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I can't think of a better word for this than "weird." I went back and reread most of the emails on the original thread, and both Ross and Bill suggested that something about "misc" might be off. So, I created a new mount point called "other," pointed fstab at it, modified my scripts and symlinks that used to reference /misc, and rebooted. Voila! /other was

I have a couple 64-bit CentOS 5 installations here and was wondering if there was a yum option to have it install only x86_64 arch by default if no arch is specified. I tired of having to append .x86_64 on all package names I only want the x86_64 versions of, if I want the i386 versions too I would add the .i386 package to the list... Thanks All, Ross S. W. Walker Information Systems

I keep reading that RHEL/CentOS 5 supports blktrace, but I can't seem to find the blktrace/blkparse utilities. Is it that just the functionality is available in the kernel, but the user is left to have to hunt down the latest versions of the utilities on the net? If anybody knows where to get the latest versions of these utilities I would greatly appreciate it. Ross S. W. Walker

I try to get working together vlan and bonding both for dom0 and domU. I lost packets sent to dom0 while domU is OK. Nightly stats for dom0: 52879 packets transmitted, 45293 received, 14% packet loss, time 52879599ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.144/0.224/717.306/5.129 ms Nightly stats for domU: 52952 packets transmitted, 52952 received, 0% packet loss, time 52952554ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev =

Are there any RPM wizards out there that know how to specify a different architecture for a subpackage in a spec file? I have a package that has a binary component and a non-binary component that I would like split into 2 packages one, the binary which is architecture dependant and the other 'noarch'. I haven't found a spec file that does this yet :-( Ross S. W. Walker

I have a 5.1 system with Xen installed. The package says 3.0.3, but an 'xm info' shows 3.1. So what is it? Is it 3.0.3 patched to 3.1 or is it 3.1 packaged as 3.0.3? And if it's the former, does anybody have any idea why upstream wouldn't just deploy 3.1 (now 3.1.2) which is more stable? -Ross ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail,

I have my NIS user/group files separate from the system user/group files using libuser to manage them and that works well, but I am trying to find a way to get libuser to invoke a 'make' of the NIS maps whenever it updates the master files. Is there a routine I can configure in libuser to do this, or am I stuck having to do it by cron? Ross S. W. Walker Information Systems Manager

Something happen to the Xen list? I was knee deep in a couple of threads and the list up and disappeared on me:) jlc

I have a WinXP guest under VMWare on my CentOS 5.1 host and it can access the CentOS printer(s) just fine. However, I also have a Win98 box on the LAN that I would like to be able to print on the CentOS printer. When I try to connect to the printer, Win98 tells me that it can't find the network...? Any suggestions? (This "slightly" really is - it _is_ directly related to CentOS,

Did you mean non-secular? Otherwise what sect is it? -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org <centos-bounces at centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Sent: Fri Nov 30 14:22:04 2007 Subject: Re: Release Cycles [was RE: [CentOS] special tricks for developersboxon centos 5] On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:39:01AM -0800, Robert - elists alleged:

On Monday, 19 November 2007, Ross S. W. Walker rwalker at medallion.com wrote: <snip> > You can fix it all from CentOS. Ross: In addition to coming up with another slick way to fix this box, which I truly appreciate, you came up with the below: >You need to run some kind of rootkit detection and cleaner on the >system before it reboots or else it will just reinstall itself.

I have a new development box at home that I am working on. Currently it has CentOS 5.1 + Xen 3.2 running several domUs. I am using XDMCP on the domUs and an X Chooser on dom0 for connecting to them and it works well, but now I want to be able to get sound from my domUs and I have been struggling. I can get some from network transparent sound by using ESD, but I have no way of controlling the

I have a new development box at home that I am working on. Currently it has CentOS 5.1 + Xen 3.2 running several domUs. I am using XDMCP on the domUs and an X Chooser on dom0 for connecting to them and it works well, but now I want to be able to get sound from my domUs and I have been struggling. I can get some from network transparent sound by using ESD, but I have no way of controlling the

Hi All, My CentOS 5.1 server is using iSCSI attached disks connecting to a dual controller storage array. I have also configured multipathd to manage the multiple paths. Everything works well, and on boot the dev nodes are automatically created in /dev/mapper. On these devices, I have created logical volumes using lvm2. My problem is that lvm does not recognize these iscsi/multipath volumes on

Hello! I am running CentOS-5 with latest kernel available by deault (2.6.23). I installed it on a Dell XPS machine having Intel Quad processors (4 parallel cpus). I use it to run a computational program and I need to keep the program running for 1-2 months continuously. I generally boot it in runlevel-3 with network ON without X and use ssh from another machine to connect and run the program

Hello, When I needed to build Xen guests under Debian I could follow more or less the instructions in http://preview.tinyurl.com/2oc48r and the advantage of this approach is that it allows me to setup the Xen guest directly on the LVM partition without making it consider the LVM partition as an entire disk with a partition table. The advantages of this approach are: 1. I can add more LVM's

Can anyone point me to a how to or beginners guide to setting up LDAP authentication on CentOS5 with replication?

Hi, Is it not ok to use both plugins at the same time? I have read from the wiki page of centos that you must use only either protect base or priorities plugin. I have been using the the config file below for months and did not encounter any problems. I used priority=1 and protect=1 on base and updates (addons,extras protect=1 ; set no priorities) for the CentOS-Base repo and on the rpmforge

Ok, I got blktrace installed, but I also have some blktrace system taps that I want to test out, but it seems I need to have the kernel debug info installed to get systemtap working. Anyone know where the CentOS kernel-debuginfo RPMs are located? Ross S. W. Walker Information Systems Manager Medallion Financial, Corp. 437 Madison Avenue 38th Floor New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 328-2165 Fax:

Is there a package available in the CentOS repos that will convert either a MicroSoft Word .doc, an OOo .otd, or an Acrobat .pdf file into eps format? If so, what is its name? If not, What not CentOS packages are available (if any) and recommended to accomplish this? Regards -- James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited