Re: [CentOS-docs] Wish to contribute a Winki Article
Those are good points. Could you...SORRY...give me a link to my article. I'll record it next time and give me rights so that I could make those changes. Thanks... --- On Wed, 4/15/09, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: From: JohnS jse...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS-docs] Wish to contribute a Winki Article To: Mail list for wiki articles centos-docs@centos.org Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 4:22 PM On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 13:07 -0700, Mr dave fernandes wrote: Good point. Do you want me to edit or do you want too. Doesn't matter to me. --- It's you article and howto. I would rather you edit it. See also this prior post also when not using SE Linux for permissions for directories. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/2009-April/002550.html I'll point you in the correct direction If you need. Like I said earlier you did a good job of explaining it I thought. JohnStanley ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Wish to contribute a Winki Article
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Mr dave fernandes daveandtr...@yahoo.com wrote: Those are good points. Could you...SORRY...give me a link to my article. I'll record it next time and give me rights so that I could make those changes. Thanks... Here you are: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetUpSamba Akemi ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Wish to contribute a Winki Article
--- On Thu, 4/16/09, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: From: Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS-docs] Wish to contribute a Winki Article To: Mail list for wiki articles centos-docs@centos.org Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009, 1:30 PM On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Mr dave fernandes daveandtr...@yahoo.com wrote: Those are good points. Could you...SORRY...give me a link to my article. I'll record it next time and give me rights so that I could make those changes. Thanks... Here you are: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetUpSamba Made the changes. Please check it over if I made a mistake. I tried very hard to address everyone's concerns. I decided not to delve too deeply into setting up rights for the users. I felt that was beyond the scope of the article and was easy enough to learn on your own. My desire is to provide the NOT-SO-EASY to find documentation. Thanks... Akemi ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Translating wiki into Chinese
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Timothy Lee timothy.ty@gmail.com wrote: Dear Ralph, On 04/03/2009 09:31 AM, Timothy Lee wrote: On 04/02/2009 05:00 PM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Timothy Lee wrote: I'd like to help translate the wiki into Chinese. Can you create the zh page and give me write permission? Do we have anyone here willing to help with that? Because that looks like a mean feat, when you try do to that alone - no idea how much time you have on your hands :) I have friends who can review the translation for me. But I figured that the wiki defaults to English content for un-translated pages, I could take a piecemeal approach. I've translated 20 pages to Chinese so far, and have placed them under the zh sub-directory under my Wiki homepage (see http://wiki.centos.org/TimothyLee/zh). As I have requested before, is it possible to setup the zh page under the Wiki frontpage? I can then continue my translation efforts there, without needing to fix page links in the future. Regards, Timothy Lee That is a *lot* of work. I'm afraid Ralph is not around at the moment. You'd have to wait for him to come back, or ask other CentOS devs. In the meantime (while waiting), it will be nice if we can find another pair of eyes that can read Chinese. When it comes to translation, 4 (or more) eyes are always better than a single pair... Akemi ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Wish to contribute a Winki Article
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Phil Schaffner p.r.schaff...@ieee.org wrote: I took the liberty of making a couple of cosmetic changes to the format - Fixed Step 2 to look like steps 1,3,4 and changed your name to your WikiName - per above guidelines. Just added a Table of Contents. Akemi ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
[CentOS-docs] Authorship and Attribution
A question on authorship and attribution policy for the Wiki. I originally credited Alan Bartlett for the page content on HowTos/ConfigureNewVideoCard, but he was not comfortable with that and the reference got removed in the edit process. I generally do not include my name on Wiki pages I create, but it is fairly common practice. Should there be a statement in the Guidelines covering this area? Phil ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Authorship and Attribution
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 04:40:53PM -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: A question on authorship and attribution policy for the Wiki. I originally credited Alan Bartlett for the page content on HowTos/ConfigureNewVideoCard, but he was not comfortable with that and the reference got removed in the edit process. I generally do not include my name on Wiki pages I create, but it is fairly common practice. Should there be a statement in the Guidelines covering this area? It might be a good idea. I don't recollect seeing anything in the guidelines. It seems that the last person to edit a page is shown at the end of an article, implying they're the original author. I remember making a very very trivial edit to the FreeNX article after running into, and solving, a minor issue, and later getting an email from someone who thought that I was the primary author--simply because my name was at the end of the article. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Spike (watching, from a distance, a conversation between Angel and a woman he just rescued):How can I thank you, you mysterious black-clad-hunk-of-a-knight-thing? No need little lady. Your tears of gratitude are enough for me. You see, I was once a bad-ass vampire. But love, and a pesky curse, defanged me. And now, I'm just a *big* fluffy puppy with bad teeth. No! Not the hair! Never the hair. But there must be some way I can show my appreciation. No, helping those in need's my job. And working up a load of sexual tension and prancing away like a magnificent poof is truly thanks enough. I understand. I have a nephew who's gay, so... Say no more. Evil's still afoot. And I'm almost out of that Nancy-boy hair gel I like so much. Quickly! To the Angel-mobile! Away! ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Wish to contribute a Winki Article
--- On Thu, 4/16/09, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: From: Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS-docs] Wish to contribute a Winki Article To: Mail list for wiki articles centos-docs@centos.org Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009, 4:21 PM On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Phil Schaffner p.r.schaff...@ieee.org wrote: I took the liberty of making a couple of cosmetic changes to the format - Fixed Step 2 to look like steps 1,3,4 and changed your name to your WikiName - per above guidelines. Just added a Table of Contents. Thank you so much. I would also like to add a CUPS command line tutorial. This means how to use lpadmin, lpstat, etc and setup CUPS as a server. I am NOT done with it yet but will contact you. I found the documentation on cups is horrible. It's taken a lot of research and finally a book by one of the authors of cups. CUPS is AMAZING in what you can do -- once you understand it. Dave... Akemi ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Authorship and Attribution
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Phil Schaffner p.r.schaff...@ieee.org wrote: A question on authorship and attribution policy for the Wiki. I originally credited Alan Bartlett for the page content on HowTos/ConfigureNewVideoCard, but he was not comfortable with that and the reference got removed in the edit process. I generally do not include my name on Wiki pages I create, but it is fairly common practice. Should there be a statement in the Guidelines covering this area? This was discussed a bit quite a while ago in this mailing list: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/2007-October/000734.html There was no conclusion but we can see different views on this subject. Akemi ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Authorship and Attribution
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:21:16PM +0100, Ned Slider wrote: Personally, I would think it preferable that communications be openly directed to this list rather than the original author/maintainer of a given page, although I understand the instinct for a user to contact the perceived author. So, what would you suggeest then? A link at the beginning of the page, please send comments, corrections to insert this, or possibly a slightly different, list's address? As one who has written a few of the articles on the wiki, I would be fine with that. For example, on the fora the other day, it was pointed out that someone had followed my article on KVM and was having a problem. I haven't really used KVM in a long time, and was unaware of this. When I saw the thread, I checked, found they were right, and edited the article a bit. Since then, someone else found another issue that seems to have changed since the article was written. Now, if they posted to the list, there's a good chance that someone currently using KVM might say, Aha, of course, and fix these issues on that article. With my Aspire One article it's the same thing--I don't use that machine anymore, so any changes that did or didn't occur with CentOS 5.3 won't get mentioned unless someone posts on the forums or communicates elsewhere--such as this list. So, Ned's idea is one possibility. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: I gotta stop him before he unleashes unholy havoc and it's just another Tuesday night in Sunnydale. ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
[CentOS-docs] new page? - Virtualization/Install MS Windows XP as a CentOS5/Xen guest
I don't see a How To, on this wiki, specifically designed to address the task of creating a Microsoft Windows XP virtual machine as a Xen guest under CentOS 5. Many of the concepts are covered in http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingHVMDomU, but it appears to leave some things to the reader. I (EdHeron) would be willing to make the attempt at a page to focus on this task. It could be HowTos/Xen/DomU-WinXP-Install. ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Authorship and Attribution
