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Antec NeoPower PSU's are awesome! Highly recommend them. Backups are always great, I have to 1TB servers at home one is for backing up the other, both are raid 5 with hotspares and have there own apc. Redundant Redundant Redundant

Hello and welcome to the community.

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vmware player !!!! make a RH session and keep the copy then you can play to your hearts content and if anything gets trashed restore it ... you only need full vmware for a limited time to make the virtual session ... and its HW independent because it uses the vmware drivers. Big plus is you can continue using Mandriva and work on RH at the same time! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, you should most certianly be working on a rh box if you want to pass the test, its not an easy one. Several Linux SA's I work with failed the first time, not trying to bring you down :) but you really need to study and work on the platform your going for a test, there is enough difference that if your taking a rhel4 test you wouldn't want to use rhel3 either. On the flip side, I don't think some of these SA's actually no much, but thats just my opinion. The odds have been 60% +/- fail the second time :unsure: That doesn't mean you can't pass the first, but I wouldn't go in blind, or use another distro to work from. (other than centos 4.x)

Yep, just follow that and you'll have yum.

http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/ centos-release-4-2.1.i386.rpm centos-yumconf-4-4.3.noarch.rpm python-elementtree-1.2.6-4.i386.rpm python-sqlite-1.1.6-1.i386.rpm python-urlgrabber-2.9.6-2.noarch.rpm sqlite-3.2.2-1.i386.rpm yum2.4.0-1.centos4.noarch.rpm RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4 or there updated onese by now. cp /etc/redhat-release ~ rpm -e --nodeps redhat-release rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4 rpm -Uvh *.rpm yum update Now you have a RHEL 4.x clone with yum

There is yum, like a suggested in another topic, I would move it to CentOS 4.x which is a 1:1 rebuild of rhel4. You can even upgrade over the top of what you have so no re-install is required.

Are you using a paid for RHEL box? You can answer that honestly too, you can d/l rhel for free so no worries.

Nice :)

You know I like the aqua look, thats awesome, can't wait to d/l it. B)

What file system are you using? Are the hd's that you dd'd the same size? If there not, your moving block for block and that will hose it up or atelast not be a good method. dd is best for same drive situations. You could blow them out again format and use rsync and see if that helps.

example cat /etc/sysconfig/selinux # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. # permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing. # disabled - SELinux is fully disabled. #SELINUX=enforcing [b]SELINUX=permissive[/b] # SELINUXTYPE= type of policy in use. Possible values are: # targeted - Only targeted network daemons are protected. # strict - Full SELinux protection. SELINUXTYPE=targeted # SETLOCALDEFS= Check local definition changes SETLOCALDEFS=0 As you can see, i edited by hand and changed it to permissive. If I open the fancy python-gui system-config-securitylevel It shows permissive, so the extra line and comment affected nothing.

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/usr/bin/package-cleanup --leaves part of yum-utils /usr/bin/package-cleanup usage: package-cleanup [options] options: -h, --help show this help message and exit --problems List dependency problems in the local RPM database --leaves List leaf nodes in the local RPM database --all When listing leaf nodes also list leaf nodes that are not libraries --orphans List installed packages which are not available from currenly configured repositories. -q, --quiet Print out nothing unecessary -y Agree to anything asked --oldkernels Remove old kernel and kernel-devel packages --count=KERNELCOUNT Number of kernel packages to keep on the system (default 2) --keepdevel Do not remove kernel-devel packages when removing kernels Please specify either --problems, --leaves, --orphans or --oldkernels edit: added options

Well some things are choice related and others are IMHO anti-choice related. Its great to have choice between distro's but some distro's seem only concerned in themselves not in GNU linux/open source overall. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well since you haven't used rh in a long time, I'll just tell you there tools are a lot different than mdk/suse. There just small python based tools that are pretty much sed/awk'n files, you don't have to use them, and if you do you don't hose up anything. All the rh admins I know use cli because we don't even install a gui ;) Mdk/Suse might be a different story :)

My vote goes for: http://lwn.net/ http://www.newsforge.com/ http://rootprompt.org/ http://unixpower.org/ http://tuxmobil.org/ http://www.tuxmagazine.com/ http://www.linux-magazine.com/ http://www.redhat.com/

I'd do RH my self and when I get time, I will ;) Grab a book on rhce 4 and d/l CentOS 4.x and start playing(learning)

I hit senior, i'm some were between senior and subgenius......

Yep, I've used every package manager know to linux/solaris/bsd and for "ME" I like yum a lot. :)

np, The downside to yumex is it has to cache every time you open/close/install so it can be very slow.

They tweaked yum some more, rawhide/fc5 is much faster too, So when fc5 comes out it will be that much faster to drive.

up2dates going away in fedora so yeah, i'd stop using it :) you can also install yumex a gui

yum http://fedora.ivazquez.net/content/view/26/30/ smart is also in dag's repository http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/