On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Dan Roberts dan@jlazyh.com wrote:
thanks for the details - As the server lives in a closet without a monitor on it or even easy access I opted for Webmin so as to have the ability to get in and work with it.
There are other ways you can get into a headless server or a server that is remote to your location. SSH for example.
I will resubscribe and get back into a better habit - I had been checking every day a year ago, and then life got busy.
If you subscribe to this mailing list and read the messages, you will learn a lot. I have.
As someone pointed out, there was an issue with glibc. From the CentOS 5.3 Release Notes: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.3
4. Known Issues
* When updating from 5.2 to 5.3 you can run into a problem with rpm: "rpmdb: unable to lock mutex: Invalid argument". To avoid this please update glibc before updating the rest of the installation:
yum clean all && yum update glibc* && yum update
After you solve the issue(s) you have with the server at this moment, I suggest that you do some reading on the CentOS Wiki, about how to begin securing your server. http://wiki.centos.org/