Re: [CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

[Les Mikesell]

Sam Beam wrote:



I hope...

If you are booting a kernel that can't find your root partition, the
initrd might be the problem.   There are several other things that also
have to be right.  You should be able to boot your install cd/dvd with
"linux rescue" at the boot prompt to fix any of them, so don't panic yet.


OK but can I panic if this system has a max of two IDE devices, no floppy, one 
PCI slot, and I don't have a PCI CD, and it won't boot from USB even?


Not yet.


http://www.tyan.com/archive/products/html/gs10b2094_spec.html

It has a hardware Promise RAID controller but I have it on good authority that 
I don't want to mess with that, software RAID is better, etc.


Promise makes a bunch of different stuff.  I'd expect that you can run 
the drives separately - probably even hang a CD on it.


I installed CentOS onto disk1 using the old 10-year old PC from the basement. 
Then I mirrored in the second disk. All went pretty well until the root 
partition was mirrored, fstab and /proc/mdstat and grub all agreed, and I 
rebooted. 

At this point Grub seems to work OK and the 3 RAID partitions 
(/boot, /home, /) assemble correctly and show UU. It gets all the way into 
INIT - set hostname, check for LVM, and then "Checking filesystems" and then 
tells me that /dev/md1 (should be /home) has a bad superblock:


  The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
  filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
  filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
  is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 

Then I am dropped to a recovery shell.

but $ mdadm -E /dev/hd[ad]2 both show nice superblocks, that look OK to me.

in dmesg I see raidautorun output and then device-mapper starting up as the 
last two entires 

But, /dev/md1 doesn't exist. /dev/md0 and /dev/md2 are there and seem normal. 


/proc/mdstat contains this:

   md1: active raid1 hdd2[1] hda2[0]
106012864 blocks [2/2] [UU]

so imagine my surprise when I tried this:

   # mdadm -Q /dev/md1
   mdadm: cannot open /dev/md1: No such file or directory


If the device node doesn't exist, that makes sense.


   # mdadm -Q /dev/hdd2
   /dev/hdd2: is not an md array
   /dev/hdd2: device 1 in 2 device active raid1 /dev/.tmp.md1. Use 
mdadm --examine for more detail.


But /dev/.tmp.md1 does not exist either, and therefore I can not stop this 
mystery array or fsck /dev/hd[ad]2 because they are "busy" being part of this 
non-existent device.


Arrgh. I be stumped.

Any help would be a big help ;)


First cut - in your recovery shell, comment out /home from /etc/fstab 
and see if you can come up without it (log in as root, of course).  That 
will at least give you a fairly normal environment to try to figure out 
why the md1 device is getting assembled but the /dev/md1 node isn't 
created for it.  I'm not sure what would happen if you create the node 
with the obvious major/minor numbers yourself.  I'd try it, but don't 
blame me if it explodes.  If you can't get /dev/md1 to appear, fdisk the 
partitions to type 83 so they won't even try to assemble.  Then you can 
at least mount one of the underlying partitions to get to the data.



Since you are this far along you probably don't need to pursue an 
alternate boot, but if you did, you could pull one of the drives and 
hang a cd or dvd on the ide interface.  Raid1 will work just fine with 
one drive missing and you could sync the other one back later.



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Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

[Brian Mathis]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk.  My user
> data is all in /home.  I'm also interested in what folks are doing for
> things backing up os and configs.
>
>  Any pointers on setting up rsync, cpio, etc would be appreciated.  Pointers
> to good how-to's especially welcome.
>
>  Currently we're using Arkeia Network Backup (commercial product with which
> I am in no way affiliated), and it's great, but with disk space so cheap,
> I'd love to be able to take my current non-raid setup and find a way to get
> up and running quickly in the case of some failures.
>
>  Thanks in advance,
>  -Ray

The original guide (that I know of) for doing disk to disk backups
with rsync can be found here:
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

Then there's "dirvish" which I think it based on that method:
http://www.dirvish.org/

Next there's rdiff-backup, which can be found here:
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/

I think there are some other rsync-related backups too.  I hear good
thing about the "backup pc" project.  http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
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Re: [CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

[Sam Beam]

On Tuesday 01 April 2008 15:03, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > maybe that is why the system won't boot anymore after I synced the root
> > partition? ;)
> >
> > I hope...
>
> If you are booting a kernel that can't find your root partition, the
> initrd might be the problem.   There are several other things that also
> have to be right.  You should be able to boot your install cd/dvd with
> "linux rescue" at the boot prompt to fix any of them, so don't panic yet.

OK but can I panic if this system has a max of two IDE devices, no floppy, one 
PCI slot, and I don't have a PCI CD, and it won't boot from USB even?

http://www.tyan.com/archive/products/html/gs10b2094_spec.html

It has a hardware Promise RAID controller but I have it on good authority that 
I don't want to mess with that, software RAID is better, etc.

I installed CentOS onto disk1 using the old 10-year old PC from the basement. 
Then I mirrored in the second disk. All went pretty well until the root 
partition was mirrored, fstab and /proc/mdstat and grub all agreed, and I 
rebooted. 

At this point Grub seems to work OK and the 3 RAID partitions 
(/boot, /home, /) assemble correctly and show UU. It gets all the way into 
INIT - set hostname, check for LVM, and then "Checking filesystems" and then 
tells me that /dev/md1 (should be /home) has a bad superblock:

  The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
  filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
  filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
  is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 

Then I am dropped to a recovery shell.

but $ mdadm -E /dev/hd[ad]2 both show nice superblocks, that look OK to me.

in dmesg I see raidautorun output and then device-mapper starting up as the 
last two entires 

But, /dev/md1 doesn't exist. /dev/md0 and /dev/md2 are there and seem normal. 

