Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 Repo errors

[Akemi Yagi]

On 6/18/07, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Thanks for getting back to me on this

Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 6/18/07, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> kbs-CentOS-Misc
>>
>> http://centos.karan.org/el5/misc/stable/i386/RPMS/repodata/repomd.xml:
>>   --> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>
> Doesn't exist. Extras is there.  You'll note that
> http://centos.karan.org makes no mention at all of the Misc repo. Just
> because it was there for c4 doesn't mean it'll be there for c5.
Well it says:

" On CentOS 4 and CentOS 5 ( yum version 2.2 and higher ) : Download
file : kbsingh-CentOS-Misc.repo
 and save it in
/etc/yum.repos.d/"

And that is what I did, so there may be a bit of contrary info here.


You are correct.  There is a reference to the Misc repo on that page.
It is possible that, when KB updated the page to include CentOS 5, he
accidentally added "CentOS 5" to the Misc section.  Either that or he
is planning to add the Misc repo for C5 sometime later.

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Re: [CentOS] Re: how to change distro live?

[Farkas Levente]

Dhawal Doshy wrote:
> Farkas Levente wrote:
>> hi,
>> we've got many mandrake 8,9 and 10 system remotely. we'd like to
>> remotely replace these systems to centos 5. we've 4 disk in them. one is
>> the system drive (no need for raid) and there is free space on the
>> remaining 3 disk. so what we think about:
>> - download the new system to the data disks
>> - install grub (mandrake has lilo) to boot the old system and reboot
>> - create the old system in the data disk
>> - update grub to boot the old system from the data disk and reboot
>> - repartition the system disk
>> - transfer the new system to the system disk
>> - update grub to boot form new system disk and reboot.
>> this seems to easy but has many very dangerous steps and we has only
>> remote ssh access to the system. if we loose the connections we can't
>> access the system anymore and we've to travel a lot! another constrain
>> that we should have to do this very fast ie. it'd be nice if the system
>> wouldn't be down for a long time.
>> - what would be the best method for this?
>> - what are the dangerous step here?
>> - what would be the best way and format to transfer the new system to
>> the disk (we think about an iso file)?
>> - does anybody do such thing and what is his experience?
>> thank you for your help in advance.
> 
> 
> See koan, a helper program with cobbler http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/

we can't assess to the server's console so we can't change to boot from
net:-(

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[CentOS] manual partitioning with centos 5

[Marco]

hi,
i'm used to manual partition and format disks before
installing the O.S. but with centos 5 this results in
an unbootable system. Usually, to manual partition the
disks I use the installation disk in recovery mode..

The partition schema I choose was:
/dev/sda1   /boot
/dev/sda2   swap
/dev/sda3   LVM PV

inside the LVM VG I created the following LV
/
/var
/home
/tmp

Then I formatted all the partitions with ext3 (doing
some tuning on ext3 parameters)

After I had partitioned and formatted the disk  I
booted from the installation CD and I installed centos
5 without any error. The installed system was not able
to boot at all , the boot process ends with a kernel
panic when trying to mount the root partition.

On the same hardware Itryed to install centos 5
choosing the deafult auto partition option and the
resulting system was ok.

What's wrong ? What did i miss ?

Thank you in advance

Marco


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Re: [CentOS] network raid file system/server

[James Fidell]

Feizhou wrote:

> In this scenario, iscsi provides the devices remotely and the server
> handles the raiding of the devices.
> 
>> can you explain it a bit more detailed?
> 
> The boxes with disks are now just 'disk servers' and those disks are
> exported to the servers that will provide the filesystem layer. iscsi is
> the technology used to export the disks in this scenario.

Is there a neat way to get start the partitions and get them mounted in
this setup?  I have a server on which I want to create /dev/md0 from two
iscsi partitions.  I then want to export /md0 to other servers using
GFS.

Do I have to hand-craft my own scripts to start the md devices at boot
time and get the filesystems mounted before starting GFS, or is there
already a way to do that?  (I don't have a problem with doing so, but
if there's already a "right" way to do it...)

