Re: [CentOS] Perl package problems
On 12/13/2011 07:53 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Vreme: 12/13/2011 06:47 PM, Anne Wilson piše: To avoid similar problems in the future, can you give me some guidelines for priority settings? It seems I got it wrong somewhere:-) Thanks It is not wise to have third-party repositories overwriting base packages. This should only be used by hand per package basis. I have created local repository where I copy packages I wish to replace and only that third-party repository has same priority as official repositories. RPMForge (now RepoForge) has non-violent, or safe repository that *should not* contain packages that overwrite base packages, and violent repository named extras that is meant to overwrite base packages. Thanks. I think that makes it clear - it seems that if I see this sort of problem again I have to look at repositories that are not normally enabled, and consider whether to temporarily enable them. Is it safe to leave rpmfusion-free-updates.repo and rpmfusion-nonree-updates.repo without a specific priority setting? The various testing repos are not enabled. Anne -- Need KDE help? Try http://userbase.kde.org or Http://forum.kde.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Perl package problems
On 12/15/2011 04:24 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: You can keep all desired repositories enabled as long as you have yum-plugin-priorities installed and keep third-party repositories with lesser priority (larger number). Like base=1, epel=2, repoforge=3, rpmfusion-* =3, etc. Here is how I decided to setup third party repositories: http://rpms.plnet.rs/CentDOS.repo There are few changes needed like torakat repo with now centosplus kernels. Thanks. That's really helpful. I'll go through mine now and check that they all have the right priorities. Thanks again Anne -- Need KDE help? Try http://userbase.kde.org or Http://forum.kde.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Perl package problems
On 12/15/2011 04:24 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Here is how I decided to setup third party repositories: http://rpms.plnet.rs/CentDOS.repo There are few changes needed like torakat repo with now centosplus kernels. Can you explain, please, about those exclude=*releases statements? What exactly are they excluding? Anne -- Need KDE help? Try http://userbase.kde.org or Http://forum.kde.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Perl package problems
On 12/12/2011 07:44 PM, Ned Slider wrote: On 12/12/11 18:47, Anne Wilson wrote: For a while now I've been seeing skipped-package notices, which I don't really understand. I know it's a version mis-match, but all my attempts to sort it out have failed, so I need help, please. The current state is Skipping filters plugin, no data -- Running transaction check --- Package perl-Compress-Zlib.x86_64 0:2.020-119.el6 will be obsoleted --- Package perl-IO-Compress.noarch 0:2.037-1.el6.rfx will be obsoleting -- Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.037 for package: perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch --- Package perl-IO-Compress-Base.x86_64 0:2.020-119.el6 will be obsoleted --- Package perl-IO-Compress-Zlib.x86_64 0:2.020-119.el6 will be obsoleted -- Finished Dependency Resolution Packages skipped because of dependency problems: perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch from rpmforge-extras Can someone please tell me what needs erasing/installing/updating to get this cleaned up? Thanks Anne It might be helpful to show the output from 'rpm -qa perl\* | sort'. Output after repair recommended by you: rpm -qa perl\* | sort perl-5.10.1-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Archive-Tar-1.58-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Bit-Vector-7.1-2.el6.x86_64 perl-Cairo-1.062-1.el6.x86_64 perl-Carp-Clan-6.03-2.el6.noarch perl-CGI-3.51-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.037-1.el6.rf.x86_64 perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.037-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Bignum-0.04-8.1.el6.x86_64 perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Random-0.04-9.1.el6.x86_64 perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA-0.25-10.1.el6.x86_64 perl-Date-Calc-6.3-2.el6.noarch perl-Date-Manip-5.54-4.el6.noarch perl-DBD-MySQL-4.013-3.el6.x86_64 perl-DBI-1.609-4.el6.x86_64 perl-devel-5.10.1-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Digest-HMAC-1.01-22.el6.noarch perl-Digest-SHA1-2.12-2.el6.x86_64 perl-Digest-SHA-5.47-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Encode-Detect-1.01-2.el6.x86_64 perl-Error-0.17015-4.el6.noarch perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.55-119.el6.x86_64 perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.2003.0-119.el6.x86_64 perl-File-Find-Rule-0.30-9.el6.noarch perl-gettext-1.05-16.el6.x86_64 perl-Git-1.7.1-2.el6_0.1.noarch perl-Glib-1.223-1.el6.x86_64 perl-Gtk2-1.223-2.el6.x86_64 perl-HTML-Parser-3.64-2.el6.x86_64 perl-HTML-Tagset-3.20-4.el6.noarch perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch perl-IO-Socket-INET6-2.56-4.el6.noarch perl-IO-Socket-SSL-1.31-2.el6.noarch perl-IO-Zlib-1.09-119.el6.x86_64 perl-libs-5.10.1-119.el6.x86_64 perl-libwww-perl-5.833-2.el6.noarch perl-Mail-DKIM-0.37-2.el6.noarch perl-MailTools-2.04-4.el6.noarch perl-Module-Pluggable-3.90-119.el6.x86_64 perl-NetAddr-IP-4.027-3.el6.x86_64 perl-Net-DNS-0.65-2.el6.x86_64 perl-Net-LibIDN-0.12-3.el6.x86_64 perl-Net-SSLeay-1.35-9.el6.x86_64 perl-Net-Whois-1.9-1.2.el6.rf.noarch perl-Net-Whois-IP-1.04-1.el6.rf.noarch perl-Net-XWhois-0.90-1.2.el6.rf.noarch perl-Number-Compare-0.01-13.el6.noarch perl-Package-Constants-0.02-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Pango-1.221-2.el6.x86_64 perl-Pod-Escapes-1.04-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Pod-Simple-3.13-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Socket6-0.23-3.el6.x86_64 perl-Test-Harness-3.17-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Test-Simple-0.92-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Text-Glob-0.08-7.el6.noarch perl-TimeDate-1.16-11.1.el6.noarch perl-Time-HiRes-1.9721-119.el6.x86_64 perl-URI-1.40-2.el6.noarch perl-version-0.77-119.el6.x86_64 As to the reason for the above error... it looks like you have the protect or priority plugins stopping rpmforge-extras packages from updating base components? Try: yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=rpmforge-extras update perl-IO-Compress which should remove the following if installed: perl-Compress-Zlib perl-IO-Compress-Base perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2 perl-IO-Compress-Zlib and install/update the following: perl-IO-Compress perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib Yes, it completed, thanks. I have the following repos: adobe-linux-i386.repo _local.repo CentOS-Base.repomirrors-rpmforge CentOS-CR.repo mirrors-rpmforge-extras CentOS-Debuginfo.repo mirrors-rpmforge-testing CentOS-Media.repo rpmforge.repo epel.repo rpmfusion-free-updates.repo epel-testing.repo rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo google-chrome.repo rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo To avoid similar problems in the future, can you give me some guidelines for priority settings? It seems I got it wrong somewhere :-) Thanks Anne -- Need KDE help? Try http://userbase.kde.org or Http://forum.kde.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Perl package problems
For a while now I've been seeing skipped-package notices, which I don't really understand. I know it's a version mis-match, but all my attempts to sort it out have failed, so I need help, please. The current state is Skipping filters plugin, no data -- Running transaction check --- Package perl-Compress-Zlib.x86_64 0:2.020-119.el6 will be obsoleted --- Package perl-IO-Compress.noarch 0:2.037-1.el6.rfx will be obsoleting -- Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.037 for package: perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch --- Package perl-IO-Compress-Base.x86_64 0:2.020-119.el6 will be obsoleted --- Package perl-IO-Compress-Zlib.x86_64 0:2.020-119.el6 will be obsoleted -- Finished Dependency Resolution Packages skipped because of dependency problems: perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch from rpmforge-extras Can someone please tell me what needs erasing/installing/updating to get this cleaned up? Thanks Anne -- New to KDE Software? Got some good hints and tips? - Welcome to http://userbase.kde.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] If you are using CentOS 6 and KDE....
The desktop will look strange and behave differently. If you need any help in getting used to it, either join the kde user list, https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde , the kde forum, http://forum.kde.org/ , or mail me personally. Once again I will turn off receipt from this list. The attitude of several posters is unacceptable to me. Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: howto install and run KDE
On Thursday 25 Aug 2011 Michael D. Berger wrote: On my laptop, I have not been able to get KDE to run; I always get gnome. I installed selecting KDE, and I tried yum groupinstall, which appeared to work, but I still get gnome running. BTW, I boot to level 3, and run startx. The session you get should default to what you used last. The problem is that if that was gnome, the way to switch is not obvious. Try this. On the login screen put in your username but not your password. Look carefully at the bottom of the window - you should find that one of the icons there allows you to change your session type. It is not visible until you have entered your username. Once you have selected KDE you can add your password and continue. Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: add icon to desktop
On Friday 26 Aug 2011 Michael D. Berger wrote: On my old CentOS 5 KDE, if I add a link to ~/Desktop, it appears on the desktop as an icon. But on my new CentOS 6 KDE, this does not work. The reason is that Desktop is quite simply a directory - remember how it fits into the file system tree. KDE 3.x made a special case of that directory, making everything in it visible on your workspace. The default in KDE 4.x is not so. How can I make it work? Two things you can do, depending on how you like to work. a) Right-click on an open space on your desktop. You will see that it is set to Type: Desktop. This is intended to stay a clean, empty desktop, apart from any widgets that you choose to add. If you change the type to Folderview it will in fact show the contents of ~/Desktop - looking exactly like your old view. b) If you like a clean desktop, but miss the easy access to shortcuts, etc., you can add a Folderview widget. Initially it is rather big and points to ~/ If you hover over a folderview you will see a 'handle' or 'toolbox' appear. The top icon allows you to resize it - you can also resize the icons within it by mouse-scrolling. The second icon is for rotation - most people don't use that. The next icon opens the Settings menu - and there you can change the directory that the folderview points to - if you use remote directories that is very useful. You will find many changes explained in UserBase, but I'd recommend that you start with http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma - and the other section I'd really recommend that you read early is the Dolphin pages, particularly http://userbase.kde.org/Dolphin/File_Management HTH Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Off topic list for centos please?
On Thursday 25 Aug 2011 John R Pierce wrote: On 08/25/11 9:46 AM, R P Herrold wrote: yeah -- just like there is presently any self control being shown by certain serial offenders here. We could set it up, but the people who need to use it wont't sadly, we'd see the same crap cross-posted to all those lists I read many lists, and I've seen more crap in this single thread than in all the other lists put together. Most of it comes from the self-righteous. Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Off topic list for centos please?
