Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

[Ralph Angenendt]

MHR wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:25 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Like this:
> >
> > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> > elevater=deadline
> >
> 
> The above should be all on one line.

And my dictionary tells me that it should be elevator.

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Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

[John]

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 10:40 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> MHR wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:25 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Like this:
> > >
> > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> > > elevater=deadline
> > >
> > 
> > The above should be all on one line.
> 
> And my dictionary tells me that it should be elevator.

Mine gives me elevate instead of elevator! F7 in Evolution. Maybe I need to 
train it more. "or" is right though

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Re: [CentOS] pop3 attack

[Kai Schaetzl]

sos.net.nz>

Spiro Harvey wrote on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:56:04 +1300:

> 3: what if he has a bunch of milters or related programs that rely on
> sendmail? are they all available for postfix? what needs to be changed
> to match his current environment? have you thought about that? has
> anyone asked James that before recommending he changes his software?

He should know about his system. It was valid advice by Toby and the OP 
can use it or not. He's possibly got a brain. Apparently you think he 
doesn't. There was no need to react that snappy.

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Re: [CentOS] bind specific ip address to iscsi target

[Fabian Arrotin]

carlopmart wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  I have setup a centos5.2 server (full updated) to serve iscsi disks 
> using scsi-target-utils package. This server has two network adapters, 
> one for remote administration and another to serve iscsi disk. How can I 
> bind iscsi target service to only one ip address??
> 
> Many thanks.

I don't think that the actual tgtd can do that .. but i have also two 
nics on my iscsi target server and they use different lan anyway : one 
for management/host access and the other (in a separate vlan) for the 
iscsi traffic between hosts and targets

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[CentOS] PHP5 on CentOS4.7?

[Rudi Ahlers]

Hi all,

Does anyone know if CentOS 4.7 will support PHP5 natively? I have
searched centos.org site, but can't see anything related to this?

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Re: [CentOS] bind specific ip address to iscsi target

[carlopmart]

Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> carlopmart wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>  I have setup a centos5.2 server (full updated) to serve iscsi disks 
>> using scsi-target-utils package. This server has two network adapters, 
>> one for remote administration and another to serve iscsi disk. How can I 
>> bind iscsi target service to only one ip address??
>>
>> Many thanks.
> 
> I don't think that the actual tgtd can do that .. but i have also two 
> nics on my iscsi target server and they use different lan anyway : one 
> for management/host access and the other (in a separate vlan) for the 
> iscsi traffic between hosts and targets
> 
Thanks fabian, then I will use iptables rules to restrict access to only one IP.


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Re: [CentOS] PHP5 on CentOS4.7?

[Ralph Angenendt]

Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone know if CentOS 4.7 will support PHP5 natively? I have
> searched centos.org site, but can't see anything related to this?

You mean other than the php5 in the centosplus repository?



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Re: [CentOS] PHP5 on CentOS4.7?

[Kai Schaetzl]

Rudi Ahlers wrote on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:18:43 +0200:

> Does anyone know if CentOS 4.7 will support PHP5 natively?

Of course, it will not.

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Re: [CentOS] pop3 attack

[James Pifer]

> I think all the masquerade options are causing your problems. Just set the
> proper smarthost and restore the other options to what they were and then 
> test.
> 
> 

Scott, 

Thanks, removing the masquerade options did fix it. I'm back to using
smarthost instead of mailertable. Thanks.

Also, thanks to everyone that responded. 

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[CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

[Lanny Marcus]

Last night, a visitor was using my daughters box and she was using
mine. The web site she was on wanted Adobe Flash or a newer version of
Adobe Flash. At that moment, I forgot that I have the Adobe Yum
Repository installed. I downloaded the .rpm file from Adobe and when I
tried to install it, got a message that a later version is already
installed. First thought was the other thread, about Firefox and Adobe
for .pdf files. Is this a glitch in the latest version of Firefox we
are now using? My box is fully updated. In Add Ons, for Plug Ins, I
see Shockwave Flash v. 9.0 r124 and the rest is Mplayer stuff. TIA
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[CentOS] Any way to reduce CPU use of OpenSSH?

[Steve Snyder]

On my CentOS v5.2 server (dual Pentium4) the OpenSSH daemon stands out 
as being the most CPU-intensive of the applications running, It's used 
176 minutes of CPU time in the last 2 days alone.

Is there any way to lower the CPU utilization without compromising 
security? (I.e. without using a less processor-intensive 
encrypt/decrypt algorithm?)

I'm getting the CPU use figures from top, so there no fine-grained info 
on exactly what code is taking so much time.  I'm assuming that the 
bulk of the time is spent in the OpenSSL libraries.

Is there some hardware add-on or processor-specific optimization that 
would reduce the CPU load incurred by OpenSSH?

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Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

[William L. Maltby]

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 09:24 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
> Last night, a visitor was using my daughters box and she was using
> mine. The web site she was on wanted Adobe Flash or a newer version of
> Adobe Flash. At that moment, I forgot that I have the Adobe Yum
> Repository installed. I downloaded the .rpm file from Adobe and when I
> tried to install it, got a message that a later version is already
> installed. First thought was the other thread, about Firefox and Adobe
> for .pdf files. Is this a glitch in the latest version of Firefox we
> are now using? My box is fully updated. In Add Ons, for Plug Ins, I
> see Shockwave Flash v. 9.0 r124 and the rest is Mplayer stuff. TIA

On my 5.2 CentOS, pluginreg.dat has this.

Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12

And

$ rpm -qa | grep flash
flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release

> 

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Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

[Lanny Marcus]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:46 AM, William L. Maltby
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> are now using? My box is fully updated. In Add Ons, for Plug Ins, I
>> see Shockwave Flash v. 9.0 r124 and the rest is Mplayer stuff. TIA
>
> On my 5.2 CentOS, pluginreg.dat has this.
>
> Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12

Bill: Mine has this:

[PLUGINS]
/home/lanny/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so:$
:$
118229226:1:13:$
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48:$
Shockwave Flash:$
2
0:application/x-shockwave-flash:Shockwave Flash:swf:$
1:application/futuresplash:FutureSplash Player:spl:$
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so:$

> $ rpm -qa | grep flash
> flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release

Here's mine:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa | grep flash
flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-2.el5.rf

You have been looking into the Adobe .pdf issue with Firefox during
the past few days.
Do you think this problem with Flash might be related to that? Or, do
I have something screwed up on my box? TIA, Lanny
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Re: [CentOS] Any way to reduce CPU use of OpenSSH?

[Brett Serkez]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Steve Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On my CentOS v5.2 server (dual Pentium4) the OpenSSH daemon stands out
> as being the most CPU-intensive of the applications running, It's used
> 176 minutes of CPU time in the last 2 days alone.

Can you tell us more about how your system is used, especially in
regard to ssh?  Are there many logins?  Is X forwarding used?

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Re: [CentOS] pop3 attack [SOLVED]

[Scott Silva]

on 12-11-2008 4:43 AM James Pifer spake the following:
>> I think all the masquerade options are causing your problems. Just set the
>> proper smarthost and restore the other options to what they were and then 
>> test.
>>
>>
> 
> Scott, 
> 
> Thanks, removing the masquerade options did fix it. I'm back to using
> smarthost instead of mailertable. Thanks.
> 
> Also, thanks to everyone that responded. 
> 
> James
The masquerading options are for a different purpose.
I'm glad you got it sorted out.

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Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

[William L. Maltby]

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 11:10 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:46 AM, William L. Maltby
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >> are now using? My box is fully updated. In Add Ons, for Plug Ins, I
> >> see Shockwave Flash v. 9.0 r124 and the rest is Mplayer stuff. TIA
> >
> > On my 5.2 CentOS, pluginreg.dat has this.
> >
> > Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12
> 
> Bill: Mine has this:
> 
> [PLUGINS]
> /home/lanny/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so:$
> :$
> 118229226:1:13:$
> Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48:$
> Shockwave Flash:$
> 2
> 0:application/x-shockwave-flash:Shockwave Flash:swf:$
> 1:application/futuresplash:FutureSplash Player:spl:$
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so:$

I think you should dump that old version (if you're CentOS 5.x?) and get
it updated to the 10.2 Why your plkuginreg.dat has 9 while your rpm
shows 10.x, I couldn't guess.

However, mine is wrapped.

1228591673000:1:1:$
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12:$
Shockwave Flash:$
2
0:application/x-shockwave-flash:Shockwave Flash:swf:$
1:application/futuresplash:FutureSplash Player:spl:$
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_32.nppdf.so:$

> 
> > $ rpm -qa | grep flash
> > flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release
> 
> Here's mine:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa | grep flash
> flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-2.el5.rf

Your's is from rpmforge now. I don't have experience with it, so I can't
offer if that's the problem. Mine came from the adobe site, installed
flawlessly and worked OOTB (Out Of The Box).

With both having the same rel/ver, I'm not sure what's different about
the rpmforge version.

> 
> You have been looking into the Adobe .pdf issue with Firefox during
> the past few days.
> Do you think this problem with Flash might be related to that? Or, do
> I have something screwed up on my box? TIA, Lanny

Well, ATM, all I know is that the pluginreg.dat has a version that
doesn't match what rpm shows. I would get those consistent first. If it
were me (being comfortable with "risky behavior"), I'd uninstall the
rpm, make sure plugins don't include it anymore (if not, we'll have to
think since it says "don't edit") and re-install. Rpmforge is probably
OK, but the adobe site would also be OK AFAICT from my experience.

> 

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Re: [CentOS] PHP5 on CentOS4.7?

[Scott Silva]

on 12-11-2008 4:16 AM Ralph Angenendt spake the following:
> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Does anyone know if CentOS 4.7 will support PHP5 natively? I have
>> searched centos.org site, but can't see anything related to this?
> 
> You mean other than the php5 in the centosplus repository?
> 
> 
> 
Is php a package that will cause problems with the system like a python
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Re: [CentOS] Upgrading to Centos 4.7 on HP DL580G5 caused problems

[Dr R L Oswald]

nate wrote:

  Dr Les Oswald wrote:

  
  
Googling revealed many different scenarios with this boot error message,
some suggesting a memory error - Oh Joy, these two machines have 64GB
RAM each.

  
  
Login to the ILO and checked the integrated management log for
errors? It does sound like a hardware issue.

  

Forgot to reply on this one & had a query from user since - fixed
by simply reverting to previous kernel. No further problems. In
conclude that its been caused by kernel upgrade and was unlikely to be
hardware as both nodes were affected instantly after applying the
upgrade.

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[CentOS] wine 1.1.10 rpm for centos

[dnk]

has anyone come across a wine 1.1.10 RPM? Searching all the usual  
places.

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Re: [CentOS] Any way to reduce CPU use of OpenSSH?

[Steve Snyder]

The traffic is a combination of tunneled VNC (to Win2K), tunneled Remote 
Desktop (to WinXP), and interactive command line (to Linux) sessions.

For the first two types (VNC & RD), the image data is compressed before 
entering the encrypted tunnel.  For the last traffic type there are a 
lot of small packets, owning to the nature of keyboard activity.

Thanks.


On Thursday 11 December 2008 11:17:13 am Brett Serkez wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Steve Snyder 
 wrote:
> > On my CentOS v5.2 server (dual Pentium4) the OpenSSH daemon stands
> > out as being the most CPU-intensive of the applications running,
> > It's used 176 minutes of CPU time in the last 2 days alone.
>
> Can you tell us more about how your system is used, especially in
> regard to ssh?  Are there many logins?  Is X forwarding used?
>
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Re: [CentOS] PHP5 on CentOS4.7?

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Scott Silva  wrote:
> on 12-11-2008 4:16 AM Ralph Angenendt spake the following:
>> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if CentOS 4.7 will support PHP5 natively? I have
>>> searched centos.org site, but can't see anything related to this?
>>
>> You mean other than the php5 in the centosplus repository?
>>
>> 
>>
> Is php a package that will cause problems with the system like a python
> upgrade will?

No. php5 is provided as part of the Webstack package.  It just has to
be properly configured by following the guide here:

http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CentOSPlus/CentOSWebStack

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Re: [CentOS] wine 1.1.10 rpm for centos

[Phil Schaffner]

dnk wrote:
> has anyone come across a wine 1.1.10 RPM? Searching all the usual  
> places.

Even Fedora 10 updates is only at 1.1.9 - seems unlikely.  One could try 
to build the rawhide version:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/wine-1.1.10-1.fc11.src.rpm

By the time you satisfied all the dependencies I expect you'd have 
something closer to rawhide than CentOS.

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Re: [CentOS] wine 1.1.10 rpm for centos

[Ralph Angenendt]

Phil Schaffner wrote:
> By the time you satisfied all the dependencies I expect you'd have 
> something closer to rawhide than CentOS.

Well, you cannot have both - Country *and* Western.

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[CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

[MHR]

I am running CentOS 5/2 (latest updates) with the GNOME DE on a 32-bit
machine (at work).

I have k3b installed, and I was trying to copy a DVD earlier this
morning, but k3b said it couldn't read encrypted DVDs.

So, I installed libdvdcss from rpmforge and restarted k3b.  It hung
the system.  I rebooted, and / had been damaged.  After running e2fsck
from the repair prompt, I rebooted and a whole slew of errors
revolving around various /var directories that did not ecist occurred.

I have been trying to repair /var, and so far with a fair modicum of
success, but I've hit an interesting wall - two, actually.

1) The gdm refuses to come up.  It claims that "Server Authorization
directory (daemon/ServAuthDir) is set to /var/gdm, but this does not
exist"

However:

# ll -d /var/gdm
drwxrwx--T 2 root gdm 4096 Dec 11 10:31 /var/gdm
# ll /var/gdm
total 8
-rw-r- 1 root root 45 Nov 26 10:47 :0.Xauth
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63 Dec 11 09:14 :0.Xservers

This is identical to my backup system (which is not surprising - I set
up the dir and copied the files from here - was that a bad idea?).

2) The following daemons fail to start: auditd, NFS statd, avahi and
HAL.  I've tried to pin down why the avahi daemon won't start because
it keeps logging permissions errors trying to create the pid file
/var/run/avahi-daemon//pid, but the setup of /var /var/run and
/var/run/avahi-daemon are all identical to this (backup) machine.  Any
suggestions?

Or is there a better, more comprehensive repair facility available?

BTW, OT: Does anyone know why this might have happened?  I have all
this installed at home, no problems whatsoever (libdvdcss works
seamlessly with all my DVD tools, including k3b).

Thanks!

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Re: [CentOS] Any way to reduce CPU use of OpenSSH?

