Hi all
Having a weird issue with CentOS 6. I lost a lot of stuff in /bin/ (cp,rpm,cat and others) on one host, but that was a development machine and I'm not really sure what happened there.
But now I ran into a similar problem (missing at least /bin/vi and /bin/cp) on a host where I'm a lot more certain of all that has been done on the machine.
This is what happened, it's a _complete_ list of what I have done on the host:
- installed centos 6 from dvd .iso, into esxi 4.1 vm - selected "web server" as base packages in install - configured network interface - configured some variables in /etc/profile.d (with vi - note this later) - installed mysqld and some php packages - created a backup script in /etc/cron.daily (just does mysqldump and /var/www gzip'ing) - removed postgresql - put some data in mysql db + apache documentroot - ran yum update - tried to configure an apache virtualhost - noticed that vi is missing - noticed that /bin/cp is missing as well - coreutils & vim-minimal are installed according to rpm
Yum.log shows that during the yum update vim-minimal was updated, coreutils not, no package removals visible. Can't see anything in dmesg, root's history, /var/log/secure, /var/log/messages that would explain this. No one else has access.
I am certain I have not accidentally removed the files.. Anyone seen anything similar? I'm a bit hesitant to say it's a bug or claim that yum update is to blame, because then I'd think a lot of folks were bitten by similar problems.
regards Mikko Koivunen