[CentOS] Re: CentOS5 pam_mkhomedir

[Peter Huber]

Can anybody tell me, how to fix these two problems?


I have no problem with pam_mkhomedir on my CentOS 5 installation:

Works for me, the option for setting the home dir perms is umask=


Thank you. Actually there no problem using pam_mkhomedir. RedHat says something 
different (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/024oct06/features/tips_tricks/) but it 
still works. Maybe selinux was the problem in my first test.

Thank you
Peter

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Re: [CentOS] [5.0] little bug confirmation request

[Wojtek.Pilorz]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Lukasz wrote:
> Subject: [CentOS] [5.0] little bug confirmation request
> can someone do this:
> 
> 1. download this archive 
> http://plone.googlecode.com/files/Plone-2.5.3-final.tar.gz
> 
> 2. open it using midnight commander
> 
> 3. copy its content to any directory
I would suggest you try 
a) unpacking with tar and look at the result
b) if the problem exists with tar, run strace on tar, otherwise
   run strace on mc
c) run strace with the same program unpacking archive on CentOS5.0 machine
   where it does work correctly
d) compare results (look at the piece surrounding selected truncated name)



> 
> 4. check 
> ATReferenceBrowserWidget\skins\ATReferenceBrowserWidget 
> subdirectory
> 
> 5. there should be files referencebrowser_startupDirectory.py, 
> referencebrowser_queryCatalog.py, 
> referencebrowser_insertHistory.py, 
> referencebrowser_filterBreadCrumbs.py
> 
> 6. there are? on one CentoS 5.0 machine everything is fine; on 
> other (with the same updates) those files have shorted names, 
> (referencebrowser_queryCat, referencebrowser_filterBr, and 
> so); I checked it twice
> 
> 7. what and why is happening?
> 
> I have almost identical instalations, on ext3 partitions; I 
> don't know what information should I attach, bacause I never 
> seen something like that
> 
> thanks for any info
> 
> Lukasz
> 

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Re: [CentOS] Virtualisation of Netware?

[Paul]

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 10:45 -0400, Steve Huff wrote:
> On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:46 AM, Nigel Kendrick wrote:
> 
> > I am hoping someone can kick me up the learning curve (!) on  
> > Virtualization:
> >
> > We have an old piece of data logging software that was written in  
> > Turbo
> > Pascal 6 using a file I/O module tuned to Netware and so it expects  
> > its data
> > files to be on a Netware server and will not access them locally or  
> > via an
> > MS/Samba share - essentially, it uses direct NCP calls for parts of  
> > its data
> > access.
> >
> > The logging software was replaced two years ago, but we need  
> > occasional
> > access to the data for a minimum of 6 years and so I wondered  
> > whether I
> > could virtualize a Netware 3.x/4.x/5.x or 6./x server under Linux (or
> > Win..er..you know..).
> 
> virtualization seems an awful lot of heavy lifting for a capability  
> that you're going to use so infrequently.  if you can get the data  
> off the old Netware machine, you might be able to make do with some  
> of the old Linux-based Netware emulation solutions:
> 
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IPX-HOWTO-10.html
> 
> -steve

Just to put in my 2 cents ... I tried mars a couple years ago on CentOS
3 and managed to get it to run, but mars is *very* unsupported with no
development or bug fixing going on, frankly if it's just file serving I
would used samba instead.

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Re: [CentOS] startup config scripts for CentOS

[Jim Perrin]

On 8/7/07, Rogelio Bastardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On CentOS-based VM appliance I'm building, I would like to create a script
> that runs upon login that asks the user a series of questions that does
> (among other things) ask them to input their networking information (IP,
> mask, gate, DNS, etc).

Depending on what information is needed, this might already be done for you.

dropping a file called  .unconfigured in / will result in the system
running through the various setup programs like
system-config-keyboard, setting root's password, netconfig,
timeconfig, authconfig, ntsysv, etc.

Excerpted from /etc/rc.sysinit


# Configure machine if necessary.
if [ -f /.unconfigured ]; then
if [ -x /usr/bin/rhgb-client ] && /usr/bin/rhgb-client --ping ; then
chvt 1
fi

if [ -x /usr/bin/system-config-keyboard ]; then
/usr/bin/system-config-keyboard
fi
if [ -x /usr/bin/passwd ]; then
/usr/bin/passwd root
fi
if [ -x /usr/sbin/netconfig ]; then
/usr/sbin/netconfig
fi
if [ -x /usr/sbin/timeconfig ]; then
/usr/sbin/timeconfig
fi
if [ -x /usr/sbin/authconfig ]; then
/usr/sbin/authconfig --nostart
fi
if [ -x /usr/sbin/ntsysv ]; then
/usr/sbin/ntsysv --level 35
fi

# Reread in network configuration data.
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
. /etc/sysconfig/network

# Reset the hostname.
action $"Resetting hostname ${HOSTNAME}: " hostname ${HOSTNAME}
fi

rm -f /.unconfigured

if [ -x /usr/bin/rhgb-client ] && /usr/bin/rhgb-client --ping ; then
chvt 8
fi
fi



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Re: [CentOS] How to use a modem under CentOS

[fredex]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 05:07:59PM -0700, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> I have a modem in my system that comes up with this in lspci:
> 
> 01:07.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems 56k WinModem (rev 01)
> 
> What programs under CentOS, if any, can use this modem and how?

It's a "worthless winmodem". I'd suggest throwing it in the trash and
replacing it with an external serial (not USB) modem. I note that as
of this evening, Newegg.com has several such modems, starting from
a low of $17.99 and going up from there. I have no idea if any of them
are any good, YMMV.

OTOH maybe someone else can suggest suitable drivers for the winmodem.
I refuse to use the darn things.

(actually, I lucked out--I found a great industrial-strength Multi-Tech
external modem on ebay a few years ago. it served wonderfully for
several years until we got cable here at the house. I keep it around
in case emergencies arise.)

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RE: [CentOS] startup config scripts for CentOS

[Ross S. W. Walker]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rogelio Bastardo
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 6:02 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: [CentOS] startup config scripts for CentOS
> 
> On CentOS-based VM appliance I'm building, I would like to 
> create a script that runs upon login that asks the user a 
> series of questions that does (among other things) ask them 
> to input their networking information (IP, mask, gate, DNS, etc). 
>  
> I'm hoping you guys might point me in the right direction. 
> Here are some of the specific things I'm looking to 
> accomplish with such a script.
>  
> (1) Where might I look to for creating these types of scripts 
> (e.g. I'm assuming Bash is the way to go here?)
> (2) Are there any templates out there that I might use as a 
> starting place?
> (3) Once I write something, where/how do I call it in /etc/rc.d/
> (4) And once it starts, what is the best way to make sure 
> that it doesn't run again upon the second (and subsequent) reboots?
>  
> Ideally, someone could show me a model of something like this 
> that's already done, and I could just mod that.  Otherwise, 
> I'll grind through something manually, if I so have to

Kinda like the 'firstboot' app that runs the first time the machine
is installed after the reboot and doesn't run again?

-Ross

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[CentOS] How to use a modem under CentOS

[Mark Hull-Richter]

I have a modem in my system that comes up with this in lspci:

01:07.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems 56k WinModem (rev 01)

What programs under CentOS, if any, can use this modem and how?

Thanks.

