Re: [CentOS] Re: How to check for rootkit, troians etc in backed up files?

[M. Fioretti]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 14:23:30 PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks (even if late!) for the suggestions, I've applied them.
>>>
>> A reply in 3 days is late? That is good for a lot of lists.
>> Your thank you almost 2 weeks later is what is late.
>
> I think that's what he meant. He put the "even if late" right
> after the "thanks", indicating that's what was late, the "thanks".

absolutely yes, I was sorry for not saying thanks earlier due to my
own schedule, nothing else. Sorry to have started such a discussion.

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Re: [CentOS] Re: How to check for rootkit, troians etc in backed up files?

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 09:02 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 14:23:30 PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > Scott Silva wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks (even if late!) for the suggestions, I've applied them.
> >>>
> >> A reply in 3 days is late? That is good for a lot of lists.
> >> Your thank you almost 2 weeks later is what is late.
> >
> > I think that's what he meant. He put the "even if late" right
> > after the "thanks", indicating that's what was late, the "thanks".
> 
> absolutely yes, I was sorry for not saying thanks earlier due to my
> own schedule, nothing else. Sorry to have started such a discussion.

Marco, I know what you meant. Guys, Marco is one of the good ones. Ric

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RE: [CentOS] CentOS on Dell Poweredge 2850

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Ian Forde <> scribbled on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:35 PM:

>> Our department's planning to buy a refurbished Dell Poweredge 2850 running
>> dual-xeons and with a rather big raid array (8x 146GB).
>> 
>> *My* plan is to install CentOS on this machine and I'd like to hear with
>> you guys if there are any gotchas' doing this.
>> 
>> My main concern is the ability of CentOS to recognise the raid-controller
>> of the Dell and run a raid5-array as well as drivers for the onboard NICs.
>> 
>> Any feedback on this is appreciated.
> 
> I don't forsee any problems.  I'm running CentOS 5.2 on a 2950 III and
> omreport installs fine without any problems.  I can see the RAID array
> and monitor via the Nagios omreport plugins (search nagios-exchange for
> them).  Onboard NICs shouldn't be a problem either...

Thx. A former unix-admin at the dept thinks it might be a little on the old
side hardware-wise, this particular server is about four years old. I'm
split...

This particular Poweredge modell is certified for RHEL 2 and 3. If I'd try to
install RHEL5 on it, would bad things happen, or is it just a support issue?
Seeing how CentOS 5.2 is equivalent to RHEL5, I don't see *what* could happen
though... Kernel panics??


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RE: [CentOS] CentOS on Dell Poweredge 2850

[Michel van Deventer]

Hi,

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 10:26 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ian Forde <> scribbled on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:35 PM:
> 
> >> Our department's planning to buy a refurbished Dell Poweredge 2850 running
> >> dual-xeons and with a rather big raid array (8x 146GB).
> >> 
> >> *My* plan is to install CentOS on this machine and I'd like to hear with
> >> you guys if there are any gotchas' doing this.
> >> 
> >> My main concern is the ability of CentOS to recognise the raid-controller
> >> of the Dell and run a raid5-array as well as drivers for the onboard NICs.
> >> 
> >> Any feedback on this is appreciated.
> > 
> > I don't forsee any problems.  I'm running CentOS 5.2 on a 2950 III and
> > omreport installs fine without any problems.  I can see the RAID array
> > and monitor via the Nagios omreport plugins (search nagios-exchange for
> > them).  Onboard NICs shouldn't be a problem either...
> 
> Thx. A former unix-admin at the dept thinks it might be a little on the old
> side hardware-wise, this particular server is about four years old. I'm
> split...
> 
> This particular Poweredge modell is certified for RHEL 2 and 3. If I'd try to
> install RHEL5 on it, would bad things happen, or is it just a support issue?
> Seeing how CentOS 5.2 is equivalent to RHEL5, I don't see *what* could happen
> though... Kernel panics??
I'm running RHEL5 and CentOS 5 on many PE 2850's. As long as you use the
Dell PERC4 or PERC5 controllers all will work well. Onboard NICs work
fine too.

Regards,

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RE: [CentOS] CentOS on Dell Poweredge 2850

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Michel van Deventer <> scribbled on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:31 AM:

 Our department's planning to buy a refurbished Dell Poweredge 2850
 running dual-xeons and with a rather big raid array (8x 146GB).
 
 *My* plan is to install CentOS on this machine and I'd like to hear with
 you guys if there are any gotchas' doing this.
 
 My main concern is the ability of CentOS to recognise the raid-controller
 of the Dell and run a raid5-array as well as drivers for the onboard
 NICs. 
 
 Any feedback on this is appreciated.
>>> 
>>> I don't forsee any problems.  I'm running CentOS 5.2 on a 2950 III and
>>> omreport installs fine without any problems.  I can see the RAID array
>>> and monitor via the Nagios omreport plugins (search nagios-exchange for
>>> them).  Onboard NICs shouldn't be a problem either...
>> 
>> Thx. A former unix-admin at the dept thinks it might be a little on the old
>> side hardware-wise, this particular server is about four years old. I'm
>> split... 
>> 
>> This particular Poweredge modell is certified for RHEL 2 and 3. If I'd try
>> to install RHEL5 on it, would bad things happen, or is it just a support
>> issue? Seeing how CentOS 5.2 is equivalent to RHEL5, I don't see *what*
>> could happen though... Kernel panics??
>
> I'm running RHEL5 and CentOS 5 on many PE 2850's. As long as you use the
> Dell PERC4 or PERC5 controllers all will work well. Onboard NICs work
> fine too.

Do they vary in this particular series?


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Re: [CentOS] Re: i didn't see the 4.7 announcement

[Ralph Angenendt]

Paul Norton wrote:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>
>> I don't even have any hits in my logs on that date, and I rechecked my  
>> filters.
>> I have Centos 4 in i686 and x86_64 and CentOS 5 in the same arches.
>>
>> Maybe it only fell under the General CentOS 4 filter and didn't trickle 
>> out to the individual arches.
>
> You're not alone.
>
> I didn't receive the email either.  I have also checked my  
> subscriptions, and CentOS 4 is one of them.

Do you want to receive messages that do not match any topic filter?

Setting that to yes should get you those messages. Could be that the
"4.7" fell through the filter for CentOS 4.

