VBoxHeadless – Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.0 On A Headless CentOS 5.6 Server Rumi, December 14, 2011December 14, 2011 This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.0 on a headless CentOS 5.6 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to… Continue Reading
Postfix Configuration on Centos 5.x Rumi, December 5, 2011 Let's install Postfix and Dovecot (Dovecot will be our POP3/IMAP server): yum install cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-devel cyrus-sasl-gssapi cyrus-sasl-md5 cyrus-sasl-plain postfix dovecot Next we configure SMTP-AUTH and TLS: postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_local_domain =' postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes' postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous' postconf -e 'broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes' postconf -e 'smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination'… Continue Reading
How to install Java SDK (1.6) and Apache Ant (1.7) on CentOS Rumi, November 18, 2011November 18, 2011 I had enough with some package managers or alternative ways of installing Java on a server which is running CentOS (RHEL) 4.4 . I think the most straight forward way is the following. I promise by the end of this post you will have Java and Apache Ant running on… Continue Reading
Cacti: How to install on Centos 5.x server Rumi, September 11, 2011September 11, 2011 Required software(s) You need to install the following software on RHEL / Fedora / CentOS Linux: MySQL Server : Store cacti data. NET-SNMP server – SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol used for network management. PHP with net-snmp module – Access SNMP data using PHP. Apache / lighttpd… Continue Reading