[CentOS] RHEL/CentOS5.2 and rsyslogd

Hi there, I am slightly confused by the RHEL release notes and an earlier thread here about rsyslogd, so I hope someone can clear this up for me; I see that rsyslog is included in RHEL as of 5.2 (and so will be available in CentOS when 5.2 is ready) however there is no indication of whether i

Re: [CentOS] YUM and installing older versions of software.

James B. Byrne wrote: How does one specify a particular version of a software package to yum to install? Is this even possible? What happens to superceded pacjkages in repos? Are they simple removed/discarded? yum install package-X.Y.Z-A.el5 ??? The reason I ask is if a yum update goes awry f

Re: [CentOS] Shell script - ping

Gopinath Achari wrote: hi, how to write a scripts which launches 10 pings to different destinations at execution of single shell scripts please help me any ideas regards, Gopinath Do you mean something like: ping -c10 host1 ping -c10 host2 which will ping host1 10 times,

Re: [CentOS] Help setting up external drive via Firewire

Noob Centos Admin wrote: I got a WD 1TB My Book with eSATA/USB/Firewire400 connectivity to backup data on a client Centos 5.1 machine. USB 2.0 works fine out of the box but is rather slow, Nautilus predicts about 1+ hour to fully backup just one day's worth of data or about 100GB. So I was h