Cheers,

Ralph


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RE: [CentOS] CentOS on Dell Poweredge 2850

[Ian Forde]

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 10:26 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thx. A former unix-admin at the dept thinks it might be a little on the old
> side hardware-wise, this particular server is about four years old. I'm
> split...
> 
> This particular Poweredge modell is certified for RHEL 2 and 3. If I'd try to
> install RHEL5 on it, would bad things happen, or is it just a support issue?
> Seeing how CentOS 5.2 is equivalent to RHEL5, I don't see *what* could happen
> though... Kernel panics??

Still don't forsee any problems... I was running RHL 7.2 and 9 on
PowerEdge 2850 boxes 6 years ago without problems, though I didn't have
OMSA on them (not even sure if it was available for RHL at that time).
There shouldn't be a problem with CentOS 5.2 though.  You've got a PERC
5/i, and I know that's supported in OMSA under RHEL 5.2.  So I'd say
just go for it... and if you want more confirmation that it's certified
and supported for RHEL 5.2, you can check the http://support.dell.com
page, specify a PowerEdge 2850, and choose RHEL5.  The fact that it's
there indicates that it's working for Dell, let people outside of
Dell... RH had an entry at
https://hardware.redhat.com/show.cgi?id=232290 but the link is busted.
But it still shows that it's certified...

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RE: [CentOS] CentOS on Dell Poweredge 2850

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Ian Forde <> scribbled on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:10 AM:

>> Thx. A former unix-admin at the dept thinks it might be a little on the old
>> side hardware-wise, this particular server is about four years old. I'm
>> split... 
>> 
>> This particular Poweredge modell is certified for RHEL 2 and 3. If I'd try
>> to install RHEL5 on it, would bad things happen, or is it just a support
>> issue? Seeing how CentOS 5.2 is equivalent to RHEL5, I don't see *what*
>> could happen though... Kernel panics??
> 
> Still don't forsee any problems... I was running RHL 7.2 and 9 on
> PowerEdge 2850 boxes 6 years ago without problems, though I didn't have
> OMSA on them (not even sure if it was available for RHL at that time).
> There shouldn't be a problem with CentOS 5.2 though.  You've got a PERC
> 5/i, and I know that's supported in OMSA under RHEL 5.2.  So I'd say
> just go for it... and if you want more confirmation that it's certified
> and supported for RHEL 5.2, you can check the http://support.dell.com
> page, specify a PowerEdge 2850, and choose RHEL5.  The fact that it's
> there indicates that it's working for Dell, let people outside of
> Dell... RH had an entry at
> https://hardware.redhat.com/show.cgi?id=232290 but the link is busted.
> But it still shows that it's certified...

Fair enough, thx. Seems "rock-solid" is the word. 8-)

Thanks again.


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[CentOS] /dev/tty: No such device or address error in newly created CentOS 5.2 domU

[Rudi Ahlers]

Hi all,

I setup a new CentOS 5.2 domU, on a CentOS 5.2 x64 XEN server, and then
proceeded to install cPanel, which is a simple task of downloading
http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest - and running it in the command line, as
such:

cd /home
wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest
sh latest.

But, I get the following error:


sh-3.2# sh latest
Creating directory installd
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing cplyr1-cPanellatest: line 118: /dev/tty: No such device or
address
Terminated




I have run MAKEDEV /dev/tty - but it didn't help me, I still get the error.

So, how do I fix this?
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RE: [CentOS] CentOS on Dell Poweredge 2850

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Ian Forde <> scribbled on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:10 AM:

> [snipping galore]  You've got a PERC
> 5/i, and I know that's supported in OMSA under RHEL 5.2.  So I'd say
> just go for it... and if you want more confirmation that it's certified
> and supported for RHEL 5.2, you can check the http://support.dell.com
> page, specify a PowerEdge 2850, and choose RHEL5.  The fact that it's
> there indicates that it's working for Dell, let people outside of
> Dell... RH had an entry at
> https://hardware.redhat.com/show.cgi?id=232290 but the link is busted.
> But it still shows that it's certified...

Busted link is up now.

FWIW, I just found out that this particular Poweredge 2850 has a PERC 4e.
Can't find any info on this on the above urls. However googling on "PERC 4e"
shows that some ppl seems to have gotten it to work, but that some rpms are
necessary post-install or something.


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Re: [CentOS] /dev/tty: No such device or address error in newly created CentOS 5.2 domU

[Tru Huynh]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:09:44PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I setup a new CentOS 5.2 domU, on a CentOS 5.2 x64 XEN server, and then
> proceeded to install cPanel, which is a simple task of downloading
> http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest - and running it in the command line, as
> such:
> 
> cd /home
> wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest
> sh latest.
...
> So, how do I fix this?
cpanel software, ask them!

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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:23:39 +0200
From: Tru Huynh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0893 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 bzip2
-   security update
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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0893

bzip2 security update for CentOS 3 i386:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0893.html

The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to
the mirrors:

i386:
updates/i386/RPMS/bzip2-1.0.2-12.EL3.i386.rpm
updates/i386/RPMS/bzip2-devel-1.0.2-12.EL3.i386.rpm
updates/i386/RPMS/bzip2-libs-1.0.2-12.EL3.i386.rpm

source:
updates/SRPMS/bzip2-1.0.2-12.EL3.src.rpm

You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command:

yum update bzip2

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0893

bzip2 security update for CentOS 3 x86_64:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0893.html

The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to
the mirrors:

x86_64:
updates/x86_64/RPMS/bzip2-1.0.2-12.EL3.x86_64.rpm
updates/x86_64/RPMS/bzip2-devel-1.0.2-12.EL3.x86_64.rpm
updates/x86_64/RPMS/bzip2-libs-1.0.2-12.EL3.i386.rpm
updates/x86_64/RPMS/bzip2-libs-1.0.2-12.EL3.x86_64.rpm

source:
updates/SRPMS/bzip2-1.0.2-12.EL3.src.rpm

You may update your CentOS-3 x86_64 installations by running the command:

yum update bzip2

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0893 Moderate

Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0893.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently 
syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) 

i386:
858f7d847e62bcc77a939fb175603c31  bzip2-1.0.3-4.el5_2.i386.rpm
6514637328c75283f6eedadae12f472d  bzip2-devel-1.0.3-4.el5_2.i386.rpm
9609c26a2b09e8b59399ff842e43bf19  bzip2-libs-1.0.3-4.el5_2.i386.rpm

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[CentOS] Installing & activating mysql in CentOS 5

[Andrew Allen]

I want to set up a local mysql server + client (preferably graphical, ie
mysqlgui) so have yum installed both perl-DBI and mysql.i386, both
apparently successfully.  However, I can't see what to do next to get
mysqld running, as it doesn't appear in the list of services
(in /etc/init.d/). Help appreciated please - is there any good specific
documentation on this anywhere?  Also, what's the current opinion/advice
on a graphical user interface for mysql please?

