Under an out-of-the-box installation of CentOS, many services are running that are non-essential for a LAMP stack to run effectively. Running the following (either individually or as a script) will remove these services from the boot. Original post from VPS.net View Code BASH#Shut down non essential services: # 1. sendmail # Purpose: sending mail, [...]
Symbolic links (symlinks) are an extremely useful tool to every system admin and web application developer. They work a lot like a shortcut in Windows. Let’s say you were working with a web application that used a framework that held all Javascript, CSS and image files in a tucked-away location (for the sake of this [...]
On a base server install for Centos 5.2, yum-updatesd is included and it seems like a fairly good idea to keep that running (keeps you updated). Not so and it’s safe to disable this (kill the process and disable it from starting up in the first place. Here’s the process, I noticed an immediate speed [...]
I’m taking the plunge and moving my home server from Linux to Windows. Usually people move the other direction, but after years of configuring every other distribution of Linux (which, in the end, Centos takes the cake), I’ve opted for compatibility and easy-of-use. All the Linux fanboys are probaby shouting something to the effect of [...]