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Installing Ansible on Debian 9

Ansible is free software that allows the deployment and the automation of administration tasks on multiple remote servers at the same time, regardless of their operating system. What is interesting with Ansible, no need to install an agent on the servers, only the deployment of the public key of Ansible server is necessary, because the […]

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CentOS eth0 Network config

Here is a short tutorial to configure the network interface under CentOS. Here the network interface is called: eth0. Configuring the ifcfg-eth0 file vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE = eth0 ## Interface Name BOOTPROTO = static ## Switch to static and non-DHCP mode BROADCAST = 192.168.0.255 ## broadcast address HWADDR = AA: BB: DC: DD: EE: FF […]

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Install htop on CentOS

Under CentOS, it is not possible to install htop via the official repositories. Here is a small memo about how to install htop under CentOS. To install htop, we will go through the addition of an external repository: CentOS-Dag.repo. vi /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Dag.repo Then paste the following lines: [dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag gpgcheck=1 […]

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Installing CentOS from USB

In this tutorial we will learn how to download and confirm the checksum of one or more CentOS 6 disk image(s) using a typical Windows desktop computer on a USB drive. CentOS is made available in various formats by HTTP, FTP, or via a Torrent-based client from a series of mirror sites located across the world. It supports […]

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CentOS yum install

CentOS yum install/update – we will learn how to enhance the minimal install with additional tools that will give you a variety of administrative and development options that will prove vital during the lifetime of your server. The minimal install is probably the most efficient way you can install a server, but having said that, a minimal […]

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Gadmin ProFTPD FTP Server (Gproftpd)

Gproftpd is the graphical interface of proftpd, a very powerful ftp server, it requires some advanced knowledge to master it. You can try to do a basic and functional configuration of proftpd, in order to understand a minimum and to check if you really need Gproftpd. Installation of gadmin-proftpd Install the gadmin-proftpd package. During the […]

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What is proFTPD

ProFTPD is a free and open source FTP server. Its authors announce it as powerful and perfectly secure. ProFTPD is the most popular file transfer protocole in Unix-like environments today. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL license. ProFTPD is also well documented, most configurations would be similar to the tutorials provided with the […]