[CentOS] USB DVD drive disappearing during kickstart install.
Hi folks. I maintain a bunch of centos based machines that are built using a somewhat stripped down (limited number but mainly stock rpms) centos distro. The installation process is plain anaconda stuff with a kickstart file on the root of the DVD/iso. The current hardware and media i'm using is DVD based. On machines that have internal DVD drives (all IDE CD/DVD drives), everything is fine. However, I'm having a problem that started in 4.6 and continues in 4.7 on machines that don't have an internal DVD drive and therefore i must use a USB DVD drive. On these machines, everything goes ok in the beginning. The DVD is "seen" by the machine and boots fine, the isolinux screen comes up and i let the timeout go or i hit return to continue. Then, almost immediately thereafter, (when i should see the blue screen with text about loading drivers) i see the blue screen with the prompt for language. This is supposed to be a kickstart install, so at this point i know i'm hosed. If I use alt-f3 or alt-f4 (can't remember which one), i can see an error message saying that the usb-storage driver is loaded, but it cannot find any USB storage devices to read from. If i alt-f1 back to the main blue screen with the language prompt, i can go through the prompts for language, keyboard, however when i get to "install type", and select "usb cdrom" (i can't remember the text exactly...the machines are in the server room, and i'm at my desk ATM), it fails again. I can alt-f3 back to see that the same error about loading the usb-storage driver was successful but it can't find any attached usb storage device. Unfortunately, at this point, there's no shell yet available in alt-f2, so i can't poke around much). It seems like somehow, something is happening like the USB bus is being reset and it's "loosing" the usb devices and they can't be found anymore. Note that the original boot occurred of the DVD drive (i got past the isolinux screen), so it's at least working in the beginning to get that far. I had seen this problem occur a handful of times in the past in my same distro based on CentOS-4.5, however it was sporadic and was usually solved by changing the manufacturer of DVD drive (i thought it was a hardware vendor not implementing the USB spec properly since most devices worked...only a handful didn't). However, since moving to 4.6 and also in 4.7, this problem is completely repeatable with all USB DVD drives i have (granted it's only 3 different vendors/models, but they all don't work, whereas all 3 of these used to work in the 4.5 based distro). Also, as i stated earlier, on machines with internal DVD drives (IDE based), everything works fine. Has anyone seen anything like this? Do you have any suggestions to try? One thing i'm going to try is downloading the stock 4.7 DVD ISO and see if it fails. The download is taking a while, so i won't be able to report back on that test until tomorrow. Oh yeah, the machines i'm using that are having this problem are a Dell R200, Supermicro PDSMi, and Supermicro P4SC8. I don't have the DVD drive mfg and model numbers handy, i'll get those as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ...alex... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] USB DVD drive disappearing during kickstart install.
Alex Tang wrote: ... > Note that the original boot occurred of the DVD drive (i got past the > isolinux screen), so it's at least working in the beginning to get that > far. The first reading of the DVD is done by the bios, not the linux kernel. Can't you do a PXE based install? Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.crc.dk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] email and MS outlook
We use Microsoft Outlook heavy at school but our backed is CentOS. I use echo "Foo" | mail -s "subject" [EMAIL PROTECTED] a lot. Is it possible to change the priority to High so Outlook will understand it? The priority meaning the email will be sent to the normal email queue but on Outlook it would have the exclamation point. TIA ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] email and MS outlook
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We use Microsoft Outlook heavy at school but our backed is CentOS. I > use echo "Foo" | mail -s "subject" [EMAIL PROTECTED] a lot. Is it possible > to change the priority to High so Outlook will understand it? The > priority meaning the email will be sent to the normal email queue but > on Outlook it would have the exclamation point. > > TIA > ___ man mail will show you how to change the priority, sender, and much more :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] email and MS outlook
On 2008-09-18 12:05, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We use Microsoft Outlook heavy at school but our backed is CentOS. I use echo "Foo" | mail -s "subject" [EMAIL PROTECTED] a lot. Is it possible to change the priority to High so Outlook will understand it? The priority meaning the email will be sent to the normal email queue but on Outlook it would have the exclamation point. man mail will show you how to change the priority, sender, and much more :) $ man mail | grep -i priority | wc -l 0 $ rpm -q centos-release centos-release-5-2.el5.centos.x86_64 Actually, I think MS LookOut expects some header line indicating the priority. But added an arbitary header line is not possible using mail (or mailx). To add the required header, you would need to format the whole mail message, including all the standard required headers, plus the header line indicating a priority for displaying an exclamation mark in MS LookOut, and then sending that message of using "sendmail" itself. Or you could use some perl/python/php/ruby script that does all this for you. Mail/mailx/mail cannot add the header. But I'm open to learn something new... -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, ^^, * * F6, quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * *** ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Strange browser displays with 5.x on Dell GX-260
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 02:47 -0400, Dick Roth wrote: > > This was a clean install, however I kept my /home directory intact. The > rest of the partitions were reformatted. Try resetting all your preferences? Maybe a major format change in the control files under .mozilla directories? > > Dick > > HTH -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Re: [CentOS] Re: slow Perl on CentOS 5
