Re: [CentOS] yum upgrade fails on pm-utils dependancy

[Robert]

James A. Peltier wrote:

Akemi Yagi wrote:


No, you are not an idiot.  If you look through the forum thread I
referred to, you'd find that "smart" people went though the same
thing.  And I know, for a fact, they are smart.  :-)

Akemi
No that's the thing, I did read it.  I just kept thinking, "no I'm using 
5.0", but DUH! when 5.1 was released the rsync for /5 started to point 
to 5.1 and hence didn't work.  I'm an idiot more because even after I 
read it I didn't put together the correlation.  I can happily laugh 
about it now though.  DOH! ;D


Sometimes, it's "All's well that ends well"; sometimes, "All's well that 
ends" is enough.

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Re: [CentOS] Re: [CentOS-announce] CentOS 4.6 is released for i386, x86_64, s390, s390x and ia64

[Robert]

James A. Peltier wrote:

Johnny Hughes wrote:

The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the release of CentOS
4.6 for i386, x86_64, s390, s390x and ia64.

It is available on all CentOS.org mirrors and via bittorrent, see this
link to download ISOs:

http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4.6/isos/

This release corresponds to the upstream vendor U6 release.  Also
released in the updates repository for CentOS-4.6 are all updates
through December 15th, 2007.

The work for the i386 and x86_64 ServerCDs is in progress.

If you are currently using another version CentOS-4 version, using this
command will upgrade you to CentOS-4.6:

yum update


Major changes for this version are:

 * samba has been updated to version 3.0.25b. This addresses several
critical issues affecting interoperability with Windows 2003™ and
Windows Vista™ (resolved in recent upstream releases).

 * autofs5 is included in this release as a Technology Preview. This new
version of autofs resolves several long-standing interoperability issues
in multi-vendor environments.

 * There is a technology preview of OpenOffice-2.0 included in the
updates directory.  You can install this OOo2 preview alongside the
current OOo-1.1.5 version, or you may install the OOo2 preview alone.
We apologize that this was not included on the ISOs, however it was not
on the upstream ISOs and we followed that layout.  To List the new
OpenOffice-2.0 RPMS with yum use this command:

   yum search openoffice.org2 | grep i386 | grep -v langpack

   For finding Language Packs (if you want other than English) do:

   yum search openoffice.org2 | grep langpack

   Use "yum install  " to install the packages
that you want, or "yum info  " to obtain more
information about them.

* A new yum included in CentOS-4.6 requires the installation of
yum-metadata-parser.  The yum-metadata-parser package contains a
metadata parser for yum written in C. It speeds up the metadata parsing
phase of yum considerably and does not change yum behavior in any 
other way.


Please see the CentOS specific release notes here (or in the main
directory on your install media):
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.6/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html

detailed upstream release notes here (and in the /NOTES directory on
your install media):
http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/release-notes/as-x86/RELEASE-NOTES-U6-en.html 



CentOS-4 Documentation is here:
http://www.centos.org/docs/4/

All previous released CentOS versions are available at:
http://vault.centos.org/

To stay current with CentOS:

Visit our website at http://www.centos.org/

Join the CentOS mailing list at:
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HowTos and other items on the wiki:
http://wiki.centos.org/

Join various team members on IRC at irc.freenode.net #centos

Note: It may take a couple days for some of the external mirrors to
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There will still be a CentOS 5.1 release soon to though right?
Wrong tense. 

I have before me the CentOS 5.1 Release Notes, 8 pages of goodness 
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Re: [CentOS] problems building appletalk module with new kernel

[Robert]

Craig White wrote:

On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 15:20 -0700, Craig White wrote:
  

On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 15:10 -0700, Craig White wrote:



  

OK, I thought I ended xen excursions by removing previous copy of xen
kernel but obviously it came back with updates. How do I make sure that
xen kernel doesn't get installed next time?




will this do that?

# rpm -e kernel-xen-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 \
 xen \
 xen-libs \
 libvirt \
 libvirt-python \
 gnome-applet-vm \
 rhn-virtualization-host \
 python-virtinst \
 virt-manager

cuz that's what I did

Craig

  
I think /etc/sysconfig/kernel  holds the answer to curing the problem 
"permanently".

Mine sez:
$ cat /etc/sysconfig/kernel
# UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make
# new kernels the default
UPDATEDEFAULT=yes

# DEFAULTKERNEL specifies the default kernel package type
DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel
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Re: [CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks

[Robert]

William L. Maltby wrote:

On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 13:16 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote:
  





  

Aha! Saw your "Trouble ... River City" reply to Scott. Your giving away



s/Your/you're/

I *hate* when I do that!
  
The fact that you know the difference also says something about your 
age; the fact that I had already noticed it, something about mine.


There. I have went and give away myself.  :-(
  

our age! ;-=)




  



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Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

[Robert]

Johnny Hughes wrote:



OR moderate all posts ... who wants to volunteer to read and release all
posts :-D

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes

  
Besides that obvious question, moderation would mean an end to the quick 
replies that we enjoy now.


Regards,
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[CentOS] OT -- Flash (.swf file) audio stream separation

[Robert]

Does anyone here know of a utility that will filter a flash stream into
its video and audio components?  In order of preference -- 1)RPM  2)any
open source tool 3)anything that does the job.  Thanks for any clues.

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Re: [CentOS] Re: rsync and swapping

[Robert]

Scott Silva wrote:

on 1/30/2008 5:24 AM Jerry Geis spake the following:

hi all,

I use rsync to copy/backup ALL my stuff to another disk.

When I run this seems like my machine (4 GIG ram centos 5.1)
now begins to swap out more programs. Is there a way to reduce
that swapping? I am running with echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

I simply mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/backup; mkdir /mnt/backup/month.day.year
then rsync -a /home /mnt/backup/mon.day.year

This is approximately 102G of data.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Jerry
Rsync's main benefit is on backups of changed files. dumping to a new 
destination every time makes rsync less efficient than just about 
every other option.
Now if you made the new directory, and hardlinked the old stuff to the 
new directory, then rsync would shine.

Yes. That's my experience, too.
I do something like this twice weekly to 2 external USB drives. One 
drive contains backups from the most recent 2 Sunday mornings, the other 
drive contains two backups from Wednesday mornings.
After mounting the backup drive, doing a space-available check and a 
couple other housekeeping chores, I do this.
# (I've purposely left out a bunch of stuff to avoid being blamed when 
someone's system craters. )


$UD  #-- Previously identified as the USB drive mount point
#
DT=`date +%F` #-- Today's date, for naming the backup directory: -mm-dd
#
# Shuffle directories so that oldest backup directory is renamed to 
today's date.

#
OD=`ls -1 $UD | head -1`
#echo "Renaming $UD/$OD to $UD/$DT"
mv $UD/$OD/ $UD/$DT
touch $UD/$DT

# Now, data that is only 2 weeks old will be overwritten with current data.

for SD in  ; do
rsync -ar --exclude '*.iso' --delete-excluded  /$SD/* $UD/$DT/$SD
done

#  I've used the basic outline above since Sept 13, 2006 and have found 
that the backup takes slightly more than half as long as when I used 
"find" and "cpio".  As with anything else, YMMV.



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Re: [CentOS] Network configuration question

[Robert]

Niki Kovacs wrote:

Hi,

My wife and I live in a two-storey flat, and we have a small home LAN 
(100% CentOS 5) with a "classical" configuration:


On the ground floor, there is the telephone jack with the DSL modem 
router (192.168.1.254). This modem has a mini-switch with two Ethernet 
jacks to it, and the two are used by:


- the server (192.168.1.1), a "black box" running in a cupboard 24/7
- the wireless AP (192.168.1.253)

Then, on the first floor, everything is connected by wireless, and for 
the moment, configured statically:


- my desktop PC (192.168.1.2)
- my laptop (192.168.1.3)
- my wife's laptop (192.168.1.4)

I have an older laptop here, a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D, that I'd like 
to use as a simple build box. It's physically installed next to my 
desktop PC. It doesn't have a wireless card, so I vaguely thought: is 
it somehow possible to connect this laptop with an Ethernet cable to 
my desktop PC's unused Ethernet card, and then connect it to the 
internet? In that case, I wonder if I have to bridge the desktop PC's 
network interfaces (wlan0 and eth0). That said, I don't even know if 
the driver for wlan0 (rt61) allows any bridging. Or maybe simply 
configure a different subnet, but then, what would the network 
configuration look like on the laptop and on the desktop PC?


Any suggestions for that?

Cheers,

Niki
This one qualifies for "There's more than one way to skin a cat".  Your 
final thought is what *I* would do; indeed, what I have done to share a 
dialup connection before DSL was available here.


1. Leave your current working LAN untouched.
2. Physically connect your desktop PC and the older laptop with a 
rollover cable.
3. Create a second network on your desktop PC using eth0. 192.168.2.1 
would work fine.

4. Add the laptop to the new network, assigning it 192.168.2.2 (or whatever)
  At this point, you should be able to ping the desktop from the laptop 
and vice versa.

5. Forward the new network to the old one. On the desktop, as root, enter:
#  echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
6. You should now be able to access the Internet from the hard-wired laptop.
7. To make the change in (5) persist across reboots, etc., edit 
/etc/sysctl.conf as root and change

   net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0--to--net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
As far as the rollover cable, I was fortunate enough to stumble upon 
some RJ-45 reversing couplers  so that I never have to worry about the  
"here it comes" and "there it goes" pairs. Saves wear & tear on 
crimpers. :-)



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Re: [CentOS] Find files

[Robert]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, 


I am trying to delete files that are more than 7 days old. When I
run it interactively it works, no problem, but it does not run
from a file stored in cron.daily. The rest of that daily file
runs properly. [The execute bit is on].

I don't see anything in the /var/log/messages.

---
#!/bin/bash

find /mnt/iog -type f -name '*.tar.gz' -mtime +7 | xarg rm
---

Any idea what am I missing?
  
Just a shot in the dark:  Cron is kinda partial to absolute paths. 
Change your 1-liner to:


/usr/bin/find /mnt/iog -type f -name '*.tar.gz' -mtime +7 | xargs rm

That, and the "xargs" that Garrick pointed out.


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Re: [CentOS] How to install hp lasejet 1018?

[Robert]

Heiko Adams wrote:

Hello,
does anyone have an idea how to use an hp lasejet 1018 with CentOS 5? I
didn't find any driver for this printer on CentOS 5.
  

If nobody has specific information, you might find this useful:
http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1018


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Re: [CentOS] Migrate Outlook Express mail to Thunderbird?

[Robert]

Niki Kovacs wrote:

Hi,

A friend's laptop just quit working under Windows XP, so I 1) booted a 
Knoppix Live CD 2) configured the thing for my LAN 3) scp'ed 
recursively Documents\ and\ Settings/, 4) wiped the hard disk clean 
and 5) installed CentOS 5.1. No dual-boot, no prisoners, just 100% 
GNU/Linux :oD


I managed to find the contents of the Outlook Express Mailboxes in 
some obscure subdirectory. It's a series of files in .dbx format. Is 
there any hope to convert these so I can import them into Thunderbird?


Cheers,

Niki
Another alternative comes to mind.   Kmail is pretty handy at importing 
from other clients' formats. Outlook Express is supposedly one of them.  
If you can get the mail into Kmail, moving it to Thunderbird should be a 
breeze.


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Re: [CentOS] Problems reading a backup data DVD

[Robert]

Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
I wrote a bunch of files to a backup DVD about two months ago and now 
neither of my drives will read it.  I get mount errors from "not a 
directory" to something like "unrecognized file system type" and so 
on, usually after a really long wait and a notice about how the drive 
is write-protected (duh).


Here's what happened most recently:

# mount /dev/hdc /mnt
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
   missing codepage or other error
   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail  or so
# dmesg | tail -40
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdc: ide_intr: huh? expected NULL handler on exit
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 5118720
Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 639840
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdc: ide_intr: huh? expected NULL handler on exit
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdc: ide_intr: huh? expected NULL handler on exit
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16

Is there any way to read what's on this DVD (so I can back -up the 
files again, hopefully with better results)?


Secondary related question:  I noticed that my CentOS boot DVD does 
not automount when I put it in either drive - why is that?


Thanks.

mhr

I would suspect IDE cable, DVD drive,  P/S, motherboard (assuming an 
on-board IDE channel) in that order. Don't overlook the drive's power 
connector, either.


Do you have another machine you can try that boot DVD in? Can you read a 
CD in the failing drive? Have you been monkeying around with the kernel? 
Is the "DVD drive" really a DVD drive or is it only for CDs?




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Re: [CentOS] My server won't boot (grub looping - stage2)

[Robert]

mbneto wrote:

Hi,

I can't boot.  It simply does not show me the menu of kernels to choose.

When the problem first manisfested itselfFirst I was getting that loop 
regarding the 'loading stage2'.


After I tried that grub-install I simply get an infinite loop of beeps!

:(
Here is a set of steps that I distilled from how-to's that has worked 
for me. It might be worth a try.


Recovery from a screwed MBR (Install GRUB)

1. Boot with a rescue CD
  Go through the obligatory BS; network not needed
2. Once rescue finds Linux, hit OK. Do NOT do the chroot.   Run grub. 
Then, from the prompt:

  a. If /boot is an integral part of the / partition:
 grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
-or-
  b. If /boot is in a separate partition:
 grub> find /grub/stage1
-in either case-
  Grub answers with drive and partition: (hd1,0)
3. Set the root for grub:
  grub> root (hd1,0) (or whatever returned above)
4. Write the MBR on the 1st drive
  grub> setup (hd0)
  (grub will print a bunch of crap, double-checking, and install itself.)
5. Remove the rescue CD and reboot.   
 
When entering the values above, pay close attention to spaces and comma 
characters!


