Remove Redhat RHN non-registration warning for yum

I was recently working on a Redhat system that was unregistered in which I added CentOS repository config file into /etc/yum.repos.d/ (similar to this) to pull from for yum. Even […]

How to extract files from an rpm

rpm2cpio program.rpm | cpio -idmv According to the man page, cpio is aprogram that can copy files to and from archives. The flags used are described as follows: -i : […]

How to install packages from EPEL repository on RHEL

This is how to install EPEL packages, or Extended Packages for Enterprise Linux, on RHEL6. wget http://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh !$ Other repository installations can be found here.

Windows User information and group change via command line

I came across another computer with an account issue, where the main account would not load. To add to the problem, the (Windows XP Home) User Account Control Panel module […]

Add non standard path to ld.so lookup

setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH “/path/to/lib/dir:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH” export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=”/path/to/lib/dir:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH” echo /path/to/lib/dir >> /etc/ld.so.conf lddconfig For help, with either features of dynamic linking or the location of the config file on your system, consult the […]

ZFS Upgrade

I just updated my server running FreeBSD from version 8.1 to the latest legacy version, 8.3. I figured I’d take advantage of the new ZFS version and upgrade to that […]