Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

[David Suhendrik]

Still waiting for DVD 5.4 64 bit


Regards,
David

./nobody


mark wrote:
> Robert wrote:
>   
>> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> 
>>> Matt wrote:
>>>   
 On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM,  wrote:
 
 
> I admit I wasn't following the screaming and yelling about 5.4, so
> excuse  me if this has been answered
>
> My boss tells me he wants me to start rolling out 5.4. I want to d/l &
> burn a DVD... but when I looked at a number of mirrors, the .iso is from
> 1 Oct, while the CD .iso's are from the 14th... yet 5.4 was officially
> announced the other day.
>
> Am I missing something, or do the mirrors have a pre-release DVD .iso,
> with no fixes in the last three weeks, or ...?
>   
>   
 The dates are likely based on when the ISO was actually created.
 Therefore, if the ISO was generated on Oct. 1st and no issues were found
 
>>> with it in
>>>   
>>>   
 QA, then the date you are seeing on the mirrors is correct.  The ISOs are
 based on the original 5.4 tree and don't include updates that Red Hat 
 released
 after the initial release of RHEL 5.4.
 
 
>>> But why are the 7-iso set of CD's from two weeks later? Or is it just that
>>> folks felt that building those was more important than rebuilding the DVD
>>> version?
>>>   
>>>   
>> Dates aside, the official Release Notes at
>> http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4 contains
>> checksums for each of the isos.  It seems to me that you should
>> be able to apply those md5 and sha1 sums to the DVD.iso file, no
>> matter the source, and be reasonably comfortable with the result.
>> 
>
> Already did all that - I was trying to minimize updates, since we'll be using 
> the DVD for a while
>
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Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

[mark]

Robert wrote:
> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> Matt wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM,  wrote:
>>> 
 I admit I wasn't following the screaming and yelling about 5.4, so
 excuse  me if this has been answered

 My boss tells me he wants me to start rolling out 5.4. I want to d/l &
 burn a DVD... but when I looked at a number of mirrors, the .iso is from
 1 Oct, while the CD .iso's are from the 14th... yet 5.4 was officially
 announced the other day.

 Am I missing something, or do the mirrors have a pre-release DVD .iso,
 with no fixes in the last three weeks, or ...?
   
>>> The dates are likely based on when the ISO was actually created.
>>> Therefore, if the ISO was generated on Oct. 1st and no issues were found
>> with it in
>>   
>>> QA, then the date you are seeing on the mirrors is correct.  The ISOs are
>>> based on the original 5.4 tree and don't include updates that Red Hat 
>>> released
>>> after the initial release of RHEL 5.4.
>>> 
>> But why are the 7-iso set of CD's from two weeks later? Or is it just that
>> folks felt that building those was more important than rebuilding the DVD
>> version?
>>   
> Dates aside, the official Release Notes at
> http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4 contains
> checksums for each of the isos.  It seems to me that you should
> be able to apply those md5 and sha1 sums to the DVD.iso file, no
> matter the source, and be reasonably comfortable with the result.

Already did all that - I was trying to minimize updates, since we'll be using 
the DVD for a while

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Re: [CentOS] Upgrading CentOS 5.3 from local mirror

[John R Pierce]

Jonathan Moore wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Rob Kampen  
> wrote:
>   
>> Try this
>> http://www.howtoforge.com/creating_a_local_yum_repository_centos
>> 
>
> What I was really looking for was a little more detail on exactly what
> I *must* have from the mirror to successfully upgrade.
>
> Would excluding everything up to the 5.4 folder be enough?  Do I need
> 5.3, 5.2 etc to upgrade?
>   

you need the /5.4/ directory and the /5/ symlink.   everything else 
under /5.*/ are place holders with a readme file.

you can exclude the SRPM directories if you want to save space and 
transfer time.


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Re: [CentOS] Upgrading CentOS 5.3 from local mirror

[Jonathan Moore]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Rob Kampen  wrote:
> Try this
> http://www.howtoforge.com/creating_a_local_yum_repository_centos

What I was really looking for was a little more detail on exactly what
I *must* have from the mirror to successfully upgrade.

Would excluding everything up to the 5.4 folder be enough?  Do I need
5.3, 5.2 etc to upgrade?

On a side not, is there anything like apt-cacher for yum?

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Re: [CentOS] MAC address generating script

[Lincoln Zuljewic Silva]

I didn't test it: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=451219

Source: 
"http://www.google.com.br/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_pt-BRBR323BR323&ie=UTF-8&q=generate+mac+address";

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Eugeneapolinary Ju
 wrote:
> ust can't find a script that generates a valid MAC address :S
>
> Has anyone has one?
>
> thank you
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Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems

[William L. Maltby]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 15:25 -0700, nate wrote:
> 

> I don't use CentOS as a desktop but this still may be of use...
> 
> On both my win32 and my debian systems that use firefox I use the
> prefbar extension which has an option to enable/disable flash, I
> usually keep it off unless I need it but it seems to unload the
> module on the fly(doesn't show up in about:plugins), and from what
> I can see it renames the file. I don't know if renaming the file
> is enough, but you may be able to restart the flash plugin
> dynamically without restarting the browser with this(or perhaps
> another) extension.

I just have it disabled normally click Tools->Add-ons at the start of
the day. If I'm going to paly something I - and either 
(I'm already positioned ther) or -.

Disable is the same, but - or  to disable.

It's nice because if you forget to do beorehand, just refresh the screen
after and it acts like you didn't forget.

I like this because it's one less thing from the outside world I have to
keep track of or update, etc.

> 
> Real handy for when flash holds onto my audio card preventing other
> apps from using it, hit the checkbox and it kills flash without
> causing instability in the browser.
> 
> nate
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[CentOS] MAC address generating script

[Eugeneapolinary Ju]

ust can't find a script that generates a valid MAC address :S

Has anyone has one?

thank you


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Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems

[Bart Schaefer]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:08 PM, MHR  wrote:
>
> But I also am now seeing a problem that was not showing up before,
> similar to one I've had with SeaMonkey for a long time.  After some
> period of time, all of my Firefox windows stop showing flash videos
> properly and I get long periods of silence interpsersed with bursts of
> high-speed sound (noise, actually), or the video just stops a few
> seconds in.  I don't think this is a CentOS problem per se, and I have
> posted about it here before, just usually in reference to SM, not FF.

I've had problems of this sort with the mplayerplug-in occasionally.
In my case it usually means something has grabbed the sound device and
then gotten stuck -- I often have to quit and restart firefox and/or
use "ps" from a shell to find and kill off a rogue mplayer.
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Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems

[nate]

MHR wrote:

> Of course, now that I'm using FF more for flash (because it works
> better than SM for that and I rarely keep FF windows open long enough
> to see this), it happens more frequently.

I don't use CentOS as a desktop but this still may be of use...

On both my win32 and my debian systems that use firefox I use the
prefbar extension which has an option to enable/disable flash, I
usually keep it off unless I need it but it seems to unload the
module on the fly(doesn't show up in about:plugins), and from what
I can see it renames the file. I don't know if renaming the file
is enough, but you may be able to restart the flash plugin
dynamically without restarting the browser with this(or perhaps
another) extension.

Real handy for when flash holds onto my audio card preventing other
apps from using it, hit the checkbox and it kills flash without
causing instability in the browser.

nate


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Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems

[MHR]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:16 PM, John R Pierce  wrote:
> Ron Blizzard wrote:
>> Same here -- painless upgrade and everything is working fine.
>>
>> ~]$ rpm -qa | grep firefox
>> firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos
>>
>
> Installed Packages
> firefox.i386
> 3.0.12-1.el5.centos                                             installed
> firefox.x86_64
> 3.0.12-1.el5.centos                                             installed
> #
>
> this is x86_64 centos5.4 freshly yum updated from centos 5.3 freshly
> installed using the network install ISO
>

Interesting - I have this after the upgrade:

firefox.i386   3.0.14-1.el5.centos installed
firefox.x86_64 3.0.14-1.el5.centos installed

But I also am now seeing a problem that was not showing up before,
similar to one I've had with SeaMonkey for a long time.  After some
period of time, all of my Firefox windows stop showing flash videos
properly and I get long periods of silence interpsersed with bursts of
high-speed sound (noise, actually), or the video just stops a few
seconds in.  I don't think this is a CentOS problem per se, and I have
posted about it here before, just usually in reference to SM, not FF.

Of course, now that I'm using FF more for flash (because it works
better than SM for that and I rarely keep FF windows open long enough
to see this), it happens more frequently.