On 27/08/2008, at 6:57 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: on 8-26-2008 2:08 PM Karanbir Singh spake the following: Akemi Yagi wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: If your Perl apps are unusually slow on CentOS 5, have a look at this blog: http://blog.vipul.net/2008/08/24/redhat-perl-what-a-tragedy/ Summary: The Upstream Vendor version of Perl has a patch to the "bless[]" function that makes it /extremely/ slow. Reliable info heard on the grapevine indicates 5.3 would have the fix's required. So that means about 6 months away from a fix? Unless upstream bundles a hotfix that is available for people... Such a hotfix was released in the last couple of days. A big moment for RHEL/CentOS + Perl users. :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] USB DVD drive disappearing during kickstart install.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Tang Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:28 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] USB DVD drive disappearing during kickstart install. Hi folks. I maintain a bunch of centos based machines that are built using a somewhat stripped down (limited number but mainly stock rpms) centos distro. The installation process is plain anaconda stuff with a kickstart file on the root of the DVD/iso. The current hardware and media i'm using is DVD based. On machines that have internal DVD drives (all IDE CD/DVD drives), everything is fine. However, I'm having a problem that started in 4.6 and continues in 4.7 on machines that don't have an internal DVD drive and therefore i must use a USB DVD drive. On these machines, everything goes ok in the beginning. The DVD is "seen" by the machine and boots fine, the isolinux screen comes up and i let the timeout go or i hit return to continue. Then, almost immediately thereafter, (when i should see the blue screen with text about loading drivers) i see the blue screen with the prompt for language. This is supposed to be a kickstart install, so at this point i know i'm hosed. If I use alt-f3 or alt-f4 (can't remember which one), i can see an error message saying that the usb-storage driver is loaded, but it cannot find any USB storage devices to read from. If i alt-f1 back to the main blue screen with the language prompt, i can go through the prompts for language, keyboard, however when i get to "install type", and select "usb cdrom" (i can't remember the text exactly...the machines are in the server room, and i'm at my desk ATM), it fails again. I can alt-f3 back to see that the same error about loading the usb-storage driver was successful but it can't find any attached usb storage device. Unfortunately, at this point, there's no shell yet available in alt-f2, so i can't poke around much). It seems like somehow, something is happening like the USB bus is being reset and it's "loosing" the usb devices and they can't be found anymore. Note that the original boot occurred of the DVD drive (i got past the isolinux screen), so it's at least working in the beginning to get that far. I had seen this problem occur a handful of times in the past in my same distro based on CentOS-4.5, however it was sporadic and was usually solved by changing the manufacturer of DVD drive (i thought it was a hardware vendor not implementing the USB spec properly since most devices worked...only a handful didn't). However, since moving to 4.6 and also in 4.7, this problem is completely repeatable with all USB DVD drives i have (granted it's only 3 different vendors/models, but they all don't work, whereas all 3 of these used to work in the 4.5 based distro). Also, as i stated earlier, on machines with internal DVD drives (IDE based), everything works fine. Thanks. ...alex... - JohnStanley Wrote: Alex, have you tried setting the USB Option in the BIOS to Autodetect between USB 1.0 and 2.0? That is if your machines BIOS supports that option. Plugable USB drives are nice additions but my opinion is there not so good at OS Installation, but don't get me wrong they are nice to boot a running centos install to repair an install on a broken machine.. What about doing a network install or VNC install from your desk? Good Luck, JohnStanley ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Missing 4.7 kernel update SRPMs ?
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 2:18 PM, R P Herrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Shad L. Lords wrote: James Pearson wrote: I can't find the kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL.src.rpm and kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.plus.c4.src.rpm on the download sites - the binary i386/x86_64 RPMS are there, but not the matching SRPMs There are actually quite a few missing sources: Please file bugs -- these are easy to address, but might lost in a mailing list context. Filed at bugs.centos.org: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3132 The kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL.src.rpm and kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.plus.c4.src.rpm SRPMS have now appeared Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] email and MS outlook
Mag Gam wrote: We use Microsoft Outlook heavy at school but our backed is CentOS. I use echo "Foo" | mail -s "subject" [EMAIL PROTECTED] a lot. Is it possible to change the priority to High so Outlook will understand it? The priority meaning the email will be sent to the normal email queue but on Outlook it would have the exclamation point. Maybe just a stupid idea . . . If it is just a header thing, as it's been suggested, I would try procmail. Your command would be something like echo "Foo" | mail -s "subject:real_recipient" [EMAIL PROTECTED] The procmail script for the highpriority account would add in the necessary header, pull real_recipient out of subject & forward it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Toby Bluhm Alltech Medical Systems America, Inc. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] USB DVD drive disappearing during kickstart install.
Mogens Kjaer wrote: Alex Tang wrote: ... Note that the original boot occurred of the DVD drive (i got past the isolinux screen), so it's at least working in the beginning to get that far. The first reading of the DVD is done by the bios, not the linux kernel. OK, i didn't know that. Can't you do a PXE based install? Unfortunately, no. i can't. I sometimes have to do this at places where i don't have the network infrastructure to do a pxe boot. Thanks Mogens. Any other ideas. :) ...alex... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] USB DVD drive disappearing during kickstart install.