On Thursday 25 Aug 2011 John Doe wrote: From: Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net Keith Roberts wrote: Could we have a centos-offtopic list please, so anything that would be considered OT can be posted there? I don't think that is necessary; this newsgroup does not seem to me to be over-loaded with OT material, or indeed with material of any kind. Splitting it would just be a nuisance, in my case at least. Surely it is easy enough to avoid reading an article labelled OT? Those who want to never see these OT posts could just create a simple mail filter in their mail client to automatically trash * OT * mails... How do you set a filter for bike-shedding :-D Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Not receiving root mail
On 22 August 2011 19:45, Alexander Dalloz ad+li...@uni-x.org wrote: Anne alternatives --config mta Switch to Postfix. Validate by alternatives --display mta then remove Sendmail if you do not use it. Thanks - that's what I was looking for. alternatives --display mta mta - status is manual. link currently points to /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix - priority 30 slave mta-pam: /etc/pam.d/smtp.postfix slave mta-mailq: /usr/bin/mailq.postfix slave mta-newaliases: /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix slave mta-rmail: /usr/bin/rmail.postfix slave mta-sendmail: /usr/lib/sendmail.postfix slave mta-mailqman: /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.postfix.1.gz slave mta-newaliasesman: /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.postfix.1.gz slave mta-aliasesman: /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.postfix.5.gz slave mta-sendmailman: /usr/share/man/man1/sendmail.postfix.1.gz /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail - priority 90 slave mta-pam: /etc/pam.d/smtp.sendmail slave mta-mailq: /usr/bin/mailq.sendmail slave mta-newaliases: /usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail slave mta-rmail: /usr/bin/rmail.sendmail slave mta-sendmail: /usr/lib/sendmail.sendmail slave mta-mailqman: /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.sendmail.1.gz slave mta-newaliasesman: /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.sendmail.1.gz slave mta-aliasesman: /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.sendmail.5.gz slave mta-sendmailman: /usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.sendmail.8.gz Current `best' version is /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail. I assume this means that sendmail.postfix will be used as preference, but that last line confuses me. Is it safe to remove sendmail now, or does that imply that some things will still need it? Anne ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Not receiving root mail
On 23 August 2011 07:47, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On 22 August 2011 19:45, Alexander Dalloz ad+li...@uni-x.org wrote: Anne alternatives --config mta Switch to Postfix. Validate by alternatives --display mta then remove Sendmail if you do not use it. Thanks - that's what I was looking for. alternatives --display mta mta - status is manual. link currently points to /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix - priority 30 slave mta-pam: /etc/pam.d/smtp.postfix slave mta-mailq: /usr/bin/mailq.postfix slave mta-newaliases: /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix slave mta-rmail: /usr/bin/rmail.postfix slave mta-sendmail: /usr/lib/sendmail.postfix slave mta-mailqman: /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.postfix.1.gz slave mta-newaliasesman: /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.postfix.1.gz slave mta-aliasesman: /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.postfix.5.gz slave mta-sendmailman: /usr/share/man/man1/sendmail.postfix.1.gz /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail - priority 90 slave mta-pam: /etc/pam.d/smtp.sendmail slave mta-mailq: /usr/bin/mailq.sendmail slave mta-newaliases: /usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail slave mta-rmail: /usr/bin/rmail.sendmail slave mta-sendmail: /usr/lib/sendmail.sendmail slave mta-mailqman: /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.sendmail.1.gz slave mta-newaliasesman: /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.sendmail.1.gz slave mta-aliasesman: /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.sendmail.5.gz slave mta-sendmailman: /usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.sendmail.8.gz Current `best' version is /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail. I assume this means that sendmail.postfix will be used as preference, but that last line confuses me. Is it safe to remove sendmail now, or does that imply that some things will still need it? Anne A large step nearer. Mail is now being received. Unfortunately I still can't send, so I need to find out why it isn't using the Transport settings. Anne ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Not receiving root mail
On 22 August 2011 20:50, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn denni...@conversis.de wrote: One of the first things I do after the installation of a system is a yum install postfix followed by a yum remove sendmail. No need to deal with alternatives if you don't intend to deal with sendmail anyway. I removed sendmail - but it also removed clamav-milter. When I tried to re-install clamav-milter it would have pulled sendmail back in so I aborted. Advice? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Not receiving root mail
On 23 August 2011 10:46, Tony Mountifield t...@softins.co.uk wrote: In article cajfu-f7ncz+iamxzg5rq0vzaelctbcncnfysyykaapxw5ce...@mail.gmail.com, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On 22 August 2011 20:50, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn denni...@conversis.de wrote: One of the first things I do after the installation of a system is a yum install postfix followed by a yum remove sendmail. No need to deal with alternatives if you don't intend to deal with sendmail anyway. I removed sendmail - but it also removed clamav-milter. When I tried to re-install clamav-milter it would have pulled sendmail back in so I aborted. Advice? milters are specific to sendmail. clamav-milter is a linkage between ClamAV and sendmail, so you don't need it with postfix. If you want to use ClamAV, you will need to find out how to link it with postfix, but it won't be by using clamav-milter. OK, that's fine, then. In the past I ran scans via cron - which I've set up again. However, I'm back with the original problem of not receiving root mail - and not receiving any local messages that should be routed by the /etc/postfix/transport.db Anne ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Not receiving root mail
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2011 Les Mikesell wrote: On 8/23/11 3:51 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain, xxx.lan, xxx.org This morning I restored the old main.cf, which uses the old network settings of xxx.net. Now mail is being received, but sending mail is being refused by my server. I have two sending profiles - one that sends to the server (CentOS 6), which then should use /etc/postfix/transport to separate local mail and external mail, sending the external mail to the ISP's smtp server. The second profile is googlemail smtp, used when I'm away from home. Whichever I try to use I get a message that my mail server has refused the connection. I'm still trying to work out why. It sounds like authentication problem, but I can't see why it's happening. Unless the next hop requires smtp authentication, the likely reason is that the 'From: ' address doesn't have a DNS-resolvable domain name. Hi, Les. Another old friend :-) FWIW, I found that the right combination in main.cf was to set myhost to the local name, borg.xxx.lan and mydomain to one of my owned domains, xxx.net, as it was on the old server. Adding a couple of lines to transport (re-hashed, of course) now gives me internal mail when addressed to a...@xxx.net or a...@xxx.lan, and external mail when addressed any other way. Perfect. Thanks to all who tried to help. Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Missing UIDs
From time to time I'm seeing this message: I couldn't find the numerical IDs of these users: abrt nslcd pulse rtkit saslauth tcpdump usbmuxd In most cases this is caused by inconsistencies in the user or group database, e.g. between the files /etc/passwd, /etc/group and their respective shadow files /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow. I will try to ignore these entries and continue for now, but please fix these inconsistencies as soon as possible.it /quote My first thought was to use system-config-user and create users with IDs matching their group IDs. However, doing it that way requires passwords to be set. How should I correct this? Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Not receiving root mail
Although I have the alias defined in /etc/aliases and /etc/postfix/aliases, I'm not receiving root mail. Following the previous thread about unreceived logwatch mail, I tested with a manual run of logwatch, and found that my ISP is rejecting the mail because it is seeing an envelope carrying my local address. My suspicion is that the mail is going out via sendmail instead of postfix-sendmail. IIRC there used to be system-switch-mail or a similarly named package. I can't find any such package - and can't remember which file it edited. Can someone please point me to that file? Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Not receiving root mail
On Monday 22 Aug 2011 12:49:21 Anne Wilson wrote: Although I have the alias defined in /etc/aliases and /etc/postfix/aliases, I'm not receiving root mail. Following the previous thread about unreceived logwatch mail, I tested with a manual run of logwatch, and found that my ISP is rejecting the mail because it is seeing an envelope carrying my local address. My suspicion is that the mail is going out via sendmail instead of postfix-sendmail. IIRC there used to be system-switch-mail or a similarly named package. I can't find any such package - and can't remember which file it edited. Can someone please point me to that file? The actual return report says: a...@.org: host mailhost.zen.co.uk[212.23.3.98] said: 550-Verification failed for a...@xxx.lan 550-Unrouteable address 550 Envelope Sender: Domain must resolve in DNS! (in reply to RCPT TO command) Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Not receiving root mail
On Monday 22 Aug 2011 13:12:54 Always Learning wrote: Once your email is out on the Internet is needs a genuine Internet email address. xxx.lan is known only to your internal system and it is not an Internet email address. Exactly - and my problem is knowing where it is getting this from. Care to show the headers of your outgoing email ? (cover-up the bits you want to keep private) Not sure where I can find the outgoing mail but I can give more info that might help. It's a long story, but probably relevant, so - We first set up a family LAN around 12 years ago, and called it xxx.net. Eventually I realised that xxx.net was actually a TLD name, so not a good idea. Actually I now own both xxx.org and xxx.net, but I decided that with this install I'd correct what had long been our practice. On the new CentOS install I set the server name to borg.xxx.lan. I then changed every reference to xxx.net in /etc/hosts, and set about changing the Postfix config files. (I know now that it is using postfix.sendmail,) Somewhere I either have some other file still pointing to the old name, or, more likely, postfix is still using it somewhere. I have been careful to re-map transports and restart postfix after any changes to the config files. The following from maillog may shed some light as to where the problem lies: Aug 22 14:02:11 borg sendmail[1711]: p7MD29Lf001711: from=anne, size=6877, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=201108221302.p7md29lf001...@borg.xxx.lan, relay=root@localhost Aug 22 14:02:11 borg postfix/smtpd[2067]: connect from borg.xxx.net[127.0.0.1] Aug 22 14:02:11 borg postfix/smtpd[2067]: B4693A377C: client=borg.xxx.net[127.0.0.1] Aug 22 14:02:11 borg postfix/cleanup[2070]: B4693A377C: message- id=201108221302.p7md29lf001...@borg.xxx.lan Aug 22 14:02:11 borg postfix/qmgr[1499]: B4693A377C: from=a...@borg.xxx.lan, size=7487, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Aug 22 14:02:11 borg sendmail[1711]: p7MD29Lf001711: to=a...@xxx.org, ctladdr=anne (500/100), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=36877, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Ok: queued as B4693A377C) Aug 22 14:02:11 borg postfix/smtpd[2067]: disconnect from borg.xxx.net[127.0.0.1] Aug 22 14:02:12 borg postfix/smtp[2071]: B4693A377C: to=a...@xxx.org, relay=mailhost.zen.co.uk[212.23.3.98]:25, delay=0.43, delays=0.09/0.02/0.15/0.18, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host mailhost.zen.co.uk[212.23.3.98] said: 550-Verification failed for a...@borg.xxx.lan 550-Unrouteable address 550 Envelope Sender: Domain must resolve in DNS! (in reply to RCPT TO command)) Aug 22 14:02:12 borg postfix/cleanup[2070]: 2EB94A371B: message- id=20110822130212.2EB94A371B@borg Aug 22 14:02:12 borg postfix/bounce[2072]: B4693A377C: sender non-delivery notification: 2EB94A371B Aug 22 14:02:12 borg postfix/qmgr[1499]: 2EB94A371B: from=, size=9481, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Aug 22 14:02:12 borg postfix/qmgr[1499]: B4693A377C: removed Aug 22 14:02:12 borg postfix/smtp[2071]: 2EB94A371B: to=a...@borg.xxx.lan, relay=mailhost.zen.co.uk[212.23.3.98]:25, delay=0.75, delays=0.04/0/0.16/0.54, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 OK id=1QvU8e-00085m-9o) Aug 22 14:02:12 borg postfix/qmgr[1499]: 2EB94A371B: removed The old transport read: xxx.net local: .xxx.netlocal: * smtp:[mailhost.zen.co.uk] .* smtp:[mailhost.zen.co.uk] Those lines have been left and xxx.lan local: .xxx.lanlocal: added in. A more likely suspect, I think, is main.cf - the relevant lines in the old one being mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain, xxx.lan myhostname = borg.xxx.net mydomain = xxx.net myorigin = $mydomain masquerade_domains = $mydomain #masquerade_domains = |borg.xxx.net mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/24,127.0.0.0/8 and the latest version (after many thrashing edits) mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain, xxx.lan myhostname = borg mydomain = xxx.org myorigin = $mydomain # masquerade_domains = $mydomain mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/24,127.0.0.0/8 Sorry this was so long, but it seemed important to give you as much info as I could. Anne ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Not receiving root mail
On 22/08/2011, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 01:12:54PM +0100, Always Learning wrote: On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 13:07 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: a...@.org: host mailhost.zen.co.uk[212.23.3.98] said: If you're running postfix, you might want to also edit /etc/aliases. The last line or so has a commented line, person who should get root's mail. (The name is marc, probably the person who first wrote it.) I did that, some time ago. Postfix.conf points to /etc/postfix/aliases, though, so I made sure by editing both. After changing that, run newaliases /etc/alias to rebuild the /etc/alias.db. Yes, I did remember that To answer your other question, alternatives is the command you asked about in an earlier post alternatives --config mta This will show you if you're using postfix or sendmail. I found postfix in the partial headers in the bounce-message -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Spike: Where have you been pet? Drusilla: I went for a walk. I met an old man. I didn't like him, he got stuck in my teeth. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms