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Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems

[John R Pierce]

Ron Blizzard wrote:
> Same here -- painless upgrade and everything is working fine.
>
> ~]$ rpm -qa | grep firefox
> firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos
>   

huh.  something sketchy happening on my centos5 test system, then...


# yum clean all
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Cleaning up Everything
Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors

# yum list firefox
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Determining fastest mirrors
 * addons: mirrors.netdna.com
 * base: mirrors.kernel.org
 * extras: mirror.san.fastserv.com
* updates: mirrors.netdna.com
addons  
 
|  951 B 00:00
addons/primary  
 
|  203 B 00:00
base
 
| 2.1 kB 00:00
base/primary_db 
 
| 2.0 MB 00:03
extras  
 
| 1.1 kB 00:00
extras/primary  
 
| 110 kB 00:00
extras  

288/288
updates 
 
|  951 B 00:00
updates/primary 
 
|  204 B 00:00
Installed Packages
firefox.i386   
3.0.12-1.el5.centos installed
firefox.x86_64 
3.0.12-1.el5.centos installed
#


this is x86_64 centos5.4 freshly yum updated from centos 5.3 freshly 
installed using the network install ISO


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Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems

[Ron Blizzard]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Ryan Pugatch  wrote:
> Alan McKay wrote:
>> In addition to frequent Firefox crashes (4 or 5 a day, zero before the
>> upgrade from 5.3) I'm also having Amarok crash 2 or 3 times a day.
>>
>> And suddenly the bar at the bottom disappeared - with the 4 screens,
>> the clock, menu and so on.
>>
>> H ... methinks it may finally be time to change my desktop to FC
>> and stick with Centos on my servers.
>>
>
> FWIW, I upgraded from 5.3 on my desktop machine and I have no problems
> with Firefox.
>
> ~ $ rpm -q firefox
> firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos

Same here -- painless upgrade and everything is working fine.

~]$ rpm -qa | grep firefox
firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos

Is it possible that there is some kind of video driver issue?

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Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems

[Ryan Pugatch]

Alan McKay wrote:
> In addition to frequent Firefox crashes (4 or 5 a day, zero before the
> upgrade from 5.3) I'm also having Amarok crash 2 or 3 times a day.
> 
> And suddenly the bar at the bottom disappeared - with the 4 screens,
> the clock, menu and so on.
> 
> H ... methinks it may finally be time to change my desktop to FC
> and stick with Centos on my servers.
> 

FWIW, I upgraded from 5.3 on my desktop machine and I have no problems 
with Firefox.

~ $ rpm -q firefox
firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos


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[CentOS] more 5.4 problems

[Alan McKay]

In addition to frequent Firefox crashes (4 or 5 a day, zero before the
upgrade from 5.3) I'm also having Amarok crash 2 or 3 times a day.

And suddenly the bar at the bottom disappeared - with the 4 screens,
the clock, menu and so on.

H ... methinks it may finally be time to change my desktop to FC
and stick with Centos on my servers.

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Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

[Alan McKay]

> I took a look and I think it requires software running on
> each guest to report the data back to the centralized
> system.  Is that correct?

Yes

> If so, I am looking for a solution that does not require
> any software on the guest machines.

Oh well, it is not for you then.  But it is a pretty sweet system for
monitoring your boxes - easy to write your own plugins so the only
limit is your imagination.


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Re: [CentOS] prioritizing repos

[Brian Kirkman]

ken wrote:
> On 10/23/2009 10:22 AM Sharon Kimble wrote:
>>
>> 2009/10/23 Ralph Angenendt > >
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, ken > > wrote:
>> > mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving
>> problems
>>
>> freshrpms has no packages for CentOS. And never had.
>>
>>
>> Thats a fedora core 6 rpm which maybe the reason why its not working
>> properly.
>>
>> ...
> 
> Hmmm.  Okay.  Too bad.  Thanks for the explanation.  However, I did
> successfully install gnumeric using yum from an RPM I got from
> freshrpms... a fluke, I guess.
> 
> But so mplayer isn't available from CentOS?
> 
> I was just looking at a way to prioritize repos so that freshrpms is at
> the bottom, i.e., so that it's sought only as a last resort:
> .  But the page
> doesn't quite get me all the way.  How do I add an entry for freshrpms
> to /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo so I can specify a low priority for it?
> 
> 
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Ken,
You should have a freshrpms.repo file, or something similar, within the 
/etc/yum.repos.d/ directory.  Yum looks for all *.repo files and pulls 
from the repos listed within those files.  Within each individual repo 
file is where you would designate the priority for it.  You wont need to 
alter /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo to alter the priority for 
freshrpms.  Might I suggest the rpmforge repo instead?  Check out the 
following.

http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge#head-20e1f65f19ccf2f5fbf5adb30dbaf5ea963a64ae

Others might disagree, but I've had good luck with rpmforge.

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Re: [CentOS] Need some help with logwatch.

[James B. Byrne]

lists-centos wrote:
> Do you really have the comment on the line with the command in the
> second one? That's not allowed, and will mess things up, see the
> crontab(5) man page - second paragraph under "description". 
> 
> If you have that comment there it's hard to tell exactly what will
> happen in terms of addressing.
> 
> - Rick
> 

Regardless of what the man page says in practice bash treats everything 
after a # as a comment.  Most of my crontab entries on various hosts 
have comments appended and they all work, for example this one from host3:

45 7 * * * /usr/sbin/logwatch --service http --service imapd --service 
pop3 --service sshd --service vsftpd --service zz-disk_space --mailto 
supp...@harte-lyne.ca #Daily Logwatch report on server access services.

In any case, removing the comment from the crontab entry on the host in 
question does not change the behaviour. The logwatch report is still 
mailed to r...@host2.harte-lyne.ca

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Re: [CentOS] Need some help with logwatch.

[Andrew Hull]

James B. Byrne wrote:
> host1 crontab -l as root
> 
> 45 7 * * * /usr/sbin/logwatch --service http --service imapd
> --service pop3 --service sshd --service vsftpd --service
> zz-disk_space --service zz-network --service zz-sys --mailto
> supp...@harte-lyne.ca
> 
> host2 crontab -l as root
> 
> 45 7 * * * /usr/sbin/logwatch --service http --service imapd
> --service pop3 --service sshd --service vsftpd --service
> zz-disk_space -- service zz-network --service zz-sys --mailto
> supp...@harte-lyne.ca   #Logwatch summary
> 

Hello,
I'm afraid I cannot address your specific question, however this may 
still be helpful...

I recommend moving all of those command line switches from your crontab 
into the config file(s).

The defaults are defined in /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf

The logwatch maintainers intend users to override those defaults in 
/etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf

If you move your customizations to /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf, 
then you can call logwatch without any switches at all.

Also, something I do and find useful is to leave delivery of the 
logwatch emails set to the default - r...@localhost. Then forward root's 
mail to my external sys...@domain account. This way I get any/all system 
generated e-mail to root (like an mdadm failed array event!), not just 
logwatch.

Hope that helps,
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[CentOS] prioritizing repos (was: Re: can't "yum install mplayer" : no libmpcdec.so.3 available)

[ken]

On 10/23/2009 10:22 AM Sharon Kimble wrote:
> 
> 
> 2009/10/23 Ralph Angenendt  >
> 
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, ken  > wrote:
> > mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving
> problems
> 
> freshrpms has no packages for CentOS. And never had.
> 
> 
> Thats a fedora core 6 rpm which maybe the reason why its not working
> properly.
> 
> ...

Hmmm.  Okay.  Too bad.  Thanks for the explanation.  However, I did
successfully install gnumeric using yum from an RPM I got from
freshrpms... a fluke, I guess.

But so mplayer isn't available from CentOS?

I was just looking at a way to prioritize repos so that freshrpms is at
the bottom, i.e., so that it's sought only as a last resort:
.  But the page
doesn't quite get me all the way.  How do I add an entry for freshrpms
to /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo so I can specify a low priority for it?


tia,
ken
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Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4

[John R Pierce]

Marcelo Roccasalva wrote:
> edit /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.14/application.ini (and/or
> /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.14/application.ini), search for Gecko entry and
> replace MinVersion and MaxVersion with 1.9.0.14.
>   

Ahh, Gracias!

in fact, its firefox-3.0.12 I have, and I left MinVersion alone and set 
MaxVersion to 14, and poof, its working


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[CentOS] Need some help with logwatch.

