FAN Hyper-V Kernel Panic Fix for switchroot: mount failed
Fully Automated Nagios 2.4 is based on CentOS 5.9, so these instructions also apply to any upgraded or new installation of CentOS 5.9 on Hyper-V. CentOS […]
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How To: Networking in CentOS under Hyper-V
Set up a new Hyper-V virtual machine using the wizard, and install CentOS in the Hyper-V virtual machine. Next, download the Linux Integration Components (LinuxIC) […]
How to: Set up Openswan L2TP VPN Server on CentOS 6
Have you ever wanted to set up your own VPN server? By following the steps below, you can set up your own L2TP VPN server […]
Set up Webmin on CentOS
Webmin is a popular web-based GUI for configuring some of the CentOS server options. You can install a repo so that it will be installed […]
Ensure CentOS has the right time
By default, the ntp service is not installed with CentOS 6. First, install ntp from yum: yum install ntp Then, force a time sync by […]
Mounting SMB Shares Hosted on Mac OS X from Linux
Apple used to use the Samba open source project as the basis for its Windows sharing options in Mac OS X. With Lion and now […]
Adding alternate repositories to CentOS
Many alternative repositories are available to install software packages for CentOS. Popular alternatives and instructions for adding each are listed below. EPEL – Fedora Repository […]
Setting up CentOS – Add users
Add a user with the command “useradd.” For example, to add an admin user to the wheel group, run the following command: useradd newuser -g […]
Setting up CentOS – Set a hostname
Edit /etc/sysconfig/network and set the HOSTNAME field to the name of your server. Reboot, and the Bash prompt should now show the correct name of […]
Setting up CentOS – Configure the network
When you install a CentOS 6.0, 6.1, or 6.2 server, the network is not automatically configured for DHCP or static IP addressing. In CentOS 6.3 […]