June 2008 Archives

I recently had major issues with my Macbook Pro. The keyboard & trackpad better known as the "topcase" became non-responsive. To resolve my issue, I took the Macbook Pro over to Tekserve on Saturday. Since my Macbook Pro was covered under the standard one-year warranty, the replacement of the topcase was complimentary.

I recently decided to move from Blojsom to Wordpress because of the following:

1. Availability of plugins


2. Availability of themes


3. Ease of use


4. Syntax Highlighting


5. Comments


6. SPAM

In Blojsom, I could not find a way to show some simple code like...

#!/usr/bin/perl

@users = ('john','frank');

foreach (@users) {

print $_ . "\n";

}

It's going to take me some time to import the blog entries from blojsom into wordpress.

Lately,

Cisco IOS utilizes the syslog service to send messages about the Cisco device.

If you want change your uid on Mac OS X, you can't just modify the local /etc/passwd file like you would on a Linux or Solaris box.

If you installed RHEL5 and you no longer have a subscription for Red Hat Support. You can use the CentOS repos to keep your software up to date. To make a long story shorter here, CentOS removes any Red Hat branding and artwork. For more information about CentOS, visit http://www.centos.org

Now, let's get your box setup to use the CentOS repos.

First things first, import the key.

rpm --import http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 
yum list 

Now create a file called /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS.repo. Include the following in the CentOS.repo file.

[base] 
name=CentOS-5 - Base 
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=$basearch&repo=os 
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ 
gpgcheck=1 
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 

#released updates 
[updates] 
name=CentOS-5 - Updates 
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ 
gpgcheck=1 
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 

#packages used/produced in the build but not released
[addons] 
name=CentOS-5 - Addons 
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=$basearch&repo=addons 
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ 
gpgcheck=1 
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 

#additional packages that may be useful 
[extras] name=CentOS-5 - Extras 
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=$basearch&repo=extras 
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ 
gpgcheck=1 
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages 
[centosplus] name=CentOS-5 - Plus 
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=$basearch&repo=plus 
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/ 
gpgcheck=1 
enabled=0 
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 

Now, you can run `yum update` to update the rpms on your RHEL5 box using the CentOS repos.