[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0897 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 ruby - security update
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0897 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0897.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: irb-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.x86_64.rpm ruby-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.x86_64.rpm ruby-devel-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.x86_64.rpm ruby-docs-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.x86_64.rpm ruby-libs-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.i386.rpm ruby-libs-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.x86_64.rpm ruby-mode-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.x86_64.rpm ruby-tcltk-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.x86_64.rpm SRC: ruby-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.src.rpm signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce
[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0897 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 ruby - security update
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0897 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0897.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: irb-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.i386.rpm ruby-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.i386.rpm ruby-devel-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.i386.rpm ruby-docs-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.i386.rpm ruby-libs-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.i386.rpm ruby-mode-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.i386.rpm ruby-tcltk-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.i386.rpm src: ruby-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.src.rpm signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce
[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0946 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 ed - security update
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0946 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0946.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: ed-0.2-36.el4_7.1.x86_64.rpm src: ed-0.2-36.el4_7.1.src.rpm signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce
[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0946 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 ed - security update
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0946 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0946.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: ed-0.2-36.el4_7.1.i386.rpm src: ed-0.2-36.el4_7.1.src.rpm signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce
[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 lynx - security update
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0965 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0965.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: lynx-2.8.5-18.2.el4_7.1.x86_64.rpm src: lynx-2.8.5-18.2.el4_7.1.src.rpm signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce
[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 4 i386 lynx - security update
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0965 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0965.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: lynx-2.8.5-18.2.el4_7.1.i386.rpm src: lynx-2.8.5-18.2.el4_7.1.src.rpm signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce
[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0965-01: Important CentOS 2 i386 lynx security update
The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHSA-2008:0965-01 Important: lynx security update Files available: lynx-0-2.8.4-18.1.2.i386 More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin ITS Senior Analyst / Programmer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin ___ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce
[CentOS-es] tema del día características para servidor de dominio
Holas a todos. Estamos por implementar un Servidor de Dominio Controlador, esta claro que con software libre al punto que características deberían tener este servidor, el cual sera para al rededor de 100 usuarios . Si necesitan mas info yo se las doy. -- * * Saludos, ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] tema del día características para servidor de dominio
Wilder Deza wrote: Holas a todos. Estamos por implementar un Servidor de Dominio Controlador, esta claro que con software libre al punto que características deberían tener este servidor, el cual sera para al rededor de 100 usuarios . Si necesitan mas info yo se las doy. Si es solo controlador de dominio, es decir, un validador de acceso no deberia ser tan potente :P un P III 600 va de pelos. Ahora bien si a eso le agregas directorios compartidos y centralizado, perfil movil, integracion con ldap y demases... debes considerar por sobre todo mucho disco y no tanto procesador. Samba no come muchos recursos (corrijanme si me equivoco). Yo tengo un PIV 2.4gzh con 512mb ram, perfiles moviles y alrededor de 40 usuarios... ah... y mucho disco en RAID para mayor acceso para la lectura. Otra cosa a considerar es tarjetad de red eficientes y muy buenas..para soportar el alto nivel de trafico que andara por la red al iniciar y cerrar sesion. salu2 -- Francisco José Collao Gárate LinuxUser #363300 http://pcollaog.firefox.cl Free, powerful, secure and easy to use. http://www.firefox.cl signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] Error en Squid