Thanks John. I'll check the BIOS on these machines. Unfortunately, i need the DVD based setup to work because sometimes i have to do this at odd places where i don't have the network infrastructure to do PXE boots. What i'm confused about is that i didn't have these problems (well, mostly) in the the 4.5 based distro (and a 3.x based distro from a while back...but that was using CDs instead of DVDs). It's only since moving to 4.6 and 4.7 that i'm seeing this consistently. Any other ideas? Thanks again. ...alex... John wrote: JohnStanley Wrote: Alex, have you tried setting the USB Option in the BIOS to Autodetect between USB 1.0 and 2.0? That is if your machines BIOS supports that option. Plugable USB drives are nice additions but my opinion is there not so good at OS Installation, but don't get me wrong they are nice to boot a running centos install to repair an install on a broken machine.. What about doing a network install or VNC install from your desk? Good Luck, JohnStanley ___ 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
[CentOS] Security Guide for CentOS/RHEL
Is there a step by step approach to securing CentOS 4X (or even RHEL 4X)? I don't mean the stuff in the docs/security guide but a working step by step guide? There used to be packages like rkhunter and tripwire but I don't know if the ones in rpmforge/kbs repo are up to date. Thanks, Josh. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] USB DVD drive disappearing during kickstart install.
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Alex Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks John. > > I'll check the BIOS on these machines. Unfortunately, i need the DVD based > setup to work because sometimes i have to do this at odd places where i > don't have the network infrastructure to do PXE boots. > What i'm confused about is that i didn't have these problems (well, mostly) > in the the 4.5 based distro (and a 3.x based distro from a while back...but > that was using CDs instead of DVDs). It's only since moving to 4.6 and 4.7 > that i'm seeing this consistently. > Any other ideas? Maybe this is a bad idea, but can you at this point in the kickstart, unplug/replug the USB DVD drive or cycle power to the USB DVD drive to maybe 'force' the kernel to detect it? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Security Guide for CentOS/RHEL
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Josh Donovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a step by step approach to securing CentOS 4X (or even RHEL 4X)? I > don't mean the stuff in the docs/security guide but a working step by step > guide? There used to be packages like rkhunter and tripwire but I don't know > if the ones in rpmforge/kbs repo are up to date. The NSA has security guides online, including for RHEL. It seems only RHEL 5 it seems, but I presume a lot of stuff from it can be used for RHEL/C 4. Regards, Tim -- Tim Verhoeven - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 0479 / 88 11 83 Hoping the problem magically goes away by ignoring it is the "microsoft approach to programming" and should never be allowed. (Linus Torvalds) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS on Eee PC 1000H
Sven wrote: Hi folks Anybody running CentOS on Eee PC 1000H? In CentOS wiki[0] there is a draft about Eee PC 900 from Fabian Arrotin. Does the same howto work for Eee PC 1000H? Oups, it seems i didn't see that post, sorry for the delay AFAIK the Eee PC 1000 doesn't use the same NIC/Wireless nic than in the 900 .. but i can't confirm except if you send me one ;-) I'm still discussing with other CentOS folks to see how we can easily host the RPMS for the atl2 kmod and the patched madwifi RPMS ... Maybe i can at least create a temporary repo to hold them and that repo can be used during setup so that everything works on the first reboot after installation (i mean wired nic and wireless) ... If you have already linux installed on the 1000H, can you have a look at the modules being used and lspci/lspci -v and report that to me ? Thanks -- - Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..." ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] USB DVD drive disappearing during kickstart install.
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:35:14AM -0400, Bob Beers wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Alex Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks John. > > > > I'll check the BIOS on these machines. Unfortunately, i need the DVD based > > setup to work because sometimes i have to do this at odd places where i > > don't have the network infrastructure to do PXE boots. > > What i'm confused about is that i didn't have these problems (well, mostly) > > in the the 4.5 based distro (and a 3.x based distro from a while back...but > > that was using CDs instead of DVDs). It's only since moving to 4.6 and 4.7 > > that i'm seeing this consistently. > > Any other ideas? > > Maybe this is a bad idea, but can you at this point in the kickstart, > unplug/replug the USB DVD drive > or cycle power to the USB DVD drive > to maybe 'force' the kernel to detect it? http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2155 could be related (usb plug/unplug). Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B pgp4el5Zx6IAF.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Security Guide for CentOS/RHEL
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:31 +, Josh Donovan wrote: > Is there a step by step approach to securing CentOS 4X (or even RHEL > 4X)? I don't mean the stuff in the docs/security guide but a working > step by step guide? There used to be packages like rkhunter and > tripwire but I don't know if the ones in rpmforge/kbs repo are up to > date. > For rkhunter, as far as I can remember, the Fedora 8/9 packages are upto date, so you could download one of those from a mirror and install it. Personally, I install rkhunter from source, but you can build an RPM from the source tarball if you want (the source includes an RPM spec file). Latest version is 1.3.2. John. -- --- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Security Guide for CentOS/RHEL
Tim Verhoeven wrote: > The NSA has security guides online, including for RHEL. It seems only > RHEL 5 it seems, but I presume a lot of stuff from it can be used for > RHEL/C 4. The NSA guide (rhel5-guide-i731.pdf) looks like a good starting point. Thanks, Josh. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Missing 4.7 kernel update SRPMs ?