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Re: [CentOS] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

[Johnny Hughes]

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:23 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:37:50PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >   
> >> I am making some progress on my Centos 5 notebook build.
> >>
> >> So I am looking at Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0.
> >>
> >> Should I install them?  Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing 
> >> improved here and wait for 3.0?  (well I have not even had a chance to 
> >> look at Thunderbird 2.0, that is new)?
> >>
> >> I have the install steps we covered here back on 2/2/07; but are there 
> >> rpms?  I did not find anything over at ATrpms.
> >> 
> >
> > There are no FF/TB rpms at ATrpms, maybe you mean
> > rpmforge/Dag/plus/extras/karan?
> >   
> Yeah, I noticed no FF/TB at ATrpms, but nowhere else either.

wrt a firefox 2 (or thunderbird) install ... they are fairly trivial to
do with the binaries produced by Mozilla.org.

just download and extract the tarballs from mozilla.org and move the
firefox directory (or the thunderbird directory)
to /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.x or /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.4.

install compat-libstdc++-33 with yum (or compat-libstdc++-296 ... I
can't remember which)

if you have firefox 1.5 installed:

mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox.old

Create a symlink similar to this:

ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.4/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

(you need to to the same for thunderbird ...)

Then you need to take care of any plugins you have installed ... by
moving them from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
and /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.{version}/plugins
to /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.4/plugins/

You need to manage upgrades yourself ... I just download the latest
firefox from mozilla and do this again when there are updates.

Note:  In CentOS-5, firefox is a required install for other things ...
so if firefox-1.5 is installed and updated by yum, you will need to
recreate your /usr/bin/firefox symlink to use firefox 2.

I personally use evolution for e-mail and Gran Paradiso (firefox-3
alpha5) as my web browser ...

Trying to replace firefox on CentOS-5 with another RPM is going to be
versy problematic as several other packages are built against it in the
distribution ... but running 2 versions in parallel is not very hard.

Thanks,
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Re: [CentOS] yumex 'crashed' - anyway to resume?

[Johnny Hughes]

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 19:55 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I spent quite a bit of time setting up what I wanted to update and 
> install via yumex.
> 
> I left my system for a few minutes to attend to another computer.
> 
> A helpful family member logged me off without checking.
> 
> So can I recapture what I had queued?  I cannot find anything that looks 
> like a yumex queue file.
> 
> yum.log does not have any updates from today
> 
> :(

Probably not ... I don't imagine that yumex saves anything about it's
currently selected packages to disc.


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Re: [CentOS] how to change distro live?

[first last]

--- Farkas Levente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> hi,
> we've got many mandrake 8,9 and 10 system remotely. we'd like to
> remotely replace these systems to centos 5. we've 4 disk in them. one
> is
> the system drive (no need for raid) and there is free space on the
> remaining 3 disk. so what we think about:
> - download the new system to the data disks
> - install grub (mandrake has lilo) to boot the old system and reboot
> - create the old system in the data disk
> - update grub to boot the old system from the data disk and reboot
> - repartition the system disk
> - transfer the new system to the system disk
> - update grub to boot form new system disk and reboot.
> this seems to easy but has many very dangerous steps and we has only
> remote ssh access to the system. if we loose the connections we can't
> access the system anymore and we've to travel a lot! another
> constrain
> that we should have to do this very fast ie. it'd be nice if the
> system
> wouldn't be down for a long time.
> - what would be the best method for this?
> - what are the dangerous step here?
> - what would be the best way and format to transfer the new system to
> the disk (we think about an iso file)?
> - does anybody do such thing and what is his experience?
> thank you for your help in advance.
> 

A procedure I've followed a few times is to:
1 -Install the OS in another machine (ideally, similar to what you are
going to install into)
2 -Create a partition in the new machine
3 -tar the OS you installed in 1, copy the file to the remote machine
4 - Untar the new system on the new partition (careful with not
overwriting anything)
5 - chroot onto this, change configuration (fstab, network
configuration)
6 - Configure the boot loader. In this case, you have lilo, DO NOT
OVERWRITE IT YET. Reconfigure lilo to add an entry for the new system,
then run lilo with the option that marks it as "boot from this OS only
once" (I think it is -r option) so, if the system fails to boot from
the new OS, you can reboot and get your old OS. 
7 - Reboot, check that everything works. If it does, change Lilo to
boot the new OS by default.
8 - If you don't desperately need the space the old OS is on, leave it
there for the time being, maybe you will find something that doesn't
work later on. If you decide to remove the OS, make sure you install
the new bootloader (lilo requires the files to be in the exact same
location on the disk)
9 - That's all folks :)

As I said, I have used this system in the past, but I can't guarantee
that it would work for you, so be extra careful.

