[CentOS] Inquiry:yum?

Wed Dec 23 12:54:06 UTC 2009
mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

John R. Dennison wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:31:53PM +0000, hadi motamedi wrote:
>> Please find below :
>> [root at mss-1 tmp]# rpm -q centos-release
>> centos-release-5-2.el5.centos
> 
> 	And you conveniently left out the kernel revision that would
> 	be returned by the second part of the command I gave you, namely
> 	"uname -a".
> 
> 	It sounds very much like a broken server, either a crippled
> 	OpenVZ or similar VPS or a server broken by someone that
> 	didn't know what they were doing and went to some trouble
> 	to remove the yum subsystem.  Akemi pointed you to
> 	http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BrokenVserver and it
> 	is worth your time to read it and see if you can unbreak
> 	that box.

Wonder if someone was trying to remove yum-updatesd, and got all of yum.

	mark