James Pearson wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 2:18 PM, R P Herrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Shad L. Lords wrote: James Pearson wrote: I can't find the kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL.src.rpm and kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.plus.c4.src.rpm on the download sites - the binary i386/x86_64 RPMS are there, but not the matching SRPMs There are actually quite a few missing sources: Please file bugs -- these are easy to address, but might lost in a mailing list context. Filed at bugs.centos.org: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3132 The kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL.src.rpm and kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.plus.c4.src.rpm SRPMS have now appeared WRT kmod files, the ones out there are the ones used to build the modules ... we are not putting the exact same SRPM with just the kernel version changed on there. IF I actually change the SRPM, I will put up the new SRPM for kmod files. Thanks, Johnny Hughes signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Security Guide for CentOS/RHEL
John Horne wrote: > For rkhunter, as far as I can remember, the Fedora 8/9 packages are upto > date, so you could download one of those from a mirror and install it. > Personally, I install rkhunter from source, but you can build an RPM > from the source tarball if you want (the source includes an RPM spec > file). Latest version is 1.3.2. I haven't looked at Fedora for a long time but what is in the EPEL? i.e. http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora-epel/4AS/i386/ There seems to be an rkhunter updated in Sep 2008 is that for RHEL4 AS? Will the Fedora SRPMS (tripwire, rkhunter) for Fedora 8/9 rebuild without wanting a ton of stuff updated? Thanks, Josh. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Security Guide for CentOS/RHEL
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Josh Donovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Horne wrote: > >> For rkhunter, as far as I can remember, the Fedora 8/9 packages are upto >> date, so you could download one of those from a mirror and install it. >> Personally, I install rkhunter from source, but you can build an RPM >> from the source tarball if you want (the source includes an RPM spec >> file). Latest version is 1.3.2. > > I haven't looked at Fedora for a long time but what is in the EPEL? > i.e. http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora-epel/4AS/i386/ > There seems to be an rkhunter updated in Sep 2008 is that for RHEL4 AS? > > Will the Fedora SRPMS (tripwire, rkhunter) for Fedora 8/9 rebuild without > wanting a ton of stuff updated? For CentOS5, I'd recommend using aide instead of tripwire. The two do pretty much the same thing, but aide comes with centos5 by default (and is recommended in the NSA guide) -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Security Guide for CentOS/RHEL
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 15:31 +, Josh Donovan wrote: > John Horne wrote: > > > For rkhunter, as far as I can remember, the Fedora 8/9 packages are upto > > date, so you could download one of those from a mirror and install it. > > Personally, I install rkhunter from source, but you can build an RPM > > from the source tarball if you want (the source includes an RPM spec > > file). Latest version is 1.3.2. > > I haven't looked at Fedora for a long time but what is in the EPEL? > EPEL=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL > > i.e. http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora-epel/4AS/i386/ > There seems to be an rkhunter updated in Sep 2008 is that for RHEL4 AS? > Well it seems to be the 1.3.2 version, so I would say it is good. RKH (rkhunter) is very generic, so it should work under any (at least most!) versions of Unix and Linux (regardless of whether they are RHEL WS, ES or AS). > Will the Fedora SRPMS (tripwire, rkhunter) for Fedora 8/9 rebuild > without wanting a ton of stuff updated? > RKH only requires a couple of basic packages - typically just a downloader like 'wget' and 'perl'. As someone has already suggested, I would use something like aide or samhain instead of tripwire. John. -- --- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] cron job not working
--- On Wed, 9/17/08, Al Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Al Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] cron job not working > To: "CentOS mailing list" > Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 9:26 AM > > Probably a permissions problem, as has been noted. What > I can't > > understand is how the problem came to be so > complicated. This, > > run as a root cron job, will produce the desired > directory: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > mkdir -p /ora-local/db-test-backups/`date > +%Y"_"%m"_"%d` > > > > ...without the adjustments in the perl script. AAMOF, > it's even > > simpler if you can tolerate hyphen separators rather > than > > underscores. (date +%F) > > I'll give that a shot. Note that I have not been > running this as root > (though crond is running as root). > > Most of the time, if it's a permissions problem, crond > will send an > email telling me it's a permissions problem. > === Al It was a file permission problem. But crond wasn't telling me. Thanks for the help. === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] virt-install -L
So what does the "location" one gives virt-install point to? Ideally, what directory on the Centos 5.2 DVD should it point to? Or should it point to the ISO image? Or what? I'm getting tired of trying things at random, and the documentation really doesn't tell me anything beyond that it should be a directory (because it says two different files should be there). -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] email and MS outlook
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:32:20 +0200 Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mail/mailx/mail cannot add the header. This can: http://www.cleancode.org/projects/email -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Strange ! characters inserted into emails
I have never encountered anything like this before, so thought I'd post here and see if anyone can help. We have a java application that sends out notification emails to end-users. The body of the email is some boilerplate text and HTML that is pulled from a database. When the emails are received there are random instances of " !" (that's a space and a bang symbol) inserted into the email in various locations. For example a sentence that is supposed to read like this: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. ends up looking like this: The quick b !rown fox jumped over the laz !y dog. We combed through the source text and didn't find any unusual characters in the body of the text. Somehow these bang symbols are being inserted after the mail is handed off to sendmail. Does anyone have an idea how I can troubleshoot this further? Or maybe you've seen something similar in your environment? thanks Sean ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Security Guide for CentOS/RHEL
On Thursday 18 September 2008 16:35, Jim Perrin wrote: > > For CentOS5, I'd recommend using aide instead of tripwire. The two do > pretty much the same thing, but aide comes with centos5 by default > (and is recommended in the NSA guide) aide is now provided in 4.7 as well. Regards Nick. --- Nick Goddard. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] How to create a virtual bonded interface?
