[CentOS] MySQL setup: initial user weirdness

[Niki Kovacs]

Hi,

I've always been a bit puzzled by MySQL's initial setup. Right after 
installing MySQL, no password is set, so that's the first thing I care 
about. I know there's a way to do that with mysqldadmin, but hey, 
different ways lead to Saint-Bauzille-de-Montmel.

# chkconfig mysqld on
# service mysqld start
# mysql -u root
mysql> use mysql;
mysql> select user, host, password from user;
+--+---+--+
| user | host  | password |
+--+---+--+
| root | localhost |  |
| root | buildbox  |  |
| root | 127.0.0.1 |  |
|  | localhost |  |
|  | buildbox  |  |
+--+---+--+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

This shows that in my initial setup, I have no less than five initial 
users. A root user for three different hosts (localhost, buildbox and 
127.0.0.1), and an empty user for two different hosts (localhost and 
buildbox).

I don't know if I'm expected to set five passwords (five times the same? 
five different passwords?) for these five entities, but what I usually 
do is just get rid of every initial user except r...@localhost. In that 
case:

mysql> delete from user where user = '';
Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> select user, host, password from user;
+--+---+--+
| user | host  | password |
+--+---+--+
| root | localhost |  |
| root | buildbox  |  |
| root | 127.0.0.1 |  |
+--+---+--+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Here goes the empty user. Now for the remaining two:

mysql> delete from user where host = 'buildbox';
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> delete from user where host = '127.0.0.1';
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

Which leaves me with only r...@localhost:

mysql> select user, host, password from user;
+--+---+--+
| user | host  | password |
+--+---+--+
| root | localhost |  |
+--+---+--+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

And now I can define a password for that single initial user:

mysql> set password for r...@localhost = password('my_secret_password');

mysql> select user, host, password from user;
+--+---+--+
| user | host  | password |
+--+---+--+
| root | localhost | 2d97271970b60f82 |
+--+---+--+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> quit;

And from now on, I can safely connect to the MySQL monitor using mysql 
-u root -p.

I've done things like this for the past two or three years, and just now 
I wonder: am I doing something silly here? After all, maybe these other 
initial users have some obscure reason to be there in the first place?

So I thought: why not ask?

Niki
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[CentOS] Drawing Management software

[Rajagopal Swaminathan]

Greetings,

A slightly OT question:

Are there any opensource/free Drawing management software for
Engineering offices that any of the member is aware of?

This question after riding the web with our friend Google perhaps with
wrong phrasology...

TIA

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[CentOS] Antwort: Question about iostat output

[Frank . Brodbeck]

Hi,

Pascal Robert   schrieb am 21.09.2009 20:01:20:

> [r...@golgoth ~]# iostat

I've learned that you must always ignore the first output of
iostat but do something along the line of ``iostat 5'' and let
it collect some data before even starting to care about it.

Frank.
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Re: [CentOS] Antwort: Question about iostat output

[Christoph Maser]

Am Dienstag, den 22.09.2009, 10:42 +0200 schrieb
frank.brodb...@klingel.de:
> Hi,
>
> Pascal Robert   schrieb am 21.09.2009 20:01:20:
>
> > [r...@golgoth ~]# iostat
>
> I've learned that you must always ignore the first output of
> iostat but do something along the line of ``iostat 5'' and let
> it collect some data before even starting to care about it.
>
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Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

[William L. Maltby]

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 17:05 -0700, Bazooka Joe wrote:
> I have a usb hd that I use for backup.  Occasionally it dies.
> 
> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 0
> lost page write due to I/O error on sdc1
> EXT2-fs error (device sdc1): read_inode_bitmap: Cannot read inode
> bitmap - block_group = 129, inode_bitmap = 4227073
> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 0
> lost page write due to I/O error on sdc1
> EXT2-fs error (device sdc1): ext2_readdir: bad page in #2
> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 0
> lost page write due to I/O error on sdc1
> EXT2-fs error (device sdc1): ext2_get_inode: unable to read inode
> block - inode=2, block=1027
> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 0
> lost page write due to I/O error on sdc1
> EXT2-fs error (device sdc1): ext2_readdir: bad page in #2
> 
> If i unmount it and try to remount it it says sdc1 does not exist.

It may not be the USB drive. I have one that daoe the same, usually only
after long periods oh high (in)activity.

On another node, no problems ever using that same drive.

On the system with the problem, CentOS 4.7, Via Kt-400A chipset.

One the other system, Centos 5.3, Via KT-880 chipset.

I've not bothered to google yet, since it seems to occur after leaving
it attached for long periods and what I do doesn't take long

Maybe there's a clue?

> 
> I am not at the location so physically unplugging then replugging in
> the drive isn't a convenient option.
> 
> How can I get the os to rescan the usb device so I can remount?
> 
> thx
> bazooka
> 

HTH
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Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

[John Doe]

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 17:05 -0700, Bazooka Joe wrote:
> I have a usb hd that I use for backup.  Occasionally it dies.
> If i unmount it and try to remount it it says sdc1 does not exist.

Not sure if related to your problem but I have many 'zombie' usb devices after 
mounting/unmounting a few times...