On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 03:41:12 Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 17:46 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 19 Aug 2011 17:23:34 Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 19 Aug 2011 15:43:23 Tony Schreiner wrote: NFS v4 problems maybe. Try setting a value for Domain in /etc/idmapd.conf on both systems (the same for both). That gave me an unbootable system. I've removed it, and am back at square 1. Two things - I should have said that I can access the system from the laptop using ssh + keys. During bootup I saw many messages about nfs4 exports failing, so that's whre the problem is, it seems. Can you please give me a sample line of a known good nfs4 export? It's hard to be sure when messages flash by so quickly, but I got the impression that there was something about fstab. Maybe the format required for those lines has changed, too? These are the lines that I guess it is looking at: /Data1 /nfs4exports/Data1 nonebind 0 0 /Data2 /nfs4exports/Data2 none` bind 0 0 /Data3 /nfs4exports/Data3 nonebind 0 0 /home /nfs4exports/home nonebind 0 0 I think there was something about wrong or missing type. Each of those partitions is defined earlier in fstab and does have the correct type stated. this is obviously intended to be your NFS server (who knows whether this is CentOS or Fedora 14). The server is CentOS 6. You can only bind mount something that already exists and maybe it's empty. does ls -l /Data1 /Data2 /Data3 /home show much of anything? Yes, it lists the contents of each of them. On the other system (the NFS client), what does it have in fstab? 192.168.0.40:/Data1 /mnt/borg_Data1 nfs4 rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr 0 0 and equivalents for each of the others. As I said originally, these lines worked with nfs4 on CentOS 5. Anne ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms - SOLVED
On Friday 19 Aug 2011 15:39:12 Anne Wilson wrote: I have just upgraded my server from CentOS 5 to CentOS 6 and am having connectivity problems. My laptop runs Fedora 14, and I have been in the habit of mounting data partitions on my server by fstab entries. Since the update I've not been able to do that. On watching the messages during a reboot I saw a statement that the connection was denied by the server (where are those messages stored so that I can quote accurately?). I have temporarily disabled both the firewall and selinux, and the problem persists, so clearly they are not the cause. Logwatch has the following section which may or may not be connected: - Connections (secure-log) Begin Userhelper executed applications: anne - system-config-users as root: 1 Time(s) **Unmatched Entries** polkitd(authority=local): Operator of unix- session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 successfully authenticated as unix-user:root to gain TEMPORARY authorization for action org.fedoraproject.config.firewall.auth for system-bus-name::1.88 [/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/system-config-firewall] (owned by unix-user:anne): 1 Time(s) polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication Agent for session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name :1.24 [/usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8): 1 Time(s) polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication Agent for session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 (system bus name :1.45 [/usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_GB.utf8): 1 Time(s) polkitd(authority=local): Unregistered Authentication Agent for session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name :1.24, object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus): 1 Time(s) polkitd(authority=local): Unregistered Authentication Agent for session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session6 (system bus name :1.214, object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_GB.utf8) (disconnected from bus): 1 Time(s) -- Connections (secure-log) End - An example fstab line is /Data1/nfs4exports/Data1 nonebind 0 0 Under CentOS 5 this was mounted by the exports line: /nfs4exports/Data1 192.168.0.0/24(rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,nohide) Following advice, I have changed this to: /Data1/ 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 *(rw,sync,insecure,no_all_squash) That hasn't helped at all. I'm completely at a loss, and really need to get this connection working again. I've done lots of googling and reading, but just feel to be digging an ever-deeper hole. All help appreciated. I was certain I had missed some steps in setting up the exports, but simply could not remember them. Nor could I find the guide that got me started before. This morning I found it. I cannot recommend this guide too highly - so you might like to bookmark it for a reference sheet - for next time someone asks you for help :-) http://www.crazysquirrel.com/computing/debian/servers/setting-up-nfs4.jspx Thanks, everyone, for trying to help. Anne ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms
On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 12:05:51 Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 09:38 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 03:41:12 Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 17:46 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 19 Aug 2011 17:23:34 Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 19 Aug 2011 15:43:23 Tony Schreiner wrote: NFS v4 problems maybe. Try setting a value for Domain in /etc/idmapd.conf on both systems (the same for both). That gave me an unbootable system. I've removed it, and am back at square 1. Two things - I should have said that I can access the system from the laptop using ssh + keys. During bootup I saw many messages about nfs4 exports failing, so that's whre the problem is, it seems. Can you please give me a sample line of a known good nfs4 export? It's hard to be sure when messages flash by so quickly, but I got the impression that there was something about fstab. Maybe the format required for those lines has changed, too? These are the lines that I guess it is looking at: /Data1 /nfs4exports/Data1 nonebind 0 0 /Data2 /nfs4exports/Data2 none` bind 0 0 /Data3 /nfs4exports/Data3 nonebind 0 0 /home /nfs4exports/home nonebind 0 0 I think there was something about wrong or missing type. Each of those partitions is defined earlier in fstab and does have the correct type stated. this is obviously intended to be your NFS server (who knows whether this is CentOS or Fedora 14). The server is CentOS 6. You can only bind mount something that already exists and maybe it's empty. does ls -l /Data1 /Data2 /Data3 /home show much of anything? Yes, it lists the contents of each of them. On the other system (the NFS client), what does it have in fstab? 192.168.0.40:/Data1 /mnt/borg_Data1 nfs4 rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr 0 0 and equivalents for each of the others. As I said originally, these lines worked with nfs4 on CentOS 5. then issuing the command (on the Fedora client) mount /mnt/borg_Data1 should either work or fail and give you a message (at worst, log to /var/log/messages). This of course assumes that it isn't already mounted which could be noted by simply issuing a 'mount' command by itself to see what is mounted. You may have to check /var/log/messages on the CentOS server for clues too. Every attempt to mount was simply hanging - so no help at all. However, as you will have seen by now, the problem is solved. I was right that I had missed some steps, and you were right that the mount points at the server end were not correctly set up. The guide on http://www.crazysquirrel.com/computing/debian/servers/setting-up-nfs4.jspx has got everything working again. Thanks for trying to help. Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms
On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 12:45:17 John Hodrien wrote: On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Anne Wilson wrote: Every attempt to mount was simply hanging - so no help at all. However, as you will have seen by now, the problem is solved. I was right that I had missed some steps, and you were right that the mount points at the server end were not correctly set up. The guide on http://www.crazysquirrel.com/computing/debian/servers/setting-up-nfs4.jsp x has got everything working again. Thanks for trying to help. I'd also suggest that you'd be better to not have these mounted directly from fstab. Make a simple automounter map for these and your life is all round less troublesome. You'll not suffer anywhere near as badly when an nfs mount is unavailable, and it'll recover gracefully once it's available again. Hi, John. That sounds really useful, particularly on the netbook where I have to remember to disable the mounts before travelling. The only problem is, I don't know how to do that. Can you either describe it to me or point me to suitable reading? Thanks Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms
On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 17:58:13 John Hodrien wrote: On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Anne Wilson wrote: Hi, John. That sounds really useful, particularly on the netbook where I have to remember to disable the mounts before travelling. The only problem is, I don't know how to do that. Can you either describe it to me or point me to suitable reading? Thanks Basically the automounter will just step in and mount things when you try to access files within the directory. http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs.html That probably tells you everything you need, but I'll just note the basics. Basically you can have: /etc/auto.master: /remote /etc/auto.remote /etc/auto.remote: somemount -rw,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,udp nfsserver:/blah/blah someothermount -rw,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,udp nfsserver:/foo/foo chkconfig autofs on service autofs start Then you should be able to do: cd /remote/somemount When you do that, autofs will mount the share. There's a lot more you can do, you really do need to read the documentation. Executable automount maps and ldap based maps really give you a lot of flexibility on how you can use it, but you probably need something very simple. Thanks. Plenty to read, then :-) Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms
I have just upgraded my server from CentOS 5 to CentOS 6 and am having connectivity problems. My laptop runs Fedora 14, and I have been in the habit of mounting data partitions on my server by fstab entries. Since the update I've not been able to do that. On watching the messages during a reboot I saw a statement that the connection was denied by the server (where are those messages stored so that I can quote accurately?). I have temporarily disabled both the firewall and selinux, and the problem persists, so clearly they are not the cause. Logwatch has the following section which may or may not be connected: - Connections (secure-log) Begin Userhelper executed applications: anne - system-config-users as root: 1 Time(s) **Unmatched Entries** polkitd(authority=local): Operator of unix- session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 successfully authenticated as unix-user:root to gain TEMPORARY authorization for action org.fedoraproject.config.firewall.auth for system-bus-name::1.88 [/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/system-config-firewall] (owned by unix-user:anne): 1 Time(s) polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication Agent for session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name :1.24 [/usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8): 1 Time(s) polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication Agent for session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 (system bus name :1.45 [/usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_GB.utf8): 1 Time(s) polkitd(authority=local): Unregistered Authentication Agent for session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name :1.24, object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus): 1 Time(s) polkitd(authority=local): Unregistered Authentication Agent for session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session6 (system bus name :1.214, object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_GB.utf8) (disconnected from bus): 1 Time(s) -- Connections (secure-log) End - An example fstab line is /Data1 /nfs4exports/Data1 nonebind0 0 Under CentOS 5 this was mounted by the exports line: /nfs4exports/Data1 192.168.0.0/24(rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,nohide) Following advice, I have changed this to: /Data1/ 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 *(rw,sync,insecure,no_all_squash) That hasn't helped at all. I'm completely at a loss, and really need to get this connection working again. I've done lots of googling and reading, but just feel to be digging an ever-deeper hole. All help appreciated. Anne ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms
On Friday 19 Aug 2011 15:43:23 Tony Schreiner wrote: On Aug 19, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: I have just upgraded my server from CentOS 5 to CentOS 6 and am having connectivity problems. My laptop runs Fedora 14, and I have been in the habit of mounting data partitions on my server by fstab entries. Since the update I've not been able to do that. On watching the messages during a reboot I saw a statement that the connection was denied by the server (where are those messages stored so that I can quote accurately?). I have temporarily disabled both the firewall and selinux, and the problem persists, so clearly they are not the cause. Logwatch has the following section which may or may not be connected: - Connections (secure-log) Begin Userhelper executed applications: anne - system-config-users as root: 1 Time(s) **Unmatched Entries** polkitd(authority=local): Operator of unix- session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 successfully authenticated as unix-user:root to gain TEMPORARY authorization for action org.fedoraproject.config.firewall.auth for system-bus-name::1.88 [/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/system-config-firewall] (owned by unix- user:anne): 1 Time(s) polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication Agent for session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name :1.24 [/usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8): 1 Time(s) polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication Agent for session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 (system bus name :1.45 [/usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_GB.utf8): 1 Time(s) polkitd(authority=local): Unregistered Authentication Agent for session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name :1.24, object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus): 1 Time(s) polkitd(authority=local): Unregistered Authentication Agent for session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session6 (system bus name :1.214, object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_GB.utf8) (disconnected from bus): 1 Time(s) -- Connections (secure-log) End - An example fstab line is /Data1 /nfs4exports/Data1 nonebind 0 0 Under CentOS 5 this was mounted by the exports line: /nfs4exports/Data1 192.168.0.0/24(rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,nohide) Following advice, I have changed this to: /Data1/ 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 *(rw,sync,insecure,no_all_squash) That hasn't helped at all. I'm completely at a loss, and really need to get this connection working again. I've done lots of googling and reading, but just feel to be digging an ever-deeper hole. All help appreciated. Anne NFS v4 problems maybe. Try setting a value for Domain in /etc/idmapd.conf on both systems (the same for both). That gave me an unbootable system. I've removed it, and am back at square 1. Two things - I should have said that I can access the system from the laptop using ssh + keys. During bootup I saw many messages about nfs4 exports failing, so that's whre the problem is, it seems. Can you please give me a sample line of a known good nfs4 export? Anne ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms
On Friday 19 Aug 2011 17:23:34 Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 19 Aug 2011 15:43:23 Tony Schreiner wrote: NFS v4 problems maybe. Try setting a value for Domain in /etc/idmapd.conf on both systems (the same for both). That gave me an unbootable system. I've removed it, and am back at square 1. Two things - I should have said that I can access the system from the laptop using ssh + keys. During bootup I saw many messages about nfs4 exports failing, so that's whre the problem is, it seems. Can you please give me a sample line of a known good nfs4 export? It's hard to be sure when messages flash by so quickly, but I got the impression that there was something about fstab. Maybe the format required for those lines has changed, too? These are the lines that I guess it is looking at: /Data1 /nfs4exports/Data1 nonebind0 0 /Data2 /nfs4exports/Data2 none` bind0 0 /Data3 /nfs4exports/Data3 nonebind0 0 /home /nfs4exports/home nonebind0 0 I think there was something about wrong or missing type. Each of those partitions is defined earlier in fstab and does have the correct type stated. Anne ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Moving from Fedora -- Advice??
