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CentOS is a free (as in beer and speech) GNU/Linux distribution that is community driven and based on source code released from RedHat.

CentOS is a free (as in beer and speech) GNU/Linux distribution that is community driven and based on source code released from RedHat. CentOS aims to be 100% binary compatible with RedHat Enterprise Linux. CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.

Support & Lifecycle

Each CentOS version is maintained for up to 10 years and a new version is released approximately every 2 years.

+----------+-------------- +---------------+---------------------+
|  Version | Release date  |  Full updates | Maintenance updates |
+----------+---------------+---------------+---------------------+
| 3        | 19 March 2004 | 20 July 2006  |31 October 2010      |
| 4        | 9 March 2005  | 31 March 2009 |29 February 2012     |
| 5        | 12 April 2007 | Q1 2014       |31 March 2017        |
| 6        | 10 July 2011  | Q2 2017       |30 November 2020     |
| 7        | 7 July 2014   | Q4 2020       |30 June 2024         |
+----------+---------------+---------------+---------------------+

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firewalld vs iptables - when to use which

TL;DR On new CentOS server installs should I be using firewalld or just disable that and go back to using /etc/sysconfig/iptables ? firewalld and iptables serve similar purposes. Both do packet filtering - but if I understand it correctly…
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No mysqld or mysql.server after mariadb-server install

So... likely I'm an idiot, but I'm stuck. I just set up a CentOS 7 on Digial Ocean and I can't seem to get the MariaDB/MySQL server running. Some output [root@hostname ~]# yum list installed |grep maria mariadb.x86_64 …
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Finding latest successful logins and failed attempts to a CentOS server

I'm looking for a log file or any service to report the latest login attempts that have failed due to username/password mismatch. Are there any such utilities available for CentOS? (built-in is preferred) My second question, and more generally, I…
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Official online RPM package browser / search for CentOS

I am looking for something that resembles packages.debian.org Debian Package Browser only for CentOS 5 and/or RHEL 5 [Red Hat Enterprise Linux].
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Where does the route to 169.254.0.0 comes from?

Running CentOS 5.4 Why do I have route to 169.254.0.0 although it does not appear in Network > Ethernet Device > Route configuration dialog? Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 * …
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How can I determine what is taking up so much space?

I was using df -h to print out human readable disk usage. I would like to figure out what is taking up so much space. For instance, is there a way to pipe this command so that it prints out files that are larger than 1GB in size? Other ideas? Thanks
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SCP transfer only modified files

I'm using below command to transfer files cross server scp -rc blowfish /source/directory/* username@domain.net:/destination/directory Is there a way to transfer only files modified files just like update command for cp?
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Unusually high dentry cache usage

Problem A CentOS machine with kernel 2.6.32 and 128 GB physical RAM ran into trouble a few days ago. The responsible system administrator tells me that the PHP-FPM application was not responding to requests in a timely manner anymore due to…
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Linux IO monitoring per file?

I am interested in a utility or process for monitoring disk IO per file on CentOS. On Win2008, the resmon utility allows this type of drilldown, but none of the Linux utilities I have found do this (iostat, iotop, dstat, nmon). My interest in…
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How do I configure LDAP on Centos 6 for user authentication in the most secure and correct way?

During the last couple of days I have been using a lot of F-words, while browsing Internet for good documentation about how to setup an LDAP-server. So far I have found none, but plenty that are less than good, but better than bad. So I had to do it…
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Disable local delivery in Sendmail

I am using Sendmail on a Centos server to send email for PHP scripts, but the problem is that mail is delivered to a local mailbox on the machine rather than what is specified in the MX records for the domain - which actually point to another…
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How do I change timezone in centos 6.2?

Here is the output of my date command: [root@r1304 ~]# date Wed Apr 18 15:43:28 GST 2012 I want to change the default system timezone to Asia/Dubai. I've followed a tutorial and did this: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Dubai /etc/localtime But…
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Upgrade cURL to latest on CentOS

I need to upgrade cURL to the latest version on Centos 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.centos.plusxen #1 SMP Wed Mar 17 20:32:20 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I'm unable to find any suitable packages to do so via yum or rpm. Is there a standard way…
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How do I install an rpm that complains about rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1?

Im trying to install an rpm file on CentOS 5 and Im not sure how to resolve this issues it brings up: $ rpm --install epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm warning: epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 signature: NOKEY, key ID 0608b895 error:…
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How do you disable SMB printing support?

I'm running CentOS on a storage server that has to do file sharing for with Windows machines. SMB version is smbd version 3.5.5-68.fc13 I'm getting a lot of error messages in /var/log/messages regarding failed attempts to connect to a CUPS server.…
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