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Hello, Does anyone have a guide for setting up an nfs server for unattended deployment of centos5? Basically what i want to do is boot a system from CD media, pass a boot parameter nfs, and ks= options then walk away, the box goes out to the nfs server, finds the kickstart file, reads, and does it. I've got several machines and i'd rather not do manual installs. Thanks. Dave.

Hello, I'm setting up a centos5 router for a friend. It will direct traffic to an internal webserver, already in place, as well as run squid proxy. It should do nat and have a firewall with iptables. I've set up routers before for this purpose but always of the bsd type and using their firewalls. I understand the concepts, nat, packet filtering, etc. but i'm not getting

Hi all, I need to setup a repo server to allocate updates for RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5 and CentOS5. Apart of mrrepo tool, I see that I can use reposync from yum-utils package and yum-rhn-plugin package to setup a mirror update server. But I can't to find yum-rhn-plugin under centos5 repo. Where is it?? Or I need to use package released from upstream vendor?? Thanks -- CL Martinez

Gang, I've got to admit, what really sold me on debian was apt-get. And I've been resisting getting up to speed with yum. So, can any of ya point me to a good starter page, maybe one with migrators like me in mind? Many thanks. -- Robert Thomas ("beau") Hayes Link Open your heart, pray for peace, preach healing (c)2004ISR http://www.semanticrestructuring.com/

Hello, Does anyone have cups v1.3.1 running on Centos5? If so, i'd like to roll my own srpm and install it. I'm currently running 1.2.x and want to update to 1.3.1 as it has a bug fix that i need. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

Hello, I've got a centos5 box that is now behind a what was transparent squid proxy. The proxy now has it's own dedicated ip and uses proxy basic authentication. I've got a firewall that redirects all outgoing port 80 traffic to that ip so anyone wishing access goes proxied. The problem is yum on my centos5 can't retrieve the .xml files for the various yum repositories. In

Hello, I'm using centos5 and i just started noticing a timeout msg when running a yum update. It occurs with the atrpms repo, has anyone else seen this? Thanks. Dave. #yum update Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories http://dl.atrpms.net/el5-i386/atrpms/stable/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>

Somebody already get atl2.ko compiled in centos5 ??? JC

Hello, I'm trying to do a kickstart install of centos5. I'm pulling it off a network server and i'm getting an error, in the parsing of the file. It refers to line 31, i'm not going to show the complete file, but here is the indicated line: raid swap --fstype swap --level=RAID1 raid.4 raid.7 and the raid lines: part raid.7 --size=512 --ondisk=hdb part raid.4 --size=512

Hello, Does anyone have the ftape driver working with a centos5 machine, specifically with a 2.6.18-8.18-8.el5 centosplus kernel? I've got a situation where it is needed and haven't been able to find anything related to kernels beyound 2.1 on it, not sure if that's still current, if not i'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Dave.

Hello, Does anyone have mod_mono rpm or srpm compiled for centos5? Thanks. Dave.

Hello, Does anyone know of an rpm for tovid for centos5? I'm trying to author some dvds and would like to use it. Thanks. Dave.

Hello, I've got a centos5 box that at least has a dependency issue or a corrupt rpm database. I am open to suggestions as to how to proceed. I have added some extra repositories to my yum configuration, centosplus, rpmforge, atrpms, and the kbs repos. I haven't been having issues with installs or upgrades until today when i ran a yum update, and got a missing dependency error for

Hello, I just wrote instructions for building Xen 4.2 from sources on various RPM-based Linux distributions. The guide is available here: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.2_Build_From_Source_On_RHEL_CentOS_Fedora I was able to successfully build Xen 4.2.0-rc2 on the following Linux distros: - CentOS 5.8 x64 - CentOS 6.3 x64 - Fedora 17 x64 RHEL5/CentOS5 requires some hackery to get

Hello, I just wrote instructions for building Xen 4.2 from sources on various RPM-based Linux distributions. The guide is available here: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.2_Build_From_Source_On_RHEL_CentOS_Fedora I was able to successfully build Xen 4.2.0-rc2 on the following Linux distros: - CentOS 5.8 x64 - CentOS 6.3 x64 - Fedora 17 x64 RHEL5/CentOS5 requires some hackery to get

Hi, This might be a little O.t. so private responses please. I've got apache and samba running on a CentOS5 box enabling windows users to add web content. My issue is i've had to restore some backup data that was previously archived. The permissions aren't matching up so i'm wanting to use find and xargs to change them appropriately. Normally i do: find . -type type

Hello, I'm running centos5 with the centosplus kernel v2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 and i'm trying to read a drive that has a ufs2 partition on it. It was originally in a FreeBSD machine and has some data i'd like to get at. Googling indicated this should work with the command: mount -r -t ufs -o ufstype=ufs2 <device> <mountpoint> device is /dev/hdb5 and mountpoint is /mnt.

Hello, I'm trying to access the kbs centos repo for centos5. When i atempt to do so i get an error 14 followed by an error 404 and an error that the required xml file isn't found. Here's the error msg and my config, suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave. #yum update Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories

Hello, I'm running centos5. I enabled the centosplus repo and i now have two kernels both 2.6.18-8.1.8-el5 but one has a .centosplus on the end of it. I was wondering the differences between these two kernels? Thanks. Dave.

Hello, I've got a new Centos5 install and got x installed with gnome on it. The problem is the display looks awful and keeps flickering. It failed the monitor probe and doesn't have horizontal and vertical refresh rates in the xorg.conf file. I believe this is part or all of the issue, i took it down to 8-bitt color and 800x600 resolution, that didn't help. The video card is