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[CentOS] postfix+mysql

[Percy Gonzales]

Hi

Howto install postfix-mysql and pam-mysql from repository  yum

PD. excuse my English, I I speak Spanish
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[CentOS] Re: Opposite of cp -u

[Scott Silva]

Robert Moskowitz spake the following on 8/6/2007 4:22 PM:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>> Robert Moskowitz spake the following on 8/6/2007 2:40 PM:
>>  
>>> I had at one point copied a large number of files between drives and did
>>> not use the -p and thus the timestamps were all set to the date of the
>>> copy.
>>>
>>> I did not catch this, and deleted the source.  So I 'lived' with it and
>>> have since changed many files.
>>>
>>> Well, yesterday I found a good backup of many of those files and I want
>>> to restore them to their proper dates.
>>>
>>> cp -p -u is exactly the opposite of what I want.  I want to copy only if
>>> the source files have an earlier date than the destination files.
>>>
>>> The source files are just an old copy on another drive that I found when
>>> cleaning up things...
>>> 
>> Can you restore the backups, and then cp -u from the existing
>> directory over
>> the restored copy?
> No.  Because all the files, changed or not since that date, are newer
> than what is on the backup.  So it would overwrite everything.
So all the files on the share that haven't changed are all roughly the same
date/time?
Maybe you could copy -p the files to a new location, and rm all the files that
have that date/time with a "find /newlocation -mtime -(rough days to common
time) -exec rm -f {} \;" and then merge the backup with this new directory.

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Re: [CentOS] "near native" performance with xen?

[Daniel de Kok]

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 17:54 -0400, Johnn Tan wrote:
> I'm thinking it's either the kernel version or, like the 
> user states, maybe it's something with HyperThreading.

Hyperthreading is off on the machines where this occurs. Since the
problem seems to occur handline timer interrupts, this could be a
hardware-specific problem.

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Re: [CentOS] Opposite of cp -u

[William L. Maltby]

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 17:40 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 

P.S.

I make (the possibly invalid assumption) that the original directory
timestamp is a valid comparator to use in seeing if the file(s) have
been modified. For you case, if this is valid, the negation of the test
might be needed.

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[CentOS] startup config scripts for CentOS

[Rogelio Bastardo]

On CentOS-based VM appliance I'm building, I would like to create a script
that runs upon login that asks the user a series of questions that does
(among other things) ask them to input their networking information (IP,
mask, gate, DNS, etc).

I'm hoping you guys might point me in the right direction. Here are some of
the specific things I'm looking to accomplish with such a script.

(1) Where might I look to for creating these types of scripts (e.g. I'm
assuming Bash is the way to go here?)
(2) Are there any templates out there that I might use as a starting place?
(3) Once I write something, where/how do I call it in /etc/rc.d/
(4) And once it starts, what is the best way to make sure that it doesn't
run again upon the second (and subsequent) reboots?

Ideally, someone could show me a model of something like this that's already
done, and I could just mod that.  Otherwise, I'll grind through something
manually, if I so have to
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Re: [CentOS] Opposite of cp -u

[William L. Maltby]

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 17:40 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I had at one point copied a large number of files between drives and did 
> not use the -p and thus the timestamps were all set to the date of the copy.
> 
> I did not catch this, and deleted the source.  So I 'lived' with it and 
> have since changed many files.
> 
> Well, yesterday I found a good backup of many of those files and I want 
> to restore them to their proper dates.
> 
> cp -p -u is exactly the opposite of what I want.  I want to copy only if 
> the source files have an earlier date than the destination files.

I suggest "man find" and focus on the (new to me) versions of "newer". I
think, IIUC, that one of those tests will meet your needs. When the test
passes, an appropriate "exec ..." may do what you want.
> 
> The source files are just an old copy on another drive that I found when 
> cleaning up things...
> 

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Re: [CentOS] "near native" performance with xen?

[Johnn Tan]

Daniel de Kok wrote:

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 16:54 -0400, Johnn Tan wrote:
What error messages are you seeing? On one of my machines, I 
have four domU's (kernel 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen), each with 4 
VCPUs. I don't see any errors in any of the domU's dmesg. 
But /proc/cpuinfo shows they are each using all 4 CPUs.


Soft lockups on CPUs:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2161


Thanks for the link Daniel. I am not experiencing this at 
all. I now have 11 machines where I've assigned all 
available VCPUs to every domU running on each machine. I 
just did a reboot on one of them and checked the domU dmesg 
and do not see this.


I'm thinking it's either the kernel version or, like the 
user states, maybe it's something with HyperThreading.


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RE: [CentOS] Will this work? server+centOS5+100users?

[Ross S. W. Walker]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Sedlacek
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 5:18 PM
> To: centos@centos.org
> Subject: [CentOS] Will this work? server+centOS5+100users?
> 
> I am an experienced MS administrator of W2003 servers & 
> Exchange systems.
> 
> I have 5+ years UNIX mid-level experience but not in centOS. 
> Grounded in SCO UNIX (the real SCO UNIX).
> 
> We want to use CentOS on a recently grave yarded Dell 
> poweredge 400SC server.
> 
> This is a P4 3.0 Ghz, w/4GB memory, 2 SATA 250 GB disks.
> 
> We want to use this server w/CentOS5, to provide file and 
> print resources to 100 users.
> 
> Each Department wants control over common folders of info for 
> only their group.
> 
> Each user wants control over their folders.
> 
> Pretty much standard permissions for departments.
> 
> Is this do-able with the server and centOS5 and 100 users?

Sure you can, my only question is why?

I just bought a Dell Poweredge 860 1u unit with a Quad 2.4GHz
Xeon processor 2x4MB L2 cache and 4GB of memory for $1700.

Granted it only has 2 84GB internal SATA drives, but it is
ready to hook up to a storage enclosure, which could be a
MD1000 which has 15 drive bays driven by a PERC 5e controller.

Now of course the external enclosure will cost some $$ but it
will provide for growing performance and capacity needs and
you can always swap out the 860 for a higher end machine
down the line without having to backup/restore your data
volumes.

A 400SC might make a good print server, but it will struggle
as a good file server, especially as users start to want
things like volume snapshots and replication, etc.

Start with a lightly populated MD1000, say 4 SATA drives in
RAID5 or RAID10 and 2 SATA drives mirrored for snapshots.

-Ross

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[CentOS] Will this work? server+centOS5+100users?

[Ken Sedlacek]

I am an experienced MS administrator of W2003 servers & Exchange systems.

I have 5+ years UNIX mid-level experience but not in centOS. Grounded in SCO 
UNIX (the real SCO UNIX).

We want to use CentOS on a recently grave yarded Dell poweredge 400SC server.

This is a P4 3.0 Ghz, w/4GB memory, 2 SATA 250 GB disks.

We want to use this server w/CentOS5, to provide file and print resources to 
100 users.

Each Department wants control over common folders of info for only their group.

Each user wants control over their folders.

Pretty much standard permissions for departments.

Is this do-able with the server and centOS5 and 100 users?

Thank you in advance.

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RE: [CentOS] Adaptec 39320A woes

[Michael St. Laurent]

> I did the same (changed the speed in the BIOS settings) and it's
> working.  I tried it at 80 but I think I'm going to bump it to 160 and
> see if it works.

The 160 speed works as well for me.  It seems that only the 320 speed
causes a problem.  Which is interesting because Dell says that the drive
should be able to operate at 320 as well.
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RE: [CentOS] Yum install preferred arch only

[Ross S. W. Walker]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Kjellstrom
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:34 PM
> To: centos@centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Yum install preferred arch only
> 
> On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> ...
> > Maybe it's time for Yet-Another-Yum-Plugin YAYP, I will call it
> > yum-arch-affinity and will only select the target arch of a package
> > if multiple versions resolve, and if only 1 resolves to allow that
> > to go through, this should allow packages that have explicit archs
> > to resolve through.
> 
> Sounds like a nice plugin, when do you expect to have it ready? ;-)

Would you like a copy when I get it done?

I'll post it to devel and maybe it can get included in extras or plus...

Let me get a SRPM of a similar plugin, maybe installonlyn and see if
I can get it working.

-Ross

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[CentOS] [5.0] little bug confirmation request

[Lukasz]

can someone do this:

1. download this archive 
http://plone.googlecode.com/files/Plone-2.5.3-final.tar.gz


2. open it using midnight commander

3. copy its content to any directory

4. check 
ATReferenceBrowserWidget\skins\ATReferenceBrowserWidget 
subdirectory


5. there should be files referencebrowser_startupDirectory.py, 
referencebrowser_queryCatalog.py, 
referencebrowser_insertHistory.py, 
referencebrowser_filterBreadCrumbs.py


6. there are? on one CentoS 5.0 machine everything is fine; on 
other (with the same updates) those files have shorted names, 
(referencebrowser_queryCat, referencebrowser_filterBr, and 
so); I checked it twice


7. what and why is happening?

I have almost identical instalations, on ext3 partitions; I 
don't know what information should I attach, bacause I never 
seen something like that


thanks for any info

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Re: [CentOS] Yum install preferred arch only

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
...
> Maybe it's time for Yet-Another-Yum-Plugin YAYP, I will call it
> yum-arch-affinity and will only select the target arch of a package
> if multiple versions resolve, and if only 1 resolves to allow that
> to go through, this should allow packages that have explicit archs
> to resolve through.

Sounds like a nice plugin, when do you expect to have it ready? ;-)

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Re: [CentOS] Yum install preferred arch only

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
...
> Unless you are planning to run only stripped-down systems, that can
> cause trouble. A lot of packages do not have 64-bit versions

Quite a big leap from this (lots of packages, cause trouble, ..)

> and need 
> (lots of) 32-bit support packages and libraries to run.  E.g., web
> browsers (whose 64-bit versions run just fine until you need a plug-in
> that's only available in 32-bit versions).

...to this (problem when you need a 3rd party browser plugin that's not 
available in 64-bit).

I run many machines just fine with very few ix86 packages (glibc as the op 
also mentioned can be nice to have around..). IMHO having lots of 32-bit 
packages causes more problems than it's worth (as a default).

/Peter

> Just a comment - I don't have a specific solution (yet).
>
> mhr


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RE: [CentOS] Adaptec 39320A woes

[Michael St. Laurent]

> Plant, Dean wrote:
> > Simple fix,
> > 
> > Adaptec & CentOS = :-(
> > LSI & CentOS = :-)
> 
> Which is why after a few hours of testing I decided to indeed buy a
> couple of LSI cards to test with -- far better than a lot of 
> frustration.
> 
> But, meanwhile, I decided to test one more thing: just 
> suppose that the
> SCSI auto-negotiation, which worked fine before, had suddenly given up
> in version 3.0 of the aic79xx driver?
> 
> I forced the transfer rate in the Adaptec BIOS for those IDs to the
> maximum that my Infortrend could support (U160) and for good measure
> disabled "Disconnect" as well. Then, rebooted into 2.6.18-8.1.6&8, and
> it worked: User==Goal==Curr==160.0 MB/s.
> Apparently, the latest aic79xx driver V3.0 does no longer support
> auto-negotiation, whereas all drivers <=1.3.11 did negotiate 
> correctly.
> 
> Michael, maybe that works for you as well (unless your tapedrive
> actually does do U320)?

I did the same (changed the speed in the BIOS settings) and it's
working.  I tried it at 80 but I think I'm going to bump it to 160 and
see if it works.

I still wish I could figure out why the adaptec kernel driver won't
install though.  Maybe I'll try downloading the source and manually
compiling the kernel module.
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RE: [CentOS] Yum install preferred arch only

[Ross S. W. Walker]

> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Akemi Yagi
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> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Yum install preferred arch only
> 
> On 8/7/07, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I have a couple 64-bit CentOS 5 installations here and was 
> wondering if
> > there was a yum option to have it install only x86_64 arch 
> by default
> > if no arch is specified.
> >
> > I tired of having to append .x86_64 on all package names I only want
> > the x86_64 versions of, if I want the i386 versions too I would add
> > the .i386 package to the list...
> 
> You can exclude=*.i386 in the repo file.

Yeah, I am doing that now and while it is ok I was wondering if there
was a way to set an "affinity" to the target architecture so one can
still explicitly install the .i386 version by explicitly specifying
it on the install, and if there were any dependencies to i386 versions
they would be resolved.

Maybe it's time for Yet-Another-Yum-Plugin YAYP, I will call it
yum-arch-affinity and will only select the target arch of a package
if multiple versions resolve, and if only 1 resolves to allow that
to go through, this should allow packages that have explicit archs
to resolve through.

-Ross

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Re: [CentOS] Yum install preferred arch only

[Akemi Yagi]

On 8/7/07, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I have a couple 64-bit CentOS 5 installations here and was wondering if
> there was a yum option to have it install only x86_64 arch by default
> if no arch is specified.
>
> I tired of having to append .x86_64 on all package names I only want
> the x86_64 versions of, if I want the i386 versions too I would add
> the .i386 package to the list...

You can exclude=*.i386 in the repo file.

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RE: [CentOS] Yum install preferred arch only

[Ross S. W. Walker]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Hull-Richter
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:01 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Yum install preferred arch only
> 
> On 8/7/07, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I have a  couple 64-bit CentOS 5 installations here and was 
> wondering  if
> > there was a  yum option to have it install only x86_64 arch 
> by default
> > if no arch  is specified.
> >
> > I tired of  having to append .x86_64 on all package names I 
> only want
> > the x86_64  versions of, if I want the i386 versions too I would add
> > the .i386  package to the list...
> >
> 
> Unless you are planning to run only stripped-down systems, that can
> cause trouble.  A lot of packages do not have 64-bit versions and need
> (lots of) 32-bit support packages and libraries to run.  E.g., web
> browsers (whose 64-bit versions run just fine until you need a plug-in
> that's only available in 32-bit versions).
> 
> Just a comment - I don't have a specific solution (yet).

Yeah, it's stripped down, server installs, I do have glibc.i686 and a
couple other libs for CLI i386 only apps, but I'm tired of yum installing
executable packages and having their i386 counter parts thrown in, take
subversion for example and the ton of i386 dependencies it brings with
it.

exclude=*.i386 is a so-so solution, but I cannot override it for explicit
installs of i386 packages without commenting it out first.

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Re: [CentOS] Yum install preferred arch only

[Jim Perrin]

On 8/7/07, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I have a couple 64-bit CentOS 5 installations here and was wondering if
> there was a yum option to have it install only x86_64 arch by default
> if no arch is specified.
>
> I tired of having to append .x86_64 on all package names I only want
> the x86_64 versions of, if I want the i386 versions too I would add
> the .i386 package to the list...


