Re: [CentOS] fix firefox?

[Paul Bijnens]

Indeed.  All ok again now.
Even faster support than upstream -:)

Thanks


On 2008-09-25 19:14, Karanbir Singh wrote:

Paul Bijnens wrote:

  yum install firefox.i386

it pulls in xulrunner as well, but two different versions for two 
different

architectures (???):


My mistake. I did fix it immediately, but it takes 30 min or so for the 
changes to filter through.


What happened :

the xulrunner and xulrunner-devel multilib pkgset missed the update, and 
the metadata update got run from the script. I realised it immediate and 
reran the script - but by that time the first set of mirrors had already 
done the sync ( it takes about 10 min for the script to run ).


Give it an hour, then try again - it should work as expected.

I've also put in a check to make sure this does not happen again.

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[CentOS] Set up Acer laptop web cam on CentOS 5.2

[hce]

Hi,

I am running CentOS 5.2 on Acer laptop Aspire 5920 with a built in Web
Cam. Anyone know how to set up and running the web cam on CentOS 5.2?
I can run the VLC to view the video.

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[CentOS] USB to SATA / eSATA adapter compatibility

[Rudi Ahlers]

Hi all,

Does anyone know if this  USB to SATA / e-SATA adapter will work on Linux?

http://www.vantecusa.com/front/product/view_detail/266

Their website and knowledgebase doesn't say anything about it, so I'm
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Re: [CentOS] SIze of reformatted USB drive

[William L. Maltby]

On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 07:50 +0530, partha chowdhury wrote:
> William L. Maltby wrote:
> 
> > Yes, for the reasons the others posted. However, if you know the
> > "profile" of what you'll have on there, a substantial amount of space
> > can be recovered by 1) make sure you have large block size and 2)
> > reducing the i-nodes allocated to suit.
> > 
> > Do a little thinking before you make these adjustments. I've used these
> > (along with the reducing root-reserved) for years w/o problems. But if
> > you get too radical and/or miss the reality with your profile
> > substantially, you'll be in a "rework" scenario.
> > 
> >> 
> > 
> 
> i just used the tune2fs command to recover space on my secondary drive. 
> Afterwards i unmounted the drive and ran a e2fsck -f . No error 
> was reported. Actually i used the tune2fs when the device was mounted so 
> i just became paranoid. now the e2fsck reported no error does that mean 
> my filesystem is still intact and no potential harm has been done ?

Assuming you only used the -m or -r features, s/b OK. I *think*
(un)setting the sparse feature also is OK.

> 
> when i remount the drive and run df -h i see an extra 6G of free space.
> 
> does e2fsck also check for data corruption or data integrity ?

No. It only handles file system structure issues. Free counts, multiple
links to the same block, directory consistency, etc.
> 
> William, can you please tell in details if more space can be recovered 
> by using your two options and lastly is tweaking the default options of 
> file system a good thing or bad thing ?

First, be sure to "man mke2fs" or "info mke2fs". Now, I only do the two
things I mentioned: reduce reserved space and reduce i-nodes. Many
things related to fragment size, etc. are just two esoteric and risky
for a TDU (Typical Dumb User) like me. And the risk of severely
increased maintenance effort increases the further you wander from a
base install.

Up front there are a few things to do. Get a record of how the current
file system was constructed by running "tune2fs -l " and a
"mke2fs -n  " (assuming
that a default mke2fs was run or you know the parameters you used when
originally making the FS. Make sure you DON'T FORGET THE -n!

Run a "df" and "df -i" on the FS. Get a count of files (for large FS
with lots of files we won't worry about whether a "file" is really a
symlink or hardlink - s/b minimal impact) and a distribution of file
sizes in the FS. The "find" command with various parameters is useful
for this.

Use all this to determine how many i-nodes you really want to have,
allowing for FS activity (growth, shrinkage, "peak" size requirement
periods, ...), "average" file size (I prefer to use the middle 80%
median), and add a fudge factor of some %. The larger your "average"
file size relative to the number of files, the fewer i-nodes you need.

Then use the "-N" with mke2fs to specify number of i-nodes. Mke2fs will
automatically adjust the i-node-to-blocks ratio. THIS WILL DESTROY
WHATEVER IS ON THE FS! Use another partition or have excellent, tested
backup and recovery routines in place.

