[Leaplist] CentOS install

[Hank Lambert]

I tried to install CentOS 3 times yesterday before getting a good 
install. The machine was an XP machine, with 2 IDE hard drives in RAID 
0. I did not select RAID on this install, but for some reason, the 
CentOS install was identifying the drives wrong. So I unplugged the 
slave hard drive, and performed another installation. This time, during 
the installation, it displayed the hard drive correctly. The install 
finished, and I rebooted into the server. Right away, I got a notice 
that there was 146 updates available. I selected apply updates and it 
(Yum?) starts resolving dependencies. After about 1 minute, I get an 
error that states "Error performing updates". I click on details, and 
got the following error:

[('file /usr/sbin/sysreport conflicts between attempted installs of 
sysreport-1.4.3-13.el5
and sos-1.7-9.1.el5', (6, '/usr/sbin/sysreport', 0L)), ('file 
/usr/share/sysreport/functions
conflicts between attempted installs of sysreport-1.4.3-13.el5 and 
sos-1.7-9.1.el5',
(6, '/usr/share/sysreport/functions', 0L))]

So I Google the error message knowing there is absolutely no way I will 
get any results, and there was actually 3. The first one took me to a 
forum that provided a link to the Red Hat knowledgebase that said to 
uninstall syslog with "RPM -e syslog". So I did just that, and now I've 
updated my system.

My question is what is syslog I removed and did I need it? It seems to 
work now without it, but that doesn't mean I won't pay down the line. I 
am very new to CentOS, actually have about 10 minutes on a CentOS system.

Thanks,

Hank



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