HTH.





On



Can you boot into any of these?


> My disks
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[CentOS] SysVinit guidance, please

[Robert]

I have experienced a couple of power failures since installing CentOS 5, 
both while I was working on the system.  The first time, several weeks 
ago, I thought there was some "feature" that I had never seen before but 
couldn't really put my finger on it.  The power came back on after a few 
seconds and I never missed a beat.  I also shrewdly forgot about the 
anomaly that I had almost noticed.


I had a real power failure 2 days ago and tried to be more observant.  
What had gotten my attention earlier is that the once-familiar banner 
displayed on about everything except my room's ceiling was missing.


After some red herrings and blind alleys (hey, you don't have to worry 
about mixed metaphors when you're an illiterate old coot!) I decided 
that the missing banners and the fact that the power was killed while a 
graphical page was displayed was what I saw.


Anyhow, it seems that these extinct banners were a function of the 
/bin/shutdown routine in SysVinit because banners happen in CentOS 4.x 
whether the shutdown command is issued by fingers or by a UPS monitoring 
daemon.  And I have since found that they're gone from CentOS 5, no 
matter how shutdown is invoked.   

After all of this, my question boils down to one of replacing the 
current SysVinit package, SysVinit-2.86-14.i386.rpm  with the one from 
CentOS 4.x, SysVinit-2.85-34.3.i386.rpm

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Re: [CentOS] Unable to POST after suspend

[Robert]

Mark Rosenstand wrote:

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 13:19 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  

I have one idea that may work.  Try seeing if your bios supports a bios upgrade 
floppy (it would say so in the owners manual).  Now by bios upgrade floppy I 
don't mean the usual type that use an os.  There are some that the bios will 
directly read from without an os being used.  The concept is to recover from 
failed bios upgrades.  The reason I suggest this is because I think the setting 
that's keeping your system off is hiding in your bios' acpi table and I don't 
think a bios reset will dump it, but a bios upgrade might.



My motherboard do support such BIOS upgrades (really nice since it's OS
independent) but you need to get to the POST before you can ask it to
search for the floppy.

But it won't power on at all. The CPU FAN doesn't start, the disk
doesn't rotate, the monitor doesn't get any signal. The only thing that
indicates the slightest sign of life is the LED on the motherboard and
my keyboard if I press Num Lock.

Is there something on the motherboard I can disconnect to reset the ACPI
table?

  
I would try removing all cards from the PCI slots, disconnect the IDE 
cables and any other I/O than might be connected and try it that way. 
Obviously, it won't go very far w/o a keyboard and you won't be able to 
see much w/o a video card but it SHOULD stay powered on.  An old PCI 
video card might be nice to try, in the event that power will stay on 
with all I/O pulled.  Also, you might try using different memory -- or 
try the original memory in another box.  Also, if you've been inside the 
box already, it might be worthwhile to turn that baby upside down and 
shake and/or jar it, just in case you dropped a screw or washer 
somewhere inside.


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Re: [CentOS] USB modem gives errors on centos 4.5

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BRUCE STANLEY wrote:



*/Steven Vishoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:


--- Jerry Geis wrote:

> >>/ I am getting these errors when I plug a zoom USB
> />>/ modem in my amd 64 box.
> />>/
> />>/ usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using
> ohci_hcd
> />>/ and address 3
> />>/ usb 2-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
> />>/ usb 2-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
> />>/ usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using
> ohci_hcd
> />>/ and address 4
> />>/ usb 2-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
> />>/ usb 2-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
> />>/ usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using
> ohci_hcd
> />>/ and address 5
> />>/ usb 2-1: device not accepting address 5, error
> -62
> />>/ usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using
> ohci_hcd
> />>/ and address 6
> />>/ usb 2-1: device not accepting address 6, error
> -62
> />>/
> />>/ What might be happening here? I am running
> centso
> />>/ 4.5 x86_64.
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as i was trying to say Modem who uses those... :D

Steven



Lots of people.!!
Seems to me that the question should be, "Why would anyone want a USB 
modem that is dependent on kernel drivers when he can can buy a great 
'works with anything including dumb terminals' modem like a Courier 
External for $25?"  Right here: http://snipurl.com/1qpzg


But yes, I realize that there are el-Cheapo laptops available that don't 
even have an RS-232 port.




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Re: [CentOS] File retrieval from outside hangs, internally is okay, only Centos5 affected

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Miskell, Craig wrote:

I have a really weird problem with some of my servers, namely all the
ones running Centos5

When I try to download a file from the server to a machine outside our
Cisco 6500 router/firewall, the download hangs about half the times
(15 out of 40) when less than half a megabyte into the transfer
(varied from 76 kb to 496 kb).

One server has a portchannel (Cisco speak for ethernet bundle), others
do not, some use e1000, some use broadcom, I've tried httpd and scp
transfers, I've tried from three different clients,

Here's the really annoying part: the problem only occurs when
downloading from outside the firewall, not when transferring files
internally in the serverroom! And the switch is the firewall is a
modular chassis, so the data comes over the same backplane regardless.

And there's 42 files in /proc/net/sys/ipv4 which differ between EL4
and Centos5, so I'm a little lost here

Anybody got some ideas?


Just to state the obvious (well, obvious to me), which you don't seem to
have mentioned above: The filtering part of the 6500 is dropping the
traffic, and is dropping it because of something that Centos 5 is doing
differently from EL4.  I think there was a post to this list just last
week about something similar; I don't have time to search the archive,
but it is something to do with a TCP option/extension which is on in
Centos 5, but can be turned off via a setting in /proc somewhere; the
extension should be acceptable to all firewalls/routers (uses a
previously unused few bits in the TCP header), but some decide it's not
valid and drop packets/connections.

Craig Miskell
  



You might be thinking of the thread that climaxed about here:
http://marc.info/?l=centos&m=119033374928629&w=2
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Re: [CentOS] Why tzdata-2007h [RHEA-2007:0928-05] only for CentOS 2?

[Robert]

Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote:

I might be stupid and ask an idiot or offensive question, but here it is:

"Why was tzdata-2007h [RHEA-2007:0928-05] only released for CentOS 2, when
upstream has released it for all the versions?"

The guys from X/OS have released it for 5.0 along with the other updates (on
Oct. 9).

Are the "enhancements"... "not important" as long as they're not "security
updates"?

True, the guys from SL have only released tzdata-2007h in "fastbugs" -- which
is something you should not use --, but I am asking in a single place: why?

  
Ummm.  This is from my CentOS 5 /var/log/yum.log: Oct 06 14:30:09 
Updated: tzdata.noarch 2007h-1.el5


Your post made me curious about its origin.

   [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qi tzdata
   Name: tzdata   Relocations: (not
   relocatable)
   Version : 2007h Vendor: CentOS
   Release : 1.el5 Build Date: Sat 06
   Oct 2007 07:59:45 AM CDT
   Install Date: Sat 06 Oct 2007 02:30:01 PM CDT  Build Host:
   builder6
   Group   : System Environment/Base   Source RPM:
   tzdata-2007h-1.el5.src.rpm
   Size: 1784261  License: GPL
   Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Sat 06 Oct 2007 08:03:16 AM CDT, Key ID
   a8a447dce8562897
   Summary : Timezone data
   Description :
   This package contains data files with rules for various
   timezones around
   the world.







Thanks,
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[CentOS] Questions about kernel updates

[Robert]

The latest CentOS 5 kernel, 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 broke my box and I had to
drop back to 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 before I could play DVDs with either Xine
or mplayer. ( xine-0.99.5-1.el5.rf & mplayer-1.0-0.36.rc1try2.el5.rf ).
This is no big deal to me  -- as long as I can make certain that  the
older kernel doesn't go away.
If I understand the installonly plugin correctly, an entry of tokeep=4
in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf will cause yum to leave the
working kernel in place through 2 more upgrades.  Aside from setting
tokeep to an insanely large value, is there any way to insure that yum
will concern itself only with installing updates, allowing me to deal
with tossing the old stuff?  Also, is my understanding of the "tokeep"
value in installonlyn.conf correct?

Thanks!





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[CentOS] Questions about kernel updates

[Robert]

The latest CentOS 5 kernel, 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 broke my box and I had to 
drop back to 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 before I could play DVDs with either Xine 
or mplayer. ( xine-0.99.5-1.el5.rf & mplayer-1.0-0.36.rc1try2.el5.rf ).
This is no big deal to me  -- as long as I can make certain that  the 
older kernel doesn't go away.
If I understand the installonly plugin correctly, an entry of tokeep=4 
in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf will cause yum to leave the 
working kernel in place through 2 more upgrades.  Aside from setting 
tokeep to an insanely large value, is there any way to insure that yum 
will concern itself only with installing updates, allowing me to deal 
with tossing the old stuff?  Also, is my understanding of the "tokeep" 
value in installonlyn.conf correct?


Thanks!





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Re: [CentOS] Questions about kernel updates

[Robert]

Johnny Hughes wrote:

Robert wrote:
  

The latest CentOS 5 kernel, 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 broke my box and I had to
drop back to 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 before I could play DVDs with either Xine
or mplayer. ( xine-0.99.5-1.el5.rf & mplayer-1.0-0.36.rc1try2.el5.rf ).
This is no big deal to me  -- as long as I can make certain that  the
older kernel doesn't go away.
If I understand the installonly plugin correctly, an entry of tokeep=4
in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf will cause yum to leave the
working kernel in place through 2 more upgrades.  Aside from setting
tokeep to an insanely large value, is there any way to insure that yum
will concern itself only with installing updates, allowing me to deal
with tossing the old stuff?  Also, is my understanding of the "tokeep"
value in installonlyn.conf correct?



Yes ... you can just turn that plugin off

set enabled=0 in installonlyn.conf and it will never delete a kernel.

You could also add this to the CentOS-Base.repo file in
/etc/yum.repos.d/ in the [Base] and [updates] sections:

exclude=kernel kernel-headers kernel-devel kernel-PAE* kernel-xen*

then you will have to manually upgrade your kernels ... if you wanted that.

I will test the DVD playback issues and see if I can duplicate them.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
  
Don't spend any time on it.  You might or might not be able to duplicate 
the problem. The bug is a bug only to the extent that a new kernel 
really shouldn't cause previously working stuff to suddenly fail.  I 
think it goes back to the way device allocation rules seem to be a 
moving target.


Using the previous kernel:

   [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# uname -r
   2.6.18-8.1.14.el5
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# ls -l dvd*
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov  4 12:39 dvd -> hdc
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov  4 12:39 dvd-hdc -> hdc
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov  4 12:39 dvd-hdd -> hdd
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov  4 12:39 dvdrw -> hdc
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov  4 12:39 dvdrw-hdc -> hdc
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov  4 12:39 dvdwriter -> hdc
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov  4 12:39 dvdwriter-hdc -> hdc
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]#



Using the new kernel:

   [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# uname -r
   2.6.18-8.1.15.el5
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# ls -l dvd*
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov  4 12:05 dvd -> hdd
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov  4 12:05 dvd-hdc -> hdc
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov  4 12:05 dvd-hdd -> hdd
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov  4 12:05 dvdrw -> hdc
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov  4 12:05 dvdrw-hdc -> hdc
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov  4 12:05 dvdwriter -> hdc
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov  4 12:05 dvdwriter-hdc -> hdc
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# 


So that the generated symlink for dvd now points to a different drive.
The workaround for xine is to change the value of media.dvd.device in 
~/.xine/config accordingly:


   [EMAIL PROTECTED] .xine]$ grep -B3 media.dvd.device config

   # device used for DVD playback
   # string, default: /dev/dvd
   media.dvd.device:/dev/dvd-hdc
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] .xine]$

So, it's really nothing for me to get my skivvies in a wad over but it 
is a bit annoying when stuff suddenly quits working.


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Re: [CentOS] Can not print with OpenOffice.Org on CentOS 5.0 x86

[Robert]

Ioannis Vranos wrote:
I can not print any document with OpenOffice.Org Writer on CentOS 5.0 
x86.


Has anyone encountered this problem?

My printer is HP Deskjet 3745 and apparently uses the hplip and hpijs 
packages provided by CentOS.


No problem here with CentOS 5 fully updated
openoffice.org-writer-2.0.4-5.4.17.3
cups-1.2.4-11.14.el5_0.1
hplip-1.6.7-4.1.el5.3
hpijs-1.6.7-4.1.el5.3
and a HP Deskjet 6122 directly connected via USB.
For the record, I also use a Brother HL 5250DN network-connected laser 
printer. 
I successfully printed from OpenOffice.Org Writer to both of these 
printers immediately before starting this reply.
Any clues in /var/log/cups/error_log or maybe even 
/var/log/cups/access_log ?




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Re: [CentOS] weird cron problem

[Robert]

Andreas Kuntzagk wrote:
PATHS - everytime i have cron issues its a PATH problem. The cron env is 
not the same as the user when logged in



Thanks, that's probably the cause. rsnapshot resides in /usr/local/bin
I changed the PATH in /etc/crontab now. Silly that I didn't see it.
So jobs in /etc/crontab are executed with the PATH in there, but jobs in
roots crontab are executed with the PATH set in .bashrc?

Andreas
  
You can prove to yourself quite easily that $PATH gets manipulated.  
Simply make a crontab entry like this in root's crontab:


* * * * * echo $PATH >> /root/cronpath

and compare the entries in the resulting file with the command line 
output of

# echo $PATH

(Don't forget to remove that crontab entry when finished playing.)


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[CentOS] wall and mesg and Xwindow

[Robert]

I read in another post this morning something that reminded me of a 
question that has left my pulling my eyebrows out.  How are broadcast 
messages enabled in X? 
I have found that

# mesg y
at a console will enable wall to post to that console.  And, by placing 
"mesg y" in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, messages will be enabled on all 
consoles.  But they're not enabled in KDE, neither in a pop-up nor in a 
terminal.  So far, I've been unable to find what changed between CentOS 
4 and CentOS 5 (and equivalent upstream versions, obviously). 