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Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 Repo errors

[Jim Perrin]

On 6/18/07, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> Doesn't exist. Extras is there.  You'll note that
> http://centos.karan.org makes no mention at all of the Misc repo. Just
> because it was there for c4 doesn't mean it'll be there for c5.
Well it says:

" On CentOS 4 and CentOS 5 ( yum version 2.2 and higher ) : Download
file : kbsingh-CentOS-Misc.repo
 and save it in
/etc/yum.repos.d/"



Yep, you're right. That'll teach me to actually read the page I'm
attempting to beat someone with :-P

I was just looking at the repos on the left hand side. I would say set
it to disabled for now, and check back every so often by using the
--enablerepo command. Or we could all just stare down Karanbir and see
how long it takes him to fess up about his plans ;-)

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RHSA-2007:0486-01 Moderate: mod_perl security update

Files available:
mod_perl-1.26-8.el2.i386.rpm

More details are available from the RedHat web site at
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The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches
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Re: [CentOS] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

[Bart Schaefer]

On 6/19/07, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

wrt a firefox 2 (or thunderbird) install ... they are fairly trivial to
do with the binaries produced by Mozilla.org.


Just as a point of interest -- we have one person here who installed
FF2 from the those tarballs on her CentOS 4 machine, and she's been
having problems with it crashing every few days.  I on the other hand
have been running the FF1.5 from the CentOS repos for weeks at a time
without any problem -- the only time I restart it is when I upgrade it
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 & USB Kickstart?

[René Standfest]

Jiann-Ming Su schrieb am 19.06.2007 01:33:

> Is anybody else having problems with CentOS 5 not loading the usb
> drivers for kickstart installations?
> 
> I'm passing "linux ks=hd:sdb1:/ks.cfg," but I get a message saying it
> can't find the ks.cfg file and I should enter another path.  I use the
> exact same boot options with CentOS 4 without any problems.
> 
> What am I missing with CentOS 5?  Thanks for any tips.

I'm not sure, but can it be that your USB-Stick is now sdc1, because CentOS5
uses the new libata which uses the SCSI-stack, so hda is now sda and so on.

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[CentOS] web based vacation frontend

[Erick Perez]

Hi,
One customer has Centos 5 installed. He wants to have a web based
frontend to the vacation program because he is in charge to enable the
vacation msg for all the users in leave.

I tried webmin but the webmin vacation module points to a nonexistant
link. And the usermin module is very old and requires the user to do
it by themselves.

Suggestions?

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Re: [CentOS] Re: Justin Morgan is out of the office.

[David Mackintosh]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:48:26AM +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> Scott Silva wrote:
> > Justin Morgan spake the following on 10/16/2006 11:01 AM:
> > > I will be out of the office starting  17/10/2006 and will not return until
> > > 30/10/2006.
> > > 
> > > I will respond to your message when I return.
> > Justin Morgan is probably going to be killed from the list also!
> 
> How about people who respond to out-of-office-mails?
> 
> 

..or people who prolong these off topic threads by saying "please
don't prolong these off topic threads by replying to them"?

Oh wait, that was me.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 & USB Kickstart?

[Jiann-Ming Su]

On 6/19/07, René Standfest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I'm not sure, but can it be that your USB-Stick is now sdc1, because CentOS5
uses the new libata which uses the SCSI-stack, so hda is now sda and so on.



No, I just checked.  I also ended up doing a non-kickstart install
just to see what the loaded OS would think the USB is.  And, after
reboot, the CentOS 5 system saw the USB as sdb1.  So, there's
something about the install kernel that's not loading the usb drivers
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Re: [CentOS] process show uid not user

[James Pearson]

James Pearson wrote:

Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:


One of my user's processes shows up with the uid (numeric) rather than
the user (alpha) on the ps command.  The /etc/passwd file shows:
 
theuser:x:500:501:The user:/home/theuser:/bin/bash
 
But, 'ps -ef' shows the uid:


500   9041  8864  0 11:20 pts/100:00:00 ps -ef
 
Allother active users show the user.  Ideas?