/proc/mdstat contains this:

   md1: active raid1 hdd2[1] hda2[0]
106012864 blocks [2/2] [UU]

so imagine my surprise when I tried this:

   # mdadm -Q /dev/md1
   mdadm: cannot open /dev/md1: No such file or directory

   # mdadm -Q /dev/hdd2
   /dev/hdd2: is not an md array
   /dev/hdd2: device 1 in 2 device active raid1 /dev/.tmp.md1. Use 
mdadm --examine for more detail.

But /dev/.tmp.md1 does not exist either, and therefore I can not stop this 
mystery array or fsck /dev/hd[ad]2 because they are "busy" being part of this 
non-existent device.

Arrgh. I be stumped.

Any help would be a big help ;)

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Re: [CentOS] Icon .png file loading error after graphics driver upgrade

[John]

Ok, lets start from the begining with what happened. Describe the
problem as best as you can.

A. Before

B. After

Paste you system log file in the mail /var/log/ messages\ after you boot
into root and then into you user account, just to be sure  to catch all
errors.

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Re: [CentOS] sendmail aliases

[Les Mikesell]

Frank Cox wrote:

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:00:15 +0200
David Hláčik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


or just restart sendmail is enought?


No.

I run this short bash script every time I make a change in my sendmail
configuration:

#!/bin/bash
cd /etc/mail
make
newaliases
/etc/init.d/sendmail restart



And the init script will repeat the newaliases and make...  I'm not sure 
 what version added them, though.


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RE: [CentOS] sendmail aliases

[Hugh E Cruickshank]

From: Chris Payne Sent: April 1, 2008 16:15
>
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 04:07:33PM -0700, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
> > From: David Hláèik Sent: April 1, 2008 16:00
> > >
> > > or just restart sendmail is enought?
> > >
> > I do not believe that that will work. The databases are normally
> > only updated on demand when you issue the newaliases command.
> > restarting sendmail will just use the exiting database without
> > the changes you did to the /etc/aliases file.
>
> If you use the init scripts, the newaliases command is run as part
> of the
> "start" or "reload" functions:
>
> > grep newaliases /etc/init.d/sendmail
>   /usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null 2>&1
>   /usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null 2>&1
> >
>
> A "make" in /etc/mail is also included.
>

I stand corrected (no surprise there) but I still feel it is over
kill when just doing the newaliases command will achieve the desired
change.

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Re: [CentOS] sendmail aliases

[Frank Cox]

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:11:21 -0700
Hugh E Cruickshank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> While that will work it is really overkill. All you need to do is
> edit the /etc/aliases file and issue the newaliases command. sendmail
> will use the updated databases immediately.

It is indeed overkill in many cases.  But that script is useful whenever you
make any change to any of the sendmail configuration files.  One-stop shopping,
as it were.  Make change, run script, done deal.  I find it handy, myself.

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Re: [CentOS] sendmail aliases

[Chris Payne]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 04:07:33PM -0700, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
> From: David Hláèik Sent: April 1, 2008 16:00
> >
> > or just restart sendmail is enought?
> >
> I do not believe that that will work. The databases are normally
> only updated on demand when you issue the newaliases command.
> restarting sendmail will just use the exiting database without
> the changes you did to the /etc/aliases file.

If you use the init scripts, the newaliases command is run as part of the 
"start" or "reload" functions:

> grep newaliases /etc/init.d/sendmail 
/usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null 2>&1
/usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null 2>&1
>

A "make" in /etc/mail is also included.

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RE: [CentOS] sendmail aliases

[Hugh E Cruickshank]

From: Frank Cox Sent: April 1, 2008 16:03
> 
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:00:15 David Hláčik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > or just restart sendmail is enought?
> 
> No.
> 
> I run this short bash script every time I make a change in my sendmail
> configuration:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> cd /etc/mail
> make
> newaliases
> /etc/init.d/sendmail restart
> 

While that will work it is really overkill. All you need to do is
edit the /etc/aliases file and issue the newaliases command. sendmail
will use the updated databases immediately.

Regards, Hugh

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RE: [CentOS] sendmail aliases

[Hugh E Cruickshank]

From: David Hláèik Sent: April 1, 2008 16:00
>
> or just restart sendmail is enought?
>

I do not believe that that will work. The databases are normally
only updated on demand when you issue the newaliases command.
restarting sendmail will just use the exiting database without
the changes you did to the /etc/aliases file.

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Re: [CentOS] sendmail aliases

[Frank Cox]

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:00:15 +0200
David Hláčik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> or just restart sendmail is enought?

No.

I run this short bash script every time I make a change in my sendmail
configuration:

#!/bin/bash
cd /etc/mail
make
newaliases
/etc/init.d/sendmail restart


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Re: [CentOS] sendmail aliases

[David Hláčik]

or just restart sendmail is enought?

thanks!

D.