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Re: [CentOS] Installing & activating mysql in CentOS 5

[Pintér Tibor]

Andrew Allen wrote:

I want to set up a local mysql server + client (preferably graphical, ie
mysqlgui) so have yum installed both perl-DBI and mysql.i386, both
apparently successfully.  However, I can't see what to do next to get
mysqld running, as it doesn't appear in the list of services
(in /etc/init.d/). Help appreciated please - is there any good specific
documentation on this anywhere?  Also, what's the current opinion/advice
on a graphical user interface for mysql please?


how about trying mysql-server?

t
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Re: [CentOS] Installing & activating mysql in CentOS 5

[Steve Huff]

On Sep 17, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Andrew Allen wrote:

documentation on this anywhere?  Also, what's the current opinion/ 
advice

on a graphical user interface for mysql please?



it's hard to go wrong with phpMyAdmin (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/),  
which you can get from RPMforge.


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[CentOS] new 4.7 i586 kernel not happy

[Joe Pruett]

my poor little toshiba libretto (p-120) won't boot with the new 4.7 i586
kernel.  i've reverted back to the previous kernel for now.  anyone else 
using the new i586 kernel successfully on old hardware?

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Re: [CentOS] Installing & activating mysql in CentOS 5

[Ralph Angenendt]

Steve Huff wrote:
>
> On Sep 17, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Andrew Allen wrote:
>
>> documentation on this anywhere?  Also, what's the current opinion/ 
>> advice
>> on a graphical user interface for mysql please?
>
> it's hard to go wrong with phpMyAdmin (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/),  
> which you can get from RPMforge.

Even that won't work without installing the server component of mysql,
which is in the mysql-server package. And giving the security track
record of phpMyAdmin, I'd rather stay away from that.

There is some graphical mysqladmin tool, but I cannot remember its name
...

Cheers,

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Re: [CentOS] new 4.7 i586 kernel not happy

[Ralph Angenendt]

Joe Pruett wrote:
> my poor little toshiba libretto (p-120) won't boot with the new 4.7 i586
> kernel.  i've reverted back to the previous kernel for now.  anyone else  
> using the new i586 kernel successfully on old hardware?



Ralph


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Re: [CentOS] Installing & activating mysql in CentOS 5

[Rob Taylor]

> Steve Huff wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 17, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Andrew Allen wrote:
>> 
>>> documentation on this anywhere?  Also, what's the current opinion/ 
>>> advice
>>> on a graphical user interface for mysql please?
>> 
>> it's hard to go wrong with phpMyAdmin (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/),  
>> which you can get from RPMforge.
> 
> Even that won't work without installing the server component of mysql,
> which is in the mysql-server package. And giving the security track
> record of phpMyAdmin, I'd rather stay away from that.
> 
> There is some graphical mysqladmin tool, but I cannot remember its name
> ...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ralph


I would also say to stay away from PHPMyAdmin because of the security issues, I 
would recommend:



-Or- 



Thanks
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Re: [CentOS] new 4.7 i586 kernel not happy

[Akemi Yagi]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joe Pruett wrote:
>> my poor little toshiba libretto (p-120) won't boot with the new 4.7 i586
>> kernel.  i've reverted back to the previous kernel for now.  anyone else
>> using the new i586 kernel successfully on old hardware?
>
> 
>
> Ralph

As seen in that bug report, this is a known problem.  Your solution at
this moment will be one of the following:

(1) go back to the last kernel that worked
(2) if you wish to go for the 4.7 kernel, use the centosplus kernel
(3) rebuild the 4.7 kernel with an appropriate config file for i586

I assume the issue would be corrected in the next kernel update.  It
was just wrong config (i586) files that were used for building the
kernel.

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[CentOS] Re: CentOS on Dell Poweredge 2850

[Scott Silva]

on 9-17-2008 1:26 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake the following:

Ian Forde <> scribbled on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:35 PM:


Our department's planning to buy a refurbished Dell Poweredge 2850 running
dual-xeons and with a rather big raid array (8x 146GB).

*My* plan is to install CentOS on this machine and I'd like to hear with
you guys if there are any gotchas' doing this.

My main concern is the ability of CentOS to recognize the raid-controller
of the Dell and run a raid5-array as well as drivers for the onboard NICs.

Any feedback on this is appreciated.

I don't foresee any problems.  I'm running CentOS 5.2 on a 2950 III and
omreport installs fine without any problems.  I can see the RAID array
and monitor via the Nagios omreport plugins (search nagios-exchange for
them).  Onboard NICs shouldn't be a problem either...


Thx. A former unix-admin at the dept thinks it might be a little on the old
side hardware-wise, this particular server is about four years old. I'm
split...

This particular Poweredge model is certified for RHEL 2 and 3. If I'd try to
install RHEL5 on it, would bad things happen, or is it just a support issue?
Seeing how CentOS 5.2 is equivalent to RHEL5, I don't see *what* could happen
though... Kernel panics??
They just stopped making that model so they won't re-certify it with newer 
distros. It will either work or not work, but more than likely it will work. 
The main gotcha with older hardware and newer distros is if they decide to not 
port an older piece of hardware anymore like they did with the old megaraid 
drivers.


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Re: [CentOS] Installing & activating mysql in CentOS 5

[Niki Kovacs]

Andrew Allen a écrit :

I want to set up a local mysql server + client (preferably graphical, ie
mysqlgui) so have yum installed both perl-DBI and mysql.i386, both
apparently successfully.  However, I can't see what to do next to get
mysqld running, as it doesn't appear in the list of services
(in /etc/init.d/). Help appreciated please - is there any good specific
documentation on this anywhere?  


Setting up MySQL in a nutshell. It's in French, but the Linux bits are 
universal:


http://www.microlinux.fr/article.php3?id_article=43


> Also, what's the current opinion/advice

on a graphical user interface for mysql please?


