Date:  Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:39:21 +0100
From:  "Martyn Bailey" <martyn (at mark) solis.co.uk>
Subject:  [coba-e:15949] Strange kernel stuff
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <4A958F69.18005.9D2FCE@localhost>
X-Mail-Count: 15949

I'm looking at a customers box - they're panicing (without reason 
IMO) as they've found an old kernel:

# uname -a
Linux 2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Nov 19 20:05:04 EST 
2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

then deleted that kernel <g>

yum remove kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.8.EL

I'm going to guess that they'd pretty much run out of space on 
/boot (I can get to - or into their box to look).

I'm hoping to get over there in an hour or so to have a peek.

I usually go through a slow process of

rpm -qa|grep kernel

then remove (yum remove) old looking stuff

Anyone have a nice clean way to //quickly// delete all old kernel 
and associates, and up to the latest non-vulnerable release?