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Solaris > Finding more information about packages

How to find what packages (software’s) installed? 1)Run the command pkginfo to find the information: # pkginfo | more 2) Note that packages provided by SUN always have prefix SUNWpkgname 3 To find more about SSH Software’s: # pkginfo | grep “SSH” 4) To print all available information about package (long format aka package description): [...]

Account Creation Status: failed (out of available ip addresses)

Account Creation Status: failed (Your system has run out of available ip addresses, or you do not have permission to use any more ip addresses. (Unable to find an ip address.) ) You receive the “Account Creation Status: failed” error message while adding a domain from WHM >> Account Functions >> “Create a New Account” [...]

version.c:30:16: error: db.h: No such file or directory

version.c:30:16: error: db.h: No such file or directory make: *** [version.o] Error 1 If you receive the db.h error message while installaing a package, you are surely missing db and db-devel packages. You need to install the db and db-devel packages using yum. First search the package using yum. yum search db It will list [...]

How To Set Up Kojoney SSH Honeypot On CentOS 5.5

Kojoney is a low level interaction honeypot that emulates an SSH server. The daemon is written in Python using the Twisted Conch libraries. In computer terminology, a honeypot is a trap set to detect, deflect, or in some manner counteract attempts at unauthorized use of information systems. Generally it consists of a computer, data, or [...]

How do I Apply Debian Linux Security update?

It is very easy to update Debian Linux over Internet so that you can get updated packages in stable distribution. This short article explains you how to keep up to date your Debian server/workstation along with small tips. Step # 1 Configure Debian to get updates You need to configure the package resource list, which [...]

Sphinx As MySQL Storage Engine (SphinxSE)

SphinX is a great full-text search engine for MySQL. Installing the Sphinx daemon was straightforward as you can compile it from the source or use a .DEB/.RPM package but SphinxSE was a little bit tricky since it needed to be installed as a plugin on a running MySQL server. So if you use Debian or [...]

Solaris: Remove / uninstall the software / package

You need to use pkgrm command which will remove a previously installed or partially installed package from the system. A check is made to determine if any other packages depend on the one being removed. If a dependency exists, the action taken is defined in the admin file. The default state for the command is [...]

Solaris > Add / Install new software packages

Package can be install from CDROM, Network i.e. NFS or downloading from Internet and then add it to system, or from existing location such as /var/spool/pkg directory if frequently required packages are copied to this location. Solaris: Adding package from CDROM 1) Mount cdrom 2) To add or install GNU tar package from Solaris CD [...]

Installing Full-Featured Rsyslog 5.7.x On CentOS 5.x

This tutorial shows how you can install new generation of syslog servers by using Rsyslog. According to Rsyslog web site (www.rsyslog.com), Rsyslog is an enhanced syslogd supporting, among others, MySQL, PostgreSQL, failover log destinations, syslog/tcp, fine grain output format control, high precision timestamps, queued operations and the ability to filter on any message part. It [...]

Remove Duplicate Packages in CentOS

I got a package dependency issue when updating our 64-bit CentOS server, which was caused by two perl packages installed (i386 and x86_64). perl i386 4:5.8.8-32.el5_5.1 installed 28 M perl x86_64 4:5.8.8-32.el5_5.1 installed 34 M I tried to remove it using rpm command but didn’t work (maybe i just don’t know the correct params with [...]