On Saturday 25 December 2010 18:11:00 Beartooth wrote: We have a couple of external USB hard drives, and one at least has a partition backing up her specific machine. I'll try to think up a good name (or get her to!) and see if I can change that partition to that. The problem will be persuading her to take any interest beyond knowing that I have some backup for her, somewhere ... (I always do one before an upgrade -- and upgrade her machine last, in order to have seen most common problems before I get to it.) Any experience with that one? I recently set up such a backup system for my daughter. Now the only thing she has to remember is to have the USB drive powered up whenever she uses the computer. The rest is done by rsync + cron - and I set cron to run quite frequently, because she doensn't really have regular hours for using it, so whenever she works, she is pretty well bound to hit one of the backup spots :-) And because it runs so frequently (and it is differential) it takes a very short time, so there's little risk of her shutting down while it is still running. If that is a concern the backup script could run the rsync jobs on the necessary directories, then send her a message that it is done - but assuming that she doesn't normally switch on and off after only 2-3 minutes, the risk should be small. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail
On Thursday 23 December 2010 18:40:43 Bart Schaefer wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2010 16:53:22 Bart Schaefer wrote: LASTFOLDER is informational, procmail sets it immediately before delivering to that folder; if you see LASTFOLDER in your logs, the only way the message should fail to arrive in that folder is in the event of an error writing to that folder. They do arrive there - it just defines it as /var/mail/anne, which is useless on my IMAP server. Sure, but the point is that assigning to LASTFOLDER yourself is meaningless. Procmail will fall back on the folder named in $ORGMAIL in the event that it is unable to deliver to $DEFAULT, for example because of a locking issue. It's quite likely that this assignment to LASTFOLDER is coming from ORGMAIL. Hmm - echo $ORGMAIL returns nothing. In fact I misquoted when I first wrote. The line I gave is correct, but it should have been followed by DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/new/ I'm pretty sure that's wrong. From the procmailrc manual: If the mailbox name ends in /, then this directory is presumed to be a maildir folder; i.e., procmail will deliver the message to a file in a subdirectory named tmp and rename it to be inside a subdirectory named new. So you should not have the new/ on the end of the DEFAULT value unless you want a folder that is *named* new (and thus file paths ending in new/new/ and new/cur/ etc.) To be honest I was surprised to see it there. I didn't remember putting it in. The fact that mail is significantly down due to the holiday season makes testing difficult, but I'll experiment with that when things get back to normal. In fact my logs show no mail going to /var/mail/anne today, so I will have to watch and wait. I repeat, I'm using a procmailrc that has worked perfectly for years. Unfortunately that it worked doesn't always mean that it is correct, it just means you haven't hit the corner cases before. If you haven't already, you really should add LOGABSTRACT=all VERBOSE=yes When I first set this up it was with a printed set of documentation. I do have VERBOSE=YES, but I have LOGABSTRACT=YES. Are these equivalents or has something changed in the meantime? Again from the manual pages: LOGABSTRACT Just before procmail exits it logs an abstract of the delivered message in $LOGFILE showing the `From ' and `Subject:' fields of the header, what folder it finally went to and how long (in bytes) the message was. By setting this variable to `no', generation of this abstract is sup- pressed. If you set it to `all', procmail will log an abstract for every successful delivering recipe it pro- cesses. So all includes some cases that yes does not, particularly copies made with the c flag on recipes. I can see that could be useful at times. Currently I don't have any c flag recipes, although I have used them from time to time. Thanks for your patient help. We probably can't do any more for a few days, until things get back to normal, but so far I've had no more messages in /var/mail/anne. Since pebcak is always a high possibility, I confess that whenever I read config files I tend to tidy up unwanted spaces, etc. It's just possible that I edited the recipes just before going away and accidentally inserted something that would interfere - such as a . in front of the DEFAULT line, which I might not notice, but which would get cleaned up as an unwanted space, next time I read. My eyes are not brilliant these days, so I'd not discount the possibility. Anyway, thanks again. I'll let you know if I discover anything more. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 19:35:33 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 22 December 2010 16:51:02 Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 22 December 2010 13:33:10 Anne Wilson wrote: I became suspicious that I should have received a certain message, and reading pm.log I discovered that it had indeed arrived and had been allocated to /var/mail/anne, despite procmailrc telling it that MAILDIR=/home/anne/Maildir/ Any idea what might have caused this? It seems to have been working like this only in the last 24 hours or so. snip There's nothing obvious, at first scan. Everything seems to be Delivered to command /usr.bin/procmail which of course is correct. The only messages affected are thos which should be in my Inbox, having failed to match any recipe. Dumb question: um, is the ., rather than /, a typo, in /usr.bin/procmail? Never discount the possibilities :-) Yes, a typo - I'm on the laptop, close to the server. All the recipes work perfectly - it's just those that fall off the end. For some reason it overrides the DEFAULT setting in procmailrc. This is a recent development, and in the log I see LASTFOLDER - is it possible that DEFAULT is no longer read and I need to define LASTFOLDER? Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail
On Thursday 23 December 2010 16:53:22 Bart Schaefer wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: All the recipes work perfectly - it's just those that fall off the end. For some reason it overrides the DEFAULT setting in procmailrc. I'm seeing messages from you about this on the procmail list as well so pardon me if I've got my threads confused, but did you indicate this has been happening some of the time for several days before you noticed it? From the dates of messages I found in /var/mail/anne, it began on the day I left for a short vacation. Consequently it was 5 or 6 days before I noticed. Few message fail the procmail recipes, normally, so I don't expect to see many there. Have you determined that it's consistent for any message that falls off the end or is it intermittent? I found that yesterday morning at 6 am messages were being delivered correctly, including a couple that fell off the end. Suddenly though, things changed. In the logs I saw messages about by-passing a lock file. I'm wondering if some of the longer html messages are causing locks to be set that don't expire in time for the next message. I do remember in the past using the setting for No Lock (and yes, I read the warning), but can't remember where I found that. I'll think more about that. If its consistent and there's a reasonably well-defined time that it started happening, you should be looking for changes to the system such as an automatically-applied update that occurred shortly before the symptoms began. However ... Earlier in this thread you said MAILDIR=/home/anne/Maildir/ ... but MAILDIR is procmail's equivalent of the shell's PWD, it has nothing to do with delivery except as the path prefix if you use a relative path name in a delivering recipe. Assigning to MAILDIR is just a cd. Have you tried DEFAULT=/home/anne/Maildir/ ? No, I haven't touch the settings, because they have worked well for several years. This is a recent development, and in the log I see LASTFOLDER - is it possible that DEFAULT is no longer read and I need to define LASTFOLDER? LASTFOLDER is informational, procmail sets it immediately before delivering to that folder; if you see LASTFOLDER in your logs, the only way the message should fail to arrive in that folder is in the event of an error writing to that folder. They do arrive there - it just defines it as /var/mail/anne, which is useless on my IMAP server. I don't recall whether setting DEFAULT to a pipe (e.g., to delivermail) is supposed to work, but I wouldn't rely upon it. In some simple tests I tried, the pipe was never opened and the mail was passed through to standard output. Setting DEFAULT to a file or directory worked. In fact I misquoted when I first wrote. The line I gave is correct, but it should have been followed by DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/new/ In fact my logs show no mail going to /var/mail/anne today, so I will have to watch and wait. I repeat, I'm using a procmailrc that has worked perfectly for years. If you haven't already, you really should add LOGABSTRACT=all VERBOSE=yes When I first set this up it was with a printed set of documentation. I do have VERBOSE=YES, but I have LOGABSTRACT=YES. Are these equivalents or has something changed in the meantime? Not that I'm worried about that - I repeat, everything has been fine up to now. to your procmailrc until you have resolved the problem. This isn't a guarantee that you'll be able to track it down but it'll help eliminate a lot of possibilities. I've not had a single message to my Inbox today, but nor have any ended in the Local mail account, so I'll just have to wait to see whether the problem recurs. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] The case of the missing mail
I became suspicious that I should have received a certain message, and reading pm.log I discovered that it had indeed arrived and had been allocated to /var/mail/anne, despite procmailrc telling it that MAILDIR=/home/anne/Maildir/ Any idea what might have caused this? It seems to have been working like this only in the last 24 hours or so. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 13:33:10 Anne Wilson wrote: I became suspicious that I should have received a certain message, and reading pm.log I discovered that it had indeed arrived and had been allocated to /var/mail/anne, despite procmailrc telling it that MAILDIR=/home/anne/Maildir/ Any idea what might have caused this? It seems to have been working like this only in the last 24 hours or so. Also, since /var/mail/anne is mbox and /home/anne/Maildir/ is maildir, I need to find a way of getting the messages into the correct directory. I could clip them into separate files, but I assume that the cryptic names of files are used for indexing. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 16:51:02 Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 22 December 2010 13:33:10 Anne Wilson wrote: I became suspicious that I should have received a certain message, and reading pm.log I discovered that it had indeed arrived and had been allocated to /var/mail/anne, despite procmailrc telling it that MAILDIR=/home/anne/Maildir/ Any idea what might have caused this? It seems to have been working like this only in the last 24 hours or so. Also, since /var/mail/anne is mbox and /home/anne/Maildir/ is maildir, I need to find a way of getting the messages into the correct directory. I could clip them into separate files, but I assume that the cryptic names of files are used for indexing. There are a few things that are likely to cause the symptoms you describe: 1. Lax permissions on ~/.procmailrc: make sure that file isn't accessible by group or world (0600 works for me). It was 0700 - I've changed it to 0600. 2. Lax permissions on your $HOME. Procmail gets picky when things are group-writeable. The directory itself is not group- or world-writable. There are one or two files inside that are group-writable, but most aren't. I could change those, I suppose, but they are nothing related to the mail system. 3. SELinux issues. Run ausearch -m avc | grep procmail to see if anything needs to be relabeled. I'm not running SELinux /var/log/maillog will usually supply part of the answer as well. There's nothing obvious, at first scan. Everything seems to be Delivered to command /usr.bin/procmail which of course is correct. The only messages affected are thos which should be in my Inbox, having failed to match any recipe. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 17:39:56 Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: On 12/22/2010 11:19 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: /var/log/maillog will usually supply part of the answer as well. There's nothing obvious, at first scan. Everything seems to be Delivered to command /usr.bin/procmail which of course is correct. The only messages affected are thos which should be in my Inbox, having failed to match any recipe. If you have VERBOSE on in your .procmailrc it should log what it does with each message. I usually don't rely on user .procmailrc files to specify INBOX locations. Instead, I set the DEFAULT variable in /etc/procmailrc, e.g., # /etc/procmailrc DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ Interesting. I don't have an /etc/procmailrc. Are there other things you'd recommend to place there? Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 18:35:29 Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Anne Wilson wrote: # /etc/procmailrc DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ Interesting. I don't have an /etc/procmailrc. Are there other things you'd recommend to place there? That's all I put in there. It may be worthwhile to take a peek at the Environment variable defaults section of the procmailrc(5) man page. OK, I'll do that, thanks Note that /etc/procmailrc is often executed as root, not $USER, so I tend to avoid putting anything but variable definitions in it. I'll leave it for tomorrow, with a fresher mind, hopefully. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] nfs4 help needed
On Sunday 02 May 2010 21:09:46 Tom H wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: Fedora 13 is using nfs4, and there is a problem in opening files requiring OpenOffice if accessed over an nfs3 mount, so it's time to change. I found a couple of tutorials, and got it *almost* working correctly. This is where I need help. Logwatch tells me /nfs4exports/Data1 and /Data1 have same filehandle for *,192.168.0.0/24,192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0, using first The tutorial I was following suggested making a root connection as ro, then the data connections as rw, so I have /nfs4exports192.168.0.0/24 (ro,sync,insecure,root_squash,no_subtree_check,fsid=0) /nfs4exports/Data1 192.168.0.0/24(rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,nohide) /nfs4exports/home 192.168.0.0/24(rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,nohide) However, when I ls nfs4exports I get Data1 home which ties in, I think, with the logwatch report. Can someone please explain what I've misunderstood, and what I should do to put it right? Thanks Possibly helpful: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425765 I've suddenly realised that it is almost certainly not that problem at all. The problem, I think, is that /etc/exports still has the nfs(3) exports. I understand that I could remove them using the -F and -U flags with chgnfsexp, but that would make them unavailable to my older systems. I think it means that I have to concentrate on getting the older systems using nfs4 as well, after which I can remove the old exports. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] nfs4 help needed
