Re: [CentOS] Welcome to the "CentOS" mailing list (Digest mode)

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Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

[Sorin Srbu]

>-Original Message-
>From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf
>Of Ray Van Dolson
>Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:50 PM
>To: centos@centos.org
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4
>
>Is there still no room for positive feedack and discussion from
>developers and end users alike on how to approve things?

I've recently migrated a dozen or so RHEL3-machines to CentOS5 for our 
university linux course-farm. The machines are used by students as I write 
this. Students use them, and knowing prying students, CentOS still works like 
a charm and so does the molecular modeling software running off of CentOS.

The handful of new Intel i7-calculation machines we recently bought for our 
group of Ph. D.-Students are awesome and just hilariously fast with CentOS5.

I'm very happy with CentOS!

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Re: [CentOS] Installing openmpi & lam for use with R

[Kay Diederichs]

Rick Bilonick schrieb:
> I am trying to install the R package "Rmpi" which needs libmpi. I've
> installed openmpi and lam in Centos 5.2:
> 
> [r...@rab45-1 /]# rpm -qv openmpi
> openmpi-1.2.5-5.el5
> openmpi-1.2.5-5.el5
> [r...@rab45-1 /]# rpm -qv lam
> lam-7.1.2-14.el5
> lam-7.1.2-14.el5
> 
> But I get the following error message when trying to install Rmpi:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/lam/lib/libmpi.so when
> searching for -lmpi
> 
> I'm not sure what else to install/uninstall to fix this.
> 
> Rick B.

Your problem might be confusion about 32 versus 64 bit packages.

Let me guess - you're running a 64bit CentOS (this would explain why the 
packages are listed twice)?

To find out about 32/64bit packages it helps to have the following line 
in file /etc/rpm/macros:
%_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}

Make sure to install the correct version (32 or 64bit) of Rmpi, and to 
tell Rmpi correctly where it should look for the mpi library.

HTH,

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Re: [CentOS] tar with -N option still picking up old files

[John Doe]

From: Akemi Yagi 
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I tried this command to tar up a set of data files
> > updated since yesterday (The data directory contains
> > multiple files with varying dates):
> >
> > /bin/tar -z -c -N 2009-03-25 -f /tmp/test.tgz data
> >
> > When I look at the content of the test.tgz file,
> > it looks like it copied the content of the entire
> > directory, not just the newer files.
> >
> > I am on CentOS 5.
> 
> Try --newer-mtime instead of -N.  In my case (CentOS-4 backup
> machine), the -N option did not work as it's supposed to.  Not sure
> about tar on CentOS-5 though.

I like the distinction in the man page...

   -N, --after-date DATE, --newer DATE
  only store files newer than DATE

   --newer-mtime DATE
  like --newer, but with a DATE

Translation: --newer-mtime DATE is like --newer DATE, but with a DATE...  ^_^

JD


  

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Re: [CentOS] manage different profile with a laptop

[Frank Thommen]

Hi Rachid,

> I need to use different profile with some linux CentOS  laptops.

I'm managing such profiles with a custom init script.  The scripts 
checks what IP address (if any) the machine got and according to this 
address, I disable/enable some services (NIS, sendmail, automounter, 
local vs. remote homedirectories etc.).  It's not very elaborate but 
works fine until now.

Cheers

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Re: [CentOS] tar with -N option still picking up old files

[John Doe]

> From: Akemi Yagi 
> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> > > Hello:
> > >
> > > I tried this command to tar up a set of data files
> > > updated since yesterday (The data directory contains
> > > multiple files with varying dates):
> > >
> > > /bin/tar -z -c -N 2009-03-25 -f /tmp/test.tgz data
> > >
> > > When I look at the content of the test.tgz file,
> > > it looks like it copied the content of the entire
> > > directory, not just the newer files.
> > >
> > > I am on CentOS 5.
> > 
> > Try --newer-mtime instead of -N.  In my case (CentOS-4 backup
> > machine), the -N option did not work as it's supposed to.  Not sure
> > about tar on CentOS-5 though.

Forgot to add that I just tested -N, and it works for me (tar 1.15.1)...

JD


  

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Re: [CentOS] tar with -N option still picking up old files

[Les Mikesell]

John Doe wrote:
> From: Akemi Yagi 
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
>>> Hello:
>>>
>>> I tried this command to tar up a set of data files
>>> updated since yesterday (The data directory contains
>>> multiple files with varying dates):
>>>
>>> /bin/tar -z -c -N 2009-03-25 -f /tmp/test.tgz data
>>>
>>> When I look at the content of the test.tgz file,
>>> it looks like it copied the content of the entire
>>> directory, not just the newer files.
>>>
>>> I am on CentOS 5.
>> Try --newer-mtime instead of -N.  In my case (CentOS-4 backup
>> machine), the -N option did not work as it's supposed to.  Not sure
>> about tar on CentOS-5 though.
> 
> I like the distinction in the man page...
> 
>-N, --after-date DATE, --newer DATE
>   only store files newer than DATE
> 
>--newer-mtime DATE
>   like --newer, but with a DATE
> 
> Translation: --newer-mtime DATE is like --newer DATE, but with a DATE...  ^_^

The difference is supposed to be that --newer-mtime uses mtime and the 
others use ctime for the file timestamp check.

But, there's an old saying that when the code and the documentation 
differ they are probably both wrong...

If you want finer-grained control you should use the 
--listed-incremental FILE option anyway.  If the file doesn't exist, you 
get a full run and the file is created containing a list of directories 
traversed.  If you specify an existing file, you get an incremental 
containing newer files plus everything under directories not listed from 
the previous run - and the file is re-written in place for a next-level 
incremental.  If you want multiple incrementals base from the full you 
have to save a copy of this file before each incremental for subsequent 
use.   This is the only way to catch older files in their new locations 
  under renamed directories - and it also triggers the mode that permits 
the restore option of deleting files that weren't present during the run 
(without it you can run out of space when restoring a series of 
incrementals).

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[CentOS] USB, AutoMount & VNC

[Guy Boisvert]

Hi!

I'm trying to figure out how to make automount do its job when nobody 
is logged at the console and the user access the server by VNC.  Does 
anybody knows how to make CentOS automount USB Hard Drives / Pendrive 
when accessed by VNC?


Thanks!