[Scott Silva]

on 12-11-2008 10:08 AM Steve Snyder spake the following:
> The traffic is a combination of tunneled VNC (to Win2K), tunneled Remote 
> Desktop (to WinXP), and interactive command line (to Linux) sessions.
> 
> For the first two types (VNC & RD), the image data is compressed before 
> entering the encrypted tunnel.  For the last traffic type there are a 
> lot of small packets, owning to the nature of keyboard activity.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
Do you have ssh also trying to compress the tunnel with the already compressed
packets?
That could add to the CPU time trying to compress twice.

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Re: [CentOS] wine 1.1.10 rpm for centos

[dnk]

yehaw???

Compile it is then!

d



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>> something closer to rawhide than CentOS.
>
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Re: [CentOS] Any way to reduce CPU use of OpenSSH?

[Karanbir Singh]

Steve Snyder wrote:
> Is there any way to lower the CPU utilization without compromising 
> security? (I.e. without using a less processor-intensive 

There is always the HPN SSH patch set...

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Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

[Robert Nichols]

MHR wrote:
> I am running CentOS 5/2 (latest updates) with the GNOME DE on a 32-bit
> machine (at work).
> 
> I have k3b installed, and I was trying to copy a DVD earlier this
> morning, but k3b said it couldn't read encrypted DVDs.
> 
> So, I installed libdvdcss from rpmforge and restarted k3b.  It hung
> the system.  I rebooted, and / had been damaged.  After running e2fsck
> from the repair prompt, I rebooted and a whole slew of errors
> revolving around various /var directories that did not ecist occurred.
> 
> I have been trying to repair /var, and so far with a fair modicum of
> success, but I've hit an interesting wall - two, actually.
> 
> 1) The gdm refuses to come up.  It claims that "Server Authorization
> directory (daemon/ServAuthDir) is set to /var/gdm, but this does not
> exist"
> 
> However:
> 
> # ll -d /var/gdm
> drwxrwx--T 2 root gdm 4096 Dec 11 10:31 /var/gdm
> # ll /var/gdm
> total 8
> -rw-r- 1 root root 45 Nov 26 10:47 :0.Xauth
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63 Dec 11 09:14 :0.Xservers

A common cause of failures like that is damaged directory permissions
near the top of the filesystem hierarchy, often as a result of
unpacking a tar archive into the root directory.

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[CentOS] Combining active-backup and round-robbin network bonding

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I want to set up two servers as a active-active HA cluster. Both servers
have four Gbit NICs. Besides an unmanaged Gbit switch for the cluster
communication (connected with eth0) I have two managed Gbit switches to
which the servers and the clients will be attached.

My idea was to use the following setup:

switch2--eth1--bond1--
   |
switch1--eth2  |
   |   |
   bond0
   |
switch1--eth3

This is for server1. Server2 should have two links with switch2 and one
with switch1 instead. Switch1 and switch2 have a 3x1GBit 802.3ad trunk
as switch interconnect.

bond0 should be balance-rr (mode 0) to have load balancing and fault
tolerance on switch2. The primary use is to double the capacity of the
Gbit link.

bond1 should be active-passive (mode 1) with bond0 as primary interface.
This should guarantee availability of server1 to the workstations
attached to switch2 in case switch1 fails.

Both modes work fine as long as I use ethX-devices.

According to /proc/net/bonding/bond0 I can bring bond0 up (MII Status:
up), but in /proc/net/bonding/bond1 I can not bring the slave interface
bond0 up. The "Permantent HW addr" is 00:00:00:00:00:00 no matter if I
specify a MAC in ifcfg-bond0 or not.

ifconfig bond0 shows the MAC of eth1 as HWaddr and the device as "UP
BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MASTER MULTICAST".

I use ARP for link monitoring, because MII monitoring seemed not
reliable with my hardware (Broadcom BCM5708 + Intel 82571EB NICs and
3com 3848 + 4500G switches) on CentOS 5.2 (2.6.18-92.1.18.el5xen).

How can I activate bond0 to work in the way I intended?
Is such a setup impossible (i.e. to enslave bond-interfaces)?
Is there a different/better way of doing what I want?

Thanks in advance!

Timm
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Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

[Lanny Marcus]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Robert Nichols
 wrote:
> MHR wrote:
>> I am running CentOS 5/2 (latest updates) with the GNOME DE on a 32-bit
>> machine (at work).
>>
>> I have k3b installed, and I was trying to copy a DVD earlier this
>> morning, but k3b said it couldn't read encrypted DVDs.
>>
>> So, I installed libdvdcss from rpmforge and restarted k3b.  It hung

> A common cause of failures like that is damaged directory permissions
> near the top of the filesystem hierarchy, often as a result of
> unpacking a tar archive into the root directory.

Mark: If you trace it back to the libdvdcss package from rpmforge,
notify them about it. Strange that it works OK for you at home and you
hosed your Workstation at work, but that's Murphy's Law. Good luck
getting it working! Possibly try this again, under VMWare, when you
are relaxed and want to see if it can be recreated. Lanny
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Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

[Lanny Marcus]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:58 AM, William L. Maltby
 wrote:

> I think you should dump that old version (if you're CentOS 5.x?) and get
> it updated to the 10.2 Why your plkuginreg.dat has 9 while your rpm
> shows 10.x, I couldn't guess.
>
> However, mine is wrapped.
>
> 1228591673000:1:1:$
> Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12:$
> Shockwave Flash:$
> 2
> 0:application/x-shockwave-flash:Shockwave Flash:swf:$
> 1:application/futuresplash:FutureSplash Player:spl:$
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_32.nppdf.so:$
>
>> > $ rpm -qa | grep flash
>> > flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release
>>
>> Here's mine:
>>
>> [la...@dell2400 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep flash
>> flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-2.el5.rf
>
> Your's is from rpmforge now. I don't have experience with it, so I can't
> offer if that's the problem. Mine came from the adobe site, installed
> flawlessly and worked OOTB (Out Of The Box).
>
> With both having the same rel/ver, I'm not sure what's different about
> the rpmforge version.
>
>> You have been looking into the Adobe .pdf issue with Firefox during
>> the past few days.
>> Do you think this problem with Flash might be related to that? Or, do
>> I have something screwed up on my box? TIA, Lanny
>
> Well, ATM, all I know is that the pluginreg.dat has a version that
> doesn't match what rpm shows. I would get those consistent first. If it
> were me (being comfortable with "risky behavior"), I'd uninstall the
> rpm, make sure plugins don't include it anymore (if not, we'll have to
> think since it says "don't edit") and re-install. Rpmforge is probably
> OK, but the adobe site would also be OK AFAICT from my experience.
>

Thank you for all of your ideas and suggestions. I will  try to
resolve this, hopefully tomorrow and I will let you know, if I got it
to work properly or not. Yes, it's a CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) box.
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Re: [CentOS] PHP5 on CentOS4.7?

[Vandaman]

Rudi Ahlers wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone know if CentOS 4.7 will support PHP5 natively?
> I have
> searched centos.org site, but can't see anything
> related to this?
> 

Are you completely new to CentOS and are unaware of where 
to look for stuff 
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/centosplus/i386/RPMS/

Even "yum search foo" will yield results from a default CentOS 
4 install (assuming CentOS Plus is enabled in the default install).

Regards,
Vandaman.


  

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Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

[MHR]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Lanny Marcus  wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Robert Nichols
>  wrote:
> 
>> A common cause of failures like that is damaged directory permissions
>> near the top of the filesystem hierarchy, often as a result of
>> unpacking a tar archive into the root directory.

