One of my Red Hat servers is behind proxy with no access to the outside world. This box is registered to a Satellite server to receive software updates. I want to install Zabbix server on this server using the packages from Zabbix upstream directly. To do this, I need to set the proxy for the Zabbix’s repository. There are a few ways to do this. For my purpose, the best place is to set proxy=proxy_server directly in the ....
On Fedora or CentOS, on way to find out what package providing a file we can use yum whatprovides [FILENAME] or dnf whatprovides [FILENAME] on a DNF-aware system. # dnf whatprovides tmux Last metadata expiration check: 2:33:06 ago on Wed 09 Sep 2020 09:45:07 PM AEST. tmux-3.0a-2.fc32.x86_64 : A terminal multiplexer Repo : @System Matched from: Provide : tmux = 3.0a-2.fc32 tmux-3.0a-2.fc32.x86_64 : A terminal multiplexer Repo : fedora Matched from: Provide : tmux = 3....
This blog post is mainly about my practicing of managing security risk on a RHEL system, especially learning how to use the occasionally option passed to YUM command. It is probably not a good resource teaching how to properly manage security risks in general. Identify all critical, important, and moderate security notices on this server. [root@puppet2 ~]# yum updateinfo --security Updating Subscription Management repositories. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - Supplementary (RPMs) 21 kB/s | 2....
This post is primarily written to remind myself, an Ubuntu user, to figure out how to find what RPM package provides a file — for example a header file. Today, I’m trying to compile and install R 3.1.3 on CentOS 6 from source code. This R installation is one of the requirements to install Tessera stack. The instruction from the installation page is: Unfortunately, the process failed with ./configure with the complain about missing readline library....
First let me declare that I’m new to CentOS. The folowing is a note to self which demonstrates how we search for a package that provides some commands and intall it using yum on CentOS. When I ran ‘lsb_release -a’, the following message is returned: To fix it, we need to install the package which provides lsb_release command. So, let’s install redhat-lsb package: Wow, it needs to download 86M just to install that package?...