Linux: yum options you may not know exist.

Most of the users who work with distributions such as: centos, fedora, redhat, etc use yum as a package update/installer. Most of them know how to do “yum update [packagename]” (to update all or [certain packages]) or they do “yum install packagename” to install certain package(s). But yum can do so much more. [...]

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Linux: How do you rename a user account in linux?

In Linux, there is no command which will rename a user account. If you make a mistake creating a user account, user changes their name or if user does not like his user name, there is no real easy way of going and making the change. Only thing I know you can do is [...]

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MySQL: How do you set up master-master replication in MySQL? (CentOS, RHEL, Fedora)

Setting up master-master replication in MySQL is very similar to how we set up master/slave replication. You can read up about how to setup master/slave replication in my previous post: How to set up master/slave replication in MySQL. There is obviously pros and cons about using master/master replication. But this is not [...]

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MySQL: How do you set up master-slave replication in MySQL? (CentOS, RHEL, Fedora)

Before we go into how to set up master-slave replication in MySQL, let us talk about some of the reasons I have set up master-slave replication using MySQL.
1) Offload some of the queries from one server to another and spread the load: One of the biggest advantages to have master-slave set [...]

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PHP: How do I install phpsh, interactive shell prompt for php under CentOS or Fedora?

phpsh requires readline support built into python. It also requires python version 2.4+. You can check which version of python you have installed by typing:
python -V
Let us download and install readline:
wget ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-5.2.tar.gz
tar zxf readline-5.2.tar.gz
cd readline-5.2
./configure
make install
Now let us install python with readline support:

wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.1/Python-2.5.1.tgz
tar zxf Python-2.5.1.tgz
cd Python-2.5.1

I had some problems on one of the [...]

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