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Yum update not working on CentOS 6.2 minimal install
Note: This is my first question on the stack exchange network so please give mercy and provide guidance where needed.
I have installed a CentOS 6.2 KVM guest and I am having problem getting yum to ...
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MySQL 5.1 vs MySQL 5.5 (5.1 twice as fast)
I recently installed MySQL 5.1 on CentOS 6.2 and had a performance gain over the MySQL 4.1 we are running. So I upgrade the MySQL 5.1 to MySQL 5.5 to see if there was even more of a gain but it ...
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CentOS install proftpd with yum
Server: CentOS 6.2 64bit
How can I install Proftpd using yum? A search for the package doesn't find it:
yum list proftpd
Error: No matching Packages to list
Although my CentOS 6 VPS does find it, ...
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In CentOS 6.x, how can I upgrade to Kernel 3.4?
I have a server with CentOS 6.2 with kernel version 2.6.32, but I need to increase my application Performance.
The Kernel Version 3.4 has x32abi which can improve the performance so i want to upgrade ...
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yum update entire release but limit to a prior version
We need to update yum update but we want to stay one release back. For example, we have CentOS 6.2 and want to move to 6.3. By default, it looks like yum update will install 6.4.
On RedHat, this ...
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sSMTP Unable to send message using external mail server SMTP
I'm trying to finish up my Nagios install by having it email me. It was emailing me using /bin/mail so it always got sent to my spam folders.
I installed sSMTP to try to send a request to my work's ...
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How to Enable Full-Rights File-Browsing on /?
Now, I know there are lots of samba questions (about 1400) on ServerFault, and I have browsed through about half of them at least, and not been able to use any of the answers to solve my problem.
We ...
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CentOS Client - Unable to Establish iSCSI connection with multiple interfaces on the initiator
So after upgrading to CentOS 6.2, I am seemingly no longer able to login into my iSCSI targets. I have multiple interfaces on different subnets on the system, and I first thought that it had to do ...
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Can't Login to phpPgAdmin
I'm trying to set up phpPgAdmin on my test machine so that I can interface with PostgreSQL without always having to use the psql CLI. I have PostgreSQL 9.1 installed via the RPM repository, while I ...
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Running SSHD on multiple ports on CentOS release 6.2 (Final)
I am running CentOS release 6.2 (Final).
I want the sshd port of listen on ports 22 and 1022.
I have add the following lines to /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
Port 22
Port 1022
and restarted sshd and ...
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Where to get network-files for centos?
I made a big mistake. Instead of typing :
rm -rf /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
I typed:
rm -rf /etc/syconfig/network-scripts
Can anybody help me to repair this mistake?
Thanks in ...
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centos 6.2 gives read permission denied when root has set read permissions to all users
Installing Dropbox on Centos 6.2 owned by root.
Demonstrating that the dropbox folder is owned by root with read permissions to all
"root" user gives read permissions to all users
[root@localhost ...
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Installing chrome in Centos 6.2 (Final)
I need to install chrome in a dedicated centos server where I only access via ssh, it doesn't have X or any windows graphical stuff.
I need it to be able to pack extensions using google-chrome ...
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puppet-dashboard: Could not retrieve facts from inventory service
I am trying to configure puppet-dashboard, and I'm running into an issue with Inventory/facts:
Could not retrieve facts from inventory service: 403 "Forbidden request: ...
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Turn off email notification from abrt (Automatic Bug Reporting Tool)
I'm configuring CentOS 6.2 and have seen a few "[abrt] full crash report" emails. I understand that abrt is useful for creating crash dumps and what not, so I don't want to disable the service, I ...
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named stopped logging to rsyslog after logs rotate
CentOS 6.2, bind 9.7.3, rsyslog 4.6.2
I recently set up a server, and I noticed that named had stopped logging to /var/log/messages after the logs had rotated. I thought that was odd, since all ...
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Starting a service only after another one is completely started (on CentOS)
I have installed on my CentOS server postgresql service and another one called netnfork. The 'netnfork' service starts only after postgresql starts.
netnfork init script:
#!/bin/sh
#
# netnfork init
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Using autofs to mount under each users' home directory
I have a CentOS 6.2 box up and running and have configured autofs to automount Windows shares under a /mydomain folder, using various howtos on the internet. Specifically, I have three files:
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CentOS 6.2 cron.daily
I created a new file "dbbackup" in /etc/cron.daily that contains a simple database backup script.
#!/bin/sh
mysqldump -h localhost -u user -p'passord' database_name > ...
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Top being high but not much processors are running on high cpu usage?
I have a machine running a very small java listener and no body is using this machine but load is like staying between 0.9 to 0.6 for nearly sometime? IS it any indication here? What could be causing ...
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dhclient requests filling memory?
Dammit Jim, I'm a web developer, not a sys admin.
With that out of the way, my client's has a CentOS server (6.2) that is only serving a single Magento site (and the associated MySQL server) and it ...
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Can't find ckpasswd for inn2
I'm attempting to set up an intranet news server, inn2, and I'm stuck at setting up user authentication.
My readers.conf file looks like this:
auth all {
auth: "ckpasswd -d <pathdb in ...
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Possible to host CentOS netinstall files on a local HTTP/FTP?
I'm running XenServer on an Dell R610 and am running into a catch-22. During install from DVD, CentOS can't find the DVD package catalogue. It's a reported error for some, XenServer + CentOS6 + DVD ...
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CentOS default ssl.conf file
Does anybody have a default ssl.conf file for the latest version of CentOS?
I am trying to understand if I can use the auto-generated SSL certificate, but I accidentally overwrote it with another ...
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can not connect mysql with php script
I am new install centos6.2.
in ssh part, I could access mysql with:
>mysql -u root -p
>se659;m
then I could see
mysql>
and I could use any mysql command like: show databases;, show ...