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Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with "RAMDISK: incomplete write ..." after modifiying initrd.img

[Frank Thommen]

John Doe wrote:
> Frank Thommen wrote:
>>> To modify the initrd.img, I took the original CentOS 5.2 image, unpacked 
>>> with cpio/gunzip and replaced modules/2.6.18-92.el5/x86_64/e1000e.ko 
>>> with a current version.  This driver module had been created on a 
>>> freshly installed CentOS 5.2 host with kernel 2.6.18-92.el5 and w/o any 
>>> updates.  After adding the driver, I re-archived and re-packed the image 
>>> and replaced the initrd.img on my tftp server.
>>>  
>>> The new image is considerably bigger than the old one (12 MB vs. 5.7 MB) 
>>> which puzzles me, as the driver file itself is 2.8 MB (compared to the 
>>> old e1000e.ko with ca 170 KB) but the resulting modules.cgz is only 
>>> around 700 KB bigger than the original one.  All files have been 
>>> compressed with `gzip -9`.
> 
> Just wondering... can you safely strip modules like you would strip 
> executables?

Unfortunately stripping didn't help.  Same error message at boot.


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[CentOS] lftp SSL_connect error

[Sean Carolan]

I am unable to find any documentation about this error message,
perhaps one of you has experienced this as well.  We have an FTP
server that is configured to accept FTP transactions over SSL.  The
server is working fine, as I am able to log in with lftp from my test
linux machine in the office.  None of our data center machines are
able to connect so perhaps this is a firewall or NAT issue?  Anyway
here is the very un-descriptive error message:

 SSL_connect: error::lib(0):func(0):reason(0)
 Closing control socket
`ls' at 0 [Delaying before reconnect: 18]

It just sits there trying to reconnect over and over again.  Any ideas?
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Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with "RAMDISK: incomplete write ..." after modifiying initrd.img

[Frank Thommen]

Tru Huynh wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:27:10PM +0100, Frank Thommen wrote:
>>> What cpio options did you use to re-create modules/modules.cgz and then 
>>> the initrd.img?
>> I used `cpio -ovF ` and `cpio -ov -H crc -F ` (I found the 
>> latter on http://sial.org/howto/linux/initrd/).  However I could not 
>> find any "officially looking" information about how the 
>> initrd.img/modules.cgz is created.
> 
> find ./ | cpio -H newc -o | | gzip -c9 > /path/to/my/initrd.img


This give a slightly different error message:

[...]
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
VFS: Cannot open root device "" or unknown-block(253,3)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(253,3)


The two "RAMDISK" error lines have gone.  I have archived 
modules/modules.cgz *and* initrd.img with "-H newc".


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Re: [CentOS] Installing openmpi & lam for use with R

[Tony Schreiner]

On Mar 27, 2009, at 12:08 AM, Rick Bilonick wrote:

> I am trying to install the R package "Rmpi" which needs libmpi. I've
> installed openmpi and lam in Centos 5.2:
>
> [r...@rab45-1 /]# rpm -qv openmpi
> openmpi-1.2.5-5.el5
> openmpi-1.2.5-5.el5
> [r...@rab45-1 /]# rpm -qv lam
> lam-7.1.2-14.el5
> lam-7.1.2-14.el5
>
> But I get the following error message when trying to install Rmpi:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/lam/lib/libmpi.so when
> searching for -lmpi
>
> I'm not sure what else to install/uninstall to fix this.
>
> Rick B.
>

Is Rmpi packaged somehow or are you getting it from CRAN?

The web site http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/yu/Rmpi/ suggests it  
should work with either LAM-MPI or OpenMPI or even MPICH2

Have you installed the mpi-selector RPM and set it up? This will set  
up LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the selected MPI version. But I don't know if it  
will fix your issue.

Tony Schreiner
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

[Bowie Bailey]

Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> > The non-standard port is a good trick,
> 
> Here's just an opinion: Security by obscurity only
> makes >you< feel good, it does nothing in reality.
> Anyone sufficiently talented to hack a service in
> order to gain root or do something useful would not
> be fooled by that. Set whatever your doing up right
> so that any false sense of security is not deemed
> necessary.

Changing port numbers will not stop a talented person who is intent on
breaking into your network.  However, it will stop (or at least slow
down) the script-kiddies, worms, and others out there who are just
scanning for misconfigured or unpatched applications.  Switching SSH to
a non-standard port completely emptied my log files of bad connection
attempts.  Now, if someone attempts to break in, it will be VERY obvious
in the logs where before, it would have been buried in all of the other
garbage.

> Prevent weak passwords, possibly use connection throttling
> etc etc.

Of course.  No one is suggesting that changing port numbers is all you
need to do.  It is just one more thing that you can do to slow down the
attackers.

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Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with "RAMDISK: incomplete write ..." after modifiying initrd.img

[Tru Huynh]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 04:04:40PM +0100, Frank Thommen wrote:
> 
> This give a slightly different error message:
> 
> [...]
> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> md: autorun ...
> md: ... autorun DONE.
> VFS: Cannot open root device "" or unknown-block(253,3)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(253,3)
> 
> 
> The two "RAMDISK" error lines have gone.  I have archived 
> modules/modules.cgz *and* initrd.img with "-H newc".
only the initrd needs "-H newc"

This one works for me
LABEL centos5
 MENU LABEL ^1) centos 5 x86_64 raid1 ks
 KERNEL centos5.x86_64/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=centos5.x86_64/initrd.img 
method=http://10.0.0.4/pub/linux/c5/os/x86_64  noipv6 syslog=10.0.0.4 kssendmac 
ip=dhcp ks=http://10.0.0.4/ks/c5-raid1-64-min.cfg

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Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with "RAMDISK: incomplete write ..." after modifiying initrd.img

[Frank Thommen]

Tru Huynh wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 04:04:40PM +0100, Frank Thommen wrote:
>> This give a slightly different error message:
>>
>> [...]
>> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
>> md: autorun ...
>> md: ... autorun DONE.
>> VFS: Cannot open root device "" or unknown-block(253,3)
>> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
>> unknown-block(253,3)
>>
>>
>> The two "RAMDISK" error lines have gone.  I have archived 
>> modules/modules.cgz *and* initrd.img with "-H newc".
> only the initrd needs "-H newc"

I tried also with non-newc for modules.cgz but this doesn't help. 
However when I look at the original, gunzipped modules.cgz wich `file`, 
then I get "ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC)" which would also be 
'newc'.


