by Adrian Ling | Sep 15, 2015 | CentOS
The venerable and stable CentOS 5 will soon reach its “end-of-life” (EOL) soon. From the official CentOS wiki page, CentOS 5 end-of-life (EOL) date is March 31st, 2017. It has stopped receiving full updates since the 1st quarter of 2014. After its EOL in...
by Adrian Ling | May 21, 2015 | Resources
RHEL and its corresponding Community Edition CentOS Server software are stable and rock solid. All the software packages that comes with these distros have been thoroughly tested and have been in the ‘field’ for a long, long time. While this is great for...
by Adrian Ling | Apr 15, 2015 | Troubleshooting
If you get a cryptic error message such as “Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure” when installing new software via yum, it is caused by a bug in the SELinux policy and in my opinion, in the yum/rpm software as well. See the screenshot below: It says it...
by Adrian Ling | Apr 14, 2015 | Troubleshooting
Sometimes, you may discover that one or two your critical services such as Apache (httpd) or mysql has stopped responding. You logged into the terminal and issue the service status command: [root@srv10]# service httpd status httpd dead but pid file exists You tried to...
by Adrian Ling | Apr 13, 2015 | Troubleshooting
If you haven’t run “yum update” for a long time, and you encountered this error message when running the yum update command: Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again There are a couple of reasons: 1....