[James B. Byrne]

I am trying to get a logwatch summary emailed to a central address
from a cron job.  The tasd was copied verbatim from a system which
does this already.  Both are shown below.


host1 crontab -l as root

45 7 * * * /usr/sbin/logwatch --service http --service imapd
--service pop3 --service sshd --service vsftpd --service
zz-disk_space --service zz-network --service zz-sys --mailto
supp...@harte-lyne.ca

host2 crontab -l as root

45 7 * * * /usr/sbin/logwatch --service http --service imapd
--service pop3 --service sshd --service vsftpd --service
zz-disk_space -- service zz-network --service zz-sys --mailto
supp...@harte-lyne.ca   #Logwatch summary


My problem is that only the first gets delivered to
supp...@harte-lyne.ca.  The second gets delivered to
r...@host2.harte-lyne.ca and not to support. It has been a
considerable time since I dealt with logwatch on the first machine
and I cannot remember is there was any special configuration of
logwatch itself to enable this to happen.  Does anyone know what I
might be overlooking?

The curious thing is that if I cut and paste the host2 cron job
entry into a terminal window that is logged in as root on host2 then
the logwatch report goes to support as I intend.



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Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

[Mathew S. McCarrell]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Ian Murray  wrote:

>
> >The dates are likely based on when the ISO was actually created.
>  Therefore, if the ISO was generated on Oct. 1st and no issues were found
> with it in QA, then the date you are seeing on the mirrors is correct.  The
> ISOs are based on the original 5.4 tree and don't include updates that Red
> Hat released after the initial release of RHEL 5.4.
>
> As far as I remember, some subsequent RH updates are rolled-into the CentOS
> release. Someone more familiar with the build process may clarify that.
>
>
>
You could be right.  I didn't think they were but I'm not incredibly
familiar with the entire rebuild process.

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Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

[Christoph Maser]

Am Freitag, den 23.10.2009, 16:37 +0200 schrieb Sergio Belkin:
> 2009/10/23 Benjamin Franz :
> > Sergio Belkin wrote:
> >> 2009/10/23 Scott McClanahan :
> >>
> >>> On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote:
> >>>
>  Hi,
> 
>  Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when
>  using "pidstat -d"?
> 
>  Thanks in advance!
> 
> >>> Is pidstat available in the 5.4 sysstat package or are you deviating
> >>> from the stock sysstat package?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Really I don't know, still I don't test release 5.4 it would be nice
> >> that has it
> > According to the man page for pidstat, 'pidstat -d' only works with
> > 2.6.20 kernels and later. Since pidstat is not installed by the sysstat
> > package for 5.3 (which is what 2.6.18-128.* kernel is from) it is
> > probably a safe assumption that it won't work.
> >
> > --
> > Benjamin Franz
>
> I've found kernel   2.6.18-128 on
> http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS/
>
> I skipped kernel-2.6.18-164.el5, so I ask again: does
> kernel-2.6.18-164.el5 support IO statistic, I already know what man
> page says :)  but I wonder if that kernel has that customization
>
> Thanks in advance!!


It does. As Dag wrote here
http://dag.wieers.com/blog/red-hat-backported-io-accounting-to-rhel5 it
works nice with dstat. I tried it today.

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Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

[Antonio da Silva Martins Junior]

- "Les Mikesell"  escreveu:

> Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> > Matt:
> >  
> >> why not just use your current cacti setup and 
> >> enable snmp on each of the hosts?  That seems like 
> >> the simplest and cheapest approach.
> > 
> > As I understand it, I would actually have to
> > enable snmp on each of the guests, not the hosts.
> > 
> > Am I wrong?
> > 
> 
> Yes - the host would see the total traffic.  The only other way to
> separate it would be something upstream (switch/router, etc.) that knows how 
> to do
> sflow plus a collector device.  These are typically pretty expensive.  For
> some small number of guests it might be cheaper to add NICs to your hosts and
> bridge the guests to individual NICs where you could monitor on either the 
> host
> interface or the connected switch port.  You might be able to simulate this 
> with
> some clever use of vlans but I'm not sure how they interact with the
> virtual nic bridges.

Hum... I haven't tried it myself but maybe it is possible to try on the virtual 
NICs.
The only drawback is that the need to create a way to link the data from the 
vifs to
the corret guest :)

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Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting John R Pierce :

> I just installed 5.3 about a week ago, fairly minimal install, x86_64
> platform...  then upgraded to 5.4 this AM, and just installed firefox
>
> $ sudo yum -y install firefox
> .
> Installed:
>   firefox.i386 0:3.0.12-1.el5.centos   firefox.x86_64
> 0:3.0.12-1.el5.centos
>
> $ firefox
> Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.12 and 1.9.0.12.
>
>
>
> huh?

http://blog.mymediasystem.net/uncategorized/solved-firefox-could-not-find-compatible-gre-after-ubuntu-810-upgrade/

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Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

[Ian Murray]

>The dates are likely based on when the ISO was actually created.  Therefore, 
>if the ISO was generated on Oct. 1st and no issues were found with it in QA, 
>then the date you are seeing on the mirrors is correct.  The ISOs are based on 
>the original 5.4 tree and don't include updates that Red Hat released after 
>the initial release of RHEL 5.4.  

As far as I remember, some subsequent RH updates are rolled-into the CentOS 
release. Someone more familiar with the build process may clarify that.



  
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Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?

[James B. Byrne]

On: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:58:01 -0500, Les Mikesell 
 wrote

> 
> I can't answer your question, but out of curiosity, did you just do a simple 
> yum 
> update or did you follow the procedure in the release notes document?
> 

Since I was unaware that CentOS-5.4 was released I had no reason to look 
for such a document.  I am a digest subscriber and the release 
announcement is contained in the very digest that contains your message.

Therefore the answer is no.  My question is: Given the knowledge I 
possessed, why would I have gone looking for such a document?  Is every 
yum user expected to look for release notes before each and every time 
that they run yum update?

On the other hand, because of yum's apparent inability to clean up after 
itself, I had previously adopted the practice of running yum clean all 
before and after every update, which I did do in this case.

There is a fundamental problem with the software if an automated package 
manager like yum requires both prior external knowledge and manual 
intervention to effect a particular update.  Surely if a yum update set 
contains package dependencies that are sensitive to installation order 
then there should be an automated means to insure that the requisite 
packages are installed in the proper order by the package manager itself 
and not depend on manual intervention.  The current arrangement seems to 
lend itself to unfortunate results.

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Re: [CentOS] Newsletter feedback

[Dan Carl]

Frank Thommen wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
>> We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter [...]
>> 
>
> What newsletter are you referring to?  I cannot find any newsletter 
> offer on centos.org.
>
> frank
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Its in the wiki
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Re: [CentOS] What about port mirroring? (Was: Switch to measure traffic at IP level)

[Les Mikesell]

Neil Aggarwal wrote:
>> yeah, a 1gig port can't handle all the traffic from N 1gig 
>> ports.  heck, 
>> ti can't even handle all the traffic from a single full 
>> duplex connection
> 
> That is a good point.  My traffic is light right now
> so I might be able to use it until the traffic grows.

What kind of internet bandwidth do you have - that's going to be a limiting 
factor anyway.  I've had some trouble keeping ntop running for long intervals 
but there are ways to database collected results so you could restart it 
without 
losing data.  I'm not sure if it has a 95th percentile calculation, but it can 
summarize in a lot of other ways.

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Re: [CentOS] Bypass Hung Applications At Boot So System Can Complete The Boot Process

[Bob Beers]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Kemp, Larry  wrote:
> I have a CentOS system that is hanging at boot. Sendmail takes forever (and a 
> few other apps hang as well...mainly network apps). This has proven in the 
> pas to be a NIC misconfiguration or a network issue. I think that is what it 
> is on this one too. Is there a way when I see an app haning at boot to make 
> the server stop trying to load the hung app and bring the OS up into the GI 
> so that I get to fixing it? Thanks in advance.


During the boot sequence there is a point at which you can enter
 an "I" to begin "Interactive" mode.  From there, you can pick and
 choose which services/daemons to turn on.

HTH,

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Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4

[Marcelo Roccasalva]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:47, John R Pierce  wrote:
> Marcelo Roccasalva wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:21, John R Pierce  wrote:
>>
>>> Could not find compatible GRE between version
>>>
>>
>> As root: "xulrunner --register-global" should do the trick...
>>
>
> thats what google says, but its not working.

Are you running it as root?

>
> I do note my xulrunner is 1.9.0.14, while firefox is complaining about
> 1.9.0.12

edit /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.14/application.ini (and/or
/usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.14/application.ini), search for Gecko entry and
replace MinVersion and MaxVersion with 1.9.0.14.