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> From: David Hláèik Sent: April 1, 2008 14:40
> >
> > Hi, how to sent mail to more then one email adress
> >
> > here comes the part from /etc/aliases
> >
> > # Person who should get root's mail
> > root: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > which is not working.
> >
>
> Your half way there. After editing the /etc/aliases file you must
> then run the "newaliases" command to populate the databases.
>
> HTH
>
> Regards, Hugh
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[CentOS] Re: openldap on Centos 5.1 with TLS

[David Hláčik]

thanks to you all guys! I have already ldap working for a half year, but i
did not needed tls as everything was a local-host only.
and my problem of course was not there but in ldap.conf (needed to set path
to CA cert)

Regards,

DAvid

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Randall Svancara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> My advice, from a novice user stand point is to get everything working
> without TLS first.  Make sure your systems can authenticate and
> everything is functioning.  If your environment is not secure, then
> build a test environment (resources pending).
>
> Once you have done this, then work on TLS.
>
> In my ldap.conf file, I have an entry like this:
>
> -
> Randall Svancara
> Systems Administrator
> 509-335-7093
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 23:01 +0200, David Hláčik wrote:
> > Hi, sorry for the stupid question,
> >
> > but however i am following all howtos and tutorials it is not working
> >
> > 1) i have created CA certificate - /etc/pki/tls/misc/CA -newca
> > 2) i have generated a new request - /etc/pki/tls/misc/CA -newreq
> > 3) i have signed certificate /etc/pki/tls/misc/CA -signreq
> >
> > SO i have CA in /etc/pki/CA
> > i have newkey.pem
> > i have newcert.pem
> > i have also cealrkey.pem (without passphrase)
> >
> > $ openssl rsa < newkey.pem > clearkey.pem
> >
> > What to do next?? What to put in slapd.conf in order to make it work??
> > What to put in ldap.conf in order to communicate
> >
> > Really thanks in advance!!
> >
> > David
> >
> >
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Re: [CentOS] DNS in CentOS

[Les Mikesell]

vincenzo romero wrote:

thanks for the response!

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


 Is this supposed to have something to do with either company.com or
 lab.company.com?  It doesn't.  And is there some reason you only want
 the forwarder to only handle one zone?



my bad a typo .. it is :

zone "company.com." IN {
  type forward;
  forwarders {10.100.1.24 port 53;
};

...

I want any other queries that lab.company.com is not authoritative
for, to go to the Name Server of company.com.


That happens anyway if the forwarder is not authoritative - that is, the 
forwarder will act as a caching proxy.



...

I did try now to edit a test machine so that its resolv.conf file shows:

search lab.company.com company.com
nameserver 192.168.17.2
nameserver 10.100.1.24

1.  I can ping, and do host  and ip address
2.  nslookup  resolves ..
3.  but nslookup IPaddress returns with a listing of ROOT servers:

nslookup 10.100.1.24
Server: 192.168.17.2
Address:192.168.17.2#53

Non-authoritative answer:
24.1.100.10.in-addr.arpaname = ns.company.com.


Does this zone file have an NS record for the server that answers?



Authoritative answers can be found from:
.   nameserver = l.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = m.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = a.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = b.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = c.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = d.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = e.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = f.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = g.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = h.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = i.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = j.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = k.root-servers.net.


It's not really polite to send private IP reverse lookups to the public 
root servers, but I suppose millions of places do...


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Re: [CentOS] Icon .png file loading error after graphics driver upgrade

[John J. Lee]

I changed the X server setting.  It did't help.
Ghost script opened pdf file before I upgrade the driver.  It is not
working either.

-j

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> > Yes.  I did run the auto update.
>
> Log into your user account, then go to  ""Application | System Tools |
> Nvidia  X Server Settings". sounds like you need to set the Screen
> resolution etc.
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Re: [CentOS] DNS in CentOS

[Filipe Brandenburger]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:22 PM, vincenzo romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  zone "company.com." IN {
>   type forward;
>   forwarders {10.100.1.24 port 53;
>  };

In myhost.lab.company.com you probably want to do a forward of all
requests to ns.company.com, that would be the "canonical" way of
cascading name servers.

>  I want any other queries that lab.company.com is not authoritative
>  for, to go to the Name Server of company.com.

Exactly, you need a global "forwarders" section in your named.conf
(have a look at the man pages).

>  I did try now to edit a test machine so that its resolv.conf file shows:
>
>  search lab.company.com company.com
>  nameserver 192.168.17.2
>  nameserver 10.100.1.24

You probably don't want both nameservers in resolv.conf, for the
machines in "lab.company.com" you'll want only 192.168.17.2, and for
the ones in "company.com" you don't want them querying your nameserver
too. Maybe for backup, but then you'd better have two at 192.168.17
and two or more at 10.100.1 network.

>  1.  I can ping, and do host  and ip address
>  2.  nslookup  resolves ..
>  3.  but nslookup IPaddress returns with a listing of ROOT servers:

You need to create authoritative zones for the reverse, like
17.168.192.in-addr.arpa.

Your questions are starting to go too much DNS and BIND specific. In
this case, I would suggest you to either:
1) Read the DNS and BIND book, which is excellent!!!
2) Look for a mailing list/forum specific to DNS and BIND.

If you're going to run name servers, you should try to improve your
knowledge of DNS. It's not a very simple protocol, and reading a book
such as DNS and BIND will bring you valuable knowledge that will serve
you if you'll ever need to troubleshoot your server.

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Re: [CentOS] DNS in CentOS

[vincenzo romero]

thanks for the response!

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  Is this supposed to have something to do with either company.com or
>  lab.company.com?  It doesn't.  And is there some reason you only want
>  the forwarder to only handle one zone?
>

my bad a typo .. it is :

zone "company.com." IN {
  type forward;
  forwarders {10.100.1.24 port 53;
};

...