Would someone share a clue?

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Re: [CentOS] Re: Mail Server Install

[Robert]

Tronn Wærdahl wrote:



On Nov 29, 2007 5:04 PM, Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:



>
> What do you call a person that only speak one language ? :-)
>

British ?

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No, but your close :-)


Your close what?   O. You must have meant "you're close".

Which brings up the argument of mono-articulateness vs multi-stupidity.


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Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Conexant fax/modem not faxing with sendfax

[Robert]

MHR wrote:
On Dec 1, 2007 3:40 PM, Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:

>
> Go get yourself an external USRobotics Courier v.everything from eBay.
>

I decided to give my lovely winmodem LT/Agere modem one more shot with 
the martian driver - it seems to work (at least as well as the 
conexant did), but, again, senfax can't find it as a 2 or 2.0 class 
fax, and efax dies with a segfault.


Is this at all possible (using it for a fax) or is it hopeless?

Thanks.

mhr

P.S.: I'm beginning to like eBay - had a wildly successful bid for a 
scanner for 1 cent plus shipping, and it works.
All the more reason to quit wasting your time with that junk and go 
shopping for a USRobotics  Courier v.everything -- external if you have 
a serial port available.  I notice that there are several on ebay right 
now.  If it has no manual included, download one from the mfr.



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Re: [CentOS] Retrive data from repartitioned / reformatted hard drive?

[Robert]

Niki Kovacs wrote:

Hi,

The title says it all. One of my clients showed me a 120 GB hard drive 
that his daughter accidentally formatted, according to him. I booted 
the first CD I had at hand - a Slackware 11.0 install CD - and 
launched cdfdisk /dev/hda. cfdisk informed me that there was even no 
partition table. So much for reformatting. cfdisk only shows me 120 GB 
of free space.


Any way to retrive data on this hard drive? Some magic live 
distribution to read data on repartitioned / reformatted hard drives? 
any suggestions?
I have used testdisk with excellent results.  Read about its features, 
capabilities and limitations at http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk


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[CentOS] Syntax Help on a Bash Script

[Robert]

Hi All,

I'm brand new at doing anything linux and would like feedback on this 
script I'm trying to understand from an example I'm working on..

Oh, running Centos 5.6

Anyhow, I run this bash script:

#!/bin/bash
# send data to the table in the MySQL database

MYSQL='which mysql'

if [ $# -ne 4 ]
then
  echo "Usage: mtest4 empid lastname firstname salary"
else
  statement="insert into employees values ($1, '$2','$3', $4)"
  $MYSQL test << EOF
  $statement
EOF
  If [ $? -eq 0 ]
  then
   echo "Data successfully added"
  else
   echo "Problem adding data"
  fi
fi


and here is the error I get:

[Bobster@localhost ~]$ ./mtest4 5 Johnson John 12
./mtest4: line 15: syntax error near unexpected token `then'
./mtest4: line 15: ` then'

Thanks in advance for any inputs.

Bobster



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Re: [CentOS] Syntax Help on a Bash Script

[Robert]

Thanks for the help thus far.  Have tried recommendations on the error 
line and still am getting the error.  Oh well, its late so I'm going to 
stop trying tonight and will take this up again in the AM.

Bob


On 05/03/2011 11:49 PM, Andrew Harley wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 23:33 -0500, Robert wrote:
>> MYSQL='which mysql'
> Also this line should use either backticks or $() command substitution
> instead:
>
> For example:
>
> [andrew@savoy ~]$ MYSQL='which mysql'
> [andrew@savoy ~]$ echo $MYSQL
> which mysql
> [andrew@savoy ~]$ MYSQL=$(which mysql)
> [andrew@savoy ~]$ echo $MYSQL
> /usr/bin/mysql
> [andrew@savoy ~]$ MYSQL=`which mysql`
> [andrew@savoy ~]$ echo $MYSQL
> /usr/bin/mysql
>
> Cheers!
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Re: [CentOS] Syntax Help on a Bash Script

[Robert]

On 05/04/2011 12:00 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 5/3/11 11:33 PM, Robert wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm brand new at doing anything linux and would like feedback on this
>> script I'm trying to understand from an example I'm working on..
>>
>> Oh, running Centos 5.6
>>
>> Anyhow, I run this bash script:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> # send data to the table in the MySQL database
>>
>> MYSQL='which mysql'
>>
>> if [ $# -ne 4 ]
>> then
>> echo "Usage: mtest4 empid lastname firstname salary"
>> else
>> statement="insert into employees values ($1, '$2','$3', $4)"
>> $MYSQL test<<   EOF
>> $statement
>> EOF
>> If [ $? -eq 0 ]
>> then
>>  echo "Data successfully added"
>> else
>>  echo "Problem adding data"
>> fi
>> fi
>>
>>
>> and here is the error I get:
>>
>> [Bobster@localhost ~]$ ./mtest4 5 Johnson John 12
>> ./mtest4: line 15: syntax error near unexpected token `then'
>> ./mtest4: line 15: ` then'
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any inputs.
> The If on line 14 should be if (lowercase).
>
Hey that was the fix..

[Bobster@localhost ~]$ ./mtest4 5 Johnson John 12
/usr/bin/mysql
/usr/bin/test
Data successfully added

Thanks Les!

Bob

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 and BitTorrent

[Robert]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> nate wrote:
>   
>> Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
>> 
>>> If I remember correctly, when version 5.3 was released, about 95% was
>>> made available by BitTorrent before the official release date, so that
>>> the entire file would be available as soon as possible after the
>>> release.
>>>
>>> Could the same be done this time?
>>>   
>> Could someone describe to me what the rush is? I mean what drives
>> the need that you need to have it _right now_ ?
>> 
>
> There is always the risk that a critical security vulnerability will be 
> discovered with the fix only made available in an update to 5.4.
>
>  > Me I always like
>   
>> to wait at least a week or two to see if others run into issues,
>> and wait for the mirrors to become less clogged.
>> 
>
> It won't do you any good to wait forever if someone doesn't run it to 
> find the issues.
>   
Judging by the list traffic with "5.4" in the subject, a lack of early 
testers won't be an issue.


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Re: [CentOS] allowing users to issue the "shutdown" command

[Robert]

Buz Davis wrote:
> I am running CentOS 5.3 and have just the two accounts "root" and 
> "buz".  I would like to be able to issue "shutdown" from the account 
> "buz", and thus created
> /etc/shutdown.allow with the single entry  "buz" (without any quotes).  
> I still
> get the error message "only root can do this" (or something similar) 
> even if I include the '-a' option on the shutdown command.  What am I 
> missing ?
>   
I'm not going to verify this right now but I believe "buz" can execute 
the command "poweroff" to shutdown -h now
and "reboot" to shutdown -r now.

[...@mavis rj]$ ls -l `which poweroff`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 2 2009 /usr/bin/poweroff ->
consolehelper
[...@mavis rj]$ ls -l `which reboot`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 2 2009 /usr/bin/reboot ->
consolehelper
[...@mavis rj]$


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Re: [CentOS] 5.4 at last?

[Robert]

fred smith wrote:
> Now that it appears that some folks are able to get the 5.4 downloads
> (and a GREAT BIG THANK YOU to all the centos team members who make this
> possible!) I'm wondering when the updates will begin flowing so that those
> of us running 5.3 can do "yum upgrade" and enjoy all the benefits too?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>   
If you're seriously in a big hurry, get the DVD iso via bittorrent, 
loop-mount the iso someplace and do the update from local media.  Seems 
like there's a wiki page with instructions.


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Re: [CentOS] Way to go, CentOS team. Here's a hearty "thank you"!

[Robert]

Lucian @ lastdot.org wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Steve Lindemann  wrote:
>   
>> Paul Heinlein wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
>>>
>>>   
 Hello all,

 To the CentOS developers, beta testers, and all who were involved in
 a small or major way in the release of CentOS 5.4...thank you.
 Ignoring the peer pressure, even though it was out a little later
 than you (and many of us) wanted, you got it RIGHT. *That* is what
 was important. I yum updated from 5.3 to 5.4 with NO issues that I
 can speak of right now.
 
>>> Well said. Let me add my thanks too...
>>>
>>>   
>> meetoo!  I've only updated two machines so far today, but they both went
>> flawlessly.  Ignore the whiners and keep doing thing the way you have
>> been, it works!
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> Yep, THANK YOU Centos crew!!
> *champagne corks poppin out*
>   
Yes. The upgrade went flawlessly, Release Notes were written clearly, 
special instructions Just Worked.
> Also KUDOS to RedHat, we wouldn't be here cheering yet another great
> Centos release if it weren't for them. :-)
>   
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Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

[Robert]

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Matt wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM,  wrote:
>>
>> 
>>> I admit I wasn't following the screaming and yelling about 5.4, so
>>> excuse  me if this has been answered
>>>
>>> My boss tells me he wants me to start rolling out 5.4. I want to d/l &
>>> burn a DVD... but when I looked at a number of mirrors, the .iso is from
>>> 1 Oct, while the CD .iso's are from the 14th... yet 5.4 was officially
>>> announced the other day.
>>>
>>> Am I missing something, or do the mirrors have a pre-release DVD .iso,
>>> with no fixes in the last three weeks, or ...?
>>>
>>>   
>> The dates are likely based on when the ISO was actually created.
>> Therefore, if the ISO was generated on Oct. 1st and no issues were found
>> 
> with it in
>   
>> QA, then the date you are seeing on the mirrors is correct.  The ISOs are
>> based
>> on the original 5.4 tree and don't include updates that Red Hat released
>> after the initial release of RHEL 5.4.
>> 
>
> But why are the 7-iso set of CD's from two weeks later? Or is it just that
> folks felt that building those was more important than rebuilding the DVD
> version?
>
>   mark
>   
Dates aside, the official Release Notes at
http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4 contains
checksums for each of the isos.  It seems to me that you should
be able to apply those md5 and sha1 sums to the DVD.iso file, no
matter the source, and be reasonably comfortable with the result.
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Re: [CentOS] Upgrading CentOS 5.3 to 5.4 errors

[Robert]

Rohan Gilchrist wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I thought I'd wait a little while before upgrading to 5.4, but am 
> running into the following errors:
>
> -> Finished Dependency Resolution
> lvm2-2.02.46-8.el5.i386 from base has depsolving problems
>   --> Missing Dependency: device-mapper >= 1.02.32-1 is needed by 
> package lvm2-2.02.46-8.el5.i386 (base)
> mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-54.i386 from base has depsolving problems
>   --> Missing Dependency: device-mapper-multipath >= 0.4.7-9 is needed 
> by package mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-54.i386 (base)
> lvm2-2.02.46-8.el5.i386 from base has depsolving problems
>   --> Missing Dependency: device-mapper-event is needed by package 
> lvm2-2.02.46-8.el5.i386 (base)
> Error: Missing Dependency: device-mapper-multipath >= 0.4.7-9 is needed 
> by package mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-54.i386 (base)
> Error: Missing Dependency: device-mapper-event is needed by package 
> lvm2-2.02.46-8.el5.i386 (base)
> Error: Missing Dependency: device-mapper >= 1.02.32-1 is needed by 
> package lvm2-2.02.46-8.el5.i386 (base)
>
> It would appear that these packages do exist, although earlier versions:
>
> # rpm -q device-mapper
> device-mapper-1.02.13-1.el5
>
> Any thoughts would be appreaicated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rohan.
>   
1. Did you follow the procedure in the 5.4 Release Notes (repeated in 
the release announcement)?

2. Perhaps the repo(s) you're using is/are broken. My DVD contains 
(among otherstuf) lvm2-2.02.46-8.el5.i386.rpm and  
device-mapper-1.02.13.1.el5.i386.rpm so that that particular dependency 
would be resolved easily enough.


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Re: [CentOS] printers... (HP)

[Robert]

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> I can't remember if I asked here - I've got more than one printer, HP,
> laser, builtin JetDirect. When I go there in a browser, I see the basic
> thing, but I can't get to the networking page. It says that it wants a
> password, no user name. It doesn't accept anything. Last week, a co-worker
> reset one to factory defaults... and it comes up with the same thing.
> Looking around on the Web, I don't see anything about a default password.
>
> Clues for the poor?
>
> mark
>   
You might find something at 
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1054861.html

or even at http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/networkprinterhacking

No guarantee!  I use Brother.
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Re: [CentOS] printers... (HP)

[Robert]

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> someone wrote:
>   
>> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> 
>>> I can't remember if I asked here - I've got more than one printer, HP,
>>> laser, builtin JetDirect. When I go there in a browser, I see the basic
>>> thing, but I can't get to the networking page. It says that it wants a
>>> password, no user name. It doesn't accept anything. Last week, a
>>> co-worker
>>> reset one to factory defaults... and it comes up with the same thing.
>>> Looking around on the Web, I don't see anything about a default
>>> password.
>>>
>>> Clues for the poor?
>>>
>>>   
>> You might find something at
>> http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1054861.html
>>
>> or even at
>> http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/networkprinterhacking
>>
>> 
> Could get there - security blocks it.
>
> However, one of the other links folks mentioned worked: I did a cold reset
> (power off, press and hold the "go" button, power on, till you see the
> "cold reset" come on the panel.
>
> Thanks, all!
>
>mark
>   
All's well that ends.