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:21:16PM +0100, Ned Slider wrote: So, what would you suggest then? A link at the beginning of the page, please send comments, corrections to insert this, or possibly a slightly different, list's address? An idea similar to that was proposed by some CentOS devs as seen in the thread I posted earlier: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/2007-October/000734.html It's is not an awfully long thread, so maybe worth reading. There were other interesting opinions / dispute. Akemi ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Authorship and Attribution
Is the ChangeLog, filtered for a specific page, available? Provided notes were made regarding the specific edit (it looks good), that would provide desired information, including original poster and description of relevant changes. The ChangeLog should be adequate from the point of view of the wiki. ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Authorship and Attribution
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Scott Robbins wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:21:16PM +0100, Ned Slider wrote: Personally, I would think it preferable that communications be openly directed to this list rather than the original author/maintainer of a given page, although I understand the instinct for a user to contact the perceived author. So, what would you suggeest then? A link at the beginning of the page, please send comments, corrections to insert this, or possibly a slightly different, list's address? I don't think we can expect the original author to be around (or even interested) at the time someone has some feedback. I would urge for a comment system to allow annotations to our wiki (much like PHP's annotated manual). But I prefer to have some attribution too because I think it can help to motivate some people to help with the documentation if they get some recognition. But we should avoid having it there as contact info. A name would be sufficient. -- -- dag wieers, d...@centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Authorship and Attribution
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 17:11 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: ... Problem is ... people without edit rights do not see the link. OOPS - Forgot that. ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Authorship and Attribution
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Phil Schaffner p.r.schaff...@ieee.org wrote: Agree that other authors should be able to contribute, particularly if the page is unmaintained. That raises another point of Wiki etiquette that might be addressed in the Guidelines - what is the proper procedure for editing somebody else's page? It should not be restrictive, as anybody with edit rights hopefully has enough sense and responsibility not to do anything too terrible. If I may quote what Johnny Hughes wrote: quote I don't think that putting something in the wiki makes it a free for all and just anyone should be able to update it. Especially for How-Tos and Article type content. Now, we do have a very restrictive edit policy at this point and we have had no problems that I know of to date ... but I think acknowledgment is a good thing. We are not going to get many Real Authors to post here if we have a policy where by everything is owned by the group and they get nothing in return. Well as an example ... do we want someone who knows nothing about DRBD changing the detailed article written by Arrfab ... I don't think we want that at all. I would check with him before I changed anything on that article, and I think that should be standard policy. Now for some things, like the CentOS in the Media page, I agree that there is total sharing and that is good. I don't feel the same way for Articles that are technical in nature though. Thanks, Johnny Hughes /quote ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Wish to contribute a Winki Article
--- On Thu, 4/16/09, Phil Schaffner p.r.schaff...@ieee.org wrote: From: Phil Schaffner p.r.schaff...@ieee.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-docs] Wish to contribute a Winki Article To: Mail list for wiki articles centos-docs@centos.org Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009, 4:12 PM On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 13:01 -0700, Mr dave fernandes wrote: I added the section. It piled errors on me when I added the fancy text and headings. I switched to mono font and it went through. I'm NOT a python expert so I sadly had NO idea what to do. I wanted to get something up there. Next I added the bolding and other formatting changes and it worked fine. Who knows! I will check it out in a couple of hours when I have more time. Please give me feedback. I want this to be as helpful as possible. Dave, Looks pretty good to me. A minor point, from http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Wiki/Editing : Guidelines considering style * Avoid the use of the first person singular (I, mine etc.) in pages, since it is of little use to the reader, and it looks a tad unprofessional. If you have to refer to yourself or someone else, refer to his/her Wiki page with contact information (or just the full name if that person does not have a page on this Wiki). Might want to take that into account. I took the liberty of making a couple of cosmetic changes to the format - Fixed Step 2 to look like steps 1,3,4 and changed your name to your WikiName - per above guidelines. Are we ready to make the link from the HowTos page? Thanks for the contribution! Works for me. I'll avoid the 'I' and change that. Phil ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-es] Pregunta
Hola! A mi me paso que me daba este error al intentar instalar CentOS 5.x *unknown keyword in config file Lo solucione indicando en la lina de boot lo siguiente: **/isolinux/vmlinuz initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img* saludos!!! 2009/4/16 Mario Villela Larraza mario.villelalarr...@gmail.com Estoy experimentando un problema con mi serv Centos 5.2 y es el siguiente, al momento de estar iniciado el SO me detecta los discos y todo desde el quemador pero si trato de iniciar la maquina desde un CD o DVD no me detecta nada o bien lo detecta empieza el proceso de arranque pero se traba y ahí se queda, no se si el HW esta dañado y tengo que remplazarlo o bien desde SW puedo corregir este detalle, si alguien sabe algo me serviría que me lo comentara; gracias y buen día. ___ 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
Re: [CentOS-es] Centralizar Cron
2009/4/15 Manolo maa...@ono.com: Hola gente. Esoty intentando montar algun tipo de herramienta que me permita gestionar de forma centralizada los cron de varios servidores. He probado a montarlo con jobscheduler pero por ahora no se está ajustando a mis necesidades. ¿Conoceis web herramientas para este proposito? No he buscado pero se me ocurre que mientras tanto puedes ver si te sirve algo como esto, en un solo servidor maestro: 10 22 * * * /usr/bin/ssh servidor1 backup_de_tal_directorio 10 23 * * * /usr/bin/ssh servidor2 tal_otra_tarea ...etc. Como requisito habría que automatizar el ingreso mediante ssh con claves públicas de un servidor a todos los demás. Si te funciona, efectivamente tienes centralizado en un solo crontab todo lo que hace tu colonia de servidores. Una desventaja sería que necesitas tener activo el servidor maestro para que todo funcione. Otra desventaja podría darse en el caso en que tienes diferentes servidores en diferentes zonas de tiempo. -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
[CentOS-es] ati tv wonder HD600 en CentOS 5.3
Estoy con esta duda hace dias y buscando informacion por todos lados Me compré la tarjeta Ati TV Wonder HD600 PCI http://ati.amd.com/products/tvwonder600/pci/index.html hace una semana para poder TV, dado que habia leido que el kernel ya lo soportaba. http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_27#head-1988107a254a410a8e4e82cd1bf8caa5d4945c79 Ahora, mi pregunta es, con el kernel que tienes CentOS 5.3 no lo soporta (2.6.18) , he hecho malabares para tratar de parchar el kernel, probe con centosplus, compile una version del ultimo kernel siguiendo paso x paso esta guia http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_centos que al final no booteaba ya que me borro el ultimo kernel operativo tuve que repararlo con el DVD haciendo Linux Rescue y todo un problema. Mi consulta es que si hay alguna forma de ponerle solamente los Kernel Modules o tengo que cambiar el Kernel obligatoriamente para poder levantar el kernel? SI es que tengo que cambiar el kernel, existe alguna forma / guia entendible para poder compilarle el kernel en CentOS. Saludos, -- Ing CIP. Alejandro Celi Mariátegui a...@linux.org.pe -- Este mensaje ha sido analizado por MailScanner en busca de virus y otros contenidos peligrosos, y se considera que est� limpio. ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] Centralizar Cron
Eduardo Grosclaude escribió: 2009/4/15 Manolo maa...@ono.com: Hola gente. Esotyintentando montar algun tipo de herramienta que me permita gestionar de forma centralizada los cron de varios servidores. He probado a montarlo con jobscheduler pero por ahora no se está ajustando a mis necesidades. ¿Conoceis web herramientas para este proposito? No he buscado pero se me ocurre que mientras tanto puedes ver si te sirve algo como esto, en un solo servidor maestro: 10 22 * * * /usr/bin/ssh servidor1 backup_de_tal_directorio 10 23 * * * /usr/bin/ssh servidor2 tal_otra_tarea ...etc. Como requisito habría que automatizar el ingreso mediante ssh con claves públicas de un servidor a todos los demás. Si te funciona, efectivamente tienes centralizado en un solo crontab todo lo que hace tu colonia de servidores. Una desventaja sería que necesitas tener activo el servidor maestro para que todo funcione. Otra desventaja podría darse en el caso en que tienes diferentes servidores en diferentes zonas de tiempo. Hola, muchas gracias por responder. A pritiori la opción que me propones me parece bastante correcta, pero Sin llegar a probarla cosa que haré, se me plantea el siguiente problema, Cuando en el servidor maestro, tenga que ejecutar dos tareas con usuarios distintos, esta opcion ya no seria aplicable, ya que deberia tener dos ficheros de cron, uno por usuario o en su defecto una conexión ssh del servidor maestro a si mismo, y no me parece fino. Sigo buscando ;) Saludos. ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] Centralizar Cron
