RPMforge repository is a utility that is used to install third party software packages under Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Community ENTerprise Operating System (CentOS). It provides more than 5000 software packages in the rpm format for these Linux distributions. RPMforge repository not a part of RHEL or CentOS but it is designed to work with these operating systems. The complete list of packages can be fount at https://pkgs.repoforge.org/ . You’ll […]
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Tip: Changing Linux top tool to htop
Tip: Changing top to htop I’d like to share with you a great tool I’ve been using for some time. All of you Linux users know the top tool which allows you to view running tasks, monitor system load, memory consumption, swap, etc… The look & feel of top is old and plain which for […]
How To: Install PHP from source code on ...
All Linux distributions come with PHP. However, it is recommended to download latest PHP source code, compile and install on Linux. This will make it easier to upgrade PHP on an ongoing basis immediately after a new patch or release is available for download from PHP. This article explains how to install PHP5 from source […]
How to: Install and configure DRBD on Ce...
How to: Install and configure DRBD on CentOS 6 DRBD® refers to block devices designed as a building block to form high availability (HA) clusters – Distributed Replicated Block Device This is done by mirroring a whole block device via an assigned network. Distributed Replicated Block Device can be understood as network based raid-1. So, […]
OpenVPN Installation and configuration o...
Step-by-step tutorial that will guide you through installing OpenVPN on CentOS 6.x server, Including all installation steps in screen shots demos, commands
PHP and Apache Installation on CentOS Ho...
PHP and Apache Installation on CentOS In this tutorial: how to install PHP and Apache on CentOS. CentOS comes with Apache v.2.2.3 and PHP v.5.1.6 and they are easily installed via the default CentOS Package Manager, yum. The advantage of using yum (as opposed to installing via source code) is that you will get any […]
How To: Reset MySQL Password
From time to time it happens that mysql password for root user gets lost and you are required to reset mysql password. here’s how it’s done: System Requirements: A Linux or Windows machine running mysql server. The following process will teach you how to reset mysql password for root user (or any other user) on […]