As I wrote in an older post there is a simple solution using ssh to tunnel your webbrowser traffic through an ssh connection to a secure and trusted endpoint. This is a very simple solution to secure your access to the web while you are in a public wifi network or old fashioned cable network. [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This tutorial explains a basic configuration using PostgreSQL and CentOS. For detailed information about configuration parameter please read the PostgreSQL documentation which is very good organized. First thing you should do is updating your system to the last patch level. Be sure all the other installed software on this system works with the newest patches [...]
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 [...]
