device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization
April 3rd, 2012 by Youzhny
So here I am, looking at two identical machines with identical OS installation and configuration etc., all appearing fine with other installations/configurations I’m working on, when I ended up doing a network device check running ifconfig and then wondering, why does machine-A have eth0 and eth1, but machine-B is missing eth-1? (more…)
Installing ClamAV on CentOS
March 12th, 2012 by Youzhny
Installing Clamav antivirus software on your linux centos server is quite easy. The best way to do this is using yum to look for the ClamAV packages in Dag’s repositories. (more…)
Sendmail smtp relay gmail google apps
February 15th, 2012 by Youzhny
Configure sendmail to use gmail/google apps as the external smtp server and have it authenticate properly.
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Locale in CentOS
January 31st, 2012 by Youzhny
To compile a locale in CentOS, do something like this:
root# localedef -c -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.utf8
To see all locales available, do this: (more…)
Change Timezone on CentOS
January 31st, 2012 by Youzhny
Check the current timezone (more…)
How To: Add new hard drive on Centos
January 15th, 2012 by Youzhny
Lists the new Hard Drive:
lshw -C disk (more…)
Install and Configure Cacti Network Graphing Tool on CentOS
January 12th, 2012 by Youzhny
Cacti is a network graphing tool similar to MRTG. How do I install and configure common options to collect SNMP data and various other data (such as system load, network link status, hard disk space, logged in users etc) into an RRD? (more…)
How to install CSF firewall and webmin on centos linux
January 11th, 2012 by Youzhny
I just installed webmin on my CentOs 6 server. Webmin is a GUI control panel that lets you administer a Linux box.
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Install Xwindows and Gnome on Centos with Yum
January 4th, 2012 by Youzhny
I recently had need to add XWindows to a Centos 4.x install that didn’t have X or Gnome. I was doing this under VMware which added slightly to the degree of difficulty. As it turns out, using Yum makes this a very easy process, although you probably end up with some bloated packageware. (more…)
Installing rar/unrar On CentOS 5/6
December 29th, 2011 by Youzhny
for 32bit:
wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
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Fast alternative to yum whatprovides
December 29th, 2011 by Youzhny
Linux: yum options you may not know exist.
Most of the users who work with distributions such as: centos, fedora, redhat, etc use yum as a package update/installer. Most of them know how to do “yum update [packagename]” (to update all or [certain packages]) or they do “yum install packagename” to install certain package(s). But yum can do so much more. Here are some options you may find useful:...How to update Ruby on CentOS 5.x
December 29th, 2011 by Youzhny
CentOS is great and by far my preferred distro, however it’s package support is terrible. Whilst it’s ties to RHEL make it solid and usable the lack of repos really does cause a load of headaches.
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