Hello,
I have a server with 4 NICS running CentOS 5.2. I have bonded the
interfaces together such that 'bond0' consists of eth0-3. This is not a
problem, and works fine.
However, I now need to create a virtual interface. In a non-bonded
server I would just create something like eth0:1, but with a bonded
interface I am a bit confused. I have created bond0:1 simple by copying
the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0 file, calling it
'bond0:1' and setting the DEVICE appropriately. Then I ran 'ifup
bond0:1'. The interface came up, and seems to be working okay. I have
not tested yet if the bonding failover works with bond0:1 because I am
doing this remotely at the moment. Tomorrow I should be able to test
that.
My question is, is creating a virtual bonded interface that simple or
have I missed something? Have I done this the right way, or should I
instead have created a second bonded interface ('bond1') and made it
consist of eth0:1, eth1:1, eth2:1 and eth3:1? Admittedly this would have
involved about 8 or so interfaces in total for the server! Secondly, I
added nothing to the /etc/modprobe.conf file. Should I have added
anything like 'alias bond0:1 bonding'? I also did not add any static
routes, yet if I use 'ping' to send packets out through the virtual IP
address ping says it is doing so (so again it all seems to be working).
My concern is that while it seems to be fine at the moment, and even
after rebooting, I may have missed something that will cause it to fail
at some point.
For info, 'ifconfig' output shows:
=
bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet addr:141.163.yy.a Bcast:141.163.yy.yy
Mask:255.255.255.224
inet6 addr: abcd::abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd/64
Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500
Metric:1
RX packets:88468 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
TX packets:59486 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:80654540 (76.9 MiB) TX bytes:5847688 (5.5
MiB)
bond0:1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet addr:141.163.yy.b Bcast:141.163.yy.yy
Mask:255.255.255.224
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
=
The 'netstat -rn' output shows:
=
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
141.163.yy.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.224 U 0 0 0 bond0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 bond0
0.0.0.0 141.163.yy.30 0.0.0.0UG 0 0 0 bond0
=
Shouldn't 'bond0:1' appear there somewhere?
Anyone notice if I missed anything?
Thanks,
John.
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Re: [CentOS] How to create a virtual bonded interface?
John Horne wrote: > Hello, > > I have a server with 4 NICS running CentOS 5.2. I have bonded the > interfaces together such that 'bond0' consists of eth0-3. This is not a > problem, and works fine. That is fine, just be sure not to have the bonding specific things in the sub interface, just have the IP/subnet/device name (bond0:1 etc). > For info, 'ifconfig' output shows: > > = > bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Somehow I doubt ifconfig reports your MAC address as xx:xx:xx.. You do realize that your MAC address is useless outside of your local layer 2 subnet right. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-September/064541.html nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] USB DVD drive disappearing during kickstart install.
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Alex Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems like somehow, something is happening like the USB bus is being > reset and it's "loosing" the usb devices and they can't be found anymore. While, strictly speaking, this may be true, I'm pretty sure it's not what you meant, and I've seen this enough times that I just have to say: "loose" [looss] - a condition opposite that of "tight;" improperly fastened or closed; unattached (and, in this sense, potentially correct). "lose" [looz] - to misplace so as not to be able to find it, as in, 'it's "losing" the usb devices and they can't be found any more.' There - got that off my chest! And, now, back to our regularly scheduled emails mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] using NOPASSWD in sudoers
Hello Everyone, I am trying to change our /etc/sudoers (using visudo) to allow 2 commands to be run as root without a password, but it isn't working. Here is the part of the sudoers file that is in question. # User alias specification User_Alias FULLACCESS = doug, scott # members of the FULLACCESS User_Alias may run chown and chmod without a password FULLACCESS ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /bin/chown, /bin/chmod # members of the FULLACCESS User_Alias may run anything but need a password FULLACCESS ALL=(root) ALL The part for requiring a password works, but not the NOPASSWD line. I have tried changing the order of these lines with no change in behavior. After each change to the sudoers file, I am logging out of the machine and logging back in to make sure that it is properly reading the changes. I have also replaced the list of commands with a Cmnd_Alias, with no change in behavior. Any thoughts or suggestions about what I am missing. -- Doug Registered Linux User #285548 (http://counter.li.org) Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. -- Steve Wozniak ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How to create a virtual bonded interface?