I want any other queries that lab.company.com is not authoritative
for, to go to the Name Server of company.com.

...

I did try now to edit a test machine so that its resolv.conf file shows:

search lab.company.com company.com
nameserver 192.168.17.2
nameserver 10.100.1.24

1.  I can ping, and do host  and ip address
2.  nslookup  resolves ..
3.  but nslookup IPaddress returns with a listing of ROOT servers:

nslookup 10.100.1.24
Server: 192.168.17.2
Address:192.168.17.2#53

Non-authoritative answer:
24.1.100.10.in-addr.arpaname = ns.company.com.

Authoritative answers can be found from:
.   nameserver = l.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = m.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = a.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = b.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = c.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = d.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = e.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = f.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = g.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = h.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = i.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = j.root-servers.net.
.   nameserver = k.root-servers.net.

i think i'm almost there ..

-thanks again in advance.

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Re: [CentOS] DNS in CentOS

[Les Mikesell]

vincenzo romero wrote:


1.  ping/nslookup from myhost.lab.company.com
 - /etc/resolv.conf -->
search lab.company.com
nameserver 127.0.0.1
ping ns
ping: unknown host ns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] named]# ping ns.company.com


But your resolv.conf says to look for ns.lab.company.com.


2.  ping/nslookup from workstation in company.com
- /etc/resolv.conf -->
search company.com
nameserver 10.100.1.24

ping myhost
ping: unknown host myhost
png myhost.lab.company.com
PING myhost.lab.company.com (192.168.17.2)56(84) bytes of data.


And this is the other way around. resolv.conf say to add company.com but 
you are adding lab.company.com.



i have created a FORWARD zone for "mycompany.com" ... snippet of
/etc/named.conf:


zone "mycompany.com." IN {
type forward;
forwarders {10.100.1.24 port 53;
};


Is this supposed to have something to do with either company.com or 
lab.company.com?  It doesn't.  And is there some reason you only want 
the forwarder to only handle one zone?


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RE: [CentOS] sendmail aliases

[Hugh E Cruickshank]

From: David Hláèik Sent: April 1, 2008 14:40
>
> Hi, how to sent mail to more then one email adress
>
> here comes the part from /etc/aliases
>
> # Person who should get root's mail
> root: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> which is not working.
>

Your half way there. After editing the /etc/aliases file you must
then run the "newaliases" command to populate the databases.

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Re: [CentOS] DNS in CentOS

[vincenzo romero]

Felipe,

Thank you for your response.  Let me clarify further:

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Filipe Brandenburger
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  What is the IP address of your DNS server? What is the IP adress of
>  the DNS server for company.com? What are the contents of the
>  resolv.conf file on the machine you're testing?

DNS server (myhost.lab.company.com) - 192.168.17.2
DNS server (ns.company.com) - 10.100.1.24

1.  ping/nslookup from myhost.lab.company.com
 - /etc/resolv.conf -->
search lab.company.com
nameserver 127.0.0.1
ping ns
ping: unknown host ns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] named]# ping ns.company.com
PING ns.company.com (10.100.1.24) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.100.1.24: icmp_seq=1 ttl=127 time=0.123 ms
64 bytes from 10.100.1.24: icmp_seq=2 ttl=127 time=0.136 ms

2.  ping/nslookup from workstation in company.com
- /etc/resolv.conf -->
search company.com
nameserver 10.100.1.24

ping myhost
ping: unknown host myhost
png myhost.lab.company.com
PING myhost.lab.company.com (192.168.17.2)56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.100.1.24: icmp_seq=1 ttl=127 time=0.123 ms
64 bytes from 10.100.1.24: icmp_seq=2 ttl=127 time=0.136 ms
>
>  Basically on your server (the one for lab.company.com) you should have
>  a forwarders entry pointing to the IP of the DNS server for
>  company.com.

i have created a FORWARD zone for "mycompany.com" ... snippet of
/etc/named.conf:


zone "mycompany.com." IN {
type forward;
forwarders {10.100.1.24 port 53;
};


>
>  In the other DNS server, the one that handles company.com, you should
>  have in the company.com zone an NS entry for the "lab" name pointing
>  to the IP of your DNS server, the one for lab.company.com.
>

The Corporate system administrator has added a zone for
lab.company.com and even a reverse zone 
.
After I reviewed all my configuration based on your note ... I retried
the pinging/nslookup, the following is the error I have noticed in my
/var/log/messages:

NetworkManager: add_ip4_config_to_named (): Could not
set forwarders for zone '.'.  Error: 'Did not receive a reply.
Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply,
the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout
expired, or the network connection was broken.'.

 Could this mean that the "company.com" DNS server is not
configured properly?

thanks in advance!

>  HTH,
>  Filipe
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[CentOS] sendmail aliases

[David Hláčik]

Hi, how to sent mail to more then one email adress

here comes the part from /etc/aliases

# Person who should get root's mail
root:   [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

which is not working.

Thanks in advance!

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Re: [CentOS] strange error in df -h

[Filipe Brandenburger]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  # mount
>  ...
>  st0 on status type unknown (rw)
>  /dev/st0 on status type unknown (rw)

Well, obviously these are the two that are causing the problem. st0
seems to be tape drive, but this should never be mounted, as tapes are
character devices and not block devices.

You can see that those are not listed in /proc/mounts, which means the
kernel doesn't know anything about those being mounted. This means
they are only listed in /etc/mtab, maybe you might edit that file,
look for those entries and remove them, after that df -h should work
just fine.