  # ll /dev/sd*
  brw-r- 1 root disk 8,  0 Sep 17 11:45 /dev/sda*
  brw-r- 1 root disk 8, 16 Sep 17 11:45 /dev/sdb*
  brw-r- 1 root disk 8, 32 Sep 17 11:45 /dev/sdc
  brw-r- 1 root disk 8, 48 Sep 17 11:45 /dev/sdd
  brw-r- 1 root disk 8, 64 Sep 17 11:45 /dev/sde
  brw-r- 1 root disk 8, 80 Sep 17 11:45 /dev/sdf
  brw-r- 1 root disk 8, 96 Sep 17 11:45 /dev/sdg

  # rmmod usb_storage

  # ll /dev/sd*
  brw-r- 1 root disk 8,  0 Sep 17 11:45 /dev/sda*
  brw-r- 1 root disk 8, 16 Sep 17 11:45 /dev/sdb*

JD


  

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Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:Virtualizer software for Windows guest on CentOS host

[Ulrich Leodolter]

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 23:32 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> hadi motamedi wrote:
> > Dear All
> > Can you please do me favor and let me know if there is an virtualizer 
> > software that allows installing Windows XP as guest on CentOS 5 as 
> > host ? Please be informed that my server has been installed with 
> > CentOS 5 on x86 platform and I need to have Windows XP on it as well .
> 
> either VMware Server or VirtualBox will do that
> 
> 

i am running winxp as full virtualized xen guest on
my centos 5.4 home server.  access via rdesktop from
my centos desktop machine.

VirtualBox is nice if you need full desktop support (usb devices,
audio, ..)

br
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Re: [CentOS] Drawing Management software

[Joseph L. Casale]

>Are there any opensource/free Drawing management software for
>Engineering offices that any of the member is aware of?

What features specific to a drawing are you looking for, and what
application?

Would a simple doc manglement solution not work? I doubt you'll
find anything with PLM'ish type integration for any proprietary
software if that's what you are using.
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[CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

[Jerry Geis]

I was installing centos 5.3 x86_64 on a sempron 2.7G machine with
512M ram. The install started off fine then REALLY SLOWED down
about 70% into install. I did have a swap space. after that it just crawled.
I tried restart the install a couple times at 512M. Same thing around 70%
the slow down.

I then put in 1G of RAM and everything zipped on past and finished fine.

Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? I had not noticed.
Does the same apply for running?
5.2 did not seem to have any issues running in 512M that I recall.

Thanks for your comments.

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Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:Virtualizer software for Windows guest on CentOS host

[hadi motamedi]

Thank you very much for your reply . I didn't get the point exactly . Can
you please do me favor and provide me with more details on the method that
you used in your case . Please let me to have it to resemble it on my server
.
Thank you in advance



On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Ulrich Leodolter <
ulrich.leodol...@obvsg.at> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 23:32 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> > hadi motamedi wrote:
> > > Dear All
> > > Can you please do me favor and let me know if there is an virtualizer
> > > software that allows installing Windows XP as guest on CentOS 5 as
> > > host ? Please be informed that my server has been installed with
> > > CentOS 5 on x86 platform and I need to have Windows XP on it as well .
> >
> > either VMware Server or VirtualBox will do that
> >
> >
>
> i am running winxp as full virtualized xen guest on
> my centos 5.4 home server.  access via rdesktop from
> my centos desktop machine.
>
> VirtualBox is nice if you need full desktop support (usb devices,
> audio, ..)
>
> br
> ulrich
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Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

[Tim Verhoeven]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Jerry Geis  wrote:
> I was installing centos 5.3 x86_64 on a sempron 2.7G machine with
> 512M ram. The install started off fine then REALLY SLOWED down
> about 70% into install. I did have a swap space. after that it just crawled.
> I tried restart the install a couple times at 512M. Same thing around 70%
> the slow down.
>
> I then put in 1G of RAM and everything zipped on past and finished fine.
>
> Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? I had not noticed.
> Does the same apply for running?
> 5.2 did not seem to have any issues running in 512M that I recall.
>

It depends on the amount of packages you select. A minimal install
should work with 5.3 and 512 MB of RAM.

The reason is that yum needs a lot of memory when doing dependency checking etc.

Regards,
Tim

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Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

[Niki Kovacs]

Jerry Geis a écrit :

> Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? 

512M for the full-blown installer, 128 MB for the NCurses version. I 
have some low-end machines with just that much RAM, running 5.3 on them. 
Works fine.

Niki
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Re: [CentOS] Drawing Management software

[Les Mikesell]

Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> A slightly OT question:
> 
> Are there any opensource/free Drawing management software for
> Engineering offices that any of the member is aware of?
> 
> This question after riding the web with our friend Google perhaps with
> wrong phrasology...
> 

You can use version control systems like subversion to manage about any type of 
files.  Or did you mean software to do drawings?

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Re: [CentOS] MySQL setup: initial user weirdness

