CentOS software and documentation is supplied in the form of files called RPM packages. Each package is a compressed archive containing product information, program files, icons, documentation and management scripts. Management applications use these file
I decided it was time to bite the bullet and set myself up with a subversion repository for a project I may start on in the near future. I couldn’t find find a quick guide to setting up a repository on CentOS, so this is how I did it. Based on Chapter 6
Centos Enterprise Linux is built from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code. Other than logo and name changes CentOS Enterprise Linux is binary compatible with the equivalent Red Hat version. This document applies equally to both Red Hat and CentOS Ent
After a basic install of Centos 4.3, the first thing that we do is to configure a firewall (iptables). To do this easily, navigate here and then select the relevant options. The important ones are to open port 80 for HTTP, port 21 for FTP, port 22 for SSH
There are some apps that you may want to use on CentOS that for whatever reason need to know that RHEL 4 is installed. Thanks to the CentOS community there is a "fix" for this that will make apps think that you're actually running "the real thing." All yo
I'm not going to document the Centos installation itself, for two reasons. Firstly, I've more or less covered that elsewhere (see the Section 8.0 of this article, for example), and secondly it's dead easy. All you have to do is make sure you select the Cu
Redhat Enterprise 3 doesn't contain a good guide on how to install and manage a RHEL3 system to a pair of mirrored disks using software RAID. Here's is my guide. This guide should work equally well for the clones of RHEL, e.g. Whitebox linux, CentOS, Tao
After a fairly drawn-out process of identifying which wiki software to deploy at work, we finally settled on Trac, which in addition to a wiki provides a bunch of project-management tools: trouble tickets, milestones, and strong ties to the Subversion rev