> This one works for me
> LABEL centos5
>  MENU LABEL ^1) centos 5 x86_64 raid1 ks
>  KERNEL centos5.x86_64/vmlinuz
> APPEND initrd=centos5.x86_64/initrd.img 
> method=http://10.0.0.4/pub/linux/c5/os/x86_64  noipv6 syslog=10.0.0.4 
> kssendmac ip=dhcp ks=http://10.0.0.4/ks/c5-raid1-64-min.cfg


That is more or less what we have:

   KERNEL CentOS-5.2_64/vmlinuz
   APPEND initrd=CentOS-5.2_64/initrd.img ramdisk_size=5940 kssendmac
ks=http://srv/ks/ks.cgi noipv6


This should not be the problem as it works fine for the unmodified 
initrd.img.


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[CentOS] Server Hang

[Care India]

I have Cent OS 5.1

I also have http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net/

I have asterisk running .

Now when I look at System Information ,

I see that "Physical Memory" keep increasing and at one point it reaches
96%. Then my sever get hang and then I have to restart it.

I have 4 GB RAM.

Processors 2
Model Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7200 @ 2.53GHz
CPU Speed 2.53 GHz
Cache Size 3.00 MB
System Bogomips 10135.71

Kernel Version 2.6.18-53.el5 (SMP)
Distro Name CentOS release 5 (Final)
Load Averages 0.27 0.35 0.31

What could be the reason ?


ps ax shows :




PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? Ss 0:00 init [3]
2 ? S 0:00 [migration/0]
3 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
4 ? S 0:00 [watchdog/0]
5 ? S 0:00 [migration/1]
6 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1]
7 ? S 0:00 [watchdog/1]
8 ? S< 0:00 [events/0]
9 ? S< 0:00 [events/1]
10 ? S< 0:00 [khelper]
11 ? S< 0:00 [kthread]
15 ? R< 0:00 [kblockd/0]
16 ? S< 0:00 [kblockd/1]
17 ? S< 0:00 [kacpid]
109 ? S< 0:00 [cqueue/0]
110 ? S< 0:00 [cqueue/1]
113 ? S< 0:00 [khubd]
115 ? S< 0:00 [kseriod]
182 ? S 0:00 [pdflush]
183 ? S 0:00 [pdflush]
184 ? S< 0:00 [kswapd0]
185 ? S< 0:00 [aio/0]
186 ? S< 0:00 [aio/1]
338 ? S< 0:00 [kpsmoused]
370 ? S< 0:00 [ata/0]
371 ? S< 0:00 [ata/1]
372 ? S< 0:00 [ata_aux]
376 ? S< 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
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Today's Topics:

   1. CESA-2009:0362 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 NetworkManager -
  security update (Pasi Pirhonen)
   2. CESA-2009:0295 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 net-snmp -  security
  update (Pasi Pirhonen)
   3. CESA-2009:0373 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 systemtap - security
  update (Pasi Pirhonen)
   4. CESA-2009:0295 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 net-snmp -  security
  update (Tru Huynh)
   5. CESA-2009:0295 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 net-snmp  - security
  update (Tru Huynh)
   6. CESA-2009:0373 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x)  systemtap - security
  update (Pasi Pirhonen)
   7. CESA-2009:0295 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) net-snmp - security
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Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0362 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64
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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0362

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0362.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

ia64:
updates/ia64/RPMS/NetworkManager-0.3.1-5.el4.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/NetworkManager-gnome-0.3.1-5.el4.ia64.rpm


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Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0295 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64
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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0295

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0295.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

ia64:
updates/ia64/RPMS/net-snmp-5.0.9-2.30E.27.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/net-snmp-devel-5.0.9-2.30E.27.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/net-snmp-libs-5.0.9-2.30E.27.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/net-snmp-perl-5.0.9-2.30E.27.ia64.rpm
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Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0373 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64
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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0373

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0373.html

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Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0295 Moderate CentOS 3 i386
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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:0295

net-snmp security update for CentOS 3 i386:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0295.html

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Re: [CentOS] Server Hang

[Care India]

[root@ ~]# top

top - 13:15:25 up  1:02,  1 user,  load average: 11.31, 7.18, 4.85
Tasks: 247 total,   1 running, 246 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  7.0%us,  3.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 26.6%id, 61.7%wa,  0.2%hi,  1.0%si,
 0.0%st
Mem:   3358140k total,  2270176k used,  1087964k free,   108332k buffers
Swap:   779144k total,0k used,   779144k free,  1475812k cached

  PID USER  PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+  COMMAND
 2254 mysql 15   0  173m  32m 3964 S1  1.0   0:45.16 mysqld
12486 root  16   0 24776  18m 2620 S0  0.6   0:00.59 AST_CRON_audio_
13211 root  18   0 24780  18m 2596 S0  0.6   0:00.29 AST_CRON_audio_
24715 root  15   0 24776  18m 2596 S0  0.6   0:00.72 AST_CRON_audio_
 2969 root  18   0 24780  18m 2600 S0  0.6   0:02.27 AST_CRON_audio_
14987 root  15   0 24780  18m 2600 S0  0.6   0:00.92 AST_CRON_audio_
24392 root  15   0 24776  18m 2600 S0  0.6   0:01.51 AST_CRON_audio_
 4052 root  18   0 24780  18m 2600 S0  0.6   0:01.92 AST_CRON_audio_
11946 root  15   0 24776  18m 2600 S0  0.6   0:01.80 AST_CRON_audio_
12338 root  16   0 24780  18m 2600 S0  0.6   0:01.19 AST_CRON_audio_
23503 root  16   0 24780  18m 2600 S0  0.6   0:00.46 AST_CRON_audio_
28702 root  15   0 24780  18m 2600 S0  0.6   0:01.15 AST_CRON_audio_
30800 root  15   0 24780  18m 2600 S0  0.6   0:01.48 AST_CRON_audio_
 1878 root  16   0 24776  18m 2600 S0  0.6   0:00.37 AST_CRON_audio_
 2148 root  15   0 24776  18m 2600 S0  0.6   0:00.63 AST_CRON_audio_
 5039 root  17   0 24776  18m 2600 S0  0.6   0:01.30 AST_CRON_audio_
 5375 root  15   0 24776  18m 2600 S0  0.6   0:00.94 AST_CRON_audio_
 6002 root  18   0 24776  18m 2600 S0  0.6   0:01.92 AST_CRON_audio_
 8677 root  16   0 24776  18m 2600 S0  0.6   0:01.83 AST_CRON_audio_
16009 root  16   0 24776  18m 2600 S0  0.6   0:01.66 AST_CRON_audio_
20088 root  16   0 24776  18m 2600 S0  0.6   0:01.10 AST_CRON_audio_
25039 root  17   0 24780  18m 2592 S0  0.6   0:00.20 AST_CRON_audio_
 2680 root  15   0 32048  11m 4904 S1  0.4   1:08.59 asterisk
18078 apache15   0 61224  11m 7612 S0  0.4   0:01.37 httpd
18622 apache15   0 61224  11m 7212 S0  0.3   0:01.21 httpd
 2390 apache25   0 61232  10m 6928 S0  0.3   0:02.28 httpd
18612 apache15   0 61108  10m 6840 S0  0.3   0:01.13 httpd
18631 apache15   0 61224  10m 6724 S0  0.3   0:01.47 httpd
 2392 apache16   0 61236  10m 6696 S0  0.3   0:02.08 httpd
19151 apache25   0 61224  10m 6656 S0  0.3   0:01.38 httpd
19175 apache15   0 61232  10m 6592 S0  0.3   0:01.14 httpd
 2391 apache15   0 61232  10m 6508 S0  0.3   0:01.92 httpd
17499 apache15   0 61224  10m 6464 S0  0.3   0:01.52 httpd
18625 apache15   0 61108  10m 6504 S0  0.3   0:01.16 httpd
 2387 apache15   0 61236   9m 5912 S0  0.3   0:02.47 httpd
 2394 apache16   0 61240 9.9m 5896 S0  0.3   0:02.19 httpd
17500 apache15   0 61224 9.8m 5752 S0  0.3   0:01.64 httpd
19155 apache16   0 61252 9.8m 5760 S0  0.3   0:01.10 httpd
18076 apache15   0 61224 9.8m 5748 S0  0.3   0:01.28 httpd





