Here is an update on BIND for cPanel server admin’s Recent versions of Bind distributed by RedHat and?CentOS enable strict zone checking at startup time. This setting can potentially cause problems for Bind users with a large number of zone files or syntax errors in individual zone files. In these circumstances, users may experience an [...]

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 the rpm database. This can be done by removing the __db [...]

If you’re running out of RAM, swap and if there is no more room to create a new swap partition, you’re still left with one more option. Create a swapfile. Here are the steps to follow. Determine the size of the new swap file and multiple by 1024 to determine the block size. For example, [...]

RHEL doesn’t come with NTFS support by deffault. 1. Download fuse & ntfs-3g components: fuse: get it from http://www.atrpms.net/dist/el5/fuse/ ntfs-3g: get it from http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/fuse-ntfs-3g/ 2. Install the RPM’s 3. Once you’re done with it mount the drive #mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/ntfsmount There you go!

When you try installing some packages via yum or up2date you might come across this error. Public key for xyz.rpm is not installed To resolve this issue, you should download the GPG key and import that into your RPM database. On RHEL servers you can find the GPG key under /usr/share/rhn and you can import [...]

Couple of weeks back few of Fedora servers have been compromised or there was a security breach. It has been confirmed by Fedora project leader via mailing list post. This security breach has compromised OpenSSH packages on Fedora distributions. The issue is being investigated by Fedora team. Today here is an another update from Security [...]