On Sunday 02 May 2010 21:09:46 Tom H wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: Fedora 13 is using nfs4, and there is a problem in opening files requiring OpenOffice if accessed over an nfs3 mount, so it's time to change. I found a couple of tutorials, and got it *almost* working correctly. This is where I need help. Logwatch tells me /nfs4exports/Data1 and /Data1 have same filehandle for *,192.168.0.0/24,192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0, using first The tutorial I was following suggested making a root connection as ro, then the data connections as rw, so I have /nfs4exports192.168.0.0/24 (ro,sync,insecure,root_squash,no_subtree_check,fsid=0) /nfs4exports/Data1 192.168.0.0/24(rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,nohide) /nfs4exports/home 192.168.0.0/24(rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,nohide) However, when I ls nfs4exports I get Data1 home which ties in, I think, with the logwatch report. Can someone please explain what I've misunderstood, and what I should do to put it right? Thanks Possibly helpful: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425765 Thanks for that, Tom. I'll certainly try it. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] nfs4 help needed
Fedora 13 is using nfs4, and there is a problem in opening files requiring OpenOffice if accessed over an nfs3 mount, so it's time to change. I found a couple of tutorials, and got it *almost* working correctly. This is where I need help. Logwatch tells me /nfs4exports/Data1 and /Data1 have same filehandle for *,192.168.0.0/24,192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0, using first The tutorial I was following suggested making a root connection as ro, then the data connections as rw, so I have /nfs4exports192.168.0.0/24 (ro,sync,insecure,root_squash,no_subtree_check,fsid=0) /nfs4exports/Data1 192.168.0.0/24(rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,nohide) /nfs4exports/home 192.168.0.0/24(rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,nohide) However, when I ls nfs4exports I get Data1 home which ties in, I think, with the logwatch report. Can someone please explain what I've misunderstood, and what I should do to put it right? Thanks Anne ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] creating a local repo
On Sunday 25 April 2010 12:27:20 john maclean wrote: Your dns isn't working for you:) rsync -avrt --exclude=debug/ rsync://mirror.ovh.net/ftp.centos.org/5/updates/ updates/ Solved. Wrong syntax and a firewall in the way. More details would help anyone searching the archives :-) Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Can no longer print
My server has CentOS 5.4. I had hplip-2.7.12 installed and running, as earlier versions didn't work with my printers, and was able to print to a networked printer. As far as I'm aware, that's the version that was still running last time I printed. Recently I decided to add a local USB printer, and at that point discovered that I can no longer print. I've no idea how long this has been so. Rightly or wrongly, I decided that something must have seriously upset hplip, so I removed it and re-installed it. Unfortunately it hasn't cured anything. I have the correct ppd files for both printers, and CUPS lists them. If I step through the CUPS Modify Printer pages everything looks correct, but when I try to send a test page I see usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed. Running 'hp-check -t' tells me that libcrypto is a required dependency and I don't have it. 'rpm --redhatprovides libcrypto' says that no package provides it, and no package of that name is listed. Where can I get it? Similarly, ppdev and ReportLab are essential but missing. I have printed from this server in the past, but I can't get it sorted this time. I can't even find any uninstall file for hplip, and it doesn't appear in the rpm database. Is there any way I can get this working again? Thanks Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Can no longer print
Reply to All / Reply to List On Friday 23 April 2010 18:30:40 MHR wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: Running 'hp-check -t' tells me that libcrypto is a required dependency and I don't have it. 'rpm --redhatprovides libcrypto' says that no package provides it, and no package of that name is listed. Where can I get it? Have you checked any of the hits in Google? There are many of them I've checked quite a few. None of them I've found so far were about these missing dependencies, but I'll read some more. Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dear Centos Mailing List, If you can't find in google, try JUSTDIAL.COM
On Thursday 07 January 2010 11:49:32 Karanbir Singh wrote: Actually, the only way to totally block spam is to setup a rotational moderation team and moderate everything. Dont think I need to go into the issues that would come with that setup. Besides which, more spam comes from threads like this than the unwanted mail itself :-) Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 and HPLIP-3.9.12
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 17:23:09 gene.po...@macys.com wrote: I recently purchased a HP Officejet Pro 8500 (A909a) and it's ethernet attached. It's been configured and works perfectly from WinXP, Win Vista, Windows 7, and Fedora 11 x86_64. However, on my machine running CentOS 5.4 x86_64 I can't get the configuration to work so that it prints duplex (2-sided). The HP Setup appears to be working from the command line, but the graphic portion doesn't appear to work. Any ideas? I have a Photosmart with duplexer, attached by wifi. I have some difficulty getting it to remember that I want duplex as default, but I can always configure it from the print dialogue. Does localhost:631 see the print queue correctly? I'm just wondering whether duplex needs to be set up there too. I you can't sort it, HP have a launchpad for problems, and I found them very helpful when I first got my all-in-one. The other thing that strikes me, is that I did have problems on the CentOS box at first, because the hplip that was installed didn't have the correct, up-to- date ppd file. It could be worth checking that against your F11 box. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Weird update problem
For some time now updates on my CentOS box had skipped exiv2. Yesterday I decided to do something about it, so I removed it - together with gwenview, digikam and, IIRC, libexiv2. That sounded reasonable, so I accepted the removal, then re-installed gwenview and digikam, which, of course, pulled in the two exiv2 packages. The version number of exiv2 sounded familiar, but I assumed that it would bring in the best-match version, and continued. This morning, seeing that more updates were announced, I ran update again. To my surprise, exiv2 was skipped, as before. I'm curious as to what could be happening here. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Weird update problem
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 10:57:30 Karanbir Singh wrote: On 01/05/2010 10:41 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: assumed that it would bring in the best-match version, and continued. This morning, seeing that more updates were announced, I ran update again. To my surprise, exiv2 was skipped, as before. I'm curious as to what could be happening here. yum clean metadata; yum repolist ; yum -d9 list exi\* might give you some clues as to whats going on. That gives Installed Packages exiv2.i386 0.17.1-1.el5.rf installed Available Packages exiftags.i386 1.01-1.el5.rf rpmforge exim.i386 4.63-3.el5base exim-doc.noarch4.63-2.el5base exim-mon.i386 4.63-3.el5base exim-sa.i386 4.63-3.el5base exiv2.i386 0.19-1.el5.rf rpmforge exiv2-debuginfo.i386 0.17.1-1.el5 epel- debuginfo exiv2-devel.i386 0.19-1.el5.rf rpmforge rpmforge.repo is enabled, but is priority 5 - could this be a priority problem? Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Weird update problem
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 12:06:54 Karanbir Singh wrote: On 01/05/2010 12:00 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: yum clean metadata; yum repolist ; yum -d9 list exi\* exiv2-devel.i386 0.19-1.el5.rf rpmforge rpmforge.repo is enabled, but is priority 5 - could this be a priority problem? the -d9 should give you a lot more info, lots lots more. You'll need to parse that to work out whats going on - or put it on pastebin.centos.org and post the url here in the mailthread. Someone might be able to help with details. It should only have package info, but some people consider that a privacy issue. To be honest, if you look through the output, it should not be hard working out whats going on Sorry - it had scrolled off the screen and I hadn't realised just how much there is - almost 2000 lines. I've posted the output to http://filebin.ca/ggqvkc/centos.txt When I first set up CentOS I had seen what havoc conflicting repos could do, so I tried to set up fairly tight priorities. Maybe I got some of them wrong. All the same, from that output I can't understand what's happening, so I'd be glad of the help. I don't think the 0.19-1 package is among those excluded. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Weird update problem
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 12:10:44 Karanbir Singh wrote: On 01/05/2010 12:06 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: yum clean metadata; yum repolist ; yum -d9 list exi\* erm, i said 'list' but meant 'update'. you want to yum -d9 update exiv\* Oops - so the output I already posted is irrelevant. The new output is at http://filebin.ca/swaoqf/centos2.txt Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Weird update problem
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 12:10:44 Karanbir Singh wrote: On 01/05/2010 12:06 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: yum clean metadata; yum repolist ; yum -d9 list exi\* erm, i said 'list' but meant 'update'. you want to yum -d9 update exiv\* I should also add that I use skip-broken routinely, and I tried package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupesand rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest without result. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Weird update problem
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 15:04:27 Karanbir Singh wrote: On 01/05/2010 02:49 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: Oops - so the output I already posted is irrelevant. The new output is at http://filebin.ca/swaoqf/centos2.txt This looks like a repo problem, you should report it to the rpmforge-users list so they can fix it ( although many of the packages from rpmforge are here on this list as well, its still worth reporting to their list ) OK, thanks. I'll do that. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Weird update problem
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 16:38:01 Rob Kampen wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For some time now updates on my CentOS box had skipped exiv2. Yesterday I decided to do something about it, so I removed it - together with gwenview, digikam and, IIRC, libexiv2. That sounded reasonable, so I accepted the removal, then re-installed gwenview and digikam, which, of course, pulled in the two exiv2 packages. The version number of exiv2 sounded familiar, but I assumed that it would bring in the best-match version, and continued. This morning, seeing that more updates were announced, I ran update again. To my surprise, exiv2 was skipped, as before. I'm curious as to what could be happening here. I too had this issue, although my need for exiv2 was gnome-commander. Thus I too removed exiv2 and its dependents. As I did not need the packages I have left them uninstalled. I think the issue is a change in the exiv2 rpm spec file in regards to libraries needed or included, thus as both come from rf - suggest post a request to them. HTH Thanks. I've mailed them. My CentOS box spends most of its time doing quite mundane file/print/IMAP serving. Just occasionally I have something that needs a bit more oomph than this laptop can manage, and I turn to the CentOS box for those. It's relatively rare, so this hasn't been a high priority for me - just a niggle. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:59:43 Ugo Bellavance wrote: On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote: Hi I have this . folder under tmp It is a system-generated link to the current directory. Don't touch that. Thank heavens there's one sane person reading today. Obviously no-one else here was ever new to Linux. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Security advice, please
I run chkrootkit daily. For the first time I've got reports of a problem - Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 1008) The page http://fatpenguinblog.com/scott-rippee/checking-bindshell-infected- ports-1008/ suggests that this might be a false positive, so I ran 'netstat - tanup' but unlike the report, it wasn't famd on the port. It was tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:10080.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3797/rpc.mountd It looks as though certain services are marked as suspicious when they grab port 1008. I tried to find how to restart the service, but without success, but a reboot put rpc.mountd onto another port, and chkrootkit no longer reports a problem. (I had rebooted last evening after an update including a kernel version.) I think that it really was a false alarm, but I would really like to know how I could restart that service without rebooting. system-config-services didn't do the trick, and I simply didn't know what else to try. In case I meet this again, can you please advise me? Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Security advice, please
On Friday 18 December 2009 16:55:04 nate wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: do the trick, and I simply didn't know what else to try. In case I meet this again, can you please advise me? Are you doing anything with NFS? If not then turn off the nfs service, and the rpc services [r...@dc1-rhel5-32build001:~]# chkconfig --list | grep \(nfs\|rpc\) nfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off nfslock 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off rpcgssd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off rpcidmapd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off rpcsvcgssd0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off If you are using NFS, then stop using it before restarting the services. Thanks, all of you. Yes, I have some directories exported, with folderviews on my laptop to give quick access to them. I'll check out /etc/sysconfig/nfs as Rob suggested, too. It's the first time I've seen this, but it would be sensible to avoid the problem. Thanks again Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Missing package
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 23:42:30 ken wrote: On 10/28/2009 08:39 AM Anne Wilson wrote: The big update caused one of the rare re-starts on my mail server, so I saw the startup messages that I had forgotten about. Oct 28 10:50:04 borg2 python: [3424]: warning: python-dbus not installed. Oct 28 10:50:04 borg2 python: hp-systray[3424]: warning: Qt/PyQt 4 initialization failed. Oct 28 10:50:04 borg2 python: hp-systray[3424]: error: hp-systray requires Qt4 GUI and DBus support. Exiting. I cna't find any package python-dbus. dbus-python is installed, but hp- systray doesn't recognise that as the same thing. Is it possible to create some sort of link so that when it attempts to call python-dbus it gets dbus- python instead? Anne Hmmm. I've got it. $ rpm -q dbus-python dbus-python-0.70-7.el5 Yes, so have I. But hplip is looking for python.dbus. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] printers... (HP)