On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:28 PM, John Doe  wrote:

>
> From: Care India 
> > I see that "Physical Memory" keep increasing and at one point it reaches
> 96%. Then my sever get hang and then I have to restart it.
> > I have 4 GB RAM.
> > What could be the reason ?
>
> Try 'top' and press 'M' to see the processes using the most RAM.
>
> JD
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>
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Re: [CentOS] Server Hang

[John Doe]

From: Care India 
> I see that "Physical Memory" keep increasing and at one point it reaches 96%. 
> Then my sever get hang and then I have to restart it.
> I have 4 GB RAM.
> What could be the reason ?

Try 'top' and press 'M' to see the processes using the most RAM.

JD


  

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Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

[Les Mikesell]

Rainer Duffner wrote:
> Spiro Harvey schrieb:
>> I've got a couple of cents change here...
>>
>>   
> 
> 
> While I do think some of the wording of the post that the above post was
> replying to was a bit mis-chosen, I like to believe it had a positive spin.
> (In that it didn't want to put blame on anybody)
> 
> I *do* agree with the sentiment that people should buy RHEL for stuff
> they consider critical.
> Or just change distro if they think they get a better deal elsewhere.
> 
> Which is what I normaly do, unless management decides they can get away
> cheaper and in essence get RHEL + updates for free with CentOS.
> 
> The CentOS team certainly doesn't owe me CentOS 5.3 by now - in the same
> way I can't really complain about a late (again) FreeBSD release.

While I love CentOS, think the team does the best possible job, and 
appreciate the work they put into undoing the restrictions on 
redistribution by the upstream distro, I have to wonder if it isn't time 
to just switch to a base distribution that doesn't impose those 
restrictions that force the extra work and delays in the first place.

Is there still any reason other than having to learn to type 'apt-get' 
instead of 'yum' to prefer Centos over Ubuntu?  I think for me it is 
just that I started with RH before they imposed the redistribution 
restriction nonsense and have been too lazy to change administration 
styles (and debian's "release-when-it's-ready" schedule wasn't 
attractive at the time).  On a test machine I've noted that Ubuntu 
worked with the wireless adapter where Centos didn't, Sun Java is 
included, and the update mechanism seems faster and better suited to 
caching proxies.  But it still feels slightly weird and unfamiliar.  Are 
there reasons to not trust it?

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Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

[nate]

Les Mikesell wrote:

> Is there still any reason other than having to learn to type 'apt-get'
> instead of 'yum' to prefer Centos over Ubuntu?  I think for me it is
> just that I started with RH before they imposed the redistribution
> restriction nonsense and have been too lazy to change administration
> styles (and debian's "release-when-it's-ready" schedule wasn't
> attractive at the time).  On a test machine I've noted that Ubuntu
> worked with the wireless adapter where Centos didn't, Sun Java is
> included, and the update mechanism seems faster and better suited to
> caching proxies.  But it still feels slightly weird and unfamiliar.  Are
> there reasons to not trust it?

I think it's safe to assume that the majority of CentOS users out
there run CentOS on servers, not on desktops/laptops/etc.

I have been using Debian for 11 years(since hamm), and use it
on all of my personal desktops. I have used Ubuntu on my
laptops. With Debian 5.0 coming out recently I may make my
next laptop run that. I haven't had a need to use a laptop
on a regular basis in over a year now so my laptops are
collecting dust for the most part(still use it for travel
when I travel).

I know there are some, but I am not one that uses CentOS(or RHEL)
on a desktop system. CentOS/RHEL make great server systems for
many types of servers(I prefer debian on my personal gear because
of the larger, supported package repositories). My work gear
is much larger scale so I put together manually package dependencies
and special versions of some packages to distribute across tens
or hundreds of systems as-needed. My personal server doesn't need
such attention or else I might use CentOS there too.

I have no problem myself in CentOS being weeks/months behind
RHEL. I still have legacy systems running RHEL 3 Update 3. And
they are not going to get updated, just re-installed from scratch
when I have time to get to them.

All of the systems I manage are fairly well protected and generally
only have trusted users that interact with them, internet-facing
services are entirely 3rd party packages(e.g. java+tomcat), maintained
independently of the OS, so security risks are very low. I'm
still going through the list of older RHEL 4 Update 4 systems
and getting them re-installed with something newer, at this rate
maybe another 3-4 months, at which point it may be time to be able
to widely deploy CentOS 5. The main reason for going back and
updating things isn't because the OS is old it's more because
the management and configuration on those older systems is so
broken the only way to fix them safely is to re-install.

If you want another distribution, go to another distribution, I
can't imagine why CentOS would want to base themselves on Ubuntu
when you can already get Ubuntu pretty easily for "free".

