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Create a Self-Signed Certificate for Apache
Contained within an SSL certificate is information that pertains to you and your secured domain. Lets imaging that you have a web hosting company called Spider and the details for which are shown below. Country […]
Gentoo Linux
Gentoo: Temporarily Configure Networking
This can be useful if your working from a LiveCD or testing the network. Note, “temporary” means it will not survive a reboot! To configure networking, adjust the below command for your own environment. ifconfig […]
CentOS
Unable to Install mkpasswd on CentOS 6.4
I was surprised to find the mkpasswd utility missing from my new installation of CentOS 6.4. Yum has a feature called whatprovides, which can be used to find out which installable package provides some feature, […]
Gentoo Linux
Connect to a NFS Share with Gentoo
Contents1 Install NFSv42 Find NFS Shares3 Auto-Mount NFS Shares4 References Install NFSv4 The below command will install with the default USE flags of ipv6, tpcd and nfsv4. emerge –ask nfs-utils Find NFS Shares If you […]
Linux
The Secure Copy (scp) Command
Secure Copy (scp) is a Linux remote file copy command. It can be used like the Copy (cp) command but supports the secure transfer of file between hosts on a network. The basic synopsis for […]
Linux
Removing LVM2 Partitions and RAID Devices
LVM Partitions If you decide to start your installation from the beginning (or installing another OS), you will first need to remove the LVM2 partitions and the RAID devices. To do that, boot into a […]