2009/4/16 Manolo maa...@ono.com: Eduardo Grosclaude escribió: 2009/4/15 Manolo maa...@ono.com: Hola gente. Esoty intentando montar algun tipo de herramienta que me permita gestionar de forma centralizada los cron de varios servidores. He probado a montarlo con jobscheduler pero por ahora no se está ajustando a mis necesidades. ¿Conoceis web herramientas para este proposito? No he buscado pero se me ocurre que mientras tanto puedes ver si te sirve algo como esto, en un solo servidor maestro: 10 22 * * * /usr/bin/ssh servidor1 backup_de_tal_directorio 10 23 * * * /usr/bin/ssh servidor2 tal_otra_tarea ...etc. Como requisito habría que automatizar el ingreso mediante ssh con claves públicas de un servidor a todos los demás. Si te funciona, efectivamente tienes centralizado en un solo crontab todo lo que hace tu colonia de servidores. Una desventaja sería que necesitas tener activo el servidor maestro para que todo funcione. Otra desventaja podría darse en el caso en que tienes diferentes servidores en diferentes zonas de tiempo. Hola, muchas gracias por responder. A pritiori la opción que me propones me parece bastante correcta, pero Sin llegar a probarla cosa que haré, se me plantea el siguiente problema, Cuando en el servidor maestro, tenga que ejecutar dos tareas con usuarios distintos, esta opcion ya no seria aplicable, ya que deberia tener dos ficheros de cron, uno por usuario o en su defecto una conexión ssh del servidor maestro a si mismo, y no me parece fino. A riesgo de ser pesado... :D 10 23 * * * sudo [opciones] usuario tal_otra_tarea podría servir? De todos modos no creo que un software agregado, si te da la posibilidad de manipular diferentes usuarios, haga otra cosa fundamentalmente distinta. Y si hace falta cambiar a identidad de otros usuarios en otros servidores, valdría esto: 10 23 * * * /usr/bin/ssh usua...@servidor2 tal_otra_tarea Sigo buscando ;) Así se habla! -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
[CentOS-es] acceso a internet
Hola, Acabo de iniciarme con el mundo Linux y hay un tema que no consigo resolver, ni consultando por ahí. Tengo un servidor (de pruebas) con CentOS, apache, mysql, php y demás, y aunque puedo acceder a él desde fuera de la red, lo que no consigo es que el equipo tenga conexión a internet. De verdad que no lo entiendo, puedo acceder al equipo pero el equipo no puede salir. ¿alguna sugerencia? gracias Ramón Cervantes Consultor Móvil 657 86 35 46 mailto:rcervan...@sinergium-sgh.com rcervan...@sinergium-sgh.com http://www.sinergium-sgh.com/ www.sinergium-sgh.com P Antes de imprimir este mensaje, por favor, compruebe que es verdaderamente necesario. El Medio Ambiente es cosa de todos. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. image001.jpg___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS] looking for alternative to SME Clark Connect
I'm looking for a (preferably free) alternative to SME / Clark Connect. I basically need the following: - firewall - nat - VPN - bandwidth limiting / monitoring - email (SMTP / POP3 / IMAP) groupware - file printer sharing - RAID support - if possible fail-over / high availability support. Here is a free mail server solution for RHEL/CentOS 5.x: http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/ -- Best regards. Zhang Huangbin - Open Source Mail Server Solution for RHEL/CentOS 5.x: http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] re-install package
2009/4/16 John Thomas gmane-2006-04...@jt-socal.com Scott Silva wrote: And the right repositories have to be online! Finally, a successful commercial repository. It's not without it's problems though, especially when using yum... Blindly playing with this repository can be bad for your system's health, plenty of care and attention is required... The packages require quite a bit of ongoing maintence once installed and not all versions are stable... The packages don't tend to carry much documentation, the reported requirements are not always accurate and the package clean up routines are never complete... yum update girlfriend doesn't typically work too well if a prior version is already installed, newer versions get installed then a cleanup happens afterwards, race conditions exist where the previous version can do lots of bad things to your system while both versions are effectively installed at the same time... a yum remove girlfriend before a fresh yum install girlfriend is recommended... Care should still be taken as yum will attempt to honour the package dependancies and other packages such as pet, house and car could be removed when trying to remove girlfriend, especially if any of those were installed after girlfriend and more so if it was requires of the girlfriend package that triggered their installation... Typically there are significant system reconfigurations required to support each new version... yum reinstall doesn't always work too well with girlfriend, the package does tend to leave quite a bit of state information in place, even after uninstall, which, if this is the cause of the problems, won't be fixed by a reinstall... An upgrade of girlfriend to wife exists, it's not cheap though and potentially can require some major system reconfiguration to support... yum can't really handle this, often getting confused between the option of upgrading to wife or updating to a later release of girlfriend... The upgrade to wife can be forced in certain situations such as if any child packages have been accidentally installed, such as by automatic overnight updates... With wife installed, yum will let you install additional versions of girlfriend, but, this is not a recommended configuration as there are some very serious interoperability issues, especially if an installation of girlfriend pulls in a child update... In that situation, yum would try to upgrade girlfriend to wife, but, as you can't, in a standard configuration, have multiple instances of wife and newer versions of wife obsolete older versions, the old version would need to be removed, the massive number of unresolvable dependancies involved in the that would cause yum to crash... The only solution is to use rpm with varying force and nodeps options to attempt to get your system functional again, though even then, bits of old packages will still be lying around consuming resources, especially if child packages exist... So, while the packages can work, there is quite a bit of work involved in fully integrating them and maintaining them... yum can be used, but, it's probably best to exclude them in yum.conf and manually install and update the packages where you find necessary, taking great care in avoiding conflicts and managing dependancies... The extra care taken in doing it manually can really pay off in long term system stability... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of JohnS Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 5:52 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers No none of that is hardware issues. It is issues with the Nvidia Driver it self. Some or all of those issues can be solved by Downgrading the driver it self. All this is in the documentation and are known problems on both Linux and Windows. I've tried a few different versions of the proprietary driver with no effect. IIRC even the nv driver gives me these problems. Oh, well, I'll try some more versions. Maybe I'm lucky. ;-) -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Updates for csgfs on CentOS4
Hi all,
I am trying to install csgfs on two CentOS hosts. I have installed latest
kernel from updates repository. But when I try to install csgfs, yum returns me
this:
Dependencies Resolved
=
Package Arch Version RepositorySize
=
Installing:
ccs i686 1.0.12-1 csgfs 71 k
cmani686 1.0.24-1 csgfs 66 k
cman-kernel i686 2.6.9-55.13.el4.centos.1 csgfs
136 k
gnbdi686 1.0.9-1 csgfs 117 k
gnbd-kernel i686 2.6.9-10.50.el4.centos.1 csgfs
13 k
Installing for dependencies:
kernel i686 2.6.9-78.0.1.EL update 12 M
magma i686 1.0.8-1 csgfs 34 k
Transaction Summary
=
Install 7 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 13 M
Is this ok [y/N]
Yum tries to install kernel 2.6.9-78.0.1.EL. Where are the updates modules
for
csgfs to use with kernel 2.6.9-78.0.13.EL??
Thanks.
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Re: [CentOS] re-install package
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 15:10 +0800, D Tucny wrote: 2009/4/16 John Thomas gmane-2006-04...@jt-socal.com Scott Silva wrote: And the right repositories have to be online! Finally, a successful commercial repository. It's not without it's problems though, especially when using yum... Blindly playing with this repository can be bad for your system's health, plenty of care and attention is required... The packages require quite a bit of ongoing maintence once installed and not all versions are stable... The packages don't tend to carry much documentation, the reported requirements are not always accurate and the package clean up routines are never complete... yum update girlfriend doesn't typically work too well if a prior version is already installed, newer versions get installed then a cleanup happens afterwards, race conditions exist where the previous version can do lots of bad things to your system while both versions are effectively installed at the same time... a yum remove girlfriend before a fresh yum install girlfriend is recommended... Care should still be taken as yum will attempt to honour the package dependancies and other packages such as pet, house and car could be removed when trying to remove girlfriend, especially if any of those were installed after girlfriend and more so if it was requires of the girlfriend package that triggered their installation... Typically there are significant system reconfigurations required to support each new version... yum reinstall doesn't always work too well with girlfriend, the package does tend to leave quite a bit of state information in place, even after uninstall, which, if this is the cause of the problems, won't be fixed by a reinstall... An upgrade of girlfriend to wife exists, it's not cheap though and potentially can require some major system reconfiguration to support... yum can't really handle this, often getting confused between the option of upgrading to wife or updating to a later release of girlfriend... The upgrade to wife can be forced in certain situations such as if any child packages have been accidentally installed, such as by automatic overnight updates... With wife installed, yum will let you install additional versions of girlfriend, but, this is not a recommended configuration as there are some very serious interoperability issues, especially if an installation of girlfriend pulls in a child update... In that situation, yum would try to upgrade girlfriend to wife, but, as you can't, in a standard configuration, have multiple instances of wife and newer versions of wife obsolete older versions, the old version would need to be removed, the massive number of unresolvable dependancies involved in the that would cause yum to crash... The only solution is to use rpm with varying force and nodeps options to attempt to get your system functional again, though even then, bits of old packages will still be lying around consuming resources, especially if child packages exist... So, while the packages can work, there is quite a bit of work involved in fully integrating them and maintaining them... yum can be used, but, it's probably best to exclude them in yum.conf and manually install and update the packages where you find necessary, taking great care in avoiding conflicts and managing dependancies... The extra care taken in doing it manually can really pay off in long term system stability... --- Very Interesting :-) You have to much time... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Sharing RAM between VM