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:09:15 +0200 CentOS mailing list  
wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've always been a bit puzzled by MySQL's initial setup. Right after 
> installing MySQL, no password is set, so that's the first thing I care 
> about. I know there's a way to do that with mysqldadmin, but hey, 
> different ways lead to Saint-Bauzille-de-Montmel.
> 
> # chkconfig mysqld on
> # service mysqld start
> # mysql -u root
> mysql> use mysql;
> mysql> select user, host, password from user;
> +--+---+--+
> | user | host  | password |
> +--+---+--+
> | root | localhost |  |
> | root | buildbox  |  |
> | root | 127.0.0.1 |  |
> |  | localhost |  |
> |  | buildbox  |  |
> +--+---+--+
> 5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> 
> This shows that in my initial setup, I have no less than five initial 
> users. A root user for three different hosts (localhost, buildbox and 
> 127.0.0.1), and an empty user for two different hosts (localhost and 
> buildbox).
> 
> I don't know if I'm expected to set five passwords (five times the same? 
> five different passwords?) for these five entities, but what I usually 
> do is just get rid of every initial user except r...@localhost. In that 
> case:
> 
> mysql> delete from user where user = '';
> Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.01 sec)
> 
> mysql> select user, host, password from user;
> +--+---+--+
> | user | host  | password |
> +--+---+--+
> | root | localhost |  |
> | root | buildbox  |  |
> | root | 127.0.0.1 |  |
> +--+---+--+
> 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> 
> Here goes the empty user. Now for the remaining two:
> 
> mysql> delete from user where host = 'buildbox';
> Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)
> 
> mysql> delete from user where host = '127.0.0.1';
> Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
> 
> Which leaves me with only r...@localhost:
> 
> mysql> select user, host, password from user;
> +--+---+--+
> | user | host  | password |
> +--+---+--+
> | root | localhost |  |
> +--+---+--+
> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
> 
> And now I can define a password for that single initial user:
> 
> mysql> set password for r...@localhost = password('my_secret_password');
> 
> mysql> select user, host, password from user;
> +--+---+--+
> | user | host  | password |
> +--+---+--+
> | root | localhost | 2d97271970b60f82 |
> +--+---+--+
> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql> quit;
> 
> And from now on, I can safely connect to the MySQL monitor using mysql 
> -u root -p.
> 
> I've done things like this for the past two or three years, and just now 
> I wonder: am I doing something silly here? After all, maybe these other 
> initial users have some obscure reason to be there in the first place?

They are there to provide initial access to MySQL.  It is *expected* as
part of the post install process to do more or less what you just did. 
Each installation is 'unique' on some level.  Sometimes an admin cannot
access the machine locally or needs to admin the MySQL database
remotely (this is the point of 'buildbox', which is just the network
name for the machine you just installed MySQL on in this case). 
'localhost' is just the *name* for the loopback address which is
127.0.0.1 -- MySQL is just 'dumb' WRT DNS.  The anonymous user has
limited access and is there for test purposes or for use as a 'guest'
account (you might grant it read only access to some database for
example, which would allow some application read access).  There are
some situations where this is usefull.

There is a chapter in the MySQL reference manual that talks about this
and explains the post install process.

> 
> So I thought: why not ask?
> 
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Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

[Jim Perrin]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Jerry Geis  wrote:

> Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? I had not noticed.
> Does the same apply for running?
> 5.2 did not seem to have any issues running in 512M that I recall.

"Minimum requirements" and "Usable system speed" aren't necessarily the same.

The latter is subjective and varies user to user. The former is simply
a binary yes/no type of operation answering the question "Can the
installer complete successfully"


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Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:Virtualizer software for Windows guest on CentOS host

[Kemp, Larry]

VirtualBox on CentOS:
I second that. I have run VirtualBox on CentOS 5.3; I am able to automate much 
using the command line options. I have run Linux and Windows guests using this 
great FREE program. It also has many built in tools for converting VMDK's to 
VDI, cloning VM, NAT'ing and more. Great if you want to run your own virtual 
LAN on your own PC/Server without being exposed to your real LAN or DHCP pool. 
I think it already available in .rpm format

Larry Kemp
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Bonita Springs, FL USA

From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of 
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:Virtualizer software for Windows guest on CentOS 
host

Thank you very much for your reply . I didn't get the point exactly . Can you 
please do me favor and provide me with more details on the method that you used 
in your case . Please let me to have it to resemble it on my server .
Thank you in advance



On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Ulrich Leodolter 
mailto:ulrich.leodol...@obvsg.at>> wrote:
On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 23:32 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> hadi motamedi wrote:
> > Dear All
> > Can you please do me favor and let me know if there is an virtualizer
> > software that allows installing Windows XP as guest on CentOS 5 as
> > host ? Please be informed that my server has been installed with
> > CentOS 5 on x86 platform and I need to have Windows XP on it as well .
>
> either VMware Server or VirtualBox will do that
>
>
i am running winxp as full virtualized xen guest on
my centos 5.4 home server.  access via rdesktop from
my centos desktop machine.

VirtualBox is nice if you need full desktop support (usb devices,
audio, ..)

br
ulrich

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Re: [CentOS] MySQL setup: initial user weirdness

[Niki Kovacs]

Robert Heller a écrit :
> 
> They are there to provide initial access to MySQL.  It is *expected* as
> part of the post install process to do more or less what you just did. 

Thanks very much for the detailed explanation !

Niki
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Re: [CentOS] Xnest unable to connect with firewall enabled

[Les Mikesell]

Sid Kapoor wrote:
> Hi Nate,
> 
> Thnx for the reply, but I want to connect through Xnest itself... Any 
> clues ?

If it is possible for you to run freenx on the target server you might 
like the NX client from http://www.nomachine.com much better than xnest 
and it will run over an ssh connection.  Among other advantages, there 
are clients for linux/windows/mac and you can suspend running 
connections and reconnect from elsewhere, even from a different client 
type or screen size and cut/paste mostly works even between the session 
and host windows.

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[CentOS] dhcpd logging to dhcpd.log only

[Dan Carl]

I've added this to my dhcpd.conf
log-facility local6;
and
added this to my syslog.conf
local6.*   /var/log/dhcpd.log

It's still writing to dhcpd info to both log files.
How do I stop this.

