One of my favorite things about Debian is its awesome package management system. Apt is one of the reasons I have used Debian for servers for so many years and eased my initial transition to Ubuntu (which as most people know was initially a Debian fork). Apt is a great tool as long as you …
By eric
I use a lot of VPS and often times, they don’t actually have yum to make my life easier. So here is a quick HOWTO on installing yum on a CentOS box. This assumes that you have rpm and wget already installed. Note: This will only work on CentOS 5.2 while the mirror is still …
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Since everyone seemed to enjoy my first round of tips and tricks to securing a linux system, I figured I would throw together a few more. Enjoy. There are files that get changed very infrequently. For instance, if your system won’t have any users added anytime soon then it may be sensible to chattr immutably …
By eric
A while back I had been asked to write a few quick tips that as an administrator, one would find helpful. They published in one form or another and are now available here. There are MANY more, but these are just a few. Enjoy. Users who may be acting up or aren’t listening can still …
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