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Installing ffmpeg on CentOS/RHEL servers

You can quickly install ffmpeg on CentOS or RHEL server via dag repository. To proceed insert following lines to /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo [dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=https://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag...

Kannada fonts on CentOS

To install default Kannada font (lohit_kn.ttf) on CentOS we need to install fonts-kannada package via yum as follows. # yum install fonts-kannada Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies –> Running transaction check...

Troubleshooting RPM issues

While working on Redhat based operating systems, its common to face few issues related to RPM. Rpm database gets corrupted. It might segfault, it might cause lots of issues while installing or updating packages. First step to resolve RPM related issues is to rebuild...

QuickFix: Too many open files

Are you troubled with “too many open files” error on your server?  Unable to run the services? warning: cannot open : Too many open files Here are few fixes which you can use to get the issue resolved. Making sure /proc/sys/fs/file-max was big enough...