Tag Archives: centos

Installing git on CentOS

Posted on 7 September 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

git is available as an EPEL package. First, activate EPEL via $ sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm NOTE:That exact URL will change with time. I took it from the EPEL FAQ. Next, install the git package. $ sudo yum install git

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Automatic OS Updates in CentOS

Posted on 13 March 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

How to tweak the yum dæmon to do automatic and semi-automatic updates. Continue reading →

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Installing Zimbra 7 on CentOS

Posted on 12 March 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

Personal notes for installing Zimbra 7 on Centos 5, including split DNS for servers behind firewalls. Continue reading →

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Setting Up a Subversion Server

Posted on 3 February 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

The last time I set up a Subversion server was 2005. Here are notes I jotted down while installing a new server. There are a few gotchas along the way. Hopefully these notes catch all of them. Goal The goal … Continue reading →

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WTF Nagios Installed?

Posted on 28 October 2010 by James Reuben Knowles

Nagios can be installed on CentOS per the Fedora Quickstart page. Continue reading →

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Required Packages to Run VMware Workstation on Fedora 11

Posted on 2 October 2009 by James Reuben Knowles

A list of packages that must be installed before VMware Workstation 6.5 will run on Fedora 11.
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How to Install Octave on CentOS 5 Using Yum

Posted on 9 September 2009 by James Reuben Knowles

Octave doesn’t appear to be part of RHEL anymore, so it’s not included in CentOS 5. This article explains how to install Octave on CentOS using yum. Continue reading →

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Remove Extraneous RedHat Services to Help Secure Servers

Posted on 22 January 2009 by James Reuben Knowles

Protect your computer against bad guys. Continue reading →

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Installing PowerDNS

Posted on 5 January 2009 by James Reuben Knowles

There are notes on installing PowerDNS on a CentOS 5 server. This is generic enough that it aught to work on any RPM based Linux distro with yum installed. Continue reading →

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Installing Bernstein’s ucspi-tcp on CentOS 5

Posted on 25 November 2008 by James Reuben Knowles

Bernstein’s ucspi-tcp does not compile cleanly on CentOS 5. Here is how I got it to work. Continue reading →

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