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If you want to have the latest version of nginx on your CentOS system the easiest way is to use the official yum repository from the nginx program. The version contained in the EPEL repository is quite old. Create a new repository file: vi /etc/yum.repos/nginx.repo copy the yum repository information into it and save it: [...]
The NX protocol is a remote X protocol and software quite similar to VNC but over ssh. While using it for a machine there was this strange behavior that the session was not working anymore and can’t be reestablished. Reinstalling and configuring the nx server software didn’t fix the problem. In the end I fixed [...]
If you installed the server without GUI it may is useful sometimes to have a GUI output via ssh on an different computer. You can connect with ssh to the server and present the output on you local machine by using ssh with the option -X. You need to be sure that the package xauth [...]
If you want to use Tor on your Mac OS X or Linux there is a new bundle you can easy use. The bundle includes all necessary tools and a preconfigured Firefox with the necessary plugin. Up to now the Tor Browser Bundle is still beta but for me it works without problems. I could post a [...]
The interface name of a network device increases if the mac address of the physical or virtual network card changes. A common case is if you made a clone of a virtual machine for example via VMware or KVM or replaced a physical network card in a non virtualized server. If it’s a CentOS 6 [...]
This tutorial should help you with the installation process of OpenERP on CentOS 6.x. I installed OpenERP server and the OpenERP webgui with a nginx http proxy on a CentOS 6.0. First of all I installed minmal CentOS 6.0. Login as root and process the following steps. Use the official nginx repository for the latest [...]
8 month after RHEL 6 was released the free clone CentOS 6 is released. It includes all new features and is binary compatible to Red Hats Enterprise Linux 6. Based on Linux kernel 2.6.32 it includes for example PostgreSQL 8.4 and MySQL 5.1. Like RedHat, the CentOS team will release 7 Years patches and service [...]
Grub is the default bootloader for the most popular Linux distributions. The installation procedure is not so easy if you’re not familiar with the concept behind it. After a restore or copy of a system to a new harddisk the bootloader needs to be reinstalled to this new disk. If you are using a live [...]
On a desktop machine I updated from OpenSuSE 11.1 to 11.4 there appeared some strange boot problems after installation. The system freezes each time directly after grub and the only message I got in textmode was “Bug: SoftLookup”. First I thought maybe there are hardware problems but the machine worked before and using a live [...]
Install SUN/Oracle JDK and PostgreSQL via zypper or Yast. Download pljava here http://pgfoundry.org/frs/?group_id=1000038&release_id=1024 Create a directory for example /usr/src/pljava and extract pljava there. create /etc/ld.so.conf.d/postgres.conf with this two lines in it if your using i386 cpu architecture. /usr/lib/jvm/java/lib /usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/i386/server now you have to run: ldconfig edit /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf and add this two lines custom_variable_classes = ‘pljava’ [...]