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Service modules_dep on CentOS 6.3
I'm trying to determine the minimum services for correct server operation and I am getting annoyed by the modules_dep daemon.
What is this service used for?
Thank you in advance
EDIT: ps ax output
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Create a 2GB ram disk results in error
I'm trying to crete a ramdisk of 2gb in centOS 6.2 and the error I get is the following. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[root@ssb1 ~]# mkfs -q /dev/ram0 2147483648
mkfs.ext2: Filesystem ...
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Why can't I run virtualenv without root?
I'm trying to run virtual env and all the documentation says I don't need to run it as root (and probably shouldn't). If I run it as root, everything works. If I run it without root, I get:
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CentOS 6.2 Installation issue: insufficient memory to config kdump
I have a problem running CentOS after fresh installation of v6.2.
It showed me "insufficient memory to config kdump" error (I have < 4Gb RAM) and then screen became black with some "noise" in it, ...
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Centos 6.2 Fresh 'Basic Server' install networking issues
I've had a /29 provisioned on a network port for a server and am trying to at least configure the machine so I can ssh into it. It's Centos 6.2 x64 with the Basic Server install. Currently not able to ...
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Setting a static route in CentOS
Here is my route -n output:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.122.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 ...
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Centos 6.3 vsftp unable to upload file to apache webserver
I am new to Centos, I did work with Sun Solaris and upload files to Apache web server before.
I create an end user account and manage to ftp using command prompt to the server, error message is '226 ...
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Internal Server Error phpMyAdmin with suPHP
I recently installed phpMyAdmin on our dedicated server. It was working fine until we had disk space full and had to move /home to new partition. Now we are getting following error while visiting ...
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installing kvm on centos 6.2 getting error: virsh sysinfo error: failed to get sysinfo
# virsh sysinfo
error: failed to get sysinfo
error: unsupported configuration: Host SMBIOS information is not available
# virsh -c qemu:///system sysinfo
error: failed to get sysinfo
error: ...
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OpenLDAP on CentOS 6.2 (@ localhost)
I'm trying to configure openldap on CentOS 6.2, I'm just testing openldap on my server at home, so I don't have any DNS server and stuff like that.
I already installed openldap using the following ...
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NFS mounted userdir in httpd on CentOS
I am using httpd server on CentOS (with SELinux enabled).
I want to use UserDir (public_html)
If I create the user on local system it works but when I give the path on NFS shared system it gives 404 ...
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SAMBA CUPS Samsung ML-191x two printers exact model both wont distinguish which is connected on which port
I have installed a version of Cent0S 6.02 with SAMBA and CUPS 1.4.8 installed, I have two Samsung ML-191x that I need to install in the server so anyone can access the, both printer, if installed ...
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Preferred way to add a new name server to a host in Red Hat or CentOS
I am managing a particular host machine, and I would like to locally add a new name server for it to query (i.e. not changing its name server settings via the dhcp server). It seems that there are ...
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CentOS fresh iLO install, no internet connectivity (yum, wget etc. fail)
I've installed a fresh copy of the latest CentOS via iLO (HP's integrated lights out 2). The setup type was Web Server. My server doesn't seem to be able to connect to the Internet anymore. I've lost ...
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Which Package has net_tstamp.h?
I attempted to compile the source code here: http://os1a.cs.columbia.edu/lxr/source/Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c?a=x86;v=2.6.32
However, I got a compiler error: error: ...
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How is it determined which name server will be used for a particular interface?
According to the documentation for interface configuration files in RHEL 6, an interface can specify which name server it would like to use by including the directive DNS{1,2}=address . The ...
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Is it safe to delete log files?
I found out that few files seem to pile up in size using this command:
find / -size +50M
Most of them are log files, so I would like to know if it's safe to delete the log files. the log files in ...
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How do I configure CentOS 6.2 to run headless?
I've installed CentOS 6.2, encrypting my swap partition and my /home. I'm trying to configure my server to run headless; I'd like it boot and push all of its boot spew to whoever is connected to it ...
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How to Detect Hard Disk Failure
I have a software RAID 1 setup in my CentOS 6.2 and set to be bootable in any of the HDDs in case one of them fails.
Questions:
How can I recognize if one of the HDDs fail? or early signs of ...
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Apache user_dir module failed
I'm trying to setup user_dir module in my DEVSERVER but gets a 404 Not found error any time I try to reach any URL like for example:
http://devserver/~reynierpm/
My userdir.conf file is as follow:
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PHP 5.2 installation with GD on CentOS 6
I am trying to install PHP 5.2.17 on CentOS 6.2. I have downloaded RPMs from http://www6.atomicorp.com/channels/atomic/centos/6/i386/RPMs/
Problem is that the PHP RPM seems to have GD disabled by ...
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How to get HDD parameters from SCSI controller
The SCSI controller we are using is IBM RAID M1015 and a SATA 3 HDD is attached to it. Now the question, is there any way to get the HDD specific parameters like HDD Model number/Manufacturer, Storage ...
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Setting up LDAP connection between CentOS and Windows server 2008
I am running a virtual setup with vSphere, with two virtual machines, one running CentOS 6 and the other running Windows server 2008
The idea is to use LDAP to connect from the CentOS (as a client) ...
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CentOS w/ IPMI not responding to input?
I just installed CentOS Release 6.2 (Final) on one of our machines, however after rebooting post install, the system seems unresponsive to any input. It is sitting at "testsrv login:" but nothing ...
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Need help for installing coova-chilli on CentOS
I managed to install coova-chilli with freeradius and postgresql via apt-get and chilli's deb package in Ubuntu. And it works.
For a couple of days, I'm struggling to install the same in CentOS 6.2.
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