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Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

John R Pierce wrote:
> I just installed 5.3 about a week ago, fairly minimal install, x86_64 
> platform...  then upgraded to 5.4 this AM, and just installed firefox
> 
> $ sudo yum -y install firefox
> .
> Installed:
>   firefox.i386 0:3.0.12-1.el5.centos   firefox.x86_64 
> 0:3.0.12-1.el5.centos 
> 
> $ firefox
> Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.12 and 1.9.0.12.

you installed both i386 and x86_64 versions...
try removing the unwanted one?

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Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4

[John R Pierce]

Marcelo Roccasalva wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:21, John R Pierce  wrote:
>   
>> Could not find compatible GRE between version
>> 
>
> As root: "xulrunner --register-global" should do the trick...
>   

thats what google says, but its not working.

I do note my xulrunner is 1.9.0.14, while firefox is complaining about 
1.9.0.12

$ xulrunner --version
Mozilla XULRunner 1.9.0.14 - 2009091106
$ firefox
Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.12 and 1.9.0.12.


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Re: [CentOS] Newsletter feedback

[Frank Thommen]

Hi,

> We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter [...]

What newsletter are you referring to?  I cannot find any newsletter 
offer on centos.org.

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[CentOS] Bootable 5.4 USB key...

[John Doe]

Hi,

I tried to convert my working 5.3 USB bootable key to 5.4 and I apparently 
cannot get syslinux to find/read its configuration file anymore...

I followed the same process as before:
  mkfs.vfat -n BOOT /dev/sdg1
  syslinux -s /dev/sdg1
  cd /media/BOOT
  cp -rv /mnt/cdrom/isolinux syslinux
  mv syslinux/isolinux.cfg syslinux/syslinux.cfg
  rm -f syslinux/isolinux.bin 
  vi syslinux/syslinux.cfg
  dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdg

I get:
  syslinux: cannot find kernel linux

I tried to copy syslinux.cfg in /, but it still fails...

Did anyone successfuly create a 5.4 key yet?

Thx,
JD


  
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Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4

[Marcelo Roccasalva]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:21, John R Pierce  wrote:
>
> Could not find compatible GRE between version

As root: "xulrunner --register-global" should do the trick...

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Re: [CentOS] Newsletter feedback

[Keith Keller]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 01:29:56PM +0100, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter and I think
> it is time to ask YOU ( the reader ) what we can improve. The current
> trend is away from really technical details more to a light read and
> entertaining stuff. Is this a good way to go. Or should we focus more
> on the technical side again*. Or is the balance right?

I greatly enjoyed this month's newsletter, especially the hacker diary.
:)  It's nice to see the events and "in the news" items too.

While I understand the temptation to do more technical items, I'm not
sure if that's how the newsletter was conceived.  I can see the
newsletter being more of a meta item, not necessarily for help using
CentOS, but for help on knowing what's going on.  So I personally am
happy with how it's going so far, but I can sympathize with those who
want a more technical letter.

IOW, I like that the newsletter is a high-level view, where the
cen...@centos mailing list I see as a nuts-n-bolts view.

I'd like to contribute, but I need to figure out what I can do first.

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Re: [CentOS] What about port mirroring? (Was: Switch to measure traffic at IP level)

[Neil Aggarwal]

> yeah, a 1gig port can't handle all the traffic from N 1gig 
> ports.  heck, 
> ti can't even handle all the traffic from a single full 
> duplex connection

That is a good point.  My traffic is light right now
so I might be able to use it until the traffic grows.

Thanks,
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Re: [CentOS] What about port mirroring? (Was: Switch to measure traffic at IP level)

[nate]

Neil Aggarwal wrote:

> Are there any pitfalls with this approach?

Performance is the biggest one. Port mirroring often
involves the CPU, and is really not built for scaling.
If your traffic levels are very low it may work fine.
Port mirroring is often a low priority task so if the
switch is busy it will drop packets on the mirror
to try to ensure availability on the normal ports.

If you have cisco gear they have NetFlow which is
similar to sFlow but NetFlow is often a software service
so has performance impact as well, depending on the
precise equipment your using.

> Would ntop be a good tool for it?

Looks like ntop has nProbe which can collect data from a
mirrored port, put it in a NetFlow packet and send it to
ntop or another collector device.

So it really depends on the scale your operating at,
if it's only 1 server with say less than 1Gbit/s of
throughput your probably OK. If it's more, sFlow is
the only thing that can scale to very high data rates
and still be cost effective as it's implemented in the
hardware of the switches.

The Extreme X350 for example is a very budget minded
gigabit switch, not much layer 3, or stacking, online
pricing puts it in the $2000 range for 48 GbE, and has
hardware sFlow -
http://www.extremenetworks.com/products/summit-x350.aspx

Optional 10GbE (even 10GbaseT for 10GbE over CAT5/6/6a)
as well.

Can go to the high end which is roughly triple the price
though offers quite a bit more features.

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Re: [CentOS] What about port mirroring? (Was: Switch to measure traffic at IP level)

[Larry Brigman]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Neil Aggarwal  wrote:
> Hello everyone:
>
> I was just reading an ntop guide and it mentioned
> many switches have port mirroring.
>
> According to what I am reading, the Cisco I am using
> will copy all traffic to the mirror port.  Then,
> I can monitor what is going on from there.
>
> That seems like a good way to do this.
>
> Are there any pitfalls with this approach?

Yes.  Doing all traffic unless the switch is very lightly load could
saturate the mirror port.
The other pitfall is that you would need to high network performance
nic/host set to
capture that info.

>
> Would ntop be a good tool for it?
>
> I would like to graph total bytes in and out
> as well as 95% usage on an IP address level.
> I would like daily, weekly, and monthly graphs.

SNMP monitoring of the switch could get you this details without port mirroring.
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Re: [CentOS] What about port mirroring? (Was: Switch to measure traffic at IP level)

[John R Pierce]

Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Hello everyone:
>
> I was just reading an ntop guide and it mentioned
> many switches have port mirroring.
>
> According to what I am reading, the Cisco I am using
> will copy all traffic to the mirror port.  Then,
> I can monitor what is going on from there.
>
> That seems like a good way to do this.
>
> Are there any pitfalls with this approach?
>   

yeah, a 1gig port can't handle all the traffic from N 1gig ports.  heck, 
ti can't even handle all the traffic from a single full duplex connection

btw, someone mentioned NTOP... I played with this and found it can 
consume a LOT of cpu calculating statistics on the fly.


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Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

[Robert]

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Matt wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM,  wrote:
>>
>> 
>>> I admit I wasn't following the screaming and yelling about 5.4, so
>>> excuse  me if this has been answered
>>>
>>> My boss tells me he wants me to start rolling out 5.4. I want to d/l &
>>> burn a DVD... but when I looked at a number of mirrors, the .iso is from
>>> 1 Oct, while the CD .iso's are from the 14th... yet 5.4 was officially
>>> announced the other day.
>>>
>>> Am I missing something, or do the mirrors have a pre-release DVD .iso,
>>> with no fixes in the last three weeks, or ...?
>>>
>>>   
>> The dates are likely based on when the ISO was actually created.
>> Therefore, if the ISO was generated on Oct. 1st and no issues were found
>> 
> with it in
>   
>> QA, then the date you are seeing on the mirrors is correct.  The ISOs are
>> based
>> on the original 5.4 tree and don't include updates that Red Hat released
>> after the initial release of RHEL 5.4.
>> 
>
> But why are the 7-iso set of CD's from two weeks later? Or is it just that
> folks felt that building those was more important than rebuilding the DVD
> version?
>
>   mark
>   
Dates aside, the official Release Notes at
http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4 contains
checksums for each of the isos.  It seems to me that you should
be able to apply those md5 and sha1 sums to the DVD.iso file, no
matter the source, and be reasonably comfortable with the result.
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[CentOS] firefox on 5.4

[John R Pierce]

I just installed 5.3 about a week ago, fairly minimal install, x86_64 
platform...  then upgraded to 5.4 this AM, and just installed firefox

$ sudo yum -y install firefox
.
Installed:
  firefox.i386 0:3.0.12-1.el5.centos   firefox.x86_64 
0:3.0.12-1.el5.centos 

$ firefox
Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.12 and 1.9.0.12.



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Re: [CentOS] Sudo command

[Patrick McEvoy]

Are you trying to run sudo when logged in as root?  sudo is only used by 
non root users.

