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Problem # telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1… Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. user $USERNAME +OK pass $PASSWORD +BYE internal login failure. error report written to server log. Solution In /etc/d...

(7 August 2012) Problem Running a yum operation on CentOS 4, I get the error: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - 4 is not a valid release or hasnt been released yet Solution CentOS 4 is now EOL and has to be retrieved from the vault: Open ...

Problem You has some variety of the Adaptec 2010s RAID SCSI controller installed. Solution CentOS 4.7 (and earlier 4.x) includes a driver for it, but the autodetection routines don’t work. You have to do this at the install CD boot prompt: Boot: linux text nop...

Installing ntfs support for CentOS RedHat and CentOS do not include ntfs, possibly for legal reasons. Update (thank you Dr Tru Huynh): A RPMforge-friendly method detailed here; this is probably safer in the long term as it means it is more likely that you'll g...

Letting rdate work from other machines # chkconfig time-stream on Add a rule to /etc/sysconfig/iptables , probably just after the ssh rule (port 22): -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 37 -j ACCEPT

Problem (Asked on SuperUser.com) I have a CentOS 4.x server running software raid. The server has two scsi disks in hot-swap trays. mdadm reports that the raid has failed, and so I would like to replace it. I examine /proc/mdstat, which tells me my two raid de...

Problem I have a user who wants PHP 5 on our server. Solution This is a horrible problem. Advice on the mailing group is to rebuild apache and php from scratch and run that. Personally I'd prefer shooting the user, but since that generally frowned upon I got t...

(2014-01-16) Problem I want to run Subversion v1.85, client and server, on CentOS 5 (today's victim server is 5.10). Solution You can't do that. Well you can, but it is ugly. You have several problems: Subversion wants a newer version of sqlite than is shippe...

Mounting nfs file systems in the %POST section of a CentOS 5 kickstart mount 172.20.0.1:/home /mnt/temp -o nolock,udp The nolock option seems to be a new requirement.