CentOS - Spheron1

June 2, 2010

Netcat saves the day!

During a botched upgrade taking an old CentOS box form 5.2 to 5.5, I ended up with a system in such a state that /lib/libselinux.so.1 and /lib64/libselinux.so.1 no longer existed. This is a major problem as it basically stops pretty much every program from working, you can’t even use cp or ls any more! With yum and RPM unusable, SFTP/SCP/SSH...

Red Hat and CentOS Comment: 1

May 22, 2010

Cancelled yum transactions

If you’ve ever aborted a yum update for any reason, you’ve probably come across messages warning of transaction errors, such as the following example during an update from CentOS 5.4 to CentOS 5.5 that got cancelled part way through: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/include/libdevmapper.h from install of device-mapper-1.02.39-1.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package device-mapper-1.02.32-1.el5.x86_64 file /usr/share/man/man8/dmsetup.8.gz from install of device-mapper-1.02.39-1.el5.i386...

Red Hat and CentOS Comment: 1

March 25, 2010

Weirdest Linux command ever

This morning I had to run possibly the most bizzare Linux command ever whilst stripping down a CentOS server: yum remove troursers That really brightened up my day and made me smile. 🙂

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Tag: CentOS

Netcat saves the day!

Cancelled yum transactions

Weirdest Linux command ever