I've googled but all suggested modifications I've made to the dhcpd.conf 
causes dhcpd to not start.
Thanks
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Re: [CentOS] dhcpd logging to dhcpd.log only

[Jim Perrin]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Dan Carl  wrote:
> I've added this to my dhcpd.conf
> log-facility local6;
> and
> added this to my syslog.conf
> local6.*       /var/log/dhcpd.log
>
> It's still writing to dhcpd info to both log files.
> How do I stop this.
Add local6.none to the /var/log/messages line in syslog.conf

Should look similar to this ->
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;local6.none
/var/log/messages




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   4. CESA-2009:1453 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 pidginUpdate
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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1452 Moderate

Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1452.html

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

i386:
neon-0.24.7-4.el4_8.2.i386.rpm
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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1452 Moderate

Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1452.html

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syncing to the mirrors:

x86_64:
neon-0.24.7-4.el4_8.2.i386.rpm
neon-0.24.7-4.el4_8.2.x86_64.rpm
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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1453 Moderate

Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1453.html

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

i386:
finch-2.6.2-2.el4.i386.rpm
finch-devel-2.6.2-2.el4.i386.rpm
libpurple-2.6.2-2.el4.i386.rpm
libpurple-devel-2.6.2-2.el4.i386.rpm
libpurple-perl-2.6.2-2.el4.i386.rpm
libpurple-tcl-2.6.2-2.el4.i386.rpm
pidgin-2.6.2-2.el4.i386.rpm
pidgin-devel-2.6.2-2.el4.i386.rpm
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The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

x86_64:
finch-2.6.2-2.el4.x86_64.rpm
finch-devel-2.6.2-2.el4.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-2.6.2-2.el4.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-devel-2.6.2-2.el4.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-perl-2.6.2-2.el4.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-tcl-2.6.2-2.el4.x86_64.rpm
pidgin-2.6.2-2.el4.x86_64.rpm
pidgin-devel-2.6.2-2.el4.x86_64.rpm
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Re: [CentOS] dhcpd logging to dhcpd.log only

[Dan Carl]

Jim Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Dan Carl  wrote:
>   
>> I've added this to my dhcpd.conf
>> log-facility local6;
>> and
>> added this to my syslog.conf
>> local6.*   /var/log/dhcpd.log
>>
>> It's still writing to dhcpd info to both log files.
>> How do I stop this.
>> 
> Add local6.none to the /var/log/messages line in syslog.conf
>
> Should look similar to this ->
> *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;local6.none
> /var/log/messages
>
>   
Thanks that did it.
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Re: [CentOS] Driver for Logitech QuickCam E2500 series webcam

[Andrew Allen]

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 20:56 +0100, Ned Slider wrote:
> Gavin Carr wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:12:43PM +0100, Andrew Allen wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:16 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Allen  
> >>> wrote:
>  Does anybody know where I can find a driver for a Logitech E2500 webcam.
>  I'm running CentOS 5 on my desktop and want to add a webcam for skype
>  use. If I can yum install a driver from one of the repos that would be
>  great.
> 
>  Andy
> >>> You may want to check out this CentOS wiki:
> >>>
> >>> http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/Webcams
> >> Thanks - so do I just yum install dkms.noarch
> >> 2.0.22.0-1.el5.rf  from rpmforge?
> > 
> > No, 'yum install dkms-gspca'. That will pick up dkms as well if required.
> > 
> > 
> >>> and also ELRepo's kmod-video4linux driver:
> >>>
> >>> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-video4linux&highlight=webcam
> >> Sorry - I don't understand what the actual package name is for this one
> >> and how do I install it?
> > 
> > rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-0.1-1.el5.elrepo.noarch.rpm
> > yum install kmod-video4linux
> > 
> > 
> > You don't want both though - try one, and if that doesn't work uninstall
> > it and try the other.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Gavin
> > 
> 
> I would go with the elrepo driver (but I'm biased) as it's more recent 
> whereas the older gspca driver is now merged in the V4L/DVB tree.
> 
> Gavin gave details above on how to install :)

Thanks,
I've installed the driver as above from elrepo - OK except that I got
these error messages:
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36050.ko
needs unknown symbol videocodec_unregister
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36050.ko
needs unknown symbol videocodec_register
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36067.ko
needs unknown symbol videocodec_detach
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36067.ko
needs unknown symbol videocodec_attach
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36060.ko
needs unknown symbol videocodec_unregister
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36060.ko
needs unknown symbol videocodec_register
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36016.ko
needs unknown symbol videocodec_unregister
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36016.ko
needs unknown symbol videocodec_register

Skype detected a camera OK but it doesn't seem to work - and when I
click the 'test' button it just closes skype down! Any ideas please?

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Re: [CentOS] Xnest unable to connect with firewall enabled

[nate]

Sid Kapoor wrote:
> Hi Nate,
>
> Thnx for the reply, but I want to connect through Xnest itself... Any clues
> ?