Unprintable :o)

Cheers,

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Re: [CentOS] new 4.7 i586 kernel not happy

[Karanbir Singh]

Akemi Yagi wrote:

my poor little toshiba libretto (p-120) won't boot with the new 4.7 i586
kernel.  i've reverted back to the previous kernel for now.  anyone else
using the new i586 kernel successfully on old hardware?



Ralph


As seen in that bug report, this is a known problem.  Your solution at
this moment will be one of the following:

(1) go back to the last kernel that worked
(2) if you wish to go for the 4.7 kernel, use the centosplus kernel
(3) rebuild the 4.7 kernel with an appropriate config file for i586

I assume the issue would be corrected in the next kernel update.  It
was just wrong config (i586) files that were used for building the
kernel.


If someone wants to submit a patch, I'll have a go at pushing it through 
the buildsystems.


( will also comment on the issue report )

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Re: [CentOS] new 4.7 i586 kernel not happy

[Akemi Yagi]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Akemi Yagi wrote:

>>> 
>>>
>> I assume the issue would be corrected in the next kernel update.  It
>> was just wrong config (i586) files that were used for building the
>> kernel.
>
> If someone wants to submit a patch, I'll have a go at pushing it through the
> buildsystems.
>
> ( will also comment on the issue report )
>
> - KB

Will do (submit a patch).

Akemi
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Re: [CentOS] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[kapil singh]

Hello All,

I apologize for that. i have done it by mistake.
very very sorry for that.





On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Ralph Angenendt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:

> William L. Maltby wrote:
> >> That was actually very funny.
> >
> > How so? CNBC had one of the principals on the other day. It sounds like
> > a great idea, but commercial. I considered the post to be the equivalent
> > of spam.
>
> Well, a mailing list as a contact in one of those social networks doesn't
> really
> make sense.
>
> But: That comment was my way of avoiding to say "idiot".
>
> Cheers,
>
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS on Dell Poweredge 2850

[Nick Goddard]

On Tuesday 16 September 2008 12:54, Spook ZA wrote:
> Has anyone got Dell OpenManage running on CentOS so one can monitor the
> server components via their web interface and via snmp?
>
> Regards,
>   Andrew.

I don't know if this has been mentioned anywhere else but Dell provide a yum 
repo for the OpenManage software here:

http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/

Regards
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[CentOS] Mounting a LVM partition from a linux live cd

[Matt Shields]

I'm running CentOS 5.2, it uses LVM to manage the disks and we had a
programmer do something (not sure what) then reboot the system.  When it
came up it kernel panicked.  Luckily it's not production, it was their
sandbox.  But they didn't backup any of their files.  I know the disks are
fine because I was able to boot from a linux live cd and mount the /boot
partition from the sda drive, and the sdb drive that has the mysql database
mounted at /var/lib/mysql and not using LVM.   What I don't know how to do
is mount /dev/sda2 (root / partition) which is an LVM/ext3 partition.  Does
anyone have the steps to mount this drive while booted into a linux live cd?

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Re: [CentOS] Mounting a LVM partition from a linux live cd

[Stephen Harris]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:44:19AM -0400, Matt Shields wrote:
> I'm running CentOS 5.2, it uses LVM to manage the disks and we had a
> programmer do something (not sure what) then reboot the system.  When it
> came up it kernel panicked.  Luckily it's not production, it was their
> sandbox.  But they didn't backup any of their files.  I know the disks are
> fine because I was able to boot from a linux live cd and mount the /boot
> partition from the sda drive, and the sdb drive that has the mysql database
> mounted at /var/lib/mysql and not using LVM.   What I don't know how to do
> is mount /dev/sda2 (root / partition) which is an LVM/ext3 partition.  Does
> anyone have the steps to mount this drive while booted into a linux live cd?

Commands that might be useful:
  pvscan  - verify the physical disks are present
  vgscan  - scans for volume groups
  vgchange -a y - activates all volume groups
Now your logical volumes should be present and seen with 'lvscan' and
so can be mounted (/dev/VolGroup/LVName would be the volume to mount)

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[CentOS] CentOS on Eee PC 1000H

[Sven]

Hi folks

Anybody running CentOS on Eee PC 1000H? In CentOS wiki[0] there is a 
draft about Eee PC 900 from Fabian Arrotin. Does the same howto work for 
Eee PC 1000H?


So far he writes:

Waiting for an official way to host the necessary rpms ...


Where to download WiFi and NIC driver?

regards
Sven

[0] http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Asus/Eeepc
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Re: [CentOS] new 4.7 i586 kernel not happy

[Akemi Yagi]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 

>> If someone wants to submit a patch, I'll have a go at pushing it through the
>> buildsystems.
>>
>> - KB
>
> Will do (submit a patch).
>
> Akemi

Done.
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[CentOS] please help LVM totally messed up

[Rudi Ahlers]

Hi all

I accidentally deleted a LVM volume directly (rm /dev/System/newcpanel) and
now my LVM's are all messed up.

I have a snapshot from one of the other LVM's, as follows lvcreate -s -n
newcpanel /dev/System/wiseguy -L10G

But, instead of running lvremove /dev/System/newcpanel I ran rm
/dev/System/newcpanel ( I don't know why)

So, now I have waisted space on my server, and I can't remove the original
LVM either.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# lvremove /dev/System/wiseguy_rootimg
  /dev/System/wiseguy_rootimg: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0:
Input/output error
  /dev/mapper/wiseguy_rootimg1: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0:
Input/output error
  /dev/mapper/wiseguy_rootimg2: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0:
Input/output error
  /dev/mapper/wiseguy_rootimg3: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0:
Input/output error
  Can't remove logical volume "wiseguy_rootimg" under snapshot


[EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# lvscan
  /dev/System/wiseguy_rootimg: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0:
Input/output error
  /dev/mapper/wiseguy_rootimg1: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0:
Input/output error
  /dev/mapper/wiseguy_rootimg2: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0:
Input/output error
  /dev/mapper/wiseguy_rootimg3: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0:
Input/output error
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/root' [10.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/swap' [4.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/pluto' [50.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/home' [10.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/data' [20.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/andrew_vmswap' [1.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/andrew_rootimg' [5.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/keith_vmswap' [1.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/keith_rootimg' [5.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/12_vmswap' [1.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/12_rootimg' [5.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE   Original '/dev/System/wiseguy_rootimg' [10.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE   Snapshot '/dev/System/oldcpanel' [10.00 GB] inherit


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[CentOS] OT: Unix/Linux Training Online

[Matt]

This is a bit off topic but I was interested in taking some online
classes.  I currently have an associates degree in electronics tech
from about 15 years back but was wanting to expand on that and learn
more about linux.  Oreillyschool.com has a somewhat affordable online
certificate course in UNIX/linux admin.  The downside is I do not know
if there credits would ever transfer if I wanted to build on that.
Has anyone taken there course or know anyone that did?  Is it worth a
hoot?  Is there a better option?  Is a simple certificate worth that
much anyway?

