[CentOS] how to install BackupPC on CentOS 5.2 -- use Testing repository

Hi. I just installed CentOS for the first time, to make a BackupPC server. However, when I try to install BackupPC using yum, I get the error: No package backuppc available. I searched the Testing, Extras and CentOS Plus repositories, and found a BackupPC package only in Testing, at

[CentOS] Re: how to install BackupPC on CentOS 5.2 -- how do I use Test repository?

Ok, downloading the BackupPC RPM directly did not work to myriad dependencies and sub-dependencies. How do I add the Test repository to my yum config, please? Aleksey On 7/31/08, Aleksey Tsalolikhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I just installed CentOS for the first time, to make a BackupPC

Re: [CentOS] how to install BackupPC on CentOS 5.2 -- use Testing repository

://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/x86_64 enabled=1 On 7/31/08, dnk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have any sort of protect base installed? Priorities, etc? I could just yum it in when i did it. d On 31-Jul-08, at 3:40 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Hi. I just installed CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Re: how to install BackupPC on CentOS 5.2 -- how do I use Test repository?

Thank you very much! Response speed on this list is very impressive. Thanks again for the help. :) Best, Aleksey ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.2 triggers SE Linux denial

Hi. I've installed BackupPC 3.1.0 from Testing repository, to Cent OS 5.2 x86_64, and I am hitting an SE Linux denial - the httpd cannot talk to the BackupPC socket: type=AVC msg=audit(07/31/2008 17:18:53.623:410) : avc: denied { connectto } for pid=11767 comm=httpd

Re: [CentOS] Remounting a USB flash drive

Yes. mount diskid where diskid is your disk device id, e.g. /dev/sdg1 You can find out what it is by running mount while the disk is mounted, or by checking /var/log/messages, to see what disk ID was assigned to it when the device was first plugged in. You might need to specify a mount-point

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 -- how do I choose a wireless network?

Hi. Thanks again for all your replies. The CentOS 5.2 Live CD does include NetworkManager. However the only choice in the Network Manager applet is Wired Network. I then tried Ubuntu Live CD. Using it's network manager, I was able to browse the several local wireless networks, and to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 -- how do I choose a wireless network?

Any suggestions on how to make this work under CentOS? I'd prefer to have CentOS on my laptop, to keep it the same OS as our servers.I don't want to learn two flavors of Linux... Thanks, -at ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 -- how do I choose a wireless network?

Thanks for testing the Live CD on your Inspiron laptop, Johnny. Ok, next stop, install CentOS to the hard drive. Thanks! Aleksey ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] df to get total disk usage on all filesystems?

Dear Sean, No, there isn't. You'd have to parse the df output to get that value. I suggest using the -P switch to df, so you don't have to deal with multi-line output per filesystem. The following will return kilobytes of disk space used (third column in the df -kP output): df -kP |grep

[CentOS] How to strip out the title bar from xterm windows on CentOS 5 GNOME?

Hi. Running CentOS 5 with the default GNOME desktop. Is it possible to configure xterm windows not to have title bars to get the most out of the available screenspace? I've tried to look this up but mostly find reference how to change the content of the title bar; I want to remove it

[CentOS] How much maximum memory will CentOS 5 support? I know it's not 16 GB!

How much maximum memory will CentOS 5 support, please? The product info page at http://www.centos.org/product.html says 16GB, but I am running 80 GB RAM right now and seeing 80 GB in top. I see the same 16 GB limit on the RHEL page: http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/#note_4 The server hardware

Re: [CentOS] Air Conditioning - ON!

I really appreciate the availability of CentOS. Thank you to all the people who work on it and form part of this community!! Best, Aleksey ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] How to update CentOS 5.4 to 5.6?

Is there a way to update a CentOS 5.4 server to 5.6 (but not 5.7)? yum update takes me all the way up to 5.7. Best, -at ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Installing yesterday's CentOS (or how to install the patch/package set from 3 weeks ago)

Hello, Let's say your operating policy is no patch updates without testing first in the test environment. Let's say it takes you 3 weeks to test. Over the course of the 3 weeks, the repo changes (new packages added, old removed). Is there a way to freeze a set of packages so that when I run

Re: [CentOS] syslog-ng

On 8/29/08, Mag Gam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I know centos does not use syslog-ng, but I have installed it at my university. My intention is if a particular string appears in my /var/log/messages I would like to get an email alert. Check out SWATCH: http://swatch.sourceforge.net/

[CentOS] How to get Bugzilla working on CentOS 5.2 with SELinux turned on?

self:tcp_socket setopt; I've tried running the AVC denial message through audit2allow again, but it just produced the same module that I already have loaded. Any suggestions? Thanks, Aleksey -- Aleksey Tsalolikhin UNIX System Administrator I get stuff done! http://www.lifesurvives.com

[CentOS] Why is iptables configured to accept packets on ports 50 and 51?