Es que no tengo en mi distro /var/cache/squid ni /var/log/squid que creo que para el squid son por defecto; entonces cree /var/log/squid/ y en squid.conf habilite cache_swap_log /var/log/squid/ Muchas gracias a epe y saludos a todos -Original Message- From: Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: centos-es@centos.org Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:13:34 -0500 Subject: Re: [CentOS-es] Error en Squid Abelardo Ramírez Ferrer wrote: Un saludo a todos Quiero arrancar squid pero me tira el siguiente error en /var/log/messages: Oct 27 18:57:23 Centos51 squid[5101]: Squid Parent: child process 5116 started Oct 27 18:57:23 Centos51 (squid): storeUfsDirOpenSwapLog: Failed to open swap log. cuando eso me pasaba era porque tenía un problema de permisos en el directorio que aloja al swap.log, no era en /var/cache/squid ? en todo caso mira los permisos, deben pertenecer esos directorios a squid y no deben ser 777 (777 en linux = 666 para el papa) saludos epe ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
[CentOS] Apparently no swap configured
Nate Thanks very much for the reply. If that volume is not in use by anything else you should be perfectly able to do: mkswap /dev/VolGroup00/swap swapon /dev/VolGroup00/swap then add something like this to fstab: /dev/VolGroup00 swapswapdefaults0 0 Well it doesn't show up when I do 'df': [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 4.8G 446M 4.1G 10% / /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 1.9G 316M 1.5G 18% /var /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03 9.5G 2.3G 6.7G 26% /usr /dev/sda1 99M 32M 63M 34% /boot tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol04 9.9G 172M 9.2G 2% /home /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol05 1.9G 35M 1.8G 2% /tmp Also, as I said /dev/VolGroup00/swap is not listed in /etc/fstab, but it is listed in /dev/mapper/. Is that good enough confirmation that it is not in use? I'm very curious how I managed to get into this situation, using the GUI install method. Any ideas on that? I'd prefer not to be in this situation again. Thanks Ian Masters ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured
Ian Masters wrote: Also, as I said /dev/VolGroup00/swap is not listed in /etc/fstab, but it is listed in /dev/mapper/. Is that good enough confirmation that it is not in use? what does # swapon -s show? for example, one of my systems shows... # swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/md0 partition 2096376 294864 -1 and in turn, md0 is... # mdadm -D /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.03 Creation Time : Wed Jun 25 12:44:15 2008 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 2096384 (2047.59 MiB 2146.70 MB) Used Dev Size : 2096384 (2047.59 MiB 2146.70 MB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Mon Oct 27 23:29:04 2008 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 UUID : 9dcfc53d:d1f69e6b:d91b109f:9e659e4c Events : 0.4 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 2 0 active sync /dev/sda2 1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured
John R Pierce wrote: what does # swapon -s show? According to 'man swapon', swapon -s means: Display swap usage summary by device. Equivalent to cat /proc/swaps. Not available before Linux 2.1.25. for example, one of my systems shows... # swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/md0 partition 2096376 294864 -1 which show your swap partition, whereas on my problem system, 'swapon -s' produces no output at all. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured
which show your swap partition, whereas on my problem system, 'swapon -s' produces no output at all. Maybe you configured the swap lv but forgot to tell the installer to use it as swap. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured
Ian Masters wrote: which show your swap partition, whereas on my problem system, 'swapon -s' produces no output at all. ok, that confirms your supposition, you have no swap configured. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured
Ian Masters wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Maybe you configured the swap lv but forgot to tell the installer to use it as swap. Well that's entirely possible. The logical volume manager had me fairly confused. I would have thought the installer might have told me that I had not set its file system type ... Well...it won't do that...but it should raise a flag on no swap being configured after you were done partitioning and assigning/setting filesystems. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured
Christopher Chan wrote: Well...it won't do that...but it should raise a flag on no swap being configured after you were done partitioning and assigning/setting filesystems. As far as I can remember there was no such 'flag'. That's precisely the kind of thing that would have made me jittery at the install stage. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured
Ian Masters wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Well...it won't do that...but it should raise a flag on no swap being configured after you were done partitioning and assigning/setting filesystems. As far as I can remember there was no such 'flag'. That's precisely the kind of thing that would have made me jittery at the install stage. Was it Centos 5 that you installed? IIRC, the Centos/RHEL 4 installer would have asked you about the lack of swap assigned. I have only done one Centos 5 installation and I did not miss telling it to use the swap lv as swap so I cannot say whether the Centos 5 installer will do that. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured
Christopher Chan wrote: Was it Centos 5 that you installed? IIRC, the Centos/RHEL 4 installer would have asked you about the lack of swap assigned. I have only done one Centos 5 installation and I did not miss telling it to use the swap lv as swap so I cannot say whether the Centos 5 installer will do that. It was CentOS 5.2. To me it seems slightly unlikely that functionality in v4 would be missing in v5. Having said that, it was my first CentOS install, and first experience of using LVM. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] boot problems
