CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from Redhat Enterprise Linux sources freely provided to the public.
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How to install packages to a custom location in centos6
I have a shared location, let me call it /tp I want to install all my libraries and packages in this location just like the default install. Reason to do this is: I want all the users in the network ...
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Seem to be having a problem with RealVNC with centos can't input username
Hello I seem to be having a problem with RealVNC with centos. I want to connect to a another machine, but can't because it has been "grayed out". In otherwords, I can't type in the username in the ...
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How can I fix “cannot find a valid baseurl for repo” errors on CentOS?
I finished installing CentOS 6, but when I tried running yum update I got:
[root@centos6test ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
Determining fastest mirrors
Could not ...
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How do I check if a distribution is Fedora-based?
The Python M2Crypto library requires a slightly different installation command if the Linux distribution is Fedora-core based (e.g., Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux).
Is there a way to check ...
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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb on CentOS 6.0
Somehow my partition on /dev/sdb has gotten all buggered up. This hard drive contains a lot of data that I need to recover and haven't been able to backup yet. When I attempt to mount it:
# mount -t ...
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Remove shutdown/reboot options from logout window
In my CentOS5 installation in KDE, users get presented the options to terminate the session, reboot, and shutdown. Since this computer should always remain on, I'd like to remove the reboot and ...
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How can I get to a terminal or virtual console when Ctrl-Alt-F2 fails?
When X and GNOME are working normally, I can just hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 to leave GNOME and use the terminal on the second virtual console. To switch back to GNOME, I can just hit Alt-F1.
Today, X or GNOME ...
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Installing yum on CentOS 5
I have a CentOS vm that I'm currently working on. I tried to update yum and it broke, so I removed it. So I need to re-install it on my vm, can anybody tell me how to install yum on CentOS5?
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cURL on Linux not compiled, although installed
cURL is not compiled into PHP. I'm running:
[root@vps ~]# cat /etc/issue
CentOS release 5.7 (Final)
Kernel \r on an \m
Then I execute yum install curl and yum install php-curl. Then:
[root@vps ...
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How do I install dvd-slideshow on Centos 5?
How do I install dvd-slideshow on Centos 5?
http://dvd-slideshow.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page
I tried but only found a gui to install on Ubuntu.
I'm using Centos 5, command line.
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How do I set different directories for different domains on CentOS 5.5 server?
I'm running a CentOs 5.5 server and wanted to know what commands I needed to run to be able to do the following;
I have 3 domains on the server - example1.com, example2.com, example3.com
I wanted ...
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How to create an unprivileged user in CentOS?
I want to create an unprivileged user to run my RhodeCode server and Celery daemon on a CentOS instance. I think the accepted definition of this is no home directory, login disabled, and no shell ...
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Move Web Directory to Raid Array
I want to improve the performance of a web application running on Apache, so I created a Raid Array on /dev/md0.
Now I need to figure out how to move the application to the array and make sure that ...
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Where is udev getting the ID for iSCSI devices?
I'm using iscsi-initiator-utils successfully to use some iscsi devices on CentOS 5, and I have some symlinks created by udev in /dev/disk:
# ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/ip-* /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-*
...
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/dev/sda2 has gone 49710 days without being checked, check forced
Why the shell show "/dev/sda2 has gone 49710 days without being checked, check forced." at centos start and then reboot?
......
/dev/sda2: Superblock last mount time is in the future. FIXED.
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vixie-cron.x86_64 doesn't seem to execute jobs on crontab
I have installed crontab on CentOS 5.6 x64 via
yum install vixie-cron.x86_64
Here is my crontab -e
SHELL=/bin/sh
0 0 * * * cat /root/mysql-backup.txt | xargs ...
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How do you omit “./” when running scripts on current directory
On some tutorials over the internet they can run a script on the current directory without doing:
./script
How do you omit this? I am using CentOS 5.6 x64. I want to run it this way
script
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Yum Cannot Retrieve Repository CentOS 6
I just installed CentOS 6. I tried running yum update and was having trouble getting that to work, so I tried yum clean all and now my situation seems even worse than before. Based upon what I pasted ...
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Package bash-completion missing from Yum in CentOS 6
I am trying to get tab-completion working in Yum in CentOS 6 (so I can do something like yum install firefo<TAB> and get back firefox), and I have found many tutorials which say to simply do yum ...
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“Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible” / Apache on CentOS 6
I've got a brand new CentOS 6 installation, which has a symlink in the document root to my development files:
[root@localhost html]# ls -l
total 4
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Sep 18 20:16 index.html
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Where can I find a list of all yum repositories?
Now that I know more about yum from my previous question Where is the best location for finding information on /yum?
I need to start playing with some new repositories. Where can I find a list of ...
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How to turn off all event notification under CentOS 6/GNOME?
In the top right corner under CentOS 6/GNOME it pops up messages if ex.: ethernet is connected, update has failed, etc. How can I completely turn OFF these messages??
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Multiple installed versions of git - centos
I manually installed git 1.6 a year or two ago.
I noticed today that the 1.7 version is available in yum, and installed it (package git-all)
I now get the following output:
[root@ovz5197 ~]# git ...
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No installation option with livecd
I'm currently running Windows 7 x64 Professional and want to dual-boot with CentOS.
I made a disk partitioning and wrote an image of CentOS on flash drive. But when it is being booted there's no ...
