Monthly Archives: March 2010

Need to install Nagios on CentOS?

You might run into the problem where Yum says that there are no packages for Nagios.  If that is the case then add this to your yum repos.  For CentOS it was called /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo. # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/linadd.repo [LinAdd.org] name=Linux Addons … Continue reading

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What is YUM and why do RedHat and CentOS use it?

This is a great article that goes over some of the practical things about being a system administrator.  I used to do linux administration in a past job and its helpful to keep current on these things.

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Are your CentOS root commands failing to be found?

First do this: env (look for the path variable and see if it has the following line in it) Then add your /sbin path with this: PATH=”/usr/sbin:$PATH” And!! PATH=”/sbin:$PATH” Then try it again.  It might work for you like it … Continue reading

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How can i set up phpmyadmin in linux?

Thanks Ray! Setting up phpMyAdmin Administration of MySQL is carried out using phpMyAdmin which is a free open source software package licensed under the GNU. Nearly all hosting providers use this, and is pretty much the de-facto standard these days. … Continue reading

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Disable the “Are you sure you want to open this file?” warning dialogue in Mac OS X

Kind of annoying when lazy programmers don’t do their job and sign their apps.  IF you don’t want to go here then do this on the terminal line. defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO to reverse this type: defaults write … Continue reading

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