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Hi, I've just installed a fresh CentOS 5.2 Now, I run "yum update" and I get: "Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: base. Please verify its path and try

Hi, I'm making a schema for my company's co-workers, but i'm obviosuly doing something wrong, because i get: ldapadd -x -D "cn=admin,dc=telbit,dc=pt" -w secret -f people.ldif adding new entry "dc=telbit,dc=pt" ldapadd: no attributes to change or add (entry="cn=admin,dc=telbit,dc=pt") My schema file (experimantel) is: ## objectclass definition for

Hi, I have to install this server with an Intel motherboard ASUS, model P5VDC-MX. It has a VIA hardware RAID controller model VT-8251. The two hard drives are SATA (don't know if II) and are Maxtor STM380211AS. Problem is that CentOS installation doesn't recognize any hard drives at all. The BIOS setup doesn't have an option to turn off SATA. Any ideas ? Thanks in advance. --

Hi, First of all, my apologies for the extension of this message, but it is needeed for you to undertand my problem. Straight to the point: i have this domain in my company running in Samba 3.0.2 My users are: hcoelho, jardim, gamito, yesenia, smatias, fqueiros, faugusto, vamaro, peixinho, aragao, dina, pinho. I have this shares with the users that can access them and the correponding Linux

Hi, Sorry for the newbie question, I've been searching the CentOS site and googled, but I couldn't find an answer (probably my bad). I want to install CentOS 4.5, but I'm having troubles with my CD reader. How can I install it from an FTP server ? Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards -- :wq! M?rio Gamito

Hi, The subject says it all. For two days i've been trying to get IMAP and IMAPS working and nothing. I'm running CentOS 4.4 with qmail-ldap I just can't login in dovecot. Following my signature is some info. You can find my dovecot.conf at http://www.gamito.org/dovecot.conf I'm about to give up :( Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, M?rio Gamito

Hi, It's been a long time since I've been noticing a strange behaviour from CentOS grep command. But today, I really need it. I have a file that has the word gamito inside of it. If I run $ grep 'gamito' file it returns nothing. Yet, if I run $ grep -c 'gamito' file It returns 1 which is right. The mind boggles. Does anyone ever had this problem or am I missing

Hi, This is a bit of-topic, but since it has to do with /tmp permissions here it goes. Anyway, I'm sorry in advance for posting this. I have this PHP script (simplificated here), called delete_tmp.php that basically calls external commands: <?php $session_file = '/tmp/sess_89765' system(''rm -f' . ' ' . $session_file); ?> delete_tmp.php file is owned by

Hi, Does anyone knows of a place where one can download through HTTP (and only HTTP) the CentOS 4.1 DVD ISO ? I'm behind a firewall and have no chance of either getting it through bittorrent or FTP. Any help would be apreciated. Warm regads, M?rio Gamito

Hi, I've just installed a server with CentOS 4. This server is behind a proxy. I'm trying to import the RPM key. Already set http_proxy variable to: export "http_proxy"=http://proxy.xpto.com:3128 Truth is, command # rpm --import http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4 just leaves me hanged. Any ideas ? Warm Regards, M?rio Gamito

Hi, I need to run /bin/mount and /sbin/mount.cifs commands as nobody user (it has (bin/bash shell). So, I've edited /etc/sudoers and added: Cmnd_Alias CMD_MOUNT = /bin/mount Cmnd_Alias CMD_CIFS ) = /sbin/mount.cifs nobody ALL = NOPASSWD: CMD_MOUNT nobody ALL = NOPASSWD: CMD_CIFS But when I run the command as nobody (in the shell), I get the error: "mount

Hi, For years that i've been recording CDs and DVDs and all well. Now, i can't in CentOS-4 First i run: # mkisofs -r -J -o cd_backup cd/ Then # cdrecord -scanbus Output is: cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. 1,0,0 100) 'SAMSUNG ' 'CD-ROM SC-148F ' 'F008' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) 'HP '

Hi, First things first, sorry for the off-topic, but I've already burned my eyes Googling and couldn't find the answer to what I need and I remembered asking here, because I'm a long time CentOS and its mailing list user. Again, my apologies. I have this command to create an FTP account: # pure-pw useradd mario -u 502 -g 502 -n 1000 -N 200 -d /home/pages/mario This command asks for

Hi, I'm installing CentOS 4.4 64 bits with RAID 1 per software. But when the installation finishes, i cannot boot the system. I always get GRUB error 15. Any ideas ? Thanks in advance. Warm Regards, M?rio Gamito -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070228/9c237e08/attachment.html>

Hi, I can't login in the IMAP server. This is the log from a telnet session to port 143: Feb 16 15:38:32 mail2 dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=192.168.84.128 rip=192.168.84.128 resp=<hidden> Feb 16 15:38:32 mail2 dovecot: auth(default): checkpassword(gamito at mail2.telbit.pt,192.168.84.128): Executed: /usr/local/bin/auth_imap

Hi, How can I have vi with syntax hilghting for root ? Regular users have it, but not root's. I've seen the hidden files of a regular user home, but found nothing. Thanks in advance. Warm Regards, M?rio Gamito

Hi, I've installed a mail server using CentOS 4.4 Now, if i reboot the server remotely by ssh, when it cames up, i have no network. The interface is up and everything looks pretty fine. But i can't even ping other machines in the same intranet. If i reboot it locally at the console, the network cames just fine. Never seen nothing like this. The mind boggles :( Any ideas ? Warm

Hi, I'm making a qmail RPM. All goes well, except that the users and groups are not being created. And they must be before running "make setup check". I've tried all locations in the spec file, but nothing :( Following my signature is the relevant part of the spec file. Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards -- :wq! M?rio Gamito %description The most powerful MTA in

Hi, Sorry for the little bit off-topic. I have a script that has to performe a hash over a password. Problem is that sha512sum expects CTRL-D to be pressed to return to the command prompt. I've searched all over Google, but either I didn't do the right search or there is nothing relevant about this. Bottom line is that I need this command to print the password hash and returns to the

Hi, I'm the system's administrator at my company. All servers are CentOS :) I've been noticing that many people spend the whole day hearing to online radios. How can i block the streaming ? It's HTTP and i think it's through port 80. Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, M?rio Gamito PS: No good blocking the radio sites, they'll discover others.