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I got file conflicts between the sysreport and sos packages on the file /usr/sbin/sysreport. I unchecked sysreport in the package updater UI and the rest of the update is proceedng.

Hi, does something like the SUSE/Novell ntsutils (previously called "supportconfig") or Microsoft's MPS Reports exist for CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux? I mean a program that reads and exports various configurations and parameters to facilitate technical support. Thorsten

I stumbled across this issue because I requested to install the sysreport package in my kickstart file. Anaconda complains that such a package doesn't exist. There is a bug report about this already (http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2492), but it's certainly a strange situation. 1. Anaconda doesn't think the package sysreport exists 2. yum thinks it exists:

I responded to a post in the Dell poweredge mailing list earlier today. My answer was off the top of my head, with a bit of experimentation. The content may be useful in the Cenyos context as well to admin's looking to strip the size of an install to the bare bones. Comment welcomed. Can anyone see any packages which I have missed? -- Russ Herrold ---------- Forwarded message

Long ago when I was an AIX admin we had a script we ran every 6 months or so and it created what we called the "System Book". It had every possible configuration option. While acknowledging that on a whole it was overkill documentation, if we ever had to rebuild the systems we knew *exactly* how the old one was set up to compare it to if we had problems. I'm looking to do something

Just updated the subject page http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General/RebuildReleaseProcess based on Karanbir's comment on centos-devel: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2010-May/005545.html Is there better material available to replace the erroneous content, or should the page be removed? Phil

Hello As some of you probably already know, since RHEL 6 xorg.conf does not exist any more by default. Based on the questions asked on IRC, I think it would be a good idea to add a FAQ entry on how to create one ( and how to modify the resolution on systems where the defaults are not OK). Is anyone with prior experience in this domain willing to do it ? Otherwise I'll have to

Is everyone else posting to this list getting one of these after each-and-every post? If so, someone please un-subscribe this person: rsivak at tmo.blackberry.net Phil -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: postmaster at tmo.blackberry.net > To: Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov > Subject: Delivery Status Notification(Failure) > Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:32:02 GMT > > Your

Created a new HowTo on running your own local mirror: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CreateLocalMirror Comments and (constructive :-) criticism are invited. Phil

FWIIW I had this message still in drafts /usr/bin/imaptest - append=100,0 logout=0 host=xxx port=143 user=xxx pass=xxx seed=100 secs=1 clients=1 mbox=64kb.mbox box=inbox/test msgs=100000 And inbox/test does not exist, results in: Fatal: master: service(imap): child 20282 killed with signal 11 (core dumped)

I've installed ipw2200-firmware-3.0-3.nodist.rf from RPMForge using yum OK. I've loaded the ipw modules with /sbin/modprobe ipw2200 and then /sbin/lsmod | grep ipw which gives: ipw2200 136873 0 ieee80211 33417 1 ipw2200 However, when I run system-config-network I don't see Intel Coporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (eth1) in the list of adapters. Also, when I

Hi list, I'm trying to create an asterisk 1.8 rpm with SRTP. I found mention of a libsrtp rpm, <http://qutecom.ipex.cz/RPMS/srtp-1.4.4-1.i386.rpm > in these instructions, <http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+SRTP> but it is unreachable (by me, anyway). The libSRTP source is here, <http://srtp.sourceforge.net/download.html>. Has this already been packaged for

For the inspection of the docs group: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/IdentifyHardDisk Phil

I have some suggested tweaks and changes to http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Install_On_Partitionable_RAID1 1. The user should be instructed to start rescue mode with networking in order to be able to retrieve the patch for mkinitrd. 2. The command to create /etc/mdadm.conf will result in an extra line "spares=1" while the array is still syncing. Adding " | head -1 " to the

Apropos http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo Suggested changes (mostly nit-picky :-) ... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Change: Webmin is a web-based interface ... to: [http://www.webmin.com/index.html WebMin] is a web-based interface ... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Change: When you install

Is there something funny about rpm in Fedora 11 that causes cpio errors when trying to install src.rpm's in CentOS 5.3, or am I just getting repeated bad downloads?

Anyone else having problems with 4.2 with the boot hanging at Initializing hardware... storage network ? Booting to single user or typing 'I' for interactive startup does not help. Not a timeout problem - hangs 'forever' - days at least. Did a complete reinstall and rebooted OK, did updates and the boot started hanging again. Same problem with either the 4.2 standard

I followed the setup instructions from http://www.owlriver.com/tips/non-root/ (link from the Centos wiki). All this is done on another 'clean' system, so I have to read the terminal screen there and tell what went wrong here. I then followed my colleague's instructions to get the tar, untar, autogen, configure, and finally make rpm. Well it was that make rpm command that finally

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5 Comments and corrections please.

Flash and Java plugin instructions for 64-bit Firefox. http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/PluginsFor64BitFirefox Comments are solicited. Phil