CentOS/RHEL have their places they provide a valuable service to
the world. As far as I know our F5 load balancers are based on
CentOS(they were as of a few years ago, I'm not sure if F5 has
changed their distribution since, I suspect not, is based on
RHEL-3), and our recently purchased high performance Exanet
NAS cluster runs on CentOS 4.4. While my back end storage
array from 3PAR runs on Debian.

Not everyone needs the latest & greatest, not everyone needs
the most current security updates. Make your own risk assessments
based on your environment and use what makes you feel comfortable
to sleep at night.

I don't see a need for CentOS to change a thing, hopefully they
can get more support if they need it, I try to help as best I can
on the list answering other's questions.

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Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:34:04PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Rainer Duffner wrote:
> > Spiro Harvey schrieb:
> >> I've got a couple of cents change here...
> >>
> >>   
> > While I do think some of the wording of the post that the above post was
> > replying to was a bit mis-chosen, I like to believe it had a positive spin.
> > (In that it didn't want to put blame on anybody)
> > 
> > I *do* agree with the sentiment that people should buy RHEL for stuff
> > they consider critical.
> > Or just change distro if they think they get a better deal elsewhere.
> > 
> > Which is what I normaly do, unless management decides they can get away
> > cheaper and in essence get RHEL + updates for free with CentOS.
> > 
> > The CentOS team certainly doesn't owe me CentOS 5.3 by now - in the same
> > way I can't really complain about a late (again) FreeBSD release.
> 
> While I love CentOS, think the team does the best possible job, and 
> appreciate the work they put into undoing the restrictions on 
> redistribution by the upstream distro, I have to wonder if it isn't time 
> to just switch to a base distribution that doesn't impose those 
> restrictions that force the extra work and delays in the first place.
> 
> Is there still any reason other than having to learn to type 'apt-get' 
> instead of 'yum' to prefer Centos over Ubuntu?  I think for me it is 
> just that I started with RH before they imposed the redistribution 
> restriction nonsense and have been too lazy to change administration 
> styles (and debian's "release-when-it's-ready" schedule wasn't 
> attractive at the time).  On a test machine I've noted that Ubuntu 
> worked with the wireless adapter where Centos didn't, Sun Java is 
> included, and the update mechanism seems faster and better suited to 
> caching proxies.  But it still feels slightly weird and unfamiliar.  Are 
> there reasons to not trust it?
> 

Oh boy.  Now we're going in a completely new direction on this thread.
:-D

Nothing wrong with changing distros of course, but, at least for me my
reasons for staying with RH/Fedora/Cent are mainly that RHEL is still
the "corporate" standard and more likely to keep me employed.  I'd
prefer to stay familiar with the "RH" environment for this reason
alone.

As long as RH continues to employ a large chunk of the Linux
development community, it will continue to be a major player in the
enterprise space.  And if not for CentOS someone else would step up and
fill the void of a "free" version.

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Re: [CentOS] Welcome to the "CentOS" mailing list (Digest mode)

[MHR]

2009/3/27 zhangrichard :
>
>
>> Subject: Welcome to the "CentOS" mailing list (Digest mode)
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>> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:09:42 -0400
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And your point was . . . ?

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Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

[Les Mikesell]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>> While I love CentOS, think the team does the best possible job, and 
>> appreciate the work they put into undoing the restrictions on 
>> redistribution by the upstream distro, I have to wonder if it isn't time 
>> to just switch to a base distribution that doesn't impose those 
>> restrictions that force the extra work and delays in the first place.
> 
> What restrictions are you talking about exactly?

The ones that require the work that the CentOS team does to 
rebuild/rebrand/repackage before redistribution is permitted.  This was 
not required in the early days when RH developed its community support 
(up through RH9) and perhaps it would have been wiser to walk away from 
everything RedHat-related the day they made that change.  There just 
didn't seem to be a suitable alternative until Ubuntu started the 
long-term support releases.

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Re: [CentOS] USB, AutoMount & VNC

[MHR]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Guy Boisvert  wrote:
> Hi!
>
>        I'm trying to figure out how to make automount do its job when nobody
> is logged at the console and the user access the server by VNC.  Does
> anybody knows how to make CentOS automount USB Hard Drives / Pendrive
> when accessed by VNC?
>

Could you describe the problem a little more clearly?  Separation of
console from USB-accessible hardware, how VNC fits in in this
scenario, etc.

It sounds like someone wants to log in remotely (VNC), plug in a
(local) USB device and access it (remotely), which doesn't make sense
to me.

Thanks.

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Re: [CentOS] USB, AutoMount & VNC

[Guy Boisvert]

MHR wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Guy Boisvert  
> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>I'm trying to figure out how to make automount do its job when nobody
>> is logged at the console and the user access the server by VNC.  Does
>> anybody knows how to make CentOS automount USB Hard Drives / Pendrive
>> when accessed by VNC?
>>
> 
> Could you describe the problem a little more clearly?  Separation of
> console from USB-accessible hardware, how VNC fits in in this
> scenario, etc.
> 
> It sounds like someone wants to log in remotely (VNC), plug in a
> (local) USB device and access it (remotely), which doesn't make sense
> to me.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> mhr
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Hi,

It make senses if you're running a box headless (it will be headless 
soon, now i'm testing it with K+V+M attached).  We're using a CentOS box 
to plug USB Flash drive & external hard drive into it.  The CentOS box 
is then used to FTP the content of these external drives to a Winblows 
box, all that filtered by a firewall between the 2 boxes.  Only FTP is 
allowed.

Doing some tests on the CentOS box, i saw that if i log into the 
console, then the local session and the remote VNC sessions will see the 
drives automounted.  If i log out of the console, then the VNC session 
won't see anything.  It's like the automount works only if somebody is 
logged at the console.

Hope i was clearer.  Thanks!


Guy Boisvert, ing.
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Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

[Timothy Murphy]

Les Mikesell wrote:

> While I love CentOS, think the team does the best possible job, and 
> appreciate the work they put into undoing the restrictions on 
> redistribution by the upstream distro, I have to wonder if it isn't time 
> to just switch to a base distribution that doesn't impose those 
> restrictions that force the extra work and delays in the first place.

What restrictions are you talking about exactly?

Personally, I run Centos on my server
because it doesn't change too rapidly,
and this makes me think it can be trusted
not to cause me too much trouble.

I don't mind taking that trouble on my laptops,
where I run Fedora-10.


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Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install

[Michael Peterson]

JohnS wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:15 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
>   
>> JohnS wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:21 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>   
 I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if 
 there is a work around.
 