The exclude= line in this post ->
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2007-August/003751.html
should help you out.

Drop that in the individual repo files, or globally in your yum.conf
Should work for you.

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Re: [CentOS] Yum install preferred arch only

[Mark Hull-Richter]

On 8/7/07, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have a  couple 64-bit CentOS 5 installations here and was wondering  if
> there was a  yum option to have it install only x86_64 arch by default
> if no arch  is specified.
>
> I tired of  having to append .x86_64 on all package names I only want
> the x86_64  versions of, if I want the i386 versions too I would add
> the .i386  package to the list...
>

Unless you are planning to run only stripped-down systems, that can
cause trouble.  A lot of packages do not have 64-bit versions and need
(lots of) 32-bit support packages and libraries to run.  E.g., web
browsers (whose 64-bit versions run just fine until you need a plug-in
that's only available in 32-bit versions).

Just a comment - I don't have a specific solution (yet).

mhr
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[CentOS] Yum install preferred arch only

[Ross S. W. Walker]

I have a couple 64-bit CentOS 5 installations here and was wondering if
there was a yum option to have it install only x86_64 arch by default
if no arch is specified.
 
I tired of having to append .x86_64 on all package names I only want
the x86_64 versions of, if I want the i386 versions too I would add
the .i386 package to the list...
 
 
Thanks All,

Ross S. W. Walker
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[CentOS] CENTOS 4 and mono

[Jaime Ventura]

Hello,
Im trying to configure my centos machine to run webservices.
Im using the mono repo from www.*mono*-project.com, for rhel-4.
After configuring every thing, it all seemed to work fine with a simple 
webservice for testing purposes.


For that, a friendo of mine created a vb webservice on a windows machine 
and I copied the all resulting files(asmx, dll, etc).

When I access the webservice via GET, every thing works just fine.
But when I do a POST, the mod-mono-server2.exe goes away :(

Does anyone can  help me to debug the problem?
The apache logs doesnt help much.
Thanks


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[CentOS] Killing a nohup process?

[aaron smith]

Hey All, How can I find processes that were started with nohup and kill
them?

thanks all
Also, is this the right list for that kind of question?
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RE: [CentOS] Virtualisation of Netware?

[Nigel Kendrick]

 

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Of Steve Huff
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 3:46 PM
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On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:46 AM, Nigel Kendrick wrote:

> I am hoping someone can kick me up the learning curve (!) on  
> Virtualization:
>
> We have an old piece of data logging software that was written in  
> Turbo
> Pascal 6 using a file I/O module tuned to Netware and so it expects  
> its data
> files to be on a Netware server and will not access them locally or  
> via an
> MS/Samba share - essentially, it uses direct NCP calls for parts of  
> its data
> access.
>
> The logging software was replaced two years ago, but we need  
> occasional
> access to the data for a minimum of 6 years and so I wondered  
> whether I
> could virtualize a Netware 3.x/4.x/5.x or 6./x server under Linux (or
> Win..er..you know..).

virtualization seems an awful lot of heavy lifting for a capability  
that you're going to use so infrequently.  if you can get the data  
off the old Netware machine, you might be able to make do with some  
of the old Linux-based Netware emulation solutions:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IPX-HOWTO-10.html

-steve

Thanks - I dabbled with that a couple of years ago without much success. I
might end up just bringing the data into a mysql database and writing a
simple query front-end in php.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?

[Johnny Hughes]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Johnny Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2007 9:28:50 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> - Original Message -
>> From: "Akemi Yagi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "CentOS mailing list" 
>> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2007 10:49:26 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?
>>
>> On 8/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> - Original Message -
>>> From: "Johnny Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: "CentOS mailing list" 
>>> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2007 9:55:10 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane
>>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?
>>> >
>>> > The kernels are available in testing form here:
>>> >
>>> > http://people.centos.org/~hughesjr/vmware-kernels/
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Johnny, will these kernels eventually be pushed into centosplus ?
>>> >
>>>
>>> Maybe ... we are trying to work out a way to prevent conflict.  Users
>>> seem to have a problem with more than 1 item of the same type in a
>>> specific repo.  We will put out instructions on how to use
>>> "exclude=whatever" in yum, but they don't and then we get a hundred bug
>>> reports / e-mails that the plus kernel replaces the vmware kernel or the
>>> other way around.
>>>
>>> If we can have them easily coexist in the same repo and make it EASY for
>>>  the users and provide the content, then we will put them there,
>>> otherwise (or until then) people will need to look for it here.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Johnny Hughes
>>>
>>> Cool,
>>>
>>> would you say they are ready for primetime even although they are in
>> 'testing' ?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Brian.
>>
>> The i686 version has been tested / used for a while now and I'm sure
>> Johnny can tell you his experience.  As for x86_64, it is not as
>> extensively tried.  I have been running it in a test VM and all seems
>> good so far.
>>
>> Akemi
>> ___
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know if the i686 version is PAE enabled ?
> 
> I PAE kernel is really not something I think I would run inside VMware
> ... or am I missing something here?
> 
> http://www.vmware.com/pdf/GuestOS_guide.pdf
> 
> That says you will not be happy with PAE inside the VM.
> 
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
> 
> 
> I was more wondering about using this as a host kernel and whether it
> would support > 4gb RAM ?
> 

This kernel is designed for use in a vmware client only ... it is not
for using on the host.

The purpose of this kernel is to solve issues with the kernel timer by
setting the the timer from 1000HZ or 250HZ to 100HZ.  You would not want
to do this on the host ... only on the client.  It is to fix this problem:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189

Using a standard kernel on the host is much better than using this
kernel ... and the standard kernels have PAE support for the host.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes



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RE: [CentOS] Virtualisation of Netware?

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Nigel Kendrick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am hoping someone can kick me up the learning curve (!) on
Virtualization:
>
> We have an old piece of data logging software that was written in Turbo
> Pascal 6 using a file I/O module tuned to Netware and so it expects its
data

I had installed a Netware 6 server on VMware WS 5 a couple of years back 
in a scenario similar to yours.  If memory serves right, problems were 
lack of VMware tools (no big deal) and lack of ipx/spx (this may be 
critical to you).

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RE: [CentOS] Virtualisation of Netware?

[Nigel Kendrick]

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> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nigel Kendrick
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 9:46 AM
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> Subject: [CentOS] Virtualisation of Netware?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am hoping someone can kick me up the learning curve (!) on 
> Virtualization:
> 

I would look at using Suse Enterprise Linux you will find greater
virtualization and Netware support right now then in CentOS.

-Ross



Thanks - I having a look already.

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Re: [CentOS] Adaptec 39320A woes

[David Groep]

Hi,

Plant, Dean wrote:

Simple fix,

Adaptec & CentOS = :-(
LSI & CentOS = :-)


Which is why after a few hours of testing I decided to indeed buy a
couple of LSI cards to test with -- far better than a lot of frustration.

But, meanwhile, I decided to test one more thing: just suppose that the
SCSI auto-negotiation, which worked fine before, had suddenly given up
in version 3.0 of the aic79xx driver?

I forced the transfer rate in the Adaptec BIOS for those IDs to the
maximum that my Infortrend could support (U160) and for good measure
disabled "Disconnect" as well. Then, rebooted into 2.6.18-8.1.6&8, and
it worked: User==Goal==Curr==160.0 MB/s.
Apparently, the latest aic79xx driver V3.0 does no longer support
auto-negotiation, whereas all drivers <=1.3.11 did negotiate correctly.

