[CentOS] The internet filter coming to the US — with barely any dissent

2010-10-03 Thread ☼ francis mendoza 
http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/01/the-internet-filter-coming-to-the-us-with-barely-any-dissent/

The US Congress spent yesterday packing up and heading home for mid-term
re-election campaigns, having failed its most important job — passing the
annual budget. But even this deadlocked Congress is capable of doing what
the Australian Labor Party cannot — pass a mandatory ISP-based Internet
filter — and do so before the end of the year.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi will recall the current congress for a special
lame-duck session later this year before newly elected representatives are
sworn in, to pass last-minute reforms in case the Democrats lose power, as
widely predicted in the polls. Among those reforms include a low-profile
copyright proposal with bipartisan, almost unanimous support that just so
happens to include censoring whole websites included on a government-run
blacklist.

The *Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act*(COICA) will
blacklist sites that are “dedicated to infringing activities” regardless of
where the site is hosted, with exceptions for commercially-oriented sites
but not political speech. Originally planned as two blacklists, one
controlled by the courts and one by the US Attorney General, the latter was
dropped from the bill yesterday after ISPs raised early complaints.

Aaron Swartz from Progressive Change and Australian Peter Eckersley from
Electronic Frontier Foundation began a petition
campaign this
week to fight the bill at demandprogress.org,
garnering 100,000 signatures in two days.

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Re: [CentOS] how many people still use NIS?

2010-10-03 Thread Craig White 
On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 21:52 -0700, Iain Morris wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Craig White 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> This discussion completely ignores the fact that user
> authentication is
> just one of the many things LDAP does. If all you are going to
> do with
> LDAP is simple user & group management then you have a lack of
> imagination.
> 
> 
> 
> Not to stray much further off the subject, nor defend AD much further
> on the CentOS list, but AD does a lot more than user/group auth.  In
> fact it does everything in your list (DNS, mail access lists, etc),
> and quite a bit more out of the box. 
> 
> 
> Apple's Open Directory is a nice start, but pretty far behind in the
> race.  In fact if I had a 1000 Mac installation, I'd rather build an
> AD domain and extend the schema to include the Apple attributes and
> use WG Manager for the Macs.  I honestly believe Apple has put more
> engineering time into their AD plugin than their OD native interface.
> 
> Believe me I'm no Microsoft enthusiast, but AD is a capable and mature
> product for the job.  Obviously for maximum flexibility stock MIT
> Kerberos and OpenLDAP win, but I think I'd be wasting a lot of time
> using them bare-bones when administrating a large multi-site
> organization.  Open-source is free, but it's definitely not free once
> you start spending your evenings combing mailing lists and debugging
> fringe issues that keep your business from meeting its goals.

AD yes, LDAP no

You have to go to different tools for everything...

Mail (routing/aliases) - Exchange
DNS  - Their DNS tool

I have no problem using OpenLDAP to setup/configure not only users but
also automounts for Linux/Macintosh users, central user/group
authentication and even share the home directories across the board
(Linux/Macintosh/Windows users so regardless of which system they use,
they have access to their same files). You aren't going to get that done
with Active Directory tools.

Active Directory provides a fairly decent configuration tool set for the
unimaginative administrator who wants to do everything the Microsoft way
but try extending AD's LDAP. If I had a large multi-site organization,
the last tool I would use is AD.

Craig


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Re: [CentOS] Can't login after installing Centos 5.5

2010-10-03 Thread Peter Crighton 
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:14:25 -0400, you wrote:

>On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 17:55 +0100, Peter Crighton wrote:
>> At no point can I get to a text login screen (Ctrl-Alt-F1) so I can't
>> even debug it!
>> 
>> Can anyone suggest what is wrong or how to overcome it?
>
>Boot in verbose mode to runlevel 3 by hitting a character at the start
>of the boot to get a GRUB menu ( in convenient).  When the menu
>appears type "a" to append (no quotes - actually edit) the kernel line.
>Backspace through "rhgb quite" and add "3" then .  Should boot to
>a text console where you can debug.  If that fails, then try single user
>mode - just substitute "1" for "3".

Thanks for that.

It's the config for the video card - it was set to 24 bit depth.
Changing to 8 allows it to boot (it's a Matrox Millenium card). I'm
not overly bothered by the low colour depth (it's going to be a NAS
server for file backup) but is this a common fault with the Matrox
Millenium card?
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Re: [CentOS] how many people still use NIS?