Hm - well, _I_ never do that, and I rather doubt that yum did, either,
but I suppose that would depend on what's in libdvdcss.  I find it
hard to believe that it wasn't something else more subtle with k3b,
but, again, who knows?

> Mark: If you trace it back to the libdvdcss package from rpmforge,
> notify them about it. Strange that it works OK for you at home and you
> hosed your Workstation at work, but that's Murphy's Law. Good luck
> getting it working! Possibly try this again, under VMWare, when you
> are relaxed and want to see if it can be recreated. Lanny

1) I did ask on the rpmforge list.  Waiting to hear back from there, too.

2) I am just now beginning to really appreciate virtualization.
Still, past experience told me this would not be a problem.  I guess
that would best be described as naive

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Re: [CentOS] wine 1.1.10 rpm for centos

[Vandaman]

dnk wrote:

> has anyone come across a wine 1.1.10 RPM? Searching 
> all the usual places.
> 

How would you expect something WineHQ describes as 
a "development release" only out a few days to have as
you call it "a rpm for CentOS available"?

What's new in this version of wine? Do IE, Media player 
work out of the box?

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Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

[MHR]

I managed to get a partial solution running.  I rebooted from my
installation DVD and started to run an upgrade, but when it got to the
reboot part, I booted back to the DVD and ran 'linux rescue'.  I'm not
entirely sure what it did besides mangle my /etc/fstab (lost the nfs
/home mount), but I just happened to have a backup, so I remounted
/home and now everything seems to be working.

EXCEPT

The system is deathly slow in some areas.  OOo and Evolution take
forever to do the simplest things, although Seamonkey and the xterms
are working just fine.  I'm going to reboot again to see if that makes
any difference.

Bar.

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Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

[Lanny Marcus]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:47 PM, MHR  wrote:

>>> unpacking a tar archive into the root directory.
> Hm - well, _I_ never do that, and I rather doubt that yum >did, either,

Since you got it from rpmforge, I assume it was an rpm and not a tar file.

> but I suppose that would depend on what's in libdvdcss.  >I find it
> hard to believe that it wasn't something else more >subtle with k3b,
> but, again, who knows?

Or, more probably, with the libdvdcss

> 1) I did ask on the rpmforge list.  Waiting to hear back from there, too.
>
> 2) I am just now beginning to really appreciate >virtualization.

A bunch of the gurus on this list use it. If I had a box with more
RAM, I would try it.

> Still, past experience told me this would not be a >problem.  I guess
> that would best be described as naive

I think since it works OK on your Desktop at home, that's not so
naive. But, the HW is different and something may be awry on the HW on
your Workstation at work. Or, there may have been a power glitch,
while you were installing the SW. Is your Workstation on a UPS? Been
using K3b for a long time here and never a disaster, like you
experienced today.
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Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

[Rob Townley]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:56 PM, MHR  wrote:
> I am running CentOS 5/2 (latest updates) with the GNOME DE on a 32-bit
> machine (at work).
>
> I have k3b installed, and I was trying to copy a DVD earlier this
> morning, but k3b said it couldn't read encrypted DVDs.
>
> So, I installed libdvdcss from rpmforge and restarted k3b.  It hung
> the system.  I rebooted, and / had been damaged.  After running e2fsck
> from the repair prompt, I rebooted and a whole slew of errors
> revolving around various /var directories that did not ecist occurred.
>
> I have been trying to repair /var, and so far with a fair modicum of
> success, but I've hit an interesting wall - two, actually.
>
> 1) The gdm refuses to come up.  It claims that "Server Authorization
> directory (daemon/ServAuthDir) is set to /var/gdm, but this does not
> exist"
>
> However:
>
> # ll -d /var/gdm
> drwxrwx--T 2 root gdm 4096 Dec 11 10:31 /var/gdm
> # ll /var/gdm
> total 8
> -rw-r- 1 root root 45 Nov 26 10:47 :0.Xauth
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63 Dec 11 09:14 :0.Xservers
>
> This is identical to my backup system (which is not surprising - I set
> up the dir and copied the files from here - was that a bad idea?).
>
> 2) The following daemons fail to start: auditd, NFS statd, avahi and
> HAL.  I've tried to pin down why the avahi daemon won't start because
> it keeps logging permissions errors trying to create the pid file
> /var/run/avahi-daemon//pid, but the setup of /var /var/run and
> /var/run/avahi-daemon are all identical to this (backup) machine.  Any
> suggestions?
>
> Or is there a better, more comprehensive repair facility available?
>
> BTW, OT: Does anyone know why this might have happened?  I have all
> this installed at home, no problems whatsoever (libdvdcss works
> seamlessly with all my DVD tools, including k3b).
>
> Thanks!
>
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Was SELINUX in enforcing mode?  Rebuilding directories and files that
previously had mandatory labels seems like it would cause problems
until labels were reapplied.
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Re: [CentOS] wine 1.1.10 rpm for centos

[dnk]

Well it is not that I expected it to be done. I was just curious as in  
my searches I found some for openSuse, etc and "hoped" that maybe  
someone had rolled some.

The main reason I need it, is that I have a particular Windows program  
that causes seg faults in the older wine version, but not in 1.1.10. I  
was just hoping to streamline subsequent installs... =-)

d



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> dnk wrote:
>
>> has anyone come across a wine 1.1.10 RPM? Searching
>> all the usual places.
>>
>
> How would you expect something WineHQ describes as
> a "development release" only out a few days to have as
> you call it "a rpm for CentOS available"?
>
> What's new in this version of wine? Do IE, Media player
> work out of the box?
>
> Regards,
> Vandaman.
>
>
>
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[CentOS] yum-updatesd or similar for CentOS 4

[Alexander Farber]

Hello,

we have enabled yum-updatesd on our dozen real
and virtual machines running CentOS 5.2 some time
ago and are very satisfied:

afar...@ablsw01:~> grep -v ^# /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf
[main]
run_interval = 7200
updaterefresh = 1200

emit_via = email
dbus_listener = no

do_update = yes
do_download = yes
do_download_deps = yes

(it would be good to make it use the proxy though...)

My plan is to keep the update mails and if
anything goes wrong, install the older packages.
But until now I never needed to do that :-)

However we have few machines running CentOS 4.7
which we can't upgrade to 5 (because of Oracle 9 etc.)

Is there some similar service available?

Or has anybody experience in putting "yum -y update"
into crontab for  CentOS 4? Any good advices?

Thank you
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Re: [CentOS] Watchdog process?

[Alexander Farber]

Can't you just add an entry to /etc/inittab?

This worked well for me

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Greg Bailey  wrote:
>> Is there a generic built-in way on CentOS to overlook that a specific
>> process is alive and re-spawn it (or just run a configured command)
>> when it dies?
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Re: [CentOS] Combining active-backup and round-robbin network bonding

[nate]

Timm Essigke wrote:

> Is there a different/better way of doing what I want?

Get better switches and run 802.3ad, which will combine
aggregation of links as well as fault tolerance, and make
life much simpler in general.

I think this is "mode=4" in the bonding driver.

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Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

[MHR]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Rob Townley  wrote:
>
> Was SELINUX in enforcing mode?  Rebuilding directories and files that
> previously had mandatory labels seems like it would cause problems
> until labels were reapplied.

I have SELinux turned off.