AFAIK, openvz can do that. Of course, openvz has its own problems, but that's another matter. Haven't heard of openvz, till now. Thanks, I'll look at it. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Sharing RAM between VM
Depends what your goal is, if you want to run a cluster with shared memory between systems, you typically need a very high speed interconnect and very low latencies, your not likely to achieve this within VMs. Your original message just talked about sharing ram between VMs, you didn't mention why you were specifically interested in doing that. nate, which vmware you use? VMware ESXi or VMWare Server or something else? Whenever possible I'd use ESXi, I happen to use vmware server on the system that is sending my email because it's old and ESXi doesn't support the 3ware 8006-2 SATA card in it. Check the hardware compatibility list, the list is fairly short for some things like SATA, though ESX 4 is due out in the coming week(s) which is supposed to dramatically improve SATA support. Note that out of the box ESXi(with the free license) doesn't support snapshots or cold migrations(between servers) at least last time I checked the feature comparisons sheet. I'll be installing about 12 new ESXi systems soon. VMware server does not support page sharing or memory ballooning, and does support snapshots. I use vmware server 1.x, probably will go to 2.x in the next couple months. nate, thanks a lot for this answer. I'll give ESXi a try. (Maybe I'll wait till next version) p.s. Stable xen, has ballooning. You can say for every VM: memory=1024MB, max-mem=2048MB. And you can tweak the memory manually, without having to restart the VM and without any other problems. That's not memory ballooning, at least not in the vmware world, and you can do the same in vmware, though if you decide to drop the amount of physical memory allocated to the guest without having the guest free up that memory you'll go into swap pretty quick, so it's not a practice I do, really ever. If Xen has a specific balloon driver like vmware and inflates the balloon when you change the memory settings that would be pretty cool, as far as I know vmware does not do that, the balloon only kicks in when host memory is low, not when you decide you want to resize the guest. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Sendmail forwarding external email sent to root
Neil Aggarwal wrote on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:54:13 -0500: I guess that facility just does not exist in sendmail. what facility? Everything Benjamin explained is there. I'm not getting any email to r...@ on my servers. I suggest you try to find out where you might have exposed it. Spammers try to avoid sending to root. Or, are you sure the mail is *really* sent to root and not to an address aliased to root? Lots of users (basically all users that were created for use by a daemon) on the machine are aliased to root. If it's really spam straight to r...@domain a simple r...@domain nouser in virtusertable or access.db should usually solve the problem as cron rather sends to root or r...@localhost. 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
[CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
Hi all, I'd like to deploy a solution with dual-booting systems where CentOS 5.3 is already installed and WinXP will be installed to a separate disk. I found http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_linux_and_windows_xp_linux_installed_first.htm?page=1 and it seems straight forward enough, although the description is for Ubuntu. The problem as I see it, is that the how-to differs from how CentOS looks in /etc/grub.conf and the boot-loader in Ubuntu with respect to making grub work again after the Windows install. I found Tldp.org mentioning dual-boot plenty, but most or all articles listed are using lilo as a boot-loader, which seems a bit obsolete and besides I can't quite translate the instructions from lilo to grub. 8-/ Basically, what would I need to change in the how-to from apcmag.com above?? Thanks for any pointers. -- BW, Sorin --- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 3 signals GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # CentOS: When you need Enterprise uptime, without Enterprise pricing. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 2:09 PM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed I'd like to deploy a solution with dual-booting systems where CentOS 5.3 is already installed and WinXP will be installed to a separate disk. I found http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_linux_and_windows_xp_linux_installed_fir st.htm?page=1 and it seems straight forward enough, although the description is for Ubuntu. The problem as I see it, is that the how-to differs from how CentOS looks in /etc/grub.conf and the boot-loader in Ubuntu with respect to making grub work again after the Windows install. Googled some more. Realised /boot/grub/menu.lst *is* /etc/grub.conf... Duh! Also some people say it's better to have Windows installed to the first harddrive and the first partition (so that C: is the where it should be on 1st hd/1st partition). Would I be better off disconnecting the drive containing CentOS and reconnect it when I'm done installing Windows. Then boot with CentOS rescue and reinstall grub to the Windows-hd MBR? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Feature list between 5.2 and 5.3
does anyone know if (and where) a feature list of the changes between CentOS 5.2 and 5.3 can be found? All of the documentation that I could find on centos.org is related to 5.2 and 5.1 thanks, -Drew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Weird performance problem
Hi, I'm running a CentOS 4. server and I sometimes face a weird problem. It is a weird performance problem, and here is how I discovered it. This server runs OpenVZ virtual machines, and one of them is an asterisk server for my personal use. The first symptom of the problem is that the voice quality became flaky. So I logged on the server to see what could be eating cpu cycles, when I ran top, it took almost one minute before top actually showed. Another hint is that when I run dstat (a monitoring utility that is a mix of iostat and vmstat and other stats), I often get a missed xx ticks, where xx is a number. Example (current) (sorry for the wrap): total-cpu-usage -dsk/total- -net/total- ---paging-- ---system-- usr sys idl wai hiq siq| read writ| recv send| in out | int csw 3 2 93 2 0 0| 106k 273k| 0 0 | 0.2 0.4 |1039 389 3 6 91 0 0 0| 0 6416k| 276k 275k| 0 0 |2160 6822 missed 55 ticks 4 10 84 2 0 0|1200k 1992k| 82k 93k| 0 0 |1188 6275 missed 29 ticks 1 0 99 0 0 0| 0 1312k| 65k 66k| 0 0 |1050 1114 missed 38 ticks 2 1 96 0 0 0| 0 1168k| 57k 59k| 0 0 | 491 877 missed 13 ticks 3 1 94 1 0 0| 0 6016k| 181k 176k| 0 0 |2169 5996 missed 50 ticks 4 2 91 1 0 0| 28k 8744k| 216k 214k| 0 0 |2159 5438 missed 37 ticks 1 1 98 0 0 0| 0 2632k| 93k 91k| 0 0 | 983 1381 missed 34 ticks 1 1 98 1 0 0| 0 5624k| 113k 110k| 0 0 |1569 2643 missed 52 ticks 1 1 98 1 0 0| 0 2432k| 29k 28k| 0 0 | 679 647 missed 12 ticks 0 0 100 0 0 0| 0 0 | 60B 374B| 0 0 | 1315 2 3 94 0 0 0| 0 1872k| 209k 210k| 0 0 |1375 3590 missed 30 ticks The problem is currently occuring, but it doesn't seem to be affecting voice quality for now, so I have some time to try to find the cause. The only solution I've found up to now is to reboot... But hey, this isn't a Windows 98 machine :)! I tried restarting the VZ system, which restarts all the VMs, but it didn't solve the problem. I can't tell if the problem occurs on a stock centos kernel, because the server is running production (but non-critical) virtual machines, so it is always running the openVZ kernel. So here is what I've done for now: - Top shows a load of about 0.4 - vmstat 1 10 shows this: procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id wa 0 0592 191092 381720 5379560053684 3 3 2 93 2 0 0592 190720 381720 53795600 0 0 3260 1 1 98 0 0 0592 191092 381720 53795600 0 0 4159 0 0 100 0 1 0592 191092 381728 53794800 0 2584 31196 10 4 66 19 0 0592 189968 381732 53794400 0 2080 222 174 2 3 79 16 0 1592 189968 381732 53794400 0 3244 17073 10 4 73 12 0 0592 190216 381732 53794400 0 136 76 113 1 2 93 4 0 0592 189844 381732 53794400 0 0 3369 1 1 98 0 0 0592 189844 381732 53794400 0 0 2432 0 0 100 0 0 0592 190340 381732 53794400 0 0 2842 0 0 100 0 iostat -x 1 (excerpt) Device:rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/srkB/swkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util sda 0.00 171.00 0.00 124.000.00 2368.00 0.00 1184.00 19.10 0.141.13 0.02 0.20 sdb 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000.000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000.00 0.00 0.00 sdc 0.00 171.00 0.00 124.000.00 2368.00 0.00 1184.00 19.10 0.171.35 0.02 0.30 sdd 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000.000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000.00 0.00 0.00 md0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000.000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000.00 0.00 0.00 md2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000.000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000.00 0.00 0.00 md1 0.00 0.00 0.00 294.000.00 2352.00 0.00 1176.00 8.00 0.000.00 0.00 0.00 dm-0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000.000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000.00 0.00 0.00 dm-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000.000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000.00 0.00 0.00 dm-2 0.00 0.00 0.00 294.000.00 2352.00 0.00 1176.00 8.00 0.301.01 0.02 0.50 dm-3 0.00 0.00 0.00 294.000.00 2352.00 0.00 1176.00 8.00 0.301.01 0.02 0.50 dm-4 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000.000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000.00 0.00 0.00 dm-5 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000.00
Re: [CentOS] Feature list between 5.2 and 5.3
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Drew Weaver drew.wea...@thenap.com wrote: does anyone know if (and where) a feature list of the changes between CentOS 5.2 and 5.3 can be found? All of the documentation that I could find on centos.org is related to 5.2 and 5.1 thanks, -Drew Have you tried http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.3 ? ___ 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] Feature list between 5.2 and 5.3
Drew Weaver a écrit : does anyone know if (and where) a feature list of the changes between CentOS 5.2 and 5.3 can be found? All of the documentation that I could find on centos.org is related to 5.2 and 5.1 Look for the release notes, and, at worse, look the upstream release notes. Ugo ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Weird performance problem
Ugo Bellavance a écrit :
Hi,
I'm running a CentOS 4. server and I sometimes face a weird problem.