dear All. Sorry for my earlier mail which i was not able to explain correctly as i said b4 i had installed centos 5.2 to be as a squid proxy server and it was working fine for over a month or so but 3 days back the machine after a reboot jus refused to boot. after the post it tries to boot and the screen jus dispaly the below message GNU Grub version 0.97 [Minimal Bash like line editing is supported . guess grub cant find the OS file .. how could i possible go about this would really apprecite your help n suggestions regards Fabian once again sorry for my earlier email On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:31 AM, fabian dacunha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I am quite new to centos i had installed centos 5.2 to be as a squid proxy server and it was working fine for over a month or so but 3 days back the machine after a reboot jus refused to boot it jus was goin to the grub prompt Which one? i wd really apprecite if someone cd help me .. cd i boot from centos boot cd n go to rescue mode and check grub Yes, but you probably need to provide more info to get the right answers. 2) if grub is OK how cd i reinstall centos without destroying data Let's take it one step at a time. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 00:21 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Ian Masters wrote: which show your swap partition, whereas on my problem system, 'swapon -s' produces no output at all. ok, that confirms your supposition, you have no swap configured. All this raised a question in my mind. What's the value of have a swap managed by LVM? ISTM that: 1) swap is usually configured to be the maximum needed (depending on system usage and who you're talking to, 1, 2 times real memory usually), 2) additional overhead with no gain (I know several claim little to no overhead but background tells me there is always *some* even if small), 3) if you *do* increase this LV size to increase swap size, another mkswap is needed to map the new space, 4) more swap can be added by defining more LVs for swap, a partition dedicated to swap or a swap file with a file system and then mkswap and activating it. I always just define a partition for that, flag it as swap in the partitioning process and go with that set up. I can envision the convenience of being able to temporarily disable swap, slapping a file system on it and addressing some need. Or even destroying the LV and freeing the PV for other use. But that sounds sort of far-fetched. My *guess* is that the OP failed to mark a partition type of 82 for swap during install and thus ended up with this odd configuration. It's only a guess though. Wouldn't it be better to vgremove/pvremove that thing and flag it as type 82, mkswap, etc.? snip sig stuff -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 00:21 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Ian Masters wrote: which show your swap partition, whereas on my problem system, 'swapon -s' produces no output at all. ok, that confirms your supposition, you have no swap configured. Although I disagree, some on this list have proclaimed that a properly configured (for the intended use I guess) system needs no swap. snip -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 4 i386 lynx - security update
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0965 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0965.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: lynx-2.8.5-18.2.el4_7.1.i386.rpm src: lynx-2.8.5-18.2.el4_7.1.src.rpm signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Checking if a user is 'Disabled'
Hi I need to create some local users but then 'disable' that user. I know i can enable and disable the user by using usermod -L and -U but does anyone know if there is a way for me to see the current status of the user? ie locked or unlocked? thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 44, Issue 16
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Re: [CentOS] Checking if a user is 'Disabled'
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Tom Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I need to create some local users but then 'disable' that user. I know i can enable and disable the user by using usermod -L and -U but does anyone know if there is a way for me to see the current status of the user? ie locked or unlocked? Can use: passwd -S username It will give either: username PS 2008-10-28 0 7 -1 (Password set, MD5 Crypt) or when locked: username LK 2008-10-28 0 7 -1 (Password locked) I'm sure there's other way. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Checking if a user is 'Disabled'
On Oct 28, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Tom Brown wrote:
I need to create some local users but then 'disable' that user. I
know i can enable and disable the user by using usermod -L and -U
but does anyone know if there is a way for me to see the current
status of the user? ie locked or unlocked?
this should get you a list of all the users which have been disabled
by means of `usermod -L`:
perl -e 'open($SHADOW, , /etc/shadow) or die( $!\n ); while (
$SHADOW ) { chomp; print $1\n if (/^([^:]*):!{1}[^!:]*:.*$/) }
close( $SHADOW );'
you'll need to run it as root. no doubt that regex could be cleaned
up a bit :)
-steve
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Re: [CentOS] Checking if a user is 'Disabled'
this should get you a list of all the users which have been disabled
by means of `usermod -L`:
perl -e 'open($SHADOW, , /etc/shadow) or die( $!\n ); while (
$SHADOW ) { chomp; print $1\n if (/^([^:]*):!{1}[^!:]*:.*$/) }
close( $SHADOW );'
you'll need to run it as root. no doubt that regex could be cleaned
up a bit :)
thanks both - that gives me something to work with
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Re: [CentOS] freenx 7.3?