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Re: [CentOS] No entry in /var/log/boot.log

[Robert]

Rod Rook wrote:



> Hi, Lee,
> The problem mentioned in the thread you referred to is usually caused 
> by Network Manager, which has nothing to do with boot.log.
> Thanks to you anyway.
Perhaps he meant the thread beginning at 
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/084836.html

My boot log looks like this:

[r...@mavis log]# pwd
/var/log
[r...@mavis log]# ls -l | grep boot
-rw--- 1 rootroot  0 Nov  1 04:02 boot.log
-rw--- 1 rootroot  0 Oct 25 04:02 boot.log.1
-rw--- 1 rootroot  0 Oct 18 04:02 boot.log.2
-rw--- 1 rootroot  0 Oct 11 04:02 boot.log.3
-rw--- 1 rootroot  0 Oct  4 04:02 boot.log.4
[r...@mavis log]# 

The zero length most like indicates that there are no entries :-;  yet 
we can see that the machine has been rebooted:

 [r...@mavis log]# grep boot messages*
messages.2:Oct 22 11:39:13 mavis shutdown[26207]: shutting down
for system reboot
messages.4:Oct  5 16:17:33 mavis shutdown[19739]: shutting down
for system reboot
messages.4:Oct  5 16:27:07 mavis shutdown[4979]: shutting down
for system reboot
messages.4:Oct  5 16:33:25 mavis shutdown[4738]: shutting down
for system reboot
messages.4:Oct 10 15:01:46 mavis shutdown[11680]: shutting down
for system reboot
[r...@mavis log]# 

Frankly, I can do very well without have boot.log at all but it seems 
that if we have it, it really should work!
Mounting an old CentOS-4 disk, we see that it worked in CentOS 4:

[r...@mavis log]# pwd
/old-sys/var/log
[r...@mavis log]# ls -l | grep boot
-rw--- 1 root  root 107353 May 21  2007 boot.log
-rw--- 1 root  root   8867 May 20  2007 boot.log.1
-rw--- 1 root  root  17265 May 13  2007 boot.log.2
-rw--- 1 root  root   2224 May  6  2007 boot.log.3
-rw--- 1 root  root105 Apr 29  2007 boot.log.4
[r...@mavis log]# 

It's interesting to note that my current /etc/syslog.conf  and the one 
in the older version both contain the entry:

  # Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.*  /var/log/boot.log

Beyond ferreting out those details, I am LOST.

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Re: [CentOS] No entry in /var/log/boot.log

[Robert]

Rod Rook wrote:

> Robert, I responded to Lee's statement which referred to 
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083346.html
> It is all there if you follow the thread.
> Anyway, you agree with me that there is a bug or bugs in CentOS 5.4. 
> As I said earlier, it is not a critical matter, but it does not 
> instill confidence in me about CentOS distro. What other bugs are 
> there? The interesting thing, at least to me, is that there seems to 
> be conspiratorial silence about such bugs. Nobody wants to speak ill 
> of their beloved distro?
I'm sure there are other bugs.  I'm equally sure there's no "conspiracy 
of silence" here, though.  I guess the bug tracker would no longer exist 
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Re: [CentOS] No entry in /var/log/boot.log

[Robert]

Robert wrote:
> Rod Rook wrote:
>
>   
>> Robert, I responded to Lee's statement which referred to 
>> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083346.html
>> It is all there if you follow the thread.
>> Anyway, you agree with me that there is a bug or bugs in CentOS 5.4. 
>> As I said earlier, it is not a critical matter, but it does not 
>> instill confidence in me about CentOS distro. What other bugs are 
>> there? The interesting thing, at least to me, is that there seems to 
>> be conspiratorial silence about such bugs. Nobody wants to speak ill 
>> of their beloved distro?
>> 
> I'm sure there are other bugs.  I'm equally sure there's no "conspiracy 
> of silence" here, though.  I guess the bug tracker would no longer exist 
> if that was the case...
>   
Going a bit further, the empty boot.log is listed in RedHat's bugzilla 
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=boot.log) as bug # 
529221 and 489838

The only reason I'm interested in it is that the nuances in syslog.conf 
still haven't penetrated my thick skull.

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Re: [CentOS] Serious Privileges Problem: Second Post!

[Robert]

Victor Subervi wrote:
> Adding python debugging to apache revealed an import error. The 
> strange thing is that when I load the exact lines of code in the 
> command line python interpreter, it has no trouble importing the class 
> in question.
>
> With respect to the dos question, I've uploaded this exact code in its 
> exact format (*.py files) to another server where it serves just fine. 
> I can't find where to get dos2unix,
Where have you looked?? 

# yum list dos2unix
# yum install dos2unix

> but do I need it?
Presently?  Who knows.  But it will come in handy at some point in time 
and it's only about 16K.
> V
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Re: [CentOS] OMG! Microsoft patents sudo! Linux and MacOS dead!

[Robert]

Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Robert Heller  wrote:
>   
>> At Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:07:15 +0800 CentOS mailing list  
>> wrote:
>> 
>
>   
>>> http://blogs.computerworld.com/15082/omg_microsoft_patents_sudo_linux_and_macos_dead?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2009-11-12
>>>   
>> Is this for real?  Blogs.computerworld.com seems to be down/dead/broken
>> database...
>> 
>
> Try Groklaw:
>
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009094923390
>   
Yes.  With respect to those luminaries at the U.S. Patent Office, this 
is just one more justification for my core observation on public servants:
"The primary purpose of any government entity is to employ the 
unemployable".
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Re: [CentOS] Stop K3B CDDB Popup

[Robert]

MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:22:02 -0800, John Doe wrote:
>
>   
>> From: MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED
>> 
>> 
>>> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:27:18 -0800, John Doe wrote:
>>>   
 From: MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED
 
> On CentOS 5.4 I just installed K3B to write some CDs.  Now every
> time I used a CD, I get a popup that asks me to "Select a CDDB entry
> ...". How can I stop this popup?
>   
 Tried the 'configure k3b' menu?
 There's a CDDB section...
 
>>> Yes, I unchecked the things in the CDDB section. The popup still
>>> appears.
>>>   
>> I have local CDDB, maybe that's why I don't get popups?
>>
>>   $ cat ~/.kde/share/config/k3brc
>>   [Cddb]
>>   cddb server=Http freedb.org:80
>>   cgi path=/~cddb/cddb.cgi
>>   local cddb dirs=~/.cddb/
>>   save cddb entries locally=true
>>   use local cddb query=true
>>   use manual cgi path=false
>>   use remote cddb=false
>>
>> But I never inserted an audio CD, so cannot be sure...
>>
>> JD
>> 
> Didn't work.  Then I ran "yum remove k3b" and I still
> had the problem.  The popup top says "KsCD" and I found
> an item on the menu by that name.  I checked "Cache Only"
> in its configuration FWIW.  Also in Control Center ->
> Peripherals -> Storage Media, I clicked "Do Nothing".
> For now, the popups stopped.
>
> Is there a way to remove KsCD?  There is no audio on the system.
>
> Mike.
>   
Kscd is part of the kdemultimedia package:

[r...@mavis rj]# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/kscd
kdemultimedia-3.5.4-2.fc6

You might want to worry about what else is in that package before 
tossing it:

[r...@mavis rj]# rpm -ql kdemultimedia | wc -l
1077
[r...@mavis rj]#

You might find a config option in /usr/share/config.kcfg/kscd.kcfg but 
that's an XML file.
Another thought is to rename the executable and see what havoc that 
causes or look at the spec file in the src.rpm with the idea of getting 
rid of the junk the right way.

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Re: [CentOS] Capturing video

[Robert]

cen...@911networks.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to watch:
> http://www.video.bhphotovideo.com/?fr_story=a405075c1837a65dbee4f4d48db9a26a992d3ab2&rf=bm
>
> It's within flash and the problem is that even in slow mode I get 20
> seconds, then a few minutes later another 10 to 20 secs...
>
> I have CentOS 5.3, Firefox 3.0.15 with the flash enabled.
>
> Is there a way of capturing the whole video, and then playing it
> locally?
>   
If you can find that particular commercial on Youtube, you can easily 
capture the stream by using the Download Helper extension (currently ver 
4.6.4).  B&H does have a number of videos on Youtube.  I didn't notice 
the one you asked about but I didn't make an exhaustive search.
I did notice that the video that I watch for a couple minutes was very 
good quality, like one would expect commercial for a camera and video 
store to be.
BTW, I have found VLC Player from rpmforge to be really good for playing 
captured flash video.

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Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:What is the equivalent of "ping -f -l" on the CentOS server?

[Robert]

hadi motamedi wrote:
> Sorry. It was just an example . I wanted to ask you for the equivalent 
> of "ping -f -l" in its general format . Please help me.


The equivalent of "man" is "man", therefore the equivalent of "man ping" 
is "man ping".  That is also the equivalent of "man ping" in the RedHat 
Linux 7.2 from which you apparently *have* migrated since your initial 
post here on Sept 12:

> Dear All
> Can you please do me favor and let me know what are the highlights of 
> major benefits of CentOS Release 5 (Final) over the RedHat Linux 7.2 
> (Enigma) as we are going to migrate to it ?
> Thank you in advance
> Regards
> H.Motamedi

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Re: [CentOS] my mail is refusing messages

[Robert]

Eero Volotinen wrote:
> Nelson Gonzaga wrote:
>   
>> Hi there,
>> I trying to send e-mail using this:
>>
>> mail -s "maillog" ngonz...@yahoo.com  < 
>> /var/log/maillog
>>
>> but sendmail refused and I don't know why, see my maillog:
>>
>> Nov 19 14:31:33 servertdoc sendmail[11258]: nAJGVXXi011258: from=root, 
>> size=353085, class=0, nrcpts=1, 
>> msgid=<200911191631.najgvxxi011...@servertdoc.toshiba.fmg>, 
>> relay=r...@localhost
>>
>> Nov 19 14:31:33 servertdoc sendmail[11258]: nAJGVXXi011258: 
>> to=ngonz...@yahoo.com, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, 
>> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=383085, relay=[127.0.0.1] 
>> [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
>>
>> There is some wrong setup, what can be?
>> 
>
> Yes, you need to setup smarthost correctly and start sendmail ..
>   
I recently solved this one using a small program named "email", 
available at http://www.cleancode.org/projects/email

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Re: [CentOS] OT: Google Earth - How to uninstall, before installing newest version?

[Robert]

Lanny Marcus wrote:
> Desktop is CentOS 5.4 (32 bit).  I have Google Earth version
> 4.2.205.5730 (13NOV2007 build date) installed. I have checkinstall
> (spelling?) installed, but am not sure if that was installed before or
> after Google Earth was installed. I have the Google Repository
> installed, but apparently Google Earth cannot be updated via yum and
> probably it was not installed via yum.
>
> Question: What is the best way for me to uninstall this version of
> Google Earth, completely, before I install the newest version?
> (This also applies to removing Skype, which I am certain was not
> installed via yum, before I install the static version of Skype, that
> was recently recommended on the list).
>
> TIA and Happy Holidays!  Lanny
>
Lanny, if you don't have an /opt/google-earth/uninstall, welcome to the 
club.
There seems to be a rash of that going around.  The answer might be at
http://earth.google.com/support/bin/search.py?hl=en&forum=1&query=uninstall+more%3Aforum

I've never tried Skype.
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Re: [CentOS] [OT] Urgent request

[Robert]

tdu...@sc.rr.com wrote:
>  "William L. Maltby"  wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 13:29 -0500, tdu...@sc.rr.com wrote:
>>  
>>>  m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>>> 
>>>
>> 
>> Some BIOS allow you to disable on-board video. Can you get to BIOS and
>> see? If you can that might get you going with another video card added
>> to the system.
>>
>>  
> We have no video at all.  Was hoping a video card would have at least let us 
> in to reconfigure the bios but we are unable to see anything.
>
Right up there with "No keyboard detected.  Press any key to continue."

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[CentOS] Setting CDROM parms

[Robert]

My apologies in advance for asking such an elementary question.  I 
called myself searching the Installation Guide and Deployment Guide, 
with no success.
The situation is that I bought a Lite-On ATAPI iHAP122 that will not 
burn DVDs unless I use hdparm to turn dma off. I bought that drive 
because it was a rare beige drive.  Until I can find a decent DVD burner 
and/or get a Windows machine put together strictly for doing BIOS 
updates, running with dma disabled seems to be the best solution. 
(hdparm -d0 /dev/hdb )
So, my question is, where should I script the command without having to 
become root each time I wat to burn a DVD?

2.6.18-164.9.1.el5PAE #1 SMP Tue Dec 15 21:41:47 EST 2009 i686 athlon 
i386 GNU/Linux

This is how it always fails:

[...@madeleine ~]$ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z 
/dev/hdb=/home/rj/KNOPPIX_V6.2DVD-2009-11-18-EN.iso
Executing 'builtin_dd if=/home/rj/KNOPPIX_V6.2DVD-2009-11-18-EN.iso 
of=/dev/hdb obs=32k seek=  0'
/dev/hdb: "Current Write Speed" is 16.4x1352KBps.
:-[ wr...@lba=30h failed with SK=4h/ASC=08h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error
:-( write failed: Input/output error
/dev/hdb: flushing cache
/dev/hdb: updating RMA
/dev/hdb: closing disc
[...@madeleine ~]$

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Re: [CentOS] Setting CDROM parms

[Robert]

Mr. X wrote:
>
> --- On Sat, 1/2/10, Robert  wrote:
>
>    
>> From: Robert
>> Subject: [CentOS] Setting CDROM parms
>> To: "CentOS mailing list"
>> Date: Saturday, January 2, 2010, 6:23 PM
>> My apologies in advance for asking
>> such an elementary question.  I
>> called myself searching the Installation Guide and
>> Deployment Guide,
>> with no success.
>> The situation is that I bought a Lite-On ATAPI iHAP122 that
>> will not
>> burn DVDs unless I use hdparm to turn dma off. I bought
>> that drive
>> because it was a rare beige drive.  Until I can find a
>> decent DVD burner
>> and/or get a Windows machine put together strictly for
>> doing BIOS
>> updates, running with dma disabled seems to be the best
>> solution.
>> (hdparm -d0 /dev/hdb )
>> So, my question is, where should I script the command
>> without having to
>> become root each time I wat to burn a DVD?
>>
>>  
> Robert,
>
> The -k flag to hdparm allows you to persist your settings across a reset.
>
I'll try that.
> Did you try to elevate the dma to the highest supported by the device?
>
Actually, I didn't try very much at all with hdparm because of all the 
"caution", "warning", "dangerous", etc.

