HowTos
This page contains some longer HowTos for achieving different tasks on CentOS systems. Content in the 'HowTos' hierarchy is written because its author believes it to work (one assumes) and to provide value as a reference. All content ages as time passes, of course, and if a given article seems wrong, it may be updated or it simply may be abandoned. Sometimes when a page is stale beyond obvious repair, it will be marked as such after public reports of problems.
The 'centos-docs' mailing list is a great place to point out possible errors or even better, offer improvements.
Contents
- Backups
- Directory Services
- Diskless Clients
- Encryption
- FTP
- Webserver
- Kernel
- Network
- Security
- Remote X Sessions
- Migration
- Package Management
- Virtualization
- PXE
- Storage devices, Logical Volume Management, and RAID
- Misc
- Non CentOS Applications
- CentOS on Laptops
- CentOS on Intel-based Apple computers
- CentOS Guidelines
1. Backups
2. Directory Services
3. Diskless Clients
4. E-Mail
Postfix: A simple Postfix/Dovecot mail server
Postfix Restrictions: Simple spam filtering with Postfix
Postgrey: Spam filtering with Postgrey greylisting on Postfix
Postfix SASL & SSL/TLS: SASL and SSL/TLS for postfix and dovecot
Postfix SASL Relayhost: SASL for a relayhost
Amavisd: Amavisd with ClamAV and SpamAssassin
5. Encryption
6. FTP
Simple SFTP setup without chroot
7. Webserver
8. Kernel
9. Network
10. Security
11. Remote X Sessions
12. Migration
13. Package Management
Fastest Mirror: yum plugin to determine and use the fastest CentOS mirror
Priorities: yum plugin that allows ranking repository priorities from 1 to 99 ... can not be used with protectbase, but it has that functionality built in.
Protect Base: yum plugin that prevents external repositories from overwriting CentOS packages
YumCheckOrInstallUpdates: Shell script to automatically check for or install new updates.
Install from Source: How (not) to install Software from Source on CentOS
Rebuild a Source RPM (SRPM) package: How to rebuild a Source RPM package on CentOS
Yum on RHEL: Using CentOS Repositories on RHEL machines
14. Virtualization
Move a native CentOS4 installation into a Xen DomU
15. PXE
PXE on CentOS
16. Storage devices, Logical Volume Management, and RAID
How to install CentOS on partitionable software RAID volumes
How to convert a CentOS 5 system to RAID1 using a rescue disk
17. Misc
18. Non CentOS Applications
19. CentOS on Laptops
20. CentOS on Intel-based Apple computers
21. CentOS Guidelines
Some normative documents about CentOS: