Tag Archives: centos 5

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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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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Installing Bernstein’s daemontools on CentOS 5

Posted on 22 November 2008 by James Reuben Knowles

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

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