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  • Security updates only for Fedora 7 / RHEL & Centos 5

    I found this on redhat.comthe other day....

    It is now possible to limit yum to install security updates only. To do so, simply install the yum-security plugin and run the following command:

    yum update --security

    Hopefully this will allow fedora users to have the option of running a ...

  • USB Networking with Fedora 7 & n800

    There are times where you cannot use WiFi, for example my workplace's WLAN uses LEAP, which maemo doesn't support. I found that setting up USB networking on my n800 was a bit of a pain since there isn't a single document... if you check my del.icio ...

  • Weather Wallpaper rpm for Fedora 7

    It's not often I blog twice in a day, but after seeing this post I just had to see if I could build a rpm for fedora 7.

    I've updated my repo for fedora 7, so.. yum install weather-wallpaper should do the trick :cool:

    Edit: Hidden yum transation ...

  • Start.fedoraproject.org

    A fedora start page is being tested... the original mine looks a little different tho, nothing a quick css update wouldn't fix :)

    [caption id="attachment\_533" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="... note quite working as expected!"][![... note quite working as expected!](https://www.linickx.com/files/2008/10/start_fedora-300x225 ...
  • HTTP Compression on Redhat / CentOS / Fedora

    I was doing some testing on my server the other day, and realised that http compression within apache (httpd) was not enabled by default. Further digging showed me that mod_defate was what I needed, and infact it was installed by default on my CentOS box.

    How to enable mod_default on ...

  • DenyHosts - Protecting against SSH Brute Force Attacks

    If you look after a remote linux box, the chances are you use SSH, in order to connect to it you may even have to leave PORT 22 open to the whole Internet !

    There are some basic security steps that you can do to protect SSH, such as block the ...

  • Service Recovery Scripts & Error Page Tips.

    A couple of weeks ago, I was proper ill with flu; the problem with looking after your own server is that only you can fix it - it's well and good having monitoring systems (nagios) telling you about faults, but if you can't read or see the alerts the ...

  • SNMP v3 on Redhat Linux

    I think it's safe to say, if you can't get something to work then the manual is rubbish or the user is stupid, with setting up snmp v3 on linux, the user is me, so the fault is probably lies there.

    SNMPv3 moves away from the community string ...

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