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Upgrade install using CentOS-3.1 ISO images
by Bart Schaefer 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Cutting straight to the chase: When, if ever, does the installer offer an option to upgrade an existing installation, rather than wanting to reformat the disks? More details than you may want: I recently acquired a new PC chassis, with no operating system but with a Serial-ATA disk (which I was not expecting when I ordered it). I set the BIOS for legacy IDE mode and installed RedHat 9, then attempted to upgrade the kernel to add SATA support, without much luck. Searching for the SATA driver modules I found CentOS and decided to try it. I downloaded the three ISO images to another PC, burned CDs, and set about to upgrade my RH9. However, the installer never offered me the option of upgrading (keeping my existing filesystems) -- no matter what steps I tried using when starting the installer, by the time it got to the page for disk partitioning it always wanted to start from scratch and blow the existing partitions away. I finally concluded that I hadn't put anything important on the disks during my struggle with RH9, so I went ahead with the clean install. Everything is working nicely at this point, so thanks for that. However, there are some other RH9 systems around the office that may need to be upgraded at some point, and they definitely can't be wiped clean in the process. Is there a way to upgrade from RH9 to CentOS? Any remarks about upgrading from even older RedHat releases?

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What is the update version of CentOS-2?
by jack＠leadershipbynumbers.com 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

I'm pretty sure that I'm not asking the question correctly, but I'd like to host a database that is supported with RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.1 with Update 2 (Q2 2003), so I'm assuming CentOS-2 fills the bill. However, when I run this application, I get some weird CPU cycling that I can't trace to any specific task. So, perhaps my install is not as current as I think it is. I have run yum for both upgrade and update. Thanks, Jack Jack(a)skillstogrowon.com

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Tape drive problems
by syv 30 May '04

30 May '04

Hi, Hi, I have been googling, and can't find anything that will help me: mt -f /dev/st0 status /dev/st0: No such device or address Any suggestion? I am using CentOS 3 [RHEL ES3 without the licenses] The tape drive is recognized at boot [from dmesg] scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 <Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs blk: queue d3e53014, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) (scsi0:A:11): 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 32, 16bit) Vendor: EXABYTE Model: VXA-2 Rev: 100E Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 blk: queue d37a7e14, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) st: Version 20030406, bufsize 32768, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 11, lun 0 scsi : 0 hosts left. I also get: cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: none dir -l /proc/scsi/scsi -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 26 16:23 /proc/scsi/scsi Here is the output of lsmod: Module Size Used by Not tainted nls_iso8859-1 3516 0 (autoclean) nls_cp437 5148 0 (autoclean) vfat 13036 0 (autoclean) fat 38872 0 (autoclean) [vfat] raid1 15020 0 (unused) raid0 3976 0 (unused) linear 2088 0 (unused) loop 12120 0 ide-tape 53264 0 (autoclean) soundcore 6468 0 (autoclean) st 31716 0 (autoclean) ide-cd 35680 0 (autoclean) cdrom 33696 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd] autofs 13364 0 (autoclean) (unused) e1000 76096 1 floppy 58160 0 (autoclean) sg 36972 0 (autoclean) scsi_mod 110376 2 (autoclean) [st sg] microcode 5848 0 (autoclean) keybdev 2976 0 (unused) mousedev 5524 0 hid 22212 0 (unused) input 5920 0 [keybdev mousedev hid] ehci-hcd 20136 0 (unused) usb-uhci 26412 0 (unused) usbcore 79424 1 [hid ehci-hcd usb-uhci] ext3 88104 2 jbd 52464 2 [ext3] Here is the kernel: uname -r 2.4.21-15.EL.c0 -- Thanks centos(a)911networks.com When the network has to work

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LHA security vulnerabilities
by khaled fawzy 30 May '04

30 May '04

Dear sir; i am using redhat 9 on a production server and i plan to migrate to centos 3.1. the issue now is redhat 9 vulnerable to LHA package security vulnerabilities . and if so how can i solve this vulnerabilities till i implemment the upgrade. thanks in advance.

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CentOS-2 errata
by John Newbigin 27 May '04

27 May '04

The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded the the centos mirror RHSA-2004:174 Updated utempter package fixes vulnerability RHSA-2004:178 An updated LHA package fixes security vulnerabilities RHSA-2004:219 Updated tcpdump packages fix various vulnerabilities John. -- John Newbigin - Computer Systems Officer School of Information Technology Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.it.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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Removing older kernel packages
by Taco Scargo 27 May '04

27 May '04

Hello, I have problems removing older kernels from my Centos machines using yum. Can somebody tell me how to remove specific versions ? [root@web2 root]# rpm -qa | grep kernel-2 kernel-2.4.21-15.EL.c0 kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0 kernel-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0 Is what I have installed.... And [root@web2 root]# yum remove kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0 Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: CentOS-3.1 - Addons Server: CentOS-3.1 - Base Server: CentOS-3.1 - Extras Server: CentOS-3.1 - Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Erase: No matches for kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0 No actions to take is what I get. Thanks, Taco

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Updated utempter package fixes vulnerability
by Lance Davis 26 May '04

26 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is an update to utempter for CentOS 3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-174.html refers. Updated files are :- updates/i386/RPMS/utempter-0.5.5-1.3EL.0.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/utempter-0.5.5-1.3EL.0.arc.rpm These are available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/ and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update to the latest version 'yum update utempter' should be sufficient. Lance -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAtItGcEnkTQJeUTsRAqEhAJ43iSV6tLFprunPifl2ruDGKtOwkgCfemDS Qx9IC/AnaJLQgCxT0K0RWCg= =p2Vi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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Updated LHA package fixes security vulnerabilities
by Lance Davis 26 May '04

26 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is an update to LHA for CentOS 3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-178.html refers. Updated files are :- updates/i386/RPMS/lha-1.14i-10.2.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/lha-1.14i-10.2.src.rpm These are available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/ and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update to the latest version 'yum update lha' should be sufficient. Lance -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAtIrDcEnkTQJeUTsRAtvwAJ0X6meTPh2v8agr6X6TbmFdUC+NlACdFu/K Dz9JST2qg003nEKmSOZzWRM= =vDUt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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Updated tcpdump package fixes various vulnerabilities
by Lance Davis 26 May '04

26 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is an update to tcpdump for CentOS 3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-219.html refers. Updated files are :- updates/i386/RPMS/tcpdump-3.7.2-7.E3.2.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/libpcap-0.7.2-7.E3.2.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/tcpdump-3.7.2-7.E3.2.src.rpm These are available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/ and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update to the latest version 'yum update tcpdump libpcap' should be sufficient. Lance -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAtIpCcEnkTQJeUTsRAmxwAJ9/gtwpj9jun4f6yRQEZX2zePiOTwCeIBse mToK5gmpULQecvATCOYulps= =yvBc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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Q: No Reiserfs in Kernel
by Tech Support 24 May '04

24 May '04

Hello, I have a quick question. I am currious why reiserfs isn't compiled into the kernel? Although RHEL doesn't include the tools to manage reiserfs it includes the kernel drivers. Thanks, Bill

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