Re: [CentOS] EMERGENCY: Server Crash

2009-11-12 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:05:53 - CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Great thing about lurking in lists, is that you learn stuff! I wanted to > know how to remove every dreaded package that had been installed when an > intern/idiot decided to install x on a remote server - now I know yum > erase s

Re: [CentOS] EMERGENCY: Server Crash

2009-11-12 Thread m . roth
> Great thing about lurking in lists, is that you learn stuff! I wanted to > know how to remove every dreaded package that had been installed when an > intern/idiot decided to install x on a remote server - now I know yum > erase should do the trick! > >> Oh my. >> You do realize that a "yum erase"

Re: [CentOS] EMERGENCY: Server Crash

2009-11-12 Thread Gabriel - IP Guys
Great thing about lurking in lists, is that you learn stuff! I wanted to know how to remove every dreaded package that had been installed when an intern/idiot decided to install x on a remote server - now I know yum erase should do the trick! > Oh my. > You do realize that a "yum erase" will gladl

Re: [CentOS] EMERGENCY: Server Crash

2009-11-12 Thread Victor Subervi
k. Thanks. V On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM, wrote: > > Hi; > > I went to install some s/w and it looked like there was a problem with > > openssl. So I decided to uninstall it (yum remove) and reinstall it. When > > I went to reinstall, I discovered I couldn't use yum. Then I discovered: > >

Re: [CentOS] EMERGENCY: Server Crash

2009-11-12 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Victor Subervi wrote: > Hi; > I went to install some s/w and it looked like there was a problem with > openssl. So I decided to uninstall it (yum remove) and reinstall it. When I > went to reinstall, I discovered I couldn't use yum. Then I discovered: Oh my. You

Re: [CentOS] EMERGENCY: Server Crash

2009-11-12 Thread m . roth
> Hi; > I went to install some s/w and it looked like there was a problem with > openssl. So I decided to uninstall it (yum remove) and reinstall it. When > I went to reinstall, I discovered I couldn't use yum. Then I discovered: I believe yum uses ssl, and it is, of course, trying to get it all o

Re: [CentOS] EMERGENCY: Server Crash

2009-11-12 Thread Bernard Lheureux
Victor Subervi wrote: shutdown -fr now To force a FSCK while the machine will reboot... seems like a disk error... > Hi; > I went to install some s/w and it looked like there was a problem with > openssl. So I decided to uninstall it (yum remove) and reinstall it. > When I went to reinstall, I di

Re: [CentOS] EMERGENCY: Server Crash

2009-11-12 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/12/2009 05:40 PM, Victor Subervi wrote: > [r...@13gems /]# python > -bash: python: command not found > Please advise ASAP! Reading whats on the screen and checking the list before you confirm : NOT optional. You need to get syslog's track for yum's operations - find out what was taken ou

[CentOS] EMERGENCY: Server Crash

2009-11-12 Thread Victor Subervi
Hi; I went to install some s/w and it looked like there was a problem with openssl. So I decided to uninstall it (yum remove) and reinstall it. When I went to reinstall, I discovered I couldn't use yum. Then I discovered: [r...@13gems qmail-1.03]# yum install openssl -bash: /usr/bin/yum: No such f