Launch Xnest, connect an xterm to that Xserver, run ssh from
there, that should cause the display from the remote system to
come back to Xnest

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Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

[Gabriel - IP Guys]

> -Original Message-
> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Jerry Geis
> Sent: 22 September 2009 13:19
> To: CentOS ML
> Subject: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow
> 
> I was installing centos 5.3 x86_64 on a sempron 2.7G machine with
> 512M ram. The install started off fine then REALLY SLOWED down
> about 70% into install. I did have a swap space. after that it just
> crawled.
> I tried restart the install a couple times at 512M. Same thing around
> 70%
> the slow down.
> 
> I then put in 1G of RAM and everything zipped on past and finished
> fine.
> 
> Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? I had not
noticed.
> Does the same apply for running?
> 5.2 did not seem to have any issues running in 512M that I recall.
> 
> Thanks for your comments.
> 
> jerry


What do you consider to be really slow? One thing I've def. Learned with
installing Linux, windows, OSX, anything that has a click-click-click
install procedure, what ever the bar says, (70% complete or 20 mins
left, depending on whose OS), it's LYING! Better set the installer go
and grab a beer or two. Come back in an hour, one of two things will
have been realised. One, you've just had a fun hour, got a bit drunk,
and to top it off, you have a working CentOS installation! Or two, you
forgot to click on the final button to get the install up and running,
and now in your semi drunk state, you click it, and go off and have
another two beers! When you come back Voila! A new clean virgin
CentOS install!

If the above two scenarios didn't work out, then I'm guessing you got a
problem with hardware, because CentOS 5.3 has installed for me on a
machine, with 256M memory, and 20G HD - check console output, to make
sure there isn't any errors, like maybe drive seek errors on your CD/DVD
- Man, that has happened to me before, took 3 days to realise! I thought
it was busted hard drives. (I was young... and stupid!) Now that I'm
older, and probably just as stupid, I look out for these things.

Sorry for rambling, we have an open bar in my office, and umm... we're
making use of it!
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Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

[Curt Mills]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Gabriel - IP Guys wrote:

> What do you consider to be really slow? One thing I've def. Learned with
> installing Linux, windows, OSX, anything that has a click-click-click
> install procedure, what ever the bar says, (70% complete or 20 mins
> left, depending on whose OS), it's LYING! Better set the installer go
> and grab a beer or two. Come back in an hour, one of two things will
> have been realised. One, you've just had a fun hour, got a bit drunk,
> and to top it off, you have a working CentOS installation! Or two, you
> forgot to click on the final button to get the install up and running,
> and now in your semi drunk state, you click it, and go off and have
> another two beers! When you come back Voila! A new clean virgin
> CentOS install!

Why can't more manuals be written like this  ;-)

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Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

[nate]

Jerry Geis wrote:

> Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? I had not noticed.
> Does the same apply for running?
> 5.2 did not seem to have any issues running in 512M that I recall.

5.2 is quite slow on low memory during installation as well, I run
many VMs with 64 or 96MB of memory, but I always jack it up to 1GB
for the install, then lower it afterward.

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Re: [CentOS] Driver for Logitech QuickCam E2500 series webcam

[Ned Slider]

Andrew Allen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 20:56 +0100, Ned Slider wrote:
>> Gavin Carr wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:12:43PM +0100, Andrew Allen wrote:
 On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:16 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Allen  
> wrote:
>> Does anybody know where I can find a driver for a Logitech E2500 webcam.
>> I'm running CentOS 5 on my desktop and want to add a webcam for skype
>> use. If I can yum install a driver from one of the repos that would be
>> great.
>>
>> Andy
> You may want to check out this CentOS wiki:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/Webcams
 Thanks - so do I just yum install dkms.noarch
 2.0.22.0-1.el5.rf  from rpmforge?
>>> No, 'yum install dkms-gspca'. That will pick up dkms as well if required.
>>>
>>>
> and also ELRepo's kmod-video4linux driver:
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-video4linux&highlight=webcam
 Sorry - I don't understand what the actual package name is for this one
 and how do I install it?
>>> rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-0.1-1.el5.elrepo.noarch.rpm
>>> yum install kmod-video4linux
>>>
>>>
>>> You don't want both though - try one, and if that doesn't work uninstall
>>> it and try the other.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Gavin
>>>
>> I would go with the elrepo driver (but I'm biased) as it's more recent 
>> whereas the older gspca driver is now merged in the V4L/DVB tree.
>>
>> Gavin gave details above on how to install :)
> 
> Thanks,
> I've installed the driver as above from elrepo - OK except that I got
> these error messages:
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36050.ko
> needs unknown symbol videocodec_unregister
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36050.ko
> needs unknown symbol videocodec_register
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36067.ko
> needs unknown symbol videocodec_detach
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36067.ko
> needs unknown symbol videocodec_attach
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36060.ko
> needs unknown symbol videocodec_unregister
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36060.ko
> needs unknown symbol videocodec_register
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36016.ko
> needs unknown symbol videocodec_unregister
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36016.ko
> needs unknown symbol videocodec_register
> 

That's a known issue with older kernels - don't worry about those warnings.

> Skype detected a camera OK but it doesn't seem to work - and when I
> click the 'test' button it just closes skype down! Any ideas please?
> 

Is it a bug with Skype or the Video4Linux driver?

> Andy
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[CentOS] sshd options - centos 5.3

[Karl Kobata]

I have installed cento 5.3.  I enabled the ssh deamon.  I have found that 2
options that I normally use does respond as I expect.  Has anyone else had
similar problems with the following options in sshd_config:

- Port  - if I set the port to anything other than 22 (default), using
ssh -p n...@servername, does not work.  Yet if I leave keep the default,
then ssh n...@servername allows me to login.

- PasswordAuthentication no - if I set this option to "no" (default is
"yes"), and my ssh key is either missing or in error, I will be prompted for
user system login password.  If this is set to "no", it should not allow me
to login if I have not ssh key specified or in error.  Has anyone else run
into this problem.

 

Is there a workaround?  What are my options?  Please help.