 
>>> ---
>>> What are you using to burn the CDs? How old is the CD Drive that your
>>> are using to install? How old is the cable? Last thing strip it down to
>>> the bare minimum harwdare and install?
>>>
>>> JohnStanley
>>>   
>
>   
>>>   
>>>   
>> I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ 
>> CDRW drive.
>>
>> The burned CD's test fine in more than one system.
>> I do have to test them with ide=nodma to get them to pass.
>>
>> The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install is 5 
>> years old.
>>
>> I searched the CentOS site and mailing list for similar issues and found 
>> one dating back to last year.
>> The anaconda errors were similar.
>>
>> I finally got 5.2 to install and the fix was to tell the kernel to 
>> ignore the ide tape device.
>> The tape drive is on hdd and the following allowed me to do a GUI 
>> install with 512 MB.
>>
>> linux ide=nodma hdd=none
>> 
>
> Just currious does the tape drive work since install? Would like like to
> know the brand of it also for reference.
>
>   
>> I thought I would post my result so that this request for help could be 
>> closed.
>>
>> Thanks for having this list to provide the avenue to a solution.
>> 
>
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I have used mt and cpio to access the tape drive with and they work fine.

The tape drive is an ECRIX VXA-1a ATAPI TAPE drive.





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Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

[Morten Torstensen]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> The ones that require the work that the CentOS team does to 
> rebuild/rebrand/repackage before redistribution is permitted.  This was 

As a corporation Red Hat HAD to do that, even if IANAL. CentOS as a 
model works just fine. Sure, sometimes there can be a lack of manpower 
for something. After all, it is a volunteer project that people run in 
their spare time!

Of course, the geek in me waits for the next release. It is always 
waiting for the next release and the next new toy. If I really NEEDED 
the next release, I would use RHEL.

Come on folks, get a perspective of what we are doing here.

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[CentOS] Getting asciidoc

[James B. Byrne]

I need to install asciidoc on my build machine.  There is a version
for CentOS-5 available at dags rpm site.  I have a repository
configured for dag like so:

[dag]
name=Dag Wieers RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
#Also see URL http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgkey=http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
gpgcheck=1
# this repo just does not respond in a timely fashion so
# turned off by default
# Use yum --enablerepo=dag to use.
enabled=0
gpgkey=http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
includepkgs=acsiidoc* bitt* perl*
# priority requires yum-priorities. Must also be enabled in
# yum.conf and /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.conf
priority=20

I tried to install asciidoc using yum like so:

# yum --enablerepo=dag install asciidoc
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * epel: www.muug.mb.ca
 * adobe-linux-i386: linuxdownload.adobe.com
 * dag: apt.sw.be
 * base: mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
 * updates: www.muug.mb.ca
 * addons: www.muug.mb.ca
 * extras: www.muug.mb.ca
Reducing Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - x86_64 to included
packages only
Finished
Reducing Dag Wieers RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to
included packages only
Finished
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package asciidoc available.
Nothing to do

What am I doing wrong?


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Re: [CentOS] Getting asciidoc

[Brian Mathis]

You need to set "enabled=1" in the config file.  Currently you have "enabled=0"


On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:20 PM, James B. Byrne  wrote:
> I need to install asciidoc on my build machine.  There is a version
> for CentOS-5 available at dags rpm site.  I have a repository
> configured for dag like so:
>
> [dag]
> name=Dag Wieers RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> #Also see URL http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/
> baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
> gpgkey=http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
> gpgcheck=1
> # this repo just does not respond in a timely fashion so
> # turned off by default
> # Use yum --enablerepo=dag to use.
> enabled=0
> gpgkey=http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
> includepkgs=acsiidoc* bitt* perl*
> # priority requires yum-priorities. Must also be enabled in
> # yum.conf and /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.conf
> priority=20
>
> I tried to install asciidoc using yum like so:
>
> # yum --enablerepo=dag install asciidoc
> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * epel: www.muug.mb.ca
>  * adobe-linux-i386: linuxdownload.adobe.com
>  * dag: apt.sw.be
>  * base: mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
>  * updates: www.muug.mb.ca
>  * addons: www.muug.mb.ca
>  * extras: www.muug.mb.ca
> Reducing Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - x86_64 to included
> packages only
> Finished
> Reducing Dag Wieers RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to
> included packages only
> Finished
> Setting up Install Process
> Parsing package install arguments
> No package asciidoc available.
> Nothing to do
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
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Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install

[Scott Silva]

on 3-27-2009 1:07 PM Michael Peterson spake the following:
> JohnS wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:15 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
>>   
>>> JohnS wrote:
>>> 
 On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:21 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:

   
   
> I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if 
> there is a work around.
> 
> 
 ---
 What are you using to burn the CDs? How old is the CD Drive that your
 are using to install? How old is the cable? Last thing strip it down to
 the bare minimum harwdare and install?

 JohnStanley
   
>>   
   
   
>>> I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ 
>>> CDRW drive.
>>>
>>> The burned CD's test fine in more than one system.
>>> I do have to test them with ide=nodma to get them to pass.
>>>
>>> The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install is 5 
>>> years old.
>>>
>>> I searched the CentOS site and mailing list for similar issues and found 
>>> one dating back to last year.
>>> The anaconda errors were similar.
>>>
>>> I finally got 5.2 to install and the fix was to tell the kernel to 
>>> ignore the ide tape device.
>>> The tape drive is on hdd and the following allowed me to do a GUI 
>>> install with 512 MB.
>>>
>>> linux ide=nodma hdd=none
>>> 
>> Just currious does the tape drive work since install? Would like like to
>> know the brand of it also for reference.
>>
>>   
>>> I thought I would post my result so that this request for help could be 
>>> closed.
>>>
>>> Thanks for having this list to provide the avenue to a solution.
>>> 
>> JohnStanley
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> I have used mt and cpio to access the tape drive with and they work fine.
> 
> The tape drive is an ECRIX VXA-1a ATAPI TAPE drive.
It must resemble a hard drive just enough to confuse the installer.




