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Community ENTerprise Operating System\u00a0(CentOS), is a GNU\/Linux enterprise distribution, based on the freely available sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and, just as RHEL or Debian stable, CentOS is focused on stability and security.<\/p>\n
CentOS delivers a long-term support, stable APIs and ABIs for your own software, integration of modern security technologies, backported security fixes so that updating doesn’t break anything. A new release comes out every 18 to 24 months, and each release is supported for around 7 years. With these characteristics, CentOS is an excellent desktop and server operating system for people who want a robust system that just works. Due to its heritage, CentOS is also an excellent migration path for former Fedora legacy users.<\/p>\n
All these characteristics make CentOS the perfect operating system for University computer labs and for setting up a test Grid for educational and\/or development purposes.<\/p>\n
How to<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Then run:<\/p>\n and change the id:5:initdefault: line with id:3:initdefault: and paste into it<\/p>\n save and change its permission to:<\/p>\n this will make your machine do the update every day at 4:02am, provided it’s turned on at that time;<\/li>\n and paste into it<\/p>\n replace “ntp1.ien.it” and “ntp2.ien.it” with other NTP public servers geographically near to your machine: you can choose them\u00a0here<\/a>. Save and change its permission to:<\/p>\n this will make your machine do the update every day at 4:02am, provided it’s turned on at that time;<\/li>\n Community ENTerprise Operating System\u00a0(CentOS), is a GNU\/Linux enterprise distribution, based on the freely available sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and, just as RHEL or Debian stable, CentOS is focused on stability and security. CentOS delivers a long-term support, stable APIs and ABIs for your own software, integration of modern security technologies, backported security … Continue reading Useful CentOS howtos<\/span> \n
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root:# rmmod pcspkr<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
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<\/p>\nroot:# ntsysv<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
<\/p>\nroot:# vim \/etc\/inittab<\/pre>\n
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<\/p>\nroot:# vim \/etc\/cron.daily\/yumupdate<\/pre>\n
yum update -y<\/pre>\n
root:# chmod +x \/etc\/cron.daily\/yumupdate<\/pre>\n
<\/p>\nroot:# vim \/etc\/cron.daily\/ntpdate<\/pre>\n
ntpdate -u ntp1.inrim.it ntp2.inrim.it<\/pre>\n
root:# chmod +x \/etc\/cron.daily\/ntpdate<\/pre>\n
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<\/p>\nroot:# yum install -y rar<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
<\/p>\nroot:# yum install tetex tetex-latex kdegraphics kile<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"