But that won't tell us why exactly those entries ended up being added
there. Do you have any backup software that might be using the tape
drive in a strange way? Or a backup software that is configured to use
that device as a disk? Or another software (not necessarily backup
related) that is configured to use those devices? Do you really have a
tape drive on that machine?

Anyway, you might also try to reboot the machine and see if the
problem still happens or ceases to happen.

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Re: [CentOS] openldap on Centos 5.1 with TLS

[Jason Sutherland]

Entries in slapd.conf

TLSCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM
TLSCACertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/misc/CA/
TLSCertificateFile /etc/pki/misc/newcert.pem
TLSCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/misc/cealrkey.pem

-Jason

David Hláčik wrote the following on 04/01/08 17:01:

Hi, sorry for the stupid question,
 
but however i am following all howtos and tutorials it is not working
 
1) i have created CA certificate - /etc/pki/tls/misc/CA -newca

2) i have generated a new request - /etc/pki/tls/misc/CA -newreq
3) i have signed certificate /etc/pki/tls/misc/CA -signreq
 
SO i have CA in /etc/pki/CA

i have newkey.pem
i have newcert.pem
i have also cealrkey.pem (without passphrase)

*$ openssl rsa < newkey.pem > clearkey.pem*

What to do next?? What to put in slapd.conf in order to make it work?? 
What to put in ldap.conf in order to communicate


Really thanks in advance!!

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Re: [CentOS] Re: List of SCSI supported controlores

[Ray Leventhal]

Scott Silva wrote:

on 4-1-2008 11:03 AM Ray Leventhal spake the following:
Have you actually looked at the HCL in a while?
RHEL5 lists exactly 16 components and 516 systems. I'm sure it runs on 
more than that.
That list usually only lists "certified" equipment that RedHat or a 
partner has tested, and probably paid money to list.


You would probably be better off looking at the kernel config and see 
what modules are turned on.




When you're right you're right, Scottmy bad for referring without 
reading.  My apologies to the OP.

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Re: [CentOS] strange error in df -h

[Ray Leventhal]

Filipe Brandenburger wrote:

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  

 I just saw this in output from df -h:
 # df -h
 df: `status': No such file or directory
 df: `status': No such file or directory
 Any ideas why the 'status' messages are showing 'No such file or
 directory'?  More info:



What is the output of "mount" and "cat /proc/mounts" ? Do you have any
filesystems mounted on NFS, or by FUSE or by automount?

Filipe
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Hi Filipe,

Thanks for your reply.  There are not any NFS filesystems.  There are 
unused drives on the bus, unpartitioned.


As requested:

# mount
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sdc1 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdd1 on /home/admin type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
/dev/hda on /media/TestCD type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,uid=0)
st0 on status type unknown (rw)
/dev/st0 on status type unknown (rw)


# cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
/proc /proc proc rw 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw 0 0
/proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /home ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sdd1 /home/905 ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/TestCD\0405.3 iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/etc/auto.misc /misc autofs 
rw,fd=6,pgrp=13637,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect 0 0
-hosts /net autofs 
rw,fd=11,pgrp=13637,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect 0 0


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[CentOS] openldap on Centos 5.1 with TLS

[David Hláčik]

Hi, sorry for the stupid question,

but however i am following all howtos and tutorials it is not working

1) i have created CA certificate - /etc/pki/tls/misc/CA -newca
2) i have generated a new request - /etc/pki/tls/misc/CA -newreq
3) i have signed certificate /etc/pki/tls/misc/CA -signreq

SO i have CA in /etc/pki/CA
i have newkey.pem
i have newcert.pem
i have also cealrkey.pem (without passphrase)

*$ openssl rsa < newkey.pem > clearkey.pem*

What to do next?? What to put in slapd.conf in order to make it work?? What
to put in ldap.conf in order to communicate

Really thanks in advance!!

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Re: [CentOS] strange error in df -h

[Filipe Brandenburger]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  I just saw this in output from df -h:
>  # df -h
>  df: `status': No such file or directory
>  df: `status': No such file or directory
>  Any ideas why the 'status' messages are showing 'No such file or
>  directory'?  More info:

What is the output of "mount" and "cat /proc/mounts" ? Do you have any
filesystems mounted on NFS, or by FUSE or by automount?

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Re: [CentOS] DNS in CentOS

[Filipe Brandenburger]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:37 PM, vincenzo romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Am running Bind 9 in Cent OS 5.1.   I have a DNS server, that:
>  - DNS server to hosts in lab.company.com - 192.168.17.x
>  - forwards query to company.com - 10.100.x.x.

What is the IP address of your DNS server? What is the IP adress of
the DNS server for company.com? What are the contents of the
resolv.conf file on the machine you're testing?

Basically on your server (the one for lab.company.com) you should have
a forwarders entry pointing to the IP of the DNS server for
company.com.

In the other DNS server, the one that handles company.com, you should
have in the company.com zone an NS entry for the "lab" name pointing
to the IP of your DNS server, the one for lab.company.com.

HTH,
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[CentOS] Re: List of SCSI supported controlores

[Scott Silva]

on 4-1-2008 11:03 AM Ray Leventhal spake the following:

M�rio Gamito wrote:

Hi,

How can I get a list of all SCSI controllers supported by CentOS 5.1 ?

Thanks in advance.

