Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in CentOS • Tagged with CentOS, Java, JDK
1. Download SUN or now Oracle JDK (.rpm.bin format) from Oracle Website: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
chmod +x <file>.rpm.bin
./<file>.rpm.bin
alternatives --install /usr/bin/java …
Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in CentOS • Tagged with CentOS, PostgreSQL
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 …
How to update CentOS 5.3 to CentOS 5.4
It's done.
CentOS 5.4 was released on 22. Oct 2009
If you wan to update, first verify there are no known problems or version conflicts with your software.
Be sure you have a backup and take a snapshot if …
Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in Fedora • Tagged with Fedora, Tor
This tutorial explains how to install Tor on a Fedora system. If you are looking for an easy to use solution check you this new all in one package here.
There is a Fedora package of Tor. We need to install 2 packages:
(if you don't install tor …
Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in CentOS • Tagged with CentOS, ntop
Install rpmforge repository: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge
There is an ntop rpm in the rpmforge repository:
yum install ntop
There is a bug in the /etc/init.d/ntop startscript we need to fix. Open the file in your favorite editor for example vim:
vim /etc/init …
If you want to be sure all security updates are installed automatic you can use yum-cron. Be sure you have configured your yum correctly not to update wrong things from different repositories.
yum install yum-cron
chkconfig --levels 35 yum-cron on
service …
Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in misc • Tagged with CentOS, KVM
Howto setup a bridge device on CentOS or Fedora.
If you need to bring your KVM VM's into the same local area network like your host is in you need to configure a bridge device.
Install all needed packages:
yum install bridge-utils
yum install tunctl
Disable NetworkManager and enable network …
Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in CentOS • Tagged with CentOS, Jabber
ejabberd is one of the most popular jabber servers. This howto explains how to run your own jabber server on CentOS using ejabberd.
First you need to activate EPEL-Repository on your CentOS machine.
install it via yum:
yum install ejabberd
configure your firewall to allow following default ports …
Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in Debian • Tagged with Debian, Squid, Linux
If you need an SSL-proxy connection via squid on Debian/Linux you need to recompile the squid-2.7 package with --enable-ssl option.
Here a short step by step tutorial how to rebuild a squid .deb package with --enable-ssl option.
Enable source repository on your buildmachine. To describe it in words …
Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeBSD, Tor
If you want to run tor on FreeBSD 8.0 you first have to update your port tree. If you not used with port please see the FreeBSD documentation.
This should fetch and install the newsest port tree:
portsnap fetch
portsnap extract
Now we need to install openssl from port …