Robert Heller wrote:
> At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:50:38 +0530 CentOS mailing list  
> wrote:
>
>   
>>
>> Hi guys,
>> Thanks
>>
>> What i am trying to achieve is; when executing
>>
>> # sudo make install
>> Password:*
>>
>> this password entered is root password.
>>
>> it gives is error
>>
>> Sorry, try again.
>> 
>
> Sudo asks for the user's password NOT the root password.  Please read
> the documentation, carefully.
>
> man sudo
> man sudoers
>
>
>   
>> but when i do a su - and then gave the same root password. I am able to
>> switch account to user.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Am am trying to add my account to sudoers file. It should be easy i think.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vijay Shanker Dubey
>> Ph: +91-9818311884
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Robert Heller  wrote:
>>
>> 
>>> At Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:00:27 -0400 CentOS mailing list 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>   

 Hello guys;

 I am not able to use sudo command on my just installed centos5.3

 But i know i am using right password to root.

 Is this is by default not enabled; if so, what to do.
 
>>> You don't use root's password, you use your own password.
>>>
>>> This assumes you have an entry in /etc/sudoers for your account.
>>>
>>>   
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Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

[Gordon Messmer]

On 10/23/2009 07:37 AM, Sergio Belkin wrote:
>
> I skipped kernel-2.6.18-164.el5, so I ask again: does
> kernel-2.6.18-164.el5 support IO statistic, I already know what man
> page says :)  but I wonder if that kernel has that customization
>

2.6.28-164 has TASK_DELAY_ACCT and TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING options enabled, 
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Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

[Les Mikesell]

Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Matt:
>  
>> why not just use your current cacti setup and 
>> enable snmp on each of the hosts?  That seems like 
>> the simplest and cheapest approach.
> 
> As I understand it, I would actually have to
> enable snmp on each of the guests, not the hosts.
> 
> Am I wrong?
> 

Yes - the host would see the total traffic.  The only other way to separate it 
would be something upstream (switch/router, etc.) that knows how to do sflow 
plus a collector device.  These are typically pretty expensive.  For some small 
number of guests it might be cheaper to add NICs to your hosts and bridge the 
guests to individual NICs where you could monitor on either the host interface 
or the connected switch port.  You might be able to simulate this with some 
clever use of vlans but I'm not sure how they interact with the virtual nic 
bridges.

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[CentOS] What about port mirroring? (Was: Switch to measure traffic at IP level)

[Neil Aggarwal]

Hello everyone:

I was just reading an ntop guide and it mentioned
many switches have port mirroring.

According to what I am reading, the Cisco I am using
will copy all traffic to the mirror port.  Then,
I can monitor what is going on from there.

That seems like a good way to do this.

Are there any pitfalls with this approach?

Would ntop be a good tool for it?

I would like to graph total bytes in and out
as well as 95% usage on an IP address level.
I would like daily, weekly, and monthly graphs.

Thanks,
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[CentOS] Bypass Hung Applications At Boot So System Can Complete The Boot Process

[Kemp, Larry]

I have a CentOS system that is hanging at boot. Sendmail takes forever (and a 
few other apps hang as well...mainly network apps). This has proven in the pas 
to be a NIC misconfiguration or a network issue. I think that is what it is on 
this one too. Is there a way when I see an app haning at boot to make the 
server stop trying to load the hung app and bring the OS up into the GI so that 
I get to fixing it? Thanks in advance.

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Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

[Neil Aggarwal]

Matt:

> depending on what your using for virtualization, you might be able to pull
all 
> of those stats with snmp on the host. 

I am using KVM on CentOS 5.4

Let me know if you think it is possible to gather everything
I need at the host without requirining anything from the guests.
 
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Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

[Mathew S. McCarrell]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Neil Aggarwal wrote:

> Matt:
>
> > why not just use your current cacti setup and
> > enable snmp on each of the hosts?  That seems like
> > the simplest and cheapest approach.
>
> As I understand it, I would actually have to
> enable snmp on each of the guests, not the hosts.
>
> Am I wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>Neil
>
>
Yeah, I guess you probably would and I can see how you would want to avoid
that.  That is how I do it with Cacti right now but depending on what your
using for virtualization, you might be able to pull all of those stats with
snmp on the host.

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Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

[Neil Aggarwal]

Matt:
 
> why not just use your current cacti setup and 
> enable snmp on each of the hosts?  That seems like 
> the simplest and cheapest approach.

As I understand it, I would actually have to
enable snmp on each of the guests, not the hosts.

Am I wrong?

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Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

[Mathew S. McCarrell]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Neil Aggarwal wrote:

> > Alternately you could use something like Munin to monitor on
> > the box itself.
>
> I took a look and I think it requires software running on
> each guest to report the data back to the centralized
> system.  Is that correct?
>
> If so, I am looking for a solution that does not require
> any software on the guest machines.
>
> Thanks,
>Neil
>
>
If your going to take this approach, why not just use your current cacti
setup and enable snmp on each of the hosts?  That seems like the simplest
and cheapest approach.

Just my thoughts.

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Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

[Mathew S. McCarrell]

> But why are the 7-iso set of CD's from two weeks later? Or is it just that
> folks felt that building those was more important than rebuilding the DVD
> version?
>
>  mark
>
>
Looking at the dates for the ISOs on the mirror I maintain, they are all
from Oct. 1st or 2nd.  Only the torrent files are from two weeks later.

http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/5/isos/i386/
http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/5/isos/x86_64/

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Re: [CentOS] To all of the group

[Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann]

Hey

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:35 AM, DTS-Corp (Knowledgebase)
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> I am pretty much a newbie at CentOS, and Linux on client side,
>
> I would like to help out occasionally by helping the web development crew in
> their endeavors and by sorting out some stuff.
> such as repairing broken links, or just scanning for content and maybe even
> doing a little bit of consulting.

Cool we can always use help in the promo team. Further if you want you
can help with the Newsletter. Depending on what you want to do? If you
want to get a little more technical you can help me to get CentOS on
boot.kernel which I am currently working on after releasing the
Newsletter. Just tell me what you are interested in and I am sure I
can find some work for you.

Cheers Didi

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Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

[Neil Aggarwal]

> Alternately you could use something like Munin to monitor on 
> the box itself.

I took a look and I think it requires software running on
each guest to report the data back to the centralized
system.  Is that correct?

If so, I am looking for a solution that does not require
any software on the guest machines.

Thanks,
Neil

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Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

[m . roth]

Matt wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM,  wrote:
>
>> I admit I wasn't following the screaming and yelling about 5.4, so
>> excuse  me if this has been answered
>>
>> My boss tells me he wants me to start rolling out 5.4. I want to d/l &
>> burn a DVD... but when I looked at a number of mirrors, the .iso is from
>> 1 Oct, while the CD .iso's are from the 14th... yet 5.4 was officially
>> announced the other day.
>>
>> Am I missing something, or do the mirrors have a pre-release DVD .iso,
>> with no fixes in the last three weeks, or ...?
>>
> The dates are likely based on when the ISO was actually created.
> Therefore, if the ISO was generated on Oct. 1st and no issues were found
with it in
> QA, then the date you are seeing on the mirrors is correct.  The ISOs are
> based
> on the original 5.4 tree and don't include updates that Red Hat released
> after the initial release of RHEL 5.4.

But why are the 7-iso set of CD's from two weeks later? Or is it just that
folks felt that building those was more important than rebuilding the DVD
version?

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Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

[Neil Aggarwal]

> Can one setup a Linux server to offer sflow? If the Linux host can run
> sflow, then it's easy to capture the bandwidth usage on the host? 

That is a good idea.  Since we have to have the host OS running,
it might be able to do the collection activities for us.

If anyone has a soution for this, I am interested in more info.

> I'm sitting with the same problem, and rely on snmpd on each VPS, but this
> isn't ideal - especially if clients disable snmpd

I agree.  I do not want a solution that depends on software
installed on the guest since the client has control of that.

Neil

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Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

[m . roth]

Someone wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:23 PM, mark  wrote:
>> Christoph Maser wrote:
>> > Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay:
>> >> I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so
>> >> far today after my upgrade.   Could it be one of my plugins I
>> suppose?
>> >
>> > Plugins often are a source of firefox crashes, try to run it without
>> any additional plugins and see if it makes a difference.
>>
>> I'll wager it's nspluginviewer.bin. There was a fix - I mentioned here
>> reporting the bug, and them supposedly fixing it, but it's apparently
>> still a problem. I have *never* had firefox crash like, well, a M$
product, the
>> way it's done for a month.
>>
> Is it the computer hardware problem?
>
No. While I was still on 3.0.12, it wouldn't crash.

>  I  meet this problem ago.
> The firefox in my computer sometimes was  crashed, because my graphic
> card was  too old . Maybe is it this problem?

Your card was not "too old". Unless you mean all of X hung, or crashed.
But just firefox, no - it's something to do with firefox.