 

 

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Re: [CentOS] sshd options - centos 5.3

[Michel van Deventer]

Hi,

On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 11:01 -0700, Karl Kobata wrote:
> I have installed cento 5.3.  I enabled the ssh deamon.  I have found
> that 2 options that I normally use does respond as I expect.  Has
> anyone else had similar problems with the following options in
> sshd_config:
> 
> - Port  – if I set the port to anything other than 22 (default),
> using ssh –p n...@servername, does not work.  Yet if I leave keep
> the default, then ssh n...@servername allows me to login.
Did you check your iptables rules ? port  is closed by default. I
use a sshd with port 443, so it should work.

> 
> - PasswordAuthentication no – if I set this option to “no” (default is
> “yes”), and my ssh key is either missing or in error, I will be
> prompted for user system login password.  If this is set to “no”, it
> should not allow me to login if I have not ssh key specified or in
> error.  Has anyone else run into this problem.
Erhm.. I remember it does ask for a password but just doesn't let you
in. But I can me mistaken :)

Regards,

Michel


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Re: [CentOS] sshd options - centos 5.3

[Larry Vaden]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Karl Kobata  wrote:
> - Port  – if I set the port to anything other than 22 (default), using
> ssh –p n...@servername, does not work.  Yet if I leave keep the default,
> then ssh n...@servername allows me to login.

You need to change the port in iptables as well.
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Re: [CentOS] sshd options - centos 5.3

[Karl Kobata]

Hi Michel,
 
> Hi,
 
> On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 11:01 -0700, Karl Kobata wrote:
> > I have installed cento 5.3.  I enabled the ssh deamon.  I have found
> > that 2 options that I normally use does respond as I expect.  Has
> > anyone else had similar problems with the following options in
> > sshd_config:
> > 
> > - Port  - if I set the port to anything other than 22 (default),
> > using ssh -p name at servername
 , does not work.  Yet if I
leave keep
> > the default, then ssh name at servername
  allows me to login.
> Did you check your iptables rules ? port  is closed by default. I
> use a sshd with port 443, so it should work.
Was this the only change you made to change the port?  
Did you also makes changes in iptables?
 
> > 
> > - PasswordAuthentication no - if I set this option to "no" (default is
> > "yes"), and my ssh key is either missing or in error, I will be
> > prompted for user system login password.  If this is set to "no", it
> > should not allow me to login if I have not ssh key specified or in
> > error.  Has anyone else run into this problem.
> Erhm.. I remember it does ask for a password but just doesn't let you
> in. But I can me mistaken :)
It does ask you for a password, and if you entered your user system
password,
It will log you in.  I am surprised that this failure exists.
 
> 
>   Regards,
> 
>   Michel

 

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Re: [CentOS] sshd options - centos 5.3

[Karl Kobata]

Hi Larry,
 
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Karl Kobata http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> > wrote:
> > - Port  - if I set the port to anything other than 22 (default),
using
> > ssh -p name at servername
 , does not work.  Yet if I
leave keep the default,
> > then ssh name at servername
  allows me to login.
 
> You need to change the port in iptables as well.
How do I modify the iptables?
 
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Re: [CentOS] Antwort: Question about iostat output

[Pascal Robert]

Le 09-09-22 à 04:48, Christoph Maser a écrit :

> Am Dienstag, den 22.09.2009, 10:42 +0200 schrieb
> frank.brodb...@klingel.de:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Pascal Robert   schrieb am 21.09.2009 20:01:20:
>>
>>> [r...@golgoth ~]# iostat
>>
>> I've learned that you must always ignore the first output of
>> iostat but do something along the line of ``iostat 5'' and let
>> it collect some data before even starting to care about it.
>>
>> Frank.
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>
> Why ignore it, us it correctly. From the manpage:
>
> "The first report generated by the iostat  command  provides  
> statistics
> concerning the time since the system was booted"

Ok, but since the Nagios plugin will not call it with an interval, it  
will be always the same stats. Look like I will have to look at what  
Dell OpenManage have to offer for I/O stats.
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Re: [CentOS] sshd options - centos 5.3

[Michel van Deventer]

Hi,

> > On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 11:01 -0700, Karl Kobata wrote:
> > > I have installed cento 5.3.  I enabled the ssh deamon.  I have found
> > > that 2 options that I normally use does respond as I expect.  Has
> > > anyone else had similar problems with the following options in
> > > sshd_config:
> > > 
> > > - Port  – if I set the port to anything other than 22 (default),
> > > using ssh –p name at servername, does not work.  Yet if I leave keep
> > > the default, then ssh name at servername allows me to login.
> > Did you check your iptables rules ? port  is closed by default. I
> > use a sshd with port 443, so it should work.
> Was this the only change you made to change the port?  
Yes the only change to change the port in the SSHD.

> Did you also makes changes in iptables?
Of course : iptables -I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j ACCEPT -p tcp --dport

and after that to make it persistent : service iptables save

for more options : man iptables (which you should read before playing
with firewalls).

> > > - PasswordAuthentication no – if I set this option to “no” (default is
> > > “yes”), and my ssh key is either missing or in error, I will be
> > > prompted for user system login password.  If this is set to “no”, it
> > > should not allow me to login if I have not ssh key specified or in
> > > error.  Has anyone else run into this problem.
> > Erhm.. I remember it does ask for a password but just doesn't let you
> > in. But I can me mistaken :)
> It does ask you for a password, and if you entered your user system password,
> It will log you in.  I am surprised that this failure exists.
I think its not a failure ;)

Regards,

Michel


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Re: [CentOS] sshd options - centos 5.3

[Gregor Gruener]

On 09/22/2009 08:48 PM, Karl Kobata wrote:

Hi Larry,
  
>  On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Karl Kobatahttp://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>>  wrote:

>  >/  - Port  -- if I set the port to anything other than 22 (default), 
using/
>  >/  ssh --pname at servername  
, does not work.  Yet if I leave 
keep the default,/
>  >/  then sshname at servername  
  allows me to login./
  
>  You need to change the port in iptables as well.