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Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

[MHR]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:29 PM, MHR  wrote:
> I managed to get a partial solution running.  I rebooted from my
> installation DVD and started to run an upgrade, but when it got to the
> reboot part, I booted back to the DVD and ran 'linux rescue'.  I'm not
> entirely sure what it did besides mangle my /etc/fstab (lost the nfs
> /home mount), but I just happened to have a backup, so I remounted
> /home and now everything seems to be working.
>
> EXCEPT
>
> The system is deathly slow in some areas.  OOo and Evolution take
> forever to do the simplest things, although Seamonkey and the xterms
> are working just fine.  I'm going to reboot again to see if that makes
> any difference.
>

It doesn't.  It seems, though, that it is GNOME that is painfully slow
to start any thing up, and when it is doing so, it hampers everything
else to some extent.  Slow as in it takes minutes to load programs
instead of milliseconds

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Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

[Rob Townley]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Lanny Marcus  wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:47 PM, MHR  wrote:
> 
 unpacking a tar archive into the root directory.
>> Hm - well, _I_ never do that, and I rather doubt that yum >did, either,
>
> Since you got it from rpmforge, I assume it was an rpm and not a tar file.
>
>> but I suppose that would depend on what's in libdvdcss.  >I find it
>> hard to believe that it wasn't something else more >subtle with k3b,
>> but, again, who knows?
>
> Or, more probably, with the libdvdcss
> 
>> 1) I did ask on the rpmforge list.  Waiting to hear back from there, too.
>>
>> 2) I am just now beginning to really appreciate >virtualization.
>
> A bunch of the gurus on this list use it. If I had a box with more
> RAM, I would try it.
>
>> Still, past experience told me this would not be a >problem.  I guess
>> that would best be described as naive
>
> I think since it works OK on your Desktop at home, that's not so
> naive. But, the HW is different and something may be awry on the HW on
> your Workstation at work. Or, there may have been a power glitch,
> while you were installing the SW. Is your Workstation on a UPS? Been
> using K3b for a long time here and never a disaster, like you
> experienced today.
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Virtualization is great and all, but not sure that watching a dvd on a
virtual machine would work so well.
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Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

[Jeff]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:01 PM, MHR  wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:29 PM, MHR  wrote:
>> I managed to get a partial solution running.  I rebooted from my
>> installation DVD and started to run an upgrade, but when it got to the
>> reboot part, I booted back to the DVD and ran 'linux rescue'.  I'm not
>> entirely sure what it did besides mangle my /etc/fstab (lost the nfs
>> /home mount), but I just happened to have a backup, so I remounted
>> /home and now everything seems to be working.
>>
>> EXCEPT
>>
>> The system is deathly slow in some areas.  OOo and Evolution take
>> forever to do the simplest things, although Seamonkey and the xterms
>> are working just fine.  I'm going to reboot again to see if that makes
>> any difference.
>>
>
> It doesn't.  It seems, though, that it is GNOME that is painfully slow
> to start any thing up, and when it is doing so, it hampers everything
> else to some extent.  Slow as in it takes minutes to load programs
> instead of milliseconds

Are you sure your hard disk is healthy?

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Re: [CentOS] Watchdog process?

[William L. Maltby]

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 21:48 +0100, Alexander Farber wrote:
> Can't you just add an entry to /etc/inittab?
> 
> This worked well for me
> 
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Greg Bailey  wrote:
> >> Is there a generic built-in way on CentOS to overlook that a specific
> >> process is alive and re-spawn it (or just run a configured command)
> >> when it dies?

He wants to be able to kill it and not have it respawn. That throws a
little glitch into the process.

If it were me (and no package was suitable), a little bash script that
starts it off in a while loop, waits on the child, checks a switch
(maybe in a file created by another little bash script that he invokes
when desired) that says "STOP" or some-such. If the switch doesn't say
that, starts the process again. If it says stop, exits and maybe leaves
a message or sends mail that a stop was requested.

All told, about 20 lines of script or so.

But reading the bash man page, if you're not already familiar with bash,
may be a PITA.

IIRC, some others have suggested some packages already that will do what
the OP wants.

> 

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Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd or similar for CentOS 4

[Barry Brimer]

> However we have few machines running CentOS 4.7
> which we can't upgrade to 5 (because of Oracle 9 etc.)
>
> Is there some similar service available?
>
> Or has anybody experience in putting "yum -y update"
> into crontab for  CentOS 4? Any good advices?

chkconfig yum on
service yum start
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Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

[Toby Bluhm]

MHR wrote:
.
.
.
> 
> It doesn't.  It seems, though, that it is GNOME that is painfully slow
> to start any thing up, and when it is doing so, it hampers everything
> else to some extent.  Slow as in it takes minutes to load programs
> instead of milliseconds
> 

Gnome at one time (RH9 days I think) was painfully slow to start after a 
hostname change, until it udpated itself in all places - or whatever it 
was doing. Is your hostname & /etc/hosts still intact? If it's been up 
for a while, I would expect it to resolve itself already. That's how it 
used to was anyway.


Nothing in the log files? top show anything of interest?


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Re: [CentOS] PHP5 on CentOS4.7?

[Rudi Ahlers]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Ralph Angenendt  wrote:
> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Does anyone know if CentOS 4.7 will support PHP5 natively? I have
>> searched centos.org site, but can't see anything related to this?
>
> You mean other than the php5 in the centosplus repository?
>
> 
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ralph
> --

Hi Ralph,

Yes, other than in the CentOSPlus repository, i.e. will CentOS 4.x
have / offer PHP 5 natively (upstream) at all? PHP 4 has been
discontinued for more than a year now, so I'm just curious whether
CentOS will include php5 in it's base (?) ?


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Re: [CentOS] PHP5 on CentOS4.7?

[Rainer Duffner]

Am 11.12.2008 um 22:36 schrieb Rudi Ahlers:

> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Ralph Angenendt  > wrote:
>> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if CentOS 4.7 will support PHP5 natively? I have
>>> searched centos.org site, but can't see anything related to this?
>>
>> You mean other than the php5 in the centosplus repository?
>>
>> 
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ralph
>> --
>
> Hi Ralph,
>
> Yes, other than in the CentOSPlus repository, i.e. will CentOS 4.x
> have / offer PHP 5 natively (upstream) at all? PHP 4 has been
> discontinued for more than a year now, so I'm just curious whether
> CentOS will include php5 in it's base (?) ?
>


Not going to happen.
Or has RHEL3 gained MySQL4 recently?

That said, RedHat probably wants you on Java/JBoss anyway ;-)

Rainer
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Re: [CentOS] PHP5 on CentOS4.7?

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Rudi Ahlers  wrote:

> Yes, other than in the CentOSPlus repository, i.e. will CentOS 4.x
> have / offer PHP 5 natively (upstream) at all? PHP 4 has been
> discontinued for more than a year now, so I'm just curious whether
> CentOS will include php5 in it's base (?) ?

php5 *is* from upstream (Red Hat).  See here for example:

ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4AS/en/RHWAS/SRPMS/

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Barry Brimer wrote:
> chkconfig yum on
> service yum start

yum-cron ?


