If you’ve installed Splunk for RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) or CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) and are happy with it, chances are you want it to startup automatically for you.

First, run this command to Continue Reading

How to install WGET on Apple OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

WGET is a reliable download utility for UNIX and Linux. I have found it to be more reliable to Continue Reading

After traversing directories and files it is easy to forget the exact path you may be working in. To see this in unix or Linux, use Continue Reading

When setting up your own domain name for Google Apps or Google Hosted Email service, Google only provides you with 5 MX records and values. It turns out, they have 3 more for a total of 8.

Here are the MX records and their recommended Priority values to use for your domain name in the format of priority, and value. Make sure to include the Continue Reading

Have you ever installed packages from one repository only to wish you had just stuck with the vendor’s original repositories? I had problems myself with package conflicts between RPMForge and CentOS Updates repository, mainly, because I forgot to use the “yum-priorities” plugin at the time. I’ve since learned and corrected that, and in the process wanted to get rid of any rpmforge installed packages for the sake of stability.

To list all packages installed on your system, run Continue Reading