On your VM host you need to initiate installing the VMware tools into your guest. Once this has been done the remaining steps are carried out on the guest OS. As root you need to mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-Rom image#mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
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Custom rules can be created for Spamassassin, I use a hand written list thats customised for my needs. The location of the file is /etc/mail/spamassassin/98_myrules.cf The file name is not important, the format of the file is as follows:- body LocalStockRule /putcompanynamehere/ describe LocalStockRule Local Stock Name Block score LocalStockRule […]
Copy folder using command line This is an example how to copy a folder using the command line. i.e I want to copy the folder ‘Aqua’ on my desktop to /usr/share/amsn/skins. What is the command using the terminal? sudo cp -R ~/Desktop/Aqua /usr/share/amsn/skins/ Sudo is because you need root privileges […]
OK, we live in the wonderful world of Linux. BUT, for many of us, having to deal with Windows is a fact of life. For example, you may want to use a Linux server to back up Windows files. This can be made easy by mounting Windows shares on the […]
The virtual machines default store is located in;- \var\lib\vmware\Virtual Machines This is for Centos. The position of the default store on Windows is;- c:\Virtual Machines
The below will show you how to add the Dag Wieers repository to Centos 5.3 I have also used this method for lower versions of Centos as well. First you need to run this code from the console or via putty. rpm –import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt In order to add this repository […]
VMware server installation on CentOS: 1. Log in the server as ‘root’. It’s not best practice but for now it’s easier. 2. Run all the software updates and reboot, you’ll be prompted about them in the upper right corner. It’ll take a while. If you’re not on dhcp you’ll have […]
1. Go to the Webmin Download page and note the download link for Centos. Currently its http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.450-1.noarch.rpm 2 .Login via SSH to your server. 3. At the SSH prompt type: yum -y install perl-Net-SSLeay 4. use wget to obtain the webmin package for Centos that you got the link for […]
I just installed the latest version of webmin on my CentOs 5 server. I have not used webmin in about 2 years, I can not believe how much the interface has improved. Webmin is a GUI control panel that lets you administer a Linux box. Here is all you need […]