Re: [CentOS] Where are my VIM colors?

On Dec 7, 2007, at 9:49 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Maybe, it's stupid question but I've just installed CentOS5 and when I'm going to edit some of my conf files I see no colors as it did in old CentOS4x... I'm using: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ echo $TERM xterm Thanks in

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

On Dec 17, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: Also don't forget that many mirrors offer rsync. If you rename your 5.0 DVD to the 5.1 version and do an rsync it will save lots of bandwidth. I could be tired, but could you please elaborate how this is possible? A dvd iso with X numb

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

On Dec 18, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: On 12/17/07, Von <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Dec 17, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: Also don't forget that many mirrors offer rsync. If you rename your 5.0 DVD to the 5.1 version and do an rsync it will s

Re: [CentOS] redhat-release still 5 Final in CentOS 5.1

On Dec 4, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote: On Dec 4, 2007 2:34 AM, Francesco Camisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: YOU MIGHT WANT TO DOUBLE-CHECK, THE THREAD WAS BRAND NEW. Your message had References: and In-Reply-To: headers indicating that you started the "new" thread by doing a "Reply"

[CentOS] LDAP / PAM -- Invalid Credentials Error

/lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so session optional /lib/security/$ISA/pam_ldap.so I tried disabling WINBIND but the issue still occurs even after restarting ldap and sshd. Please help!! -- Von Landfried | System Administrator Eye Street Software Corporation 1-888-252-2085 x 3052 [E

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / PAM -- Invalid Credentials Error

plied by openldap - the file located at /etc/openldap/ldap.conf and man 8 ldap.conf (CentOS-4 IIRC) or man pam_ldap (CentOS-5) refers to /etc/ldap.conf (supplied as part of padl's nss) good luck Craig On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 18:19 -0400, Von Landfried wrote: Hello, I am having a small issu

Re: [CentOS] Central file server advice please

My one piece of advice, coming from experience, is to buy a hardware RAID card from a reputable manufacturer, i.e. 3ware, Adaptec, LSI. I personally recommend 3ware, and have 10+ in various servers here in the office. The $200-$600 dollars you will spend will be well worth it if something e

Re: [CentOS] fstab problem after a failed drive

You should be able to boot off the CentOS 5 (assuming its 5) DVD or CD1 and go into "linux rescue" mode which will allow you to mount the / drive in rw mode thus allowing you to remove the entry from the /etc/fstab. Look into that option, I have done it before, but can't remember the exact

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

I had this same issue with 'fdisk' when I installed it on a server with 12TB of space RAID'd down to 6TB. Just use 'parted' and it will solve your problems. On Sep 23, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Rajeev R Veedu wrote: I need to install Centos on a machin

Re: [CentOS] vmware 1.0.4 lock up on install

Thanks again for the links, these will be useful. On Sep 24, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On 9/24/07, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/24/07, Flaherty, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

[CentOS] OpenSSH multiple private key question

. Currently I am using ssh-agent, and it works fine for manually performing tasks. I was curious if there is a simple way to have multiple private keys stored in the same ~/.ssh/ directory without using ssh-agent? Thanks for reading. -Von ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSH multiple private key question

Perfect, I knew it was possible, and I was familiar with ~/.ssh/ config, just currently only use it for different port settings. Thanks Luciano On Sep 26, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Luciano Rocha wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:42:51PM -0400, Von Landfried wrote: I am using CentOS 4.5 with

Re: [CentOS] remote tar via ssh

I copied this from which is a nice little tutorial for remote copying of files. tar is normally an archiving program for backups. But with the use of ssh, it can be coerced into copying large directory trees with ease. It has the advantage that it copies t

Re: [CentOS] PCI-X SATA RAID Controllers

I would recommend PCI-E if you want the fastest card available, and using the 'linux dd' option before you install CentOS 5 allows you to load the 3ware kernel module prior to installation which is what I did to get my 9650SE-16 working. ;-) On Oct 9, 2007, at 4:56 PM, Steve Bluck wrote:

Re: [CentOS] remote ssh to machine how display firefox

I can ssh into a remote machine. I can start X on that machine with startx No need to start X on the remote machine. You need to do "ssh -X " so that X is forwarded (back to the machine that you ssh'ed from). Make sure that "X11Forwarding yes" is set in the /etc/ ssh/sshd_config file (res

Re: [CentOS] yum -- what repo sites were accessed?

