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In reading the help file for yum, I am confused on how to find out if my php 4.3 can be updated to php 5.2 using yum. Any suggestion would be appreciated... Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.toddcary.com/aristephotography/

I messed up the other day when I did a rsync backup to my usb external drive *but* forgot to mount it (turn it on). So the system appears to have renamed the correct one (external) to usbdrive1 and created a directory on the HD, usbdrive. It has been well over a year since I made that error and have forgotten the location and name of the table that contains the usbdrive and usbdrive1

When doing my updates, I got this message: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/System.map-2.6.9-78.0. 13.EL;49a Unfortunately, I installed Centos 4 about two years ago on my server that sits in the corner and does it's job of faithfully providing services without me touching it except to run a backup script and do a YUM update every week so. The result is that I have

Before asking questions about Ruby on Rails setup on CentOS 4, I want to make sure that this forum is the proper place for those questions. Are there any members who can help? Many thanks... Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.toddcary.com/aristephotography/

I have a USB disk and when I turned it on in the past, it's icon would appear on my GUI Desktop. Now it is no longer visible. In terminal mode, if I do a cd to /media/usbdisk, all of my data is there. What am I missing here? Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

I am spoiled with Yum: never have had a dependency problem until today. Can this be resolved: ---> Downloading header for compat-openldap to pack into transaction set. compat-openldap-2.3.27_2. 100% |=========================| 30 kB 00:00 ---> Package compat-openldap.i386 0:2.3.27_2.2.29-4.el4.centos set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency:

I started a new thread since the original one is getting rather long. I have retrieved the files I deleted in /boot and /boot/grub, however I need to make links for /boot/System.map (System.map -> System.map-2.6.9-89.35.1) /boot/vmlinuz (vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.35.1) /boot/grub/menu.lst (menu.lst -> ./grub.conf) If it was not so important to get it correct, I would appreciate

I have an external USB drive that was formatted with NTFS and I want to use it to backup some files from my Centos 5.5 system. When I check my documentation, I am not certain of the best way to do the formatting. Suggestions welcomed.... Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com

My www directory is owned by "apache" and the group is "todd" and the permissions are 775. My Windows computers use Samba and they log into Linux with "todd". Under the www directory there are various directories which may have a group belonging to a user e.g. "viewpoint". Using this example, there is a directory under www (acutally called httpd),

I have connected a HD that was a prior system drive (Centos 4.8) and I am not sure of the command line procedures to find out if it is recognized (I believe it is since it present in the GUI), delete all data on it and finally add it to the LVM. I would like to use it as a backup data drive. Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com

For a long period of time, my Apache root directory has been /home/httpd. For security reasons, this is not so good as SELinux has informed me. Now all of the files have been copied to /var/www/etc with owner and group "root". The privileges are 754 (rwxr-xr--), however apache does not have access to them. Should the owner be apache? Group? Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma,

About a year and a half ago, someone answered a request on how to set up rsync so that the encryption was automatically setup (wish I knew more about the technical aspects). It has been in use for the time since then and it has been great. Now I have to replace the destination computer and setting up, what I call the encryption part, is the part I have forgotten how to do. This is the

Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is not locked up :-) ) with Samba. What is the best VNC like application to

In an effort to prevent getting many minutes into an installation only to have a CD read fail (I did verify the CD's first), I did a minimal install. Can I use the minimal install to add the necessay packages for a HTTP server and graphical interface? Todd -- Ariste Software 200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

My Admin books are out of date, so I need a new one that contains info about the Linux as in Centos 5.5. I am a "Sunday user"; not one earning a living as an Admin. Recommendations welcomed.... Todd P.S. Current book is "Linux System Administration, Second Edition", by Vicki Stanfield and Roderick W. Smith (Sybex) -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952

I have a USB drive that has been formatted as NTFS. Can I reformat it? I have identified these properties about it /dev/sda1 /media/Extrnl_Bkup Not sure what to do next since the GUI will not mount a NTFS disk (expected). Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

I am running Centos 4 and want to run cgiemail in a directory under the web application. The setting of the "value" property in the <form> is tricky, but I have the web application running on other servers without a problem. On my server I get the error that it cannot find the file pointed to by the value in the <form>. My question is whether or not I need to do

Wonder how much of this is true and if Linux could be the OS? http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-predict1jan01,0,3503327.story -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

I am trying to implement PHP upload functionality for an application. When I attempt an upload in my test environment, I get the following error: An error has occurred: receiving directory insufficient permission... The upload form is reloading The destination file being moved by move_uploaded_file is /home/httpd//test/upload/uploads/1278898550-_DSC1159.jpg The initial file name is suppose

I am currently running CentOS 4 and want to install CentOS 5. To do that, I plan to install a new HD in my server box onto which CentOS will be installed. I will then copy the "home" directory from the old drive or from a backup on a USB drive, however I am not sure how to handle the Users/Passwords from the old installation. Many thanks... Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA