Install Git on Centos 5 – Install EPEL on Centos
To install Git on a Centos server you need to install something called EPEL first. This is an extra repository of apps which you need to have accessible in order to install Git. I tried other tutorials...
View ArticleCentOS Very Slow SSH Password Prompt
If you are finding it takes ages for a password prompt to come up when trying to connect to a CentOS server (and possibly others) this is a solution. The cause is that your IP address does not have the...
View Articlesafe-rm – saves you from rm -rf /*
Okay, so it’s a sysadmin’s nightmare that you might when tired miss out a dot from an rm -rf ./* and whilst you shouldn’t run as root, there are times when permissions problems push you into it. This...
View ArticleCreating RPMs
One thing that I often get asked as a package maintainer is how hard is it to make rpms? Well, here’s a little secret, if you have the right tools, it’s actually quite easy. The main tool I use is...
View ArticleInstalling Percona DB on a clean CentOS
Percona is a performance optimised fork of MySQL that has gained a lot of traction in the Magento-sphere as webmasters and sysadmins alike look to squeeze the most performance out of their hardware. If...
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