I want to know that when I do a yum install whatever I can learn exactly which urls were used for each configed repo. e.g was my local base accessed or one in .au? Increase the debugging level: "yum -d3 ..." should do it. Alfred ___ CentOS mail

Re: [CentOS] unstable kernel after update to CentOS 4.5

Kai: Dec 9 04:30:35 nx10 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hda3): htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #1330023: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=10264, inode=808542775, rec_len=13621, name_len=100 Dec 9 04:30:35 nx10 kernel: Aborting journal on device hda3. Dec 9 04:30:35 nx10 kernel: ext

Re: [CentOS] unstable kernel after update to CentOS 4.5

Kai: I checked the filesystem in the evening and it's clean. I really doubt there's anything with the disk. That's what I thought too. I had the same error you had, and initially the disk seemed to be OK. It would run for weeks before the error showed up again. But after I replaced the

[CentOS] CentOS 5 sysreport

I stumbled across this issue because I requested to install the sysreport package in my kickstart file. Anaconda complains that such a package doesn't exist. There is a bug report about this already (http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2492), but it's certainly a strange situation. 1.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 sysreport

On Dec 11, 2007, at 11:56, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Hmmm something else is 'borked' on the system. Here it is on a 5.1 updated system: Strange, this is my CentOS 5 test system, which was just freshly installed via kickstart (for the 8th time or so). I keep tweaking the kickstart file a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 sysreport

Well, care to elaborate? Well, sysreport has been deprecated by sos in 5.1 :) Oh, that problem. Yeah, well, sosreport has the same problem on my system: it doesn't work. The reason is that /usr/sbin/sysreport is a symlink to /usr/sbin/sosreport: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28439 Nov 11 20

[CentOS] Problem after crash during yum update

I was doing a "yum -y update" on a CentOS 4.5 system to get to 4.6 when my system froze. I couldn't ping it nor switch to an alternate console. It was completely frozen. The only recourse was to cycle the power. So I did that, and now when I try to do a "yum update" I get the following

Re: [CentOS] Problem after crash during yum update

I was in meetings most of the afternoon yesterday, so I didn't get a chance to try Garrick's solution until this morning. I made the list of duplicate RPMs, and it contained over 100 RPMs. It then occurred to me that I only needed to remove the RPMs that are causing the conflict to get yu

Re: [CentOS] yum updates

Is there a way to still do the yum updates but not update the openoffice. Right now, I do it one at a time. Yes, just do a "yum update -exclude=openoffice". Alfred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/c

Re: [CentOS] Problem after crash during yum update

Akemi: Follow this forum thread: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php? topic_id=10139&forum=27&post_id=32373#forumpost32373 The command in there (note #6) may work for you as well. Excellent, thanks for the pointer. However, in my case I want to clean out the older packages

Re: [CentOS] LIMITING NUMBER OF KERNEL VERSIONS RETAINED

Some time ago there was a discussion on the above subject. I have scanned the past few month's mailing list archives and cannot find the relevant mail(s). Could somebody please repost the solution or point me at the correct resource. What you want is: # yum instal yum-utils followed b

Re: [CentOS] Re: kickstart question

Ok I found a %post section in kickstart but is it valid to put a "yum -y update" there? I usually call a post processing script that among other things does a "yum -y update" from the %post section (mounted via NFS), so calling yum directly from the %post should work. Alfred _

[CentOS] Strange performance issues under CentOS 5.1

I am still running CentOS 4.6 on our production systems, but I am starting to plan the upgrade to CentOS 5.1. I have one test system running 5.1 that is the exact same hardware configuration as my 4.6 test system. One of our builds runs about 6 times slower on the 5.1 system, even though

Re: [CentOS] Strange performance issues under CentOS 5.1

On Feb 12, 2008, at 21:57, William L. Maltby wrote: Check BIOS settings? For memory, CAS etc. the same? Disk hardware the same and specified identically? Pretty much all the same. They are standard Lenovo desktops, with a 3.4 GHz Core 2 Duo and 3 GB of memory (the BIOS doesn't let the OS

Re: [CentOS] Re: Strange performance issues under CentOS 5.1

On Feb 13, 2008, at 11:37, Scott Silva wrote: I didn't see it but did you do a 'uname-a" on both systems to see if one is running a PAE kernel? No, that was not it. But I did finally track it down. There was one additional difference in the software configuration that I had forgotten ab

Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

Bob: I agree totally! The problem is with rpm. It refuses to install a non i386 rpm. What are the contents of the ~/.rpmmacros file (for root)? Alfred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] bash - safely pass untrusted strings?

