Displaying 20 results from an estimated 20000 matches similar to: "looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system"
2010 Aug 08
3
what people really mean when they say they're running "5.3"?
more a terminology usage question than anything else, but in a
couple of weeks, i'll be teaching the first of a few sessions on RHEL
admin and, unsurprisingly, i'll be using centos (as i've done in the
past).
when i asked the organizer to identify the specific version of RHEL
that was being used at the client site, i was told 5.3 so i can easily
install 5.3 on the classroom
2010 Sep 17
1
can i run NFS *exclusively* off of v4?
is it possible to set up NFS on centos 5.5 so that it uses *only*
version 4? i tried this not that long ago on fedora and was surprised
to see a complaint when i tried to start the server and was told that
i was missing required functionality of NFSv1, or something equally
weird. i'll check the /etc/init.d/nfs script, but i think what got me
into trouble was trying to use the entire set of
2010 Sep 28
2
how to get ASUS USB-N13 802.11n net adapter working on 5.5?
first, the short form of the question -- has anyone got that
wireless adapter working on centos 5.5 and associated with an access
point that uses WPA/WPA2 security?
and the details.
in a classroom where there is *no* wired networking at all, all PCs
have only that wireless net adapter, which works fine on windows but,
after installing centos 5.5, unsurprisingly, we have no networking.
there
2010 Sep 25
2
possible additional comment regarding newer PHP
again, from here:
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5
regarding a newer version of PHP, a number of PHP experts that i know
of suggest that, if you truly need an up-to-date version of PHP, you
should:
rpm -ivh http://rpms/famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm
while remi collet's repo isn't official, it's accepted by numerous
developers as a reliable source of newer PHP
2010 Jan 23
4
any significant differences between centos and OEL?
someone just pointed out to me that there is a distro called "oracle
enterprise linux" which is effectively a re-branded RHEL, so i'm
curious -- has anyone here used both centos and OEL and would there be
any differences that would be worth caring about?
the only thing i can think of that might be worthwhile is that OEL
might change some of the default kernel parms thru
2009 Oct 18
5
the ongoing wait for centos 5.4
at the risk of picking at that scab a bit longer, i'm going to toss
out a comment regarding people still waiting for the public
availability of centos 5.4.
here:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083743.html
we read:
"The last status (from twitter) is 2 days old with the '5.4 is baked!
centos internal network will start syncing up today. Release ~ soon!'.
2009 Jun 23
4
RHEL, centos and seeing if i now understand this
ok, given the flurry of responses to my original post, let me see if
i have a handle on this as i think i've finally figured it out and,
yes, it does make sense.
the scenario is that there is a very large software company in the
area whose only officially supported linux platform is currently suse.
however, they are getting increasing call to have their product run on
red hat.
for most
2010 Aug 15
6
how many folks are *seriously* using ACLs?
i'm just curious -- how many people here are using ACLs as a regular
and significant part of their sys admin?
rday
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2010 Jun 12
2
[OT] introductory online kernel programming course
yes, it's OT but just in case folks here know someone who might be
interested, i'm writing and publishing a course to introduce people to
the joys of linux kernel programming:
http://www.crashcourse.ca/introduction-linux-kernel-programming/introduction-linux-kernel-programming
and, no, it's not free -- six months worth of course will cost you
all of $39 (CAD), but the first four
2014 Feb 02
7
[Bug 893] New: Support upstream docbook2x location
https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=893
Summary: Support upstream docbook2x location
Product: nftables
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
URL: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/38706
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P5
Component: nft
AssignedTo:
2010 Aug 09
4
xen vs kvm for virtualization on centos/rhel?
as i'm reviewing the courseware for the rhel (centos) course
i'm teaching next week, i'm going to ask the occasional question,
possibly technical, possibly more policy.
first one involves the choice for virtualization. the course has a
short section involving virt using xen but everything i've read
suggests that red hat is concentrating on kvm for virt. thoughts on
that? i
2010 Sep 24
3
should trixbox system hang when ISP drops connection?
NEWBIE alert: i'm a linux person, not an asterisk person so i'm
certainly capable of handling any linux-flavoured solution you can
suggest. here's a note i got from a local company i know (some proper
names removed):
===== start =====
Now and again our ISP goes down and when it does give us a hicup, the
Asterisk system shuts down (not very forgiving). When it shuts down
our phone
2010 Jan 20
2
centos courseware?
does anyone here have pointers or access to courseware that could be
used to teach centos (5.4, i believe)? publicly-available, free C/W
would, of course, be ideal, but if you have some decent training
manuals that you're willing to license on a per-manual basis, i'm
still willing to chat.
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
2010 Feb 02
3
dm-crypt/LUKS the state of the art for block device encryption?
it's been a while since i've played with filesystem encryption so,
on centos 5.4 (and other linux distros), is dm-crypt/LUKS considered
to be the state of the art WRT encryption? i remember other solutions
like loop-aes and others, but what's considered the gold standard
these days?
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
2018 Feb 23
2
what is the centos/elrepo policy toward LTS kernels?
i'm sure there's a simple answer to this -- i already understand
that newer kernels than the ones shipped with the official release
aren't officially supported but there is the elrepo kernel repository
here:
http://elrepo.org/linux/kernel/el7/x86_64/RPMS/
with a mixture of long-term (lt) and mainline (ml) kernels. i assume
that the mainline kernels pretty closely track the latest
2010 Sep 17
5
should vsftpd be disabled in favour of sftp for security reasons?
(another in an ongoing list of things i just want to clarify for the
sake of future courses taught on centos.)
from this RHEL doc page:
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-openssh-server-config.html
the reader is advised to, for the sake of security, remove/disable
vsftpd, ostensibly in favour of sftp/sftp-server. really?
i can obviously
2010 Oct 10
1
should i (theoretically) be able to boot a "git clone"d kernel on 5.5?
toward the end of a class on friday, just for fun, i showed the
students how to install git, clone the latest kernel source, and build
and install a new kernel. since it was getting close to end of day, i
wanted to keep it simple and directed them to just "make defconfig" to
see what would happen.
the configuration and build of the kernel and modules worked fine,
they installed the
2010 Sep 26
1
couple questions about initrd.img
here's hoping this is on topic. as part of the extra goodies i'm
going to give my RHEL/centos basic admin class this week, i'm going to
get them to open up the standard initrd.img file and see what's
inside. i just did that myself and have a couple simple questions.
first, while the cpio archive physically contains a number of basic
/dev special files, the top-level
2010 Oct 07
1
does ssh-copy-id not use "id_rsa.pub" file by default?
yesterday, i was demoing how to use ssh-copy-id on centos 5.5 to
copy one's public key to another machine and account so you don't need
to type the password anymore. i used "ssh-keygen" to create the
standard RSA-format files, then checked the man page for ssh-copy-id,
which reads:
ssh-copy-id [-i [identity_file]] [user@]machine
...
If the -i option is given then
2010 Sep 15
3
why does automounting removable media always have options nodev, noexec, nosuid?
i'm experimenting with some basic removable media mounting
exercises for an upcoming class, and i read that, while you can use
gconf-editor to change some of the mount options in cases like that,
there is no way to override the mount options of nodev, noexec and
nosuid. for example, that claim is made here (admittedly for fedora,
but it appears to be true for centos as well):