Michael, maybe that works for you as well (unless your tapedrive
actually does do U320)?

DavidG.

Anyway, the LSI cards will finally give me >2TByte devices, so it's good
having those anyway.


We spent a few days trying to get Adaptec cards working with LTO-3
drives. It was suggested to me from this list to try an LSI, we bought
one, it worked, problem solved.

Dean

David Groep wrote:


[sorry for breaking the threading, only joined after reading this on
the web] 


Michael St. Laurent wrote:


I'm having speed problems with the SCSI card we're using to do tape
backup.  It seems to be functioning in 16 bit mode and the current
thinking is that perhaps it's using a legacy driver instead of the
correct one.  The Adaptec site has a 'driver' for RHEL5 which I've
downloaded and tried to install but it seems to have a problem
installing on a CentOS-5 system.


Hit this same issue with a slightly different configuration, and
although not able to offer a solution, I can at least give some more
boundary conditions. As I see it now, it starts to look like a driver
issue. 


- I found the issue with a 39320 controller on CentOS5/i386,
  talking to an Infortrend IFT-7250F enclosure. It should be doing
  U160 (Wide, 80 MHz synchonous), but it decays to 3.300 MB/s
  transfers. The driver indeed even says the "Goal" is 3.300 MB/s ...

  It is confirmed by the infortrend: it shows asynchonous/narrow as
  transfer settings for the SCSI channels after loading the aic79xx
driver. 


- Exchanging the 39320 for a 29320, still on the same machine with
  CentOS5/i386, does not change it: still 3.300 MB/s (as confirmed
  by the infortrend itself)

- putting this same 29320, with the same IFT7250F and with the
  same cabling, in another machine running CentOS3.7: presto, it
  synchonizes again at 160 MB/s (Wide, 80 MHz)!

- similar Adaptec 29320 and 39320's in a CentOS4/i386 box, connected
  to similar Infortrends: work correctly at 160 and 320 MB/s

- Booting into kernel 2.6.18-8.el5 or 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 makes no
difference 


For CentOS5, the aic79xx driver is "Version: 3.0". For CentOS3 it's
using driver "1.3.10-RH1", and for the CentOS4 systems, it's "1.3.11".
What changed between 1.3.11 and 3.0?

At least you're not alone ...

Regards,
DavidG.

PS: and indeed, the adaptec driver RPM does not install correctly,
with 
the same errors you reported below.




[root  hcnas modules]# cd /proc/scsi
[root  hcnas scsi]# cat scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lun: 00
 Vendor: DP   Model: BACKPLANERev: 1.05
 Type:   EnclosureANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi0 Channel: 02 Id: 00 Lun: 00
 Vendor: DELL Model: PERC 5/i Rev: 1.03
 Type:   Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
 Vendor: CERTANCE Model: ULTRIUM 2Rev: 1914
 Type:   Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 01
 Vendor: DELL Model: PV-124T  Rev: 0043
 Type:   Medium Changer   ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
 Vendor: Dell Model: Virtual  CDROM   Rev: 123
 Type:   CD-ROM   ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
 Vendor: Dell Model: Virtual  Floppy  Rev: 123
 Type:   Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02
[root  hcnas scsi]# ll total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug  3 13:21 aic79xx
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug  3 13:21 device_info
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug  3 13:21 scsi
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug  3 13:21 sg
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug  3 13:21 usb-storage
[root  hcnas scsi]# cd aic79xx/
[root  hcnas aic79xx]# ll
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug  3 13:09 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug  3 13:09 2
[root  hcnas aic79xx]# cat 1
Adaptec AIC79xx driver version: 3.0
Adaptec 39320A Ultra320 SCSI adapter
aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 101-133Mhz, 512
SCBs Allocated SCBs: 4, SG List Length: 128

Serial EEPROM:
0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8
0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8
0x09f4 0x0142 0x2807 0x0010 0xfff

Re: [CentOS] Virtualisation of Netware?

[Steve Huff]

On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:46 AM, Nigel Kendrick wrote:

I am hoping someone can kick me up the learning curve (!) on  
Virtualization:


We have an old piece of data logging software that was written in  
Turbo
Pascal 6 using a file I/O module tuned to Netware and so it expects  
its data
files to be on a Netware server and will not access them locally or  
via an
MS/Samba share - essentially, it uses direct NCP calls for parts of  
its data

access.

The logging software was replaced two years ago, but we need  
occasional
access to the data for a minimum of 6 years and so I wondered  
whether I

could virtualize a Netware 3.x/4.x/5.x or 6./x server under Linux (or
Win..er..you know..).


virtualization seems an awful lot of heavy lifting for a capability  
that you're going to use so infrequently.  if you can get the data  
off the old Netware machine, you might be able to make do with some  
of the old Linux-based Netware emulation solutions:


http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IPX-HOWTO-10.html

-steve

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Re: [CentOS] Virtualisation of Netware?

[G . Stamoulis]

Nigel Kendrick wrote:

Hi,

I am hoping someone can kick me up the learning curve (!) on Virtualization:

We have an old piece of data logging software that was written in Turbo
Pascal 6 using a file I/O module tuned to Netware and so it expects its data
files to be on a Netware server and will not access them locally or via an
MS/Samba share - essentially, it uses direct NCP calls for parts of its data
access.

The logging software was replaced two years ago, but we need occasional
access to the data for a minimum of 6 years and so I wondered whether I
could virtualize a Netware 3.x/4.x/5.x or 6./x server under Linux (or
Win..er..you know..).

I have found some articles on Netware 6.5 virtualization but would really
appreciate input from anyone actually doing this already - otherwise I'll
just have to keep the existing Netware server in the computer room to be
fired up about 3-4 times a year 'on demand'. For info, I'm running a Netware
6.5 1-user 'demo' licence - the original install was on Netware 3.12 until
the server died and no-one could find the original Netware floppies!

Thanks

Nigel Kendrick

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can your software communicate with Netware over tcp/ip or it needs ipx/spx?

I had installed a Netware 6 server on VMware WS 5 a couple of years back 
in a scenario similar to yours.  If memory serves right, problems were 
lack of VMware tools (no big deal) and lack of ipx/spx (this may be 
critical to you).


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RE: [CentOS] Virtualisation of Netware?

[Ross S. W. Walker]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nigel Kendrick
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 9:46 AM
> To: 'CentOS mailing list'
> Subject: [CentOS] Virtualisation of Netware?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am hoping someone can kick me up the learning curve (!) on 
> Virtualization:
> 
> We have an old piece of data logging software that was 
> written in Turbo
> Pascal 6 using a file I/O module tuned to Netware and so it 
> expects its data
> files to be on a Netware server and will not access them 
> locally or via an
> MS/Samba share - essentially, it uses direct NCP calls for 
> parts of its data
> access.
> 
> The logging software was replaced two years ago, but we need 
> occasional
> access to the data for a minimum of 6 years and so I wondered 
> whether I
> could virtualize a Netware 3.x/4.x/5.x or 6./x server under Linux (or
> Win..er..you know..).
> 
> I have found some articles on Netware 6.5 virtualization but 
> would really
> appreciate input from anyone actually doing this already - 
> otherwise I'll
> just have to keep the existing Netware server in the computer 
> room to be
> fired up about 3-4 times a year 'on demand'. For info, I'm 
> running a Netware
> 6.5 1-user 'demo' licence - the original install was on 
> Netware 3.12 until
> the server died and no-one could find the original Netware floppies!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nigel Kendrick

I would look at using Suse Enterprise Linux you will find greater
virtualization and Netware support right now then in CentOS.

