This guide explains how to use a RHEL DVD or CD as a local YUM repository, handy if you need to update an older RHEL server or have not Internet access for installing packages. This guide uses RHEL 5.7 as an example but this should work for any version of RHEL. Technorati Tags: HowTo, Linux, [...]
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Secure SSH Server
June 17th, 2011 
KJS Secure SSH Server | Security Harden SSH Servers This guide will show you step by step how to secure SSH servers on your network or hosted directly on the Internet. SSH is the standard way for Admin’s to connect to Linux servers securely over an encrypted tunnel. However a default install of SSH is far [...]
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Tags: CentOS, How-To, Linux, Redhat, Secure SSH, Security, Security Harden SSH 
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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 [...]
Posted in CentOS, Fedora, Linux, RHEL Tags: CentOS, CentOS Kickstart, fedora, Fedora Kickstart, HowTo, kickstart, Linux, Redhat, Redhat Kickstart, RHEL 3 Comments »Top 10 Linux Admin Epic Fails!
May 28th, 2011 KJS My Top 10 Linux Admin fails of all time… Some of them by me well actually only one or two of them are mine I would also like to point out this was never on a production system! However most of these Epic Fails are by friends / people I have worked with… Or some [...]
CentOS 5 PHP 5.3 Install Tutorial
May 27th, 2011 KJS HowTo install PHP 5.3 on CentOS 5 or RHEL 5 This small tutorial walks you through a CentOS 5 PHP 5.3 installation using a PHP 5.3.6-2 RPM for CentOS / RHEL. I will be using the Atomic Repo in this guide, as always when using 3rd party YUM repos I would recommend following our guide [...]
