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My old server was Centos 4.8 and it is on a HD that is NOT connected. The new Centos 5.5 is the active HD. Everything appears to be working, so my intent is to jumper the old HD as a slave, wipe it clean and have it as a backup drive. Since my Linux skills are minimum, I thought it best to heck with the experts to find the best (safest) way to accomplish my goal. I assume that the old

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

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

I am trying to understand how my USB drive is setup in Centos 5.5 -- especially since I made a mistake of backing up to it when it was not turned on. The USB drive is accessed as /media/disk. However, when I did a backup WITHOUT the drive turned on, the data was put into the directory, /media/disk. Now, when I turn on the USB drive (it is self-mounted in 5.5), the USB drive has been

I know this is a Linux 101 question, however I am unable to locate the answer in my O'Reilly Linux book: how to set the default for permissions when creating a new user. The default for the GUI in my newly installed Centos 5.5 is 700. I usually use 774. And when root creates a new directory, is there a way to have a default there too? Lastly, if root or someone with root privileges

My Admin books are out of date, so I need a new one that contains info about the Linux as in Centos 5.5.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 am running Centos 5.5 (2.6.18-238.19.1.el5 and when I submit yum -y update I get the message that nothing is marked for update. Is this correct or is there something wrong with the system? Many thanks... Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com

Thanks to the help of folks on this forum, I now have my Centos 4 box up and working, however I do have a question on how the repair actually worked. After starting the Linux Repair, the process "found my installed Linux". Some of you will remember that I had accidentally erased the /boot and /boot/grub directories, but I had most of the files saved (not the symbolic links) and

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

I tried to install Google Chrome and received the dependencies error. Is Centos too old for the new Chrome or is there an older Chrome version that is compatible? Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com

I have a usb drive, /media/disk and I want to reformat it. There are several questions that come up: How can I determine the current format? Do I use the mkfs command? Many thanks... 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,

I am in the process of bring up Centos 5.5. My ftp server is vsftp. When I add a user (e.g. brian), the "brian" directory is owned by "brian" and is in the "brian" group with 700 permissions. However, using a FTP client, the user "brian" can view all of the directories. I do not see any directive in vsftpd.conf to limit this. What have I missed?

With Centos 5.5, my external USB drive appears to self mount in that the icon appears on the desktop and when I double click on it, the files are there. However, I recall that I need to make an entry in the fstab as well as some other changes. When I do a # /sbin/fdisk -l I learn that the device is /dev/sda1 and the system is HPFS/NTFS I am not sure what to enter into the file system

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

I have some photographs on my Centos 4 server that I want to copy to a USB drive. However, I want to be able to access the files from Windows or Mac OS's. Where should I look for instructions on how to mount and format the USB drive and is FAT32 the only option? Many thanks -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com

I have a new Centos installation that has an empty /home dir and there are no users...just root. I want to move the home directory from another server to the new one. At this time the old /home directory has been tarred with "-prf". That will keep permissions which could be a problem. Is there a simple way to move the /home directory? And the non-system users in the password

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

Darn! I must have either made a typo or my use of a ";" in the MySQL root password so now I am locked out. Is there a work around or do I have to uninstall MySQL and reinstall? Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com

With my new Centos installation, I get the following error when I type in # mysql ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) I have Googled the error, but the results do not appear to be helpful Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML