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After my foray into making bootable flash drives , I decided to put my flash drive back to its original state. It was going to take at least a little bit of effort since I know had multiple partitions on the drive which would need to be removed. I first went to my default disk utility, GParted. GParted allowed me to first unmount the partitions that Linux was auto-mounting as drives. I was then able to delete the partitions to make the drive completely unallocated space. That’s where I started to run into issues. I went to make the entire drive a single FAT32 partition, but GParted gave me the following .... Read More

Updated sudo packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The sudo (superuser do) utility allows system administrators to give certain users the ability to run commands as root. This update fixes the following bugs: * A race condition in the signal handling code caused the sudo process to become unresponsive after receiving the SIGCHLD signal. This update modifies the signal handling to prevent the race condition, which ensures that the sudo process no longer hangs under these circumstances. (BZ#802440) * The "-l" option is used to list allowed and forbidden commands for the invoking user or for the user specified by the "-U" option. However, previously, the getgrouplist() function incorrectly checked the invoker's group membership instead of the membership of the specified user. Consequently, using the "sudo" command with both the "-l" and "-U" options listed privileges granted to any group the

You should have a FTP server or HTTP server to make yum actually working. However since we haven't really gone through setting up FTP or HTTP server, please read-on and understand the process. If you have got vsftpd installed, use that. Otherwise, don't forget to actually set it up yourself later. Here we will create a local repository for Fedora and CentOS in the easy way. 0. You should have the yum as well as the createrepo package installed first. 1. Create the directory to hold the repository. mkdir -p /var/ftp/pub/yum-repo/centos/ mkdir -p /var/ftp/pub/yum-repo/fedora/ 2. createrepo /var/ftp/pub/yum-repo/centos/ ; createrepo /var/ftp/pub/yum-repo/fedora/ will create the local yum repository by creating a folder named "repodata with four xml files named, filelists.xml.gz, other.xml.gz, primary.xml.gz and repomd.xml ............ http://humanlinux.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-create-local-repository-for.html

So you want to set up your own private chat network for friends or family, or maybe your company uses the major chat providers like AIM, Yahoo, MSN, or Google for interoffice communication, but you want more control and to keep the network traffic inside your LAN. Whatever your case may be, this guide will show you how to do it with Ignite Realtime’s Openfire Jabber Server for Linux. http://enbeeone3.com/setting-up-an-xmpp-server-on-centos/