> - info 
> sudo hdparm -I /dev/cdrom
>
> /dev/cdrom:
>
> ATAPI CD-ROM, with removable media
>  Model Number:   Slimtype DVDRW SOSW-852S
>  Serial Number:
>  Firmware Revision:  PSU2
> Standards:
>  Supported: CD-ROM ATAPI-2
> Configuration:
>  DRQ response: 50us.
>  Packet size: 12 bytes
> Capabilities:
>  LBA, IORDY(cannot be disabled)
>  DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2
>   Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
>  PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
>   Cycle time: no flow control=227ns  IORDY flow control=120ns
> --- end snip --
>
Mine looks like this:


hdparm -I /dev/hdb

/dev/hdb:

ATAPI CD-ROM, with removable media
 Model Number:   ATAPI   iHAP122   8
 Serial Number:
 Firmware Revision:  UL05
Standards:
 Likely used CD-ROM ATAPI-1
Configuration:
 DRQ response: 50us.
 Packet size: 12 bytes
Capabilities:
 LBA, IORDY(cannot be disabled)
 DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4
  Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
 PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
  Cycle time: no flow control=240ns  IORDY flow control=120ns

> On Centos, you can run k3b to handle burning easily.
Yes, I usually use k3b; chose cli for this plea for help because the 
command and error output appear in one convenient wad.

> The only caveat is

> sometimes on KDE installs you will have the hdc unavailable for exclusive 
> access. You can fix that by
> $sudo killall kio_audiocd
>
> see http://bugs.kde.org/135669
>

> One more thing. If you want to demo the Knoppix 6, save burning the DVD and 
> boot the ISO directly with qemu-kvm or qemu with kqemu.
>
>
>> sudo qemu -kernel-kqemu -cdrom KNOPPIX_V6.0.1CD-2009-02-08-EN.iso -m 384 
>> -usb -boot d -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user&
>>  
> put the above on one line. You need 2 packages to run qemu in this fast mode.
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep qemu
> dkms-kqemu-1.4.0-0.1.pre1.nodist.rf
> qemu-0.10.5-1.el5.rf
>
Good info. As far as KNOPPIX in my example, the name kinda leaped out at me:
[...@madeleine tmp]$ find /home/rj -depth -type f -size +3G -name "*.iso"
/home/rj/KNOPPIX_V6.2DVD-2009-11-18-EN.iso
[...@madeleine tmp]$

Thanks for the pointers!


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Re: [CentOS] Dear Centos Mailing List, If you can't find in google, try JUSTDIAL.COM

[Robert]

Per Qvindesland wrote:
> God I hate commercials in a mailing list almost worse then getting 
> Viagra offers in my inbox.
That, and the "unsuscribe" (sic) posts.


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Re: [CentOS] Dear Centos Mailing List, If you can't find in google, try JUSTDIAL.COM

[Robert]

Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> Am 06.01.10 17:15, schrieb Ralph Angenendt:
>
> [nothing]
>
> Erm yes. Suddenly brain stopped working, but fingers were still moving :)
>
> Ralph
>
...A brief sojourn through La-La Land.   I think we do that when the 
brain IS working. ;-)

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[CentOS] Lightscribe

[Robert]

I just bought an HP DVD Writer 1040r (as identified by k3b), an external 
USB-connected CD/DVD burner.  The drive gets assigned /dev/scd0. I can 
burn CDs and DVDs, read from CDs and DVDs, boot from DVDs (and, I 
assume, CDs) but have been unable to use the lightscribe software to 
label a disk.  I have lightscribe-1.18.11.1-0 and 
lightscribeApplications-1.18.6.1-0 installed, can run the GUI at 
/opt/lightscribe/Applications/SimpleLabeler/SimpleLabeler which promptly 
and stubbornly tells me "".
This IS a lightscribe drive, according to the specs, the box and the 
logo on the tray.
This is on a fully update CentOS 5.4 system that has behaved very well 
since I built this box (Gigabyte MA770T-UD3P) about 3-4 months ago.
This is certainly no a critical situation but having new stuff that 
doesn't work is rather irksome to me.
Can anyone offer a clue or two?

Thanks!

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Re: [CentOS] Lightscribe

[Robert]

Arun Khan wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Robert  wrote:
>
>> I just bought an HP DVD Writer 1040r (as identified by k3b), an external
>> USB-connected CD/DVD burner.  The drive gets assigned /dev/scd0. I can
>> burn CDs and DVDs, read from CDs and DVDs, boot from DVDs (and, I
>> assume, CDs) but have been unable to use the lightscribe software to
>> label a disk.  I have lightscribe-1.18.11.1-0 and
>> lightscribeApplications-1.18.6.1-0 installed, can run the GUI at
>> /opt/lightscribe/Applications/SimpleLabeler/SimpleLabeler which promptly
>> and stubbornly tells me "".
>> This IS a lightscribe drive, according to the specs, the box and the
>> logo on the tray.
>>  
> I do not have any lightscribe capable DVD writer.
>
> I am presuming you have lightscribe capable media in the drive as
> well.  If so, it might be worthwhile to contact the software vendor.
> IIRC, LaCie had published rpm package for lightscribe but I suspect it
> worked with their own branded hardware.
>
> -- Arun Khan
>
Yes, I have tried DVD media that is peddled as being lightscribe capable 
and just minutes ago, opened a 20-pack of CD+R that are supposedly also 
lightscribe capable.  I have tried both the LaCie 4L s/w and 
lightscribeApplications-1.18.6.1-0 and get nowhere with either of them.
I do have the driver, lightscribe-1.18.11.1-0 installed.

After leaving the original question, I plugged the drive into a 
WinXP-only laptop, Installed the bundled s/w and the same DVD was 
recognized -- but only after quite a while.  So, I'm about to conclude 
that the media is flaky, the Linux s/w is impatient at best, broken at 
worst.   Whatever... I didn't throw away my CD marker.

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Re: [CentOS] hplip packages centos4

[Robert]

Terry Polzin wrote:
> On Tuesday February 16 2010 04:45:05 John Doe wrote:
>
>> From: Terry Polzin
>>
>>  
>>> where can I find packages for hplip and it's deps for centos4x?
>>>
>> Google pointed to this...
>> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html
>>
>> JD
>>
>>
>>  
> Been there, just source not a helpful site at all.  Hplip's many deps that
> seem to be outside the mainstream distro make it hard to compile.
>
It has been too long ago to remember the details but I just mounted a 
CentOS-4 disk to verify that I did, in fact, rebuild hplip for 
CentOS-4.  I don't know where the SRPM came from (I suspect it was for 
some version of Fedora) but it successfully built on that CentOS-4 box.  
I *DO* remember that there were allegedly some problems with scanning 
and faxing on all-in-one printers back then but all I needed was the 
"supplies" (ink levels) function.

[r...@madeleine oldsys]# find . -type f -name hplip-0.9.7-4.2.i386.rpm 
-exec ls -l {} \;
-rw-rw-r-- 1 rj 501 6725260 Jan 15  2006 
./home/rj/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/hplip-0.9.7-4.2.i386.rpm

[r...@madeleine oldsys]# rpm -qip 
./home/rj/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/hplip-0.9.7-4.2.i386.rpm
Name: hplipRelocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 0.9.7 Vendor: (none)
Release : 4.2   Build Date: Sun 15 Jan 2006 
10:40:46 PM CST
Install Date: (not installed)   Build Host: mavis.localdomain
Group   : System Environment/DaemonsSource RPM: 
hplip-0.9.7-4.2.src.rpm
Size: 8597226  License: GPL/MIT/BSD
Signature   : (none)
URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/hpinkjet
Summary : HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project
Description :
The Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project provides
drivers for HP printers and multi-function peripherals.
[r...@madeleine oldsys]#

The source is no longer in the SRPMS directory and I have no idea where 
I got it -- but if I were guessing, I'd guess it was from Rpmforge.
If I were doing it, I would try rebuilding some SRPMS **BUT** before 
installing one of those homemade puppies, run this little script to be 
certain that the RPM contains no files that will over-write existing files.

--
#!/bin/bash
T=""
rpm -qlp $T > /tmp/xxfiles.txt
echo "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" >> /tmp/xxfiles.txt
while read F
  do
if [ -e "$F" ]
   then
   echo "$F Exists!"
fi
done < /tmp/xxfiles.txt
exit
-
(The 4th line above is there only as a quick test that the script will 
report conflicts.)

BTW, if you keep the "xxfiles", copied somewhere safe and renamed, you 
should be able to easily undo any silliness that results.


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Re: [CentOS] Burning DVD with upgrade of cdrtools for cdrecord

[Robert]

Dexter Stowers wrote:
I am having problems burning DVD's from commandline. I was wondering 
if anyone else has had any luck using cdrecord-2.01 and cdrtools that 
is supposed to add DVD support? Thanks!


--  Dexter


Not the tool you asked about but if you have already created the iso file:

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=filename.iso

will do nicely.   

man growisofs and scroll down to the EXAMPLES section for creating the 
iso on the fly.








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Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

[Robert]

MHR wrote:

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:16 AM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


win9X has horrible network username habits...you need to determine what
username its running as... dirty trick, log off, and the username should be
in the login prompt, just hit enter to relogin with the same username and
the same blank local password..   on the SAMBA server, create that username
as a linux user, AND `smbuser -a username`, assign it a smb password.   when
win98 prompts for a password, thats the username it will use, you get no
choice, and win98 should be able to 'save' that password (if you check said
box on the login prompt), which causes it to be saved to a .pwd
file  (I think thats the name of the password cache).

  


More progress:

It occurred to me that somewhere along the line I had not given my
CentOS guest user smb access, so I ran smbpasswd and set the guest
password to match its login password.  When I went back to W98, I
tried to add the network printer - it recognized the name
(\\mhrichter\MPP1100) and asked for a password.  I gave it the guest
password, and it proceeded to try to install it.  I put in the CD,
went through all the (right) moves to install the driver, and then the
moment of truth:

W98 said I had to reboot.

I knew I was in trouble.  I rebooted, and, lo and behold, the printer
was suddenly offline and unavailable (there was no change to the
CentOS host or the printer at all).

I deleted the printer to start over, but this time W98 said the
printer was offline when I input the name and the password.

W98 still can't see the network or any of the shares in the Network
Neighborhood, but at least I can reach for it by name.

Any doors or windows in this wall?
  

It might be easier to give up.*

For years, I had a single inkjet printer on my modest home network, 
physically connected to this machine.  It works great once setup until 
something changes. (Versions of Windows and/or versions and/or flavors 
of Linux on another box.)  A while back, I added a laser printer, 
choosing one that could go either parallel, USB or ethernet.  I got out 
my crimpers, made a network cable and haven't looked back.  What a 
pleasure! It was a breeze to set up and it's alway visible to any 
computer on the network.


The point is, unless your time is virtually worthless, you might think 
about a print server. Netgear, D-link and Linksys all make them.  BTW, 
my laser printer is a Brother HL-5250 DN and I'm pretty happy with it.







Thanks.

mhr

PS: I have always said that I don't really hate Window$, I just prefer
working in and on Unix/Linux.  I don't think that's true any more,
although I must say that of all the versions of Window$ I've ever
used, XP is the least objectionable.

PPS: Yes, this is Window$ XP Pro (but I think it's still SP1), and 98
SE.  It's still Window$, a Micro$oft product, which really says it
all.
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Re: [CentOS] 5.2 upgrade mostly good (so far)

[Robert]

Olaf Mueller wrote:

fred smith wrote:

  

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:46:53PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote:


fred smith wrote:
  


  

1. "shutdown -h now" goes all the way down but does not power down
the box like it always has before. Same when shutting down via the
GUI shutdown dialog.


I know this from systems with older processors. For me a
'apm=power-off' in the /etc/grub.conf kernel-line does the trick.
  


  

would your "older" include an Athlon XP 2600+ ?


No, of course not. My older processors are pII, pIII and athlon, from
266MHz to 800MHz.


regards
Olaf
  

As  an added data point, since the OP seems concerned about Athlon XP2600+,
I am running that processor in an ASUS A7N8X2.0 Deluxe m/b ACPI BIOS Rev 
1008
and it powered down just fine following the CentOS 5.2 upgrade.  Here's 
the first stanza of grub.conf:

#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title CentOS (2.6.18-92.1.1.el5)
   root (hd0,0)
   kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/
   initrd /initrd-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.img


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Re: [CentOS] To upgrade or not

[Robert]

Lanny Marcus wrote:


I upgraded my Desktop yesterday and my daughter's Desktop this 
morning. If you surf the web, the move from Mozilla Firefox 1.5.x to 
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 will be well worth your time.
FF 3b is not without its own warts, though. 

I frequently save downloaded video clips to be saved on CD or DVD for 
friends who don't have broadband access.  I have been doing this very 
cleanly in FF 1.5 using an extension named Download Helper -- which 
doesn't work in Firefox 3.   It turns out that there is an update for 
Download Helper but I can't say whether of not that works because 
Firefox 3 can't find the flash player -- which is definitely installed 
'cause I'm listening to the audio from 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzAXb7qCCAo  right now.  (Foster Brooks 
"Drunk Airline Pilot" routine)


Hopefully, a "compound w" for Firefox will be forthcoming.