It is a weird performance problem, and here is how I discovered it.
This server runs OpenVZ virtual machines, and one of them is an asterisk
server for my personal use. The first symptom of the problem is that
the voice quality became flaky. So I logged on the server to see what
could be eating cpu cycles, when I ran top, it took almost one minute
before top actually showed. Another hint is that when I run dstat (a
monitoring utility that is a mix of iostat and vmstat and other stats),
I often get a missed xx ticks, where xx is a number.
Another hint is that pings are really slow. Even pinging localhost is
very long. The first reply is fast, but the second takes ages to come.
It seems to be blocking here:
recvmsg(3, 0xbfbf84b0, MSG_DONTWAIT)= -1 EAGAIN (Resource
temporarily unavailable)
gettimeofday({1239887784, 389347}, NULL) = 0
poll(
The rest comes as soon as there is another response:
[{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLERR}], 1, 999) = 0
gettimeofday({1239887903, 119727}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1239887903, 119791}, NULL) = 0
sendmsg(3, {msg_name(16)={sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(0),
sin_addr=inet_addr(127.0.0.1)},
msg_iov(1)=[{\10\0\335\2018)\0\4\0370\347I\357\323\1\0\10\t\n\v\f\r\16\17\20\21\22\23\24\25\26\27...,
64}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, MSG_CONFIRM) = 64
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(16)={sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(0),
sin_addr=inet_addr(127.0.0.1)},
msg_iov(1)=[{e\0\0t\26\264\...@\1e\363\177\0\0\1\177\0\0\1\0\0\345\2018)\0\4\0370\347I...,
192}], msg_controllen=20, {cmsg_len=20, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET,
cmsg_type=0x1d /* SCM_??? */, ...}, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 84
write(1, 64 bytes from hn01.domain..., 82) = 82
recvmsg(3, 0xbfbf84b0, MSG_DONTWAIT)= -1 EAGAIN (Resource
temporarily unavailable)
gettimeofday({1239887903, 120785}, NULL) = 0
poll(
Then it blocks again...
This confuses Nagios that is running in a VM on this server.
Can the 'gettimeofday' be the problem? 'date' runs w/o delay.
Thanks,
Ugo
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Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
Sorin Srbu wrote on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:08:57 +0200: Basically, what would I need to change in the how-to from apcmag.com above?? It's like that tutorial says. Forget about backing up grub.conf. This is nonsense. You want to make a backup before changing it, just in case, but not because of the XP installation. After the installation you have to reinstall grub with grub-install (from a live disk) and add the chainloader stuff to grub.conf. mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/linux (if that is where you linux resides) grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/linux /dev/sda (if you want to install it to the partition use sda2 instead of sda, then the partition has to be active, so that you can boot from it) Instead of using grub-install you can backup the mbr before the installation and then restore it afterwards. You can easily get bad results from that if you mistype, though. 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] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Sorin Srbu wrote on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:08:57 +0200: Basically, what would I need to change in the how-to from apcmag.com above?? It's like that tutorial says. Forget about backing up grub.conf. This is nonsense. You want to make a backup before changing it, just in case, but not because of the XP installation. After the installation you have to reinstall grub with grub-install (from a live disk) and add the chainloader stuff to grub.conf. mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/linux (if that is where you linux resides) grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/linux /dev/sda (if you want to install it to the partition use sda2 instead of sda, then the partition has to be active, so that you can boot from it) Instead of using grub-install you can backup the mbr before the installation and then restore it afterwards. You can easily get bad results from that if you mistype, though. Kai When i install multi-boot machines, i prefer to use GAG boot manager. http://gag.sourceforge.net/ It installs itself on the MBR (it's tiny) and all you have to do is tell Linux to install its boot stuff on its own partition. As for Winblows, it always wipes the boot record and replace with its own crap. No problem, let Winblows install itself and after everything is done, just re-install GAG, configure the menu items and you're all set. Guy Boisvert, ing. IngTegration inc. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] SELinux errors on my CentOS 5.3 (32 bit) Desktop after upgrade from 5.2
I am running SELinux in Permissive mode. GNOME and KDE are installed.
Following the upgrade from CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 (32 bit) I am getting
SELinux messages. Possibly of interest to someone here or upstream?
(Since I'm using Permissive mode, this is not a problem for me). If
these are known issues, please disregard. Messages follow:
(1) SELinux is preventing nm-system-setti (system_dbusd_t) getsched
to Unknown (system_dbusd_t).
SELinux denied access requested by nm-system-setti. It is not expected
that this access is required by nm-system-setti and this access may
signal an intrusion attempt. It is also possible that the specific
version or configuration of the application is causing it to require
additional access.
Source Context: system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_tTarget Context:
system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_tTarget Objects: None [ process
]Source: nm-system-settiSource Path:
/usr/sbin/nm-system-settingsPort: UnknownHost:
dell2400.homelanSource RPM Packages:
NetworkManager-0.7.0-4.el5_3Target RPM Packages: Policy RPM:
selinux-policy-2.4.6-203.el5Selinux Enabled: TruePolicy Type:
targetedMLS Enabled: TrueEnforcing Mode: PermissivePlugin Name:
catchallHost Name: dell2400.homelanPlatform: Linux dell2400.homelan
2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Wed Apr 1 09:19:18 EDT 2009 i686 i686Alert
Count: 11First Seen: Fri 10 Apr 2009 09:10:39 PM COTLast Seen: Thu
16 Apr 2009 07:31:47 AM COTLocal ID:
19712f1c-5303-49bf-a8bc-6016b7f060d5
Line Numbers:
Raw Audit Messages :host=dell2400.homelan type=AVC
msg=audit(1239885107.4:18): avc: denied { getsched } for pid=2970
comm=nm-system-setti scontext=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0 tclass=process
host=dell2400.homelan type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1239885107.4:18):
arch=4003 syscall=155 success=yes exit=0 a0=b9a a1=b7f0690c
a2=95fff4 a3=b7f06700 items=0 ppid=1 pid=2970 auid=4294967295 uid=0
gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none)
ses=4294967295 comm=nm-system-setti
exe=/usr/sbin/nm-system-settings
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to Unknown (system_dbusd_t).
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that this access is required by nm-system-setti and this access may
signal an intrusion attempt. It is also possible that the specific
version or configuration of the application is causing it to require
additional access.
