by Ben | May 24, 2008
Fedora 9 was released this past Tuesday. The upgrade process has changed slightly, with the Fedora Project integrating a new tool called PreUpgrade. To upgrade, make sure your system is fully updated with: [code] yum -y update [/code] and reboot when the process has...
by Ben | May 19, 2008
Some may find that out-of-the-box, Hardy Heron’s network performance is painfully slow. By default, IPv6 is enabled, and chances are good that your nearest router can’t speak the language nor interpret DNS requests efficiently. To disable IPv6, open a...
by Ben | Nov 8, 2007
In the past, we discussed the procedure for upgrading Fedora using yum. Ready to try it again for Werewolf? Grab the new fedora-release and fedora-release-notes to update repos: [code lang=”bash”]rpm -Uvh...
by Ben | Sep 24, 2007
Scenario: FTP user is jailed to their home directory with chroot. FTP user needs to access an external directory (such as www). Normally you would create a symbolic link in the user’s home directory. [code] cd /home/user ln -s /var/www/html/userdomain.com www...
by Ben | Aug 17, 2007
If you’ve ever gotten to a point where installing RPMs in linux becomes unresponsive, unreliable and/or extremely flaky, you may need to dig a little deeper. Simply killing the yumex/yum/python processes may not be enough. Perhaps a reboot will do the trick, but...