Matt
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Re: [CentOS] OT: Unix/Linux Training Online

[Jacques B.]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a bit off topic but I was interested in taking some online
> classes.  I currently have an associates degree in electronics tech
> from about 15 years back but was wanting to expand on that and learn
> more about linux.  Oreillyschool.com has a somewhat affordable online
> certificate course in UNIX/linux admin.  The downside is I do not know
> if there credits would ever transfer if I wanted to build on that.
> Has anyone taken there course or know anyone that did?  Is it worth a
> hoot?  Is there a better option?  Is a simple certificate worth that
> much anyway?
>
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I've taken their course.  It's not too bad a course I suppose.  I'm
not a sysadmin.  Had I been one I might have put to use the skills
learned on how to set up a secondary DNS for example.  The module on
bash/perl scripting was good for me as was the one on networking.  The
first two would be basic for most people who've been around Linux CLI
for any amount of time.  Unless you want/need the certificate, I'd
simply look at the course description and do the one(s) that you feel
you need.

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Re: [CentOS] Installing & activating mysql in CentOS 5

[MHR]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Unprintable :o)
>

Oh, I don't know - if you say it in French, only a few of us will
understand (and we'll get a good laugh out of it, too!).

Give it a shot!

;^)

Au revoir,

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Re: [CentOS] cron job not working

[Al Sparks]

The crond itself is being run as root.

I am running the cron job as another user that has permission to run
cron jobs.

Note that if I change the program to print output to STOUT and run
through cron, I get an email in that account with that output.

=== Al



- Original Message 
From: bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: CentOS mailing list 
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 4:25:23 PM
Subject: RE: [CentOS] cron job not working

hey al...

what are the privs that the cron is being run as. the cron should be root.
what are the acls for the dir that you're writing to??

it's probably a simple priv/acl issue



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Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 5:01 PM
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Subject: [CentOS] cron job not working


Here's a perl script that works when I run it manually.  But when I
run it via cron, it won't create the directory.  But worse than that,
an email isn't sent to the account running the job.  So I'm not
getting an error, but it does work when I run it manually.

If I put an obvious error in the script, cron does generate an
email giving me the STDERR.

What could it be?
=== Al

#!/usr/bin/perl

($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time);

# Above functions, "time" and "localtime", return weird $year and $month
# Need to be converted to become human readable

$year = $year + 1900;
$mon = $mon + 1;

# Want $mday and $mon to be 2 digits, with leading zero if necessary

$mday = "0" . $mday if $mday < 10;
$mon = "0" . $mon if $mon < 10;

# Second parameter is mask in octal

chdir "/ora-local/db-test-backups";
mkdir "${year}_${mon}_${mday}", \00022;
End perl script

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Re: [CentOS] cron job not working

[Al Sparks]

> Probably a permissions problem, as has been noted. What I can't
> understand is how the problem came to be so complicated. This,
> run as a root cron job, will produce the desired directory:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> mkdir -p /ora-local/db-test-backups/`date +%Y"_"%m"_"%d`
> 
> ...without the adjustments in the perl script.  AAMOF, it's even
> simpler if you can tolerate hyphen separators rather than
> underscores. (date +%F)

I'll give that a shot.  Note that I have not been running this as root
(though crond is running as root).

Most of the time, if it's a permissions problem, crond will send an
email telling me it's a permissions problem.
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Re: [CentOS] Installing & activating mysql in CentOS 5

[Niki Kovacs]

MHR a écrit :


Oh, I don't know - if you say it in French, only a few of us will
understand (and we'll get a good laugh out of it, too!).

Give it a shot!



Graphical frontends for MySQL?

Saloperie de bordel à cul de pompe à merde.

Was I graphical enough?

:o)

Niki

PS: My wife's boss, who is a faithful Christian from Marseilles, uses to 
yell "Sainte-Pépone de la désolation!" on similar occasions. Which is 
way less offensive language.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS on Eee PC 1000H

[Niki Kovacs]

Sven a écrit :

Hi folks

Anybody running CentOS on Eee PC 1000H? In CentOS wiki[0] there is a 
draft about Eee PC 900 from Fabian Arrotin. Does the same howto work for 
Eee PC 1000H?




Dunno, but I successfully managed to install CentOS 5.2 on a similar 
piece of hardware, the MSI Wind U100 netbook. Here's how:


http://www.microlinux.fr/article.php3?id_article=47

There's quite some hacking involved, but once it's on the hardware, it's 
a real pleasure. I didn't quite succeed yet in configuring the wireless 
card, but I'm working at it.


Niki
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS on Eee PC 1000H

[Marcus Moeller]

Dear Niki

>> Anybody running CentOS on Eee PC 1000H? In CentOS wiki[0] there is a draft
>> about Eee PC 900 from Fabian Arrotin. Does the same howto work for Eee PC
>> 1000H?
>>
>
> Dunno, but I successfully managed to install CentOS 5.2 on a similar piece
> of hardware, the MSI Wind U100 netbook. Here's how:
>
> http://www.microlinux.fr/article.php3?id_article=47
>
> There's quite some hacking involved, but once it's on the hardware, it's a
> real pleasure. I didn't quite succeed yet in configuring the wireless card,
> but I'm working at it.

If you could translate this How To to English it would be great if you
could promote it on the -docs ML and the wiki.

Best Regards
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[CentOS] Sierrawireless 597c

[Terry Polzin]

Anyone on the list been able to get one of these to be seen by usb as a modem?

lsusb lists it incorrectly, but I can manually load the sierra and usbserial 
modules.  Me thinks they aren't quite up to support for this device yet,

Thanks for any input,

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Re: [CentOS] please help LVM totally messed up

[Stephen Harris]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:30:45PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I accidentally deleted a LVM volume directly (rm /dev/System/newcpanel) and
> now my LVM's are all messed up.