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Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Guy Boisvert Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 3:45 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed As for Winblows, it always wipes the boot record and replace with its own crap. No problem, let Winblows install itself and after everything is done, just re-install GAG, configure the menu items and you're all set. I've had nothing but good results with dual-boot *if* Windows is installed first and then add linux. The other way around is a first for me. Thanks for your inputs, Kai and Guy! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Kai Schaetzl Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 3:32 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed Instead of using grub-install you can backup the mbr before the installation and then restore it afterwards. You can easily get bad results from that if you mistype, though. Generally speaking, which one is the easiest and/or safest if time is an issue and you want to things fast and streamlined doing this, grub-install or backup and restore MBR. That is assuming I don't screw up when I do either and mistype or something. Or are both things different sides of the same coin kinda' thing? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS
Joseph L. Casale wrote: I never thought of that given that they come from the plus repo. So its only a matter of time then before it appears for the 5.3 kernels... If I have time this weekend, I'll yank an srpm down from the 5.2 branch kmod and see what's involved in making this (Never done it, so I have no idea off the top of my head). iirc, the xfs kmod's are not kernel ver dependant anymore, and havent been for a while. Tru / Akemi ? - KB ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
Sorin Srbu wrote on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:35:40 +0200: Googled some more. Realised /boot/grub/menu.lst *is* /etc/grub.conf... Duh! You want to change /boot/grub/grub.conf, nothing else ! Also some people say it's better to have Windows installed to the first harddrive and the first partition (so that C: is the where it should be on 1st hd/1st partition). Doesn't matter. Would I be better off disconnecting the drive containing CentOS and reconnect it when I'm done installing Windows. Then boot with CentOS rescue and reinstall grub to the Windows-hd MBR? Why? If you want to put them on separate *hardware* then you don't have to reinstall anything. Just make sure that the CentOS drive is the first boot drive. 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] 5.3 and XFS
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: I never thought of that given that they come from the plus repo. So its only a matter of time then before it appears for the 5.3 kernels... If I have time this weekend, I'll yank an srpm down from the 5.2 branch kmod and see what's involved in making this (Never done it, so I have no idea off the top of my head). iirc, the xfs kmod's are not kernel ver dependant anymore, and havent been for a while. Tru / Akemi ? The kABI-tracking kmod-xfs for CentOS-5 started in Oct 2008. The CentOS-4 version has been tested and will be offered shortly (as soon as you/Tru builds it for release). :-D But the code is somewhat getting old. Maybe it's time to get the project xfs going again? Tru is the leader of this project. Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.comwrote: Sorin Srbu wrote on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:35:40 +0200: Googled some more. Realised /boot/grub/menu.lst *is* /etc/grub.conf... Duh! You want to change /boot/grub/grub.conf, nothing else ! Also some people say it's better to have Windows installed to the first harddrive and the first partition (so that C: is the where it should be on 1st hd/1st partition). Doesn't matter. Would I be better off disconnecting the drive containing CentOS and reconnect it when I'm done installing Windows. Then boot with CentOS rescue and reinstall grub to the Windows-hd MBR? Why? If you want to put them on separate *hardware* then you don't have to reinstall anything. Just make sure that the CentOS drive is the first boot drive. 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 install windows xp then install easyBCD and make the dual boot work without changing any file on any OS. Screenshot: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Vista_bootloader Get it: http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/EasyBCD%20Documentation%20Home -- It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. Todo el desorden del mundo proviene de las profesiones mal o mediocremente servidas ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Sorin Srbu wrote on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:08:57 +0200: Basically, what would I need to change in the how-to from apcmag.com above?? It's like that tutorial says. Forget about backing up grub.conf. This is nonsense. You want to make a backup before changing it, just in case, but not because of the XP installation. After the installation you have to reinstall grub with grub-install (from a live disk) and add the chainloader stuff to grub.conf. mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/linux (if that is where you linux resides) grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/linux /dev/sda (if you want to install it to the partition use sda2 instead of sda, then the partition has to be active, so that you can boot from it) Instead of using grub-install you can backup the mbr before the installation and then restore it afterwards. You can easily get bad results from that if you mistype, though. Kai When i install multi-boot machines, i prefer to use GAG boot manager. http://gag.sourceforge.net/ It installs itself on the MBR (it's tiny) and all you have to do is tell Linux to install its boot stuff on its own partition. As for Winblows, it always wipes the boot record and replace with its own crap. No problem, let Winblows install itself and after everything is done, just re-install GAG, configure the menu items and you're all set. Guy Boisvert, ing. IngTegration inc. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
Sorin Srbu wrote on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:03:53 +0200: Generally speaking, which one is the easiest and/or safest if time is an issue and you want to things fast and streamlined doing this, grub-install or backup and restore MBR. That is assuming I don't screw up when I do either and mistype or something. Or are both things different sides of the same coin kinda' thing? I think I prefer the grub-install way because it's easier to remember what you have to do and harder to mistype. Using dd works 100%, though, if done correctly. Even if there is something wrong with grub-install or grub in the live disk, dd is hardly affected. But, as I said, if you use two disks and pull the first out you do not have to reinstall/restore the MBR anyway. 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] re-install package
on 4-16-2009 12:10 AM D Tucny spake the following: 2009/4/16 John Thomas gmane-2006-04...@jt-socal.com mailto:gmane-2006-04...@jt-socal.com Scott Silva wrote: And the right repositories have to be online! Finally, a successful commercial repository. It's not without it's problems though, especially when using yum... Blindly playing with this repository can be bad for your system's health, plenty of care and attention is required... The packages require quite a bit of ongoing maintence once installed and not all versions are stable... The packages don't tend to carry much documentation, the reported requirements are not always accurate and the package clean up routines are never complete... yum update girlfriend doesn't typically work too well if a prior version is already installed, newer versions get installed then a cleanup happens afterwards, race conditions exist where the previous version can do lots of bad things to your system while both versions are effectively installed at the same time... a yum remove girlfriend before a fresh yum install girlfriend is recommended... Care should still be taken as yum will attempt to honour the package dependancies and other packages such as pet, house and car could be removed when trying to remove girlfriend, especially if any of those were installed after girlfriend and more so if it was requires of the girlfriend package that triggered their installation... Typically there are significant system reconfigurations required to support each new version... yum reinstall doesn't always work too well with girlfriend, the package does tend to leave quite a bit of state information in place, even after uninstall, which, if this is the cause of the problems, won't be fixed by a reinstall... An upgrade of girlfriend to wife exists, it's not cheap though and potentially can require some major system reconfiguration to support... yum can't really handle this, often getting confused between the option of upgrading to wife or updating to a later release of girlfriend... The upgrade to wife can be forced in certain situations such as if any child packages have been accidentally installed, such as by automatic overnight updates... With wife installed, yum will let you install additional versions of girlfriend, but, this is not a recommended configuration as there are some very serious interoperability issues, especially if an installation of girlfriend pulls in a child update... In that situation, yum would try to upgrade girlfriend to wife, but, as you can't, in a standard configuration, have multiple instances of wife and newer versions of wife obsolete older versions, the old version would need to be removed, the massive number of unresolvable dependancies involved in the that would cause yum to crash... The only solution is to use rpm with varying force and nodeps options to attempt to get your system functional again, though even then, bits of old packages will still be lying around consuming resources, especially if child packages exist... So, while the packages can work, there is quite a bit of work involved in fully integrating them and maintaining them... yum can be used, but, it's probably best to exclude them in yum.conf and manually install and update the packages where you find necessary, taking great care in avoiding conflicts and managing dependancies... The extra care taken in doing it manually can really pay off in long term system stability... Too bad that mastery of the system takes most of one's lifetime, and the skills aren't easily passed on to future admins. ;-P signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Sendmail forwarding external email sent to root
Kai: If it's really spam straight to r...@domain a simple r...@domain nouser in virtusertable or access.db should usually solve the problem as cron rather sends to root or r...@localhost. That is the best solution. Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Acrobat Reader 9 on Centos 4.7
On CentOS 4 I'm getting /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.5' not found (required by /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread) The latest acroread I can find that's NOT the one in the Adobe repository (which is where that one came from -- AdobeReader_enu-9.1.0-1) is version 5 from rpmforge. Can anyone point me to a more recent working RPM for CentOS 4, as in, approximately version 8 ? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
Victor Padro wrote on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:45:04 -0500: install windows xp then install easyBCD and make the dual boot work without changing any file on any OS. Of course you change files. But it works as well, yes, just checked it out. I wasn't aware of this, although I have EasyBCD already installed on my Windows 7 netbook. However, if you do it this way you have to rely on the BCD boot loader and the Vista partition. I would recommend it if you use the Linux OS only irregularly. If it is your main system using only the Linux-native boot loader surely is recommended. I'm not sure, but I think you will also need to have grub installed to the Linux partition. So, if you installed it on the MBR it may fail to boot. 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] Odd SELinux messages during+after 5.3 upgrade (system_mail_t and postfix_postdrop_t access rpm_var_lib_t)
Dan Mensom wrote:
Does anyone know what these accesses are?
snip
Also, on a related note, is it normally best practices to
'setenforce 0'
during a 5.x upgrade?
I also got these type of messages. I just did a yum update from
5.2. Output from audit2allow are as follows:
allow useradd_t rpm_t:tcp_socket { read write };
allow useradd_t rpm_var_lib_t:file { read write };
allow useradd_t var_lib_t:file write;
allow useradd_t var_t:file read;
I have similar messages for auditctl_t, cupsd_t, groupadd_t, rdisc_t,
restorecon_t, restorecond_t, semanage_t and setrans_t. It looks like
they only happened during the upgrade and haven't gotten any every
since. Just wondering too if these messages are normal (everything
is working flawlessly) and if there's anything I should've done to
ensure the upgrade is complete.
Thank you.
