In a given week, I touch maybe a half dozen different Operating Systems/Distributions. Some are similar to others (centos, rhel), some–not so much (solaris). The common commands are easy enough to remember ( @ls@ vs @dir@ ), but I always forget how to search through each OS’s package manager for a software package. For my reference (and perhaps yours?) here’s a list for each of the OSs’ package managers I use frequently:
yum – RHEL/CentOS
yum list
apt – Debian/Ubuntu
apt-cache search
pacman – Arch
pacman –sync –search pacman -Ss
portage – Gentoo
emerge –search # pkg names only emerge –searchdesc # pkg names & descriptions emerge -S # alias of –searchdesc
See Also: “Install ‘build-essential’ on RHEL/CentOS and OpenSolaris”:/wp/?p=231
Michael Altfield
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So, xen is really beginning to piss me off. I turned off all my machines to do a snapshot, and when I tried to bring them back up, they were all in the ‘blocked’ state. Upon further investigation (using virt-manager/xm console), I found that they were hung at the “Checking for hardware changes” item in their boot process. This could be a CentOS/RHEL 5 issue, but I’m putting my money on xen.
Michael Altfield
Hi, I’m Michael Altfield. I write articles about opsec, privacy, and devops ➡
I’ve been playing around with SELinux at work recently. Not surprisingly, I was struggling to get SELINUXTYPE=strict to work properly. Unfortunately, all “google results for ‘enabling selinux strict’ would return were dead ends. People would enable selinux strict, kernel panic, and ‘fix’ it by disabling selinux.
Well, a co-worker of mine *was* able to successfully enable selinux’s strict policy on RHEL5 (CentOS 5). He gave me this guide to post to the world for others to see how (thanks Mykola):
Michael Altfield
Hi, I’m Michael Altfield. I write articles about opsec, privacy, and devops ➡
Hello world! I just updated my whole server environment and, my, things are looking good. Anyway, I had to run through these steps a half dozen times, so I thought I would post it here for myself and (maybe even) others.
Here’s the commands I ran to turn a clone of my base RHEL5 (CentOS 5.2) Xen image into another working virtual machine on my RHEL5 (CentoOS 5.2) Xen Host:
Michael Altfield
Hi, I’m Michael Altfield. I write articles about opsec, privacy, and devops ➡
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Michael Altfield
Hi, I’m Michael Altfield. I write articles about opsec, privacy, and devops ➡