2010-10-03 Thread John Jasen 
Iain Morris wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Craig White  > wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> This discussion completely ignores the fact that user authentication is
> just one of the many things LDAP does. If all you are going to do with
> LDAP is simple user & group management then you have a lack of
> imagination.
> 
> 
> Not to stray much further off the subject, nor defend AD much further on
> the CentOS list, but AD does a lot more than user/group auth.  In fact
> it does everything in your list (DNS, mail access lists, etc), and quite
> a bit more out of the box. 
> 
> Apple's Open Directory is a nice start, but pretty far behind in the
> race.  In fact if I had a 1000 Mac installation, I'd rather build an AD
> domain and extend the schema to include the Apple attributes and use WG
> Manager for the Macs.  I honestly believe Apple has put more engineering
> time into their AD plugin than their OD native interface.

For a mixed installation with a bunch of Windows boxes, you're probably
not going to get away from AD, so you might as well leverage it.
Honestly, its a pretty slick kerberos+LDAP+etc integration. There are a
few things it does wrong, but trying to beat its manageability,
replication, etc with openldap+mit-krb5 is _hard_.

You may get it working, but then someone has to support it down the line. :)

As for Apple's OpenDirectory, I would not inflict it on anyone I like or
had to support. While 2/3rds of it is openldap+mit-krb5, the third leg
is their own proprietary crap that is frail, prone to obscure failures,
generally undocumented, stores all the password hashes in yet another
database on the server, doesn't handle replication, and generally
interferes with your life.

> And NIS servers belong in a museum!  :-)

Of bad ideas? :)


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[CentOS] best filesystem for a webserver

2010-10-03 Thread Roland RoLaNd 

Dear all,

i'm setting up a new machine to handle a webserver with mysql

web directory contains alot of small files and database is around 15 GB

i've did a bit research, read alot of articles..
mainly i came up with the understanding that:

EXT3 is the set it and forget it kind of filesystem.
and reiserFS is the best choice for small files though there's a bigger risk of 
data loss upon power failure (better solved in ext3)

any advice on this matter? or any other filesystem you advise me to use on a 
production system?

thanks






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Re: [CentOS] best filesystem for a webserver

2010-10-03 Thread Rudi Ahlers 
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Roland RoLaNd  wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> i'm setting up a new machine to handle a webserver with mysql
>
> web directory contains alot of small files and database is around 15 GB
>
> i've did a bit research, read alot of articles..
> mainly i came up with the understanding that:
>
> EXT3 is the set it and forget it kind of filesystem.
> and reiserFS is the best choice for small files though there's a bigger risk
> of data loss upon power failure (better solved in ext3)
>
> any advice on this matter? or any other filesystem you advise me to use on a
> production system?
>
> thanks
>
>
>
>
>
>
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We use EXT3 on all our own, and client's web servers. It's stable and
works well even with power failures. I'd rather sacrifice a bit of
performance (does ReiserFS really improve performance *that* much?)
than lost data.

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Re: [CentOS] drbd update 8.3.8.1

2010-10-03 Thread Shad Lords 
On 10/2/2010 6:12 PM, Dag Wieers wrote:
> If you haven't tried the ELRepo DRBD packages yet, could you please test
> the one at:
>
>   http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/i386/RPMS/
>   http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/x86_64/RPMS/
>
> and provide feedback ? The more people test and provide feedback, the
> quicker we can move it out of testing, into the elrepo repository.

I could for the el5 side.  I'm actually syncing a el4 i386 box with a 
el5 x86_64 box.

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Re: [CentOS] system "stuck" with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how to move to 2.6.18-194.17?

2010-10-03 Thread Barry Brimer 
> /etc/grub.conf points at 2.6.18-194.17, but when I reboot, 2.6.18-128 
> comes up.

I am suspecting that you are looking at /etc/grub.conf which is supposed 
to be a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf and somehow this is no longer a 
symlink, but rather a file of its own, which is not being read.

This is how this should look. (adjusted for screen wrap in a mail program)

# ls -la /etc/grub.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Sep 27  2008 /etc/grub.conf -> 
../boot/grub/grub.conf

What are the contents of your /boot/grub/grub.conf?  That is the actual 
file.  What is the default set to there?

Barry

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Re: [CentOS] system "stuck" with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how to move to 2.6.18-194.17?

2010-10-03 Thread John R Pierce 
  On 10/03/10 9:16 AM, Barry Brimer wrote:
>> /etc/grub.conf points at 2.6.18-194.17, but when I reboot, 2.6.18-128
>> comes up.
> I am suspecting that you are looking at /etc/grub.conf which is supposed
> to be a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf and somehow this is no longer a
> symlink, but rather a file of its own, which is not being read.
>
> This is how this should look. (adjusted for screen wrap in a mail program)
>
> # ls -la /etc/grub.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Sep 27  2008 /etc/grub.conf ->
> ../boot/grub/grub.conf
>
> What are the contents of your /boot/grub/grub.conf?  That is the actual
> file.  What is the default set to there?

also check what /boot is mounted  the /etc/grub.conf file you showed 
thought that root was /dev/md1, is that the case?