The username is probably more than 8 characters


You can work round this by doing something like:

ps -e -o user:15,pid,ppid,c,stime,tname,time,cmd

this will give a similar output to 'ps -ef' - but with more characters 
for the username - you might want to play with that number


You can also set the environment variable:

PS_FORMAT=user:15,pid,ppid,c,stime,tname,time,cmd

and then just run 'ps -e'

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[CentOS] Re: web based vacation frontend

[Scott Silva]

Erick Perez spake the following on 6/19/2007 8:04 AM:
> Hi,
> One customer has Centos 5 installed. He wants to have a web based
> frontend to the vacation program because he is in charge to enable the
> vacation msg for all the users in leave.
> 
> I tried webmin but the webmin vacation module points to a nonexistant
> link. And the usermin module is very old and requires the user to do
> it by themselves.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
You can use webmin alongside usermin. You go to the users page in webmin,
click on the user you want to work with, and then you can log into usermin as
that user and set things up "for them".


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Re: [CentOS] web based vacation frontend

[Raul Alvarez-Venegas]

On 6/19/07, Erick Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,
One customer has Centos 5 installed. He wants to have a web based
frontend to the vacation program because he is in charge to enable the
vacation msg for all the users in leave.

[...]

Suggestions?


http://www.horde.org/vacation/


Raul
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[CentOS] CUPS driver for Panasonic DP-2330 printer?

[James B. Byrne]

Can anyone point me to a possible source of a linux cups driver
specifically for this machine or to a work-alike driver for a similar
piece of equipment. Failing this, does anyone have any suggestions as to
any open source software guys who might be willing to develop one for a
fee?

Regards,

P.S.

I have already googled, yahooed and sniveled on other venues in search of
an answer.

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Re: [CentOS] CUPS driver for Panasonic DP-2330 printer?

[Luciano Rocha]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:16:51PM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
> 
> Can anyone point me to a possible source of a linux cups driver
> specifically for this machine or to a work-alike driver for a similar
> piece of equipment. Failing this, does anyone have any suggestions as to
> any open source software guys who might be willing to develop one for a
> fee?

The printer spec page says:
  Computer Compatibility 
Linux (LPD/LPR)

   Protocol
 TCP/IP (LPD, Raw/Port9100, SNMP, DHCP)
 IPP (PCL, PS)  

   Page Description Language
PCL5e, PCL6, PostScript® 3

cups as is already supports all of that, so you shouldn't have any
problems.

Or are you refering to the other functions? (fax/scanner)

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[CentOS] Migration help please - moving OS to a different LVM partition

[Robert Moskowitz]

I have set up a migration between two drives.  fIrst I got Centos 5 
working how I wanted on this drive, then set about copying it to another 
drive.


The Centos files on both drives are in sub-partitions in an LVM 
partition on their respective drives.


I first did a minimum install on the new drive and saved all those files 
to a separate directory.


The LVM partititons and sub-partitions all have unique names.

Well it has been a bit of a struggle to say it nicely.  Seems the LVM 
names are buried all over the place.



Of course I had to change /boot/grub/grub.conf, /boot/grub/menu.lst, and 
/etc/fstab


But more than that was the contents of /etc/lvm  So for those I just 
restored what was created in the minimum install.


Still I cannot get the new drive to boot.

If I boot with the latest kernel (which I copied to the new drive), I 
get a message finding the new LVM partition, could not find the old LVM 
partition then:


Mount: could no find filesystem /dev/root

and a kernel panic.

If I get the boot menu and select the kernel installed with the minimum 
install, it gets a little further.


It still tries to find the old LVM partition, cannot find 
/lib/modules.dep in the /lib/modules directory for this kernel (forget 
the whole filename), and then:


fsck.ext3 Unable to resolve 'label=/boot'

and then get dropped into a maintenance mode with the file system 
mounted in readonly mode.



So what Have I Missed?

Or is this a lost cause and I should just do a full install on the new 
drive and proceed from there



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Re: [CentOS] Gnome Taskbar(s)

[Steve Searle]

Around 02:13am on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 (UK time), fredex scrawled:

> All the newer Gnome distributions seem to configure themselves with
> two small "taskbars" (panels, I guess) one at the top and one at the
> bottom.
> 
> I prefer the older scheme with one larger one (usually) at the bottom.
> 
> When I install Centos5 in the near future I'm going to want to be able
> to restore the old-style panels. Anybody know what I need to change to 
> make it work in the old way?

Right click on the panel you don't want, and select "Delete this Panel",
then right click on the one you want, select properties and alter the
size.

