Tag: RedHat

Installing build-essentials in CentOS or Ubuntu This post desrcibes how to install “build-essentials” on CentOS/RedHat og Ubuntu/Debian. build-essentials provides the packages you need to build or compile source code (make...
Change ethernet settings using ethtool Force network speed on a network card to 100 MBit Full Duplex and in the same time disable auto negotiation # ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off These settings...
Replace RPMforge packages with Redhats own on a RHEL5 system This post came to life after experiencing some upgrade problems with missing dependencies and RPM packages from RPMforge and Redhat Enterprise Linux Client release 5. The...
Force a user to change password upon first login This is how you can force a Redhat user to change his password upon first login on a Redhat 5 installation. This might work on other versions and distributions… First lock...