Posts Tagged ‘CentOS’

Finding Files and Binaries on Linux and UNIX

By Christer | Debian

I manage a number of different types of systems. I have an Arch Linux laptop, a Macbook installed with OS X, CentOS and RHEL machines at work, as well as Debian servers both at work and home. As if that weren’t enough I also maintain a few FreeBSD servers. Between all of these different Operating

How to solve cron error: “ERROR: failed to open PAM security session: Success”

By Christer | CentOS

Today I ran into a problem at work that I thought would be worth sharing. It is one of those odd only-happens-once-in-a-blue-moon errors, so writing it down and putting it out there on the internet may help those lucky few who run into it. The Situation I had a report from a user that the

Configure EPEL Repository : CentOS 5.x

Configure EPEL Repository : CentOS 5.x

By Christer | CentOS

This article will outline how to install the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository for your CentOS 5.x server or desktop. This is one of the few third-party repositories that I trust, and provides a great number of newer and otherwise unavailable packages to your CentOS installation. Installation To install and activate the EPEL