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Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: Hi all, I'd like to deploy a solution with dual-booting systems where CentOS 5.3 is already installed and WinXP will be installed to a separate disk. I found http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_linux_and_windows_xp_linux_installed_first.htm?page=1 and it seems straight forward enough, although the description is for Ubuntu. The problem as I see it, is that the how-to differs from how CentOS looks in /etc/grub.conf and the boot-loader in Ubuntu with respect to making grub work again after the Windows install. I found Tldp.org mentioning dual-boot plenty, but most or all articles listed are using lilo as a boot-loader, which seems a bit obsolete and besides I can't quite translate the instructions from lilo to grub. 8-/ Basically, what would I need to change in the how-to from apcmag.com above?? Thanks for any pointers. As noted in other replies, Windows not not play well with anything else. Your best bet would be to disable/remove/disconnect the drive with CentOS and then do the Windows install to the other drive. Once Windows is installed, you can reconnect the CentOS drive and then easily edit grub.conf to boot Windows using the chainloader directive. This approach will only work if there are no primary partitions on the CentOS drive that Windows recognizes. Windows (just like DOS) assigns drive letters to partitions in drive number order starting with the primary partitions and then moving on to the extended partitions. The bottom line is that you want the first Windows partition on the non-CentOS drive to get assigned drive letter C: when Windows boots. As long as Windows doesn't recognize the partition type (e.g., ext3), no drive letter gets assigned. The problem with suggestions to just install Windows and then either use another boot loader or repair the grub installation is that you are stuck doing that work through Windows. My experience has been that Windows isn't as easy to work with for making changes to the boot loader and any approach that overwrites the Windows boot loader may leave you with Windows not being bootable. The approach I described above leaves the Windows boot loader in place although you may need to edit C:\boot.ini to make sure it can still find Windows when both disks are present. Here is the grub.conf that I use on my laptop. The internal drive boots to either CentOS or Windows while Fedora 10 and Ubuntu are on an external USB drive. # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,2) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda6 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.18-92.1.22.el5) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb initrd /initrd-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.img title CentOS (2.6.18-92.1.18.el5) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb initrd /initrd-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5.img title Fedora (2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64 ro root=UUID=232029fe-c524-47b4-a5d6-d45c0ce7e56b rhgb nomodeset initrd /initrd-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64.img title Ubuntu (2.6.27-7 x86_64) root (hd1,4) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic ro root=LABEL=uSlash initrd /initrd-2.6.27-7-generic title Windoze rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 My grub.conf points to Windows on a partition on the internal drive. Yours would point to Windows on the second drive (probably hd1). Likewise, your boot.ini will need to point to Windows with something like: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=Microsoft Windows XP changing to: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS=Microsoft Windows XP Note the change -^ I'm assuming your Windows disk would end up being /dev/hdb in a Linux world. If your system is using SATA drives or the Windows drive would be something other than /dev/hdb, you may need to make some adjustments to what I have suggested. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
David G. Miller wrote: The problem with suggestions to just install Windows and then either use another boot loader or repair the grub installation is that you are stuck doing that work through Windows. My experience has been that Windows isn't as easy to work with for making changes to the boot loader and any approach that overwrites the Windows boot loader may leave you with Windows not being bootable. You can always boot the centos install CD/DVD with linux rescue at the boot prompt - or use a knoppix or other live cd distribution. And it is a good idea to be prepared for this. I don't know if you want this, but it is also possible to set up VMware server with access to the raw device so besides dual booting you have the option of running the other OS as a VM guest. Most windows versions have to be re-licensed when they see different hardware even if it is virtual so you may have to use windows as the host for this if you do it often. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
David G. Miller wrote: Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: . . . As noted in other replies, Windows not not play well with anything else. Your best bet would be to disable/remove/disconnect the drive I installed Win7 beta on the open partition at the end of my laptop disk and had to dd restore the mbr so I could boot to Centos again. It's amazing that after all these years of multi-booting PCs, MS still arrogantly stomps all over your setup. Idiots. -- tkb ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Acrobat Reader 9 on Centos 4.7
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:53:10 -0700 Bart Schaefer wrote: The latest acroread I can find that's NOT the one in the Adobe repository (which is where that one came from -- AdobeReader_enu-9.1.0-1) is version 5 from rpmforge. Can anyone point me to a more recent working RPM for CentOS 4, as in, approximately version 8 ? I have a copy of AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2-1.i486.rpm here, but I don't know if it will work on Centos 4. Never tried it. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
On 4/16/09, Toby Bluhm t...@alltechmedusa.com wrote: David G. Miller wrote: Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: As noted in other replies, Windows not not play well with anything else. Your best bet would be to disable/remove/disconnect the drive I installed Win7 beta on the open partition at the end of my laptop disk and had to dd restore the mbr so I could boot to Centos again. It's amazing that after all these years of multi-booting PCs, MS still arrogantly stomps all over your setup. Idiots. Toby: M$ is completely unaware that any other OS exists. Or, they will never admit to that. However, 1 or 2 days ago, I saw a listing for a temporary job assignment in Redmond, WA, with The Software Giant, for someone to work with a team of people who are the only ones there who work with Linux. They are the Linux experts in that place. I assume it is for M$, but not positive about that. :-) There is a web page on the CentOS Wiki about how to reinstall GRUB, if it gets trashed or is overridden when installing another OS.Lanny ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
David G. Miller wrote: Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: The problem with suggestions to just install Windows and then either use another boot loader or repair the grub installation is that you are stuck doing that work through Windows. GAG is a standalone boot disquette / boot CD. It doesn't need Winblows or anything eles. It just installs itself on MBR and the boot media contain the config utility with the write to MBR function. You just have to instruct Linux to put all its stuff to its partition. I'm not very familiar with all the Linux boot stuff, so i can't comment on how to do it for somebody that had Linux installed first. I'm sure somebody on the list can give us infos about it and using GAG on MBR afterward. Guy Boisvert, ing. IngTegration inc. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
Toby Bluhm wrote: David G. Miller wrote: I installed Win7 beta on the open partition at the end of my laptop disk and had to dd restore the mbr so I could boot to Centos again. It's amazing that after all these years of multi-booting PCs, MS still arrogantly stomps all over your setup. Idiots. Winblows tries to do its best not to ask anything to the user and decide by itself. No wonder why tons of worms are spreading under Winblows! One have to say that a large part of this is due to bad design but trying to do everything in place of average Joe is wrong. And everybody know how arrogant M$ can be! I just hope they continue to produce ultra heavy crap like Vista! Majority of my clients refuse to go Vista, thanks Macro$haft! Guy Boisvert, ing. IngTegration inc. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Redland rdf libraries
I may have a requirement for these libraries on my CentOS-5.3 box. Does anyone know of a recent rpm for centos that provides them? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Redland rdf libraries
2009/4/16 James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca: I may have a requirement for these libraries on my CentOS-5.3 box. Does anyone know of a recent rpm for centos that provides them? Found on rpmfind.net, though not for centos, but there is src.rpm. HTH, Laurent ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Many missing updates for CentOS 4?
Karanbir Singh wrote: According to centos-announce there's been no updates for CentOS 4 i386/x86_64 since the seamonkey errata (CESA-2009:0325) on 2009-03-06. Is there any work being done on these? I've just started pushing these updates out, there are quite a few so expect them to start coming through in the next few hours onwards - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: Diagonal thin black lines originating from upper left corner for starters. Then if I open a gui, whatever sort, that window gets those lines too. Menus are unreadable because of this, but slightly more readable if I move the mouse pointer over the menu entry. The lines tend to go away for a short while if I log off and log on again. Weird thing is that the lines are always diagonal and tend to always originate from the upper left corner of whatever window. This is with gnome mind you, and *supposedly* this one is the most stable of all the desktop environments. Haven't tried with KDE and xfce. Can't tell for sure if it's gnome or the Nvidia drivers specifically, but I'm leaning towards the drivers. It's not a hardware issue, as I've run rhel3 on the same machines w/o any artifacts. The hardware's two-three year old Asus mobo with a single-core AMD x64 and a rather feisty Nvidia Quadra gfx card. Don't have the exact details right now, but it should give a hint or two. All the P4-machines, as well as the i7-boxes, seem to work fine with dkms. I've never seen this problem at all - running AMD 64x2 7750, 4Gb memory with GEForce 7200gs card, nvidia driver nvidia-x11-drv-173.08-1.beta.el5.rf.x86_64 (from rpmforge - duh). I've used a 19 CRT, 17 1280x1024 flat panel and, currently, 22 1680x1050 flat panel (Emprex - cheap, but works great). I tried the LG nvidia driver last year some time, but I decided I'd rather have the rpmforge working dkms driver than the LG, even though it's a beta driver. When I upgraded to 5.3, that was the first time the driver was actually rebuilt for the kernel since 5.0. HTH mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
could you please switch to a less broken client that supports threading? (I know that Thunderbord supports threading, but that version or client that you use does not.) 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] looking for alternative to SME Clark Connect
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Rudi Ahlers rudiahl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a (preferably free) alternative to SME / Clark Connect. I basically need the following: - firewall - nat - VPN - bandwidth limiting / monitoring - email (SMTP / POP3 / IMAP) groupware - file printer sharing - RAID support - if possible fail-over / high availability support. I need to support about 15 - 30 (some part time) students, so I would like to keep the costs low. If it's free, so much better. SME works for most of the stuff, but it still runs on CentOS 4, and I'd prefer to use 5. clarkconnect 5 is on beta 2 http://distrowatch.com/5407 just wait a little while :) -- Muhammad Panji http://sumodirjo.wordpress.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: I never thought of that given that they come from the plus repo. So its only a matter of time then before it appears for the 5.3 kernels... If I have time this weekend, I'll yank an srpm down from the 5.2 branch kmod and see what's involved in making this (Never done it, so I have no idea off the top of my head). iirc, the xfs kmod's are not kernel ver dependant anymore, and havent been for a while. Tru / Akemi ? The kABI-tracking kmod-xfs for CentOS-5 started in Oct 2008. The CentOS-4 version has been tested and will be offered shortly (as soon as you/Tru builds it for release). :-D But the code is somewhat getting old. Maybe it's time to get the project xfs going again? Tru is the leader of this project. I think it's worth while to keep xfs updated for a while until ext4 has made enough of an in-road to say xfs should be depreciated in favor of ext4. -Ross ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS 4 dkms-ndiswrapper
Hi - I'm trying to get wireless running on CentOS 4.7 on a dual core laptop (latitude-e4500) for an employee. I'm having trouble with building dkms-ndiswraper-1.54-1.el4.rf - enclosed are the errors messages. The kernel was rebuilt to disable CONFIG_4KSTACKS. The errors prior to rebuilding the kernel are identical to the errors after rebuilding the kernel and rebooting - minus the error regarding the CONFIG_4KSTACKS. Basically I just typed make in the directory. I'm using dkms this time - I've never used it before. I'm under the impression that all I had to do was type 'make' in the directory in the ndiswrapper directory. Any help would be greatly appreciated! -- Agile make -C /home/praveen/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9 M=/usr/src/ndiswra pper-1.54-1.el4.rf make[1]: Entering directory `/home/praveen/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6 .9' MKEXPORT /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.54-1.el4.rf/crt_exports.h CC [M] /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.54-1.el4.rf/crt.o In file included from /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.54-1.el4.rf/crt.c:16: /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.54-1.el4.rf/ntoskernel.h:289:1: warning: for_each_possib le_cpu redefined In file included from include/linux/sched.h:15, from include/linux/module.h:10, from /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.54-1.el4.rf/ntoskernel.h:22, from /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.54-1.el4.rf/crt.c:16: include/linux/cpumask.h:374:1: warning: this is the location of the previous def inition In file included from /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.54-1.el4.rf/crt.c:16: /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.54-1.el4.rf/ntoskernel.h:649: error: field `lock' has inc omplete type /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.54-1.el4.rf/ntoskernel.h: In function `raise_irql': /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.54-1.el4.rf/ntoskernel.h:686: warning: implicit declarati on of function `mutex_lock' /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.54-1.el4.rf/ntoskernel.h: In function `lower_irql': /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.54-1.el4.rf/ntoskernel.h:708: warning: implicit declaration of function `mutex_unlock'make[2]: *** [/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.54-1.el4.rf/crt.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.54-1.el4.rf] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/praveen/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9' make: *** [modules] Error 2 -- We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge. -- Rutherford D. Roger ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] OT: Possible for Malware against Windows boxes to attack Firefox on Linux?