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Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install

[JohnS]

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 15:10 -0700, Scott Silva wrote:
> on 3-27-2009 1:07 PM Michael Peterson spake the following:
> > JohnS wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:15 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
> >>   
> >>> JohnS wrote:
> >>> 
>  On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:21 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
> 
>    
>    
> > I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if 
> > there is a work around.
> > 
> > 
>  ---
>  What are you using to burn the CDs? How old is the CD Drive that your
>  are using to install? How old is the cable? Last thing strip it down to
>  the bare minimum harwdare and install?
> 
>  JohnStanley
>    
> >>   
>    
>    
> >>> I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ 
> >>> CDRW drive.
> >>>
> >>> The burned CD's test fine in more than one system.
> >>> I do have to test them with ide=nodma to get them to pass.
> >>>
> >>> The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install is 5 
> >>> years old.
> >>>
> >>> I searched the CentOS site and mailing list for similar issues and found 
> >>> one dating back to last year.
> >>> The anaconda errors were similar.
> >>>
> >>> I finally got 5.2 to install and the fix was to tell the kernel to 
> >>> ignore the ide tape device.
> >>> The tape drive is on hdd and the following allowed me to do a GUI 
> >>> install with 512 MB.
> >>>
> >>> linux ide=nodma hdd=none
> >>> 
> >> Just currious does the tape drive work since install? Would like like to
> >> know the brand of it also for reference.
> >>
> >>   
> >>> I thought I would post my result so that this request for help could be 
> >>> closed.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for having this list to provide the avenue to a solution.
> >>> 
> >> JohnStanley
> >>
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> > I have used mt and cpio to access the tape drive with and they work fine.
> > 
> > The tape drive is an ECRIX VXA-1a ATAPI TAPE drive.
> It must resemble a hard drive just enough to confuse the installer.
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That's why I wondered and wanted to know. Seems like BSD has the same
problem with the same tape drive.

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Re: [CentOS] Getting asciidoc

[Frank Thommen]

Brian Mathis wrote:
> You need to set "enabled=1" in the config file.  Currently you have 
> "enabled=0"

I don't think you need "enabled=1" in the repo file if you are using 
`yum --enablerepo=dag ...` on the command line, but...


>> [dag]
>> [...]
>> enabled=0
>> gpgkey=http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
>> includepkgs=acsiidoc* bitt* perl*
^
...this should probably read 'asciidoc'? :-)

Cheers

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Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

[Frank Thommen]

nate wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>> [...]
> 
> I think it's safe to assume that the majority of CentOS users out
> there run CentOS on servers, not on desktops/laptops/etc.

So I'm one from the minority then :-).  CentOS 5 is running on (almost) 
all servers and (really) all Linux clients here.  Being used to the 
"RedHat" way from a former job and not being happy with the fast release 
cycles of Fedora, CentOS was a logical choice.  No more system 
instabilities and no more package incompatibilities since we switched 
from Fedora (let's keep fingers crossed).  That's what I call 
"Enterprise grade" :-)

I don't care if the CentOS release comes days or weeks (or months) after 
the RedHat release as long as it comes one day.

And sincerely: I don't understand, why RedHat/CentOS should not be used 
on desktops.

Cheers

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Re: [CentOS] USB, AutoMount & VNC

[Frank Thommen]

Guy Boisvert wrote:
> MHR wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Guy Boisvert  
>> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>>I'm trying to figure out how to make automount do its job when nobody
>>> is logged at the console and the user access the server by VNC.  Does
>>> anybody knows how to make CentOS automount USB Hard Drives / Pendrive
>>> when accessed by VNC?
>>>
>> Could you describe the problem a little more clearly?  Separation of
>> console from USB-accessible hardware, how VNC fits in in this
>> scenario, etc.
>>
>> It sounds like someone wants to log in remotely (VNC), plug in a
>> (local) USB device and access it (remotely), which doesn't make sense
>> to me.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> mhr
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> Hi,
> 
>   It make senses if you're running a box headless (it will be headless 
> soon, now i'm testing it with K+V+M attached).  We're using a CentOS box 
> to plug USB Flash drive & external hard drive into it.  The CentOS box 
> is then used to FTP the content of these external drives to a Winblows 
> box, all that filtered by a firewall between the 2 boxes.  Only FTP is 
> allowed.
> 
>   Doing some tests on the CentOS box, i saw that if i log into the 
> console, then the local session and the remote VNC sessions will see the 
> drives automounted.  If i log out of the console, then the VNC session 
> won't see anything.  It's like the automount works only if somebody is 
> logged at the console.

I assume that with "console" you mean X11/desktop manager.  In this case 
Gnome or KDE handle the mounting of removable devices for you.  The 
automounter hasn't anything to do with it.

If you want the automounter to handle removable devices, then you'll 
have to add appropriate automounter map entries.  Something like

/etc/auto.master:
/media /etc/auto.media

/etc/auto.media:
usb:/dev/sda1


or you could use a program map like the following (not my invention, I 
took this from the autofs mailing list):

-
#!/bin/sh
if ntfs-3g.probe /dev/sda1; then
echo "-fstype=ntfs-3g,other-opts :/dev/sda1"
else
echo "-fstype=vfat,other-opts :/dev/sda1"
fi
-

You'll probably find other examples on the net.

I'm not sure if such an automounter setup collides with Gnome/KDE 
automounting.

Cheers

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Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

[Robert Nichols]

Frank Thommen wrote:
> nate wrote:
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>> I think it's safe to assume that the majority of CentOS users out
>> there run CentOS on servers, not on desktops/laptops/etc.
> 
> So I'm one from the minority then :-).  CentOS 5 is running on (almost) 
> all servers and (really) all Linux clients here.  Being used to the 
> "RedHat" way from a former job and not being happy with the fast release 
> cycles of Fedora, CentOS was a logical choice.  No more system 
> instabilities and no more package incompatibilities since we switched 
> from Fedora (let's keep fingers crossed).  That's what I call 
> "Enterprise grade" :-)

Amen!  I'm very much hoping that 5.3 will allow me to run CentOS on my
laptop so that I can get away from the half-implemented features and
"Let's see what last night's update broke!" issues with Fedora.  CentOS
works just fine on my desktop.

> I don't care if the CentOS release comes days or weeks (or months) after 
> the RedHat release as long as it comes one day.

The problem for everyone is that security updates that come along during
those "weeks (or months)" either get delayed until the CentOS release
comes or else somebody (i.e., an already overworked developer) has to
make the extra effort to make the patch work in the current release.

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Re: [CentOS] Welcome to the "CentOS" mailing list (Digest mode)

[Phil Schaffner]

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 11:38 -0700, MHR wrote:
> And your point was . . . ?

Well, now we all know his password and can unsubscribe him if we don't
like him.  :-P

Phil


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Re: [CentOS] Getting asciidoc

[Phil Schaffner]

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 16:20 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
> I need to install asciidoc on my build machine.  There is a version
> for CentOS-5 available at dags rpm site.  I have a repository
> configured for dag like so:
...
> Reducing Dag Wieers RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to
> included packages only


> What am I doing wrong?