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Re: [CentOS] ps to pdf

[Robert]

Craig White wrote:

I need a way to convert files that I save with Firefox as a 'print to
file' to 'pdf'

I tried 'convert' but that rendered the text as graphics which grew the
file and wasn't what I wanted.

How would someone accomplish this - or can I just print to a PDF?
  
If it's already in your browser, Firefox 3.0.1 will print to either a ps 
or a pdf.
File -> print -> general ->  print to file and the output format (PDF or 
Postscript) is to the right of the file name box.


BTW, FF3 has worked very well for me. Only problem I had was wading 
through symlink hell, getting java set up.


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Re: [CentOS] Printer recommendations

[Robert]

Ron Loftin wrote:

Since my old Epson C86 has finally managed to clog up the print heads,
I'm in the market for a replacement.  I'd like to know what the people
on this list are using for printers that are currently available, since
we are using versions of CUPS and foomatic that are frozen, and any
other issues or "gotchas" that you are aware of.

For the replacement printer, I'm considering a color laser printer
instead of the inkjets that I've been using, and I'm dithering back and
forth over the question of direct-connect or networked printer.
Suggestions, warnings, and horror stories are welcome.

Thanks in advance.
  
I tossed my C86 a couple years ago in favor of an HP 6122 based on the 
recommendation at linuxprinting.org (moved to 
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting) and have not been 
disappointed.  I consulted the same source when I bought a B&W laser and 
suggest that site to anyone with printer questions.


As far as direct-connect or networked, networked is great for me.  
Duplexing is also a great feature if you plant to print multipage docs. 
(The BASH manual and release notes for CentOS come to mind.)  Keep in 
mind that you can pick up a print server at your favorite computer 
outlet but a hardware duplexer is another matter.
I just now looked and my laser printer has printed 3402 pages, had 14 
jams and 1 toner cart after the original. 78% of drum life is 
remaining.  The toner cart costs about 1-1/2 times as a set of ink carts 
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Re: [CentOS] Unable to write video dvd using k3b

[Robert]

MHR wrote:

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:17 AM, lingu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote:
  

Hi,

  I download dvd movie files from torrent.It is like below

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1048614912 2008-07-24 16:49 VTS_01_1.VOB
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  538210304 2008-07-24 16:52  VTS_01_2.VOB

File command on above giving the below ouput.

file VTS_01_1.VOB
VTS_01_1.VOB: MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex

file VTS_01_2.VOB
VTS_01_2.VOB: MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex

 When i opened any of the above files using vlc or kaffeine it is playing
the movie properly.But when i try to create the video dvd file onto my dvd
using k3b its giving error "Not able to find DVD format".

 Plz help me how to write this into dvd to watch this movie in normal dvd
player.




You probably ought to ask this on either a k3b or a kde list.  My
experience with k3b leads me to believe that you have to have a
complete DVD file structure set up to create a video DVD with it (if
you're going to use that format), which means you need the info files,
vob files and some others I can't recall off the top of my head.
There are other options, too - check out dvdauthor or qdvdauthor, for
example.

mhr
  
For sure!  Here is what a certain commercial DVD looks like. (User & 
group changed to CMOA.)
On occasion, I have removed languages and extras (outtakes, etc.) but it 
takes more patience than I have to build a DVD from scratch.  For 
backing up commercial DVDs, I like DVDShrink (using no shrinking) to rip 
and reassemble, building the iso across the network, burning the DVD 
with either k3b or growisofs from a command line for absolute reliability.




 [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# ls -lR /media/hdc
 /media/hdc:
 total 4
 dr-xr-xr-x 2 abcdefghij abcdefghij  40 Oct 29  2007 AUDIO_TS
 dr-xr-xr-x 2 abcdefghij abcdefghij 820 Oct 29  2007 VIDEO_TS

 /media/hdc/AUDIO_TS:
 total 0

 /media/hdc/VIDEO_TS:
 total 4571120
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij  12288 Oct 29  2007 
VIDEO_TS.BUP
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij  12288 Oct 29  2007 
VIDEO_TS.IFO
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij 137216 Oct 29  2007 
VIDEO_TS.VOB
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij  96256 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_01_0.BUP
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij  96256 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_01_0.IFO
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij 608256 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_01_0.VOB
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij 1073739776 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_01_1.VOB
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij 1073739776 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_01_2.VOB
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij 1073739776 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_01_3.VOB
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij 1073739776 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_01_4.VOB
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij  371408896 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_01_5.VOB
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij  18432 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_02_0.BUP
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij  18432 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_02_0.IFO
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij   8192 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_02_0.VOB
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij   13451264 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_02_1.VOB
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Re: [CentOS] Unable to write video dvd using k3b

[Robert]

MHR wrote:

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  

On occasion, I have removed languages and extras (outtakes, etc.) but it
takes more patience than I have to build a DVD from scratch.  For backing up
commercial DVDs, I like DVDShrink (using no shrinking) to rip and
reassemble, building the iso across the network, burning the DVD with either
k3b or growisofs from a command line for absolute reliability.




I have never been able to find a complete dvdshrink for linux - what
is your source for that?
  
Blush! I should have said "DVDShrink in Windows".  I haven't found a 
good Linux substitute either, so on those rare occasions that I want to 
backup a DVD, I borrow the Windows machine I have set up for the 
great-grandkids.


My apologies for the confusion and the OT noise.

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Re: [CentOS] When will we be moving to lighttpd 1.5?

[Robert]

Jim Perrin wrote:
> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:15 PM, James Matthews  wrote:
>   
>> I know I can compile it however I prefer to use the package manager and
>> having an updated version.
>>
>> --
>> http://www.goldwatches.com
>> 
>
> Run 'rpm -qi lighttpd' to see where you got the lighttpd package from.
> Once you know where it came from, you can file the appropriate bug
> report with the right crew. I'm guessing EPEL or rpmforge.
>   
BINGO

$ yum --enablerepo=dag list lighttpd

Available Packages
lighttpd.i386 
1.4.22-2.el5.rf  dag
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Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

[Robert]

Scott Silva wrote:
> on 5-18-2009 3:18 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following:
>   
>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Akemi Yagi 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Karanbir Singh 
>>>  wrote:
>>>   
 Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
 
> I recently noticed that Thunderbird updates are missing from CentOS 5.
>   
 There are a few updates pending, I am going to look into this today. For
 both c4 and c5. We should be all caught up within the next 24 hrs.

 - KB
 
>>> Any update on this is greatly appreciated. �I'm asking because of this
>>> forum post [1]:
>>>
>>> "Something must be going wrong because some of these security updates
>>> are now two months delayed.
>>>
>>> Do you know if Johnny has left the project? He used to stay pretty on
>>> top of these."
>>>   
>> If my memory is OK, there was a post, 2 or 3 months ago, that Johnny
>> had a health issue. Hopefully, he is recovering and will return to the
>> project soon!
>> 
> I did some searching of some of the places I have seen Johnny posting and he
> seems conspicuously absent since Mid December 2008. I hope he is OK also.
>   
I'll add my "Me too".  I have wondered dozens of times over the last few 
months where he is but being a pretty private person myself, I can 
certainly respect his maintaining a low profile. 

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS Digest, Vol 53, Issue 4

[Robert]

David McGuffey wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:52 AM, David McGuffey
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> This is my first post here on the CentOS forums.? I've been running
>>>   
>> Fedora
>> 
>>> since FC4, and have been working with RHEL 4 at work.? But this is
>>>   
>> my first
>> 
>>> foray into CentOS.
>>>
>>> I followed the multimedia guidance on the wiki, and now have the
>>>   
>> ability to
>> 
>>> view a lot of different video clips on the Internet, and have the
>>>   
>> ability to
>> 
>>> listen to a variety of music files.? However, watching a DVD movie
>>>   
>> still
>> 
>>> escapes me. I followed all the steps on the page in the wiki, and
>>>   
>> had no
>> 
>>> errors in the output.
>>>   
>> DVD playing has been kind of an odd problem for me on my desktop
>> computer using CentOS 5.3. No problem at all on my laptop. I like and
>> use VLC, but it won't play DVDs on this particular computer -- I get a
>> segmentation error. Nor will mPlayer or Totem work. Xine works fine,
>> so I just use that. VLC works fine on my laptop. I've never had any
>> luck with Totem.
>>
>> 
>>> When I put the DVD (Master and Commander in this case), into the
>>>   
>> drive,
>> 
>>> totem automatically comes up and I get a warning that I don't have
>>>   
>> the
>> 
>>> correct codec to play it.
>>>   
>> That's my experience. And there never seems to be any fix that
>> actually works.
>>
>> 
>>> I killed totem and manually tried to start the DVD with mplayer.
>>>   
>> mplayer sat
>> 
>>> there...not recognizing that there was a DVD in the drive.
>>>   
>> mPlayer, on my computer, recognizes the DVD, it just doesn't play it.
>>
>> 
>>> So...what final steps do I need to complete to get a commercial DVD
>>>   
>> movie to
>> 
>>> play?
>>>
>>> machine is a Dell Latitude D830 with 2GB of ram and an Intel Core 2
>>>   
>> Duo.
>>
>> The first thing I would try is downloading and installing VLC. If that
>> doesn't work, go for Xine.
>>
>> -- 
>> RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3
>> 
>
> Thanks...you are the second one to recommend xine.
>
> I gave up on toten and mplayer and loaded xine.  It recognized the dvd
> and played it...but it gives me an error/warning about dropping lots of
> frames and jerks to a halt once every few seconds.  I'm working my way
> through the xine FAQ concerning performance to see if I can fix that on
> this laptop. The laptop is only about 18 mo old and not a dog.  It is an
> Intel duo with 2GM of ram, and should have enough steam to play a dvd.
> It plays them well under MS Vista, but jerky under Centos 5.3 and xine,
> so it has to be a software issue.
>   
Xine is my choice for commercial DVDs; VLC for the streaming formats 
(youtube, etc. captures to .swf files).  YMMV.
As for your jerks, you might want to be sure dma is enabled:

[r...@mavis ~]# hdparm /dev/hdc
 /dev/hdc:
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq=  1 (on)
 using_dma=  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly =  0 (off)
 readahead= 256 (on)
 HDIO_GETGEO failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

If that looks  copasetic, you might want to try another DVD or two 
before changing too many of Xine's several options.

[r...@mavis ~]# wc -l  /home/rj/.xine/config
838 /home/rj/.xine/config
[r...@mavis ~]#



As far as processing power, I've watched dozens of movies on this 
machine running an AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ at ~2GHz and 2GB ram, which 
worked every bit as well as it did when I had only 512MB.

I have watched a few movies on another box running an P-3 at 1GHz and 768MB.

BTW, you really need to send properly threaded messages with a 
meaningful subject if you want to attract the best help possible on this 
list.  A lot of these guys do this stuff for a living and simply don't 
have time to sort through everything.  Traffic here is 'way less that it 
is on the Fedora list and you might want to try NOT using the digest mode.








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Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

[Robert]

Robert Nichols wrote:
> MHR wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert
>> Nichols wrote:
>> 
>>> If you go into fdisk's "expert" mode and set the geometry to
>>> 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utilize
>>> the full 8029470208 bytes.
>>>
>>>   
>> I was able to do that.
>>
>> Then I went back and looked at my Kingston - it has 5 "heads," 32 s/t
>> and 99212 "cylinders."
>>
>> Now the question becomes, if I try that on the Sandisk, will it trash
>> the drive altogether, or would I still be able to use it, or would
>> that fail because there really isn't that much space on the "drive?"
>> 
>
> The first thing I do with every USB flash drive I buy is figure
> out a geometry that uses all of the sectors reported by fdisk
> (I have a shell script that does that in a pretty much brute force
> way.) and then repartition and re-format the drive using that
> geometry.  I've never experienced any problem with that.
>
>   
That's interesting.  Would you consider sharing your script?


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Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

[Robert]

Robert Nichols wrote:
> Robert wrote:
>>
>> Robert Nichols wrote:
>>> The first thing I do with every USB flash drive I buy is figure
>>> out a geometry that uses all of the sectors reported by fdisk
>>> (I have a shell script that does that in a pretty much brute force
>>> way.) and then repartition and re-format the drive using that
>>> geometry.  I've never experienced any problem with that.
>>>
>>>   
>> That's interesting.  Would you consider sharing your script?
>
> Sure.  I'll try it as a small attachment here.  It that doesn't
> work, and I suspect it won't, I'll have to find some spot where
> I can upload it.  I don't have anything like that set up just now.

I'll try it later but I can see none of the usual damage (truncated 
and/or wrapped lines or dropped spl chars).
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Re: [CentOS] Time to sync (NOT a complaint)

[Robert]

MHR wrote:
> Is anyone else seeing this situation?
>
> I subscribe to the announce digest, and for the last four or five
> announcements that contained updates to CentOS 5, I've been unable to
> get a successful run of yum update for as much as 24 hours after the
> announcement.  The last time around, I tried at about 5 hours after
> the posting, and yum couldn't see anything.  I ran yum clean all, and
> yum update still couldn't see anything.  In general, if I wait a day,
> the updates load just fine, but that just feels wrong.
>
> I do have the fastestmirror plugin installed (and priorities).
>
> Thanks.
>
> mhr
>   
Yes, I HAVE but no, I'm not. I really don't know what's different,
either. The announcement is dated Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:00:02 -0400
and at 13:25 -0500 (2.4 hours later) I see a new kernel, new kernel-devel,
updated kernel-doc, updated kernel-headers and 6 updated user
packages ready to go.

