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CentOS 5 is an obsolete, free (as in beer and speech) GNU/Linux distribution that is community driven and based on source code released from RHEL.

CentOS 5 is a free (as in beer and speech) GNU/Linux distribution that is community driven and based on source code released from RHEL. It went end-of-life on 2017-03-31, is now unsupported, and shouldn't be used on production systems.

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Newb question: "service" command unavailable on CentOS 5.5

Pages like this say that you can service iptables restart ...but I get a command not found error. I tried yum install service but there's no such package. How do I restart services?
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Can't get memcached / php memcache installed on CentOS 5.5

I cannot get memcached installed for the life of me on CentOS 5.5 yum install memcached says package doesn't exist I have tried installing from source, as well as yum. Apparently memcached is running according to ps auxw, and I have the extension…
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How to not startx in hosted inux CentOS 5.5 ,and how to make full screen

Im beginner to VMWare player , im using CentOS 5.5 as the virtual OS and installed the VMWare Player in windows xp 32 bit And its working great , but when I like to start the GNUME gui to use x server its starting the GUI desktop right inside the…
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Centos Setup Command

What is the centos setup command used in the initial installation? I have a vmware image and i used 'linux text' to install it; now i would like to go back and use the gui version to add some packages. Is this possible?
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Can't find my.cnf on my VPS

Hello, I am currently renting a VPS for the purpose of host a magento store. The VPS is running Centos5 with DirectAdmin. I have read a bit about how to optimize magento and one suggestion I have seen is to edit the MySQL configuration file.…
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Linux mail is out of date, how to update?

I'm trying to use mail to send mail. I want change the "From" field and the -a flag should let me do this. However, it seems like my version of mail doesn't support -a. WHen I try to use it, I get this: [me@host ~]$ mail -a mail: invalid option --…
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Installing MySQL on CentOS 5.5

I have to install the latest version of MySQL server community edition 5.1.51 (i think is the latest). I haven't installed any MySQL on this centos machine yet, but when I do a locate mysql - it shows me mysqldump, mysqlshow etc etc on this system.…
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Mysql Errcode: 17 Can't create/write to file '/tmp/...'

Can't create/write to file '/tmp/#sql_77a8_0.MYD' (Errcode: 17) I'm getting this for all softs of select queries. This problem is quite intermittent. Deleting the file fixes the problem but in an hour or so it's back again. Trying to restart the…
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centos bash syntax "-bash: echo: write error: Broken pipe" centos 5.5

I'm trying to send fwknop SPA from linux command. The syntax is echo 1234 | fwknop --Home-dir /tmp -f 5 -A tcp/80 -a $1 -D google.com > /devel/null 2>1 & However I'm getting an error like "-bash: echo: write error: Broken pipe" If I try the…
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XenServer: Linux VMs keep crashing

I'm running 5 VMs on my XenServer 5.5 host: 2x CentOS 5.5 3x Windows-based (SBS 2008, Windows 2003, Windows XP) Both Linux servers crash at random on a monthly or so basis (not at the same time either). A reboot fixes the issue, however after…
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Should we use Remote access for mysql

I'm not a system guy, this is first time I'm setting up a system. I have a remote system as developer point of view it would be good for me to have a remote access to the database. From security point of view it is not so secured to have a remote…
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Setting up a centos 5 production server from scratch

I have got a new dedicated server. I have to set it up for my live website. I have read basic things like yum install php mysql etc. But with each tutorial, there's notice that don't use it for production server. Can anybody guide me in setting it…
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HOw to know if files md5 chnaged by virus or system itself centos

I installed OSSSEC to very files have chnaged or not. But sometimes it is giving me false waring and integrity checksums like following files have chnaged. How can i makesure that files are chnaged system not by virus itslef. It is very…
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MOTD gets rewritten

Every time I restart my server my motd banner gets rewritten. What program (or startup script) is doing this, and how can I disable it?
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www not working sometimes, but http always active

I have a centos5 server setup with apache and vhosts. I bought a domain and had it redirected to my servers IP. my HTTP is always active, however if I call up my http://www.... then I find it does not always work... Any idea?
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