How to install the bash mail command on CentOS, RHEL or Fedora, this is handy for sending mail from the command line: cat /some/file | mail youraddress@yourdomain.com If you don’t have the mail command installed you will get the following error: -bash: mail: command not found Technorati Tags: Bash, CentOS, Command Line, fedora, HowTo, Linux, [...]
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YUM How To guide for Linux RPM distros Fedora, CentOS, RHEL
August 4th, 2011 
KJS Ultimate how to guide for YUM the Linux package manager used on a number of Linux distributions such as Redhat RHEL, CentOS & Fedora. Yum uses repositories of RPM packages to download and install new software for your Linux server. The instructions for YUM should be the same for each Linux distro CentOS, RHEL or [...]
Creating a kickstart CD DVD Fedora / Redhat / CentOS
June 2nd, 2011 KJS Create a Kick Start DVD / CD for RHEL / Fedora / CentOS The instructions below use Fedora as an example but the same should apply for Redhat / CentOS and other RHEL clones. The guide below will show you step by step how to make a .iso bootable CD / DVD containing your [...]
CentOS Kickstart – Fedora, Redhat Kickstart HowTo
June 2nd, 2011 KJS CentOS Kickstart, Fedora Kickstart, Redhat Kickstart How To This guide will walk you through the process of creating a CentOS Kickstart file the same rules will apply when creating a Fedora Kickstart or Redhat Kickstart files, these distros are all RPM based and use the Redhat method of creating Kickstart files. How to create Kickstart [...]
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Create Logical Volume lvcreate
May 27th, 2011 KJS Create Logical Volume with lvcreate This guide walks you through creating a logical volume with lvcreate assumes you have free space in your existing Logical Group (LG for short), the operating system I am creating the LV’s on is CentOS however this should work on any other linux distro Ubuntu, Debian etc however you may [...]
Posted in CentOS, Fedora, Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu Tags: CentOS, create logical volume, fedora, Linux, logical volume, lvcreate, LVM, RHEL, ubuntu No Comments ».gvfs permission denied
May 20th, 2011 KJS Recently I had a problem with a .gvfs file in a users home dir causing an rsync backup to fail, throwing the following error: receiving file list … rsync: readlink_stat(“/home/username/.gvfs”) failed: Permission denied (13) done username/.xsession-errors sent 42 bytes received 1746118 bytes 36003.30 bytes/sec total size is 31178158898 speedup is 17855.27 rsync error: some files [...]