Warm Regards,
M�rio Gamito

  

Hi Mario,

I'd be willing to bet that Cent is compatible with upstream.  This link 
may help


https://hardware.redhat.com/

HTH,
-Ray

Have you actually looked at the HCL in a while?
RHEL5 lists exactly 16 components and 516 systems. I'm sure it runs on more 
than that.
That list usually only lists "certified" equipment that RedHat or a partner 
has tested, and probably paid money to list.


You would probably be better off looking at the kernel config and see what 
modules are turned on.



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[CentOS] DNS in CentOS

[vincenzo romero]

Hello,

Am running Bind 9 in Cent OS 5.1.   I have a DNS server, that:

- DNS server to hosts in lab.company.com - 192.168.17.x
- forwards query to company.com - 10.100.x.x.

Problem:

1.  FQDN and by-IP-address ping and nslookup is successful.

2.  ping/nslookup by host-name-only --- from any 192.168.17.x hosts to
any 10.100.x.x hosts fail and vice versa.

I have setup the DNS of lab.company.com - to forward query to the DNS
server of 10.100.x.x.hosts through the /etc/named.conf -

options {
listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; 10.100.1.5; };
forwarders {10.100.1.5 port 53;
};

What tools/logs can I check to troubleshoot this?  should I be
configuring this as a forwarder or should I configure my DNS as a
subdomain to the company.com DNS?

pls advise.

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Re: [CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

[Kai Schaetzl]

Sam Beam wrote on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:43:51 -0400:

> So you don't run it at all 
> after creating the md arrays?

I don't do any changes to initrd. I create the mirrored raid and I install 
grub on the second disk, so that it works for booting on both disks.
The /boot partition needs to be on its own if you use LVM and not be LVM.

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Re: [CentOS] strange error in df -h

[Ray Leventhal]

Ray Leventhal wrote:

Hi All,

I just saw this in output from df -h:



I should have originally stated: CentOS5.1 32 bit running on a Dell PE 4600.

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Re: [CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

[Les Mikesell]

Sam Beam wrote:

On Tuesday 01 April 2008 05:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote:

Sam Beam wrote on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 01:45:28 -0400:

OK sorry to hammer the list but one more question - having almost got the
drives mirrored and happy - since I have created a custom initrd that has
the raid1 drivers in it, do I now have to tell yum to ignore kernel
updates? Will the stock kernel render me unbootable?

Is this about software RAID? You don't need to change the initrd in any way
for this.


ok (deep breathing relaxation exercise in order after staying up till 4AM 
trying different permutations)... All the howtos/posts I found on it seemed 
to this running mkinitrd to add raid1 was needed. So you don't run it at all 
after creating the md arrays?


If your system was installed without raid and you manually moved the / 
partition to an md device you would have to add the modules to the 
initrd yourself.  However, subsequent yum updates that install a new 
kernel should include what you need - and they should not remove your 
running kernel or the supporting initrd, so you would have a fall-back 
from the grub boot menu anyway where you could fix it.


maybe that is why the system won't boot anymore after I synced the root 
partition? ;)


I hope...


If you are booting a kernel that can't find your root partition, the 
initrd might be the problem.   There are several other things that also 
have to be right.  You should be able to boot your install cd/dvd with 
"linux rescue" at the boot prompt to fix any of them, so don't panic yet.


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Re: [CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

[Sam Beam]

On Tuesday 01 April 2008 05:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Sam Beam wrote on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 01:45:28 -0400:
> > OK sorry to hammer the list but one more question - having almost got the
> > drives mirrored and happy - since I have created a custom initrd that has
> > the raid1 drivers in it, do I now have to tell yum to ignore kernel
> > updates? Will the stock kernel render me unbootable?
>
> Is this about software RAID? You don't need to change the initrd in any way
> for this.

ok (deep breathing relaxation exercise in order after staying up till 4AM 
trying different permutations)... All the howtos/posts I found on it seemed 
to this running mkinitrd to add raid1 was needed. So you don't run it at all 
after creating the md arrays?

maybe that is why the system won't boot anymore after I synced the root 
partition? ;)

I hope...

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Re: [CentOS] List of SCSI supported controlores

[Ray Leventhal]

Mário Gamito wrote:

Hi,

How can I get a list of all SCSI controllers supported by CentOS 5.1 ?

Thanks in advance.

Warm Regards,
Mário Gamito

  

Hi Mario,

I'd be willing to bet that Cent is compatible with upstream.  This link 
may help


https://hardware.redhat.com/

HTH,
-Ray

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Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

[Niki Kovacs]

John a écrit :



But understand this now. When you do that your not building against the
newest kernel. Thus you will have inconsistent modulesand run into
problems. It is meant to work by building against the newest kernel. I
don't see the real point in that from a security standpoint in having
reliable kernel modules.


In theory, you're right. In practice, I'd say the differences between 
CentOS kernel updates are what we call "quantité négligeable".


