I got this question the other day from a Centos administrator: “The certwatch tool has been sending the me an email warning me that I need to renew the SSL Certificate. What do I do?” The email message read like the following (names have been changed): ################# SSL Certificate Warning ################ Certificate for hostname ‘www.yourlinuxguy.com’, [...]
The premise *seemed* simple enough… I just needed to send 4 or 5 commands to a Cisco ASA from a CentOS box in a cron job. I mean, people write scripts all the time, and use ssh keys to automate those scripts against remote systems, right? I do it all the time with Linux boxes, [...]
I got a note from Dave, asking how he could set up tftp quickly on CentOS (His happens to be 5.3, but this process should be pretty much the same on a handful of versions and distros), and get a quick configuration running. So here you go, Dave; a tftp “cheat sheet”! First, install the [...]
My good friend Dave is moving over to CentOS for his RedHat development (and maybe hosting, wink-wink) platform, and he asks what is the easiest way to add packages on this distro. Of course, for me, that’s a bit of a loaded question. What I mean is that I’m always on a Linux laptop, to [...]