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[CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox

2010-10-03 Thread Keith Roberts 
Hi all.

I'm running Centos 5.5 and have recently lost my chines 
characters in Firefox.

Just get a lot of wierd looking boxex now, look like 
dominos.

Any suggestions please?

Keith
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Re: [CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox

2010-10-03 Thread Frank Cox 

On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 18:28 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
> I'm running Centos 5.5 and have recently lost my chines 
> characters in Firefox.
> 
> Just get a lot of wierd looking boxex now, look like 
> dominos.

Firefox used to come with a bazillion language packs included in the
firefox rpm.

Now those language packs are not included any more. 

You can download them from the mozilla website if you need them.

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Re: [CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox

2010-10-03 Thread Keith Roberts 
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Frank Cox wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list 
> From: Frank Cox 
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox
> 
>
> On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 18:28 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
>> I'm running Centos 5.5 and have recently lost my chines
>> characters in Firefox.
>>
>> Just get a lot of wierd looking boxex now, look like
>> dominos.
>
> Firefox used to come with a bazillion language packs included in the
> firefox rpm.
>
> Now those language packs are not included any more.
>
> You can download them from the mozilla website if you need them.

I've visited the Mozilla site, but cannot find the Chinese 
language pack to install it :(

Regards,

Keith
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Re: [CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox

2010-10-03 Thread Robert 


On 10/03/2010 01:53 PM, Keith Roberts informed us:
> On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Frank Cox wrote:
>
>
>> To: CentOS mailing list
>> From: Frank Cox
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 18:28 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
>>  
>>> I'm running Centos 5.5 and have recently lost my chines
>>> characters in Firefox.
>>>
>>> Just get a lot of wierd looking boxex now, look like
>>> dominos.
>>>
>> Firefox used to come with a bazillion language packs included in the
>> firefox rpm.
>>
>> Now those language packs are not included any more.
>>
>> You can download them from the mozilla website if you need them.
>>  
> I've visited the Mozilla site, but cannot find the Chinese
> language pack to install it :(
>
> Regards,
>
> Keith
>
I just now entered the command:

# yum install "@Chinese Support"

and was greeted with this list of crap:

Dependencies Resolved


=
  Package Arch
VersionRepository Size

=
Installing:
  Deployment_Guide-zh-CN  noarch  
5.2-11.el5.centos  base  2.2 M
  Deployment_Guide-zh-TW  noarch  
5.2-11.el5.centos  base  2.9 M
  fonts-chinese   noarch  
3.02-12.el5base   24 M
  kde-i18n-Chinesenoarch  
1:3.5.4-1  base  2.1 M
  kde-i18n-Chinese-Big5   noarch  
1:3.5.4-1  base  2.2 M
  lv  i386
4.51-8.1   base  423 k
  openoffice.org-langpack-zh_CN   i386
1:3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1   updates15 M
  openoffice.org-langpack-zh_TW   i386
1:3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1   updates16 M
  scim-bridge-gtk i386
0.4.5-9.el5base   37 k
  scim-chewingi386
0.3.1-11.el5   base   62 k
  scim-chinese-standard   i386
0.0.2-1.el5base   87 k
  scim-pinyin i386
0.5.91-16.el5  base  2.3 M
  scim-qtimm  i386
0.9.4-5base   63 k
  scim-tables-chinese i386
0.5.6-7base  6.2 M
  stardicti386
2.4.5-5base  833 k
Installing for dependencies:
  libchewing  i386
0.3.0-8.el5base  2.8 M
  scimi386
1.4.4-41.el5   base  517 k
  scim-bridge i386
0.4.5-9.el5base  109 k
  scim-libs   i386
1.4.4-41.el5   base  453 k
  scim-tables i386
0.5.6-7base  346 k

Transaction Summary

=
Install  20 Package(s)
Upgrade   0 Package(s)

Total download size: 79 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
Complete!

...which I'm not too interested in installing on top of all the other 
useless stuff I have. BUT it seems like this might be worth a try if I 
was interested in readin', writin' and cipherin' in Chinese.



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Re: [CentOS] system "stuck" with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how to move to 2.6.18-194.17?

2010-10-03 Thread Phil Schaffner 
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote on 10/03/2010 01:16 AM:
> Hi.  I just noticed I had a CentOS 5.3 system that I updated to CentOS
> 5.5 a few days ago,
> and I just ran "yum -y update" again to get the latest kernel, and I
> just noticed it still has the old 2.6.18-128 kernel instead of the new
> 2.6.18-194.17.  What gives?
> 
> /etc/grub.conf points at 2.6.18-194.17, but when I reboot, 2.6.18-128 comes 
> up.
> 
> Any suggestions?