As mentioned, there is more tuning that can be done but I haven't found
the need (or, unusual for me, the interest) to dig deeper and play with
those items. I don't like high-maintenance women or systems!  ;-)

That's about it. Good luck and hoped this helped.

> 

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Re: [CentOS] Set up Acer laptop web cam on CentOS 5.2

[partha chowdhury]

hce wrote:

Hi,

I am running CentOS 5.2 on Acer laptop Aspire 5920 with a built in Web
Cam. Anyone know how to set up and running the web cam on CentOS 5.2?
I can run the VLC to view the video.

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   3. CESA-2008:0885 Important CentOS 5 i386 kernel Update
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:09:01 +0100
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Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0879 Critical CentOS 5 i386
firefox Update
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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0879 Critical

Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0879.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently 
syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) 

i386:
3b3715628761b69ba56ac5048df2dd85  devhelp-0.12-19.el5.i386.rpm
bbe15acc25c68fbfefa2ad5425dd41ec  devhelp-devel-0.12-19.el5.i386.rpm
eb50b46a6c7b04c28d84134b889c53d9  firefox-3.0.2-3.el5.centos.i386.rpm
2b5ddea020e8b3756fcd0796ce83453a  nss-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm
8c4e86d8542fac2508701e9a90296a15  nss-devel-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm
73c0a03d46ff601bec767c3ba6500522  
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm
b07d95abd704d0ae35f8b2d1c9ae00fd  nss-tools-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm
e4319021dd3504ce33d91e2227799054  xulrunner-1.9.0.2-5.el5.i386.rpm
24c47321a523f8af6463ba92bdc0fef0  xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.2-5.el5.i386.rpm
0e6fe52441b895c63e36c8ef0b4276d9  
xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.2-5.el5.i386.rpm
536c8b33c5d7dee4abe8bcbef75263ae  yelp-2.16.0-21.el5.i386.rpm

Source:
9c3a276993490bb4d950624db1d9cd80  devhelp-0.12-19.el5.src.rpm
f7d4d7d45a743f3fd689dc3184822832  firefox-3.0.2-3.el5.centos.src.rpm
03915f1dc871973dc9c01192c80aad65  nss-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.src.rpm
5f43770a10fe5160458291861a98e2bd  xulrunner-1.9.0.2-5.el5.src.rpm
84a081674ec2989da9602861f0e409ed  yelp-2.16.0-21.el5.src.rpm


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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:09:02 +0100
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Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0879 Critical CentOS 5 x86_64
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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0879 Critical

Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0879.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently 
syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) 

x86_64:
3a5fdacc5f98e86985759e88a7af3caa  devhelp-0.12-19.el5.i386.rpm
a2ebd1959eb1c69b524191409dd71c69  devhelp-0.12-19.el5.x86_64.rpm
91caea52eeccc74ec515c89e2ac7ca89  devhelp-devel-0.12-19.el5.i386.rpm
d405ead46ecbee89d18fc2abaa6e58cd  devhelp-devel-0.12-19.el5.x86_64.rpm
a5e8c97ebf1509fc323b8b83368b2bf8  firefox-3.0.2-3.el5.centos.i386.rpm
c5301abfb19354312c1c6909a05c02b3  firefox-3.0.2-3.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm
30bd2ca54357da4223fd8eca908df761  nss-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm
03b5494015fbee2b4e36a76c677d5897  nss-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm
3f34de5f2051853b2114729f02300ba5  nss-devel-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm
82f7ac4e71274edf83530301bba24b94  nss-devel-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm
6065393717a4821c69381751beee06c3  
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm
fb819d996a72617dd7d35583892280a1  
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm
1c5b884fef901cbab2d524b1dc21848a  nss-tools-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm
62b674569afeb4c3eced2c911f7fa801  xulrunner-1.9.0.2-5.el5.x86_64.rpm
222f3bffcedde2c34c4531c78f64b575  xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.2-5.el5.x86_64.rpm
4c17721dd49ec88116afa83a7154ec17  
xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.2-5.el5.x86_64.rpm
96523479b5bc377ddd0720b3d84c65ad  yelp-2.16.0-21.el5.x86_64.rpm

