CentOS Tips and Tricks

This page contains a number of useful shorter items that people find useful. If you need a quick fix, you're in the right place.

Installation Tips

• How to create an installation DVD from the install CDs

• How to create a DVD with the latest updates included

• Tips and Tricks for Anaconda and Kickstart

• Headless VNC Install Disk

Desktop Tips

• Setting up Multimedia applications on CentOS

• How to setup x86_64 plugins for Firefox on Centos 5

Networking Tips

• Bonding Interfaces

• Enable IP forwarding

• Range of IPS on single Ethernet

• Virtual IP addresses

Filesystem Tips

• Resize ext3 parttion

• Expanding a LVM logical volume

• Mount NTFS partitions from within CentOS

• Snapshotting XFS filesystems on LVM

• Repairing RAID5 volumes having more than one failed disk

Admin tricks and shell one-liners:

• Yum And RPM

• Uncompress multiple files

• SearchAndReplaceMultipleFiles

• Move printer definitions from one machine to another

• SSH Tips and Tricks

• Becoming Root

• Banners or "Say hello to users and goodbye to others"

• Customize Bash Prompt

• Webmin from a repository

Tools and Applications

• Xen

• Obtaining accurate server time

• VMWare - Server

• C-Cedil settings in X11 and GTK

• HAL

• Quick Guide to MRTG

Apache Tips

• Control Apache Default Virtual Host

• Apache Virtual Host Containers in Separate Files

Working together with other operating systems

• How to access windows shares

• Configure winbind authentication for active directory

Troubleshooting

• Backspace is sending Delete in CentOS 4.4

• How to install yum on a broken Virtual Server installation

• Unable to Enable DMA on CD

• How to find the correct SELinux Boolean for your problem on CentOS 5

• How to re-install bootstrap code(GRUB)

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