Tag: CentOS
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AutoSSH on CentOS
I have been interested in MySQL replication over ssh and I wanted a way to make sure that the tunnel is always up. Everyone says to use AutoSSH. AutoSSH is not in EPEL, but is in rpmforge (Is that that same as DAG? Didn’t they merge?). I installed rpmforge: I don’t like to do the…
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Xnest, xdmcp and X11 on CentOS
It has been a while since I have used XNest. It works. Slow, but it works. I can ssh into a box and bring back a full X session back to my Mac. In CentOS 5.5 I had to edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf and add: Enable=true under [xdmcp]. Restart X and now I can run: Xnest :1 -geometry 1024×768…
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GNU date vs BSD date
I usually develop and test my BASH scripts on my mac, mostly for use on RedHat systems. Occasionally I run into problems with this workflow. Recently I realized there was a differnce between the date command on RedHat and the date command in OS X. Turns out BDS date != GNU date. The workaround, install coreutils from Mac…
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CentOS: HowTo install ruby, rubygems and passenger for a redmine install
I like to put my complied software in /opt vs /usr/local. Make sure rpm version is not installed. install ruby: user alternatvies to create sym links: make sure current ruby is set to 1.8.7: /usr/sbin/alternatives –config ruby install rubygems: install gems (No docs): Passenger said I needed to install curl-dev (yum install curl-devel) install passenger apache…
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Install pptp-client on CentOS 5.4
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Installing Flash on CentOS 5.4 x64
Here is what I tried: wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz tar -xzf libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz mv libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/