The below will show you how to add the Dag Wieers repository to Centos 5.3 I have also used this method for lower versions of Centos as well. First you need to run this code from the console or via putty. rpm –import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt In order to add this repository […]
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find <path> -size +10000k -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l http://linuxandfriends.com/2008/09/10/how-to-find-large-files-in-linux-using-command-line/
About a month ago an intrusion into Fedora servers was detected, and while the signing key for all packages was not compromised Fedora still decided to resign all packages with a new key as a security measure. A few days ago repositories with the new key were enabled. That leads […]
Acer has interwoven Firefox 2 with the rest of the system, that’s why a quite unusual approach is required to install the newest version. The benefit of using an official release is a working update feature, which is disabled in the version already installed on the system. Press Alt+F2 to […]
The below is instructions on how to install VLC on an Acer AA1 running Linpus, these deatails and credit were found at http://macles.blogspot.com/ Acer ships a media player named Media Master, which is in fact just a rebranded version of CyberLink PowerDVD, with the pre-installed Linux. Also included is a […]
VMware server installation on CentOS: 1. Log in the server as ‘root’. It’s not best practice but for now it’s easier. 2. Run all the software updates and reboot, you’ll be prompted about them in the upper right corner. It’ll take a while. If you’re not on dhcp you’ll have […]
1. Go to the Webmin Download page and note the download link for Centos. Currently its http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.450-1.noarch.rpm 2 .Login via SSH to your server. 3. At the SSH prompt type: yum -y install perl-Net-SSLeay 4. use wget to obtain the webmin package for Centos that you got the link for […]
Setting System Time To set the system clock under Linux, use the date command. As an example, to set the current time and date to July 31, 11:16pm, type “date 07312316” (note that the time is given in 24 hour notation). If you wanted to change the year as well, […]
I just installed the latest version of webmin on my CentOs 5 server. I have not used webmin in about 2 years, I can not believe how much the interface has improved. Webmin is a GUI control panel that lets you administer a Linux box. Here is all you need […]