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05.13.08

Syncronise CentOS to local repository using RSync Uncategorized (0)

Having a lot of local users and/or processes accessing external repositories needlessly increases access times and bandwidth usage. Use a simple script to setup a syncronisation between a CentOS mirror and a local server. Here it is

#/bin/sh

VERSIONS=(5 5.1)
REPOS=(os updates centosplus extras)
RSYNC_LOCATION=”rsync://rsync.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org”
DESTINATION=”/repository/distributions/CentOS”

for version in ${VERSIONS[@]}
do
for repo […]
03.25.07

Yum and Kickstart Uncategorized (0)

When using yum in a %post section of a kickstart a number of services are unavailable that yum would normally use. I got the error message “SysLogHandler instance has no attribute ‘unixsocket’” which is because syslog is unavailable and normally listens on the /dev/log device.
To get around this is i just moved the device file […]
03.19.07

Testing RPM dependencies Uncategorized (0)

A simple and quick way to test RPM dependencies is to use the rpm tool itself. You’ll need to be root as rpm needs to write transaction locks in the /var directory but providing you use the –dbpath and –test arguments your system will not be effected in any way apart from the new directory […]

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