CentOS 5 :: Get The System Booted To A Bare Minimum Required To Install Chef (Server Management Software)?
Aug 20, 2010
I am in the process of creating a kickstart configuration file for some RedHat 5.5 and Centos 5.5 servers (Production and test respectively).I have googled about a bit but I cannot find a good list of the bare minimum packages required for a command-line system.If anyone knows how I can trim this list down anymore it would be much appreciated. The aim of this kickstart.cfg is to get the system booted to a bare minimum required to install Chef (Server management software). Chef will then setup Apache, Ruby on rails environment etc.
All this server will need to do is, from a static IP, Host a Ruby on rails app, send emails, send data to a server on the web, accept ssh and occasionally and connect to a SMB/CIFS share This list was taken from the anaconda-ks.cfg file after a RedHat install of what I thought was a pretty minimal system onto a VM but I noticed that cups, the avahi daemonsand gam_server are installed and running which I do not believe are needed for a pure web server.I know that these types of questions are hard to answer without a complete knowledge of the operating environment and what "minimum" is in this case ("@core only? but I wanted yum damnit!")
@admin-tools
@base
@core
[code]....
View 1 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
May 3, 2011
I've been trying to install a minimal Ubuntu using mini.iso and have a couple of questions to you, wise heads gives me gnome without all "unnecessary" applications, but it also gives me things like evolution and a couple of others which I don't need/want. Is there a way to install the bare minimum of gnome, but without any of these applications?
View 8 Replies
View Related
May 5, 2011
Right now i have a HP DL 180 Server with 130 Gb Hard Disk & 8 Gb ram after Raiding0+1. i want to configure Domain Controller Server for my office for 200 to 300 Users. what should the partition size must be mentioned in my 130 Gb Hard Disk, is that going to be Sufficient for ME ?
i am bit confused about /Usr /Var /Boot partitions, as i need to manage perfectly in 130 GB
if i go with 4 Gb swap and remaining for " / " is that will be fine ? should i need to specify partition sizes separately for / tmp /var / usr ..
View 3 Replies
View Related
May 14, 2010
What are the minimum packages required to install kde or gnome?For kde is it ok?
1.kdebase-runtime
2.kdebase-workspace
3.kdelibs
View 1 Replies
View Related
Nov 10, 2010
I am looking to compile a kernel for my system which is a home built machine. This machine is stable and has not had any hardware changes in the past 2 years. I am trying to figure out exactly what modules and options to include in my custom kernel. Is there a way to see what modules are actually in use on my system and build a custom kernel based on that?
View 5 Replies
View Related
Jul 10, 2011
That's the title of article at[URL]Did ubuntu do all this already or is it that ubuntu isn't secure out of the box that it is assumed to be?explain if these steps are applicable to ubuntu and why/why not.
View 5 Replies
View Related
Jan 21, 2011
I have a very powerful I7 Intel processor. On this computer I want to simply run an instance of Apache Tomcat (dedicated server) running a java application with a bunch of things like mail server, servlet container, jasper, etc. Some versions of linux have too many features that I do not need. I do not want the clutter of features I will never use. What is the bare bone version of linux distrib? would that be debian?
These two distributions seem to be popular elsewhere on the internet:
CentOS 5 (64-bit)
Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron (64 bit)
View 2 Replies
View Related
Aug 26, 2010
Many software available for patch managment like OCSinventry, cfengine,puppet,redhat satellite server for linux. I want to perform patch management for my Linux server (centOS, debian) My question is how to find out which patches available for Linux and which patches i need to apply. Is there any way to find out require patches?
View 6 Replies
View Related
Jan 6, 2011
I want to access suse pc from redhat remotely.
i need a remote access tool so that i could access my branch Suse operating system pc through Internet. i am getting teamviewer for linux, it is installed properly but not executing.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Apr 22, 2011
When do you know when to re-boot your server? I have Centos 5.6 As my remote web server running Direct Admin. I have also Centos 5.6 as a local back up server. With a KDE user interface so i can learn the graphical and command line. How ever when i query Yum for updates locally, i can see a nice extra icon next to the updates in KDE saying will require a reboot. But on my remote web server, how would i know if a Reboot would be required?
View 12 Replies
View Related
Apr 4, 2009
Thought I would write it down first. Some other packages are still upgrade in progress
libselinux-utils
libsemanage-devel
libgcj-devel
these three has to be installed before some other packages can be updated. I think dependency check did not find them out, somehow.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jul 24, 2010
I am looking for the following missing packages for CentOS 5.5 (64 bit OS) which are required to install Oracle 11g and Oracle 12.1.1 EBS:
When I run yum install for these packages, the yum command cannot find these versions for CentOS 5.5.
openmotif21-2.1.30-11.EL5.i3861
xorg-x11-libs-compat-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.1.i386
binutils-2.17.50.0.6-9.0.1.x86_642
* gcc-4.1.2-14.el5.x86_64
[Code].....
where I can download these for CentOS 5.5? Would I use the same rpms for Red Hat Linux or Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5?