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Re: [CentOS] wine 1.1.10 rpm for centos

[Scott Silva]

on 12-11-2008 12:41 PM dnk spake the following:
> Well it is not that I expected it to be done. I was just curious as in  
> my searches I found some for openSuse, etc and "hoped" that maybe  
> someone had rolled some.
> 
> The main reason I need it, is that I have a particular Windows program  
> that causes seg faults in the older wine version, but not in 1.1.10. I  
> was just hoping to streamline subsequent installs... =-)
> 
OpenSUSE is more akin to Fedora. They experiment more with shiny new things.
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Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd or similar for CentOS 4

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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Karanbir Singh  wrote:
> Barry Brimer wrote:
>> chkconfig yum on
>> service yum start
>
> yum-cron ?

yum-cron is available for CentOS-4 ???

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Re: [CentOS] wine 1.1.10 rpm for centos

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dnk wrote:
> Well it is not that I expected it to be done. I was just curious as in  
> my searches I found some for openSuse, etc and "hoped" that maybe  
> someone had rolled some.
> 

at one point in the past WinHQ's release process included rpms for 
EL4/EL5 - is that no longer the case ? If not, perhaps they could do 
with a hand in the release process itself ( which might be a good way 
for you to get involved perhaps ?  )

Would you be able to investigate this a bit further ?

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Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

[Scott Silva]

on 12-11-2008 1:01 PM Rob Townley spake the following:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Lanny Marcus 
>  wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:47 PM, MHR 
>>  wrote:
>> 
> unpacking a tar archive into the root directory.
>>> Hm - well, _I_ never do that, and I rather doubt that yum >did, either,
>> Since you got it from rpmforge, I assume it was an rpm and not a tar file.
>>
>>> but I suppose that would depend on what's in libdvdcss.  >I find it
>>> hard to believe that it wasn't something else more >subtle with k3b,
>>> but, again, who knows?
>> Or, more probably, with the libdvdcss
>> 
>>> 1) I did ask on the rpmforge list.  Waiting to hear back from there, too.
>>>
>>> 2) I am just now beginning to really appreciate >virtualization.
>> A bunch of the gurus on this list use it. If I had a box with more
>> RAM, I would try it.
>>
>>> Still, past experience told me this would not be a >problem.  I guess
>>> that would best be described as naive
>> I think since it works OK on your Desktop at home, that's not so
>> naive. But, the HW is different and something may be awry on the HW on
>> your Workstation at work. Or, there may have been a power glitch,
>> while you were installing the SW. Is your Workstation on a UPS? Been
>> using K3b for a long time here and never a disaster, like you
>> experienced today.
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> Virtualization is great and all, but not sure that watching a dvd on a
> virtual machine would work so well.
WOW... We have to actually "work" on our workstations!
There is a DVD player in the breakroom if we need it.   ;-P




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Re: [CentOS] wine 1.1.10 rpm for centos

[dnk]

They are still making RPM's, it is just that this one is "bleeding"  
edge, and not considered stable as of yet.

It will come down the pipeline at some point.


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> dnk wrote:
>> Well it is not that I expected it to be done. I was just curious as  
>> in
>> my searches I found some for openSuse, etc and "hoped" that maybe
>> someone had rolled some.
>>
>
> at one point in the past WinHQ's release process included rpms for
> EL4/EL5 - is that no longer the case ? If not, perhaps they could do
> with a hand in the release process itself ( which might be a good way
> for you to get involved perhaps ?  )
>
> Would you be able to investigate this a bit further ?
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Re: [CentOS] wine 1.1.10 rpm for centos

[Scott Silva]

on 12-11-2008 2:26 PM Karanbir Singh spake the following:
> dnk wrote:
>> Well it is not that I expected it to be done. I was just curious as in  
>> my searches I found some for openSuse, etc and "hoped" that maybe  
>> someone had rolled some.
>>
> 
> at one point in the past WineHQ's release process included rpms for 
> EL4/EL5 - is that no longer the case ? If not, perhaps they could do 
> with a hand in the release process itself ( which might be a good way 
> for you to get involved perhaps ?  )
> 
> Would you be able to investigate this a bit further ?
> 
If they have released it yet, it would be in EPEL.


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Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

[MHR]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Scott Silva  wrote:
>
> WOW... We have to actually "work" on our workstations!
> There is a DVD player in the breakroom if we need it.   ;-P
>

It WAS work related.  Honest!  You do believe me, don't you?

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Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd or similar for CentOS 4

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On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 14:24 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Karanbir Singh  wrote:
> > Barry Brimer wrote:
> >> chkconfig yum on
> >> service yum start
> >
> > yum-cron ?
> 
> yum-cron is available for CentOS-4 ???

Just run a yum available for all my repos. No yum-cron is shown.

> 
> Akemi
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Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

[MHR]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Toby Bluhm  wrote:
> MHR wrote:
>
> Gnome at one time (RH9 days I think) was painfully slow to start after a
> hostname change, until it udpated itself in all places - or whatever it
> was doing. Is your hostname & /etc/hosts still intact? If it's been up
> for a while, I would expect it to resolve itself already. That's how it
> used to was anyway.
>

All that looks ok so far.

> Nothing in the log files? top show anything of interest?
>

Just this, in /var/log/messages:

Dec 11 14:38:07 swordfish kernel: statd: server localhost not
responding, timed out
Dec 11 14:38:07 swordfish kernel: lockd: cannot monitor 10.24.15.48
Dec 11 14:38:07 swordfish kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 10.24.15.48
Dec 11 14:38:37 swordfish kernel: statd: server localhost not
responding, timed out
Dec 11 14:38:37 swordfish kernel: lockd: cannot monitor 10.24.15.48
Dec 11 14:38:37 swordfish kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 10.24.15.48
Dec 11 14:42:06 swordfish kernel: statd: server localhost not
responding, timed out
Dec 11 14:42:06 swordfish kernel: lockd: cannot monitor 10.24.15.48
Dec 11 14:42:06 swordfish kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 10.24.15.48

This happens a lot.  10.24.15.48 is our internal /home nfs machine, so
that might be involved (slow access to /home can cause a lot of
problems).  I don't know why localhost would be a problem.  Here's my
/etc/hosts and ifconfig output:

[mrich...@swordfish ~]$ sudo cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain
::1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.9.225   swordfish swordfish.sjhtca.com
192.168.9.92t-mrichter-08 t-mrichter-08.sjhtca.com
[mrich...@swordfish ~]$ ifc
eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1C:C0:1F:5E:38
  inet addr:192.168.9.225  Bcast:192.168.9.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  inet6 addr: fe80::21c:c0ff:fe1f:5e38/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:31680 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:28897 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
  RX bytes:25685445 (24.4 MiB)  TX bytes:15109432 (14.4 MiB)
  Memory:9220-9222

loLink encap:Local Loopback
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
  RX packets:363 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:363 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:33380 (32.5 KiB)  TX bytes:33380 (32.5 KiB)

sit0  Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
  NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

vmnet8Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08
  inet addr:192.168.240.1  Bcast:192.168.240.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)


During startup now, the only process that fails is NFS statd, which
probably fits right into the above, but I know zip about this area.

Any suggestions?  This wasn't happening before, and it doesn't happen
on my backup machine at all (surprise!).

Thanks.

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Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

[William L. Maltby]

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 14:46 -0800, MHR wrote:
> 

> [mrich...@swordfish ~]$ sudo cat /etc/hosts
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain
> ::1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> 192.168.9.225   swordfish swordfish.sjhtca.com
> 192.168.9.92t-mrichter-08 t-mrichter-08.sjhtca.com

/etc/hosts permissions OK? I ask because it should be worl-readable
and you sudo'd it.