I regard the delay as "normal", current behavior to be an anomaly

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Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

[Robert]

Bent Terp wrote:


> From my personal experience, we've received better support from CentOS 
> than from RedHat!
> What you don't get is a phone-droid that's being paid minimum wages to 
> listen to phone abuse.
I'm with you on that one.  My first stab at Linux was in '99 when I 
bought an official boxed set of RH6.0, which was supposed to include 
"installation support".  Stuff wasn't nearly as automatic then as it is 
now. (Pre-CUPS) printing was a pain, network was a pain, dial-up was 
worrisome and even X-Window was iffy.  I called, your phone-droid 
answered and I soon decided that if RH6.0 was gonna be a reality, I 
would be doing it myself.

Since CentOS, this mailing list has been amazingly helpful, often 
astonishingly quick with a right-on answer.

And, to RedHat's credit, simple networks now "just happen", printing is 
a breeze and I'm even tempted to allow this thing to boot directly into 
run level 5.
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Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

[Robert]

Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote:
 The audacious package is willing to wait that long
 
>> :)
>> 
>>> Nope, because I've built it *for myself*, 
>>> i.e. in my repo.
>>>   
>> And was your patch rejected from the places you are
>> complaining about?
>> 
>
> There. Is. No. Question. About. Any. Patch.
>
> When you build audacious from SPEC + tarball, it spits out
> audacious + audacious_plugins, both as RPMs and as SRPMs
> (actually, it spits around 15 plugins RPMs).
>
> RPMforge misses the plugins, that's all. Probably just 
> triggering a rebuild would fix it all.
>
> Instead of talking for ages about patches, what builds and
> what doesn't, and why "better services" would need pay etc.
> maybe someone (Dag?) could have triggered the rebuild of 
> audacious for 100 times in the meantime.
>
> Truly yours,
> R-C
>   
Looking at this from yet another angle, I believe that YOU are the only 
person on this list who has expressed an interest in "audacious" 
(whatever it is & does) for CentOS during these several days of rant.  
By some weird coincidence, you purport to have a working version.  Bully 
for you! You allegedly have what you want. Most list members here seem 
to have what they want. I absolutely, definitely, positively, most 
assuredly have what I want and am free of the crap that I don't want, 
which would include "audacious". **And any half-baked, half-tested L&G 
package.**
With so much contentment floating around, it surely makes you look like 
a 33rd Degree Horse's Ass to continue ranting about the damn thing, in 
the process, greatly diminishing any stature that has accumulated here 
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Re: [CentOS] SSH attacks from china

[Robert]

you say you banned them in the gateway for ssh and ftp...

what type of gateway?

would you share the place you got the info from and/or the ip blocks please?

thanks

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Re: [CentOS] aautomatic updates

[Robert]

Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> Could someone please remind me what
> file controls automatic updates?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike.
>   
Perhaps you're thinking of
/usr/sbin/yum-updatesd
and its config file
/etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf

Don't you just hate it when you know something and can't remember it!?!
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Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

[Robert]

some recent comments & speculation border on slander.

slander is simply anything that can lower one's view of a person in
another's eye.

the centos team has already done this, yet may i suggest to all that it
would be best to give Mr Davis every possible benefit of the doubt.

...and "no matter what" the past or current circumstances in his life are,
that it is always best to lend any possible help & lift him up, than to
trample him under foot, keyboard, mouth, or weapon.

regardless of your belief system, let's lift the man up in prayer.

:-)

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Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

[Robert]

 

> 
> The letter was done in the fashion it was in sorrow, and not 
> in anger, as my blog post noted.  We remain hopeful that 
> lance will step up to doing the right thing vis-a-vis the 
> project as to the mentioned items.
> 
> -- Russ herrold

Russ,

of course...  :-(

there is no doubt in my mind that the CentOS team is acting, and will
continue to act in as proper manner as possible.

:-)

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Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

[Robert]

Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> Rainer Duffner wrote:
>   
>> "Don't cry over spit milk"
>> 
>
> I won't, especially when someone else spat it.
>
> Want to buy an 'l'?
>
> scnr,
>
> Ralph
>   
ROTFLMAO

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Re: [CentOS] Serious bug in OpenOffice.org Calc shipped with CentOS

[Robert]

Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Until now I've been a happy user of CentOS. Everything just works(tm), 
> and I don't care if application versions are slightly outdated.
>
> Next week I have to give a series of classes for a company that recently 
> made the switch to Linux. On schedule is a one-week course for Writer 
> and Calc.
>
> And right now I discover that one crucial function of Calc, "fill 
> series", doesn't work. Let's say I type "lundi" (monday) in one cell, so 
> I can pull Calc's handle to fill other cells with the days of the week. 
> Doing the same with "janvier" (january) does so with the names of the 
> month. Well, this function is broken in OO shipped with CentOS. And I 
> don't have the slightest clue as to why. Tried the same on a more recent 
> version of OO in Ubuntu, and it works like a charm.
>
> Anyone has a solution to this? This seems like a major nuisance to me.
>   
It's awkward and I'd hate to actually teach people to do it this way:
1. Select the column
2. Format > Cells >Numbers tab, category "User Defined".
3. In the "Format Code" space, type "NNN" . 
4. Click on the green check mark.  Click O.K. Your format is now a 
"Date" format.
5. At your worksheet, Highlight the cells in the "day" column. Clear the 
cells to blank.
6. Edit > Fill down, date, day
7. For grins, enter a start value of 5 and an increment of -2
8. You get a column that starts off "Thursday, Tuesday, Sunday, Friday, 
Wednesday..."

For some reason, the 0th day of the week is Saturday and there is no 0/7 
ambiguity as
with many other apps.

If you prefer "Fri" to "Friday" and "Wed" to "Wednesday", etc, use "NN" 
for the format code.
If, you've been drinking too much and want a "," following the "Friday", 
etc., use ""  :-)
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

[Robert]

Dag

concern is good and you are right about how CentOS people should have a
solid testimony for the projects "big picture"

the thing is that since day one, as near as i have experienced and can tell,
most of them have many years of "rock solid CentOS work" as a testimony.

rock solid!

we haven't had one *MAJOR* issue with anything the Dev Team has put out
since day one and that is across versions 3, 4, and 5.

all of the servers have been online 24/7 for years.

that is one incredible CentOS group testimony.

yet, the people that are *poking the bears* (tm) in the CentOS Dev team
should put up or shut up and need to work on as good a testimony in thier
work lives and in their postings.

some time ago, i wanted to see if our organization would be a good fit to be
of assistance and i was politely told that what is required is "to do
work"... i.e., *get work done* and possibly join the team...

one need to really prove themselves that they have what it takes with little
to no handholding.

... and not just flap their typing gums on the list

please stop poking the bears...  ;->

it isnt productive and many of you that are critical of CentOS and the
people running it should just move on and go away as asked

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

[Robert]

> 
> This presents a ripe opportunity for a perception of 
> "unwarranted criticism", "whining" by someone who paid 
> nothing, "lack of appreciation for all the *free* hard work 
> we do", etc.
> 
> > 
> 
> --
> Bill
> 

Bill,

Good points...

yet you forgot about "presentation" if a person makes a poor
presentation of possibly helpful and/or valid criticism, then it is similar
to the wisdom that says...

As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without
discretion.

plus...

...maybe some are forgetting that the upstream does close to 700 million a
year in sales and has no debt... after all the number crunching it appears
they show a profit in the 80 million a year range.

in my humble estimation, CentOS if run reasonably well and truly supported
by it's community could have a good fraction of to a full 1% of that
yearly

The Team does extremely well technically now, yet imagine how well the
CentOS Dev team could do if they could take paychecks as well as hire other
needed positions. eh?

I'd like to see CentOS flourish in all possible ways !!!

i want to ride on the CentOS Lear when it is ready please   ;->

again, it really will be best if people would "stop poking the bears".

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

[Robert]

Johnny Hughes wrote:



> If you mean that I can be an arrogant SOB sometimes, then YES, we (and
> my wife) can agree.
>   
Before making an admission like that, you should re-read

http://wwwf.centos.org/127_story.html?storyid=127

I thought then and think now that you were 'way too humble
in dealing with that blithering idiot.

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Re: [CentOS] can NOT update CENTOS use YUM

[Robert]

mcclnx mcc wrote:
> Thanks. for answer.  I tried:
>
>   yum clean all
>   yum update
>
> It still same problem.
>   


>>> Could not retrieve mirrorlist 
>>> http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os
>>>   


This might be a stupid question but can you paste that URL into a 
browser and
see the list of mirrors?
I see:

http://mirror.steadfast.net/centos/5.3/os/i386/
http://centos.promopeddler.com/5.3/os/i386/
ftp://repo.genomics.upenn.edu/centos/5.3/os/i386/
http://mirror.unl.edu/centos/5.3/os/i386/
http://mirror.web-ster.com/centos/5.3/os/i386/
http://mirrors.liquidweb.com/CentOS/5.3/os/i386/
http://centos.omnispring.com/5.3/os/i386/
http://mirrors.unbornmedia.com/centos/5.3/os/i386/
http://mirror.stanford.edu/yum/pub/centos/5.3/os/i386/
http://mirrors.adams.net/centos/5.3/os/i386/

in my browser.



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Re: [CentOS] Greasemonkey question

[Robert]

Boris Epstein wrote:
> I have asked Google and thus far nothing came back that looks even
> remotely promising...
>
> Boris.
>   
This is the first I had heard of this add-on
I found https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 where I read
Support for this add-on is provided by the developer at 
http://www.greasespot.net/
And, it appears that there is a mailing list 
http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-dev

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Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 live-cd install -

[Robert]

Bob Goodwin wrote:
> I just downloaded the Centos 5.3 live-cd and booted the resulting disk. 
> I do not see an icon to install from the cd!
>
> Did i get the wrong thing? I have a fixed allocation of bandwidth and 
> hate to waste 700+ megs!
>
> Bob
>   
IMO, if you're on a dial-up or other slow connection, your waste was not 
in downloading the live CD, rather in not springing for a few bucks to 
buy a Live CD and an installation DVD (or set of 6 CDs).  I still 
remember downloading Star Office 5.something years ago.  Painful... 

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Re: [CentOS] SELinux messages after compiling new kernel

[Robert]

Sergio Belkin wrote:
> 2009/8/27 Jim Perrin :
>   
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Sergio Belkin wrote:
>>
>> 
>>> How can I fix these errors?
>>>   
>> Easy. Use the kernel provided in the distribution.
>>
>> 
>
> Jim, thanks for the suggestion, but Firstly: I need a newer kernel in
> order to get IO statistics from tools like atop, pidstat, etc. And
> secondly and most important: my boss wants that :)
>
> So I'd be glad to hear other kind of solution :)
>   
1) New expectations
   and/or
2) New boss
   and/or
3) New distribution


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[CentOS] System Recovery

[Robert]

I hosed my main desktop pretty badly a couple days ago, have reconciled 
myself to bad news and would appreciate some advice.  (CentOS 5.3 fully 
updated but now backed down from kernel  2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 to  
2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 just to try that.)

The whole debacle began when I was investigating my formerly-weekly 
backup script to run to completion.  The backup is kept on an external 
USB-connected drive that is mounted and unmounted by the backup script. 
I have manually mounted it to retrieve a file but it has been months 
since I did that.

I deleted one copy of the backup, as I've done in the past and made a 
new crontab entry to try the backup again 2 or 3 minutes later. It was 
still running several hours later, which couldn't possibly be right.  
Next, I tried clearing the backup on the backup drive and manually 
copying directories to it.  That didn't work too well, either.  At some 
point, I tried to send an email using SeaMonkey and couldn't, because it 
was unable "to write a temporary copy".  I quickly found that that 
wasn't all it couldn't write, too.

I tried restarting KDE, which got nowhere.  Almost everything  worked 
O.K. from the command line, the most obvious exception being that I was 
unable to read any man pages as a non-privileged user until after I had 
accessed that man page as root.  I did an rpm -Va  with output 
redirected to a USB memory dongle.  There is stuff missing and mangled 
but nothing that raised my suspicion.

Finally, here is my selinux configuration.
[...@mavis ~]$ ls -l /etc/selinux/config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 511 Dec  5  2007 /etc/selinux/config
[...@mavis ~]$ cat /etc/selinux/config
# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
#   enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
#   permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
#   disabled - SELinux is fully disabled.
SELINUX=disabled
# SELINUXTYPE= type of policy in use. Possible values are:
#   targeted - Only targeted network daemons are protected.
#   strict - Full SELinux protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted
# SETLOCALDEFS= Check local definition changes
SETLOCALDEFS=0
[...@mavis ~]$

Does anyone have any ideas how I might attack this thing?  An epiphany 
has not been forthcoming.  :-(





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Re: [CentOS] System Recovery

[Robert]

Luciano Rocha wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 11:24:16AM -0500, Robert wrote:
>   
>> I deleted one copy of the backup, as I've done in the past and made a 
>> new crontab entry to try the backup again 2 or 3 minutes later. It was 
>> still running several hours later, which couldn't possibly be right.  
>> Next, I tried clearing the backup on the backup drive and manually 
>> copying directories to it.  That didn't work too well, either.  At some 
>> point, I tried to send an email using SeaMonkey and couldn't, because it 
>> was unable "to write a temporary copy".  I quickly found that that 
>> wasn't all it couldn't write, too.
>>
>> I tried restarting KDE, which got nowhere.  Almost everything  worked 
>> O.K. from the command line, the most obvious exception being that I was 
>> unable to read any man pages as a non-privileged user until after I had 
>> accessed that man page as root.
>> 
>
> All symptoms that you've run out of space. Your backup has probably gone
> to the root disk, not the backup one, and it ended backing up the backup
> of the backup of the 
>
> Free some space and everything should work OK.
>   
BINGO!

