Setting up my new CentOS5 server today!

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Wanted to start a thread where I can any little things that seem like they could be useful to someone else as I setup the server…

1) Yum now requires you list the arch you want for certain programs. I installed ImageMagick and had to do “yum install ImageMagick.x86_64” so that it wouldn’t install both the 32 and 64 bit packages
2) sudo file has new force tty option that prevents you from using sudo form a webpage for example, you can comment this out.
3) POP3 connection errors (see http://interworx.com/forums/showthread.php?p=14220)
4) DNS - I had a site with an off site DNS server and when it transfer it did bring that over but also created a new mail.domain.com entry to the local website IP. So I had to mail. entries in the DNS and the first one (local) was taking precedence.

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In lieu of an official centos5 server distro (not available yet), did you end up installing the base package or did you find another configuration that worked better?

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I setup a pretty basic system on test server and it seemed to work fine. Iworx will automatically remove conflicting packages when its installing. I usually just do a pretty vanilla “server install” from the CentOS installer.

As per my new production box I dont know exactly how it was setup as I do not colo and was setup by my DC provider, but it is pretty similar to my test box setup.