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Yesterday, I wrote about a serious Linux kernel bug and fix. However, few readers like to know about patching running Linux kernel. Patching production kernel is a risky business. Following procedure will help you to fix the problem.
Step # 1: Make sure your product is affected
First find out if your product is affected by reported [...]
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Recently I’ve noticed that Redhat removed support for following php pear packages:
a) NET/SMTP : An implementation of the SMTP protocol
b) Mail : Class that provides multiple interfaces for sending emails
c) Net/Socke : Network Socket Interface
The simplest solution is downloading and installs these files from php pear repo.
Step # 1: Download files
Use wget command to [...]
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Build 56528 is a release build of VMware Server 1.0.4. It is a maintenance bug fix release to address security issues. Upgrading VMWare server is a piece of cake under Redhat Enterprise Linux / CentOS Linux version 5.0.
Please note that following instructions are tested on RHEL 4.5, 5.0 and CentOS Linux 5.0 only. You can [...]
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New Linux user often get this error. Let us say you haved downloaded the RPM file from net and saved to /tmp, you may get error – no no such file or directory – when the file is really downloaded and ls command can show the same.
Answer is pretty simple rpm command needs the full [...]
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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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In this tutorial yo0u will learn about Installing SSL Certificate (Secure Server Certificate) to secure communication between Postfix SMTP server and mail client such as Outlook or Thunderbird.
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Here is one of the most frequently asked questions from my mailbag:
Hey I need to know how much ram memory I have in my Ubuntu Linux computer. Under Windows XP I can find out memory by visiting Start > Control Panels > System in control panel. So how do I find out RAM information under [...]
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