[Server-devel] Static IP and DNS problems

[David Leeming]

OK.... good advice! I can do this... but it's not a priority right now for
me, I just want to get it going again for my own use and perhaps the "yum
reinstall" would be the quickest way - but if you chaps would like those
logs I will forward them.

Regarding yum reinstall, what parameters would I use? I just want to rebuild
the default configuration and I can reinstall the content if need be, so it
can be wiped if necessary. It is a demo server and the user data is not
important.

David Leeming

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Mitchell [mailto:mitch at niftyegg.com] 
Sent: Friday, 2 July 2010 4:27 a.m.
To: Martin Langhoff
Cc: David Leeming; XS Devel
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Static IP and DNS problems

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:23 AM, David Leeming
......
> working... how about... giving us the actual messages in the logs?
.......
> To get the interesting msgs from /var/log/messages, you can do
>
> grep named /var/log/messages > named-messages.log

Yes please... precision with messages is always a big help.
You can restart named and then trim the messages to
reflect one restart by checking the date and time.

>
>> My aim is only to recover the server back to default condition. Is it
>> possible to copy over the config files (with appropriate changes if
needed)
>> from another server installation that is running in the default state? If
so
>> which ones?
>
> Damn - that file is not under git control :-/
>
> Get hold of the xs-config rpm (from the install cd for example) -- you
> can get the file from the rpm following the process outlined here:
>
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-extract-an-rpm-package-without-installi
ng-it.html

Good link.  no need to use the root account...

It may make sense to enhance the makefile to
have a "make clean" target.   If the makefile
tleaves originals and work with copies such
a target shouldt be possible.  Also "make
clean" uses a common target for make so the concept
would reinforce common programming practices.

i.e. something like.
  #  make -f xs-config.make named-xs.conf
and
  #  make -f xs-config.make clean

Another tool to invest in might be "etckeeper" which
makes sense for servers of any kind.  But that is
not as simple.


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