Are you trying to pass all parameters from one script to another or just the first one ($1). If it's the former, have you tried using "$@"? For the latter, "$1" might work. Alfred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/

Re: [CentOS] parsing /proc/cmdline

Hi - I am not an expert at shell script writing. Me neither, Perl is my thing, and with regular expressions this would be trivial. If /proc/cmdline looks like option1 option2 ... ks=http://192.168.1.8/ks/ks.cfg option3 option 4 ... How can I get the 192.168.1.8 out of this cmdline. T

Re: [CentOS] Re: kickstart post section

I tried the above suggestion and it did not have the desired effect. Everything gets logged to log file. I was hoping for a way to log to the file and also still see it on the screen also. Have you tried something like this: %post ( do your stuff here ) 2>&1 | tee post-install.log

Re: [CentOS] rsync question

On Apr 7, 2008, at 13:07, Ray Leventhal wrote: I want to backup the /home tree to that box nightly via rsync (cronjob), so I tried this: rsync -avrogz /home/ /mnt/backup/ First, drop "rog" from the options, as they are implied with -a. Also, since you are not going over a (potentially sl

Re: [CentOS] Re: Gnome Terminal and xterm problems

I should add that the hang occurs after an unknown amount of time. Are we talking days, hours, or minutes here? I use ssh all the time to log into the systems I manage, but they are all on the LAN. I often log into my home CentOS system, and keep the connection up for an entire work day

[CentOS] HELP, I accidentally initialized my /boot partition

So I installed a second drive in my system today, and instead of typing "mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1" I did a "mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1". Fortunately, that was just my /boot partition. I thought I could just copy the contents from the /boot partition from another system, but that didn't work as expect

Re: [CentOS] HELP, I accidentally initialized my /boot partition

A few more details about the failure mode might get you better help - "didn't work as expected" is not very descriptive. Did you try to reboot? What happened? What else have you tried? Can you boot from rescue media? What is currently in /boot/...? The answer to the last question is "nothing

Re: [CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

As to device naming, use LABEL= to fix that. SCSI device naming on Linux stinks. Quick question regarding the naming issue (and sorry for hijacking this thread). My CentOS 4.5 desktop system has two SATA drives: the boot drive is /dev/hda1 and the second drive is /dev/sda1. Is this th

Re: [CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

/dev/hda is being controlled by a controller that mimics an IDE drive and is being accessed through the kernel's ide layer. /dev/ sda is being controlled by a libata-supported controller and is being accessed through the kernel's scsi stack with libata. As far as I know, all drives (2 hard

Re: [CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

On Aug 23, 2007, at 9:08, Lamar Owen wrote: Many motherboards that have more than two SATA connectors put two on the SouthBridge's IDE-type controller, and the others on 'something else'. Usually, the 'something else' shows as a SCSI controller in Linux. How many SATA connectors are there?

Re: [CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

Ok, run a 'lspci' and see if it lists two controllers. Yup, it does: # lspci | fgrep IDE 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) That

Re: [CentOS] What is eating my memory?

I install centos 5 on a HD while it is in a Compaq with 256Mb memory. After install, i am in graphics mode (Gnome) and top reports not quite all 256Mb used. Then I move the HD to a decTOP with 512Mb memory. I am running non- graphics (init 3). I ssh into the unit and top reports not quite

[CentOS] Very slow disk performance on CentOS 4.5

I recently moved my CentOS 4.5 disk from a Lenovo ThinkCentre M52 (3.2 GHz Pentium 4) to a Lenovo ThinkCentre M55 (3.4 GHz Core 2 Duo). I had to install the SMP kernel, but other than that everything just worked. I did have an issue with accidentally initializing my /boot partition, but t

