OT: Centos 6 question

Mauricio Tavares raubvogel at gmail.com
Thu Dec 22 19:35:09 GMT 2011


See if

yum grouplist | less

gives you any ideas. then you can do, say,

yum groupinfo 'Development Tools'
yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
yum groupremove 'Development Tools'

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com> wrote:
> I'm installing 6.2 now. One thing I noticed is that I did not see the little
> "network configuration" box on the install the first time. Once I get this
> installed, I check iptables.
>
> I'm using the "workstation" type install this time. Looking for something
> that gives me the least post-install headaches. Once this is all done, and
> I've got the grouplists installed, I'll see where I'm at.
>
> The types of installation isn't very informative, for instance, does the
> "workstation" install any server type apps, etc. This really belongs on the
> Centos list up to this point, but since the basic server will end up with
> MySQL, a mail server, HTTPD, PHP, and Perl, I was originally asking which
> "type" of installation would get me closest to that configuration.
>
> Thanks all,
>
> steve
>
>
> On 12/22/2011 12:57 PM, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>>
>> You probably checked that, but the vm's NIC is in bridge mode, right?
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Jeremy McSpadden<jeremy at fluxlabs.net>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Stop iptables and make sure you can telnet in. then work from there. yes
>>> the
>>> network configuration is different.
>>>
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>>> On Dec 22, 2011, at 11:10 AM, Steve Campbell wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/22/2011 11:53 AM, Jeremy McSpadden wrote:
>>>
>>> The host setup shouldn't matter. Are you able to telnet into the xen vm
>>> on
>>> port 25? have you disabled iptables or allowed port 25 through ? Verify
>>> you
>>> have connectivity from the outside first, then start working back on your
>>> config files.
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>>> On Dec 22, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Steve Campbell wrote:
>>>
>>> I've tried installing Centos 6.1 on a 5.7 xen host. I'm having a little
>>> trouble getting sendmail to work, and I'm not sure why. Could be the way
>>> the
>>> network NIC is configured, the fact that I'm running 6.1 under a 5.7
>>> host,
>>> or who knows, but the server isn't accepting mail at all, even after
>>> changing the line in the .mc file to accept mail from hosts other than
>>> localhost and rebuilding the .cf file.
>>>
>>> The new GUI for the Centos 6 installation seems to be somewhat confusing
>>> when it comes to asking what type of installation I would like (types
>>> being
>>> things like SQL server, web server etc.)
>>>
>>> I'm going to try the new 6.2 DVDs, but wonder what type of installation
>>> others have chosen since I'm sure there's something closer than the
>>> Workstation type I chose.
>>>
>>> Thanks and sorry for OT
>>>
>>> steve campbell
>>>
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>>> I originally tried just sending mail to the server, and got a bounce. I
>>> then
>>> tried telnet, and it too failed. The network setup in 6.1, as I recall,
>>> is
>>> nothing like the previous versions of Centos. I eventually installed
>>> Webmin
>>> and was surprised at how the NIC was configured from the install when I
>>> went
>>> to modify it. I could get to the internet, but sendmail didn't seem to be
>>> accepting mail. "ps ax" showed it running though.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
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