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 10:36 -0700, nate wrote: > John Horne wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a server with 4 NICS running CentOS 5.2. I have bonded the > > interfaces together such that 'bond0' consists of eth0-3. This is not a > > problem, and works fine. > > That is fine, just be sure not to have the bonding specific > things in the sub interface, just have the IP/subnet/device name > (bond0:1 etc). > Yup. Thanks. > > For info, 'ifconfig' output shows: > > > > = > > bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx > > Somehow I doubt ifconfig reports your MAC address as xx:xx:xx.. > > You do realize that your MAC address is useless outside of your > local layer 2 subnet right. > Yeah, old habit I guess :-) John. -- --- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Strange ! characters inserted into emails
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Carolan Sent: Donnerstag, 18. September 2008 18:30 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Strange ! characters inserted into emails The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. ends up looking like this: The quick b !rown fox jumped over the laz !y dog. ... --- Are the e-mails corrupted the exact same way each time? IOW, does the above example always arrive as " The quick b !rown fox jumped over the laz !y dog." even if you send it 10 times? You might want to save the e-mail to disk and use a hex editor to see if there are unprintable characters in there. -geoff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] link speed
Is there a command line way to tell me whether a ethernet connection is 100 BaseT or Gigabit Ethernet? Craig ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] link speed
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a command line way to tell me whether a ethernet connection is > 100 BaseT or Gigabit Ethernet? ethtool? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] link speed
> Is there a command line way to tell me whether a ethernet connection is > 100 BaseT or Gigabit Ethernet? mii-diag mii-tool ethtool -- rgds Stephen ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] link speed
Craig White írta: Is there a command line way to tell me whether a ethernet connection is 100 BaseT or Gigabit Ethernet? mii-tool t ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] link speed
> Craig White írta: > > Is there a command line way to tell me whether a ethernet > connection is > > 100 BaseT or Gigabit Ethernet? > > mii-tool My experience with mii-tool on CentOS4 and 5 is that it won't show link speed above 100 even if it is. If the OP is trying to differentiate 100 vs. 1000, then I would suggest using ethtool instead. -John ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] link speed
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 15:05 -0400, John Kordash wrote: > > Craig White írta: > > > Is there a command line way to tell me whether a ethernet > > connection is > > > 100 BaseT or Gigabit Ethernet? > > > > mii-tool > > > My experience with mii-tool on CentOS4 and 5 is that it won't show link speed > above 100 even if it is. If the OP is trying to differentiate 100 vs. 1000, > then I would suggest using ethtool instead. yup...mii-tool didn't report what I wanted... # mii-tool eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok eth1: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok but ethtool did... # ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: d Current message level: 0x00ff (255) Link detected: yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] kbenedetto]# ethtool eth1 Settings for eth1: Supported ports: [ MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: d Current message level: 0x00ff (255) Link detected: yes Thanks Craig ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Strange browser displays with 5.x on Dell GX-260
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:22 AM, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 02:47 -0400, Dick Roth wrote: >> > >> This was a clean install, however I kept my /home directory intact. The >> rest of the partitions were reformatted. > > Try resetting all your preferences? Maybe a major format change in the > control files under .mozilla directories? When you launched Mozilla Firefox the first time, I suspect that it created a new .mozilla directory in /home and wiped out your old one. Have you tried to "yum remove firefox" and then "yum install firefox" to see if the issues stop or continue? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Strange ! characters inserted into emails
on 9-18-2008 9:29 AM Sean Carolan spake the following: I have never encountered anything like this before, so thought I'd post here and see if anyone can help. We have a java application that sends out notification emails to end-users. The body of the email is some boilerplate text and HTML that is pulled from a database. When the emails are received there are random instances of " !" (that's a space and a bang symbol) inserted into the email in various locations. For example a sentence that is supposed to read like this: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. ends up looking like this: The quick b !rown fox jumped over the laz !y dog. We combed through the source text and didn't find any unusual characters in the body of the text. Somehow these bang symbols are being inserted after the mail is handed off to sendmail. Does anyone have an idea how I can troubleshoot this further? Or maybe you've seen something similar in your environment? thanks Sean Is it text based mail, or HTML? I have seen things like this during base64 or quoted printable encoding on some HTML mails from Outlook. If it is encoding, the bangs should repeat in a fairly repeatable pattern. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: link speed
on 9-18-2008 12:37 PM Craig White spake the following: On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 15:05 -0400, John Kordash wrote: Craig White írta: Is there a command line way to tell me whether a ethernet connection is 100 BaseT or Gigabit Ethernet? mii-tool My experience with mii-tool on CentOS4 and 5 is that it won't show link speed above 100 even if it is. If the OP is trying to differentiate 100 vs. 1000, then I would suggest using ethtool instead. yup...mii-tool didn't report what I wanted... # mii-tool eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok eth1: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok but ethtool did... mii-tool was written before such links existed. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Network issues with CentOS 5.2
I am totally new to using CentOS. Linux in Genera really. I have decent experiencing with terminal code for Macs though. Here's the deal my Boss wants us to move more toward linux for some of our basic users. All I was supposed to do was install CentOS 5.2 and Open Office and disburse the machines. Simple enough right. So I did this with no issue. I ran the interface and installed only GNOME and KDE. After installation was complete I activated the eth-0 and had it on DHCP. I connected to the net fine and began downloading open office. I left for the day and came back and I can no longer get back online. The eth-0 wont even activate unless I manually enter a static IP but still can not establish a connection online. I treid reinstalling to no avail. Even built a completely new box and still no avail. I am using CentOS 5.2 i386 DVD. Like I said I am new to this so any guidance would be appreciated to get me into the Linux world. Thank you. -- Jose Mendez Computer Resource Specialist University of California, San Diego ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Squirrelmail not indexing messages correctly
