Author : John R

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it showed up here.dunno what to suggest.maybe install 5.11 on a VM somewhere with the same package set and architecture (on the blown system, /var/log/rpmpkgs, then copy everything in /bin ? boot the target system with a rescue OS, mount your OS r..

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i fired up a vm i havent used in ages, it was CentOS 6.1, so I ran yum update -y, and it bombed on package conflicts with matahari and qpid-something…I had no need for matahari (heck, I dont even know what it is), so I removed matahari-\* and the ..

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so Ive had a drbd replica running for a while of a 16TB raid thats used as a BackupPC repository.when I have rebooted the BackupPC server, the replica doesnt seem to auto-restart til I do it manually, and the backupc /data file system on this 16TB ..

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every so often, Im seeing these in my dmesg output, and Im not sure what they are?host[32625]: segfault at 0 ip 000000000040abb8 sp 00007ff59d36bd40 error 4 in host[400000+1b000]host[24560]: segfault at 0 ip 000000000040abb8 sp 00007f4fa1c4bd40 er..

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is rpmforge now considered friendly with EPEL?I normally only use EPEL as an addition repo, but one package I want to install on this one system is ffmpeg, and Im finding it on rpmforge only… but its install wants to mix epel and rpmforge packages…Installing:ffm..

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so, I installed a c6 system offsite today, had to do it in a hurry. box has 2 disks meant to be mirrored…I couldnt figure out how to get anaconda to build a LVM root on a mirror, so I ended up just installing a /boot and vg_system on sda and raid..

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I want to copy a few user accounts to a new system… is there a more elegant way to copy /etc/shadow passwords other than editing the file? for instance, is there some way I can give the password hash to /usr/bi..

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Im trying to create a 6.5 VM on a 6.5 system using virt-install…# virt-install —network bridge:br0 –name kfat –ram 48 –vcpus=2 –disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/kfat.img,size16 –cdrom=/home/downloads/CentOS-6.5-x86_64-minimal.isoI get thro..

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so, supposedly mailman 2.1.16+ has a feature that allows you to configure mailman lists so yahoo wont have a hissy with their new implementation of DMARC. http://www.spamresource.com/2014/04/up-in-arms-about-yahoos-dmarc-policy.htmlhas anyone packa..

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