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Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

[Mathew S. McCarrell]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM,  wrote:

> I admit I wasn't following the screaming and yelling about 5.4, so excuse
> me if this has been answered
>
> My boss tells me he wants me to start rolling out 5.4. I want to d/l &
> burn a DVD... but when I looked at a number of mirrors, the .iso is from 1
> Oct, while the CD .iso's are from the 14th... yet 5.4 was officially
> announced the other day.
>
> Am I missing something, or do the mirrors have a pre-release DVD .iso,
> with no fixes in the last three weeks, or ...?
>
>   mark


The dates are likely based on when the ISO was actually created.  Therefore,
if the ISO was generated on Oct. 1st and no issues were found with it in QA,
then the date you are seeing on the mirrors is correct.  The ISOs are based
on the original 5.4 tree and don't include updates that Red Hat released
after the initial release of RHEL 5.4.

HTH,
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[CentOS] 5.4 DVD

[m . roth]

I admit I wasn't following the screaming and yelling about 5.4, so excuse
me if this has been answered

My boss tells me he wants me to start rolling out 5.4. I want to d/l &
burn a DVD... but when I looked at a number of mirrors, the .iso is from 1
Oct, while the CD .iso's are from the 14th... yet 5.4 was officially
announced the other day.

Am I missing something, or do the mirrors have a pre-release DVD .iso,
with no fixes in the last three weeks, or ...?

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Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

[Les Mikesell]

nate wrote:
> Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> 
>> I just need something that gives me a usage graph
>> at daily, weekly, and monthly intervals with a 95%
>> line.
> 
> Don't use RRD for billing 95% it will not be accurate
> as RRD averages values over time. I use rtg (not mrtg,
> but rtg) together with SNMP to get accurate 95% readings
> at the interface/port level.
> 
> sflow is also a sampling mechanism, but it is pretty
> accurate depending on the interval, you can see this
> site for accuracy on sflow:
> 
> http://www.sflow.org/packetSamplingBasics/index.htm
> 
> If your just using rrd for casual monitoring, no problem
> but if your using it for billing at 95% then be
> careful.

RRD stores a certain number of samples at their collected values, then as they 
age, averages them into larger and larger time values per sample, with the 
numbers of each set being configurable.  If you keep the raw samples for the 
time span of the calculation you should get accurate values.

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Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

[m . roth]

> mark wrote:
>> Christoph Maser wrote:
>>
>>> Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay:
>>>
 I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so
 far today after my upgrade.   Could it be one of my plugins I suppose?

>>> Plugins often are a source of firefox crashes, try to run it without
>>> any
>>> additional plugins and see if it makes a difference.
>>>
>>
>> I'll wager it's nspluginviewer.bin. There was a fix - I mentioned here
>> reporting the bug, and them supposedly fixing it, but it's apparently
>> still a problem. I have *never* had firefox crash like, well, a M$
product, the
>> way it's done for a month.
>>
> important to have curl installed so check
> rpm -qa |grep curl

I know that. As I said, I was the one who reported it, and it took the
firefox team nearly a week to find that it was a dependency, and that the
crashreporter had the *same* dependency, and so couldn't give a stack
trace because *it* crashed.

And yes, I do have both the 386 and the x86_64 versions of curl installed.

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Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

[Alan McKay]

> Currently, I use Cacti to graph the data coming
> from my switches.  Do you know if that will that
> work with any of these switches?

Alternately you could use something like Munin to monitor on the box itself.


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Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

[Sergio Belkin]

2009/10/23 Benjamin Franz :
> Sergio Belkin wrote:
>> 2009/10/23 Scott McClanahan :
>>
>>> On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote:
>>>
 Hi,

 Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when
 using "pidstat -d"?

 Thanks in advance!

>>> Is pidstat available in the 5.4 sysstat package or are you deviating
>>> from the stock sysstat package?
>>>
>>
>> Really I don't know, still I don't test release 5.4 it would be nice
>> that has it
> According to the man page for pidstat, 'pidstat -d' only works with
> 2.6.20 kernels and later. Since pidstat is not installed by the sysstat
> package for 5.3 (which is what 2.6.18-128.* kernel is from) it is
> probably a safe assumption that it won't work.
>
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I've found kernel   2.6.18-128 on
http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS/

I skipped kernel-2.6.18-164.el5, so I ask again: does
kernel-2.6.18-164.el5 support IO statistic, I already know what man
page says :)  but I wonder if that kernel has that customization

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Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?

[Les Mikesell]

Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> On 10/23/2009 01:31 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
>> Where is this document?
> ...
> 
> There's a link to it on the
> front page of http://www.centos.org/
> 

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Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

[nate]

Neil Aggarwal wrote:

> I just need something that gives me a usage graph
> at daily, weekly, and monthly intervals with a 95%
> line.

Don't use RRD for billing 95% it will not be accurate
as RRD averages values over time. I use rtg (not mrtg,
but rtg) together with SNMP to get accurate 95% readings
at the interface/port level.

sflow is also a sampling mechanism, but it is pretty
accurate depending on the interval, you can see this
site for accuracy on sflow:

http://www.sflow.org/packetSamplingBasics/index.htm

If your just using rrd for casual monitoring, no problem
but if your using it for billing at 95% then be
careful.

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Re: [CentOS] can't "yum install mplayer" : no libmpcdec.so.3 available

[Sharon Kimble]

2009/10/23 Ralph Angenendt 

> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, ken  wrote:
> > mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems
>
> freshrpms has no packages for CentOS. And never had.
>

Thats a fedora core 6 rpm which maybe the reason why its not working
properly.

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Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

[Benjamin Franz]

Sergio Belkin wrote:
> 2009/10/23 Scott McClanahan :
>   
>> On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when
>>> using "pidstat -d"?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>   
>> Is pidstat available in the 5.4 sysstat package or are you deviating
>> from the stock sysstat package?
>> 
>
> Really I don't know, still I don't test release 5.4 it would be nice
> that has it
According to the man page for pidstat, 'pidstat -d' only works with 
2.6.20 kernels and later. Since pidstat is not installed by the sysstat 
package for 5.3 (which is what 2.6.18-128.* kernel is from) it is 
probably a safe assumption that it won't work.

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Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

[Neil Aggarwal]

> http://www.sflow.org/products/collectors.php
> 
> ntop would probably be the main "free" flow based monitor,
> though there are some really really nice commercial
> products.

I just need something that gives me a usage graph
at daily, weekly, and monthly intervals with a 95%
line.

It looks like ntop works with RRD so that seems
like a good solution.

Thanks for your help!

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Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

[Rudi Ahlers]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:04 PM, nate  wrote:
> Neil Aggarwal wrote:
>> Nate:
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion.  I am looking into it
>> now.
>>
>> Currently, I use Cacti to graph the data coming
>> from my switches.  Do you know if that will that
>> work with any of these switches?
>
> Cacti will work for port based monitoring, it won't work
> for flow-based monitoring though.
>
> http://www.sflow.org/products/collectors.php
>
> ntop would probably be the main "free" flow based monitor,
> though there are some really really nice commercial
> products.
>
> Inmon has a couple free tools as well sflowtrend, and another
> command line tool which can dump the contents of sflow data
> to STDOUT for parsing by a script.
>
> nate
>
>
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Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

[Sergio Belkin]

2009/10/23 Scott McClanahan :
> On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when
>> using "pidstat -d"?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>
> Is pidstat available in the 5.4 sysstat package or are you deviating
> from the stock sysstat package?

Really I don't know, still I don't test release 5.4 it would be nice
that has it.

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Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

[nate]

Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Nate:
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.  I am looking into it
> now.
>
> Currently, I use Cacti to graph the data coming
> from my switches.  Do you know if that will that
> work with any of these switches?

Cacti will work for port based monitoring, it won't work
for flow-based monitoring though.

http://www.sflow.org/products/collectors.php

ntop would probably be the main "free" flow based monitor,
though there are some really really nice commercial
products.

Inmon has a couple free tools as well sflowtrend, and another
command line tool which can dump the contents of sflow data
to STDOUT for parsing by a script.

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Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

[Neil Aggarwal]

Nate:

Thanks for the suggestion.  I am looking into it
now.

Currently, I use Cacti to graph the data coming
from my switches.  Do you know if that will that 
work with any of these switches?

Thanks,
Neil


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> -Original Message-
> From: centos-boun...@centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of nate
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 8:50 AM
> To: centos@centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?
> 
> Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> > Hello all:
> >
> > Is there a network switch that will give me traffic
> > stats at an IP address level?
> 
> any of these can:
> http://www.sflow.org/products/network.php
> 
> Myself I'm  biased towards Extreme networks having used them
> for almost 10 years now, very easy to use.
> 
> nate
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Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

[Alan McKay]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Majian  wrote:
> Is it the computer hardware problem?