Source:
9c3a276993490bb4d950624db1d9cd80  devhelp-0.12-19.el5.src.rpm
f7d4d7d45a743f3fd689dc3184822832  firefox-3.0.2-3.el5.centos.src.rpm
03915f1dc871973dc9c01192c80aad65  nss-3.12.1.1-1.el5.centos.1.src.rpm
5f43770a10fe5160458291861a98e2bd  xulrunner-1.9.0.2-5.el5.src.rpm
84a081674ec2989da9602861f0e409ed  yelp-2.16.0-21.el5.src.rpm


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Re: [CentOS] USB to SATA / eSATA adapter compatibility

[partha chowdhury]

Rudi Ahlers wrote:

Hi all,

Does anyone know if this  USB to SATA / e-SATA adapter will work on Linux?

http://www.vantecusa.com/front/product/view_detail/266

Their website and knowledgebase doesn't say anything about it, so I'm
checking the list to try my luck :)

i believe it should  - i have one pata to usb and another sata to usb 
hard drive which work fine in centos.

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Re: [CentOS] USB to SATA / eSATA adapter compatibility

[Barry Brimer]

Does anyone know if this  USB to SATA / e-SATA adapter will work on Linux?

http://www.vantecusa.com/front/product/view_detail/266


I don't know if this one does, but I have been using this one with CentOS 
and it works well:




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Re: [CentOS] Implementing LVS changes made in Piranha GUI

[David Dyer-Bennet]

On Thu, September 25, 2008 16:43, Barry Brimer wrote:

> By service check, I mean the send or send program line which "expects" the
> result of the "expect" line to determine that the service is "up".

Okay, I guessed about right on that.


> IME, ipvsadm does not show a host (even at startup) until it is successful
> from the send/send program / expect tests.

Good design, just not what I immediately guessed.

I have found and fixed the problem with getting to the realservers, and am
now happily distributing hundreds of thousands of requests across 4
realservers on two physical hosts, using two different operating systems. 
We'll call this a success.  (Which means I've about completed the first
phase of testing; second phase will be with workloads actually related to
our intended goal.  And after that, implementation!)

Thanks for your help!

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Re: [CentOS] "Treason uncloaked!"

[Chris Boyd]

On Sep 25, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Frank Cox wrote:


John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

they come from random IPs all over the place.   further, the port  
they
are sent to is a shoutcast service port, so I can't exactly block  
that.


A place to start:

http://www.cymru.com/Documents/bogon-list.html


If you decide to block bogons, you MUST check back often to see what  
changes have been made to the list.  I've had hundreds of  
conversations with clueless ISPs and admins about their out of date  
lists.


Many ISPs and colocation shops already drop bogons in any case.

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[CentOS] Re: SIze of reformatted USB drive

[Scott Silva]

on 9-25-2008 4:58 PM William L. Maltby spake the following:

On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 19:31 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

I just reformatted an 8Gb USB drive as ext3.

While as FAT32, it was reported as having well over 7Gb free (did not 
note the exact capacity).


I reformatted with mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1

Now it is reported (oh, this is with properties in Nautilus) as having 
6.8Gb capacity (free space actually).


Does this makes sense that ext3 has less available space than fat32?


Yes, for the reasons the others posted. However, if you know the
"profile" of what you'll have on there, a substantial amount of space
can be recovered by 1) make sure you have large block size and 2)
reducing the i-nodes allocated to suit.

Do a little thinking before you make these adjustments. I've used these
(along with the reducing root-reserved) for years w/o problems. But if
you get too radical and/or miss the reality with your profile
substantially, you'll be in a "rework" scenario.





Also, depending on the makeup of the fat32 partition it would develop a lot of 
slack space (space taken up by the slack in the clusters).


So although fat32 looked like it had more space when empty, it would probably 
fill up slightly faster.


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Re: [CentOS] DKIM

[Kai Schaetzl]

Bill Campbell wrote on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:46:54 -0700:

> We are on the AOL feedback,

I once was. However, it became evident after a while that a lot of their 
"spam" was not spam, was not deemed by their customer to be spam (I 
contacted several of them) or was not originating from our servers. It 
became just a waste of time.

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Re: [CentOS] DKIM

[Kai Schaetzl]

Mouss wrote on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:20:09 +0200:

> oh please no. hotmail don't delete my mail and I don't have an SPF 
> record. no do yahoo/gmail. and this was before I implemented DKIM. and 
> I've recently worked for a project where SPF didn't help with hotmail

Well, then they have some other obscure reason to silently delete all mail 
from me to my daughter's Hotmail account. I thought it might be the 
missing SPF record on that specific domain I used. Their support is not 
able to tell the reason.

