While people are still waiting to for Centos 6 (after many month since RHEL6 was released) we got a little teaser in the release of Centos 5.6 last week. This is a minor security release, but it also brings in some interesting additions like ext4 support and php53 packages among others. If you are running [...]
I got a package dependency issue when updating our 64-bit CentOS server, which was caused by two perl packages installed (i386 and x86_64). perl i386 4:5.8.8-32.el5_5.1 installed 28 M perl x86_64 4:5.8.8-32.el5_5.1 installed 34 M I tried to remove it using rpm command but didn’t work (maybe i just don’t know the correct params with [...]
Almost two months after RHEL5.4, Centos 5.4 was released on the 21st October. This version includes various changes into the virtualization field and it includes support for KVM (kernel-based virtual machine) hypervisor and the Xen hypervisor. Also this release features many bug fixes and security updates, and should be an easy upgrade for users running [...]
After a long development time, Centos 4.8 was finally released on the 21st August. This is a good thing that after the latest problems between the centos developers, they were able to pull this out finally and now be able to focus on the upcoming 5.4 release. There are no major changes in this update, [...]
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Here’s my first try working with Amazon Web Services. Covered tasks are the following: – getting familiar with AWS, specially EC2 and S3. – working with EC2 instance using CentOS image – search, start/stop, and do some customization of an instance – create AMIs (private) and start instance from it. – S3 buckets – upload [...]
Here’s my quick howto on installing GNUPG PHP Pecl extension (pecl docs) in Cpanel. Please note that this covers only the installation process and no further details on setting up gpg keys or using the function with extension or sample PHP scripts. Installation process is very straightforward provided you met the requirements like php-pear, gnupg, [...]
Anyone running centos/rhel x86_64 systems has probably noticed that redhat has a strange way to install a mix of i386 and x86_64 rpms on such a systems. This is how redhat is using the 64bit architecture in a mixed way to be able to support also i386 applications. This is completely different from how for [...]
RedHat based systems (rhel/fedora/centos) use rpm/yum to install and upgrade packages. If the rpm database gets corrupted in some way it will break all the functionality of rpm and other tools that rely on it like yum for example. We have seen this either showing some errors on the console, or most frequently just by [...]
Linux systems traditionally keep the definition of their timezone in /etc/localtime. This is a binary file with the timezone info, and if we want to change it we need to find the appropriate timezone file from /usr/share/zoneinfo and copy it over the one from /etc or just link to it. Once you change it, you [...]
The CentOS team just released their latest version of CentOS-5.2, a minor upgrade for the Centos-5 release. This is based on the upstream release RHEL 5.2.0 and includes packages from all variants including server and client repositories. Any system running CentOS-5 (either 5.0 or 5.1) can be upgraded by just running: yum upgrade that will [...]
