All, Apologies for cluttering the list, but I just wanted to say hello and prepare all for a barage of silly discussions from a tech-hypochondriac! We have recently purchased two servers running CentOS, and as I'm from more of a Debian based background, it would be good if someone could point out the two or three main differences please? I'm reading up on the package management as I type, but any quick tips and tricks for (web) server admin with CentOS would be magic. Sorry for being cheeky! Hope everyone is well, too. -- *Matt Harwood* Designer, NannyGroup Limited Mob: 07887 817769 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080620/355f9430/attachment-0002.html>
Matt Harwood wrote:> All, > > Apologies for cluttering the list, but I just wanted to say hello and > prepare all for a barage of silly discussions from a tech-hypochondriac! > We have recently purchased two servers running CentOS, and as I'm from > more of a Debian based background, it would be good if someone could > point out the two or three main differences please?There are different run levels for CentOS (3 is CLI mode, 5 is GUI mode) than Debian. Package management is different, as you say below. Here is a guide for yum: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/> I'm reading up on > the package management as I type, but any quick tips and tricks for > (web) server admin with CentOS would be magic.Also read up on SELinux. I have only done minor things on Debian so I can't offer much more than that :D CentOS docs: http://www.centos.org/docs/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080620/fab755c0/attachment-0002.sig>
Matt Harwood ha scritto:> All, > > Apologies for cluttering the list, but I just wanted to say hello and > prepare all for a barage of silly discussions from a tech-hypochondriac! > We have recently purchased two servers running CentOS, and as I'm from > more of a Debian based background, it would be good if someone could > point out the two or three main differences please? I'm reading up on > the package management as I type, but any quick tips and tricks for > (web) server admin with CentOS would be magic. > > Sorry for being cheeky! Hope everyone is well, too.Well, Welcome :) My 2 cents: 1) "yum list all > yla && yum info all > yia" for offline searching and info reading of packages 2) "grep system-config yla" and you'll find the main tools for configuring the system 3) Setup the priorities "http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities" and add new repository "http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories?action=show&redirect=Repositories" 4) http://wiki.centos.org 5) google 99) when anything else fails: ask this list ;) Regards Lorenzo Quatrini