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk performance on CentOS 4.5

On Aug 31, 2007, at 12:20, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: See if the drive supports DMA and 32-bit IO and if it does set it with hdparm (put in the hdparm.conf to do so across reboots). I guess that is what I am asking. How do I do set the appropriate parameters with hdparm? And look into gett

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk performance on CentOS 4.5 [solved]

Yes, I was going to say this too, make sure the SATA settings in the BIOS are all set to SATA operation and not "legacy", then you should see /dev/sda and /dev/sdb and all DMA, IO size, NCQ and multiple sector settings will be properly negotiated at start-up. I bit the bullet and rebooted my

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk performance on CentOS 4.5 [solved]

Well most desktop motherboards these days provide for 2 SATA devices and 2 emulated PATA devices. Though the emulated PATA devices will probably end up using PIO instead of DMA for transfers which is slow and processor intensive, so these are usually reserved for optical drives, which are slow.

Re: [CentOS] Re: rootpw and graphical mode?

I use rootpw --iscrypted with my kickstart installs in graphical mode all the time. Here is the first section of my kickstart file: # Start of snip install url --url http://centosmirror/ lang en_US.UTF-8 langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us xconfig --resolution 1600x1200 -

Re: [CentOS] Reconfiguring gnome desktop

Please - how do I reconfigure my gnome desktop (CentOS 4.4) to get back my application icons and workspaces? Something's changed in the settings so that there are no workspaces shown in the panel and applications "disappear" off the screen when applications (eg Evolution, Mozilla etc) are m

Re: [CentOS] command to show virtual X screens

Is there a command line command that controls which virtual X screen a person is viewing? Sure I can click on one of the 4 virtual X screens but can I control that from the command line. Are you talking about the workspaces provided by the default Gnome desktop manager? If so, CTRL-ALT- s

Re: [CentOS] command to show virtual X screens

Ok - I didnt realize it was called workspace, but yes that is it. But - what I want is a command line program that I can execute to show workspace 3. The sometime later execute a command line program to show workspace 1. Sorry, I don't know about a command line option for this (and the doc

[CentOS] CentOS 4.5 system doesn't boot after installing latest updates

Today I decided to install all the latest updates (including the -06 kernel). The "yum update" seems to have run just fine (no errors), but when I rebooted the system it just sits there with the word "GRUB" in the upper left hand corner. I booted from the CentOS 4.5 install CD into rescue

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 system doesn't boot after installing latest updates

Today I decided to install all the latest updates (including the -06 kernel). The "yum update" seems to have run just fine (no errors), but when I rebooted the system it just sits there with the word "GRUB" in the upper left hand corner. I booted from the CentOS 4.5 install CD into rescue

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.5 system doesn't boot after installing latest updates

Out of interest, is this something that is always required when upgrading Grub? i.e. should one always manually run "grub-install" /dev/XXX" after doing so? No, it shouldn't. But in my case, I didn't "upgrade grub". I simply did a "yum update" which installed, among other things, a new

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.5 system doesn't boot after installing latest updates

Anyways, my suggestion is to check all the drives in your system for said files as mentioned. If they are there, but not where grub is looking for you may have to make changes. My system started its life with one drive and CentOS 4.3, and has been "yum updated" and is now at CentOS 4.5. I

Re: [CentOS] excluding directories in rsync

I am trying to exclude a directory (and all file and sub-directories under that directory) when using rsync. I have spent two days on google, but everything that I can find there involves excluding individual files, not an entire directory. Have you tried a simple "rsync --exclude remove_dir ..

Re: [CentOS] How to export X displays

On Oct 10, 2007, at 10:09, Dag Wieers wrote: There is xrdp and I have packaged it for RPMforge, but I am not sure if it is completely usable. (ie. I haven't figured out how to use it and therefor I didn't make the proper sysv script etc...) On a somewhat related note, what is the best/easies

Re: [CentOS] How to export X displays

On Oct 10, 2007, at 14:18, Brian Mathis wrote: CentOS has "Desktop Sharing" built in. Look for it in one of the settings/preferences menus. "Enable desktop sharing", and then you can use VNC as a remote client. Wow, that was easy! I thought I was going to have to jump through a bunch of h