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[CentOS] Wireless networking with CentOS 4.4 on Dell laptop

[Andrew Allen]

I have a (new) Dell laptop with CentOS 4.4 installed and am trying to
get wireless networking. The list of drivers doesn't include a specific
one for this card - Dell wireless 1390 Mini PCI network card 802.11b/g
(according to the manufacturer's blurb). Any ideas as to where I can
find the appropriate driver please?

Andy

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Re: [CentOS] Migration help please - moving OS to a different LVM partition

[Barry L. Kline]

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Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have set up a migration between two drives.  fIrst I got Centos 5
> working how I wanted on this drive, then set about copying it to another
> drive.

Hi Robert.

It's a little late now, but the way I'd do this kind of thing is to
install on the first drive, creating a partition for /boot and a
partition for LVM under which I'd carve up into my other partitions.

Once I have installed to the first drive, I would add the second drive,
and partition it so that there is a partition for /boot, which you'd
then copy the data from the primary /boot to this one and then use
'grub' to make the second drive bootable.

Next, create a physical volume on the new disk's LVM partition and then
add it into the existing volume group.  Next, use the pvmove command to
move the data from the pv on the first drive to the pv on the second
drive.  Once you've done that, you can pvremove the first pv (from the
first drive) from the volume group.  At this point, you should have all
of your data on the second drive.  Double-check that the LABEL on the
/boot partition is correct and then shut down the computer.  Remove the
first drive and reboot.

I'm writing this off the top of my head (having done is a couple of
months ago to upgrade my laptop hard drive), and I may be missing some
of the LVM incantations, but this should be close and get you started,
anyway.

Barry
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Re: [CentOS] web based vacation frontend

[Chris Boyd]

OpenWebMail has such a tool.

On Jun 19, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Erick Perez wrote:


Hi,
One customer has Centos 5 installed. He wants to have a web based
frontend to the vacation program because he is in charge to enable the
vacation msg for all the users in leave.

I tried webmin but the webmin vacation module points to a nonexistant
link. And the usermin module is very old and requires the user to do
it by themselves.

Suggestions?

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[CentOS] CentOS 5 LiveCD - When?

[Mike McCarty]

I asked before (about 2 weeks) about this, and was told it was
in testing. I wonder when it will be available. My GF is considering
leaving Debian due to it not recognizing her hardware very well,
and I thought a CentOS 5 LiveCD might be a reasonable way for her
to see whether CentOS might do a better job.

If no LiveCD is forthcoming soon, then I'll burn a copy of the
CentOS 4 LiveCD and let her try that.

Thanks.

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[CentOS] Re: CentOS 5 LiveCD - When?

[Scott Silva]

Mike McCarty spake the following on 6/19/2007 3:25 PM:
> I asked before (about 2 weeks) about this, and was told it was
> in testing. I wonder when it will be available. My GF is considering
> leaving Debian due to it not recognizing her hardware very well,
> and I thought a CentOS 5 LiveCD might be a reasonable way for her
> to see whether CentOS might do a better job.
> 
> If no LiveCD is forthcoming soon, then I'll burn a copy of the
> CentOS 4 LiveCD and let her try that.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Mike
There is a TAO live cd floating around based on the RHEL5 beta. It might be
closer to 5 than a 4 live cd will.
Search the archives for tao live.

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Re: [CentOS] Correct xen domains path

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 6/18/07, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:18:40PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 6/18/07, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I've never said there are _no_ cases for SELinux.  I was questioning it
> >as a general rule for all machines.

> Several of the problems were machines that were not connected to the
> internet or were deep behind firewalls. The problems were that all it
> takes is one user who doesnt think well to make all those
> firewalls/issues useless. E.G the person who coming in from work finds
> a nice shiney USB fob and plugs it into a work computer to see who it
> belonged to so they could return it.  The guy who downloads an

[ etc ]

This is why I mentioned "risk profile" in another message.  You evaluate
the perceived risk, the likely-hood of the event happening, the cost of
the event, the "cost" of a potential solution and perform an analysis.

So one might rank the items this:
  external facing servers: high risk!  Automated attacks possible
  Desktop work stations: moderate.  User stupidity highest attack vector
  General compute server: low risk.  Only "trained" staff have access.



I was really grumpy yesterday.. so I just wanted to say that I believe
that in most cases where you are in a low risk.. you might be better
off with selinux in permissive mode versus off. Permissive at least
will give you a finger print of what might have gone wrong when the
PFY plugged in that nice shiney USB fob he found next to his car at
lunch.