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Re: [CentOS] DKIM

[Frank Cox]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:31:13 +0200
Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Well, then they have some other obscure reason to silently delete all mail 
> from me to my daughter's Hotmail account.

I have found hotmail to be about the least reliable of the free webmail
providers in terms of actually getting email through to their users.  I think I
average maybe 25% of sent email that actually arrives when the destination is
hotmail.com -- the rest is usually silently dropped, though I occasionally get a
"mailbox is unavailable" bounce message.

"Avoid hotmail" is the best solution.  I've given up on hotmail users and
pretty much ignore it.  If you're using hotmail and you need to get in touch
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Re: [CentOS] DKIM

[mouss]

Kai Schaetzl wrote:

Mouss wrote on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:20:09 +0200:

oh please no. hotmail don't delete my mail and I don't have an SPF 
record. no do yahoo/gmail. and this was before I implemented DKIM. and 
I've recently worked for a project where SPF didn't help with hotmail


Well, then they have some other obscure reason to silently delete all mail 
from me to my daughter's Hotmail account. I thought it might be the 
missing SPF record on that specific domain I used. Their support is not 
able to tell the reason.





like all the gorillas, they have complex filtering mechanisms, mostly 
based on "reputation". among the freemail trilogy (gmail, yahoo, hotmail):


- gmail is more or less "workable". in short, they have better filtering 
mechanisms in the sense that if you don't have too much problems in your 
network, you can get your mail delivered provided you do some 
(reasonable) efforts.


- yahoo are lost in space. their filters probably block a lot of junk, 
but they also block a lot of legitimate mail, and it's hard to get 
around this. but at least, they either block you at smtp time or file 
your mail to a junk folder.


- hotmail is the worst. they simply discard mail. This is not 
surprising, because MS has never showed any "attachment' to standards. 
they still believe that they are the gods on earth and they can discard 
your mail "frivoulously" (to use the RFC term).


in short, if your business targets freemail users, it's time to review 
your target or your business. or do whatever you want, but accept this: 
"we" will not be able to help you. it's their server and their slaves. 
you can't talk to the kids if the parents don't agree.

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[CentOS] cpufreq and suspend

[Robert Moskowitz]

With my OQO, I get the following message when I try to suspend:

cpufreq: suspend failed to assert current frequency is what timing core 
thinks it is.


I see in /var/log/messages:

kernel: acpi-cpufreq: CPU0 - ACPI performance management activated

There are a number of apps and such dedicated to 'cpufreq' on the system.

I have done a bit of searching and have not figured out what to do to 
address this so I can put the OQOs into suppend mode.


Any pointers out there?


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[CentOS] No sound through system speaker on OQO

[Robert Moskowitz]

The OQO has the VIA HDA controller and I can listen to music via the 
headphone jack (need to try out USB headphone and BT head phone still).


I get system beeps from the system speaker, but no music.

The Audio Configuration gnome module reports that the snd-hda-intel 
module is being used .  The Default PCM device is teh STAC92xx Analog, 
and the also libs and utils are being used.


Can I get sound out the system speaker?  There was a discussion about 
sound problems on the eeePC 1000H a bit ago:




But at the moment I'm stuck on the audio card. The system seems to
detect it happily enough as Intel HDA, with a Realtek ALC269 chip, but
there's no sound. I'm sure I've hit a similar problem in the past with
the snd-hda-intel driver - I think it's a matter of figuring out the
right value for the "model=..." parameter. Has anyone else got this to
work?
I don't see where this 'model=' is to 'play' with it as others in the 
1000H thread talked about.  Perhaps since at least I am getting sounds 
through the headset jack, that is not where my challenge is.


Any pointers on this?


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Re: [CentOS] cpufreq and suspend

[MHR]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With my OQO, I get the following message when I try to suspend:
>
> cpufreq: suspend failed to assert current frequency is what timing core
> thinks it is.
>
> I see in /var/log/messages:
>
> kernel: acpi-cpufreq: CPU0 - ACPI performance management activated
>
> There are a number of apps and such dedicated to 'cpufreq' on the system.
>
> I have done a bit of searching and have not figured out what to do to
> address this so I can put the OQOs into suppend mode.
>
> Any pointers out there?
>

Have you tried booting with noacpi?

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