Les Mikesell wrote: Has anyone built a freenx 7.3 for Centos 5? I'd like to be able to use the session shadow mode on some machines. Les, You can try the version of freenx here: http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/nx/ (freenx-0.7.3 is there, the NX is same as released version) If it all works well, we can release this version of freenx. Thanks, Johnny Hughes signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Problem selecting installation drive : 5.2
Alex H. Vandenham wrote: After much frustration and wasted time: Solution: Additional Boot option (undocumented) : nodmraid That either is or is not the solution ... depending on what you want :D dmraid (Device Manager RAID) is a package that provides the ability to recognize SOME Fake RAID controllers as hardware RAID. What is FRAID: http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/09/fake-raid-fraid-sucks-even-more-at.html One of the controllers that is being recognized by dmraid is the nvidia nforce4 raid controller. If you do nodmraid as a kernel switch, then you are disabling the dmraid, so CentOS will not see the drives as RAID ... so then you can use software RAID if you want. If you can not see the drives at all without the nodmraid, then it means that for some reason dmraid does not properly see the devices (or that you did not properly set up the RAID arrays in your BIOS). If the CentOS kernel and DMRAID does not see the devices properly as fake RAID (dmraid) devices, then the only real option you have is to use them as software raid. On Friday 24 October 2008 06:41:07 pm Scott Silva wrote: on 10-24-2008 7:25 AM Alex H. Vandenham spake the following: When doing the 5.2 installation the ONLY drive option provided is mapper/nvidia_cbjcdhfe (250G) My system has 2 SATA - 250G drives and I want to use them in a RAID/LVM configuration. My question: How do I get the installer to let me use DiskDruid to create RAID1 arrays and then use LVM for the mount points? What I've done so far: I've verified that both drives are recognized by going to the shell screen and using fdisk to access both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb - so I know they are both available. I've also tried using the Centos 4.7 installer where I can do exactly what I want. I've accepted the default and after a full install of 5.2 there is no raid and total space is 250G. In this case, if you have setup the devices in the BIOS as RAID-0 that is exactly what you would expect to see if dmraid was working. The OS only sees 1 drive at 250GB and you are controlling the setup of the device in the system BIOS. Whether or not that is what you want to do, you will need to decide. the default install DOES use raid but not with Software raid so /proc/mdstat shows no devices. How nvidia drivers/Linux kernel modules handle the raid (and raid failures for example) remains unknown - info Anyone? I've looked at the various deployment guides and installation guides but can't find how to do this . . . . Chapter 8 does not mention the nodmraid option. When that option is used, the two SATA disks are listed as expected. puzzled Alex === The default install doesn't do a software raid, and if you are trying to use an Nvidia onboard raid controller as a raid device in linux, you are probably out of luck. Apparently the nvidia drivers and/or the kernel LVM modules are creating a raid array - hard to know for sure without some documentation to help me confirm that . . . Sure, if it can detect that you have the BIOS set so that the devices are RAIDed it will detect them as one RAIDed drive. If that is not what you want, turn off RAID in the BIOS ... if it is what you want, great :D To do software raid with LVM over it, you have to do it all manually. First creating the raid devices, and then adding the resulting md devices as LVM partitions. Even when I created working Software RAID1 arrays with mdadm (with Centos 4.7 rescue), on reboot the SATA drives were used by the nvidia drivers (not sure ?) to create the array with LVM VG/LV, and then md could not start the software raid1 arrays. Again, that is what you would expect if you did not do the nodmraid option (or turn off RAID in your BIOS). CentOS-4 does not see that as hardware RAID ... CentOS-5 does. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] The relationship between udev and MAKEDEV
Hi, On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 00:21, Clint Dilks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Is modifying /etc/makedev.d/01linux-2.6.x likely to cause me issues in future ? Possibly, since this file is owned by the MAKEDEV rpm. If there is an upgrade in MAKEDEV, it may overwrite this file. Or if it doesn't, but there was an addition of a new device there, you would not get the new device. I would say it would be safer to create a separate file instead of modifying those. From man MAKEDEV: CONFIGURATION CONFLICTS: In the event that the set of configuration files contains multiple rules for a given device name, MAKEDEV will use all of them. The end result is typically that the last rule given (either by virtue of being listed below all other matching rules in the same file, or by being listed in a file which is read after all others which contain alternate rules) will apply. MAKEDEV reads the set of configuration files in sorted order, so this misfeature can be exploited dependably. So I believe if you restore the 01linux-2.6.x file to its original state and create a 99local file with your customized rule, it should work. Try to do that in a test environment and let us know how that goes. I cannot answer your other questions about why it's created with MAKEDEV and not by udev itself, unfortunately I don't know enough of udev or of /dev/net/tun to be able to tell why it's done like this. HTH, Filipe ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Checking if a user is 'Disabled'
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Tom Brown wrote: I need to create some local users but then 'disable' that user. I know i can enable and disable the user by using usermod -L and -U but does anyone know if there is a way for me to see the current status of the user? ie locked or unlocked? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo passwd -l archive Locking password for user archive. passwd: Success [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo passwd -S archive archive LK 2008-07-15 0 9 7 -1 (Password locked.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ see also: man chage -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Contents of CentOS digest...