> 

> During startup now, the only process that fails is NFS statd, which
> probably fits right into the above, but I know zip about this area.

IIRC (it's been a long time), the RPC stuff needs to be running for nfs
locks, status, etc. Are they? I can't confirm this because I don't have
any nfs stuff running.

But I don't recall whether server/clioent needs any/all on one or both.

Anyway, that and portmap? Not sure. /etc/hosts/{deny,allow} come into
play if portmap is in use.

I don't recall dinking with the nfs service, so I ps'd it.

rpc   2284 1  0 05:36 ?00:00:00 portmap
rpcuser   2310 1  0 05:36 ?00:00:00 rpc.statd
root  2356 1  0 05:36 ?00:00:00 rpc.idmapd

Maybe that gives a clue?

Showmounts might help you out (server side only?).

> 
> Any suggestions?  This wasn't happening before, and it doesn't happen
> on my backup machine at all (surprise!).


> 

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Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd or similar for CentOS 4

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Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Karanbir Singh  wrote:
>> Barry Brimer wrote:
>>> chkconfig yum on
>>> service yum start
>> yum-cron ?
> 
> yum-cron is available for CentOS-4 ???

rpm -ql yum | grep cron


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Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

[MHR]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:29 PM, William L. Maltby
 wrote:
>
> /etc/hosts permissions OK? I ask because it should be worl-readable
> and you sudo'd it.
>
It is - I was overdoing it

> IIRC (it's been a long time), the RPC stuff needs to be running for nfs
> locks, status, etc. Are they? I can't confirm this because I don't have
> any nfs stuff running.
>
> But I don't recall whether server/clioent needs any/all on one or both.
>
> Anyway, that and portmap? Not sure. /etc/hosts/{deny,allow} come into
> play if portmap is in use.
>
> I don't recall dinking with the nfs service, so I ps'd it.
>
> rpc   2284 1  0 05:36 ?00:00:00 portmap
> rpcuser   2310 1  0 05:36 ?00:00:00 rpc.statd
> root  2356 1  0 05:36 ?00:00:00 rpc.idmapd
>
> Maybe that gives a clue?
>

I get (psg = ps -ef | grep -i):

[mrich...@swordfish ~]$ psg rpc
rpc   5786 1  0 14:32 ?00:00:00 portmap
root  593711  0 14:32 ?00:00:00 [rpciod/0]
root  593811  0 14:32 ?00:00:00 [rpciod/1]

> Showmounts might help you out (server side only?).
>
I'm listed there (it's 'showmount' though :-).

I am now certain that this is an nfs issue, but I haven't a clue where
to look.  I noticed that my backup system had a
/var/lock/subsys/nfslock file, so I touched it over here.  I think
it's running a little faster, but it's still like tar whenever one of
my home dir files gets touched (which is a lot, since most apps use
their . files for local storage).

Any nfs gurus here?

:-)

Thanks to everyone so far

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[CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var [SOLVED]

[MHR]

I found it - there has to be a /var/lib/nfs directory with a few
subdirectories under it.  Once I had created them all, I could run
rpc.statd, and that unfroze everything.

Thanks to all, esp. Bill for mentioning rpc - that was the clue for me.

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Re: [CentOS] [users] URGENT: Installed libdvdcss from rpmforge and k3b trashed /

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, MHR wrote:

> I am running CentOS 5.2 with all the latest updates with the GNOME DE
> and k3b.  I put a DVD in the tray and tried to make a copy, but k3b
> says it can't copy an encrypted disk.
>
> So, I installed libdvdcss from rpmforge:
>
> libdvdcss.i386   1.2.9-2.el5.rf rpmforge
>
> When I restarted k3b, it hung.  After several minutes of waiting for
> it to respond, I found that the whole system had become unresponsive -
> no mouse movement or clicks, nor keyboard keys recognized.  Unable to
> do anything else with the system, I rebooted it.
>
> When the system came up, there were problems in /, so I had to run
> e2fsck manually on /, and it found and fixed a whole slew of errors.
> However, when the system rebooted after a successful fsck, there are
> now errors in efforts to access various files and directories under
> /var, mostly in /var/lock, but also /var/gdm (meaning no graphics),
> all kinds of daemons are not starting up, and so on.
>
> Has anyone else seen anything like this?  This is my primary desktop
> system at work (I'm using my backup system at the moment), and I need
> to have it back up a.s.a.p.  Any suggestions?

Why would this be related to libdvdcss ? I really do not see any link 
between the filesystem problems and libdvdcss.

In the thread on the centos mailinglist you already identified the 
slowness to be related to an NFS mount.

What if your system had filesystem errors all along, and when you 
installed the libdvdcss package it triggered these error into a fatal 
state. When you rebooted, the filesystem is being checked since it was no 
longer clean. You ran fsck without first doing fsck -N to see what would 
happen.

The filesystem check also found out about all the other filesystem errors, 
and damaged files and brought the filesystem into a state where you see 
the problems you described. I would think you have had hardware problems, 
(or maybe your sudden reboot triggered a filesystem bug).

Again, I seriously doubt the problems you have had are related to 
the libdvdcss RPM package. And without any proof I don't feel tempted to 
take any action.

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Re: [CentOS] wine 1.1.10 rpm for centos

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, dnk wrote:

> On 11-Dec-08, at 2:26 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>
>> dnk wrote:
>>> Well it is not that I expected it to be done. I was just curious as
>>> in
>>> my searches I found some for openSuse, etc and "hoped" that maybe
>>> someone had rolled some.
>>>
>>
>> at one point in the past WinHQ's release process included rpms for
>> EL4/EL5 - is that no longer the case ? If not, perhaps they could do
>> with a hand in the release process itself ( which might be a good way
>> for you to get involved perhaps ?  )
>>
>> Would you be able to investigate this a bit further ?
>
> They are still making RPM's, it is just that this one is "bleeding"
> edge, and not considered stable as of yet.
>
> It will come down the pipeline at some point.

RPMforge provides stable wine (1.0) packages in the normal repositories. 
And we also provide test packages (1.1) from the test repositories.

In this case I only have 1.1.9 releases available from the test repository 
because Wine does not announce new unstable releases on freshmeat. So 
there is no practical way to monitor new releases. (We have more than 4000 
packages, we cannot monitor individual mailinglists)

(In fact the latest stable release on freshmeat is 1.0, and not 1.0.1 :-/)

I am a firm believer to let upstream decide what is stable and is 
unstable because they know much better. I often advice people asking me to 
make available an unstable release in RPMforge to discuss with upstream to 
see whether they can stabilize their unstable tree.

That said, I am building 1.1.10 packages right now but they will only 
become available on saturday since I will miss the deadline for tomorrow. 
Wine packages take a long time to build (often need 2 passes).

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Re: [CentOS] pop3 attack

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Toby Bluhm  wrote:

> Or switch to postfix. I plunked "relayhost = smtp-server.roadrunner.com" 
> into main.cf & away it went.
Having read the rest of the thread, I respond at the risk of furthering 
the flames.  The sendmail configuration line is just as trivial:

define('SMART_HOST','[smarthost.example.net]')dnl

Check the quoting since the article uses matching left and right single 
quotes which is probably a figment of the editor used for writing the 
article.

Here's the reference if you'd like more information:

http://www.elandsys.com/resources/sendmail/smarthost.html

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Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var [SOLVED]

[William L. Maltby]

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 16:14 -0800, MHR wrote:
> I found it - there has to be a /var/lib/nfs directory with a few
> subdirectories under it.  Once I had created them all, I could run
> rpc.statd, and that unfroze everything.
> 
> Thanks to all, esp. Bill for mentioning rpc - that was the clue for me.

