by BigDogAdmin | Aug 10, 2017 | BASH, CentOS, cli, Linux, Uncategorized
So, we have a client’s backup program that saves a database to a file each night, but the file name just includes the date, not the days of the week. There are over a year of daily backups which are taking up a lot of space, and they only need to keep the weekly...
by BigDogAdmin | Aug 1, 2017 | CentOS, cli, install, Linux, open source, rpm
The version’ing of CentOS and mapping it to the equivalent Red Hat version is a little confusing at first glance. Release 7 (1611)? What is that? Is it 7.2 or 7.3? Let’s take a look. The HARD WAY: Doing the following command gives you the Kernel version,...
by BigDogAdmin | Feb 9, 2017 | CentOS, EPEL, install, Uncategorized, VirtualBox
I was going to write a post about the rpm’s and steps needed to install VirtualBox 5.0.x Guest Additions in a CentOS 7 virtual machine, but I found this article by LifeofaGeek. Check it out. He is using the DKMS method which should keep things working even if...
by BigDogAdmin | Nov 16, 2016 | Anti-Virus, CentOS, clam, clamav, cli, cron, EPEL, install, Linux, open source, Uncategorized
With my last post, I talked about how to install ClamAV (Clam Anti-Virus) for Linux on CentOS 7. And yet, I was not able to get the clamd daemon to run without errors. Every time I ran clamd, I got a permission error. I verified the file permissions and folder...
by BigDogAdmin | Nov 8, 2016 | Anti-Virus, CentOS, clam, clamav, cli, EPEL, install, Linux, open source, repo, repository, Uncategorized, yum
Like it or not, viruses are a real part of running a server, even a CentOS 7 server. Linux has a great option for a virus scanner called ClamAV. It is available for many versions of Linux, but the default configuration files are poorly written and do not work in...
by BigDogAdmin | Oct 13, 2016 | CentOS, EPEL, Linux, repo, repository, yum
Hey all, Most searches for installing the EPEL repository that I have found have you use Yum to install the repo from an RPM file. But, I want to should you how to manually create the repo on your CentOS 7 system. But first, if you insist on doing things the boring...