On Thursday 29 October 2009 18:35:56 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I can't remember if I asked here - I've got more than one printer, HP, laser, builtin JetDirect. When I go there in a browser, I see the basic thing, but I can't get to the networking page. It says that it wants a password, no user name. It doesn't accept anything. Last week, a co-worker reset one to factory defaults... and it comes up with the same thing. Looking around on the Web, I don't see anything about a default password. Clues for the poor? Have you tried installing hplip? You'll have to check whether the CentOS package is late enough to support your printers, and you may have to download a ppd file, but I find it works very well here. I have a mfp, JetDirect, connected by wireless, and a Deskjet 990CXi by usb to my laptop. I've also used the Deskjet on another box connected to the LAN. The setup tool sees them both, and providing it can find the ppd it's really easy. (IIRC the CentOS package didn't support my mfp, but just pointing it to the .ppd was sufficient to get it working.) Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Missing package
The big update caused one of the rare re-starts on my mail server, so I saw the startup messages that I had forgotten about. Oct 28 10:50:04 borg2 python: [3424]: warning: python-dbus not installed. Oct 28 10:50:04 borg2 python: hp-systray[3424]: warning: Qt/PyQt 4 initialization failed. Oct 28 10:50:04 borg2 python: hp-systray[3424]: error: hp-systray requires Qt4 GUI and DBus support. Exiting. I cna't find any package python-dbus. dbus-python is installed, but hp- systray doesn't recognise that as the same thing. Is it possible to create some sort of link so that when it attempts to call python-dbus it gets dbus- python instead? Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
On Thursday 24 September 2009 20:03:04 Curt Mills wrote: On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 24 September 2009 17:50:37 Ron Loftin wrote: My image of the low-tech user is the one who surfs the Web, reads and writes e-mail, and does the odd letter or maybe even a spreadsheet in some office tool, along with maybe some simple games. My experience with this category of user is that when they stumble across something unfamiliar or want some additional function, they pick up the phone and call me. I recognise that description ;-D It's the Give a man a fish/Teach a man to fish scenario. Some people would rather visit the fishmonger, and it's their right to make that decision. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
On Friday 25 September 2009 17:02:24 Lanny Marcus wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop. He needs are small. She has been used to Mozilla for both mail and browsing, so I believe if you install all the multimedia stuff that's described on the CentOS Wiki and K3b, and the other things previous responses have mentioned, OpenOffice.org, etc., she will be fine. The one thing I suggest you teach her is where her files are and how to backup to a CD or DVD. In the past, under windows, I set up a one-click link to run a pre-defined job. Since I moved her to Mandriva I have shown her once how to copy files with k3b, and she wasn't unhappy about that. I ran into an issue with K3b (which otherwise works perfectly for me), where it couldn't automatically erase a CD-RW (which I think it claims it can do), so I need to su - and as root umount /dev/hdd before it can erase a CD-RW. Hopefully she won't need to do that, as running as root is probably not something she should be doing. Not really a problem. When we discussed RWs she said that CD-Rs are so cheap now that it's not worth the bother of using RWs. I have installed one package from the FC6 DVD (KDEEDU) on CentOS 5 (32 bit) to get KStars and that worked fine. But, as Phil pointed out, maybe better to rebuild from the srpm. Sounds encouraging, thanks. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop. He needs are small. She has been used to Mozilla for both mail and browsing, so equivalents there are not a problem. She needs grip and lame, for her mp3s - again no problem. In fact the only problem I can see is that gwenview doesn't appear to have the kipi-plugins. I can see libkipi listed, but no plugins, and a pbone search didn't find it for me. Perhaps it's available from a repo that I don't have? This is the tool of choice for me, for photo-printing. I think I've covered the areas that she's interested in. Can anyone point out any other things I should consider? Once I have the system set up as she needs I shall set up cron jobs to keep her up to date. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
On Thursday 24 September 2009 10:31:55 Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:11 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop. He needs are small. She has been used to Mozilla for both mail and browsing, so equivalents there are not a problem. She needs grip and lame, for her mp3s - again no problem. In fact the only problem I can see is that gwenview doesn't appear to have the kipi-plugins. I can see libkipi listed, but no plugins, and a pbone search didn't find it for me. Perhaps it's available from a repo that I don't have? This is the tool of choice for me, for photo-printing. I think I've covered the areas that she's interested in. Can anyone point out any other things I should consider? OpenOffice? Yes, of course. Should have thought of that :-) However, that's no problem. The RPMforge and Epel repos are always good bets, at least they have been for me. Just make sure you use the yum-priorities plugin. You break it, you buy it - kind of. ;-) Yea, I know, I get to keep the pieces :-) I have both of those on my server box, which is where I'm testing what's available for her, but kipi-plugins isn't found be yum list or yum search. Strange when libkipi is there. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
On Thursday 24 September 2009 10:55:15 Niki Kovacs wrote: Anne Wilson a écrit : I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop. I'm running a small computer business in South France, installing desktops and servers for professionals like small companies. I have almost exclusively non-tech users, and CentOS + RPMForge + the odd self-built package suits the job perfectly. Though I do admit GNOME integration is way better than KDE (no flames intended). http://www.microlinux.fr No offence taken, although I'm a KDEer myself. I still can't quite believe that libkipi is available but not kipi-plugins. hmm - yum can't find gnome- photo-printer (or gpp) either. I'll have to carry on searching. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
On Thursday 24 September 2009 12:38:12 Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:27 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user Yea, I know, I get to keep the pieces :-) I have both of those on my server box, which is where I'm testing what's available for her, but kipi-plugins isn't found be yum list or yum search. Strange when libkipi is there. Have you checked eg pbone.net for some suitable rpm's? Assuming all dependencies are met from before, you could install them manually. Yes, I checked pbone - but only for centos. I don't know much about Fedora any longer, I gave it up somewhere around at FC5 or 6, but there might be some repo(s) for this one that you might use. At least worth checking up I think. I think if the worst comes to the worst it would be possible to install a FC6 package. Pbone says there is a package for FC6, and also offers an rpm from sourceforge. That may be a possibility too. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
On Thursday 24 September 2009 13:23:59 Phil Schaffner wrote: Anne Wilson wrote on 09/24/2009 07:54 AM: On Thursday 24 September 2009 12:38:12 Sorin Srbu wrote: ... I think if the worst comes to the worst it would be possible to install a FC6 package. Pbone says there is a package for FC6, and also offers an rpm from sourceforge. That may be a possibility too. Anne, If you are going for a binary RPM FC6 would be the best bet, but a better approach would be a rebuild from SRPM. The kipi-plugins-0.1.3-5.fc7.src.rpm from FC7 updates builds on CentOS 5.3 after satisfying dependencies from EPEL and ATrpms. Had to disable RPMforge due to dependency issues to get it to work. Thanks for that info. I'll bear it in mind. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
On Thursday 24 September 2009 13:34:24 Sorin Srbu wrote: Just to be clear, my there might be some repo(s) for this one was meant as Fedora generally speaking not, FC6 specifically. 8-) OK - I tend to think of FC6 because it's the nearest, I think, to CentOS 5.x. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
On Thursday 24 September 2009 13:27:16 Timothy Murphy wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop. He needs are small. She has been used to Mozilla for both mail and browsing, so equivalents there are not a problem. She needs grip and lame, for her mp3s - again no problem. In fact the only problem I can see is that gwenview doesn't appear to have the kipi-plugins. I can see libkipi listed, but no plugins, and a pbone search didn't find it for me. Why CentOS, as a matter of interest. I'm a great fan of CentOS for servers, but I would have thought Fedora would be more suitable for the purpose you are talking about. No, not for her, I think. The long-term support and stability are more suited to her needs. She doesn't need the latest and greatest. FC6 did, for me, everything she needs and more, so as long as I can resolve the photo printing problem, CentOS is the logical answer. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
On Thursday 24 September 2009 13:37:54 Sorin Srbu wrote: I'm guessing maintenance cycles. Anne? My mother runs CentOS on her computer at home. My wife does it on a portable she lugs around on meetings. Why shouldn't CentOS be suitable for home users? CentOS's maintenance cycle alone got me all sweaty and hot the first time I heard of it. ;-) Yes, it's a very big plus. I'm comfortable using Fedora on my desktop, and I use CentOS on my server, so with CentOS set to update regularly her maintenance needs should be minimal, which suits both of us very well ;-) Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
On Thursday 24 September 2009 16:10:54 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: On Thursday 24 September 2009 12:38:12 Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- Of Anne Wilson Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:27 PM snip box, which is where I'm testing what's available for her, but kipi-plugins isn't found be yum list or yum search. Strange when libkipi is there. Have you checked eg pbone.net for some suitable rpm's? Assuming all dependencies are met from before, you could install them manually. Yes, I checked pbone - but only for centos. snip I'd add in the search RHELyour release, at least to start. Beyond that, some other distro, such as mandrake, may have compatible rpms. Some good ideas, there, thanks. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
On Thursday 24 September 2009 17:29:18 cornel panceac wrote: Yes - and for those suggesting ubuntu as better for a non-technical user I think the real question is whether the user will do any of their own changes (like adding new programs) and updates. If they do, ubuntu is probably a good choice. If they will ask you to do it for them, then it would be the system that you are most comfortable with maintaining. +1 Exactly. Ubuntu would be totally unfamiliar to me, and the idea of being called in when she is 'up a tree' because something needs fixing doesn't bear thinking about. As long as she is with an rpm distro I can cope. If she is with Mandriva, Fedora or CentOS they are familiar. The main problem with the first two is the 6-month cycle. maybe the distro is not that important, and more interesting is the answer to the question what is the typical user doing with it's computer? in this regard, i'd start at mauriat miranda's fedora checklist, and add to it depending on user's needs. ( actually, when fc6 ended it's life, i wanted to switch one friend's notebook to centos 5. unfortunately, the (new,hp) printer didn't worked, after it was bought because the lexmark mfp didn't worked, and after it worked fine on fc6. so the notebook ended in fedora 9. ) Now that has set me thinking. She has a Brother mfp. It works under Mandriva, so I just took it for granted that it would work in CentOS, but that may not be so. Hmm. Some research needed. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
On Thursday 24 September 2009 17:50:37 Ron Loftin wrote: My image of the low-tech user is the one who surfs the Web, reads and writes e-mail, and does the odd letter or maybe even a spreadsheet in some office tool, along with maybe some simple games. My experience with this category of user is that when they stumble across something unfamiliar or want some additional function, they pick up the phone and call me. I recognise that description ;-D Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Wireless Printing
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 20:50:52 Joseph L. Casale wrote: My home network doesn't have any wireless access points (to slow) and I was iSCSI booting my wkst for a while:) Now I need to setup a printer so I was going to get an HP Photosmart C4580. I print to my HP all-in-one via wireless, using hplip, so I can confirm that hplip isn't likely to be your problem. The HPLIP page shows no network support:( I _was_ going to use a USB wireless nic I have and setup an ad-hoc to print to this thing. Anyone know anything that might make this work? Your firs need is to make sure that you can get any kind of connection using the usb thingumy. Can your turn off wireless on any other device and try getting it set up so that it works there? I wouldn't attempt it on the printer until I was sure that I knew it works elsewhere - too many unknowns. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Wireless Printing
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 00:34:19 John R Pierce wrote: get an ethernet printer, sheesh. It's not always that simple. Sometimes an extra cable connection is just not an option. My HP7180 works perfectly by wireless, including scanning. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Wireless Printing
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 05:56:32 Frank Cox wrote: hey may not clog, but they do dry out after a while. I just brought a deskjet back into service after two years of non-use, and it printed immediately on the existing cartridges. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Wireless Printing
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 09:20:47 cornel panceac wrote: 2009/9/16 Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com On Wednesday 16 September 2009 05:56:32 Frank Cox wrote: hey may not clog, but they do dry out after a while. I just brought a deskjet back into service after two years of non-use, and it printed immediately on the existing cartridges. it was probably defective. Huh? Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Web server in a sandbox?