You might find that /dev/System/newcpanel was merely a symlink to
/dev/mapper/System-newcpanel

If the /dev/mapper entries exists, you can try recreating the symlink.

Otherwise you could try deactivation and reactiving the System volume
group ("vgchange -a n System", "vgchange -a y System").

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Re: [CentOS] Installing & activating mysql in CentOS 5

[MHR]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Graphical frontends for MySQL?
>
> Saloperie de bordel à cul de pompe à merde.
>
> Was I graphical enough?
>

Bien sur!  ROTFLMAO!

> PS: My wife's boss, who is a faithful Christian from Marseilles, uses to
> yell "Sainte-Pépone de la désolation!" on similar occasions. Which is way
> less offensive language.

And just as funny!

Have you ever seen the English subtitled version of "La Cage Aux
Folles?"  It was rated PG, I think (snicker).

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS on Eee PC 1000H

[Niki Kovacs]

Marcus Moeller a écrit :

If you could translate this How To to English it would be great if you
could promote it on the -docs ML and the wiki.


I'll see what I can do. But I haven't finished yet: there's still the 
wireless card to configure...


Niki
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Re: [CentOS] Installing & activating mysql in CentOS 5

[Niki Kovacs]

MHR a écrit :


Have you ever seen the English subtitled version of "La Cage Aux
Folles?"  It was rated PG, I think (snicker).




When Pulp Fiction came out, I saw it in a small cinema in Montpellier, 
in english with French subtitles. There's a scene where Bruce Willis is 
yelling:


- Jesus Christ!

And the french subtitle for that exclamation:

- Bordel de merde!



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[CentOS] Setting VNC console port in virt-install

[David Dyer-Bennet]

Using Centos 5.2 with Xen.  I'm making a group of nodes behind an LVS
load-director to perform computing services.  Those nodes are only
accessible from the LVS nodes (I'm using LVS NAT mode).  Actually it's Xen
virtual servers on the physical nodes behind the LVS boxes that I'm mostly
concerned with.

When you create a guest with virt-install, there's a vnc param and a
vncport param, but setting vncport doesn't seem to cause the vnc console
to actually appear on the specified port.  The config file written by
virt-install in /etc/xen doesn't contain the vnc port information.

How do I control what port the VNC console is presented on?

I need to make these appear at stable port numbers, because to make the
systems manageable from outside the LVS, I'm going to create tunnels on
the LVS that go to specific system consoles.  To set that up obviously the
destination ports need to be somehow known, and since they're on different
systems, anything other than simply configuring them to be in stable
places is going to get complicated and hence unreliable.  (The people
maintaining the software on the systems behind the LVS won't be the same
people in charge of the LVS, and some of them won't even know anything
about Linux or Xen, just Windows.)

Yes, I also asked on the Xen list; not sure how much what I see as Xen is
actually basic Xen and how much is Centos, and the documentation I'm using
to do this is all the Centos stuff so I figured I should ask here.

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[CentOS] Installing & activating mysql in CentOS 5

[R P Herrold]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote:


Steve Huff wrote:


On Sep 17, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Andrew Allen wrote:


documentation on this anywhere?  Also, what's the current 
opinion/ advice on a graphical user interface for mysql 
please?


advice: don't to it; opinion? phpMyAdmin is a steenkin' mess 
of pottage, and has been for years



it's hard to go wrong with phpMyAdmin (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/),
which you can get from RPMforge.


'hard to go wrong'? -- it is hard to go with with it, I think. 
the 'mysql' command line works fine here



Even that won't work without installing the server component of mysql,
which is in the mysql-server package. And giving the security track
record of phpMyAdmin, I'd rather stay away from that.


concur

this week's crop of bugs in phpMyAdmin noted:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462430

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Re: [CentOS] java yum problem

[David Miller]

>
>
> Sounds like my own brain. It works when I find the right pieces. I found
> this little gem on the web, it's a script to do all of that rpm
> rebuilding. Rather than take up bandwidth, if someone wants me to attach
> it to them to look at, I'd be glad to. It looks pretty simple and might
> actually be of use to folks. Ric
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We used this - worked like a charm:

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Re: [CentOS] please help LVM totally messed up

[Rudi Ahlers]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:30:45PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I accidentally deleted a LVM volume directly (rm /dev/System/newcpanel)
> and
> > now my LVM's are all messed up.
>
> You might find that /dev/System/newcpanel was merely a symlink to
> /dev/mapper/System-newcpanel
>
> If the /dev/mapper entries exists, you can try recreating the symlink.
>
> Otherwise you could try deactivation and reactiving the System volume
> group ("vgchange -a n System", "vgchange -a y System").
>
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> rgds
> Stephen
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Both the symlink, and the actual file / device was missing, but I've been
able to rename newcpanel to oldcpanel - yet I still can't remove it.


[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# pvscan
  PV /dev/md1   VG System   lvm2 [148.94 GB / 21.91 GB free]
  Total: 1 [148.94 GB] / in use: 1 [148.94 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lvscan
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/root' [10.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/swap' [4.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/pluto' [50.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/home' [10.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/data' [20.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/andrew_vmswap' [1.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/andrew_rootimg' [5.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/keith_vmswap' [1.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/keith_rootimg' [5.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/12_vmswap' [1.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/12_rootimg' [5.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE   Original '/dev/System/wiseguy_rootimg' [10.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/System/wiseguy' [5.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE   Snapshot '/dev/System/oldcpanel' [32.00 MB] inherit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lvre
lvreduce  lvremove  lvrename  lvresize
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lvremove /dev/System/oldcpanel
  Can't remove open logical volume "oldcpanel"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lvremove /dev/System/wiseguy_rootimg
  Can't remove logical volume "wiseguy_rootimg" under snapshot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#


As you can see the System Volume Group is the main VG with root as well -
so, what will happen when I deactive & reactive System while the server is
running?


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Re: [CentOS] Setting VNC console port in virt-install

[David Dyer-Bennet]

On Wed, September 17, 2008 14:28, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

> How do I control what port the VNC console is presented on?

I got an answer over on the Xen-users list, which I'm echoing here in case
anybody else now or in the future cares, and in hopes that nobody spends
any time looking for an answer now that I've got one.

