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 [...]
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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 kernel code. [...]
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 called createrepo, [...]
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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 [...]