I feel especially bad because I have seen the "out of disk space" 
problem before but not while trying to nudge a backup.
It's nice to sit in front of an old friend rather than this stranger but 
serious use will come only after I liberate a lot more space.

Thanks for your help and the clue by lhecking!

Regards,
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Re: [CentOS] trouble playing quicktimes at apple.com/trailers

[Robert]

Olaf Mueller wrote:
> fred smith wrote:
>
>   
>> While I haven't tried that,
>> 
> ?
>
>   
>> I don't think that's the problem I'm 
>> having: I can copy and paste the URL of the .mov file into mplayer or
>> vlc from the commandline, and get the exact same symptoms. I.E., there
>> is no browser involved in that transaction but it fails the same way.
>> 
> You are completely wrong. Read the link, or read it not, it is your
> choice.
>
> Here it works with CentOS 5.3.
>
>
> regards
> Olaf
>   
Works here, too.

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Re: [CentOS] Mirror After?

[Robert]

ML wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> If I put a 1TB HD in my server (because they are on sale this week),  
> can I later Mirror to a second 1TB drive without destroying the data  
> on the first?
>
> On Windows and OS X, I know I can't do this...
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -ML
>   

Step by step instructions at 
http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-grub-boot-fedora-8

BUT be sure you have an up-to-date backup in case it clabbers.

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Re: [CentOS] Automounter problem in C5.5?

[Robert]

On 08/10/2010 10:51 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us informed us:


> Or a usb driver problem. Or (I hope not) a hardware problem.
>
>> 2) How do I restart the automounter when it dies, or can I?  I've hit
>> this issue before once or twice and only rebooting seems to make it
>> right again.
>>  
> As root, or sudo, service autofs restart
>
I offer this as another data point.
First noticed yesterday -- status icon for my external HP1040r DVD 
burner became hopeless out of sync with reality.
This is a fully updated CentOS 5 box.  Looks like the kernel was 
installed on July 25:

[r...@madeleine log]# grep kernel yum.log

Jul 25 13:17:14 Updated: kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.i386
Jul 25 13:17:31 Installed: kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.i686
Jul 25 13:17:42 Installed: kernel-PAE-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.i686
[r...@madeleine log]#

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[CentOS] ATI, Catalyst and a new kernel

[Robert]

Please bear with me for a really stupid question...

I have a Radeon HD 4550 video card and currently run the Catalyst 
driver, fglrx_6_9_0-8.741-1.  I use the "package managed" method for  
installing, allowing me keep track of what's what:

[...@madeleine ~]$ su
Password:
[r...@madeleine rj]# grep fglrx /var/log/yum*
/var/log/yum.log:May 20 12:37:07 Updated: fglrx_6_9_0-8.723-1.i386
/var/log/yum.log:Jul 25 13:04:49 Erased: fglrx_6_9_0
/var/log/yum.log:Jul 25 13:33:11 Installed: fglrx_6_9_0-8.741-1.i386
[r...@madeleine rj]# exit
exit
[...@madeleine ~]$

So, my question is, must/should I rebuild the driver each time I install 
an updated kernel or is it sufficient to "yum remove 
fglrx_6_9_0-8.741-1", update the kernel and (maybe) glibc, then "yum 
localinstall $(locate i386/fglrx_6_9_0-8.741-1.i386.rpm)"  ?

If anyone wonders why I don't simply stick with the generic driver, the 
fglrx driver makes a WORLD of difference with Googleearth.

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Re: [CentOS] Screensaver timer failure

[Robert]

On 08/26/2010 01:06 PM, Mark informed us:
>
> After yet another test yesterday where I just left the machine idle
> for over 3 hours and the screensaver did not activate, I concluded
> that mplayer was not part of the problem and rebooted.
>
> Screensaver now works just fine (same kernel, with or without mplayer
> running, 10 minutes or 2 hours), so I'm completely lost as to why it
> failed.
>
> I tried looking through the .gnome and .gnome2 files for a clue, but
> there's nothing particularly informative in them, so I'm wondering
> where the screensaver settings are kept, etc.  I'd rather not search
> every file on my system (some 800GB worth - ick!).
>
> Google was not particularly informative on this subject, either,
> although I did find out how to make my own slideshow
>
> Mark
> _
Reading between the lines, I conclude that you're running a gnome desktop.
F.Y.I., I have seen that failure to activate the screensaver, running 
KDE 3.5.4-25.el5.centos.1 on kernel 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5PAE.  Maybe you 
haven't tried it from this angle but I'm a hard-headed old fart and 
still boot into run level 3, log in and issue startx.  All I do to 
restore the screensaver function is shut down X and startx. This 
straightens out the screensaver just fine. In addition to being much 
quicker than rebooting, it has the added advantage of not disturbing 
services, cron jobs, etc.
I don't worry too much about the screensaver anyhow since I started 
using this LCD monitor. I understand there ain't no fleecy li'l 
phosphors to worry about no mo'.


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Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

[Robert]

On 08/30/2010 09:24 PM, fred smith informed us:

another curious thing I just noticed is this: the list of kernels 
available
> at boot time (in the actual grub menu shown at boot) IS NOT THE SAME LIST
> THAT APPEARS IN GRUB.CONF. in the boot-time menu, the kernel it boots is
> the most recent one shown, and there are other older ones that do not
> appear in grub.conf. while in grub.conf there are several newer ones that
> do not appear on the boot-time grub menu.
>
> most strange.
>
> BTW, this is a raid-1 array using linux software raid, with two matching
> drives. Is there possibly some way the two drives could have gotten out
> of sync such that whichever one is the actual boot device has invalid
> info in /boot?
>
> and while thinking along those lines, I see a number of mails in root's
> mailbox from "md" notifying us of a degraded array. these all appear to have
> happened, AFAICT, at system boot, over the last several months.
>
> also, /var/log/messages contains a bunch of stuff like the below, also
> apparently at system boot, and I don't really know what it means, though
>


This is not the magic solution that you quite understandably would 
prefer.  I hope
someone can pinpoint your trouble. UNTIL THEN, I think you would be 'way
ahead to make a full backup (or 2) to an external drive, disconnect that 
baby
and start troubleshooting, confident that you won't lose all your data.

I'll bet that #cat /proc/mdstat looks really scary.  Mine looks like this:
[r...@madeleine grub]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
   409536 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md2 : active raid1 sdb3[1] sda3[0]
   3903680 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md3 : active raid1 sdb4[1] sda4[0]
   108502912 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0]
   375567488 blocks [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: 
[r...@madeleine grub]#

Other than that, the system boots from /boot/grub/grub.conf and that should
be what you see during the boot process.  The other two, /etc/grub.conf and
/boot/grub/menu.lst are symlinks to the real deal
It might be interesting to have a look at /etc/fstab then issue a mount
command with no arguments to see if anything is mounted on /boot

You might find valuable RAID 1 information at:
http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-software-raid1-on-a-running-system-incl-grub-configuration-centos-5.3

HTH



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Re: [CentOS] Anyone Having Any Luck Downloaing the DVD ISO?

[Robert]

On 09/05/2010 05:01 PM, Chuck informed us:
>
> I've been trying for 2 weeks to download the dvd iso torrent... Shows 
> a ton of seeders, few leechers, but very poor performance.. (I'm 
> correctly setup for torrents and get fast downloads normally) Only 
> like 4% downloaded and crawling. I've tried the trackers from every 
> one of the mirror sites. I can't use the net install because the 
> systems I am installing are on a closed network.
>
> Anyone have any ideas where else to get this or any suggestions?
I tried the tracker from the kernel.org site just minutes ago using the 
Ktorrent client.
After a couple minutes, my stats looked like:

Leechers: 10 (125) Average Up Speed: 2.1 KB/s
Seeders:  40 (900) Average Down Speed: 560.7 KB/s

I blew off the d/l 'cause I already have a DVD but that would work out
to a bit less that 2 hours for  the DVD image. That's pretty much wide
open for my DSL connection.

Have you tried any of the speed tests available? That should eliminate 
your torrent client as a suspect.  Here are two 2 test sites. The first 
requires flash; the second uses java, often has requests in queue but 
gives a lot of network information.   I have both bookmarked.
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
http://miranda.ctd.anl.gov:7123/

Good luck!
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Re: [CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox

[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] Mirroring Hard Drive

[Robert]

Paul R. Ganci wrote:

Matt wrote:

why not just put it in the machine and make it a raid1
mirror

then, if the first one dies, you just use the second one :D


How do you do that?
  

Detailed step by step instructions easily modified for CentOS:

http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-grub-boot-debian-etch

I haven't tried this myself ... yet but plan on it in the next few weeks.

I haven't tried it either...yet... but there is also a version of the 
HOWTO for Fedora 8, which might require less interpolation. 
http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-grub-boot-fedora-8


Thanks for the URL





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Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

[Robert]

Robert wrote:



Paul R. Ganci wrote:

Matt wrote:

why not just put it in the machine and make it a raid1
mirror

then, if the first one dies, you just use the second one :D


How do you do that?
  

Detailed step by step instructions easily modified for CentOS:

http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-grub-boot-debian-etch

I haven't tried this myself ... yet but plan on it in the next few 
weeks.


I haven't tried it either...yet... but there is also a version of the 
HOWTO for Fedora 8, which might require less interpolation. 
http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-grub-boot-fedora-8


Thanks for the URL
I should have had the common decency to report that I *did* try this 
howto and *was* successful. There were a couple things that caused some 
head-scratching.


1. I read somewhere that it's safest to resize the filesystems on the 
existing drive before doing anything else, to allow for a 4K superblock 
beginning on a 64k boundary at the end of the partition. I did that. 
(Straightforward instructions at 
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-April/063687.html)


2. In part 2, page 7, there is a step "Next replace LABEL=/boot with 
/dev/md0 and LABEL=/ with /dev/md2 in /etc/mtab" that I kinda 
questioned.  It was my understanding that /etc/mtab is maintained by the 
mount command. (From man mount: "The programs mount and umount maintain 
a list of currently mounted file systems in  the  file /etc/mtab".)  
This makes the command on page 9, "cp -dpRx / /mnt/md2" *appear* to be 
copying md2 to itself. Confusion aside, the command has the desired result.


Aside from those 2 points, it went very smoothly.
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Re: [CentOS] Re: centos on intel D945GCLF board

[Robert]

Scott Silva wrote:

on 8-19-2008 7:49 AM � spake the following:

Here is the lspci output from the machine:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory 
Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ 
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High 
Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI 
Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI 
Express Port 3 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI 
Express Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB 
UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB 
UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB 
UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB 
UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 
EHCI Controller (rev 01)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC 
Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE 
Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) 
SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus 
Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E 
PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev ff)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)


the RTL-8139 is the secondary card pluged in the pci slot ad this one 
works ok.


And yes this is the module.

And to Michael. I know of the disabling on-board LAN workaround, but 
i need two LAN cards.



ABBAS KHAN wrote:

Is this the kernel module used for the LAN card driver?

/*r8169

*/

Maybe there is a multi-port net card supported by CentOS?


Yes, and they're common as pig tracks.
I have 3 Intel Pro 100+ cards, 2 of which have just worked for several 
years.  I bought mine at a local surplus sale but I notice there are 
some available on ebay:

http://snipurl.com/3hrgs  [cgi_ebay_com]

Gigabit dual port boards are a bit more expensive but very much available.

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Re: [CentOS] OT: Google Earth, v.4.3.7284.3916 (beta) on CentOS 5.2 (32 bit)

[Robert]

All I can say is, thanks for being confused.
I have hated the 4.3.something ver of googleearth since I first 
installed it. Based on your investigation, I realized that ver 4.3 isn't 
supposed to work with my Athlon XP 2600+ and didn't look back in getting 
all the ver 4.3 stuff replaced with 4.2.0205.5730.


Amazingly, I did not find the older version on their site when I 
initially installed 4.3.


Lanny Marcus wrote:

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:46 AM, William L. Maltby
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  

On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 20:00 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:



  
I tried to install google-earth with yum but either that isn't the

name of the package or it is not available in the Google repository.
Then, I did some reading on the Google site. Question: How do I
determine whether or not the CPU in this box (I think it's an Intel
Celeron 2.6 GHz) supports SSE2 or not? I suspect the CPU does *not*
support SSE2.   Posting some information below:
  


  

cat /proc/cpuinfo



Bill: The data are below. There is a flag for sse2. Does that mean
this CPU supports SSE2 or not? If it does support SSE2, that gives me
a mystery, about why the latest version of Google Earth wouldn't run
properly.   Lanny

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor   : 0
vendor_id   : GenuineIntel
cpu family  : 15
model   : 2
model name  : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz
stepping: 9
cpu MHz : 2591.741
cache size  : 128 KB
fdiv_bug: no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug: no
coma_bug: no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp  : yes
flags   : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up cid
xtpr
bogomips: 5185.86

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
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Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

[Robert]

R P Herrold wrote:

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Akemi Yagi wrote:


three words:  Processor Tech Sol

-- Russ herrold


Ahh, I was waiting for you to show up.  OK, everyone, if you are
trying to show your age, stop now -- because no one can win orc_orc
(Russ, our CentOS dev).


Actually from slightly before that era, I also have a functional Intel 
4004 I wire-wrapped, and a MEK-6800 eval kit [256 bytes of ram] as 
well, but these require a switch and light harness, or an ASR-33 
teletype with paper tape reader, respectively, for me to fire up that 
I have long since parted with.


-- Russ herrold
We might be entering "first liar don't have a chance" territory here.  
Do you remember where you were when Kennedy was shot?  I was in the last 
Ramac 305 class ever held, on lunch break and had watched the motorcade 
pass from a lunchroom window.  Needless to say, we didn't talk about 
triggers, cathode followers or "bit carries" (deliver me!) in class that 
afternoon.

It has been an interesting trip, eh?
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