My belief is that this is not possible, but there are many extremely knowledgeable people participating on this list and I would like to know if it is in fact possible. I am running CentOS 5.3 (32 bit) fully updated. Browser is Mozilla Firefox v.3.0.7. I believe both times this happened, once yesterday and once today, I was surfing on the web site of my favorite singer/musical group; or in the forum, which is a highly restricted area. Today when it happened, I believe I was looking at a video coming from YouTube.com I contacted the webmaster, someone I communicate with frequently, thinking that something on one or more of his web pages is infected, but he wrote back, thinking that my box (dual boot MS Windows XP and CentOS on the same hard drive) is infected by this malware and that his web site is clean. Below is part of the description he sent me in an email. I have seen the pop ups, a request to install Install-2006-60.exe which I declined, etc. Comes from http://antispywarepcscanner.com Is there any way the Firefox web browser could have been corrupted by this, while using CentOS Linux? TIA! Lanny 16.04.2009 | Malware Type: Browser Hijackers Malware Description: Antispywarepcscanner.com appears to be another web pimp of the hazardous fake anti-spyware tool called Personal Antivirus. Do not get flattered by the seemingly decent-looking and pleasant design of Antispywarepcscanner.com website; the fact that it pushes rogue anti-spyware automatically makes this domain a fraudulent one. Besides, Antispywarepcscanner.com may act as an obsessive browser-hijacker that redirects your web-surfing to its URL without the slightest hint of your approval. The forced diverts to Antispywarepcscanner.com are explainable by the fact that these redirections are preceded by the intrusion of Zlob trojans that obscurely trespass on your PC and forcedly modify browser settings. When you hit Antispywarepcscanner.com, you will see either the misleading advertising of Personal Antivirus scareware, or witness the deceptive online scan performed by the above-mentioned rogue utility. No matter what tricks the fraudsters prepared for you on Antispywarepcscanner.com, do not believe a single thing you see on that site. The advertising misinformation praising Personal Antivirus is totally deceptive and ought to be ignored. The worst thing about Antispywarepcscanner.com is that you will keep getting redirected there until you do something about the malicious activity of the corresponding hijacker on your computer. So, you first and the most reasonable step should be Antispywarepcscanner.com hijacker removal. After that, you are strongly recommended to check your system for additional malware with the aid of a trustworthy automatic removal tool ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] [OT] rsa host key change
Anyone ever come across a linux server host key changing with out a reboot, sshd restart, change in negotiating (SSHv1, SSHv2), and different DNS name or IP address? I have a server on RHEL4.4 that changed its host key. Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 4) openssh-server-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.15 2.6.9-42.ELsmp uptime 944 days Started getting the eavesdropping message from a login that is supposed to login w/o a password. And always did before today. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] rsa host key change
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009, Ed Donahue wrote: Anyone ever come across a linux server host key changing with out a reboot, sshd restart, change in negotiating (SSHv1, SSHv2), and different DNS name or IP address? That would make me very suspicious that the box had been cracked, and that a foreign sshd had been substituted for the real one. rpm -V is your friend. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 DOS: n., A small annoying boot virus that causes random spontaneous system crashes, usually just before saving a massive project. Easily cured by UNIX. See also MS-DOS, IBM-DOS, DR-DOS. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] rt3 3.8.2 latest version as rpm for C5?
Jim, --- On Tue, 4/14/09, Jim Perrin jper...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jim Perrin jper...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] rt3 3.8.2 latest version as rpm for C5? To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 5:12 PM On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Rainer Traut tr...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I know, epel has rt3 in version 3.6.x. And - sadly - for version 3.8.x the perl module dependencies are way ahead of what I can find in epel or rpmforge. But we really need some of the 3.8.x series features. So has anybody maybe built those modules + rt3 v3.8.x for C5? Any hint? I started to run down this rabbit hole and had most of it built via mock and one of dag's cpan- rpm scripts. After a few rounds of builds, it became immediately apparent that some of the requirements directly conflict with the perl rpm shipped by centos and RHEL. Specifically the Encode bits required by RT 3.8 are much newer than what is provided in the centos perl rpm. I wasn't willing to do that level of replacement when building RT because I didn't need the feature sets in 3.8 and I wasn't aware of what else that might impact for other users. After trying for 2 hours, I ran into 3 brickwall-issues. Like you found, there are two base perl modules which require newer versions than that which comes with 5.3. These modules are File::Temp and Encode (core) cpan2rpm can package them OK, but there are fatal transaction check errors when installing. Mr. JV is the author of RT3 and DBIx::SearchBuilder. The SearchBuilder module also stopped me (briefly) with a dependency on DBD::Oracle. To grab this from CPAN requires the supporting Orable Libs. I altered the spec and removed any Oracle depends. These 3 issues were enough to cause me to give up. -- Mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf
[I saw this thread in the mailing list archives, but wasn't subscribed at the time, so sorry it's not a proper follow-up.] The symptoms you describe could be a side effect of being previously hit by http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2914 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447841. Those bug items describe workarounds. After you get mkinitrd upgraded to that in 5.3 the problem should go away, although you may have to manually fix up the results of the bad kernel install. Devin -- You live and learn. Or you don't live long. - Robert Heinlein ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: Possible for Malware against Windows boxes to attack Firefox on Linux?
Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: the forum, which is a highly restricted area. Today when it happened, what exactly is *it*? Install-2006-60.exe which I declined, etc. Comes from http://antispywarepcscanner.com Is there any way the Firefox web browser could have been corrupted by this, while using CentOS Linux? no. -- Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Ltd 021-295-1923www.knossos.net.nz signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: Possible for Malware against Windows boxes to attack Firefox on Linux?
Lanny Marcus wrote: My belief is that this is not possible, but there are many extremely knowledgeable people participating on this list and I would like to know if it is in fact possible. I am running CentOS 5.3 (32 bit) fully updated. Browser is Mozilla Firefox v.3.0.7. I believe both times this happened, once yesterday and once today, I was surfing on the web site of my favorite singer/musical group; or in the forum, which is a highly restricted area. Today when it happened, I believe I was looking at a video coming from YouTube.com I contacted the webmaster, someone I communicate with frequently, thinking that something on one or more of his web pages is infected, but he wrote back, thinking that my box (dual boot MS Windows XP and CentOS on the same hard drive) is infected by this malware and that his web site is clean. Below is part of the description he sent me in an email. I have seen the pop ups, a request to install Install-2006-60.exe which I declined, etc. Comes from http://antispywarepcscanner.com Is there any way the Firefox web browser could have been corrupted by this, while using CentOS Linux? TIA! Lanny My experience is that when browsing on any OS and you come across an error message stating that your computer is infected and you need to install such and such software, the web site I was visiting has an XSS exploit that was taken advantage of to try and get you to manually install a piece of malware. Install the FireFox extension noscript and be very careful about what domains you authorize scripting from. The fact that an XSS attack was able to give you a phony message means the same site could have XSS that reads your cookie and steals your session ID. Noscript reduces the odds of such attacks being succesful. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