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[CentOS] strange error in df -h

[Ray Leventhal]

Hi All,

I just saw this in output from df -h:

# df -h
FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
 131G  4.6G  120G   4% /
/dev/sdc1 271G  141G  117G  55% /home
/dev/sdd1 271G  3.9G  253G   2% /home/admin
/dev/sda1  99M   20M   74M  22% /boot
tmpfs 442M 0  442M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda   11M   11M 0 100% /media/TestCD
df: `status': No such file or directory
df: `status': No such file or directory

Any ideas why the 'status' messages are showing 'No such file or 
directory'?  More info:


# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /   ext3defaults1 1
LABEL=/home /home   ext3defaults1 2
LABEL=/home/905 /home/admin   ext3
defaults1 2

LABEL=/boot /boot   ext3defaults1 2
tmpfs   /dev/shmtmpfs   defaults0 0
devpts  /dev/ptsdevpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs   /syssysfs   defaults0 0
proc/proc   procdefaults0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swapswapdefaults0 0

Thanks in advance,
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Re: [CentOS] Remove all 3rd party rpms

[Louis Lagendijk]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 07:37 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> > How does one do this?
> > 
> > Also, is it possible an rpm installed by rpm and not yum does not 
> > indicate what it provides to yum when yum queries needed dependencies 
> > for another package?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > jlc
> > 
> > 
> 
> While you have gotten an answer that works - I believe there is a 
> cleaner way.
> 
> I don't remember the exact command - and it may require the installation 
> of a utilities package - but if you remove the 3rd party repositories 
> from your yum configuration, there is a command that will identify and 
> remove orphaned packages - packages which do not exist in any of the yum 
> repositories yum is configured to use.
> 
> Anyone recall what that command is?

yum list extras
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Re: [CentOS] Icon .png file loading error after graphics driver upgrade

[John]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 10:07 -0700, John J. Lee wrote:
> Yes.  I did run the auto update.

Log into your user account, then go to  ""Application | System Tools |
Nvidia  X Server Settings". sounds like you need to set the Screen
resolution etc.


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Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

[John]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 17:03 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> John a écrit :
> 
> > 
> > He built it like so:
> 
> Me built it almost like so.
> 
> > #telinit 3 
> > #sh nvidia-linux-version-number
> > #then you get a text gui
> > #he let it build the kernel module
> > #then it asks do you want to me to update you xorg.conf.
> > #selected yes
> 
> selected no. I always edit xorg.conf by hand anyway, and I never let any 
> installer do any editing.
> 
> > #thats it 
> > #reboot
> > #rebuild it again on the next kernel update.
> 
> No, you don't have to. Update the kernel, and the module from the 
> previous kernel automagically gets copied to /lib/modules/`uname 
> -r`/weak-updates/
> 
> This is also true for some other modules I build by hand, like rt61.ko. 
> So no need to use DKMS :oD

But understand this now. When you do that your not building against the
newest kernel. Thus you will have inconsistent modulesand run into
problems. It is meant to work by building against the newest kernel. I
don't see the real point in that from a security standpoint in having
reliable kernel modules.

Sorry but in my mind that is pure laziness in doing so. That's the cheap
way out. """I would never introduce that idea to someone new to
Unix/Linux.""" That just a bad way to start off. Do it right the first
time. Thats like squandering an old scsi driver from an older 2.6 kermel
and modprobing it to the new kernel and hope like hell it works!. Theres
a reasing Older Drivers are not in there and I think you know why.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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Re: [CentOS] my centos switched alone its root fs to read-only

[Alain Spineux]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alain Spineux wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:43:33 +0200:
>
>
>  > EXT3-fs error  (device md1): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted 
> journal
>  > Remounting file read-only
>
>  CentOS 4?

No Centos 5.1

>
>  Force a complete filesystem check on that drive. I had this once happen after
>  a kernel upgrade. Everything seemed okay after rebooting the machine but it
>  came back each night during the updatedb run. I finally forced a filesystem
>  repair that fixed it and I haven't heard ever since from it. I tried to get
>  more information about that problematic inode and it seems it was just
>  corrupted. The boot up never fixed that.

I had no choice, it  rebooted in single user mode. I ran a fsck,
replied 20 times yes.
And now it still in heavy load like yesterday, for more than 12H now


>
>  Kai
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Re: [CentOS] Icon .png file loading error after graphics driver upgrade

[John J. Lee]

Yes.  I did run the auto update.

-john

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:11 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 16:33 -0700, John J. Lee wrote:
> > Dear,
> >
> > I updated my nvidia graphics driver on one of the CentOS boxes.
> >
> > When I log in my account, icons are not displayed correctly.
> > They are displayed as small empty squares, and there are error messages like
> > "Fater error: failed to load .png : version error" for each icon.
> >
> > If I log in as super user, everything is OK.  Icons are OK. No error 
> > messages.
> > Do you have any idea?
> >
> > Thank you.
>
> Did you  let it auto update your xorg.conf file?? After installing the
> driver?
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Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

[Niki Kovacs]

John a écrit :



He built it like so:


Me built it almost like so.

#telinit 3 
#sh nvidia-linux-version-number

#then you get a text gui
#he let it build the kernel module
#then it asks do you want to me to update you xorg.conf.
#selected yes


selected no. I always edit xorg.conf by hand anyway, and I never let any 
installer do any editing.


#thats it 
#reboot

#rebuild it again on the next kernel update.


No, you don't have to. Update the kernel, and the module from the 
previous kernel automagically gets copied to /lib/modules/`uname 
-r`/weak-updates/


This is also true for some other modules I build by hand, like rt61.ko. 
So no need to use DKMS :oD


Cheers,

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Re: [CentOS] mysql data

[Ray Leventhal]

Barry L. Kline wrote:

Ray Leventhal wrote:

| Where does mysql actually store databases and tables in the filesystem?

If you're asking because you're concerned about backup/restore then
you'll want to forget about the location of the data files and instead
use the mysqldump command to make your backups.

If you're interested from the capacity planning standpoint then the
answer is that CentOS configures MySQL to live in the /var/lib/mysql
directory.

