Jul 15 2005
Yum is an automatic updater and package management tool for rpm based systems. Yum automatically computes dependencies and figures out what steps need to occur in order to install packages. It makes it much easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm.
Continua”Keeping Fedora Linux or Centos updated with Yum”
Jul 14 2005
All Linux distros have different ways to update their packages
Redhat Uses RPM
Debian uses dpkg
Other linux distros use tar.tgz files
It can be a little confusing and hard to remembers.
Here is a list of things to remember.
Continua”Differences with package Managers”
Jul 05 2005
A reminder on how to use TCP DUMP.
TCPDump is a tool for network monitoring and data acquisition. It requires the libcap library. Both can be found here.
Continua”TCPDUMP tutorial Quick reminder”