Hi, I have a Centos 5.2 server with sendmail/dovecot/squirrelmail. One of my users is complaining that some messages are not appearing in the message list. After a quick check I found the message in the /cur directory but this messge does not appear in the message list in the expected order. I can access the message if I check the page X or I use the search. The strange part is that most messages appear ordered by the date but this (and others) does not. I've removed the dovecot* in the Maildir with no luck. Any ideas? Name: squirrelmail Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 1.4.8 Vendor: CentOS Release : 4.0.1.el5.centos.2Build Date: Sat 17 Nov 2007 11:28:32 PM AMT Bellow one example of the stat of two messages. The one with modify time 09:28 appears ordered and the other that came later 19:15 does not. File: `/home/user/Maildir/cur/1221744507.8075_0.mail:2,S' Size: 17332 Blocks: 40 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 1602h/5634dInode: 9169256 Links: 1 Access: (0600/-rw---) Uid: ( 505/ wander) Gid: ( 12/mail) Access: 2008-09-18 19:16:30.0 -0400 Modify: 2008-09-18 09:28:27.0 -0400 Change: 2008-09-18 10:35:27.0 -0400 File: `/home/user/Maildir/cur/1221775184.14421_0.mail:2,S' Size: 195841Blocks: 392IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 1602h/5634dInode: 9169266 Links: 1 Access: (0600/-rw---) Uid: ( 505/ wander) Gid: ( 12/mail) Access: 2008-09-18 19:15:29.0 -0400 Modify: 2008-09-18 17:59:44.0 -0400 Change: 2008-09-18 19:10:56.0 -0400 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 16:31 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 17:48 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 14:32 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > > > Ric Moore wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:41 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >> One request that I got more often lately is Google Picasa. I vaguely > > > >> remember having downloaded and installed it once. As far as I know, > > > >> it's > > > >> a closed-source Windows app that comes with a WINE emulation layer. > > > >> Not > > > >> exactly the open source spirit. > > > >> > > > > > > > > I just bounced into my Kubuntu install to check, as they have everything > > > > but the kitchen sink to dnload and install. Nada ...came up empty there. > > > > Looks like no hope for anything in binary form to install that is used > > > > in the wide Debian Universe. :( Ric > > > > > > > > > > http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ubuntu704.html > > > http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html > > > > That worked like a charm. I am impressed that Google has this. Thanks! > > google is one of the biggest supporters of Linux, you shouldn't be > surprised at all. No, I wrote impressed. I didn't know that Picasa was a google thing. I used it before, when I had a static IP and website. I just never put it into my head that it was Google's. :) Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ https://nuoar.dev.java.net/ Verizon Cell # 336-254-1339 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 20:58 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 16:31 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 17:48 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 14:32 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > > > > Ric Moore wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:41 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> One request that I got more often lately is Google Picasa. I vaguely > > > > >> remember having downloaded and installed it once. As far as I know, > > > > >> it's > > > > >> a closed-source Windows app that comes with a WINE emulation layer. > > > > >> Not > > > > >> exactly the open source spirit. > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > I just bounced into my Kubuntu install to check, as they have > > > > > everything > > > > > but the kitchen sink to dnload and install. Nada ...came up empty > > > > > there. > > > > > Looks like no hope for anything in binary form to install that is used > > > > > in the wide Debian Universe. :( Ric > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ubuntu704.html > > > > http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html > > > > > > That worked like a charm. I am impressed that Google has this. Thanks! > > > > google is one of the biggest supporters of Linux, you shouldn't be > > surprised at all. > No, I wrote impressed. I didn't know that Picasa was a google thing. I > used it before, when I had a static IP and website. I just never put it > into my head that it was Google's. :) Ric as far as I know, the only way to get Picasa is to download it from Google Craig ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Strange ! characters inserted into emails
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Sean Carolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have never encountered anything like this before, so thought I'd post > here and see if anyone can help. > > We have a java application that sends out notification emails to > end-users. The body of the email is some boilerplate text and HTML that is > pulled from a database. When the emails are received there are random > instances of " !" (that's a space and a bang symbol) inserted into the email > in various locations. For example a sentence that is supposed to read like > this: > > The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. > > ends up looking like this: > > The quick b !rown fox jumped over the laz !y dog. > > We combed through the source text and didn't find any unusual characters in > the body of the text. Somehow these bang symbols are being inserted after > the mail is handed off to sendmail. Does anyone have an idea how I can > troubleshoot this further? Or maybe you've seen something similar in your > environment? > > thanks > > Sean > > I have seen this before when the email was generated by a program and being sent through sendmail as the MTA. As I remember, there is a line length limit in an SMTP stream. And if sendmail sees a line longer than a certain number of characters it will insert a "!\n" sequence in the stream. I forget whether a receiving sendmail would remove that sequence, but I think not. What it means is that the application is most likely not encoding the email message properly. If there is going to be a long line, the message would need to be encoded in base64 or quoted-printable. Those will allow the message to be transmitted without those extra exclamation marks. Do a google search for "sendmail exclamation mark" and you'll find several posts about it. DavidE ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Strange ! characters inserted into emails
