Files can be found under linux in many different ways. On this post, I will show you two simple way to find files in linux which are using locate and…
How to Remove Gnome-Desktop using Yum
After done some research, it is better if install the server without gnome-desktop or kde-desktop. This is due to high security and optimizing the server resources. For those who already…
How to Properly Shutdown Linux CentOS/RHEL Server
What is the correct way to turn off a CentOS/RHEL Linux server? I would recommend to shut the system down using “shutdown -h now” command. This will shut down the…
How to Resolve mount: mount point /cdrom does not exist
If you install the CentOS in VM ESX/ESXi server with minimum packages without GUI(Graphical User Interface), you have to know more about the linux command. I believe most of the…
How to Reset CentOS root Password
For those who are forgot their CentOS root password, please do not panic. There was the easy way to reset the root password for CentOS. Please follow this steps and…
How to Resolve Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit…
I believe that some linux users, especially system administrators encountered this problem and get the message after issue the yum command: Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid…
How to Restart Linux Network Service
In Linux, there are the commands to restart, start and stop the network. If you change the TCP/IP configuration such as ip address, net mask and gateway, the network need…
How to Create System Configuration Summaries for CentOS 5.5 using cfg2html
In this tutorial i will show you how to collect and create the system configuration summaries for Linux CentOS 5.5. The output file will be in the HTML format. 1….
How to Install phpMyAdmin on CentOS 6/7 / RHEL 6/7
Introduction Not all bloggers or users feel comfortable to administering their wordpress database from the command line. To address this problem, a project called phpMyAdmin was created in order to…
How to Install php 5.3 on CentOS or RHEL
In this guide, i will show you how to install php 5.3 installation using webtatic repository. This steps has been tested on CentOS 5.5 64 bit. However, it same goes…
How to Install Apache Httpd Web Server on Linux
Apache Httpd is a common web server that was used in World Wide Web. It is the best open source web server that i ever used. To install this Apache…
How to Configure the Linux Bind DNS Server
The BIND DNS Server, named, is used on the vast majority of name serving machines on the intranet or Internet. On this tutorial i will setup the intranet dns configuration…