The parameter vncdisplay in the /etc/xen/* file for the domain specifies
the VNC display number; the port is 5900 + vncdisplay.   Also, I didn't
know that the xmexamples.hvm file in that directory was a commented
example config file, or I might have found this there myself.
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Re: [CentOS] buying the right cpu fan

[Nifty Cluster Mitch]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 03:51:17PM -0700, MHR wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > (I sent this yesterday but it never made it through)
> >
> > I've got a remote system where I think I need to replace the CPU fan.
> >
> 
> Then why do I get the feeling that it is still Monday?  Or the
> foreboding sense of deja vu?
> 
> ;^)
> 
> It was here, and answered, yesterday - look it up.
> 

It was answered

One addition to the answer is to inspect "dmidecode" output.
It is possible that there is enough vendor info (including serial numbers)
to communicate with the vendor for the correct replacement part.



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[CentOS] Strange browser displays with 5.x on Dell GX-260

[Dick Roth]

I had been running CentOS 4.x for quite some time with no problems. 
Apparently I stubbed my toe when installing CentOS 5 final.


Symptoms:  various web sites are not properly displayed in Firefox 3.0.1 
(or predecessors).  In particular, cnn.com and any calls to Google 
display with a screen full of ascii characters rather than images.  When 
I look at "page info" within Firefox, it shows "quirk" mode rendering 
rather than "standards compliant" mode.


BTW, I'm running the same version (in fact, using the same DVD iso) on 
my home machine, a Gigabyte system I've cobble up, with no such problem.


Any ideas out there?

Thanks,
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[CentOS] Run a more recent kernel than 2.6.18 on CentOS?

[Niki Kovacs]

Hi,

Usually I'm not one to complain about "old" version of the CentOS kernel 
and/or software, since I appreciate CentOS' stability. So this might be 
the exception that confirms the rule. I've been jumping through several 
burning loops these past days to configure my little MSI Wind netbook, 
and I'm currently considering going for a more recent kernel. There's no 
way the Ralink driver for the wireless card will build on an older 
kernel than 2.6.22, apparently.


I'm prepared to do some tinkering, but in the meanwhile, can you give 
some basic recommendations or caveats? This is not our production 
database server, so it's not a big deal if it's a little bit less stable.


What i naively plan to do: get a kernel SRPM from Fedora 9, try to build 
from there, and see where it leads. I think I'm going to give it a shot 
in VirtualBox first. But then, maybe one of you has already gone that 
path and can tell me if I have to expect something trivial or an 
experience of the hair-pulling type.


Cheers,

Niki

PS: with similar requests, folks usually suggest I run Fedora. So let me 
state: I like CentOS. I don't want to run Fedora.

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Re: [CentOS] Run a more recent kernel than 2.6.18 on CentOS?

[Florin Andrei]

Niki Kovacs wrote:

Hi,

Usually I'm not one to complain about "old" version of the CentOS kernel 
and/or software, since I appreciate CentOS' stability. So this might be 
the exception that confirms the rule.


It's not the end of the world. I've a server with a whole bunch of 
various services, running CentOS 5.2 x86_64 and a custom kernel, because 
the network card is not supported by the original kernel. It's rock solid.


What i naively plan to do: get a kernel SRPM from Fedora 9, try to build 
from there, and see where it leads.


Nah.
Get the vanilla kernel tarball.
Apply the mkspec patch. (*)
Get the .config file from the CentOS kernel (see /boot).
Use that config file to do a "make oldconfig" in the vanilla kernel 
source tree. This will import most settings from the original CentOS kernel.
Now do a "make menuconfig" and peruse the config items. Make sure it's 
not missing important stuff.

Now do "make rpm".
Voila, you've got a kernel rpm that's pretty similar to CentOS, only newer.

(*) - without the mkspec patch, the rpm will be pretty generic. The 
CentOS/Redhat kernel rpm has a few more features that you need. This 
patch adds them. See the file attached to this message.


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--- linux-2.6.23.1.orig/scripts/package/mkspec  2007-10-19 02:07:58.0 
-0700
+++ linux-2.6.23.1/scripts/package/mkspec   2007-10-19 05:42:47.0 
-0700
@@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ echo 'cp $KBUILD_IMAGE $RPM_BUILD_ROOT'"
 echo "%endif"
 echo "%endif"
 
+if $RPM_RH5_STYLE; then
+echo 'touch $RPM_BUILD_ROOT'"/boot/initrd-$KERNELRELEASE.img"
+echo 'gzip -c9 < Module.symvers > 
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT'"/boot/symvers-$KERNELRELEASE.gz"
+fi
+
 echo 'cp System.map $RPM_BUILD_ROOT'"/boot/System.map-$KERNELRELEASE"
 
 echo 'cp .config $RPM_BUILD_ROOT'"/boot/config-$KERNELRELEASE"
@@ -88,9 +93,44 @@ echo ""
 echo "%clean"
 echo '#echo -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT'
 echo ""
+
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Re: [CentOS] Run a more recent kernel than 2.6.18 on CentOS?

[Florin Andrei]

Florin Andrei wrote:

Get the vanilla kernel tarball.
Apply the mkspec patch. (*)


Now do this:

export RPM_RH5_STYLE=1

Otherwise the patch is pointless.

Or hack the patch and remove the "if $RPM_RH5_STYLE; then" conditionals 
so it's always generated "RH5 style".



Get the .config file from the CentOS kernel (see /boot).
Use that config file to do a "make oldconfig" in the vanilla kernel 
source tree. This will import most settings from the original CentOS 
kernel.
Now do a "make menuconfig" and peruse the config items. Make sure it's 
not missing important stuff.

Now do "make rpm".
Voila, you've got a kernel rpm that's pretty similar to CentOS, only newer.

(*) - without the mkspec patch, the rpm will be pretty generic. The 
CentOS/Redhat kernel rpm has a few more features that you need. This 
patch adds them. See the file attached to this message.





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Re: [CentOS] Run a more recent kernel than 2.6.18 on CentOS?

[Akemi Yagi]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Usually I'm not one to complain about "old" version of the CentOS kernel
> and/or software, since I appreciate CentOS' stability. So this might be the
> exception that confirms the rule. I've been jumping through several burning
> loops these past days to configure my little MSI Wind netbook, and I'm
> currently considering going for a more recent kernel. There's no way the
> Ralink driver for the wireless card will build on an older kernel than
> 2.6.22, apparently.
>
(snip)
> I'm prepared to do some tinkering, but in the meanwhile, can you give some
> basic recommendations or caveats? This is not our production database
> server, so it's not a big deal if it's a little bit less stable.