on 10-28-2008 2:36 AM dika ye spake the following: ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos 42. If you ask a blank question, I get to make up an answer! -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: install 5.2 on new dv7z hp laptop
Jerry Geis wrote: I am trying to install 5.2 on a new dv7z hp laptop. I use linux noapic nolapic iommu=off and I get a kernel dump on rtl8169. I dont need the network to install? how do I ignore the rtl8169 to install. I tried noprobe and then it doesnt recognize my SATA HD controller and I dont know yet which driver to select as I cant do an lspci to see??? THanks, Jerry I did the noprobe again and selected the driver ahci and I am installing at this point. Dont know what will happen with rtl1839 network after install is done??? Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] rtl8169 kernel dump
I installed 5.2 x86_64 on a new hp dv7z laptop using noprobe on the install line. After rebooting the rtl8169 causes the kernel to dump. Is there a parameter I can pass to it (somehow) to avoid the kernel dump??? Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured
William L. Maltby wrote: All this raised a question in my mind. What's the value of have a swap managed by LVM? ISTM that: 1) swap is usually configured to be the I think the main reason would be simplicity, assuming you have other volumes created and not just a single VG with a single LV in it for swap. Though I don't use LVM on the internal disks of my systems, have had too many headaches over the years with anaconda puking during installation with kickstart when using LVM. I only use LVM on SAN volumes. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] cpan2rpm and alternatives
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Geoff Galitz wrote: cpan2rpm is getting relatively old, compared to some of the newer things that can be done with the CPAN and RPM build procedures. The latest version isn't available on its sourceforge site and the What are the newer procedures? I'll be needing to do this in the very near future. I was contemplating writing some sort of yum plugin or external utility that can leverage whatever current procedures exist and register a CPAN install in the RPM database... but I'm not sure it is worth the effort and I do realize that breaks the whole Centos testing and reliability model. Still, there are some functions cannot be found in the usual places that do exist in CPAN. Listing the RPM packages you need on the RPMforge mailinglist would be sufficient to have them added (where possible). -- -- dag wieers, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Contents of CentOS digest...
on 10-28-2008 10:38 AM MHR spake the following: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Scott Silva ssilva-m4n3GYAQT2lWk0Htik3J/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10-28-2008 2:36 AM dika ye spake the following: ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos 42. If you ask a blank question, I get to make up an answer! Hey! That was MY answer! mhr Insanity must be contagious! -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: install 5.2 on new dv7z hp laptop
/ Jerry Geis wrote: // // I am trying to install 5.2 on a new dv7z hp laptop. // I use linux noapic nolapic iommu=off and I get a kernel dump on // rtl8169. // I dont need the network to install? how do I ignore the rtl8169 to // install. // // I tried noprobe and then it doesnt recognize my SATA HD controller and I // dont // know yet which driver to select as I cant do an lspci to see??? // // THanks, // // Jerry // // I did the noprobe again and selected the driver ahci and I am installing at // this point. // Dont know what will happen with rtl1839 network after install is done??? // // Jerry // / Jerry, you're going to have to stop talking to yourself on this list. Instead of clicking the send button, try something else _first_. I have done this so many times I lost count, and I (almost) never need to do this. Heck, it's bad enough I talk to myself audibly LOL - funny... I thought I was being helpful in letting the list know I had gotten past the install point with using noprobe. I do still have issues with the rtl8169 module blowing up. The second comment was just geared towards hoping someone else might have a suggestion on the rtl8169 device no working and perhaps there was some other OBSCURE command line argument that might help on boot... Have a great day. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] freenx 7.3?