Re: [CentOS] script help

On Oct 26, 2007, at 6:28, Tom Brown wrote: I am sure the answer here is really easy but i am stuck! Getting the quoting right for remote commands in the shell is never an easy thing :-). # mount | grep data | awk '{print$1,$2,$3}' gives me the info i require locally, however i need to ex

[CentOS] Problem running a setuid Perl script on CentOS 4.5

I'm trying to create a setuid Perl script (yes, I am aware about the security implications), but am getting this error: % cat testsetuid.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -UT print "My real user id is $< but my effective user id is $>\n"; exit(0); % ./testsetuid.pl Can't do setuid (cannot exec spe

Re: [CentOS] Problem running a setuid Perl script on CentOS 4.5

On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:55, Marc Wiatrowski wrote: Being aware of the security implications, do you have perl-suidperl-X.rpm installed? I meant I was aware of the implications of running setuid scripts. I was not aware that CentOS' upstream provider had packaged suidperl separately. Instal

[CentOS] Kickstart stopped working

I've been using kickstart for a while now, but today I tried to kickstart a system and it's just not working at all. I can't figure out why it's hanging. I booted from the CentOS 4.5 CD #1 and typed "linux ks=http:// centosmirror/ks/sys20.cfg". If I check my web server's log, I can see t

[CentOS] Has anyone gotten KDiff3 to work on CentOS 4.X?

The Subject: line says it all. I haven't been able to find a KDiff3 RPM (http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net) that will install on CentOS 4, and I am also having problems building it from source (the application that is, not the RPM). I have some users who really want to use KDiff3, so any help

Re: [CentOS] Need to do some careful moving...

On Jun 26, 2007, at 21:03, Robert Moskowitz wrote: When I built this new Centos 5 drive, I copied over much of my old data using cp, and did not use the -preserve option. Ouch. I need those file create dates so that documents and such sort properly, historically. I recovered much of my

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

On Mar 3, 2011, at 17:50, Les Mikesell wrote: > I almost never log in > directly at a linux console anymore and if I need to do something from > home or remotely, I just pick the session that was my last desktop at work. I didn't know you could do this with NX. I've been using VNC to connect t

[CentOS] Another system with no sound

I am also having an issue with no sound on some CentOS desktop systems. I manage about 3 dozen desktops. These are all Lenovo ThinkCentre systems of varying vintages, but there are only 2 distinct sound controllers among all of them: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Vim command (or macro) to replace space under cursor by "  " (without deleting the following word)

On Oct 5, 2009, at 5:34, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Here's what the according macro would look like. Pressing F2 would > replace the space under the cursor by " " : > > :map cw  > > ... except this also deletes the word after the cursor, which is > annoying. > > Any suggestions ? Have you tried the

[CentOS] Locales and filenames

I have a file which contains non-ASCII characters (umlauts, accented characters, etc.) both in its filename as well as its content. The only way I have been able to see these characters is inside vim, where they are displayed correctly no matter what I have LANG set to. My default LANG is

Re: [CentOS] Locales and filenames

On Oct 27, 2009, at 9:45, Niki Kovacs wrote: > The 'file' command displays encoding information. If you have to > change > the encoding, use 'recode'. Example : Thanks for the quick response, Niki, but I don't need to change the encoding (at least I don't think I do). I just want ls to show

Re: [CentOS] Locales and filenames

On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:51, Niki Kovacs wrote: > [kikino...@babasse:~] $ touch "Fichier encodé en français" > [kikino...@babasse:~] $ touch "Wie heißt diese Datei denn bloß äh" > [kikino...@babasse:~] $ ls F* W* > Fichier encodé en français Wie heißt diese Datei denn bloß äh To be honest, I don't

Re: [CentOS] Locales and filenames

On Oct 27, 2009, at 13:40, Niki Kovacs wrote: I vaguely remember Mac uses UTF-16 as default encoding. This could be the source of your problem. Forget I said anything about the Mac; I'm only using it to write these emails. The file in question was completely created on Linux. The filenam

Re: [CentOS] Locales and filenames

On Oct 27, 2009, at 19:28, ken wrote: > E.g., create a file with vi with just one German/Greek/French word, > say, > Έντελέχεια (Entylecheia, an ancient Greek word). If the > name of the > file is "nonenglish", then, after you do your save in vim, run the > shell > commands > > touch temp;

Re: [CentOS] Locales and filenames

On Oct 28, 2009, at 2:59, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > If your locale is UTF8, íéèæøå would be multibyte characters. > > If your characters are one byte only, they are not UTF-8. That was the key: the file was not UTF-8. > vim knows how to handle this correctly: Yes, it apparently does. It almost app

[CentOS] Centosplus kernel does not have framebuffer support?

