Hello,

I have 2 quick questions about Linode. I am running CentOS 5.7 on my server:

1) I see that my server is running a custom kernel made by Linode. Is there any harm if I run "yum update" and the latest kernel available from CentOS gets installed? Will my server just ignore it and continue to use the Linode custom kernel? Or do I need to exclude kernel updates in my /etc/yum.conf to make sure my server always uses the Linode custom kernel?

2) Is it possible to enable acl's? When I try to use setfacl to set acl's on a file, I get an "Operation not supported" error.

Thanks,
Ryan

1. This is no problem. If the settings for your Linode in the manager specify one of the Linode-provided kernels, that's what will be used to boot. You can add exclude=kernel kernel-* to /etc/yum.conf if you like; otherwise, the worst is that you will waste some bandwidth downloading kernel updates that will never be used.

2. Dunno, sorry.

Same thing happen with my vps with CentOS Updates

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Add 'acl' to your filesystem's mount options and setfacl should work. (You can do this on the fly with mount -o remount,acl /)

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