'm not interested in the updates for OpenOffice 1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4 which are now coming in. Is there a way to instruct yum to ignore this update but accept other updates? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but in spite of many years working with Linux I'm not an rpm/yum heavyweight. I'm sure, however, others may appreciate the answer. TIA, -- Collins When I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world.... The Berlin Wall has fallen. - Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt

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NFS server problem
by Alex Tkachenko 01 May '05

01 May '05

Hi Everybody! I've got a nasty problem with a fresh install of CenOS 4 (actually re-install, to rule out any configuration problems accumulated over time). We have a c4-based machine (further Server), which is supposed to serve a lot of files over NFS. In the course of the setup I was checking how the backups (using rsync) would work and got a lot of errors reported by rsync about non-existent (sub) directories. When I went to check the reported directory on the Client, it was indeed not accessible, although it's name in the parent directory was visible. Later I've found that rsync is irrelevant, the problem could be reproduced by just running find. To illustrate (run on the client) cd /mnt/Server/export find . > /dev/null ./a/b/c: No such file or directory ls -l ./a/b ls: /mnt/server/a/b/c: No such file or directory (then follows the listing of remaining files in ./a/b) If you fo just 'ls ./a/b', the output includes 'c' among the others. NOW THE TRICK: On the Server, do ls /export/a/b/c (expected output follows) Now on the client everything is OK! I've found a similar bug here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144556 although it is filed against fc3, the symptoms seem to be the same, although noone mentioned that server-side trick. I've tried several client machines (rhl7.3, c3,c4), tcp/udp, v2/v3, sync/async and also set actimeo=0 - nothing seem to affect the behavior. And nothing is printed in the logs - neither on client nor server (granted, I don't have debug enabled). At some point I suspected hardware (like lost or corrupted ethernet packets), but the missing directory on the client side is missing until the trick is applied on the server side, pretty consistently. umount/mount may help with that particular dir, but the bug would show up in different place. And as per bug referenced above, I could confirm, that all the dirs reported missing have the size 12288 (haven't spotted bigger, but maybe because I haven't checked every one of them). Just in case: the Server is Dell PowerEdge 2850 connected through Gigabit interface (e1000) (latest BIOS updates applied in the course of troubleshooting). I did not try to re-install the server with c3, but even if it works, it does not seem to be an option, because we plan to use selinux, which is missing in c3 (and yes, I tried disabling selinux with setenforce=0). Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Have a great day, Alex

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RE: [CentOS] losing NFS connection
by Marc Powell 01 May '05

01 May '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Angelo Machils > Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 1:28 PM > To: centos(a)centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] losing NFS connection > > Hello there! > > Perhaps this is a little off-topic, but I notice this only on the Centos > box. > I'm running Centos 4 on an AMD64 which has the following entries in the > fstab to connect to NFS shares on a Fedora3 box: > 192.168.1.12:/home/angelo/ /home/angelo/NFS_share1 nfs > rw,addr=192.168.1.12 0 0 > 192.168.1.12:/home/angelo/data /home/angelo/NFS_share2 nfs > rw,addr=192.168.1.12 0 0 > 192.168.1.12:/home/angelo/data2 /home/angelo/NFS_share3 nfs > rw,addr=192.168.1.12 0 0 > I have opened ports 111 (TCP), 648 (TCP), 651 (TCP) and 2049 (TCP and > UDP) in iptables on the FC3 box and I can connect to them, but after a > while I seem to loose the connection to the shares. [snip] > > Anyone any idea what is wrong here? Just a thought but have you hard-coded speed and duplex all the way through? Don't trust auto-negotiation. -- Marc

