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The Jenkins project provides a rpm installation repository for CentOS which installs Jenkins with some changed locations for configuration files. If you want to change the default port for Jenkins you need to change the file /etc/sysconfig/jenkins JENKINS_PORT=”8080″ Change it to the port you want to use for Jenkins. Default is port 8080. To deliver [...]
If you want to use the graphic drivers provided by Nvidia, the easiest would be to install them via RPMFusion. Using the .run installer from the Nvidia download page didn’t work for me. There need to be too many manual changes to make it work properly. 1. Install the RPMFusion repository package from there website [...]
This time I upgraded my Fedora just after being released by the Fedora team. It looks like there is a little masochist in my head. But to be fair the Fedora release team did quite a good job with their upgrade mechanism. The system was installed with a Fedora 13 version, upgraded to 14 and [...]
Today my workstation asked me to update from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14. Because I didn’t need it and the data on it are not important for me for the next few days I started the upgrade and monitored it beside I was working on my Mac Book. The workstation is configured to run some [...]
In Linux you can add additional network IP’s to a network interface with aliases. Your first interface name looks something like etho. If you add more additional addresses your alias will look some thing like eth0:0 for the first one and eht0:1 for the second and so on. This interface can be configured with it’s [...]
CentOS 5.6 was released and I updated nearly all of my CentOS machines to the new version. Up to now only one machine made some smaller problems and needs some love to work like it did before the update. The procedure is quite simple if your are on CentOS 5.5. If you have automatic updates [...]
How to install KVM virtualization technologie on CentOS 5.4. This Howto explains step by step how to install KVM and how to create a VirtualMachine using Virtual Manager GUI. Before you install KVM you need to verify that your CPU is compatible. One of the following keywords needs to be in your /proc/cpuinfo: SVM (AMD) [...]
Install CentOS 5.3 using the Server template. After you installed the system log in as root and run update the system: yum update If the kernel was updated reboot the system. reboot Now we have to include the rpmforge repository to install Nagios 3.0.x. If you are not familiar with installing repostiorys using yum read [...]
1. Download SUN or now Oracle JDK (.rpm.bin format) from Oracle Website: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html 2. make .bin file executeable chmod +x <file>.rpm.bin 3. run the installer ./<file>.rpm.bin 4. link the installed jdk into your environment alternatives –install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/default/bin/java 1 alternatives –config java 5. test java -version output should look like this: java version “1.5.0_19″ [...]
This tutorial explains how to install PostgreSQL from the official PostgreSQL repository. This method allows you to install newer versions of PostgreSQL for example 9.0 if you need the newest cluster functionality delivered with upcoming PostgreSQL 9.1 you need to build the software manual as long as there is no 9.1 repository available. If you [...]