Johnny Hughes wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Has anyone built a freenx 7.3 for Centos 5? I'd like to be able to use the session shadow mode on some machines. Les, You can try the version of freenx here: http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/nx/ (freenx-0.7.3 is there, the NX is same as released version) If it all works well, we can release this version of freenx. Thanks! The i386 version installs OK, works at least as well as the previous version and I have been able to connect to a shadow session of another freenx session. However, I think I'm missing something about how to connect to a shadowed console session. If I configure the client to use a vnc session, I can see it as vnc-local but haven't been able to connect even though I am connecting as the same user. Do I need to set a password for this? Is documentation for the new features available somewhere? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] cpan2rpm and alternatives
Dag Wieers wrote: On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Geoff Galitz wrote: cpan2rpm is getting relatively old, compared to some of the newer things that can be done with the CPAN and RPM build procedures. The latest version isn't available on its sourceforge site and the What are the newer procedures? I'll be needing to do this in the very near future. I was contemplating writing some sort of yum plugin or external utility that can leverage whatever current procedures exist and register a CPAN install in the RPM database... but I'm not sure it is worth the effort and I do realize that breaks the whole Centos testing and reliability model. Still, there are some functions cannot be found in the usual places that do exist in CPAN. Listing the RPM packages you need on the RPMforge mailinglist would be sufficient to have them added (where possible). Is there any attempt at coordination between the packages in EPEL and RPMforge? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: rtl8169 kernel dump
Jerry Geis wrote: I installed 5.2 x86_64 on a new hp dv7z laptop using noprobe on the install line. After rebooting the rtl8169 causes the kernel to dump. Is there a parameter I can pass to it (somehow) to avoid the kernel dump??? Thanks, Jerry I found a new driver (finally) - it works. http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1PNid=14PFid=7Level=5Conn=4DownTypeID=3 Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] 'severe errors' listed in nightly logwatch emails
HI folks, If this is the wrong forum for this question, please let me know (with a gentle pointer to the right place)...TIA for that. I've started to receive some 'Severe Errors' in my nightly logwatch emails. As the system had been initially misconfigured for logwatch emails, I've only recently begun to receive them, so I'm not entirely sure when this started. (long story) Lets start with the basics of the machine: # uname -a Linux generic.example.com 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 5 07:41:53 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux # rpm -qa|grep release centos-release-5-2.el5.centos As the output was verbose, I posted it on pastebin. http://pastebin.com/m1a9eb219 If anyone has any information or suggestions here, I'd be greatly appreciative. TIA, -Ray ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] changing partition priority on install
Greetings. I am in the process of installing 5.1 64 bit on a server. The server has 2 3ware cards: 9550SX 12 port, and a 8006 2 port, both SATA. I want the 8006 board to be /dev/sda, and the 9550 to be /dev/sdb. My plan is to install the os on /dev/sda (8006), and data on /dev/sdb (9550). Unfortunately, the 9550 comes up as /dev/sda. The 8006 is installed in slot 3, which is a 100Mhz slot. The 9550 is installed in Slot 4, which is a 133Mhz slot. I really don't want to put the 9550 in the 100Mhz slot. I'm not even sure it would make a difference... I would also prefer to not have grub reside on /dev/sda, while the os is on /dev/sdb. I have tried to change the boot priority in bios, but this hasn't changed the priority. I tried to disable one of the boards in the bios, but that didn't seem to have any effect. Interestingly enough, when I boot with the Knoppix 5.1.1 live cd, the cards show up as I want them to. I have searched Google, but I am either entering the wrong search parameters, or there isn't anything out there, at least pertaining to the initial installation. Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks in advance. Monty Specs: Supermicro X6DH8-G 3ware 8006-2lp pci-X 3ware 9550sx-12, pci-X CentOS 5.1, x86_64, network (nfs) install ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Kickstart package groups
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Francisco Puente wrote:
Hello,
I'm building another kickstart CD, minimal, and creating my own
repository.
Is there any way I can get the list of files that a group (like
@core o @base) will install?
Below my .sig is an XSLT stylesheet that will do the trick. Save it to
your filesystem as, e.g., comps.xsl. Then use xsltproc to apply it to
the comps.xml file, e.g.,
xsltproc --novalid comps.xsl /path/to/repodata/comps.xml comps.html
The resulting HTML file will provide you a reasonable list of packages
associated with each group.
Warning: the list might not be complete because any given package in
your named group(s) might might require packages not in those groups.
That's why anaconda does dependency checking at installation time.
--
Paul Heinlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.madboa.com/
- comps.xsl -
?xml version='1.0'?
