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How to Check CentOS Version

Question: How to check CentOS version? Sometimes you may need to check the version of CentOS installed on your machine. Here are some different ways by which you can find the version of CentOS the machine is running. LSB Release: lsb_release is a command that prints certain LSB (Linux Standard Base) and Distribution information You […]

How to update RHEL 6.2/6.3/6.4/6.5 to RHEL 6.6

Redhat has released its major release of RHEL 6.6 on 14th October 2014, Since from the day of release every one is looking for upgrading the current version to latest RHEL release. This how to is mainly focusing on upgrading previous release of RHEL 6.x to the latest. Before going to update, lets look into […]

How To Secure MariaDB Server with mysql_secure_installation command

The mysql_secure_installation command helps us to improve the security of the MariaDB installation. With this command, You can set a password for root accounts. You can remove root accounts that are accessible from outside the local host. You can remove anonymous-user accounts. You can remove the test database (which by default can be accessed by […]

How to update CentOS 6.2/6.3/6.4 to CentOS 6.5

CentOS community has released its major release of CentOS 6.5 on 1st December 2013, Since from the day of release every one is looking for upgrading the current version to latest CentOS release. This how to is mainly focusing on upgrading previous release of CentOS 6.x to the latest. Before going to update, lets look […]

How To Disable IPv6 on CentOS 6 / RHEL 6

This post guides you on how to disable IPv6 on CentOS 6 / RHEL 6. Edit the /etc/sysctl.conf file. vi /etc/sysctl.conf Put the following entry to disable IPv6. net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1 Execute the following command to reflect the changes. sysctl -p That’s All.