Wednesday, 10th March 2010.

Posted on Friday, 22nd January 2010 by Balazs

Introduction
Cacti is a great tool to graph performance of the various hardware components of a network. With the use of the yum repository manager, it is very simple to install on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or CentOS 5.
Install steps

First make sure that you have the dag repository configured in yum. Edit or [...]

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Posted on Thursday, 21st January 2010 by Balazs

Problem
How to view folders from the Mac that hosts the VMWare Fusion guest operating system CentOS or Red Hat Linux?
Solution

First, make sure that the VMWare Tools are installed. That always helps.
Next, in the WMWare configuration menu of the guest, set up the desired shared folders. There might be already a default shared folder [...]

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Posted on Sunday, 30th August 2009 by Balazs

Yum update fails
I see the question of failed dependencies come up on forums quite a bit. Users post errors like:
Missing Dependency: bind-utils = 9.3.4-10.P1.el5_3.1 is needed bind-sdb-9.3.4-10.P1.el5_3.1

or
ImageMagick-perl-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi is needed by package ImageMagick-perl-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1.x86_64

or
httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.2.x86_64 from updates has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: /usr/share/magic.mime is needed by package [...]

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