!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ !ENTITY nbsp #160; ]
xsl:stylesheet version=1.0
mlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml;
xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform;
xsl:output method=xml
indent=yes
encoding=iso-8859-1
doctype-public=-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN
doctype-system=http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd/
!-- the main event --
xsl:template match=comps
html lang=en-US
head
titlecomps.xml/title
xsl:call-template name=default.css/
/head
body
xsl:call-template name=intro.text/
table width=95%
tr
thName/th
thDefault/th
thVisible/th
thDescription/th
/tr
xsl:apply-templates select=group mode=group.chart/
/table
pnbsp;/p
table width=95%
tr
thName/th
thGroups Req./th
thPackages Req./th
/tr
xsl:apply-templates select=group mode=package.chart/
/table
/body
/html
/xsl:template
!-- for listing descriptions, whether group is default, ... --
xsl:template match=group mode=group.chart
xsl:variable name=id select=id/
tr
td id={$id}-info
a href=#{$id}-detailxsl:value-of select=name//a
/td
tdxsl:value-of select=default/nbsp;/td
tdxsl:value-of select=uservisible/nbsp;/td
tdxsl:value-of select=description/nbsp;/td
/tr
/xsl:template
!-- for listing groups and packages req. by this group --
xsl:template match=group mode=package.chart
xsl:variable name=id select=id/
tr
td id={$id}-detail
a href=#{$id}-infoxsl:value-of select=name//a
/td
tdxsl:apply-templates select=grouplist//td
tdxsl:apply-templates select=packagelist//td
/tr
/xsl:template
!-- templates for grouplist and children --
xsl:template match=grouplist
table width=100%
xsl:apply-templates select=* mode=html.table/
/table
/xsl:template
xsl:template match=groupreq mode=html.table
tr
xsl:call-template name=sub.table.row
xsl:with-param name=leftcol select=./
xsl:with-param name=rightcol select='nbsp;'/
/xsl:call-template
/tr
/xsl:template
xsl:template match=metapkg mode=html.table
tr
xsl:call-template name=sub.table.row
xsl:with-param name=leftcol select=./
xsl:with-param name=rightcol select=@type/
/xsl:call-template
/tr
/xsl:template
!-- templates for packagelist and children --
xsl:template match=packagelist
table width=100%
xsl:apply-templates select=* mode=html.table/
/table
/xsl:template
xsl:template match=packagereq mode=html.table
tr
xsl:call-template name=sub.table.row
xsl:with-param name=leftcol select=./
xsl:with-param name=rightcol select=@type/
/xsl:call-template
/tr
/xsl:template
!-- named templates --
xsl:template name=sub.table.row
xsl:param name=leftcol/
xsl:param name=rightcol/
xsl:variable name=last
xsl:choose
xsl:when test=position() = last()1/xsl:when
xsl:otherwise0/xsl:otherwise
/xsl:choose
/xsl:variable
xsl:choose
xsl:when test=$last = '1'
td style=border-style: none;xsl:value-of select=$leftcol//td
td style=border-style: none; text-align: right;
xsl:value-of select=$rightcol/
/td
/xsl:when
xsl:otherwise
tdxsl:value-of select=$leftcol//td
td style=text-align: right;xsl:value-of select=$rightcol//td
/xsl:otherwise
/xsl:choose
/xsl:template
xsl:template name=default.css
xsl:variable name=color select='#99'/
style type=text/css
a, a:link, a:active, a:visited {
color: xsl:value-of select=$color/;
}
body {
font-size: small;
background-color: white;
color: black;
width: 700px;
}
td {
border-bottom: 1px solid #999;
font-size: small;
vertical-align: top;
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color: white;
Re: [CentOS] core installs of 5.2 missing crucial packages like yum, selinux-policy-targeted, vim-minimal, etc.
Johnny Tan wrote on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:34:29 -0400: I had a 5.0 kickstart server which did core installs of CentOS (i.e.: %packages --nobase). And you have a @core in there as well? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Kickstart package groups
Francisco Puente wrote on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:57:32 -0300: Is there any way I can get the list of files that a group (like @core o @base) will install? yum groupinfo Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] cpan2rpm and alternatives
Listing the RPM packages you need on the RPMforge mailinglist would be sufficient to have them added (where possible). Dag, I can't tell you how much I would appreciate that though I don't envy this task. Aside from ASSP 2.0 needing many, it requires newer versions of modules that come in Perl already on CentOS and this has me baffled as how to handle overwriting these files w/o breaking future yum updates of Perl itself? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] core installs of 5.2 missing crucial packages like yum, selinux-policy-targeted, vim-minimal, etc.