View 1 Replies
View Related
May 28, 2009
I am trying to figure out how to get an almost bare metal virtualization running, and having a hard time getting it going I tryied the Virtual Machine manager, but it wont let me do full virtualization.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Oct 28, 2010
Booted up system and it stated please insert system disk press any key.So it sounds like my startup got corrupted? I running centos 4.5 on it (old yes) Is there a repair I can perform by a disk? Would it matter if I chose i386 or x86? I cant remeber which version was installed on it.
View 8 Replies
View Related
Mar 3, 2011
i am running openSUSE on virtual box bt when i try to install applications i got
system management locked by the application with pid 5084
i have try to kill the process with kill and process id command but when i try to install appn again i got the same prob,
View 7 Replies
View Related
Nov 10, 2009
following situation and configuring authentication for Windows users on my CentOS clients please:IHAC WIN2003 R2 Domaincontroller with ALL my users and groups maintained there. For Usermapping (SID to UID/GID) I want to use IMU which is included with WIN2003 R2 srv and extends my Active Directory schema for UID, GID, NIS Domain etc. I want now authenticate my Windows users on my CentOS clients via their "domainnameusername" and passwords on the CentOS clients.
I also have a NAS server which has usermapping integrated and resolves the Windows SID's to the UID/GID's configured within the IMU schema extensions. Now I have no idea to setup my CentOS clients to use winbind, PAM and LDAP (IMU supports LDAP queries for UID/GID resolving) WITHOUT needing any Samaba Server or functionality.
* Do I need to configure the smb.conf file because my usermapping is done on the NAS Server and I want to resolve my Windows Users/Groups UID/GID's from IMU via LDAP?
* Do I (just) need to Join the AD (2003 native) or even using Kerberos with generating ktpass.exe keytab files (what is needed/recommended and what is the difference?) Can I authenticate the users without using Kerberos?
For e.g. my username is "domainuser_a" and within the IMU the UID is set to "12345", I don't want Samba/winbind to do usermapping again based on the configured values in the smb.conf file. Some hints would be really nice for me to understand how exactly it works and what is needed...
View 1 Replies
View Related
Feb 27, 2011
My system decided to crash on me, hard. It was humming along happily for about 2 months and now doesn't boot. If I boot from hard-disk, I get grub. Launching the first kernel choice hangs. I thought maybe the install was corrupt, so I booted from usb install disk. The usb hdd didn't boot; something about an error trying to access /dev/sda . Unplugging the internal disk and plugging in the usb install disk does result in the system booting. Plugging in the internal disk in a running system usb-booted system does not result in the system detecting the disk.
How do I know if the disk is physically broken? This seems unlikely since it does manage to launch grub consistently. Or is this still possible? How can I try to mount whatever is left? The usb install disk doesn't even list the /dev/sd*. Any pointers on how to reformat the drive if it's not being mounted?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Dec 5, 2009
I have a server with centos 5, with two hd, i did a fresh installation with cenTOS using the 2 hard disk, now we need enlarge with other hard disk more, can some one explain how to enlarge the space of disk without re-install the operative system?.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jul 6, 2011
which of the following has minimum system requirement LXDE , KDE or GNOME or any other.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Oct 8, 2010
Where/how do I set the retention on system logs to a minimum of 180 days? Further, where do you set password failure enforcement policies?
View 1 Replies
View Related
May 30, 2011
I have a government website hosted in third party hosting. but now they want to setup their own Ubuntu server. Now my Question is -
1. What hardware do I need? like -
A) SERVER
B) KVM Switch etc etc.. really i don't know how many hardware need to setup a server. Please provide me a list.
2. Does the standard Ubuntu Server installation DVD contains all the required software for Linux web hosting ?
The hardware part is very important. What's more hardware need to set up a server.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jul 16, 2010
I have a server with an old version of Fedora on it, Fedora 7, I know its old and that I should have upgraded it. But I haven't I plan on doing it now but I ran into a hardware failure and had to switch to a different set of hardware. I tried going into rescue mode using the fedora 7 install disc, but st0 for tape drives was not available. So I tried using the newest fedora distro, Fedora 13, installation disc and st0 is still not available on there. How to do a restore from tape?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jan 25, 2010
I have installed Ubuntu Server x64 in a VM (VMWare workstation) but have limited knowledge. Does anyone have steps on installing and configuring NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol) on an Ubuntu server? I would like to set this VM up like a NAS box so I can do some NDMP backup testing.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Apr 18, 2011
Trying to make sense of this Linux stuff, by trying to install Fedora 14. First impressions are it?s a parallel universe populated by those who hark back to the era of Windows 3.1 / DOS, and earlier, where command line instructions and messing around with .ini files was all the rage. Which might all be a great little hobby to go back to, being more 'at one, and intimate' with my machine and learning a new skill to take some pride in, but all it means so far is my patience is being really tested by needing to learn it all from scratch!
