2008-05-06 Recovering from a hacked server
A friend of mine had a problem with a server in which a particular PHP script kept changing, including . . . * Used yum to see what updates were outstanding I found nothing . . .
2K - last updated 2008-05-08 06:28 UTC by 6314
2008-05-22 Configuring AIDE
Today I installed AIDE on a CentOS 5 server. This package is an alternative to the traditional Tripwire. . . . The installation is done in a cinch with yum: $ sudo yum -y install aide The first thing that . . .
2K - last updated 2008-05-24 17:41 UTC by 6314
2011-06-20 Running yum on low end VPSes
Yum is a dog to run on older systems with small amounts of memory, or when you run a VPS (virtual private . . . does not have much memory. When running a <tt>yum update</tt>, you get errors such as <tt>memory . . . NULL</tt>. Recommendations are: * Running <tt>yum clean all</tt> * Disabling plugins by using the . . . But ofthen that's not enough. A simple <tt>yum update</tt> can find a huge number of packages . . . then dump them in a file. $ yum -q check-update | cut -f1 -d" " > list Now use . . .
1K - last updated 2011-06-20 14:10 UTC by 6314
2017-02-21 Linux VPS with TeamViewer
Here are my short notes on creating a Linux VPS (virtual private service) which can be remotely accessed . . . log in via SSH as root and do the following: # yum -y groupinstall "Fedora Workstation" Then get the . . . # yum -y install ./teamviewer.i686.rpm Next reboot, make . . .
3K - last updated 2019-12-08 07:25 UTC by 6314
2019-12-08 Linux VPS with TeamViewer
In 2017, I blogged about [https://www.vankuik.nl/2017-02-21_Linux_VPS_with_TeamViewer setting up a Linux . . . # yum -y install ./teamviewer.i686.rpm Edit the file . . .
3K - last updated 2020-02-07 07:57 UTC by 6314
Booting over the network
= Red Hat Enterprise Linux and PXE = It's possible to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or any . . . <IP_address_of_new_server> # yum -y install tftp tftp-server dhcp httpd Configure . . .
4K - last updated 2007-05-09 09:36 UTC by 6314
Encoding wav to ogg
Encoding a wav file of 62.193.980 bytes with [http://www.vorbis.com/ oggenc] can be done with different . . . install both mpg321 and oggenc under Fedora: $ yum -y install mpg321 vorbis-tools Sometimes you want . . . install both mpg321 and oggenc under Fedora: $ yum -y install mpg321 vorbis-tools . . .
2K - last updated 2008-07-10 04:16 UTC by 6314
IDL
= Installing GDL = http://gnudatalanguage.sourceforge.net/ GDL is an IDL clone. To install on Fedora . . . 3: * Install packages gsl and gsl-devel using yum * Download plplot-5.5.3 and gdl-0.8.11, unpack . . .
1K - last updated 2006-02-08 15:12 UTC by 6314
Linux
= System Administration = [[Remote_dump]] [[MD5sum]] [[Debian]] -- About apt-get, dpkg and other stuff . . . [[Shared_directories]] [[Gnuplot]] [[Apache]] [[Yum]] = Networking = [[Traffic_shaping]] [[Firewalling]] . . .
2K - last updated 2012-09-14 07:24 UTC by 6314
Performance
The subject is: performance measurement of a Linux server. = Measuring bandwidth = First, create a file . . . here]. Then install lighttpd with: # yum install lighttpd lighttpd-fastcgi Edit the configuration . . .
6K - last updated 2013-12-20 08:02 UTC by 6314
RPM
= RPM = Finding to which package a file belongs: $ rpm -qif <filename> Seeing if a package is installed: . . . -qa --qf "%{SIZE} %{NAME}\n" | sort -nr | head = Yum = == Searching for packages == If you know a particular . . . in a package name, try this faster command: $ yum list ''keyword'' This ''only'' searches in package . . . in package names as well as descriptions: $ yum search ''keyword'' The keyword here is case insensitive . . . an FTP client, use quotes around the keywords: $ yum search "FTP client" Otherwise you'll get useless . . .
4K - last updated 2008-11-14 09:16 UTC by 6314
Scratch CentOS 5
* Installation. Customized package selection, everything deselected except base utilities. * Log in for . . . in creating image through ftp * Run <tt>yum update</tt>, and add <tt>exclude=kernel*</tt> to . . . <tt>/etc/yum.conf</tt> * On domU www2, networking doesn't work. . . .
7K - last updated 2007-08-10 12:43 UTC by 6314
Yum
I've seen my share of Yum problems, because I run yum on low memory systems (256-512 MB) and yum needs . . . solved long ago, but hey -- what can you do? = Yum hangs forever without output = Sometimes, yum hangs . . . rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* # rpm -vv --rebuilddb # yum clean all # rm /var/run/yum.pid # yum clean all . . . Then finally, think about running: # yum update But you might want to list the updates, . . . them one-by-one. = Useful options = When you run yum, it's always a good idea to nice the process. In . . .
2K - last updated 2011-09-07 07:07 UTC by 6314
dv1 installation
* Installation, see [[Booting_over_the_network]]. Customized package selection, everything deselected . . . in creating image through ftp * Run <tt>yum update</tt>, and add <tt>exclude=kernel*</tt> to . . . <tt>/etc/yum.conf</tt> * Check whether correct kernel is configured . . .
3K - last updated 2007-06-24 09:37 UTC by 6314
dv2 installation
* Installation using CD. Customized package selection, everything deselected except base utilities. * . . . like to bring up eth0 through dhcp * Run <tt>yum update</tt>, and add <tt>exclude=kernel*</tt> to . . . <tt>/etc/yum.conf</tt> * Check whether correct kernel is configured . . .
2K - last updated 2007-06-24 09:35 UTC by 6314
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