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How can I renew my Centos/Apache SSL certificate?

Jeremy Pavlov April 19, 2010 5 Comments

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…
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apache, centOS, intermediate, openSsl

How to automate scripted commands to a Cisco ASA via ssh

Jeremy Pavlov September 7, 2009 2 Comments

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…
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advanced, asa, centOS, ssh

How can I quickly set up tftp on CentOS?

Jeremy Pavlov May 18, 2009 1 Comment

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…
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centOS, intermediate, tftp

How do I install packages in CentOS?

Jeremy Pavlov November 17, 2008 0 Comments

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…
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centOS, introductory, pup, yum