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[CentOS] Re: CentOS 5 LiveCD - When?

[Scott Silva]

Scott Silva spake the following on 6/19/2007 3:32 PM:
> Mike McCarty spake the following on 6/19/2007 3:25 PM:
>> I asked before (about 2 weeks) about this, and was told it was
>> in testing. I wonder when it will be available. My GF is considering
>> leaving Debian due to it not recognizing her hardware very well,
>> and I thought a CentOS 5 LiveCD might be a reasonable way for her
>> to see whether CentOS might do a better job.
>>
>> If no LiveCD is forthcoming soon, then I'll burn a copy of the
>> CentOS 4 LiveCD and let her try that.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Mike
> There is a TAO live cd floating around based on the RHEL5 beta. It might be
> closer to 5 than a 4 live cd will.
> Search the archives for tao live.
> 
Nevermind. I just checked the torrent and it seems to be dead.


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Re: [CentOS] Disk errors on CentOS 5 - SOLVED

[Miguel Medalha]

I would like to give feedback about some disk errors I reported here some 
days ago:


The errors were the following with ICH5 controler:

-
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error)
ata1: EH complete
-
(They were then repeated for ata2.00).

The same disks connected to a Promise controler gave the following errors:

-
hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
-
(Repeated for hdb)

I asked the kernel developers about these errors and they told me that they 
were related to SMART.


SMART was disabled in the BIOS. After enabling the optin, the error messages 
disappeared.


Maybe this information will be useful to someone.

A big thanks to Andrey Melnikoff and Alan Cox for telling me what the 
problem was.


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Re: [CentOS] network raid file system/server

[Feizhou]

James Fidell wrote:

Feizhou wrote:


In this scenario, iscsi provides the devices remotely and the server
handles the raiding of the devices.


can you explain it a bit more detailed?

The boxes with disks are now just 'disk servers' and those disks are
exported to the servers that will provide the filesystem layer. iscsi is
the technology used to export the disks in this scenario.


Is there a neat way to get start the partitions and get them mounted in
this setup?  I have a server on which I want to create /dev/md0 from two
iscsi partitions.  I then want to export /md0 to other servers using
GFS.


What are you going to use to export the /dev/md0? gnbd? Does your 
iscsi_target have a maximum of one connection limit?




Do I have to hand-craft my own scripts to start the md devices at boot
time and get the filesystems mounted before starting GFS, or is there
already a way to do that?  (I don't have a problem with doing so, but
if there's already a "right" way to do it...)


No idea. I have not actually had a chance to get GFS working whether 
with iscsi or with some other device exporting solution. Sorry I cannot 
help here. Maybe those who have had real experience can chip in.

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Re: [CentOS] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

[Robert Becker Cope]

Bart Schaefer wrote:


Just as a point of interest -- we have one person here who installed
FF2 from the those tarballs on her CentOS 4 machine, and she's been
having problems with it crashing every few days.  I on the other hand


I have -- and I'm betting a lot of other folks are -- been running 
Firefox 2.x from the tarballs on a CentOS machine for long while without 
any issues.


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Re: [CentOS] ClamAV (was: antivirus)

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Saturday, June 16, 2007 4:57 PM -0600 Leonel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Centos 5 with  clamav ???
> >
> > Where is that ?
> > Did you mean  using   dag's  repo
> 
> I installed it from RPMForge, but I'm getting SELinux issues with it.
> 
> 
> 
> I'm very new to SELinux so I'm going to have to do some research to figure out
> how to apply that solution.

I'm very interested to learn how to integrate this into the SPEC file.

Kind regards,
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 LiveCD - When?

[Radu-Cristian FOTESCU]

> If no LiveCD is forthcoming soon, then I'll burn a copy
> of the
CentOS 4 LiveCD and let her try that.



Sorry for being rude, but in the meantime, what's wrong with a copy of 
Scientific Linux 5 LiveCD?!
ftp://ftp.psi.ch/psi/livecd/pub/50/

Except for the artwork, it should be closer to CentOS 5 than anything else.
Ream more here:
http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0705&L=scientific-linux-devel&T=0&P=2610
and here:
ftp://ftp.psi.ch/psi/livecd/pub/50/i386/livecd_SL50_gnome_2007-05-25_rpmlist.txt

Cheers,
R-C





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