On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Always Learning <centos at u61.u22.net> wrote: > > Les, > > There are no /home directories on our servers. I thought you were trying to give general advice - or that what you posted might be taken that way. > Data we create which is NOT essential for the operating system to > function is usually not in an operating system directory. That's interesting, but not a necessary condition for anything. > > 'yum update' still works successfully. But, can you still 'yum install' any/all of the large number of packaged web applications from the base and 3rd party repos that will drop additional files into conf.d and expect a certain base setup? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com