Yum is a must-use for any Red Hat, CentOS, or Fedora system administrator. It will search for packages for you, install them, update them, and even remove them. It will automatically resolve and process dependencies. It will detect package conflicts…
Linux, being a great community, has a great command for everything. If you need it, somebody wrote it. And even if you don’t need it, somebody probably wrote it. Below is a list of some useful, some absolute useless, and…
Linux, like all operating systems, is nothing more than a collection of daemons. Each daemon can be configured as a service to startup at boot time and to properly shutdown when the system is halted. In CentOS, Red Hat Linux…
When your Linux system is running low on memory, you can sometimes reclaim system memory by using the drop_caches command to free up memory that is being for caches. View Free Linux System Memory Using Top or Free You can…
In a previous article, we discussed configuring NTP on your server. NTP is the obviously the first choice for setting your server’s date and time. The best part about using NTP is that the continues to be updated over time so…
I had looked into chef and puppet in the past and even implemented puppet as a configuration management system. Puppet worked pretty good for what I needed, and I have to admit, I didn’t have much time to go beyond…