Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Installing CentOS 5.4 using NetInstall

December 3rd, 2009 by admin

This document explains HOWTO use CentOS NetInstall to install CentOS using a FTP server.

Download : CentOS NetInstall and CentOS 5.4 DVD

CentOS NetInstall is basically installing from a very small downloaded ISO.

* Download CentOS NetInstall and burn it to a CD
* Download Cent)S 5.4 DVD and unzip it to c:\centos
* On your Windows machine install FileZilla (FileZilla Wiki)

Linux Mint – Best OS?

August 18th, 2009 by admin

One of my buddies was installing about three diffrent type of Linux OS a day. Yes, he like that .
He came upon Linux Mint and it was the best looking Linux we’ve see, not only did it look good, all my hardware worked right after install.
Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution whose goal [...]

Openfire – Does your company need a private Instant Messanger Server

June 15th, 2009 by admin

Installing Openfire on CentOS 5.5
The install process takes less than 15 minutes.

Do a basic install of CentOS with mySQL support and any other packages you want.
Installing Java:

If you don’t have Java install do the following:
Download Java from (java.com) and do the following:
mkdir /usr/java
cp jre-6u13-linux-i586-rpm.bin /usr/java
cd /usr/java
sh jre-6u13-linux-i586-rpm.bin
rpm -iv jre-6u13-linux-i586-rpm.bin

Installing Openfire 3.6.4:

(At the time of [...]

Openfiler — Openfiler Community

May 11th, 2009 by admin

Openfiler is a powerful, intuitive browser-based network storage software distribution. Openfiler ScreenshotsOpenfiler delivers file-based Network Attached Storage and block-based Storage Area Networking in a single framework.
Openfiler is built on the rPath Linux metadistribution and is distributed as a stand-alone Linux distribution. The entire software stack interfaces with third-party software that is all open source.
File-based networking [...]

NMIS (Network Management Information System) on CentOS 5.3

April 29th, 2009 by admin

This is my version for installing NMIS on CentOS 5.3
Some of this documentation came from http://www.sins.com.au/nmis
NOTES:
Root User information:
root/password
NMIS User information:
nmis/password
SSH enable
Security Disable (Firewall and SELinux)

OS Install :

Default CentOS install

PERL 5.6.0 or higher – http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html
Apache – http://www.apache.org/dist/

Starting httpd @ startup
service httpd status (most install it’s stopped)
chkconfig –level 345 httpd on
[...]

Learning Perl with SNMP Part I

March 31st, 2009 by admin

Ok my first stab at it was great (snmp.pl)
#!/usr/bin/perl
$SNMP_GET_CMD = “snmpget -v1 -c public -Ovq”;
$SNMP_TARGET = “1.1.1.2″;
chomp($model = `${SNMP_GET_CMD} ${SNMP_TARGET} 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0`);
chomp($serial = `${SNMP_GET_CMD} ${SNMP_TARGET} 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.4.0`);
$model =~ s/\”//g;      # Ditch the quotes.
$serial =~ s/\”//g;
print <<END;
APC UPS                         ${SNMP_TARGET}
Model: ${model}         Serial No: ${serial}
END
The output:
APC UPS                         1.1.1.2
Model: 33:17:35:52.07         Serial No: NOC 555-555-5555
Basically I’m using snmp-get from a command line [...]

Diffrent Linux flavors

February 20th, 2009 by admin

This is what my buddy MikeRoo said about the different Linux flavors:
Thin (slack/debian), there’s normal (mint/cent), there’s thick (pclinuxos) then there’s obese (fedora/suse).

Using SNMPget or SNMPwalk witha vendor MIB file

February 19th, 2009 by admin

First, copy your .mib file into the directory where your script is located.
Then use snmpget in the following format:
snmpget [address] -c [community string] -v 1 -m [mib name] [object to scan]
Then use snmpwalk in the following format:
snmpwalk [address] -c [community string] -v 1 -m [mib name] [object to scan]

Installing BackTrack 3 on a USB

February 5th, 2009 by admin

I found this great clip on youtube.com from phait08
I followed the entire video and it work, so I decide to post it on my site.
Check to see which Drive Letter your USB HD/Stick is using.
Here are the steps:

QtParted

February 5th, 2009 by admin

QtParted is a great little program based on Parted(linux), it help me built my know bootable Knoppix USB Drive.
QTParted is a Partition Magic clone written in C++ using the Qt toolkit.