The installation guides seem to suggest that if your graphics card is not good enough then the installation will default to the text based one. Which is what happened in my case. I can get to the login prompt after the installation, but that's the point where it gets really frustrating in having my machine think it?s a mid 1980s Commodore 64 or something!! Never mind PEEK and POKE, I just want to THUMP or KICK it.
I read somewhere I should start X Start to start the GUI. Nope, x start or xstart doesn't do anything. I then read that only works if I had installed X Windows. Can't find where or how I install X Windows though! I then read, as I say, things default to purely text if your graphics card is not good enough, but then I can't find anything about what the minimum spec is. Seems odd that a card that can cope with Windows can't work with a system as basic as linux/fedora with its frustrating command line-intensive way of working.
- what the minimum graphics card spec is to enable GUI?
- how to install this X Windows thing?
View 14 Replies
View Related
Sep 13, 2010
I have a couple of servers which runs CentOS 5.5 and CentOS 5.4. We have decided to buy a UPS and we choose Eaton EX RT 11 plus eaton network management card minislot. I have read on the site of Eaton that they have two applications which could gracefully shutdown my servers - LanSafe and NetWatch. My experience with UPS and those applications is zero so I`m here for some advises? Do you prefer NetWatch over LanSafe?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Dec 9, 2010
This is what I have given as bootargs... Kernel is working fine with filesystem if booted from pendrive /dev/sda1..But as I want to make that work from NAND, where already uboot and uImage are located...I used nand_erase and ubiformat to write ubi image on NAND.But after applying this, on uboot
setenv console 'console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=nand_mtd:0x100000@0x000000(uboot),0x400000@0x100000(uImage),0x1fb00000@0x500000(rootfs)'
[code]....
View 3 Replies
View Related
Dec 1, 2008
I recently started experimenting with Ubuntu 8.10 and I've spent the last week mostly getting the HDD partitions and desktop to my liking so I have not installed many actual programs yet. As of this last Saturday ( 11-29-2008 ) my Keyboard (PS/2 connection) worked fine whether booted into Ubuntu or XP and worked in grub as well. I discovered on Sunday the 30th that when booted into XP my keyboard no longer worked(but my USB mouse works). The keyboard still works fine in Grub and in Ubuntu but no amount of keypressing works when booted into XP. My device manager indicates the driver has been corrupted or something (Code 39 error) and indicates the driver files are i8042prt.sys and kbdclass.sys.
Here's a list of the things I've tried so far:Tried swapping in a USB keyboard; I've tried updating the drivers in Device Manager; Tried uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers in Device Manager; I tried the "uninstall driver, shutdown, unplug keyboard, reboot, shutdown, plug keyboard back in and reboot" routine; deleting those two files and letting them be rebuilt at boot; using the recovery console to copy them from the XP install CD to the System32/Drivers folder and as a last resort I tried a repair install only to find when asked to enter the CoA code the keyboard still did not work.
I obviously borked something on the Ubuntu side that's causing a conflicting with those drivers on the XP side but I'm at a loss as to what that might be. The only thing I can remember installing since the last time the keyboard worked was maybe Wine, but for sure I did a test install of my Baldur's Gate+ToSC disc and I attempted to install Daemon Tools Lite too. I've since uninstalled those two programs and even Wine itself without results. The only other thing I can think of is that I've been messing around with the /fstab file a lot trying to get all my drives/partitions to mount up at boot like I want but I don't know how that would impact the keyboard drivers.
View 5 Replies
View Related
Apr 29, 2010
In short we are booting Centos 5.4 over PXE to a bunch of diskless clients. Once they are booted - we can login (as local root account) and RDP to windows machines using rdesktop as we require.
The next step of the project is to get user authentication to the Windows Domain controller working for the PXE image.
To do so - we continued with our physical install of Centos 5.4 (used to create the pxe image with rsync as per the wiki page for diskless clients) by following through this page. AD auth works perfect on this box (it has a local HDD install of centos obviously).
Once we rsync'd the changes over to the pxeboot location - and rebooted one of the diskless pxe clients - we get issues.
The issue is that winbind seems to start - however the file "/etc/samba/secrets.tdb" cant be read. We tried removing this file that the PXE clients use and recreating it using
touch /etc/samba/secrets.tdb
View 3 Replies
View Related
Sep 19, 2010
is it possible to install with just the very min of things, no GUI, etc so I can use it as a compact OS for an old Pentium2 system with a 10 GB hard drive? Should I have downloaded the server edition ISO for this? Is it possible to remove everything down to the bare min without the graphical junk from a Desktop CD disk install? Maybe I should use [URL]
View 2 Replies
View Related
Aug 11, 2010
trying to add things - drivers,etc. to make it look/act as it should found out later that it's due to quirkiness of running two systems in tandem (occas)...anyways i'm going to boot a fresh copy of xP pro again tomorrow..any wisdom to be lent b4 i do...uBuntu 10.4 rocks,..so I will be a permanent user/supp of this oS. Thx for having a forum such as this as I am green as can be to this stuff
View 3 Replies
View Related