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Thanks (was re: Neosurge.com)
by Johnny Hughes 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 07:05 -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: > John, > > I just wanna say THANK YOU for the AWESOME distro and keep up the > fantastic work. CentOS 4 is definitely without a doubt the most > rock-solid, outa-the-box distro I've ever used. And I'm loving every > minute of it. I've even managed to get my boss hooked on it and now our > linux machines are being converted to CentOS. :) > > In the near future I'll be converting all my servers on my network to > CentOS and will absolutely be recommending CentOS to clients. > Thanks ... :) I want to make sure that everyone knows this is a team effort. There are 10 developers in 3 versions (2.1, 3.x, 4.x) and 6 arches (i386, x86_64, ia64, s390, s390x, ppc). Not all of these are currently released, but the ones that aren't are under continuous development. The whole team deserves a lot of thanks for their efforts behind the scenes, especially Pasi Pirhonen. Pasi is doing 3 arches (ia64, s390, s390x) on two versions (3.x and 4.x). The current team is: CentOS-2.1 John Newbigin (2.1 i386) CentOS-3.x Lance Davis (3.x i386 ... overall CentOS Project Lead) Seth Vidal (3.x i386) Will Dinkel (3.x x86_64) Tru Huynh (3.x x86_64, i386) Pasi Pirhonen (3.x ia64, s390, s390x ... even some i386, x86_64) CentOS-4.x Johnny Hughes - (4.x i386, x86_64, helping on ppc) Karanbir Singh - (4.x ppc, helping on i386, x86_64) Pasi Pirhonen - (4.x ia64, s390, s390x, helping on ppc) Also not tied to any one distro / arch is: Donavan Nelson - CentOS web site designer / maintainer / webmaster Russ Herrold - Server Administration / Security / infrastructure support All these guys, and some others like Rick Graves, Matt Shields, and Barrie van Burk, have all contributed (and still contribute) much time and effort to make CentOS a successful and free project. ----------------------------------------------------------- All that being said, for CentOS Project to be able to do some of the things we need to do, we need cash and resources. That's just how it is. CentOS is and always will be a totally free community project. People may download and use CentOS however they see fit. We would ask that if you use it, and if it is a good quality product that meets your needs, that you donate somehow to the CentOS Project. Some people have donated servers on high speed connections (which we use for the CentOS Network where yum/CentOSNetwork-Applet/Up2date point by default to get updates ... and we just recently moved the main website to a new donated server), other people have donated the use of hardware so that we can develop some of the non standard distros on (ppc, etc.). If you can make this type of donation, it is greatly appreciated. Another way that you can help is to donate money to our project. This is the way many of the major community Linux projects are funded ... including Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, Gentoo, Knoppix, Mepis, etc. Other opportunities also are being started to help the project and other businesses: 1. If you are a CD distributor and would like to be on this page ( http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=24 ), a donation of $1 per CD/DVD set sold will get you there. Contact Lance Davis (lance_at_centos.org) 2. If you are a consulting/service company that does CentOS installs and support, and if you want to be listed on this page ( http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=12 ), a donation of 5% of your CentOS related work revenue will get you listed as a support partner. Contact Lance Davis (lance_at_centos.org) 3. If you can donate a server on a high speed network (minimum 160gb drive space, 10 mbit/sec minimum connectivity, unlimited traffic, preferred). Then you can be on this page ( http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=15 ) of the CentOS site. Contact Lance Davis (lance_at_centos.org) We have established a donation page ( http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=23 ) where we accept payments in USD, EUR, and GBP. We have also come up with suggested amounts depending on your usage. See the page for details ... but the suggest amounts are: USD: 24 / 20 / 15 / 8 EUR: 18 / 15 / 12 / 6 GBP: 12 / 10 / 8 / 4 (those suggested amounts are for <10 / <100 / <1000 / >1000 installs maintained) Just some numbers about CentOS: Amount transfered from the CentOS Network last month: 16.15 TB .... DVDs/CDs downloaded via Bittorrent in the last month: 23,000 (47 TB). Our web ranking on Alexa is currently 41,757 (3 month), 36,247 (1 month). How does that compare with some other sites: Slackware - 56,903, Ubuntu - 23,475, Debian - 6,029, RedHat - 3,043, DistroWatch.com - 24,954, Mepis - 60,374, Gentoo - 15,238, Knoppix - 42,899, White Box Linux - 263,141 ... (lower is better). Over the last 3 months, our average has moved up 128,111 positions and our reach per million internet viewers is up 443%. As always, donations (and amount of the donation) are absolutely voluntary. Please enjoy our product, and help us make it better :) Thanks, Johnny Hughes CentOS-4 Lead Developer

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udev om Opteron
by Geoff Galitz 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

Hello, We have a few systems where udevd seems to failing silently on Opteron based Centos 4 boxes. Has anyone else seen this? -geoff

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CentOS 4 and OpenOffice
by Robert 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

Has anyone here replaced the openoffice.org packages with those that were distributed with FC3? It's either that for me or simply scrapping CentOS in favor of FC3 (or even FC1). I'm very surprised that I can find no reports regarding the impossibility of formatting multi-page spreadsheets to print properly.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 2, Issue 16
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

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Neosurge.com
by Johnny Hughes 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

All, I would like to thank the latest donor to the CentOS project: Neosurge.com. We have a nice new, shiny server to help get all those updates out faster. http://www.neosurge.com/ Neosurge has plenty of hosting options from normal website hosting to dedicated / co-located servers. And I can vouch for the speed of the traffic into the datacenters. You can definitely get CentOS pre-installed on your server there too. Without donations of this type, the CentOS project could not operate. Thanks Brian :) If you use CentOS and would like to donate a box to the cause, please contact either Lance Davis (lance_at_centos.org) or me (johnny_at_centos.org) ... 'cause more stuff is good :) Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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yum error !!
by israel.garcia＠cimex.com.cu 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

I got this error when my server try to update using my own CentOS mirror.... I have downloaded this file from other mirrors....and nothing.... Can you help me? [root@razor bin]# yum -y update Setting up Update Process Setting up Repos update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files update : ################################################## 85/85 Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package telnet.i386 1:0.17-31.EL4.2 set to be updated ---> Package kdelibs.i386 6:3.3.1-3.6 set to be updated ---> Package krb5-workstation.i386 0:1.3.4-12 set to be updated ---> Package up2date.i386 0:4.4.5.6-2.centos4 set to be updated ---> Package mysql-devel.i386 0:4.1.10a-1.RHEL4.1 set to be updated ---> Package curl-devel.i386 0:7.12.1-5.rhel4 set to be updated ---> Package krb5-devel.i386 0:1.3.4-12 set to be updated ---> Package ipsec-tools.i386 0:0.3.3-6 set to be updated ---> Package kernel-hugemem-devel.i686 0:2.6.9-5.0.5.EL set to be updated ---> Package mysql.i386 0:4.1.10a-1.RHEL4.1 set to be updated ---> Package kernel-smp-devel.i686 0:2.6.9-5.0.5.EL set to be updated ---> Package gtk2.i386 0:2.4.13-14 set to be updated ---> Package cvs.i386 0:1.11.17-7.RHEL4 set to be updated ---> Package krb5-libs.i386 0:1.3.4-12 set to be updated ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.9-5.0.5.EL set to be installed ---> Downloading header for kernel-devel to pack into transaction set. kernel-devel-2.6.9-5.0.5. 100% |=========================| 340 kB 00:17 http://netflow.cimex.com.cu/centos/RPMS/kernel-devel-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL.i686 .rpm: [Errno -1] Header is not complete. Trying other mirror. Error: failure: RPMS/kernel-devel-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL.i686.rpm from update: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

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