This post will cover howto configure local yum repo with group. by default when you run createrepo it does not creates group repo. Group is not required unless you have specific requirement. If you have created repo using createrepo RPM_PATH, while running yum grouplist, you’ll get following error. Error: No group data available for configured [...]
Full Story »CentOS-5.6 -Continuous Release Repo
CentOS has released Continuous Release Repo for CentOS-5.6. This repo is to provide latest updates which are to be included with next release of CentOS-5.X i.e 5.7 Depending on your OS version you’ll need to install a rpm to get updates. for i386 x86_64 With the release of next version, 5.6/cr/ will be removed.
Full Story »RHEL / CentOS 6.0 – mount ntfs partition
Since RHEL / CentOS are server class OS, one can not expect ntfs support out of box. If you are using these OS on laptop / desktop machines, you might need to access windows parition. Running following two commands as root will enable ntfs support. rpm -ivh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g -y Mount Partition [...]
Full Story »Howto Install iotop on Ubuntu, CentOS & Fedora
Iotop is a Python program with a top like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the I/O going on Ubuntu sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list Edit source list & uncomment universe repo. e.g deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty universe deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty universe deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty-updates universe deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty-updates universe deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty-security universe [...]
Full Story »Access More Than 4Gb RAM on Linux 32bit
This is for Novice Linux Admins who is looking for a way to access > 4gb ram on Linux 32 bit Machines. By default 32bit architecture has limitation of 4gb memory access, by either switching to 64bit os or using PAE kernel you can access > 4gb physical memory. PAE (Physical Address Extension) kernel is [...]
Full Story »Installing Bugzilla on CentOS
Read About Bugzilla Install Dependencies yum install mysql-server mysql perl httpd mod_perl gcc mysql-devel -y service mysqld start service httpd start Download latest stable version Extract bugzilla to /var/www/html tar zxvf bugzilla-3.6.3.tar.gz cd bugzilla-3.6.3/ mv * /var/www/html/ Install required modules cd /var/www/html/ /usr/bin/perl install-module.pl –all Check required/installed modules ./checksetup.pl –check-modules To create localconfig under web [...]
Full Story »LVM Resize root partition -Centos
This is more of Resize LVM I have tested this on CentOS 5.5. Since this is root partition modification, I’ll recommend to keep config backup before proceeding. create new partition (partition id should be 8e Linux LVM) ADD PHYSICAL VOLUME pvcreate /dev/new_partition Verify new physical volume pvdisplay Or pvscan Extend existing VOLUME GROUP vgextend VolGroup00 [...]
Full Story »Virtual Users on VSFTPD- CentOS
This article will help configuring vsftpd using virtual users. Meaning there is no need to create system users, users can be maintanted using htpasswd. What is the benifit of using virtual users? this can be useful if you wish to auth same users via apache, where he / she can get access to same ftp [...]
Full Story »Install RRDTOOL using yum on CentOS.
RRDTOOL is required by many network utilities, e.g cacti, nagios & many others to plot graphs. By default rrdtool is not included in CentOS. You may need to install it for monitoring purpose. You can either use source to compile or install using rpm. To install using rpm all you need is following two commands. [...]
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