[root@hwdltsaloli ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables # Firewall configuration written by system-config-securitylevel # Manual customization of this file is not recommended. *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0] -A INPUT -j

Re: [CentOS] Why is iptables configured to accept packets on ports 50 and 51?

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Michel van Deventer mic...@van.deventer.cx wrote: The -p you are referring to is NOT a port, but a protocol (number), 50 and 51 stand for IPSEC protocols (AH and ESP). Doh! *facepalm* Thanks, Stephen, Eero and Michel. I appreciate your help. :) Best,

[CentOS] How to set selinux policy allow httpd_t unconfined_t:shm { unix_read unix_write }; using an seboolean? (How to get a new seboolean?)

Hi. I'm trying to get OTRS running on CentOS 5.5 with SELinux enabled, and audit.log / audit2allow tell me I need to add the local policy: #= httpd_t == allow httpd_t unconfined_t:shm { unix_read unix_write }; which I think will allow the httpd access to read and write

Re: [CentOS] Vim scripting - cursor motion

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:03 AM, CS DBA cs_...@consistentstate.com wrote: On 06/09/2011 08:48 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: I am working on my first vim script. The script is supposed to do some find/replace on a file, then save the file with a new name and quit vim. I will save the script in a file

[CentOS] X server crashes when I fire up Display or Screen Resolution control panels

Hi. I've just installed CentOS 5.4 on my IBM T61 laptop. By default, I get the same image (duplicate screens) on the laptop's LCD and on the external monitor; I want to set up separate screens but my X server crashes when I start Display or Screen Resolution control panels or press Function-F7

Re: [CentOS] Intrusion Detection

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Dan Burkland dburk...@nmdp.org wrote: Hello all, I have been exploring the various intrusion detection systems available for the Linux platform and was wondering what ones you all would recommend? I have used AIDE before and while it is extremely easy to

[CentOS] Video driver for ThinkPad T61 laptop?

Hi. Any suggestions how I can get a video driver for my ThinkPad T61 laptop? I've got CentOS 5.4 on it but Xorg crashes when I try to change resolution, and Xorg.log has: (WW) intel: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1) found (--) PCI:*(0:2:0) Intel Corporation unknown

Re: [CentOS] Video driver for ThinkPad T61 laptop?

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:13 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Hi.  Any suggestions how I can get a video driver for my ThinkPad T61 laptop? I've got CentOS 5.4 on it but Xorg crashes when I try to change resolution, and Xorg.log has: (WW) intel

[CentOS] How to disable selinux protection interfering with pppd? I tried audit2allow, but policy does not load. Is there an seboolean?

CentOS release 5.4 (Final) I run pppd on this system, it accepts dial-in connections, logs people in over ssh/sftp. I had selinux disabled on this system originally, but I recently enabled it, and selinux is blocking this pppd service. audit2allow -M has generated the following policy based on

[CentOS] httpd stopped working under SELinux so I had to turn SELinux off. libxml2.so.2: failed to map segment from shared object: Permission denied

Hi. CentOS 5.4 64-bit with SELinux, happily running for over a year, suddenly httpd fails to start up, getting an error message like: Starting httpd: Syntax error on line X of /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/libphp5.so into server: libxml2.so.2: failed to map segment

Re: [CentOS] httpd stopped working under SELinux so I had to turn SELinux off. libxml2.so.2: failed to map segment from shared object: Permission denied

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:49 AM, A. Kirillov nevis...@infoline.su wrote: CentOS 5.4 64-bit with SELinux, happily running for over a year, suddenly httpd fails to start up, getting an error message like: Starting httpd: Syntax error on line X of /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf: Cannot load

Re: [CentOS] Pause time

2010/4/19 cahit Eyigünlü cahit.eyigu...@gmail.com: i want to pause my cent os time and date in a spesific date :D is it possible ? You can set your clock back a minute every minute from cron using the date command. Try: date -s now - 1 minute If that's not good enough, you can write a

[CentOS] pppd does not work if SELinux is turned on.