I'm still using CentOS 4.6, but have been planning an upgrade to CentOS 5 for quite a while. One of the things that was holding me back is that the CentOS 5.0 kernel did not have the framebuffer support enabled by default. So I waited for CentOS 5.1. However, on one of my test systems I

Re: [CentOS] Centosplus kernel does not have framebuffer support?

On Apr 16, 2008, at 19:21, Akemi Yagi wrote: You have another choice here if you would rather not wait for the next update of the centosplus kernel. The standard kernel with the same NFS bug fix is available from: http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/kernel/5/ I have just checked the kernels in

Re: [CentOS] Centosplus kernel does not have framebuffer support?

On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:34, Akemi Yagi wrote: If you have your own mirror, the easiest way would be to get those bz32 kernels in your repo. Johnny Hughes or other CentOS devs need to chime in here about the plan for those kernels, but my (wild) guess is that those kernels stay there until th

Re: [CentOS] Centosplus kernel does not have framebuffer support?

On Apr 17, 2008, at 14:02, Akemi Yagi wrote: Any chance this will happen before next Wednesday? That's when I'm planning to start my upgrades... I doubt it, but you never know because this is up to our upstream vendor. I was thinking about a new centosplus kernel before next week -- is

[CentOS] Kickstart syntax for CentOS upgrade

I'd like to automate the upgrade from CentOS 4.6 to 5.1 as much as possible. Since upgrades per se are not really recommended, I'm planning to do a kickstart installation. However, I want to leave one of the existing partitions (/scratch) untouched during the installation. Here is my cur

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart syntax for CentOS upgrade

On Apr 28, 2008, at 18:37, Tom Lanyon wrote: This worked fine for me on a 4.6 kickstart I did recently. I can't remember whether I tried it on 5.x or not, sorry. bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda part /boot --onpart=sda1 --fstype=ext3 part swap --onpart=sda2 --fstype=swap volgroup vg

[CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

I'd like to rename my existing volume groups and logical volumes (I picked names a long time ago I no longer like :-). I recently stumbled across the lvrename and vgrename commands, but when I tried the former to rename the logical volume that my root partition resides on, the system becam

Re: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

Josh, Bill, and Ross, than you for all the suggestions. I'm running out of time to try them today, but I will do so on Monday when I'm back in the office and I"ll post an update. TGIF! Alfred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.

Re: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

On May 2, 2008, at 17:24, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Sure you can do all this from rescue mode off the first CD. Boot the cd type in 'linux rescue' and continue to the command prompt. First, thanks for the detailed list, Ross. It was very helpful. I was able to rename both the VG and the LVs

Re: [CentOS] Centosplus kernel does not have framebuffer support?

On May 11, 2008, at 9:06, Akemi Yagi wrote The centosplus kernel update that just came out (2.6.18-53.1.19.el5.centos.plus) does have vesafb support enabled. Thank you, Johnny, for the work. :-) It finally trickled down to my mirror, and a quick install this morning shows that is indeed fixe

[CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

I've finally made the switch to CentOS 5.1 (I had been running 4.6). So far, so good, but I do have a few issues. First, I can not find kermit (or ckermit) in any of the repos (base, extras, centosplus, rpmforge). On my 4.6 systems, /usr/bin/kermit was provided by the package ckermit in t

Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

On May 14, 2008, at 9:50, Steve Huff wrote: This may well be an upstream issue; I have recently begun to encounter the same problem on a RHEL 5.1 workstation, using Synergy and nVidia binary packages from rpmforge (synergy-1.3.1-2.el5.rf, nvidia-x11-drv-1.0.9755-1.nodist.rf). I first star

Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

On May 14, 2008, at 10:58, Alfred von Campe wrote: In the mean time, anyone have any info on Kermit for CentOS 5? We have some Kermit scripts sent to us by one of our vendors, so we can't just easily migrate to another serial communications tool. I was able to compile the latest K

Re: [CentOS] Re: A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

On May 14, 2008, at 18:05, Scott Silva wrote: CentOS usually creates whatever upstream gives out. You would have to see why RedHat stopped putting it in, or see if you can convince CentOS developers to add it to centosplus. I understand the relationship with the upstream provider. I was

Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

On May 14, 2008, at 20:12, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: I don't know why you need kermit, but for serial-based terminal/console access, minicom may do what you want. I use it to access Unix/Linux hosts through the serial console and for network switches and routers as well. It works OK for that.