Barry
Thanks to all who replied.  My reason for wanting to know the location 
of the actual databases and tables is that I had a crash and rebuilt a 
new system.  I hadn't done mysqldump(s) of the databases recently enough 
to the crash to be useful, so I am going to temporarily mount the drive 
that contained /var from the old system (thankfully, that partition is 
sound) and just pull that data out.


/var/lib/mysql is the answer I needed.  I've since implemented a backup 
strategy which I found online [1].  The only difference between what I 
am running and the posted script is the location of the mysqldump file. 
In the example it's in /usr/local/bin, in Cent it's in /usr/bin


Kind regards,
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[1] http://www.tech-recipes.com/mysql_tips221.html
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[CentOS] Re: How to find available groups for installation via yum ?

[Scott Silva]

on 4-1-2008 12:45 AM D Steward spake the following:
then I've started googling the net and  finally  I found 
the magic combination. One very merciful soul posted the golden

combination.

yum groupinstall "XFCE-4.4"


It's unfortunate, but I've been tripped up by yum when doing searches.
I feel that especially when doing the 'search', 'list', 'whatprovides'
subcommands, the search term should be case-insensitive.
This is particularly dumb when the package name is upper-case XFCE, but
most of the individual rpms are lower-case eg. xfce4-session
Maybe a command-line option for this?
A case sensitive OS will have issues like this. You are right that there 
should be a case insensitive option to searches, but you would have to do that 
at the yum creators site and wait for it to trickle down.


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[CentOS] Re: raid1 custom initrd and yum

[Scott Silva]

on 3-31-2008 10:45 PM Sam Beam spake the following:
OK sorry to hammer the list but one more question - having almost got the 
drives mirrored and happy - since I have created a custom initrd that has the 
raid1 drivers in it, do I now have to tell yum to ignore kernel updates? Will 
the stock kernel render me unbootable?


Actually I am not 100% sure the initrd I created 


# mkinitrd -f --preload=raid1 /mnt/tmp/initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname -r`

is even being used, because lsmod still lists a raid1 module. Wouldn't it 
be "embedded" in the running kernel and thus not in the module list?


either way I am a little confused and this is important ;)

best regards and thanks to all for the help,
Sam
mkinitrd should see what modules are currently loaded and add those to the new 
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Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

[John]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 07:47 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:08 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >  http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/96.43.05/README/README.txt
> >
> >  Apparently it will auto download the newer drivers. He's in luck. The
> >  ReadME discusses the utility to do that.
> 
> This is about new releases/versions of the nvidia driver.  We are
> talking about recompiling the same version of the nvidia driver for a
> new kernel.
> 
> Akemi
Only thing close to what I could understand he was talking about. I can
assure you mine will not "autoupdate" to a new release or to a new
kernel. Has to be downloaded and recompiled for an update version or an
updated kernel. Sound right?

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Re: [CentOS] Remove all 3rd party rpms

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Michael A. Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>  While you have gotten an answer that works - I believe there is a
>  cleaner way.
>
>  I don't remember the exact command - and it may require the installation
>  of a utilities package - but if you remove the 3rd party repositories
>  from your yum configuration, there is a command that will identify and
>  remove orphaned packages - packages which do not exist in any of the yum
>  repositories yum is configured to use.
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>  Anyone recall what that command is?

package-cleanup ?

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Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:08 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>  http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/96.43.05/README/README.txt
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>  Apparently it will auto download the newer drivers. He's in luck. The
>  ReadME discusses the utility to do that.

This is about new releases/versions of the nvidia driver.  We are
talking about recompiling the same version of the nvidia driver for a
new kernel.

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Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:59 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 06:26 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>  > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:14 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > > On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 14:18 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:
>  > >  >
>  > >  > So I went to www.nvidia.com, downloaded the package and built it 
> myself.
>  > >  > Works like a charm. And updates end up in weak-updates anyway :oD
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Niki
>  > >
>  > >  Right it just works. But remember every Kernel Upgrade You Have to
>  > >  Reinstall the Driver. Don't forget
>  >
>  > Normally yes, but Niki says the driver goes to weak-updates upon
>  > kernel update.  Wonder if this actually eliminated the need for
>  > rebuilding in his case.
>  >
>  > Akemi
>
>  Ahh, I know what he's talking about now. When you install the module it
>  will go out to nvidia to check for newer kernel modules. It prompts you
>  for a choice to build one or get one download one from nvidia. I always
>  build the module when I do a kernel upgrade. Now keep in mind my nvidea
>  card is way older than his and I use the older drivers that as of now
>  will not be updated anymore. The newer driver packages from them may
>  include different options. Like for instance the weekly updates???
>  Maybe??

Erm, it is not weekly update, it is weak-updates -- a mechanism that
allows for use of modules from an earlier version.  See
/sbin/weak-modules for some more details.  I do not know if the nvidia
driver is kABI compatible.

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Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

[John]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 06:08 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >  So I went to www.nvidia.com, downloaded the package and built it myself.
> >  Works like a charm. And updates end up in weak-updates anyway :oD
> >
> >  Niki
> 
> How did you built it, more specifically, in such a way that updates
> end up in weak-updates?

He built it like so:
#telinit 3 
#sh nvidia-linux-version-number
#then you get a text gui
#he let it build the kernel module
#then it asks do you want to me to update you xorg.conf.
#selected yes
#thats it 
#reboot
#rebuild it again on the next kernel update.

And updates end up in weak-updates anyway :oD  
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