How do I modify the iptables?
  
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Hi Karl,

when iptables is running and sshd is enabled you can change it manually 
in the cfg file /etc/sysconfig/iptables or with the TUI/GUI Tool like 
system-config-firewall.

Don't forget to restart iptables!

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Re: [CentOS] Driver for Logitech QuickCam E2500 series webcam

[Andrew Allen]

> That's a known issue with older kernels - don't worry about those warnings.
> 
> > Skype detected a camera OK but it doesn't seem to work - and when I
> > click the 'test' button it just closes skype down! Any ideas please?
> > 
> 
> Is it a bug with Skype or the Video4Linux driver?

That's a good question - trouble is I don't know how to test that the
camera is working with the Video4Linux driver. Is there a command-line
way of doing this?

Andy

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Re: [CentOS] sshd options - centos 5.3

[Filipe Brandenburger]

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 14:01, Karl Kobata  wrote:
> - PasswordAuthentication no – if I set this option to “no” (default is
> “yes”), and my ssh key is either missing or in error, I will be prompted for
> user system login password.  If this is set to “no”, it should not allow me
> to login if I have not ssh key specified or in error.  Has anyone else run
> into this problem.

This is related to PAM authentication, which is what is used in (most)
Linux systems. To prevent sshd from authenticating with passwords I
believe you have to set "ChallengeResponseAuthentication no" instead,
at least that is what I gather from reading the comments in
/etc/ssh/sshd_config.

HTH,
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Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

[Ron Blizzard]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Jerry Geis  wrote:

> Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? I had not noticed.
> Does the same apply for running?
> 5.2 did not seem to have any issues running in 512M that I recall.

I've installed CentOS 5.3 on a Pentium III (500 mhz) with 384 Meg of
RAM. I usually install over the Internet, so I assumed the
installation was slow because of the mirror I was using. But I've
noticed that CentOS (and Red Hat) are generally on the slower side of
Linux installations anyhow. I've never had it come to a near stop,
however.

Just realized... my laptop uses 512 Megs of RAM and it installed about
as fast as my Desktop with 1 Gig (the laptop is a 1.4 Ghz Pentium M,
the desktop is a 2.8 Ghz Pentium 4) so I'm not sure what was happening
in your case.

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Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

[Stewart Williams]

William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 17:05 -0700, Bazooka Joe wrote:
>> I have a usb hd that I use for backup.  Occasionally it dies.
>>
>> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
>> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
>> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
>> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
>> Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 0
>> lost page write due to I/O error on sdc1
>> EXT2-fs error (device sdc1): read_inode_bitmap: Cannot read inode
>> bitmap - block_group = 129, inode_bitmap = 4227073
>> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
>> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
>> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
>> Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 0
>> lost page write due to I/O error on sdc1
>> EXT2-fs error (device sdc1): ext2_readdir: bad page in #2
>> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
>> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
>> Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 0
>> lost page write due to I/O error on sdc1
>> EXT2-fs error (device sdc1): ext2_get_inode: unable to read inode
>> block - inode=2, block=1027
>> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
>> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
>> Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 0
>> lost page write due to I/O error on sdc1
>> EXT2-fs error (device sdc1): ext2_readdir: bad page in #2
>>
>> If i unmount it and try to remount it it says sdc1 does not exist.
> 
> It may not be the USB drive. I have one that daoe the same, usually only
> after long periods oh high (in)activity.
> 
> On another node, no problems ever using that same drive.
> 
> On the system with the problem, CentOS 4.7, Via Kt-400A chipset.
> 
> One the other system, Centos 5.3, Via KT-880 chipset.
> 
> I've not bothered to google yet, since it seems to occur after leaving
> it attached for long periods and what I do doesn't take long
> 
> Maybe there's a clue?

This can happen if the drive has power-saving features and it's gone to
sleep after no activity.

What does 'sdparm -a /dev/sdc' yield? And what make/model is the disk?
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Re: [CentOS] MySQL setup: initial user weirdness

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:06:29 +0200 CentOS mailing list  
wrote:

> 
> Robert Heller a écrit :
> > 
> > They are there to provide initial access to MySQL.  It is *expected* as
> > part of the post install process to do more or less what you just did. 
> 
> Thanks very much for the detailed explanation !

I only sumarized what was in the MySQL manual...

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Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

[William L. Maltby]

On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 22:16 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote:
> William L. Maltby wrote:
> 
> > It may not be the USB drive. I have one that daoe the same, usually only
> > after long periods oh high (in)activity.
> > 
> > On another node, no problems ever using that same drive.
> > 
> > On the system with the problem, CentOS 4.7, Via Kt-400A chipset.
> > 
> > One the other system, Centos 5.3, Via KT-880 chipset.
> > 
> > I've not bothered to google yet, since it seems to occur after leaving
> > it attached for long periods and what I do doesn't take long
> > 
> > Maybe there's a clue?
> 
> This can happen if the drive has power-saving features and it's gone to
> sleep after no activity.

