Category Archives: Red Hat
Yum on Red Hat 5 hangs when using proxy
I had a machine that started hanging when running yum update on it. And the only way to actually stop yum then was to kill the process from another shell, pretty strange. I noticed that it was trying to look … Continue reading
jpackages error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers
Jpackages on Red Hat has a nifty bug that causes dependency errors. Luckily, somebody has created a fix as a rpm package wget http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/linux/centos/images/jpackage-utils-compat-el5-0.0.1-1.noarch.rpm rpm -ivh jpackage-utils-compat-el5-0.0.1-1.noarch.rpm And then jpackages works.
package subversion-1.6.12-0.1.el5.rf.x86_64 (which is newer than subversion-1.4.2-4.el5_3.1.i386) is already installed
Package conflict that can appear some times, a simple fix then is to downgrade first, then upgrade: yum –downgrade update subversion yum update subversion
Yum gives depsolving problems for perl-IO-Compress packages
When doing yum update/upgrade etc you can get errors about dependency problems with perl-IO-Compress. hostname(R):/root>yum update perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib Loaded plugins: downloadonly, protectbase, rhnplugin, security 13 packages excluded due to repository protections Skipping security plugin, no data Setting up Update Process … Continue reading
Installing NRPE on Red hat 5
Red Hat does not natively support NRPE/Nagios with the default package manager. Luckily, DAG can save the day Simply add the mirror spesified in the link above to your server and you get the ability to add the NRPE or other Nagios … Continue reading