Sean Carolan wrote: > I have never encountered anything like this before, so thought I'd post > here and see if anyone can help. > > We have a java application that sends out notification emails to > end-users. The body of the email is some boilerplate text and HTML that > is pulled from a database. When the emails are received there are > random instances of " !" (that's a space and a bang symbol) inserted > into the email in various locations. For example a sentence that is > supposed to read like this: > > The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. > > ends up looking like this: > > The quick b !rown fox jumped over the laz !y dog. > > We combed through the source text and didn't find any unusual characters > in the body of the text. Somehow these bang symbols are being inserted > after the mail is handed off to sendmail. Does anyone have an idea how > I can troubleshoot this further? Or maybe you've seen something similar > in your environment? I can save you a lot of trouble, you are sending more than 2040+ characters (almost 2048) without a newline. I resolved this in my send2blogger program (it's perl). See: http://www.linuxha.com/other/send2blogger/index.html It Perl but I think I did a good job of explaining it in the code. I hope this helps. Oh, it's GPL I should put that up there. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Network issues with CentOS 5.2
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Joey Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am totally new to using CentOS. Linux in Genera really. I have decent > experiencing with terminal code for Macs though. Jose: Welcome! > Here's the deal my Boss wants us to move more toward linux for some of our > basic users. All I was supposed to do was install CentOS 5.2 and Open Office > and disburse the machines. Simple enough right. So I did this with no issue. > I ran the interface and installed only GNOME and KDE. After installation was > complete I activated the eth-0 and had it on DHCP. I connected to the net > fine and began downloading open office. I left for the day and came back and > I can no longer get back online. The eth-0 wont even activate unless I > manually enter a static IP but still can not establish a connection online. > I treid reinstalling to no avail. Even built a completely new box and still > no avail. I am using CentOS 5.2 i386 DVD. > > Like I said I am new to this so any guidance would be appreciated to get me > into the Linux world. Thank you. Linux is based on UNIX and networking started there. Networking will work for you! I normally install both GNOME and KDE, but 99% of the time, I use GNOME. When I install from a DVD, I install the majority of Applications and Systems things I want at that time. Then, in a Terminal Window (as root), do "yum update" to update everything to the latest version, for Security and Stability reasons. In GNOME, at the lower left hand corner, click on System > Administration >Network and enter the password for root (the super user). That brings you to a GUI utility called system-config-network Be sure that eth0 is shown as "Active" and then highlight it and click on "Edit". Be sure that "Activate Device when computer starts is checked". And, "Automatically obtain IP with DHCP". And, Automatically obtain DNS. A book I can recommend to you, would be the edition that covers Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, of "Red Hat Fedora and Enterprise Linux Bible" by Christopher Negus. I'm sure that there are other excellent books, but this one will explain a lot to you. I think the version that covers RHEL 5 (CentOS is a rebuild of RHEL) is "Fedora 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bible", however you need to verify that, before you buy it, because I have an older version of the book. Please note that much of the book is about Fedora Core. Red Hat Enterprise Linux takes the best of Fedora Core and is a much more stable distribution, without the "latest and greatest". So, the book will help you with CentOS, because CentOS is a rebuild of RHEL. HTH, Lanny in Colombia ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 20:58 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: >> > > > >> One request that I got more often lately is Google Picasa. I vaguely >> > > > >> remember having downloaded and installed it once. As far as I know, >> > > > >> it's >> > > > >> a closed-source Windows app that comes with a WINE emulation layer. >> > > > >> Not >> > > > >> exactly the open source spirit. >> > > > http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ubuntu704.html >> > > > http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html >> > > >> > > That worked like a charm. I am impressed that Google has this. Thanks! >> > >> > google is one of the biggest supporters of Linux, you shouldn't be >> > surprised at all. > > as far as I know, the only way to get Picasa is to download it from > Google I can't remember if I got Picasa with yum from the Google Repository, or somewhere else on their web site. This is from /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo/ [google] name=Google - $basearch baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 priority=20 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Regd: Ethernet Channel Bonding Clarification is Needed
I don't know if it impacts on the cluster config, but I had problems recently with links in my bonding interfaces going down because of some hotplug interference. The solution was to add HOTPLUG=no to /etc/sysconfig/network Might be worth a try. John. Balaji wrote: Dear All, Please ignore my previous mail I have using CentOS 4.4 Linux and Kernel Version is 2.6.9-42.EL I have configured Cluster Suite with 2 servers Server 1 : 192.168.13.110 IP Address and hostname is primary Server 2 : 192.168.13.179 IP Address and hostname is secondary Floating : 192.168.13.83 IP Address (Assumed by currently active server) I have configured Ethernet Channel Bonding in Each Cluster Nodes and Channel Bonding Configuration Details are 1) Created bonding devices in "/etc/modprobe.conf" filealias bond0 bonding options bonding miimon=100 mode=1 2) Edit the "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1" configuration DEVICE=eth0 USERCTL= no ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes BOOTPROTO=none DEVICE=eth1 USERCTL= no ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes BOOTPROTO=none 3) Created a network script for the bonding device is "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0" DEVICE=bond0 USERCTL=no ONBOOT=yes NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=192.168.13.1 IPADDR=192.168.13.110 4) Reboot the system for the changes to take effect. After i am rebooted both the server then cluster node becomes simplex and Services are started on both the nodes The cluster output in primary node Member Status: Quorate Member Name Status --- - primary Online, Local, rgmanager secondary Offline Service Name Owner (Last) State Service primarystarted The cluster output in secondary node Member Status: Quorate Member Name Status --- - primary Offline secondary Online, Local, rgmanager Service Name Owner (Last) State -- Service secondary started Before Ethernet Channel Bonding cluster services are active in one node and other nodes acts as passive node. But after Ethernet Channel Bonding cluster services are active on both the nodes I don't know what is the problem and is their any configuration is required in cluster configuration file and cman is working only with eth0 interface Can some one throw light on this peculiar problem Regards -S.Balaji ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- John Newbigin ITS Senior Analyst / Programmer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