But it's happened while active too, I *think*, while I was doing
rtorrent - but maybe it had a big period of inactivity. But then I would
have expectd symptoms to be on both systems.

> 
> What does 'sdparm -a /dev/sdc' yield? And what make/model is the disk?

On 5.3 # sdparm -a /dev/sdc
-bash: sdparm: command not found

On 4.7 # sdparm -a /dev/sda
 -bash: sdparm: command not found

For mine (I'm not the OP) Toshiba HDDR100E01X

> 

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[CentOS] Video capture under CentOS

[MHR]

I recently purchased a Diamond VC500 video capture device that runs on
the USB.  It has some interesting issues under Windoze, but I was
wondering:

I did a google for video catpreu and linux and most of what I found
either said it can't be done or the software that did/does it is
obsolete.

Can anyone point me in a better direction (and which way)?

Thanks.

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Re: [CentOS] Video capture under CentOS

[nate]

MHR wrote:
> I recently purchased a Diamond VC500 video capture device that runs on
> the USB.  It has some interesting issues under Windoze, but I was
> wondering:
>
> I did a google for video catpreu and linux and most of what I found
> either said it can't be done or the software that did/does it is
> obsolete.
>
> Can anyone point me in a better direction (and which way)?

Perhaps http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

It's been a while but Hauppauge PCI capture cards were at one point
the best way to go under Linux, I found the above link from their
site.

Depends on what your needs are, sounds like you just want to record
basic TV-style inputs.

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Re: [CentOS] Video capture under CentOS

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:15:08 -0700 CentOS mailing list  
wrote:

> 
> I recently purchased a Diamond VC500 video capture device that runs on
> the USB.  It has some interesting issues under Windoze, but I was
> wondering:
> 
> I did a google for video catpreu and linux and most of what I found
> either said it can't be done or the software that did/does it is
> obsolete.
> 
> Can anyone point me in a better direction (and which way)?

Video capture off IEEE1394 (firewire) devices is not hard.  You will
need the CentOSPlus kernel since the stock kernel does not have the
IEEE1394 modules built.

> 
> Thanks.
> 
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Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

[Yves Bellefeuille]

On Tuesday 22 September 2009 18:59, William L. Maltby wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 22:16 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote:

> > What does 'sdparm -a /dev/sdc' yield? And what make/model is the
> > disk?
>
> On 5.3 # sdparm -a /dev/sdc
> -bash: sdparm: command not found

He meant "hdparm", I think.

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[CentOS] about ntpq result..

[MontyRee]

Hello, all.
 
 
I want to ask some about ntpd. 
 
I set 'server' directive like below at ntp.conf 
 
 
server 0.centos.pool.ntp.org

 
For example, I can see the ntpq result like below.
 
 remote   refid  st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==
* 10.10.23.44   211.115.xx.xx   3 u   62   6411.892   -3.882   0.001

 
if 0.centos.pool.ntp.org has multiple ip address 10.10.23.44 and 10.10.23.45,
and after some time 10.10.23.44 goes down, courrent configuration(10.10.23.44)
will be changed to 10.10.23.45 automatically or not without restarting ntpd?
 
Surely, I know that I can set multiple domains like below.
But let's assume that just set one domain.
 
server 1.centos.pool.ntp.org
server 2.centos.pool.ntp.org

 
Thanks in advance.
  
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[CentOS] RPMforge.net down

[Hugh E Cruickshank]

Hi All:

It appears that the RPMforge.net site is down. Can someone confirm
and possibly advise when it might be expected back?

TIA

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[CentOS] Promlem with broken yum/rpm

[Peter Beck]

Hi all,

 

I have lost/corrupted the libraries related to the expat package. This has
caused rpm and yum to stop working effectively stopping my ability to manage
my server. 

 

Recently a bug was reported by cmisare on the CentOS site that had exactly
the same symptoms http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3757

 

Btw rpm crashes with exactly the same message.

 

I was hoping that cmisare, or someone else on this list, may be able to
explain to me how he/she managed to get yum working again, as must be the
case as it crashes in the first post but is working in the second post.

 

Any help would be very much appreciated.

 

Peter

 

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Re: [CentOS] RPMforge.net down

[Rob Townley]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank  wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> It appears that the RPMforge.net site is down. Can someone confirm
> and possibly advise when it might be expected back?
>
> TIA
>
> Regards, Hugh
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yes, it appears down from here in Omaha on cox.net.  Tried to also use
that website that tests whether a 3rd party machine is up but it is
NOT   http://downformeoreveryone.com/  because that is now a porn
site!
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Re: [CentOS] RPMforge.net down

[Ron Blizzard]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank  wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> It appears that the RPMforge.net site is down. Can someone confirm
> and possibly advise when it might be expected back?

I can't get to RPMforge.net either, but Dag Wieer's site is still up.
I thought these were the same?

http://dag.wieers.com/

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Re: [CentOS] RPMforge.net down

[Niki Kovacs]

Ron Blizzard a écrit :

>>
>> It appears that the RPMforge.net site is down. Can someone confirm
>> and possibly advise when it might be expected back?
> 
> I can't get to RPMforge.net either, but Dag Wieer's site is still up.
> I thought these were the same?
>  

Let's see :

# yum check-update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
Determining fastest mirrors
  * rpmforge: apt.sw.be
  * base: mirror.in2p3.fr
  * updates: mirror.in2p3.fr
  * extras: mirror.in2p3.fr
(...)
rpmforge  : ###   5948/9586
...

RPMForge works OK here ( = South France).

Niki
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