-Ross

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[CentOS] Virtualisation of Netware?

[Nigel Kendrick]

Hi,

I am hoping someone can kick me up the learning curve (!) on Virtualization:

We have an old piece of data logging software that was written in Turbo
Pascal 6 using a file I/O module tuned to Netware and so it expects its data
files to be on a Netware server and will not access them locally or via an
MS/Samba share - essentially, it uses direct NCP calls for parts of its data
access.

The logging software was replaced two years ago, but we need occasional
access to the data for a minimum of 6 years and so I wondered whether I
could virtualize a Netware 3.x/4.x/5.x or 6./x server under Linux (or
Win..er..you know..).

I have found some articles on Netware 6.5 virtualization but would really
appreciate input from anyone actually doing this already - otherwise I'll
just have to keep the existing Netware server in the computer room to be
fired up about 3-4 times a year 'on demand'. For info, I'm running a Netware
6.5 1-user 'demo' licence - the original install was on Netware 3.12 until
the server died and no-one could find the original Netware floppies!

Thanks

Nigel Kendrick

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[CentOS] CentOS5 pam_mkhomedir

[Peter Huber]

I have a problem creating homedirs on the fly. Since RHEL5 / CentOS5 you have to 
use pam_oddjob_mkhomedir instead of pam_mkhomedir.

Everything is working (the homedir is created) but two things.
First on every logon I get the following error message, and I don't know how to 
fix it:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name com.redhat.oddjob was not 
provided by any .service files


Second: The permissions of the new created homedir is wrong. It should be 700 
but it is 755.


Can anybody tell me, how to fix these two problems?

Thanks

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RE: [CentOS] Adaptec 39320A woes

[Plant, Dean]

Simple fix,

Adaptec & CentOS = :-(
LSI & CentOS = :-)

We spent a few days trying to get Adaptec cards working with LTO-3
drives. It was suggested to me from this list to try an LSI, we bought
one, it worked, problem solved.

Dean

David Groep wrote:
> [sorry for breaking the threading, only joined after reading this on
> the web] 
> 
> Michael St. Laurent wrote:
>> I'm having speed problems with the SCSI card we're using to do tape
>> backup.  It seems to be functioning in 16 bit mode and the current
>> thinking is that perhaps it's using a legacy driver instead of the
>> correct one.  The Adaptec site has a 'driver' for RHEL5 which I've
>> downloaded and tried to install but it seems to have a problem
>> installing on a CentOS-5 system.
> 
> Hit this same issue with a slightly different configuration, and
> although not able to offer a solution, I can at least give some more
> boundary conditions. As I see it now, it starts to look like a driver
> issue. 
> 
> - I found the issue with a 39320 controller on CentOS5/i386,
>talking to an Infortrend IFT-7250F enclosure. It should be doing
>U160 (Wide, 80 MHz synchonous), but it decays to 3.300 MB/s
>transfers. The driver indeed even says the "Goal" is 3.300 MB/s ...
> 
>It is confirmed by the infortrend: it shows asynchonous/narrow as
>transfer settings for the SCSI channels after loading the aic79xx
> driver. 
> 
> - Exchanging the 39320 for a 29320, still on the same machine with
>CentOS5/i386, does not change it: still 3.300 MB/s (as confirmed
>by the infortrend itself)
> 
> - putting this same 29320, with the same IFT7250F and with the
>same cabling, in another machine running CentOS3.7: presto, it
>synchonizes again at 160 MB/s (Wide, 80 MHz)!
> 
> - similar Adaptec 29320 and 39320's in a CentOS4/i386 box, connected
>to similar Infortrends: work correctly at 160 and 320 MB/s
> 
> - Booting into kernel 2.6.18-8.el5 or 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 makes no
> difference 
> 
> For CentOS5, the aic79xx driver is "Version: 3.0". For CentOS3 it's
> using driver "1.3.10-RH1", and for the CentOS4 systems, it's "1.3.11".
> What changed between 1.3.11 and 3.0?
> 
> At least you're not alone ...
> 
>   Regards,
>   DavidG.
> 
> PS: and indeed, the adaptec driver RPM does not install correctly,
> with 
> the same errors you reported below.
> 
>> [root  hcnas modules]# cd /proc/scsi
>> [root  hcnas scsi]# cat scsi
>> Attached devices:
>> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lun: 00
>>   Vendor: DP   Model: BACKPLANERev: 1.05
>>   Type:   EnclosureANSI SCSI revision: 05
>> Host: scsi0 Channel: 02 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>>   Vendor: DELL Model: PERC 5/i Rev: 1.03
>>   Type:   Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 05
>> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
>>   Vendor: CERTANCE Model: ULTRIUM 2Rev: 1914
>>   Type:   Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 03
>> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 01
>>   Vendor: DELL Model: PV-124T  Rev: 0043
>>   Type:   Medium Changer   ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>> Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>>   Vendor: Dell Model: Virtual  CDROM   Rev: 123
>>   Type:   CD-ROM   ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>> Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>>   Vendor: Dell Model: Virtual  Floppy  Rev: 123
>>   Type:   Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02
>> [root  hcnas scsi]# ll total 0
>> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug  3 13:21 aic79xx
>> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug  3 13:21 device_info
>> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug  3 13:21 scsi
>> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug  3 13:21 sg
>> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug  3 13:21 usb-storage
>> [root  hcnas scsi]# cd aic79xx/
>> [root  hcnas aic79xx]# ll
>> total 0
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug  3 13:09 1
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug  3 13:09 2
>> [root  hcnas aic79xx]# cat 1
>> Adaptec AIC79xx driver version: 3.0
>> Adaptec 39320A Ultra320 SCSI adapter
>> aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 101-133Mhz, 512
>> SCBs Allocated SCBs: 4, SG List Length: 128
>> 
>> Serial EEPROM:
>> 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8
>> 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8
>> 0x09f4 0x0142 0x2807 0x0010 0x 0x 0x 0x
>> 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x0430 0xb3f3
>> 
>> Target 0 Negotiation Settings
>> User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz
>> RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 1 Negotiation Settings
>> User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz
>> RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 2 Negotiation Settings
>> User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz
>> RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 3 Negotiation Settings
>> User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz
>> RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 4 Negotiation Settings
>> User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz
>> RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS, 16bit) Target 5 Negotiation Settings
>> User: 

RE: [CentOS] CentOS5 pam_mkhomedir

[Ross S. W. Walker]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Huber
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 9:20 AM
> To: centos@centos.org
> Subject: [CentOS] CentOS5 pam_mkhomedir
> 
> I have a problem creating homedirs on the fly. Since RHEL5 / 
> CentOS5 you have to 
> use pam_oddjob_mkhomedir instead of pam_mkhomedir.
> Everything is working (the homedir is created) but two things.
> First on every logon I get the following error message, and I 
> don't know how to 
> fix it:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name 
> com.redhat.oddjob was not 
> provided by any .service files
> 
> Second: The permissions of the new created homedir is wrong. 
> It should be 700 
> but it is 755.
> 
> Can anybody tell me, how to fix these two problems?