[CentOS] Strange NTP problem

I have 30 identical Lenovo desktop systems running CentOS 5.1. On one of those systems the clock is running slow (5+ minutes from yesterday to this morning and another minute since this morning) despite the fact that NTP is running on all of them and they all have the exact same /etc/ntp.c

Re: [CentOS] Strange NTP problem

On May 20, 2008, at 16:56, Paul Heinlein wrote: A slew of 5 min/24 hrs should be in the range of fixable. If the NTP daemon was doing its job :-). This is very suspect. Are there any SELinux or other log messages suggesting that ntpd isn't able to write to its drift file? Your local clock

Re: [CentOS] Strange NTP problem

On May 20, 2008, at 20:25, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: What is the output of "ntpq -np" ? You should have a line with a star (*), otherwise it is not synchronizing. Start running NTP again, wait for half an hour and issue that command to see what your output is. It could be a problem related to

Re: [CentOS] Strange NTP problem

On May 21, 2008, at 0:55, Paul Heinlein wrote: Yeah, with an offset of 54 seconds, it's a bad system. :-) Try this (assuming 10.101.32.104 is your preferred local NTP server): service ntpd stop echo "10.101.32.104" > /etc/ntp/step-tickers service ntpd start Adding a server to the step-t

Re: [CentOS] Strange NTP problem

I'm still having this issue. Here is another update. I noticed that the drift file for the system with the problem contained "0.000". On most other systems this contains a positive number (and on two a negative number). I deleted the drift file, resynch'ed the time with "ntpdate ", rest

Re: [CentOS] kernel-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 centosplus?

On May 28, 2008, at 14:08, Johnny Hughes wrote: We are currently using the builders to build centos-5.2 ... I can try to get the that kernel in, but we should very soon thereafter have the 5.2 one, so it might be better for you just to wait. Does the 5.2 kernel include the NFS patch (RH bu

[CentOS] Frequent Gnome Terminal crashes in CentOS 5.1

Ever since I upgraded all my systems to CentOS 5.1 I have been getting reports from users about "all their windows disappearing". A little digging revealed that they meant all gnome-terminal windows. Since there is only one gnome-terminal process by default for all your open terminal wind

Re: [CentOS] Frequent Gnome Terminal crashes in CentOS 5.1

On May 29, 2008, at 14:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: How did you upgrade? Fresh install via kickstart. I reformatted the root and /boot partitions, but left one user partition untouched. Is it possible that you have older (possibly orphaned) binaries still installed from the upgrade process?

Re: [CentOS] Frequent Gnome Terminal crashes in CentOS 5.1

On May 29, 2008, at 20:58, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: strace seems fine, just use some options to enhance the output you get: -s 1024: take 1024 bytes for every string. This wouldn't have cut that one short -tt: if you want timestamps -f: to follow forked processes Great suggestion. I di

[CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

I've been a big fan of CentOS for a while, and didn't have many issues with CentOS 4.X over the past few years. However, since moving to CentOS 5.1 a few weeks ago, I have received more problem reports from my users than in the last year and a half on CentOS 4.X. I've previously reported

Re: [CentOS] Frequent Gnome Terminal crashes in CentOS 5.1

On May 29, 2008, at 20:58, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: strace seems fine, just use some options to enhance the output you get: -s 1024: take 1024 bytes for every string. This wouldn't have cut that one short -tt: if you want timestamps -f: to follow forked processes I started strace with t

Re: [CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

On Jun 4, 2008, at 16:59, William L. Maltby wrote: As to your specific problem, since hardware is not common among the users reporting problems, I suspect that the only commonality is the configuration *beginning* with the automated install. My thought is there is some flaw in it that becomes co

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