> Niki
>
> PS: with similar requests, folks usually suggest I run Fedora. So let me
> state: I like CentOS. I don't want to run Fedora.

There is a CentOS kernel 2.6.24 for testing purposes built by Johnny
Hughes.  Take a look at this forum thread for details:

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11583&forum=45&post_id=54048#forumpost54048

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[CentOS] Need help with Wine

[Sadaruwan Samaraweera]

Hi,

I've two questions,

   1. Is it OK to use wine on CentOS 5.2 x86_64 ?
   2. If it's OK then is there a possibility that virus's that infect
   windows based system to attack my CentOS or any other Linux system thats
   running Wine?

Please help me.

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Re: [CentOS] Run a more recent kernel than 2.6.18 on CentOS?

[Robert Moskowitz]

Akemi Yagi wrote:

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  

Hi,

Usually I'm not one to complain about "old" version of the CentOS kernel
and/or software, since I appreciate CentOS' stability. So this might be the
exception that confirms the rule. I've been jumping through several burning
loops these past days to configure my little MSI Wind netbook, and I'm
currently considering going for a more recent kernel. There's no way the
Ralink driver for the wireless card will build on an older kernel than
2.6.22, apparently.



(snip)
  

I'm prepared to do some tinkering, but in the meanwhile, can you give some
basic recommendations or caveats? This is not our production database
server, so it's not a big deal if it's a little bit less stable.



  

Niki

PS: with similar requests, folks usually suggest I run Fedora. So let me
state: I like CentOS. I don't want to run Fedora.



There is a CentOS kernel 2.6.24 for testing purposes built by Johnny
Hughes.  Take a look at this forum thread for details:

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11583&forum=45&post_id=54048#forumpost54048


Oh, why couldn't it be 2.6.27. Then I would have the patch I need?

But then, reading up on this kernel, my other drivers like dkms probably 
won't work.






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Re: [CentOS] Strange browser displays with 5.x on Dell GX-260

[Lanny Marcus]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Dick Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had been running CentOS 4.x for quite some time with no problems.
> Apparently I stubbed my toe when installing CentOS 5 final.
>
> Symptoms:  various web sites are not properly displayed in Firefox 3.0.1 (or
> predecessors).  In particular, cnn.com and any calls to Google display with
> a screen full of ascii characters rather than images.  When I look at "page
> info" within Firefox, it shows "quirk" mode rendering rather than "standards
> compliant" mode.
>
> BTW, I'm running the same version (in fact, using the same DVD iso) on my
> home machine, a Gigabyte system I've cobble up, with no such problem.
>
> Any ideas out there?

Only a "WAG". I'm using Firefox 3.0.1 on CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) and just
looked at CNN (International and U.S. versions), with, as you see
at home, no problem(s). Possibly a Graphics issue? Did you "Upgrade"
from CentOS 4.x to 5 or did you do a "Clean" install?  BTW, I had
issues with Firefox 2.x, with Gmail.com for example, that went away,
after I upgraded to CentOS 5.2 and got Firefox 3.x.  I think there
were major library changes, from CentOS 4.x to 5.0 and if you
Upgraded, something may be awry. Possibly remove Firefox and then
install again, in case something is corrupted. GL
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[CentOS] CentOS automount 99% CPU utilization -- NFSv3 vs NFSv4?

[Blond Beer]

I have several CentOS 5.2 workstations in a Sun Solaris NIS domain and
Solaris NFS servers (all Solaris 8).  Frequently the auto mounter hangs with
very high utilization -- I think it might be due to the Solaris 8 servers
only using NFSv3 and the CentOS wanting to use NFSv4.  How can I set the
system to use NFSv3 globally, even for auto mount maps from my ancient
Solaris NIS domain (which I wold like to upgrade, but that's another
story...)
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Re: [CentOS] Need help with Wine

[郷古 直仁]

Hi, 

I'm using wine on CentOS 5.2 x86_64 desktop.
(application IE4Linux, some editor, Inno setup, etc.)

  1. you must install wine.i386 and dependent i386 package.
 because windows DLL is almost 32bit.
 (if you want to exec 32bit windows application)

  2. yes. It is not in the centos area, and can be infected with the area of 
wine. 
 but I have not tested.



 
08/09/18 (木曜日) 11：41AM、 "Sadaruwan Samaraweera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>のメッセージ：
>Hi,
>
>I've two questions,
>
>   1. Is it OK to use wine on CentOS 5.2 x86_64 ?
>   2. If it's OK then is there a possibility that virus's that infect
>   windows based system to attack my CentOS or any other Linux system thats
>   running Wine?
>
>Please help me.
>
>Thank you
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>

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Re: [CentOS] Strange browser displays with 5.x on Dell GX-260

[Dick Roth]

Lanny Marcus wrote:

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Dick Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I had been running CentOS 4.x for quite some time with no problems.
Apparently I stubbed my toe when installing CentOS 5 final.

Symptoms:  various web sites are not properly displayed in Firefox 3.0.1 (or
predecessors).  In particular, cnn.com and any calls to Google display with
a screen full of ascii characters rather than images.  When I look at "page
info" within Firefox, it shows "quirk" mode rendering rather than "standards
compliant" mode.

BTW, I'm running the same version (in fact, using the same DVD iso) on my
home machine, a Gigabyte system I've cobble up, with no such problem.

Any ideas out there?


Only a "WAG". I'm using Firefox 3.0.1 on CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) and just
looked at CNN (International and U.S. versions), with, as you see
at home, no problem(s). Possibly a Graphics issue? Did you "Upgrade"
from CentOS 4.x to 5 or did you do a "Clean" install?  BTW, I had
issues with Firefox 2.x, with Gmail.com for example, that went away,
after I upgraded to CentOS 5.2 and got Firefox 3.x.  I think there
were major library changes, from CentOS 4.x to 5.0 and if you
Upgraded, something may be awry. Possibly remove Firefox and then
install again, in case something is corrupted. GL
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This was a clean install, however I kept my /home directory intact.  The 
rest of the partitions were reformatted.


Dick


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