CentOS NetInstall

September 1st, 2010 Lethe No comments

A CentOS NetInstall, or network installation, is the process of installing a full working CentOS machine using a very small image, around 10MB, downloaded from the CentOS website. In this post I will show you the process to follow for an easy and complete CentOS Netinstall .
Get the ISO
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RHCE Practice Lab – Troubleshoot Boot issues

August 30th, 2010 Lethe No comments

In the continuous effort of serving the community with resources to prepare for RHCE exam I’m releasing a new quiz/exercise on the RHCE practice lab series. This RHCE practice lab will focus on the troubleshooting part of the exam which is the one scaring most candidates.
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Poor design

August 28th, 2010 Lethe No comments

This is something I’ve always told, never got tired of it, to my students “Guys always measure twice and cut once. It’s better to spend one more week in the planning phase than having to troubleshoot problems once you have implemented something”. I think this is a basic principal [...] Continue Reading…

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I'm back with some updates

August 27th, 2010 Lethe No comments

Good morning all, i'm sorry for the long silence due to work problems and to my relocation to a new house, I'm almost back in my usual workplace (I've been out of town for some time) and finally had back my internet connection in the new house, what [...] Continue Reading…

Originally posted 2010-02-23 09:40:06. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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How to install Nagios 3 on Centos 5.x (The easy way)

August 27th, 2010 Lethe 3 comments

So you want to start monitoring your growing network and heard about Nagios but have no idea how to install it, great I will show you. I won’t cover the installation from source code as it is already well described in the official documentation.

Configure Repositories
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How to install VIM in Centos 5

August 26th, 2010 Lethe No comments

Q. When I try to launch vim to edit a file I get a command not found error. How can I solve this?

A: You need to manually install VIM on a system running CentOS.

Vim, or VI enhanced, is the successor of the famous vi editor which is found almost [...] Continue Reading…

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Professional Linux Administration series

August 25th, 2010 Lethe No comments

Professional Linux Administration posts.
Good morning all, I’ve received in the past a few comments and email about a series of posts describing the in and out of professional Linux administration. The fact is a lot of fresher in the Linux field out there often find problems after certifications like [...] Continue Reading…

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VLC does not start on Fedora 13 x64

August 24th, 2010 Lethe No comments
Continuing my series on posts on the small, but yet annoying bugs, on Fedora 13 here’s another. When you try to launch VLC media player it will silently fail to start, read on and I will show you how to solve this.
Install VLC Media player.
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Skype does not start on Fedora 13

August 23rd, 2010 Lethe No comments

As you know Skype has available both Linux and windows version of their popular software, problem is the Linux version development has never been following the same pace as the Windows version and with  Fedora 13 coming out the situation is not any better, in [...] Continue Reading…

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Blog recovery

August 22nd, 2010 Lethe 2 comments

Well it finally happened, yesterday my blog completely crashed and I was forced to reinstall everything from scratch. I’ve lost just a  few posts (that I’ve been able to successfully restore from an old backup) but I’m still in the process of recovering the old settings, features and plugins.

Probably [...] Continue Reading…

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