I have no problem with pam_mkhomedir on my CentOS 5 installation:

session optional  pam_keyinit.so revoke
session required  pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0077 silent
session required  pam_limits.so
session [success=1 default=ignore] pam_succeed_if.so service in crond quiet 
use_uid
session required  pam_unix.so
session optional  pam_krb5.so

Works for me, the option for setting the home dir perms is umask=

-Ross

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 pam_mkhomedir

[Aaron Bliss]

Peter,
I'm using pam_mkhomedir on redhat 5 and centos5 just as it worked in 
previous versions of redhat...why do you believe that pam_mkhomedir 
doesn't work?


Aaron

Peter Huber wrote:
I have a problem creating homedirs on the fly. Since RHEL5 / CentOS5 
you have to use pam_oddjob_mkhomedir instead of pam_mkhomedir.

Everything is working (the homedir is created) but two things.
First on every logon I get the following error message, and I don't 
know how to fix it:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name com.redhat.oddjob 
was not provided by any .service files


Second: The permissions of the new created homedir is wrong. It should 
be 700 but it is 755.


Can anybody tell me, how to fix these two problems?

Thanks

Peter

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Re: [CentOS] ipw220 wireless firmware for CentOS 5

[Phil Schaffner]

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 07:20 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks Fabian,
> There seem to be a number of different ways of installing the ipw2200
> firmware and as I've said already I've tried puttting the .fw files into
> the firmware directory - why doesn't this work? What is actually the
> best/recommended way of installing the firmware in CentOS 5 please? - not
> too complicated please as I'm a linux enthusiast but not a great expert!

I have successfully used both the RPMforge and ATrpms packages for
IPW2200 on my laptop.  If you are using packages from either repo
already, sticking with that one is probably the best bet.  If using both
or neither, depends on whether you want to go with Axel's (ATrpms) kmdl
approach (may have to wait for him to build new packages after a new
kernel arrives) or with Dag's (RPMforge) dkms approach (rebuilds kernel
modules on-the-fly - requires development environment to be present).

Either is likely to be less complicated than trying to use the tarball,
and both have the advantage of having the package manager handle updates
to new firmware or drivers.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?

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Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2007 9:28:50 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane 
Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware? 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Akemi Yagi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
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> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2007 10:49:26 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane 
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware? 
> 
> On 8/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
>> 
>> - Original Message - 
>> From: "Johnny Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>> To: "CentOS mailing list"  
>> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2007 9:55:10 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane 
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware? 
>> > 
>> > The kernels are available in testing form here: 
>> > 
>> > http://people.centos.org/~hughesjr/vmware-kernels/ 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Johnny, will these kernels eventually be pushed into centosplus ? 
>> > 
>> 
>> Maybe ... we are trying to work out a way to prevent conflict. Users 
>> seem to have a problem with more than 1 item of the same type in a 
>> specific repo. We will put out instructions on how to use 
>> "exclude=whatever" in yum, but they don't and then we get a hundred bug 
>> reports / e-mails that the plus kernel replaces the vmware kernel or the 
>> other way around. 
>> 
>> If we can have them easily coexist in the same repo and make it EASY for 
>> the users and provide the content, then we will put them there, 
>> otherwise (or until then) people will need to look for it here. 
>> 
>> Thanks, 
>> Johnny Hughes 
>> 
>> Cool, 
>> 
>> would you say they are ready for primetime even although they are in 
> 'testing' ? 
>> 
>> Cheers, 
>> 
>> Brian. 
> 
> The i686 version has been tested / used for a while now and I'm sure 
> Johnny can tell you his experience. As for x86_64, it is not as 
> extensively tried. I have been running it in a test VM and all seems 
> good so far. 
> 
> Akemi 
> ___ 
> 
> 
> Does anyone know if the i686 version is PAE enabled ? 

I PAE kernel is really not something I think I would run inside VMware 
... or am I missing something here? 

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/GuestOS_guide.pdf 

That says you will not be happy with PAE inside the VM. 

Thanks, 
Johnny Hughes 


I was more wondering about using this as a host kernel and whether it would 
support > 4gb RAM ? 

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[CentOS] Adaptec 39320A woes

[David Groep]

[sorry for breaking the threading, only joined after reading this on the web]

Michael St. Laurent wrote:

I'm having speed problems with the SCSI card we're using to do tape
backup.  It seems to be functioning in 16 bit mode and the current
thinking is that perhaps it's using a legacy driver instead of the
correct one.  The Adaptec site has a 'driver' for RHEL5 which I've
downloaded and tried to install but it seems to have a problem
installing on a CentOS-5 system.


Hit this same issue with a slightly different configuration, and although
not able to offer a solution, I can at least give some more boundary
conditions. As I see it now, it starts to look like a driver issue.

- I found the issue with a 39320 controller on CentOS5/i386,
  talking to an Infortrend IFT-7250F enclosure. It should be doing U160
  (Wide, 80 MHz synchonous), but it decays to 3.300 MB/s transfers.
  The driver indeed even says the "Goal" is 3.300 MB/s ...

  It is confirmed by the infortrend: it shows asynchonous/narrow as
  transfer settings for the SCSI channels after loading the aic79xx driver.

- Exchanging the 39320 for a 29320, still on the same machine with
  CentOS5/i386, does not change it: still 3.300 MB/s (as confirmed
  by the infortrend itself)

- putting this same 29320, with the same IFT7250F and with the
  same cabling, in another machine running CentOS3.7: presto, it
  synchonizes again at 160 MB/s (Wide, 80 MHz)!

- similar Adaptec 29320 and 39320's in a CentOS4/i386 box, connected to
  similar Infortrends: work correctly at 160 and 320 MB/s

- Booting into kernel 2.6.18-8.el5 or 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 makes no difference

For CentOS5, the aic79xx driver is "Version: 3.0". For CentOS3 it's
using driver "1.3.10-RH1", and for the CentOS4 systems, it's "1.3.11".
What changed between 1.3.11 and 3.0?

At least you're not alone ...

Regards,
DavidG.

PS: and indeed, the adaptec driver RPM does not install correctly, with
the same errors you reported below.


[root  hcnas modules]# cd /proc/scsi
[root  hcnas scsi]# cat scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lun: 00
  Vendor: DP   Model: BACKPLANERev: 1.05
  Type:   EnclosureANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi0 Channel: 02 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: DELL Model: PERC 5/i Rev: 1.03
  Type:   Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
  Vendor: CERTANCE Model: ULTRIUM 2Rev: 1914
  Type:   Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 01
  Vendor: DELL Model: PV-124T  Rev: 0043
  Type:   Medium Changer   ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: Dell Model: Virtual  CDROM   Rev: 123
  Type:   CD-ROM   ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: Dell Model: Virtual  Floppy  Rev: 123
  Type:   Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02
[root  hcnas scsi]# ll
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug  3 13:21 aic79xx
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug  3 13:21 device_info
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug  3 13:21 scsi
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug  3 13:21 sg
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug  3 13:21 usb-storage
[root  hcnas scsi]# cd aic79xx/
[root  hcnas aic79xx]# ll
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug  3 13:09 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug  3 13:09 2
[root  hcnas aic79xx]# cat 1
Adaptec AIC79xx driver version: 3.0
Adaptec 39320A Ultra320 SCSI adapter
aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 101-133Mhz, 512 SCBs
Allocated SCBs: 4, SG List Length: 128

Serial EEPROM:
0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8
0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8 0x17c8
0x09f4 0x0142 0x2807 0x0010 0x 0x 0x 0x
0x 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x0430 0xb3f3

Target 0 Negotiation Settings
User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS,
16bit)
Target 1 Negotiation Settings
User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS,
16bit)
Target 2 Negotiation Settings
User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS,
16bit)
Target 3 Negotiation Settings
User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS,
16bit)
Target 4 Negotiation Settings
User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS,
16bit)
Target 5 Negotiation Settings
User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS,
16bit)
Target 6 Negotiation Settings
User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS,
16bit)
Goal: 3.300MB/s transfers
Curr: 3.300MB/s transfers
Channel A Target 6 Lun 0 Settings
Commands Queued 29
Commands Active 0
Command Openings 1
Max Tagged Openings 0
Device Queue Frozen Count 0
Channel A Target 6 Lun 1 Settings
Commands Queu

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?