I'd like to understand better the sysadmin aspects of running a wiki. I don't have, and don't intend to at this stage, a web server, but I do have spare capacity on my LAN server box, where I'd like to install MediaWiki. I found this article: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/documentation-guide/en_US/sn-sandbox-setup.html Would it be straightforward to follow those instructions on a CentOS5 box? Anything I should be aware of? Remember that this is a whole new ballgame for me. Is it likely to meet my needs? Any recommended reading that takes it right from step1 - assuming no special knowledge? Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web server in a sandbox?
On Friday 11 September 2009 14:34:00 Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:15, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/documentation-guide/en_US/sn-sandbox-setup. html Would it be straightforward to follow those instructions on a CentOS5 box? I don't think those instructions are to install MediaWiki, from what I see in the previous page they show how to publish official Fedora Documentation Project work to the docs.fedoraproject.org website. If you want to install MediaWiki, I suggest you follow the instructions on the MediaWiki website: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide I suggest you unpack the distribution under /var/www as that will probably save you trouble with SELinux. If you unpack it under /var/www/html/mediawiki you will be able to access it right away under http://your.server.com/mediawiki/. I suggest you go ahead and try to make it work, if you have specific problems or questions after that, please post them and we'll help you! I have been maintaining a MediaWiki installation under CentOS 5 here and it's been working great so far. Filipe and Kwan - Yes, I did realise that the fedora instructions were for the web server, not for mediawiki. If I have understood Felipe aright, installing mediawiki under /var/www/etc will keep it in the sandboxed area - correct? I'm chief contributor to userbase.kde.org, and we have several issues that need sysadmin time. The kde sysadmins are overworked, and we are not making progress, for a number of reasons, in getting those issues resolved. The idea of this is that if I can do the sysadmin role on a local installation I can experiments safely away from the real one, and try to find working solutions, which can then be passed to those with admin rights on the kde server. If I succeed in setting this up I'll be very glad to get back to you for help with specific questions, thanks. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web server in a sandbox?
On Friday 11 September 2009 15:36:55 Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi Anne, On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:14, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: installing mediawiki under /var/www/etc will keep it in the sandboxed area - correct? What do you mean by sandbox? I mean the ability to use it as though it were a live system, but not in fact accessible by the Internet. And I think you mean /var/www/html, there is no /var/www/etc in RHEL/CentOS... Oops - badly expressed. I meant 'etc' in the generic sense, not the directory sense. The idea of this is that if I can do the sysadmin role on a local installation I can experiments safely away from the real one, and try to find working solutions, which can then be passed to those with admin rights on the kde server. If you want something that can later on be replicated in another server, I would advise you to do the setup as close as possible to the way it is done on the other server, otherwise your findings might not be applicable to that setup... Hmm - since I don't have that level of access on the real server that may not be easy, but I can certainly talk to the sysadmins to see how far that is possible. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web server in a sandbox?
On Friday 11 September 2009 17:42:32 Les Mikesell wrote: If you have a typical firewalled LAN with private addresses, just run the wiki there instead of on a machine that can be accessed from the internet and you won't have to worry about it. Wiki's are most useful if you can make them easily accessible to everyone who might use the information and a LAN-only connection may make it possible to avoid any other restrictions. If you need an internet-facing wiki, you have to be much more careful, though. Since the point is to allow easy modification and uploads they are very likely targets for vulnerabilities and you have to keep the code up to date. Hi, Les. Yes, I understand that. I don't have any need for that, so I'm not prepared to go to those lengths. I'll keep it within the LAN if I do it at all. The next step is to talk to the people who control the 'real' site, and see whether they think this could be helpful or not. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] IMAP servers and Sent/Junk folders
On Monday 31 August 2009 17:45:21 Bill Campbell wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009, Alexander Dalloz wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009, Eugene Vilensky wrote: Hi, my users were recently moved from a uw-imap on HPUX to dovecot on EL5. Their sent items and folders went from a ~/Sent mbox file (when using SquirrelMail and Apple Mail both) to ~/mail/Sent for SquirrelMail and ~/mail/Sent Messages for other imap clients. I notice I can cat the files together and the only artifact is I end up with multiple This message is part of the system do not delete visible to the user's mail client. Is there any advice anyone can give me regarding this or other solution? When I wrote a script to extract messages from UW-Imap mbox files (or standard BSD mail folders where UW-imap was used), moving them to Maildir storage, it was easy to just look at the Subject line of each message, ignoring those with the don't remove this. double plus from my side to use Maildir with dovecot instead of mbox file storage. There are several scripts and solution for migration. It is easy and once dovecot can use its indexed Maildir, you will see a huge improvement in speed accessing the mailboxes. Especially if mailboxes are not just pretty small. One of the main reasons we have been using courier-imap for the better part of a decade is that we have several ISP clients where there are 10s of thousands of customers pretty constantly checking their e-mail with POP or IMAP. The courier authentication works much like apache with pre-spawned daemon processes that have proven very effective. Personally our system does server-side e-mail routing into different IMAP folders based on various headers, and I have 11 folders that I monitor, many of these with several thousand messages (yes I save messages for quick retrieval). The access speed seems to depend more on the IMAP client than on the server. The current version of squirrelmail surprised me with its speed while horde/imp is pretty sluggish. Apple's Mail.app is quite a bit slower than Thunderbird on the same folders. FWIW, we use courier-imap, not dovecot, and I know nothing about dovcot beyond that it's imap and how to spell it. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir I'll take a look at these, but will probably stay with what's working for us -- if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Actually, your earlier statement was incorrect, Bill. Dovecot can handle both imap and pop mail. It all comes down to the configuration files, but then the on-line documentation for dovecot is very good. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Crontab Nobody
I have a crontab for Nobody. I tried to delete it in a root kcron, which I'm sure is how I dealt with this in the past, but it seems impossible to delete. Should I delete the file /var/spool/cron/nobody? It is owned root:root, perms 600. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Crontab Nobody
On Thursday 27 August 2009 10:16:46 Christoph Maser wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 27.08.2009, 11:09 +0200 schrieb Anne Wilson: I have a crontab for Nobody. I tried to delete it in a root kcron, which I'm sure is how I dealt with this in the past, but it seems impossible to delete. Should I delete the file /var/spool/cron/nobody? It is owned root:root, perms 600. Anne as root list: crontab -u nobody -l edit: crontab -u nobody -e remove: crontab -u nobody -r Thanks. I think that's got rid of it. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Firewall and nfs mounts
Which ports need to be open on a nfs mount server? And does the client need anything opening? I tried setting 2049 udp and tcp, using system-config-securitylevel, but it doesn't seem to save the settings. First, am I trying the correct ports? Second, what am I missing in making the changes stick? Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Firewall and nfs mounts
On Monday 24 August 2009 14:05:20 Barry Brimer wrote: Which ports need to be open on a nfs mount server? And does the client need anything opening? http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-3259 Thanks for the link. I used system-config-securitylevel to activate the firewall. Since I had selected NFS4 I had expected the shares to be visible. When they weren't I tried opening 2049 to tcp and udp, but they were not saved, so I'm inclined to think that the gui NFS4 option had already done that. etc/sysconfig/nfs does exist, with everything commented out. The first section asks me to decide whether mountd is to use NFS_V1,2,or 3. In view of NFS4 being in s-c-securitylevel, this is confusing. The ports mentioned in the file are much lower than the ones in the link you provided, by which I assume that they are intended to obscure the purpose. Is it wise to start by accepting the ports in the file until everything works, then try mapping in higher ports? Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Music while you work - or not
Wanting to listen to magnatune.com while I worked, I discovered that flash is not working. It appears that I don't have libflashplayer, but yum tells me that no such package is available. I must need a different repo, I think, but what? Currently I have ls /etc/yum.repos.d/ adobe-linux-i386.repo epel-testing.repo CentOS-Base.repo kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo CentOS-Media.repo mirrors-rpmforge epel.repo rpmforge.repo I suspect that c5-media repo is discontinued. I've seen no error messages apart from 'No package libflashplayer available.' In theory I have installed the adobe flash-player, but apparently not. I'm stuck. Any help, please? Anne ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Music while you work - or not
On Sunday 23 August 2009 15:31, lostson wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 15:26 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Wanting to listen to magnatune.com while I worked, I discovered that flash is not working. It appears that I don't have libflashplayer, but yum tells me that no such package is available. I must need a different repo, I think, but what? Currently I have ls /etc/yum.repos.d/ adobe-linux-i386.repo epel-testing.repo CentOS-Base.repo kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo CentOS-Media.repo mirrors-rpmforge epel.repo rpmforge.repo I suspect that c5-media repo is discontinued. I've seen no error messages apart from 'No package libflashplayer available.' In theory I have installed the adobe flash-player, but apparently not. I'm stuck. Any help, please? Anne Personally I go here http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ get the YUM for linux package install it then I have - [adobe-linux-i386] name=Adobe Systems Incorporated baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux yum install flash-player then all my flash needs are met. No package flash-player available. Nothing to do sigh Anne ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Music while you work - or not
On Sunday 23 August 2009 15:46:25 Ralph Angenendt wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Anne Wilsoncannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: I have - [adobe-linux-i386] name=Adobe Systems Incorporated baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux That looks okay. No package flash-player available. Nothing to do Please stop being so helpless, this isn't OS X or Windows: yum search flash yum list \*flash\* Please stop being judgemental and rude. I did. And you can guess why I had the problem? I doubt it. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Music while you work - or not
On Sunday 23 August 2009 15:55:27 lostson wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 15:38 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 23 August 2009 15:31, lostson wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 15:26 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Wanting to listen to magnatune.com while I worked, I discovered that flash is not working. It appears that I don't have libflashplayer, but yum tells me that no such package is available. I must need a different repo, I think, but what? Currently I have ls /etc/yum.repos.d/ adobe-linux-i386.repo epel-testing.repo CentOS-Base.repo kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo CentOS-Media.repo mirrors-rpmforge epel.repo rpmforge.repo I suspect that c5-media repo is discontinued. I've seen no error messages apart from 'No package libflashplayer available.' In theory I have installed the adobe flash-player, but apparently not. I'm stuck. Any help, please? Anne Personally I go here http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ get the YUM for linux package install it then I have - [adobe-linux-i386] name=Adobe Systems Incorporated baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux yum install flash-player then all my flash needs are met. No package flash-player available. Nothing to do sigh Anne Sorry its yum install flash-plugin NP :-) It's just unfortunate that the googling led me to a link which gave the wrong information. Once you start down a bad road things just go from bad to worse. Anyway, it's working now. Thanks for trying to help. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Music while you work - or not