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rtorrent: Can't connect to trackers on CentOS 5.6
I'm trying to set up rtorrent on my CentOS 5.6 server, and it currently cannot connect to any trackers.
I compiled libtorrent-0.12.6 and rtorrent-0.8.6. I also compiled libcurl 7.21.7 with c-ares ...
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Increase Space of /usr directory in Cent OS
On my CentOS 5 server, fdisk -l outputs:
Disk /dev/xvda: 100.0 GB, 100000595968 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12157 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot ...
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Upgrading curl in Centos 5.6
There is any easy way to upgrade the default curl 7.15 to the 7.20 or 7.21 version? Any repository to install into YUM.
Edit: I found this repository with the last version
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CentOS 6 “Default” Installation Options
Can someone tell me the difference between a Desktop Install, a Basic Server install, and a Minimal Install? During installation, it doesn't give a description and I can't find documentation on it ...
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User logged in by sftp does not show up in `w`
My server is Centos 5. I have a chroot environment set up with the following in my sshd_config
Match group sftponly
ForceCommand internal-sftp
ChrootDirectory %h
AllowTcpForwarding no
...
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CentOS boot problem
We're using VMware Server which is running on CentOS in our company environment. As you can see,now the only thing holding this up is the CentOS can't boot. Also, I am guessing it sounds like a ...
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iostat usage and output
When I run the iostat command like this:
iostat -d
I get a result something like this:
Linux 2.6.18-238.el5 (mon01) 09/03/2011
Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read ...
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Error installing git on CentOS 6
After I run yum install git
it shows the error
Error: Package: git-1.7.6.1-1.el5.rf.i386 (rpmforge)
Requires: libcurl.so.3
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You ...
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Pulse Audio and Roaming Profiles on CentOS 6
We've been testing many Red Hat based distributions recently at work to replace Windows as our main operating system. We choosed CentOS 6 since all our software were fully compatible. The biggest bug ...
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vim always shows help/documentation
Whenever I run vim, it randomly shows the help/documentation at a non particular time. How do I disable that. It's irritating.
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How does createrepo work. How does yum understand parse its files. A conceptual explanation
I am not looking for a how-to on creating a repo (createrepo) or using yum.
I want to understand how they work together.
I want to know what files yum looks at and why, what those files contain.
I ...
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Converting DOS text files to Unix
I have a bunch of PHP scripts that are in DOS format (vi displayed [noeol] [dos] in the status line) and as expected they weren't usable.
I ran dos2unix over them to fix the line endins:
dos2unix ...
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plesk update fails
I have a dedicated server running CentOS 5.3. I'm trying to update Plesk 9.5.2 to version 10.0.0 but update fails. I do it with yum:
yum update psa* --skip-broken -t
but it fails and I get the ...
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can't open transfered website from old DS to new DS
I have 2 dedicated servers both running CentOS 5.3/Plesk 10. I've transfered a website (domain) from old server to a new one via Plesk migration manager and the website (domain) shows in the domain ...
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How to colorize output of ls ?
I'm running CentOS in Linux text mode. When I run the command ls /usr/, the output is too hard to read (dark blue on black). How can I change the text coloring?
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CentOS server migration
I have 2 dedicated servers at the moment both running CentOS 5.3 and Plesk 10, but I'm about to give up trying to transfer the data from old one to a new one, because they just wouldn't connect via ...
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Run getty on a serial port on startup on RHEL
I want to put a getty on ttyS2 on a RHEL 6.1 box so I can use IPMI's serial-over-ethernet functionality to log in to a machine when SSH isn't working.
In the past (on Ubuntu?), I used to add a line ...
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Plesk 10 migration failure
I have 2 dedicated servers both running CentOS 5.3 and Plesk 10.0.0.
I'm trying to migrate stuff from one to the other but it's not happening, just after I fill out "Migration settings" and press ...
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How to install KVM on CentOS 6
I can't install kvm on CentOS.
I got these errors:
[root@localhost etc]# yum groupinstall kvm -y
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: ...
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How to execute a script on gdm login automatically for all users?
What file should I modify to execute some instructions when any user logs in through gdm?
I tried /etc/bashrc but that is executed ony when starting bash (and each time an xterm is open). I'd like to ...
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CentOS - Check partition information from command line
What is the command to check partition information on a CentOS 5.5 release?
Specifically, I'm looking to see if the partitions were set as LVMs.
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Syncing time with Windows Server Dual Booting systems
I am about to work on getting the workstations on my network here to be connected to the Active Directory on my Windows 2003 server using Likewise Identity Service. One of the security requirements is ...
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Install apache,php and mysql on CentOS VPS
I try to install apache,php and mysql server by these commands.
yum install httpd
yum install php
install mysql-server mysql
service httpd start
service mysqld start to start your mysql server
...
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Install bz2 lib from source
I want to install bz2 lib from ssh to my CentOS server.
I get it from here and use
tar -xvf
command to extract it,but it does't have configure file to compile and install it.
I need this lib to ...
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How To Install Virtualbox Guest Additions On CentOS via Command Line only
Reading the Virtualbox user manual, I finally got [here], which explains how to install Virtualbox Guest Additions on a Linux guest via Command Line.
But it's not clear enough for me (I just started ...
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command line tool to set time zone
In Centos 5.x there is the text mode interface of system-config-date to set the time zone. Although that utility still exists in Centos 6 the text mode is gone. Is there anything similar in Centos 6?