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.t...@gmail.com wrote: CentOS release 5.4 (Final) I run pppd on this system, it accepts dial-in connections, logs people in over ssh/sftp. I had selinux disabled on this system originally, but I recently enabled it, and selinux

[CentOS] How can binaries be different when package versions are identical? (mkfs.ext3 on CentOS 5.4)

Situation: two similar servers, both with CentOS 5.4 64-bit. Making an ext3 filesystem on one takes seconds, on the other minutes. Partition SizeServer 1 Server 2 1 GB 0.7 sec 0.3 sec 4 GB 2.5 sec 1.2 sec 40 GB15 sec

Re: [CentOS] How can binaries be different when package versions are identical? (mkfs.ext3 on CentOS 5.4)

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Peter Kjellstrom c...@nsc.liu.se wrote: On Wednesday 30 June 2010, Spiro Harvey wrote: Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.t...@gmail.com wrote: (a) account for the difference in the binaries, and (b) see if something else is different that I can make the same

Re: [CentOS] How can binaries be different when package versions are identical? (mkfs.ext3 on CentOS 5.4)

I read up on prelink as suggested; and used ldd /sbin/mkfs.ext3 to see what the dependencies (libraries) are. There are 13 dependencies; file size is the same between servers but md5sum's are different! Most of these libraries have other libraries they call; I finally drilled down to ld-2.5.so

[CentOS] Server rebooted, log message kernel: Keepalive, Event:mdseve_cookie, client ping timeout

Hi. Our CentOS 5.4 server just rebooted sponteneously while doing heavy I/O. There is a message in /var/log/messages just prior to reboot, kernel: Keepalive, Event:mdseve_cookie, client ping timeout Google does not turn up anything. What does this mean and how can I prevent it from

Re: [CentOS] Server rebooted, log message kernel: Keepalive, Event:mdseve_cookie, client ping timeout

P.S. I do have two kernel dumps from two reboots this morning. But I don't know how to read them or what to look for. Would appreciate any RTFM pointers. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Server rebooted, log message kernel: Keepalive, Event:mdseve_cookie, client ping timeout

I analyzed the two kernel crash dumps which told me we panic'ed while running rsync writing to a network filesystem. I've upgraded our rsync from 2.x to 3.x and sent a copy of the crash info to our network filesystem vendor. Best, -at ___ CentOS

[CentOS] system stuck with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how to move to 2.6.18-194.17?

Hi. I just noticed I had a CentOS 5.3 system that I updated to CentOS 5.5 a few days ago, and I just ran yum -y update again to get the latest kernel, and I just noticed it still has the old 2.6.18-128 kernel instead of the new 2.6.18-194.17. What gives? /etc/grub.conf points at 2.6.18-194.17,

Re: [CentOS] system stuck with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how to move to 2.6.18-194.17?

Thank you very much for your replies and suggestions! Turns out I have a broken RAID. I checked the failed out drive by mounting read-only the /boot partition, and it is configured to boot the older kernel version (the one the system actually boots). Like Phil said, the OS is seeing one thing,

Re: [CentOS] system stuck with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how to move to 2.6.18-194.17?

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/6/2010 2:36 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:      #  mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sda1      mdadm: Cannot open /dev/sda1: Device or resource busy      # Do you still have it mounted as you mentioned above?  If so

[CentOS] Who maintains php-pgsql package? I want to ask about using PostgreSQL 8.4 library instead of PostgreSQL 8.1.

How do I find out who is the maintainer of the php-pgsql package, please? I want to request upgrade from underlying postgresql-libs-8.1.21 (/usr/lib64/libpq.so.4) to postgresql84-libs-8.4.4 (/usr/lib64/libpq.so.5.2). Background on this request: Apache httpd's php's php-pgsql uses PostgreSQL 8.1

Re: [CentOS] Who maintains php-pgsql package? I want to ask about using PostgreSQL 8.4 library instead of PostgreSQL 8.1.

Kevin Kempter: Thank you for Devrim's name as the maintainer of php-pgsql. John: You wrote: use the Postgres 8.4 RPMs from http://yum.pgrpms.org/  along with the compat-postgresql-libs package (from the same repository), which hooks the libpq.so.4 stuff that the stock EL5 clients like

Re: [CentOS] excel parser (preferably perl)?

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting tired of converting spreadsheets that someone else updates to csv so my perl scripts can push the data into a mysql database.  Is there a better way?  I haven't had much luck with perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel

[CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

Hi. A friend of mine was doing real-time video decoding on Fedora Core 13 and he had a performance glitch (1/2 a second freeze) every 5-10 seconds. top showed flush-253:0 process at the moment of the freeze. Major device number 253 corresponds to device-mapper. I advised my friend to re-install

Re: [CentOS] Who maintains php-pgsql package? I want to ask about using PostgreSQL 8.4 library instead of PostgreSQL 8.1.