On Sunday 23 August 2009 15:48:50 Michael Klinosky wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Wanting to listen to magnatune.com while I worked, I discovered that flash is not working. It appears that I don't have libflashplayer, but yum tells me that no such package is available. I must need a different repo, I think, but what? Currently I have ls /etc/yum.repos.d/ adobe-linux-i386.repo epel-testing.repo CentOS-Base.repo kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo CentOS-Media.repo mirrors-rpmforge epel.repo rpmforge.repo I suspect that c5-media repo is discontinued. I've seen no error messages apart from 'No package libflashplayer available.' In theory I have installed the adobe flash-player, but apparently not. I'm stuck. Any help, please? Well, I'll relate what I know. I checked out the website, selected 'Jazz', play hi-fi, and it worked. I didn't use the m3u feature. I checked Firefox's Add-ons; under Plugins, I have Shockwave Flash 10.0 r22. Just to really check it out, I clicked 'Disable', and the music stopped. I didn't have any suitable plugin. I realised that, but google gave me the wrong name of the package, which is why I failed. Although it doesn't explain why the adobe repo failed to install their flashplayer. [myko...@sr1220 ~]$ ls /etc/yum.repos.d/ adobe-linux-i386.repo CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Media.repo mirrors-rpmforge rpmforge.repo Also, I did the multimedia thing - http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS I hadn't seen that particular page. I've bookmarked it for the future, thanks. This box normally just acts as a file/print/mail server - I don't normally do desktop-type things on it. It's been running CentOS for around 2 years and this is the first time I've tried to use it in this way. Thanks for answering Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Music while you work - or not
On Sunday 23 August 2009 16:08:39 Ralph Angenendt wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Anne Wilsoncannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sunday 23 August 2009 15:46:25 Ralph Angenendt wrote: Please stop being so helpless, this isn't OS X or Windows: yum search flash yum list \*flash\* Please stop being judgemental and rude. I was neither judgemental nor rude - instead of being left alone as with Windows and OS X there actually are tools to help you further in Linux. And in 7 years of using linux I haven't found them? And I don't use them? I did. And you can guess why I had the problem? I doubt it. Well, what else then guessing should I do when you do not give out any information at all (like what you already did, what yum gave you when searching for it and so on). I asked a simple question. If you didn't know the answer you should not have replied. Fortunately there are others more helpful than you. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Music while you work - or not
On Sunday 23 August 2009 16:28:27 Ralph Angenendt wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Anne Wilsoncannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: I asked a simple question. If you didn't know the answer you should not have replied. Fortunately there are others more helpful than you. Oh well - I still don't know the answer except that you did something wrong and then did something else and then something somehow worked. I was trying to show you where you can go fishing, when hungry. Giving out freshly charged electric eels, Well just in case you ever try to help someone with such a problem, what I did wrong was 1) first try to install a package name given by googling, which turned out to be wrong 2) when I had found the correct one by yum search (yes, I had done that) I tried to install it along with three swfdec-related packages. The install failed with a list of dependencies that could not be resolved. Searching the repos for those dependencies did not yield gold, and pbone couldn't find them either. The moral is, install one package at a time if a group fails. I really should have seen that the dependencies were all for the swfdec packages, not for the flash plugin, but I was so busy trying to find them that I missed it. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] logwatch not mailing [Nearly SOLVED]
On Friday 21 August 2009 17:29:09 Ray Leventhal wrote: So while I now understand that they've been running on schedule and why I've not been seeing them...I still am in a bit of a quandry as I would *like* to receive them. Should Mailscanner's threshold be addressed or is there something I'm missing here? Coming in late here, so can I ask one stupid question? Do you receive *any* messages addressed to root? I presume you have aliased it? Oops, two questions ;-) Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 20:34:55 lostson wrote: long snip We need to stand up and ask - How may I help ? What do you need to get this done. Ask yourself what talents do you have that you can offer the project. There are many ways to do this and you can find them here http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute I for one thank the Dev's for their work I know it is time consuming and you guys are doing one hell of a job. I know some of the barking can be discouraging but please do not let a few impede your progress, on what is a great os for us to use, and to finish up may I offer my help in any way I can. I am no super guru by any means but I do have some skills and would be happy to help, and yes I know I have to earn it, so be it I love a challenge, thank you again for the excellent os that is CentOS +1 Lostson, kill the fatted calf. It's time someone injected some positive thinking into the list. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS Digest, Vol 55, Issue 10
On Monday 10 August 2009 22:39:21 Ed Warner wrote: I tried your suggestions without success. ip-up.local is executable in a bash console and if I do so, I get this message: iptables v1.3.5: invalid mask '255' specified Try 'iptables -h' for more information. A subent mask of 255? In my opinion it should be something like address/24 or 255.255.255.0. Seems to me that your settings are not correct, firestarter doesn't know your subnet mask. regards Olaf That message is what I don't understand. My subnet is declared correctly, I even went back and checked. Firestarter says it starts but doesn't seem to enable NAT because nothing behind the firewall can reach the internet. Small suggestion - check that you haven't inadvertantly typed a ',' instead of a '.' Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Battery condition tools CentOS/Dell
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 18:38:12 Kwan Lowe wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Blake Hudsonbl...@ispn.net wrote: How old is your laptop? This may be a case of expectations not meeting reality. As the Wiki article linked previously mentions, LiION batteries deteriorate over time and with use (as do all batteries). In my experience, a typical laptop battery (treated well) will last 2 years while maintaining the majority of its original capacity. After 5 years, the battery run time is often inadequate to meet the needs of the owner. When purchasing a laptop, I would have the expectation that the battery will need replaced every 2-3 years - if the laptop is used, assume that it needs a new battery. The laptop is about 18 months old, so the battery was nearing its end but I'd hoped for at least another 6 months of useful time (more than 10 minutes). The battery is in worse condition than three identical batteries in the other 3 laptops purchased at the same time. The main difference is that this laptop is plugged in continuously while the others are mobile. My laptop is four years old, and yes the battery is aging. When I bought the laptop there were instructions that if a laptop is used mainly on mains, you should run it on battery, say once a month or so, until you are down to 10%. It was claimed that the periodic discharge in this way actually lengthens the life-span of the battery. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [Q} how can O.S. predicate a disk going to failure??
On Tuesday 04 August 2009 14:48:03 Kwan Lowe wrote: 2009/8/4 mcclnx mcc mcc...@yahoo.com.tw: [snip] my questions are: 1. is this disk really degrade or not? 2. how O.S. can predicate disk going to failure? 3. do I need replace this disk now? I understand that the drive electronics can check things such as the time it takes to read a sector, number of failures per read, retries before success etc.. This information gets processed and reported to the OS via SMART as some others have replied. But I really just want to say that within one day of getting SMART errors, my disk failed. FWIW, Smart started noting problems on my laptop drive, and the manufacturer accepted a Smart report as sufficient to warrant a replacement drive being fitted under warranty. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS on Acer Laptop
On Friday 31 July 2009 13:05:52 Robert Heller wrote: At Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:56:14 +0300 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: I have very basic question: I have downloaded *CentOS-5.3-i386-LiveCD* from CentOS website. Now I need to install it on my Acer Laptop permanently not as a liveCD. How do I burn it to a DVD to be able to install it by simply restarting my laptop? The CentOS Live CD are not 'install' CDs -- they don't include the installer or the RPMs. You should download the CentOS install DVD and burn that. And to answer the 'how-to' bit - you can burn the cd in Windows or Linux. Normally any burning program will have an option to 'burn an image', or similar. It's not usually as obvious as a plain burn, but tucked away in a menu. Now you know what you are looking for you should find it easily enough. One thing. Most burning applications give you the option to verify after the burn. What this means is that it calculates a checksum of the original file, then compares with the checksum of the burned file. It's a good idea to get into the habit of always setting the verify when it is available to you. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] ssh -X not shutting down
Occasionally I ssh into my server to check something, and if it needs the gui I use 'ssh -X'. Until recently there was no problem. Exiting simply dropped me back to my local konsole. Lately, though, the shutdown seems to hang, and I have to close the session. Any thoughts? Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ssh -X not shutting down
On Thursday 30 July 2009 14:54:04 Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:42, Anne Wilsoncannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: Occasionally I ssh into my server to check something, and if it needs the gui I use 'ssh -X'. Until recently there was no problem. Exiting simply dropped me back to my local konsole. Lately, though, the shutdown seems to hang, and I have to close the session. Any thoughts? This usually happens when you have a background process connected to the tty used by your SSH session. This usually happens when you restart a daemon (service xxx restart or /etc/init.d/xxx restart) and the script or the program does not detach itself from the tty, which it should do if it is a proper daemon. You can use ps -f (before you close the session) to see which processes are attached to your tty, after that, if you log out the session and it hangs, you can look into those programs that were running on your tty and see if they are causing that. See also: http://www.openssh.org/faq.html#3.10 If you want to force disconnection of the SSH session without having to close the terminal or window, you can type Return then ~. (tilde followed by dot), this will terminate the SSH client process. Very helpful, thanks Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] NUT problem
A little while ago I changed my UPS to Leibert and installed NUT. Everything worked as expected. Today I tried to use the MultiLink Viewer icon from the desktop, but it simply accepted the root password without apparently doing anything. I can run the viewer directly (as root) from a file manager. The icon is owned by me, but the application is set to run as root. I suspect that the problem is with 'kdesu'. The command 'kdesu /opt/MultiLink/bin/Viewer' which is what the icon runs, brings 'kdesu /opt/MultiLink/bin/Viewer' bash: kdesu /opt/MultiLink/bin/Viewer: No such file or directory From a root terminal, however, /opt/MultiLink/bin/Viewer /opt/MultiLink/jre/bin/java -cp .:/opt/MultiLink/lib/em.jar - Djava.compiler=NONE com.liebert.dpg.app.LxExecutor mainViewer /opt/MultiLink cfg/executor.cfg What changes do I need to make to be able to use the desktop icon again? Anne ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