It only started after my upgrade

>  I  meet this problem ago.
> The firefox in my computer sometimes was  crashed, because my graphic
> card was  too old . Maybe is it this problem?

Coincidentally, I replaced my graphics card yesterday because the old
one was getting too loud.  I've had 1 firefox crash since then.

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Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

[nate]

Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> Is there a network switch that will give me traffic
> stats at an IP address level?

any of these can:
http://www.sflow.org/products/network.php

Myself I'm  biased towards Extreme networks having used them
for almost 10 years now, very easy to use.

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[CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

[Neil Aggarwal]

Hello all:

Is there a network switch that will give me traffic
stats at an IP address level?

Right now, I only get statstics at a port level, but
that does not help since each of my servers run several
virtual machines and I need to measure traffic
per virtual machine.

Thanks,
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Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

[Scott McClanahan]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when
> using "pidstat -d"?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 

Is pidstat available in the 5.4 sysstat package or are you deviating
from the stock sysstat package?

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Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

[Finnur Örn Guðmundsson]

On 23.10.2009 12:35, Sergio Belkin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when
> using "pidstat -d"?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
Hi,

You need a kernel from CentOS 5.4 (2.6.18-164.el5 or newer) to get the 
fancy new iostats ;)

Bgrds,
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Re: [CentOS] can't "yum install mplayer" : no libmpcdec.so.3 available

[Ralph Angenendt]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, ken  wrote:
> mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems

freshrpms has no packages for CentOS. And never had.

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Re: [CentOS] XFS might be available for i686 from the CentOS Plus repository.

[Ross Walker]

On Oct 23, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Rainer Traut  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the topic is an excerpt of the 5.4 release notes
> and raises a question.
>
> I have a i386 server here, that has been running for nearly two years
> with xfs module from extras repo.
> When lookin at the module it was build against 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.
>
> Question is, is it still safe to use this module with 5.4?
> Or should I switch back to a CentosPlus kmod and an older kernel?

The module does KABI tracking through weak-modules, so if it wasn't  
compatible, it wouldn't add a link to it on the new kernel and someone  
would need to recompile it for the newer kernel.

KABI tracking adds dependencies to kernel API by creating hashes of  
the API prototypes and weak-modules compares those to the hashes of  
the installed/installing kernel's API prototypes, if they match it  
creates a link to the installed module under /lib/modules//weak- 
updates.

These KABI tracking modules. compiled on different kernel versions,  
stick around after the kernel has been uninstalled, so don't remove  
old /lib/modules directories without first making sure a KABI module  
isn't there.

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[CentOS] Problems with BCM5709 network

[Toralf Lund]

I've just installed CentOS 5.4 on an IBM server with a BCM5709 network 
adapter, and can't get networking to work. It looks like an appropriate 
driver (bnx2) is installed, lspci and the system log return sensible 
info on the unit,  there are no specific error message anywhere, but I 
get "no link present" when I try to activate the device. In other words, 
I see essentially the same behaviour as when the network cable is 
missing, but I've tried several cables, connection points etc. and also 
get the appropriate indicator lamps etc. so I'm quite sure the 
connection is good.

Does anyone have any idea what may be wrong? If not, have any of you lot 
got networking to work with a similar setup?

Some extracts from the system log are included below...

Thanks,

- Toralf

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Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet 
Driver bnx2 v1.9.3 (March 17, 2009)
Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :0b:00.0[A] -> 
GSI 28 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 
1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem 9200, IRQ 169, node addr 
00215edbc384
Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :0b:00.1[B] -> 
GSI 40 (level, low) -> IRQ 106
Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 
1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem 9400, IRQ 106, node addr 
00215edbc386
Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:1f.3[B] -> 
GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 114
[ ... ]
Oct 23 22:12:53 localhost kernel: bnx2: eth0: using MSIX
Oct 23 22:12:53 localhost kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not 
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Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

[Majian]

Is it the computer hardware problem?


 I  meet this problem ago.
The firefox in my computer sometimes was  crashed, because my graphic
card was  too old . Maybe is it this problem?




On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:23 PM, mark  wrote:

> Christoph Maser wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay:
> >> I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so
> >> far today after my upgrade.   Could it be one of my plugins I suppose?
> >
> > Plugins often are a source of firefox crashes, try to run it without any
> > additional plugins and see if it makes a difference.
>
> I'll wager it's nspluginviewer.bin. There was a fix - I mentioned here
> reporting the bug, and them supposedly fixing it, but it's apparently still
> a
> problem. I have *never* had firefox crash like, well, a M$ product, the way
> it's done for a month.
>
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Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?

[Robert Nichols]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>> but out of curiosity, did you just do a
>> simple yum update or did you follow the procedure in the release notes
>> document?
> 
> Where is this document?
> 
> Incidentally, I did a simple yum update and it seemed to work fine.

On the centos.org homepage there are two links to release announcements.
The "Distro Release Announcement" link says all you need to do is run
"yum update".  The "Release Notes: CentOS" link recommends updating
glibc, yum, rpm, and python first.  I did need to run "yum update yum"
before the full update would succeed.

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Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

[Alan McKay]

> important to have curl installed so check
> rpm -qa |grep curl

[amc...@alan ~]$ rpm -qa |grep curl
curl-devel-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.5
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Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

[Rob Kampen]

mark wrote:

Christoph Maser wrote:
  

Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay:


I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so
far today after my upgrade.   Could it be one of my plugins I suppose?
  

Plugins often are a source of firefox crashes, try to run it without any
additional plugins and see if it makes a difference.



I'll wager it's nspluginviewer.bin. There was a fix - I mentioned here 
reporting the bug, and them supposedly fixing it, but it's apparently still a 
problem. I have *never* had firefox crash like, well, a M$ product, the way 
it's done for a month.


mark
  

important to have curl installed so check
rpm -qa |grep curl
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[CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

[Sergio Belkin]

Hi,

Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when
using "pidstat -d"?

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Re: [CentOS] can't "yum install mplayer" : no libmpcdec.so.3 available

[Majian]

Have a try  the rpmforge repo to install mplayer ~~~

O n Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:23 PM, ken  wrote:

> Just upgraded to 5.4 yesterday morning.  (Kudos to those who did that!)
> That's probably irrelevant to this problem:
>
> "yum install mplayer" fails.  Here's what happens:
>
> ==
>  # yum install mplayer
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, filter-data, kernel-module, keys, kmod,
> list-
>  : data, merge-conf, security, upgrade-helper, verify,
> versionlock
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * addons: mirrors.serveraxis.net
>  * base: mirror.anl.gov
>  * centosplus: mirror.atlanticmetro.net
>  * contrib: updates.interworx.info
>  * epel: mirrors.dmacc.net
>  * extras: mirrors.serveraxis.net
>  * updates: mirrors.rit.edu
> Skipping filters plugin, no data
> Reading version lock configuration
> Setting up Install Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> Skipping filters plugin, no data
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 for package: mplayer
> --> Processing Dependency: mplayer-fonts for package: mplayer
> --> Processing Dependency: libaudio.so.2 for package: mplayer
> --> Processing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 for package: mplayer
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 for package: mplayer
> --> Processing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 for package: mplayer
> ---> Package mplayer-fonts.noarch 0:1.1-3.fc set to be updated
> ---> Package nas.i386 0:1.9.1-2.el5 set to be updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems
>  --> Missing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by package
> mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms)
> mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems
>  --> Missing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 is needed by package
> mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms)
> Error: Missing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by package
> mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 is needed by package
> mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms)
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
>package-cleanup --dupes
>rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> ==
>
> Yep, I did run"
>
> # package-cleanup --dupes
> Setting up yum
> giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5.1.i386
> giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5_3.1.i386
> # rpm -qa |grep giflib
> giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5.1
> giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5_3.1
> giflib-devel-4.1.3-7.1.el5_3.1
>
> so erased giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5.1.i386, but still got the same from yum
>
>
> ==
> # package-cleanup --problems
> Setting up yum
> Reading local RPM database
> Processing all local requires
> No problems found
> ==
>
> Maybe removing the above dupes fixed it???  Nope, "yum install mplayer"
> still flipped me an error.  So then tried:
>
> ==
> # yum install --skip-broken mplayer
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, filter-data, kernel-module, keys, kmod,
> list-
>  : data, merge-conf, security, upgrade-helper, verify,
> versionlock
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * addons: mirrors.serveraxis.net
>  * base: mirror.anl.gov
>  * centosplus: mirror.atlanticmetro.net
>  * contrib: updates.interworx.info
>  * epel: mirrors.dmacc.net
>  * extras: mirrors.serveraxis.net
>  * updates: mirrors.rit.edu
> Skipping filters plugin, no data
> Reading version lock configuration
> Setting up Install Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> Skipping filters plugin, no data
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 for package: mplayer
> --> Processing Dependency: mplayer-fonts for package: mplayer
> --> Processing Dependency: libaudio.so.2 for package: mplayer
> --> Processing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 for package: mplayer
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 for package: mplayer
> --> Processing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 for package: mplayer
> ---> Package mplayer-fonts.noarch 0:1.1-3.fc set to be updated
> ---> Package nas.i386 0:1.9.1-2.el5 set to be updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems
>  --> Missing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by package
> mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms)
> mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems
>