What are you including?  Will get ONLY included packages with this
option.

Phil


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Re: [CentOS] Server Hang

[Lanny Marcus]

2009/3/27 Care India :
> I have Cent OS 5.1
> I also have http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net/
> I have asterisk running .
> Now when I look at System Information ,
> I see that "Physical Memory" keep increasing and at one point it reaches
> 96%. Then my sever get hang and then I have to restart it.
> I have 4 GB RAM.

(a) It appears that you also posted in the CentOS5 Forum:


It would be better, if you posted either here in the Mailing List, or
in the Forum. One or the other, but not both.

(b) As Gerald Clark pointed out to you, you should be posting in the
VicidialNow mailing list or forum, not here:

"You should be asking all these questions at your vicidialNOW supplier.
We have no way of knowing what may or may not have been changed
when this custom asterisk package."

(c) You posted in the forum:

"uname -a Returns me :

Linux vicidialnow.example.com 2.6.18-53.el5 #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 02:22:48
EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux"
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[CentOS] Installing on LVM on SW-RAID

[Norberto Bensa]

Hello list,

I'm trying to install CentOS 5.2 on LVM on a SW-RAID level 1, but I'm
unable to understand how to use the installer correctly.

What I'm trying to do is emulate something I've already done with
another distro where:

sda5 \
   RAID1 --> /boot
sdb5 /

sda6 \
   RAID1 --> LVM --> /root, /home, /usr, /var... etc.
sdb6 /

I've succesfully created the raid, and the PV for LVM, but I can't
figure out how to create a VG inside the PV.

Is it possible using the installer, or should I better install it
using one disk, and once installed create the raid/pv/vg, and move
everything around by hand?

Many thanks in advance,
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Re: [CentOS] Installing on LVM on SW-RAID

[Dnk]

I went through this EXACT thing last month, and with help of the list,  
I got it done. I can send you my step by step tomorrow.

D



On 27-Mar-09, at 7:07 PM, Norberto Bensa  wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I'm trying to install CentOS 5.2 on LVM on a SW-RAID level 1, but I'm
> unable to understand how to use the installer correctly.
>
> What I'm trying to do is emulate something I've already done with
> another distro where:
>
> sda5 \
>   RAID1 --> /boot
> sdb5 /
>
> sda6 \
>   RAID1 --> LVM --> /root, /home, /usr, /var... etc.
> sdb6 /
>
> I've succesfully created the raid, and the PV for LVM, but I can't
> figure out how to create a VG inside the PV.
>
> Is it possible using the installer, or should I better install it
> using one disk, and once installed create the raid/pv/vg, and move
> everything around by hand?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Norberto
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Re: [CentOS] USB, AutoMount & VNC

[Bart Schaefer]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Frank Thommen
 wrote:
>
> I assume that with "console" you mean X11/desktop manager.  In this case
> Gnome or KDE handle the mounting of removable devices for you.  The
> automounter hasn't anything to do with it.

Consequently the other option is to change the VNC configuration so
that you're running the Gnome or KDE desktop manager in VNC.  The
tricky bit then is to get it to log out properly as if you were really
on the console.

I put the following in $HOME/.vnc/xstartup to accomplish that on CentOS 5:

 8<  snip 
#!/bin/sh

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
gnome-terminal --geometry=80x24+10+10 --title="$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
( gnome-session ; kill `cat $HOME/.vnc/${VNCDESKTOP% *}.pid` ) &
 8<  snip 

This runs gnome-session in the background, then kills the desktop when
the session ends.  Replace gnome with KDE to taste.

The "recommended" way to run the desktop ...

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
# unset SESSION_MANAGER
# exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

... has the undesirable side-effect of leaving the VNC server running
with no session or window manager and no X clients when you exit from
the session.  This is annoying unless you also configure the server to
exit on the last client disconnect.  I prefer having the server
disconnect the clients when the session ends, instead.

(I'd be happy to learn there's a more convenient way to accomplish that.)
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Re: [CentOS] Installing on LVM on SW-RAID

[Norberto Bensa]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Dnk  wrote:
> I went through this EXACT thing last month, and with help of the list,
> I got it done. I can send you my step by step tomorrow.

The thread about 4 x 500GB ?

I read it quickly, but if I got it right, they're suggesting to put
root fs outside of the lvm pv...


Thanks,
Norberto
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Re: [CentOS] Installing on LVM on SW-RAID

[Dnk]

On 27-Mar-09, at 7:48 PM, Norberto Bensa  wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Dnk   
> wrote:
>> I went through this EXACT thing last month, and with help of the  
>> list,
>> I got it done. I can send you my step by step tomorrow.
>
> The thread about 4 x 500GB ?
>
> I read it quickly, but if I got it right, they're suggesting to put
> root fs outside of the lvm pv...
>
>
> Thanks,
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It was that thread, but it grew into quite the discussion. I wrote my  
stuff down step by step for myself to remember later. What kind of  
raid are to setting up? In my case I had 2x raid 1 then lvm. But the  
basics should still apply. I am on my phone hence I can't send you the  
write up until tomorrow.

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Re: [CentOS] Installing on LVM on SW-RAID

[Norberto Bensa]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Dnk  wrote:
>> On 27-Mar-09, at 7:48 PM, Norberto Bensa  wrote:
>>
>> The thread about 4 x 500GB ?
>>
> What kind of
> raid are to setting up?

I'm testing it inside virtualbox. Two drives for a raid1 setup.
Nothing serious at this time, it's just a test I'm doing for a future
deployment of CentOS as a Xen server.

I'm trying to make a raid1 between two partitions of two drives for
/boot, and a second raid1 of two partitions of the same two drives for
lvm. Like this:

sda5 + sdb5 => raid1 => md0 => /boot
sda6 + sdb6 => raid1 => md1 => PV => VolGroup001 => /, /var, /home, /usr


I'll wait until tomorrow for your step-by-step instructions. Thanks!

Best regards,
Norberto
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Re: [CentOS] Installing on LVM on SW-RAID

[Norberto Bensa]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Norberto Bensa  wrote:
> I'll wait until tomorrow for your step-by-step instructions. Thanks!

Never mind. I've done it using the graphical installer (I was using
the text mode installer)

CentOS is installing right now.

Thanks!!
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