If you are administering nix server you’ve probably noticed that root account is used by default for many system emails. If you did set email forwarding you already received them, but in case you did not the folder continues to …
With my new server I wanted to install LAMP stack so I can test WEB applications locally. Just to note that in CentOS 7 it is not exactly classic LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP), but new LAMP ( Linux Apache …
After I’ve created my home server I’ve tried to change it’s host name by going to /etc/sysconfig/network. For my surprise it was empty. Then I’ve recalled that in version 7 CentOS started using systemd. Hence the location changed. New place …
CentOS 7 is out and I wanted to test it on real hardware. Unfortunately most of current methods to transfer bootable ISO to USB key in MS windows environment do not work (see quote below) or boots, but does not …
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In case you need to disable IPv6 and cannot afford to restart here are the commands to quickly do it for CentOS: echo “net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1” >> /etc/sysctl.conf echo “net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1” >> /etc/sysctl.conf sysctl -p
In some of my projects I use OpenVZ to create containers. One of the tools I use to create backup of running container is vzdump from proxmox.com. Unfortunately rpm provided is older version and latest provided only as debian package. …
GNU Screen is excellent sysadmin tool and can make your life much easier. If working on remote ssh shell and connection is interrupted (usually at worst time) I often wish that I’ve started screen in advance. Other useful way of …
Shorewal or Shoreline Firewall is is high-level tool for configuring Netfilter. Even RPM packages are available from long time on most YUM repositories only older versions could be found. That is the reason I’ve decided to create this repository. What …
If you want to see what packages are installed in Debian or Ubuntu system use following commands: To list all the package installed: dpkg-query -l This will return something similar to this: dpkg-query -l Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: …
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