fedora core

Howto: Add a new yum repository to install software under CentOS / Redhat Linux

by on July 18, 2007 · 12 comments

CentOS / Fedora Core / RHEL 5 uses yum for software management. Yum allows you to add a new repository as a source to install binary software. Understanding yum repository yum repository configured using /etc/yum.conf file. Additional configuration files are also read from the directories set by the reposdir option (default is /etc/yum.repos.d and /etc/yum/repos.d. [...]

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nixCraft FAQ Roundup May 14, 2007

by on May 14, 2007 · 0 comments

Recently updated/posted Linux and UNIX FAQ (mostly useful to Linux/UNIX new administrators or users) : Howto find out size of AIX UNIX RAM memory How to bind a range of IP’s in Debian / Ubuntu Linux How do I view my Linux or UNIX server bandwidth usage? What is an MX record in DNS entries? [...]

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Redhat Enterprise Linux securely mount remote Linux / UNIX directory or file system using SSHFS

by on May 9, 2007 · 17 comments

You can easily mount remote server file system or your own home directory using special sshfs and fuse tools. FUSE – Filesystem in Userspace FUSE is a Linux kernel module also available for FreeBSD, OpenSolaris and Mac OS X that allows non-privileged users to create their own file systems without the need to write any [...]

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Howto Setup yum repositories to update or install package from ISO CDROM Image

by on April 30, 2007 · 46 comments

yum (Yellow dog Updater Modified) is a package manager for RPM compatible Linux systems such as CentOS, Fedora core and latest Redhat Enterprise Linux. So how do you use yum to update / install packages from an ISO of CentOS / FC / RHEL CD? Creation of yum repositories is handled by a separate tool [...]

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nixCraft FAQ Roundup – Dec 8, 2008

by on December 8, 2006 · 0 comments

Recently updated/posted Linux and UNIX FAQ: => Boot Ubuntu Linux into Rescue mode to fix system – How do I boot my Ubuntu Linux server into Rescue mode to fix system? => Unable to create installation source – Add directories into YaST as an installation source – I have created my own patch files on [...]

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How To Extract an RPM Package Without Installing It (rpm extract command)

by on October 18, 2006 · 38 comments

Explains how to extract rpm files (extract any file from rpm) under Red Hat / Suse / RHEL / Fedora / CentOS or any rpm base Linux distribution.

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Force iptables to log messages to a different log file

by on October 3, 2006 · 38 comments

According to man page: Iptables is used to set up, maintain, and inspect the tables of IP packet filter rules in the Linux kernel. Several different tables may be defined. Each table contains a number of built-in chains and may also contain user defined chains. By default, Iptables log message to a /var/log/messages file. However [...]

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