Re: [CentOS] can't "yum install mplayer" : no libmpcdec.so.3 available

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

ken wrote:
> Just upgraded to 5.4 yesterday morning.  (Kudos to those who did that!)
> That's probably irrelevant to this problem:
> 
> "yum install mplayer" fails.  Here's what happens:
> 
> ==
>  # yum install mplayer

>  * epel: mirrors.dmacc.net


> What to do.. what to do??
> 

this is an epel issue, you should ask on the epel list.
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[CentOS] can't "yum install mplayer" : no libmpcdec.so.3 available

[ken]

Just upgraded to 5.4 yesterday morning.  (Kudos to those who did that!)
That's probably irrelevant to this problem:

"yum install mplayer" fails.  Here's what happens:

==
 # yum install mplayer
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, filter-data, kernel-module, keys, kmod, list-
  : data, merge-conf, security, upgrade-helper, verify,
versionlock
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * addons: mirrors.serveraxis.net
 * base: mirror.anl.gov
 * centosplus: mirror.atlanticmetro.net
 * contrib: updates.interworx.info
 * epel: mirrors.dmacc.net
 * extras: mirrors.serveraxis.net
 * updates: mirrors.rit.edu
Skipping filters plugin, no data
Reading version lock configuration
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
Skipping filters plugin, no data
--> Running transaction check
---> Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 for package: mplayer
--> Processing Dependency: mplayer-fonts for package: mplayer
--> Processing Dependency: libaudio.so.2 for package: mplayer
--> Processing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 for package: mplayer
--> Running transaction check
---> Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 for package: mplayer
--> Processing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 for package: mplayer
---> Package mplayer-fonts.noarch 0:1.1-3.fc set to be updated
---> Package nas.i386 0:1.9.1-2.el5 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by package
mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms)
mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 is needed by package
mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms)
Error: Missing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by package
mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms)
Error: Missing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 is needed by package
mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
package-cleanup --dupes
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
==

Yep, I did run"

# package-cleanup --dupes
Setting up yum
giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5.1.i386
giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5_3.1.i386
# rpm -qa |grep giflib
giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5.1
giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5_3.1
giflib-devel-4.1.3-7.1.el5_3.1

so erased giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5.1.i386, but still got the same from yum


==
# package-cleanup --problems
Setting up yum
Reading local RPM database
Processing all local requires
No problems found
==

Maybe removing the above dupes fixed it???  Nope, "yum install mplayer"
still flipped me an error.  So then tried:

==
# yum install --skip-broken mplayer
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, filter-data, kernel-module, keys, kmod, list-
  : data, merge-conf, security, upgrade-helper, verify,
versionlock
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * addons: mirrors.serveraxis.net
 * base: mirror.anl.gov
 * centosplus: mirror.atlanticmetro.net
 * contrib: updates.interworx.info
 * epel: mirrors.dmacc.net
 * extras: mirrors.serveraxis.net
 * updates: mirrors.rit.edu
Skipping filters plugin, no data
Reading version lock configuration
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
Skipping filters plugin, no data
--> Running transaction check
---> Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 for package: mplayer
--> Processing Dependency: mplayer-fonts for package: mplayer
--> Processing Dependency: libaudio.so.2 for package: mplayer
--> Processing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 for package: mplayer
--> Running transaction check
---> Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 for package: mplayer
--> Processing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 for package: mplayer
---> Package mplayer-fonts.noarch 0:1.1-3.fc set to be updated
---> Package nas.i386 0:1.9.1-2.el5 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by package
mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms)
mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 is needed by package
mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms)

Packages skipped because of dependency problems:
mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms
mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.fc.noarch from freshrpms
nas-1.9.1-2.el5.i386 from epel
===

Re: [CentOS] upgrade to 5.4 openswan broke

[Ralph Angenendt]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Timothy Murphy  wrote:
> Ralph Angenendt wrote:
>
>> I just got told that you have to feed all certificates to nss storage
>> instead of having them in pem files.
>>
>> See README.nss for more hints.
>
> I found these remarks, as also /usr/share/doc/openssh-4.3p2/README.nss,
> more or less unintelligible.

It's README.nss in the openswan documentation which comes with the
openswan-doc package.

> Does one really "have to" do this?

Yes. Upstream seems to want to be FIPS 140-2 compliant. I wonder why
there aren't *ANY* warnings in upstream's release notes regarding
that.

Sorry, we didn't catch that during QA as nobody doing so had openswan
configured :)

Regards,

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[CentOS] XFS might be available for i686 from the CentOS Plus repository.

[Rainer Traut]

Hi,

the topic is an excerpt of the 5.4 release notes
and raises a question.

I have a i386 server here, that has been running for nearly two years 
with xfs module from extras repo.
When lookin at the module it was build against 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.

Question is, is it still safe to use this module with 5.4?
Or should I switch back to a CentosPlus kmod and an older kernel?

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Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?

[Mogens Kjaer]

On 10/23/2009 01:31 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Where is this document?
...

There's a link to it on the
front page of http://www.centos.org/

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Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?

[Timothy Murphy]

Les Mikesell wrote:

> but out of curiosity, did you just do a
> simple yum update or did you follow the procedure in the release notes
> document?

Where is this document?

Incidentally, I did a simple yum update and it seemed to work fine.


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Re: [CentOS] upgrade to 5.4 openswan broke

[Timothy Murphy]

Ralph Angenendt wrote:

> I just got told that you have to feed all certificates to nss storage
> instead of having them in pem files.
> 
> See README.nss for more hints.

I found these remarks, as also /usr/share/doc/openssh-4.3p2/README.nss,
more or less unintelligible.

Does one really "have to" do this?

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Re: [CentOS] To all of the group

[Ralph Angenendt]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:35 AM, DTS-Corp (Knowledgebase)
 wrote:
> I am pretty much a newbie at CentOS, and Linux on client side,
>
> I would like to help out occasionally by helping the web development crew in
> their endeavors and by sorting out some stuff.
> such as repairing broken links, or just scanning for content and maybe even
> doing a little bit of consulting.

Most of these tasks are coordinated over the centos-docs or
centos-devel mailing lists, while this list here is the main "support
mailing list" for CentOS.

If you want to help out, you should come to these venues.

Regards,

Ralph
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Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

[mark]

Christoph Maser wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay:
>> I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so
>> far today after my upgrade.   Could it be one of my plugins I suppose?
> 
> Plugins often are a source of firefox crashes, try to run it without any
> additional plugins and see if it makes a difference.

I'll wager it's nspluginviewer.bin. There was a fix - I mentioned here 
reporting the bug, and them supposedly fixing it, but it's apparently still a 
problem. I have *never* had firefox crash like, well, a M$ product, the way 
it's done for a month.

mark
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Re: [CentOS] upgrade to 5.4 openswan broke

[Ralph Angenendt]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Myron Williams  wrote:

> Any help would be appreciated.

I just got told that you have to feed all certificates to nss storage
instead of having them in pem files.

See README.nss for more hints.

Regards,

Ralph
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Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

[Ralph Angenendt]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Les Mikesell  wrote:
> nate wrote:
>> slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos
>>> 5.3 x_64.
>>
>> Just run yum update and you'll get all of the updates that
>> you need that are available.
>
> Except that you'll probably end up with 5.4 or maybe an incomplete
> update if you do it while the mirrors are still syncing.

Blah.

5 will only point to 5.4/ when the mirrors are complete. So that
cannot happen at all.

Ralph
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Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

[Ralph Angenendt]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Christoph Maser  wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay:
>> I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so
>> far today after my upgrade.   Could it be one of my plugins I suppose?
>
>
> Plugins often are a source of firefox crashes, try to run it without any
> additional plugins and see if it makes a difference.

The flash plugin often is the culprit.

Cheers,

Ralph
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