See what "cat /proc/mdstat" shows.  I suspect your RAID is degraded. 
The OS is seeing one member, and GRUB sees the other disk that is not 
currently being mirrored.

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Re: [CentOS] Here we go again: SpamAssassin doesn't like the new Perl update...

2010-10-03 Thread Michael Kress 
 Am 02.10.2010 08:37, schrieb Michael Kress:
>  
>>
>>> Starting spamd: Subroutine NetAddr::IP::UtilPolluted::AF_INET6 redefined 
>>> at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Exporter.pm line 65.
>>>  at 
>>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/NetAddr/IP/Util.pm 
>>> line 180
> Hi, same issue here, SA was behaving nicely until I updated it. I saw
> that it was suddenly coming from rpmforge, but I trusted that and
> pressed Y. Since then, every sa-update complains about the above routine
> redefinition.
>

Hi, after updating perl-MailTools and perl-NetAddr-IP, SA updates are
silent now.
Thanks for fixing it!
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Re: [CentOS] Can't login after installing Centos 5.5

2010-10-03 Thread Phil Schaffner 
Peter Crighton wrote on 10/03/2010 08:19 AM:
...
> It's the config for the video card - it was set to 24 bit depth.
> Changing to 8 allows it to boot (it's a Matrox Millenium card). I'm
> not overly bothered by the low colour depth (it's going to be a NAS
> server for file backup) but is this a common fault with the Matrox
> Millenium card?

I's a very old card - just not up to high color depth at high resolution.

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Re: [CentOS] Can't login after installing Centos 5.5

2010-10-03 Thread Ron Loftin 

On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 16:37 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> Peter Crighton wrote on 10/03/2010 08:19 AM:
> ...
> > It's the config for the video card - it was set to 24 bit depth.
> > Changing to 8 allows it to boot (it's a Matrox Millenium card). I'm
> > not overly bothered by the low colour depth (it's going to be a NAS
> > server for file backup) but is this a common fault with the Matrox
> > Millenium card?
> 
> I's a very old card - just not up to high color depth at high resolution.

It's not so much the fault of the card as it is the fact that the driver
is old and unmaintained.

> 
> Phil
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Re: [CentOS] help with spec file

2010-10-03 Thread Phil Schaffner 
Tim Dunphy wrote on 10/02/2010 10:32 PM:
...
> I have come up with a spec file for the current version that _mostly_ works...

Might want to compare your effort to one known to work (from a google on 
- subtitleeditor "src.rpm"):

ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/updates/13/SRPMS/subtitleeditor-0.37.1-1.fc13.src.rpm

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Re: [CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox

2010-10-03 Thread Scott Robbins 
On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 03:09:21PM -0500, Robert wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/03/2010 01:53 PM, Keith Roberts informed us:
> > On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Frank Cox wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 18:28 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
> >>  
> >>> I'm running Centos 5.5 and have recently lost my chines
> >>> characters in Firefox.
> >>>
> I just now entered the command:
> 
> # yum install "@Chinese Support"
> 
> and was greeted with this list of crap:
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 


> 5.2-11.el5.centos  base  2.9 M
>   fonts-chinese   noarch  
> 3.02-12.el5base   24 M




What if you just try installing the Chinese fonts--that might solve the
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Re: [CentOS] help with spec file

2010-10-03 Thread Tim Dunphy 
Great Phil! I'll check it out!! Thanks...

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Phil Schaffner
 wrote:
> Tim Dunphy wrote on 10/02/2010 10:32 PM:
> ...
>> I have come up with a spec file for the current version that _mostly_ 
>> works...
>
> Might want to compare your effort to one known to work (from a google on
> - subtitleeditor "src.rpm"):
>
> ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/updates/13/SRPMS/subtitleeditor-0.37.1-1.fc13.src.rpm
>
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[CentOS] sata AHCI controllers (real and virtual)

2010-10-03 Thread drew einhorn 
I saw something somewhere about AHCI support requiring kernel 2.6.19 or later.
But the current CentOS/RHEL stable kernels are 2.6.18

I'm trying to run CentOS/RHEL in a VirtualBox vm, which by default creates sata
virtual disks with an AHCI virtual controller.

These virtual machines are quite unstable, and I'm wondering if the AHCI virtual
controller is the problem.

I do have a real physical AHCI controller and I'm wondering if I
should try it on
a CentOS/RHEL 5.5 box, or if I should wait for RHEL/CentOS 6, before even
attempting it.

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