[Johnny Hughes]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Akemi Yagi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2007 10:49:26 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?
> 
> On 8/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> - Original Message -
>> From: "Johnny Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "CentOS mailing list" 
>> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2007 9:55:10 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?
>> >
>> > The kernels are available in testing form here:
>> >
>> > http://people.centos.org/~hughesjr/vmware-kernels/
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Johnny, will these kernels eventually be pushed into centosplus ?
>> >
>>
>> Maybe ... we are trying to work out a way to prevent conflict.  Users
>> seem to have a problem with more than 1 item of the same type in a
>> specific repo.  We will put out instructions on how to use
>> "exclude=whatever" in yum, but they don't and then we get a hundred bug
>> reports / e-mails that the plus kernel replaces the vmware kernel or the
>> other way around.
>>
>> If we can have them easily coexist in the same repo and make it EASY for
>>  the users and provide the content, then we will put them there,
>> otherwise (or until then) people will need to look for it here.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Johnny Hughes
>>
>> Cool,
>>
>> would you say they are ready for primetime even although they are in
> 'testing' ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Brian.
> 
> The i686 version has been tested / used for a while now and I'm sure
> Johnny can tell you his experience.  As for x86_64, it is not as
> extensively tried.  I have been running it in a test VM and all seems
> good so far.
> 
> Akemi
> ___
> 
> 
> Does anyone know if the i686 version is PAE enabled ?

I PAE kernel is really not something I think I would run inside VMware
... or am I missing something here?

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/GuestOS_guide.pdf

That says you will not be happy with PAE inside the VM.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes




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Re: [CentOS] ipw220 wireless firmware for CentOS 5

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Thanks Fabian,
There seem to be a number of different ways of installing the ipw2200
firmware and as I've said already I've tried puttting the .fw files into
the firmware directory - why doesn't this work? What is actually the
best/recommended way of installing the firmware in CentOS 5 please? - not
too complicated please as I'm a linux enthusiast but not a great expert!

Andy

Original Message:
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From: Fabian Arrotin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:57:28 +0200
To: centos@centos.org
Subject: Re: [CentOS] ipw220 wireless firmware for CentOS 5


On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 05:33 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> OK, I've downloaded and unzipped the firmware files in
> ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz - so I have 4 files: ipw2200-bss.fw, ipw2200-ibss.fw,
> ipw2200-sniffer.fw and LICENSE.ipw2200-fw, all of which I've placed in
> the /lib/firmware directory. Unfortunately, the instructions in
> README.ipw2200 and INSTALL are not clear as to what to do next. I'm
> using CentOS 5 on my (Dell) laptop so setting-up wireless networking
should
> be
> reasonably straightforward - shouldn't it? Any help much appreciated -
> I'm a real linux fan, but it grieves me to say that, in this case,
> "wireless works much
> better in Windows XP!"

Use the ipw2200-firmware rpm from the RPMForge repo (see
http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories)   Then you'll be able to
use/configure the ipw2200 device . You can use for example
NetworkManager to automatically configure your network if you have a
laptop ...

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?

[Akemi Yagi]

On 8/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> - Original Message -
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>
> The i686 version has been tested / used for a while now and I'm sure
> Johnny can tell you his experience.  As for x86_64, it is not as
> extensively tried.  I have been running it in a test VM and all seems
> good so far.
>
> Akemi
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>
> Does anyone know if the i686 version is PAE enabled ?
>
> Cheers.

No, it is just the standard kernel.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?

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From: "Akemi Yagi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
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Sent: Monday, August 6, 2007 10:49:26 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane 
Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware? 

On 8/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Johnny Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> To: "CentOS mailing list"  
> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2007 9:55:10 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane 
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware? 
> > 
> > The kernels are available in testing form here: 
> > 
> > http://people.centos.org/~hughesjr/vmware-kernels/ 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Johnny, will these kernels eventually be pushed into centosplus ? 
> > 
> 
> Maybe ... we are trying to work out a way to prevent conflict. Users 
> seem to have a problem with more than 1 item of the same type in a 
> specific repo. We will put out instructions on how to use 
> "exclude=whatever" in yum, but they don't and then we get a hundred bug 
> reports / e-mails that the plus kernel replaces the vmware kernel or the 
> other way around. 
> 
> If we can have them easily coexist in the same repo and make it EASY for 
> the users and provide the content, then we will put them there, 
> otherwise (or until then) people will need to look for it here. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> Johnny Hughes 
> 
> Cool, 
> 
> would you say they are ready for primetime even although they are in 
> 'testing' ? 
> 
> Cheers, 
> 
> Brian. 

The i686 version has been tested / used for a while now and I'm sure 
Johnny can tell you his experience. As for x86_64, it is not as 
extensively tried. I have been running it in a test VM and all seems 
good so far. 

Akemi 
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Does anyone know if the i686 version is PAE enabled ? 

Cheers. 

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Re: [CentOS] "near native" performance with xen?

[Daniel de Kok]

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 16:54 -0400, Johnn Tan wrote:
> What error messages are you seeing? On one of my machines, I 
> have four domU's (kernel 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen), each with 4 
> VCPUs. I don't see any errors in any of the domU's dmesg. 
> But /proc/cpuinfo shows they are each using all 4 CPUs.

Soft lockups on CPUs:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2161

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Re: [CentOS] kmod-drbd-smp (2.6.9-55.0.2.EL) has unknown symbols (kmod-drbd not).

[Martin Hamant]

Le Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:08:32 +0200
Daniel de Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait:

> On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 13:49 +0200, Martin Hamant wrote:
> > Le Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:16:54 +0200
> > Martin Hamant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait:
> > 
> > (snip)
> > > I don't know how it's possible to improve this, maybe a yum plugin
> > > which could detect any drbd modules and if it's matches with
> > > any installed kernels... what do you think ?
> > > 
> > > Thanks to you :)
> > > 
> > 
> > Hmm in other words, I can contribute if something started to
> > improve the system ;)
> 
> I have written a plugin to carry over modules that are kabi compatible
> if no new package was found to cover for the module for a new kernel.
> The latest alpha version is available from:
> 
> http://people.centos.org/~daniel/code/yum/3.0/yum-kmodorphans/
> 
> Please don't use this for production machines! There are still some
> glitches that need fixing, and the policy of what to handle still has
> to be finalized.

Thank you Daniel, I'll take a look !

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