Filipe Brandenburger wrote on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:44:47 -0400: why would you want to install CentOS without the base packages? because it gives you more control over really unnecessary stuff, I don't need any CD-burning and other multimedia stuff on a webserver for instance. All machines that I've seen that have been installed with --nobase are crippled. Some programs and mainly scripts just don't work, because they need to run some utility that is not installed. Works just perfectly for me. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured
nate wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: All this raised a question in my mind. What's the value of have a swap managed by LVM? ISTM that: 1) swap is usually configured to be the I think the main reason would be simplicity, assuming you have other volumes created and not just a single VG with a single LV in it for swap. Though I don't use LVM on the internal disks of my systems, have had too many headaches over the years with anaconda puking during installation with kickstart when using LVM. I only use LVM on SAN volumes. Centos/RHEL 5's anaconda has that licked. Feel free to do it with kickstart again. I have eight new boxes setup with kickstart doing lvm on mirrored partitions. /boot on its own mirrored partition. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] changing partition priority on install
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:59 -0500, Monty Shinn wrote: Greetings. I am in the process of installing 5.1 64 bit on a server. The server has 2 3ware cards: 9550SX 12 port, and a 8006 2 port, both SATA. Any reason not to use 5.2? Will save a lot of updates, and perhaps some headaches. I want the 8006 board to be /dev/sda, and the 9550 to be /dev/sdb. My plan is to install the os on /dev/sda (8006), and data on /dev/sdb (9550). Unfortunately, the 9550 comes up as /dev/sda. The 8006 is installed in slot 3, which is a 100Mhz slot. The 9550 is installed in Slot 4, which is a 133Mhz slot. I really don't want to put the 9550 in the 100Mhz slot. I'm not even sure it would make a difference... I would also prefer to not have grub reside on /dev/sda, while the os is on /dev/sdb. I have tried to change the boot priority in bios, but this hasn't changed the priority. I tried to disable one of the boards in the bios, but that didn't seem to have any effect. Interestingly enough, when I boot with the Knoppix 5.1.1 live cd, the cards show up as I want them to. Have also seen device ordering change with kernel/release updates on the same distro. I have searched Google, but I am either entering the wrong search parameters, or there isn't anything out there, at least pertaining to the initial installation. Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks in advance. I have vague recollections of having fixed similar problems by tweaking the device ordering in initrd and/or modprobe.conf; however, backing up a step, why do you need to change the order to make things work? You can install GRUB on the boot device MBR, whatever that may be, and put the OS on the device you want it on without changing the ordering. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] boot problems
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 12:31 +0300, fabian dacunha wrote: dear All. Sorry for my earlier mail which i was not able to explain correctly as i said b4 Correct English really would not take that much more effort as compared to texting shortcuts, and would make it more likely that you might get the help you are requesting. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#writewell The entire article is worth a read. i had installed centos 5.2 to be as a squid proxy server and it was working fine for over a month or so but 3 days back the machine after a reboot jus refused to boot. after the post it tries to boot and the screen jus display the below message GNU Grub version 0.97 [Minimal Bash like line editing is supported . guess grub cant find the OS file .. how could i possible go about this would really apprecite your help n suggestions At the risk of sounding even MORE pedantic, many would appreciate it if you ran a spell-checker as well. (Grammar checkers seem to be beyond the state-of-the-art in email clients.) :D The GRUB shell is quiet powerful and can help in debugging your problems. If you do not have a /boot partition try: grub find /boot/grub/stage1 If you do have a boot partition try grub find /grub/stage1 This should give you a clue as to what GRUB thinks the disk layout is. This could have changed due to BIOS settings, hardware changes, or hardware failures. You might also try: grub find /etc/fstab This should be on the root partition /. Grub command-line completion can help in re-constructing missing/incorrect boot stanzas. You can find out a lot more with info grub on a running system. Do some more debugging and post what you have tried and your results (per ESR's advice above) if unable to figure it out for yourself. Good luck, Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] RHEL 5.3 Beta released, beta-testers needed
Hi all, The CentOS community is pretty limited in what we can do to the core distribution. Since our mantra is aiming to be 100% compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux we cannot fix bugs or improve the CentOS core without waiting for Red Hat to make those modifications first. We have limited leverage and a 6-month release cycle against us. But that is not the complete truth, Red Hat usually has an internal, a vendor and a public beta period and everything that is found within that time-frame might get fixed before it is being shipped (and frozen) for the next 6 months. Today RHEL 5.3 Beta was announced with a lot of interesting improvements. https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-announce/2008-October/msg0.html So if we can improve the testing during the RHEL Beta program, everyone in the CentOS community directly benefits from that as well. Therefor it makes a lot of sense to encourage the large CentOS community to take part in the RHEL Beta program and help with improving the next CentOS releases. (You don't need my back patting, start already !) If you are looking for the RHEL 5.3 Beta ISO images, go to Red Hat Network, log in, click on Download Software, expand the RHEL5 channel for your architecture and go to the Beta channel. There you can find the RHEL 5.3 Beta ISO images for your architecture. https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channel/downloads/Download.do?cid=6002 https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channel/downloads/Download.do?cid=6007 And please, if you find anything that is worth to fix, report your findings to Red Hat's bugzilla. Thanks in advance, -- -- dag wieers, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured
Nate If that volume is not in use by anything else you should be perfectly able to do: mkswap /dev/VolGroup00/swap swapon /dev/VolGroup00/swap then add something like this to fstab: /dev/VolGroup00 swapswapdefaults 0 0 Shouldn't the fstab entry be: /dev/VolGroup00/swap swapswapdefaults 0 0 Just want to double-check before I dive in. Thanks Ian Masters ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