Just to follow up on this. Devrim of Postgres said he does not maintain php-pgsql, Red Hat does. He also added: 2010/10/18 Devrim GÜNDÜZ dev...@gunduz.org: I don't see any way to upgrade libpq for Apache easily, except rebuilding Apache from SRPM by yourself, and using postgresql84-libs as

Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:08 PM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 18:25 -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Hi. A friend of mine was doing real-time video decoding on Fedora Core 13 and he had a performance glitch (1/2 a second freeze) every 5-10 seconds.  top showed flush

Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Toby Bluhm toby.bl...@alltechmedusa.com wrote: Ext3 filesystem? Maybe altering the commit option at mount time would help: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt#49 Good one, Tony! We'll try that. Thanks!! Aleksey

Re: [CentOS] Who maintains php-pgsql package? I want to ask about using PostgreSQL 8.4 library instead of PostgreSQL 8.1.

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.t...@gmail.com wrote: I'll ask Red Hat for php-pgsql that uses postgresql84-libs; and try to build httpd from source myself in the meantime. I've opened a bug report / enhancement request with Red Hat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com

Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

Still seeing the glitch every 5-20 secs after remounting with commit=6000. On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: You could also reduce the dirty interval in sysctl so it flushes sooner therefore flushes less data each time. OK. It's worth a shot. Any idea

Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

uname -a shows: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Sep 29 12:50:31 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Monday, October 18, 2010 09:25:41 pm Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Hi. A friend of mine was doing real-time video decoding on Fedora Core 13 and he had a performance glitch (1/2 a second freeze) every 5-10 seconds.  top showed flush-253:0 process at the moment

[CentOS] can't install mono-devel because mono-basic requires mono-core. But I have mono-core! What to do? I need gmcs.

Hi. I'm trying to install gmcs so that I can build gbrainy, a mental exerciser. I am not sure what package provides, maybe mono-devel? however mono-devel fails to install because, it says, mono-basic requires mono-core. I have mono-core installed. Why is this failing? $ sudo yum install

Re: [CentOS] can't install mono-devel because mono-basic requires mono-core. But I have mono-core! What to do? I need gmcs.

Turned out I had multiple repo's in play. mono-basic from one repo, and mono-core from another. I removed both and ran yum install mono-devel and it installed fine from epel with all dependecies. Cheers, -at On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.t...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

[CentOS] 6.3 installer keeps cycling in a 10 second countdown to boot

Hi. I've been running CentOS 5 for ages. (Thanks!) I went to install 6.3 - I downloaded the 64-bit DVD 1 image, and put it on a USB drive. Booted into a screen that said boot will start in 10.. 9... 8.. 7.. 6.. 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. 10.. and so on, infinite loop, the boot never starts. I tried

Re: [CentOS] 6.3 installer keeps cycling in a 10 second countdown to boot

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: looks like your machine does not have the x86_64 capable cpu/bios combo needed to boot the kernel. Have you tried using the livecd/dvd to boot the machine and see if things work there ? I'll try booting off DVD next,

[CentOS-docs] how to submit corrections for virt-bridge-errors page?

Hi. This page saved me a lot of trouble today, when my Xen 3 multi-bridge setup stopped working after updated from CentOS 5.5 to 5.7: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Virtualization-en-US/ch-virt-bridge-errors.html However there were a couple of errors in the script: use of op instead of OP

[CentOS-docs] Update to CentOS FAQ: I installed the x86_64 version, so why do I have i386 packages, and can I get rid of them?

Hi, thank you for maintaining the CentOS FAQ at http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General it is very helpful. I used to follow the procedure outlined in 22. I installed the x86_64 version, so why do I have i386 packages, and can I get rid of them? (

[CentOS-virt] VM fails to start on host bootup, but starts fine manually. Why?

I have 5 VMs on my host. The first four are setup to start on boot. But only the first three end up running. The fourth has to be started manually. Start virtual machine on host bootup is checked on all four VMs but the fourth VM does not get started on host bootup. After the host boots up,

Re: [CentOS-virt] VM fails to start on host bootup, but starts fine manually. Why?

Thanks, Dmitry. I allocated memory within the host maximum. I've decided am going to add xm create VMname to our /etc/init.d/rc.local script to make sure this instance gets started on boot. Thanks for your note re KVM on RHEL 6. Best, -at ___

Re: [CentOS-virt] Package lists for Cloud images

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.orgwrote: There are plans for Vagrant images, would that ( minus the puppet / chef stuff ) be enough for VirtualBox as well ? Hi! Sorry for the late reply -- yes, a Vagrant box is what I'm really after at this point. Best,