Thanks I needed that! You know that one "Aw Shit" wipes out 1000 "'Atta
Boys". Now I have one in the bank - 999 to go!  ;-)

> 
> mhr
> 

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Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Lanny Marcus wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:46 AM, William L. Maltby
>  wrote:
> 
>> $ rpm -qa | grep flash
>> flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release
>
> Here's mine:
>
> [la...@dell2400 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep flash
> flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-2.el5.rf
>
> You have been looking into the Adobe .pdf issue with Firefox during
> the past few days.
> Do you think this problem with Flash might be related to that? Or, do
> I have something screwed up on my box? TIA, Lanny

Try running:

/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup

and then stop and start firefox. That should fix your problem.

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Re: [CentOS] pop3 attack

[John R Pierce]

David G. Miller wrote:
> Toby Bluhm  wrote:
>
>   
>> Or switch to postfix. I plunked "relayhost = smtp-server.roadrunner.com" 
>> into main.cf & away it went.
>> 
> Having read the rest of the thread, I respond at the risk of furthering 
> the flames.  The sendmail configuration line is just as trivial:
>
> define('SMART_HOST','[smarthost.example.net]')dnl
>
> Check the quoting since the article uses matching left and right single 
> quotes which is probably a figment of the editor used for writing the 
> article.
>   

actually, its a figment of M4's bizarroworld syntax.   you need the ` ' 
around strings in M4 macros, and that sendmail.mc is fed to M4 to 
generate the byzantine sendmail.cf.


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Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

[Lanny Marcus]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Dag Wieers  wrote:
>
> Try running:
>
>/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup
>
> and then stop and start firefox. That should fix your problem.
>
> Kind regards,

Dag: Thank you. I will try that right now and get back to you. If that
doesn't work, I will try what Bill suggested, ASAP. Lanny
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Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

[Lanny Marcus]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Dag Wieers  wrote:

> Try running:
>
>/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup
>
> and then stop and start firefox. That should fix your problem.

It did! Jackpot! Thank you! I tested it at this URL:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/
and the Adobe Flash Player works OK now.  :-)
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Re: [CentOS] wine 1.1.10 rpm for centos

[Dnk]

Well that is great. On a selfish level, it will make certain things  
easier over here! :-)

Dnk

Sent from my iPhone

On 11-Dec-08, at 4:33 PM, Dag Wieers  wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, dnk wrote:
>
>> On 11-Dec-08, at 2:26 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>
>>> dnk wrote:
 Well it is not that I expected it to be done. I was just curious as
 in
 my searches I found some for openSuse, etc and "hoped" that maybe
 someone had rolled some.

>>>
>>> at one point in the past WinHQ's release process included rpms for
>>> EL4/EL5 - is that no longer the case ? If not, perhaps they could do
>>> with a hand in the release process itself ( which might be a good  
>>> way
>>> for you to get involved perhaps ?  )
>>>
>>> Would you be able to investigate this a bit further ?
>>
>> They are still making RPM's, it is just that this one is "bleeding"
>> edge, and not considered stable as of yet.
>>
>> It will come down the pipeline at some point.
>
> RPMforge provides stable wine (1.0) packages in the normal  
> repositories.
> And we also provide test packages (1.1) from the test repositories.
>
> In this case I only have 1.1.9 releases available from the test  
> repository
> because Wine does not announce new unstable releases on freshmeat. So
> there is no practical way to monitor new releases. (We have more  
> than 4000
> packages, we cannot monitor individual mailinglists)
>
> (In fact the latest stable release on freshmeat is 1.0, and not  
> 1.0.1 :-/)
>
> I am a firm believer to let upstream decide what is stable and is
> unstable because they know much better. I often advice people asking  
> me to
> make available an unstable release in RPMforge to discuss with  
> upstream to
> see whether they can stabilize their unstable tree.
>
> That said, I am building 1.1.10 packages right now but they will only
> become available on saturday since I will miss the deadline for  
> tomorrow.
> Wine packages take a long time to build (often need 2 passes).
>
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Re: [CentOS] Is 4GB memory the 64bit switch tipping point?

[NiftyClusters T Mitchell]

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Kenneth Burgener
 wrote:
> I am curious what should be the benchmark for making the choice of
> switching from 32bit to 64bit Linux?  I have a few assumptions below.
> Is my logic sound?  (This is a follow up to the "Adding RAM" thread)
>
> Assumptions:
>
> 1.  4GB Memory.  The main benefit of 64bit mode is the ability to
> address more than 4GB of RAM.
..
Lots of other good responses but the critical
tipping point after functionality is 'benchmark results' as noted in
the opening paragraph.  The next is data set size but with a little
care in the code this is mostly not an issue (size of pipe is BIG)
so as long as the kernel can address and manage all memory it
is the rare application+data set that needs 64bit longs and pointers.

The point about benchmarking is critical when deciding 64bit .vs. 32 bit.
Modern x86_64 processors can run both 32bit and 64bit applications, the
key is that the processor register and instruction set is richer in
64bit mode which permits the compiler to do more for many but not all
applications.

The ability of compilers to take advantage of the richer 64bit ABI can be
massive.  I have seen Fortran and C programs improve as much as +70%

The gcc family of compilers is much improved over gcc of 5 years ago.
Specialty vendor compilers can still show important gains over gcc so kick the
tires when ya can.

YMMV.

Later,
mitch



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Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd or similar for CentOS 4

Alexander Farber napsal(a):
> However we have few machines running CentOS 4.7
> which we can't upgrade to 5 (because of Oracle 9 etc.)
> 
> Is there some similar service available?
> 
> Or has anybody experience in putting "yum -y update"
> into crontab for  CentOS 4? Any good advices?
> 

Hi Alexander,
I'm running yum 3.0.6 on my 4.7 boxes. I have plans to create dbus
client emitting messages via xml-rpc to Cacti. See
http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el4/hrb/testing/i386/repodata/repoview/Y.group.html
Regards,
David Hrbác(
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Re: [CentOS] network driver needed at install time

[NiftyClusters T Mitchell]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Clint Dilks  wrote:
> Jerry Geis wrote:
>> I am wanting to use a motherboard that uses the 8111b reaktek chip.
>> http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/RealTekRTL8111b
>> This was great information.
>>
>> My question is now that I have a compiled module for centos 5.2
>> is there any way I can include that module in a DVD or load the module
>> from USB
>> at the installation time???
>>
>> I use kickstart and that needs to work over the network.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to load a network driver at  install from USB or
>> something like that?
>>
>> Jerry
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> Hi,
>
> You will need to create a custom initrd that contains the updated
> modules that you want to use.  Unfortunately it was some time ago since
> I had to do this so I cant give you clear instructions on how to go
> about doing this but there is lots of documentation on the web.  The key
> thing you will need to remember is that you need to build the module for
> the same version of the kernel as used by the installer.
>
> Good Luck :)

Building a custom initrd or just adding a driver to it can be found on
google
kickstart makes it easy because you do not need to build a CDROM...

A quick and handy trick is to leverage an inexpensive USB ethernet
network device that
is already supported.   Once the OS is loaded the new driver can be compiled
and loaded on the system itself.   If you are kickstarting a handful  of
boxes one time this trick is the way to go.

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