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Technology Errors

last: btmp: File too large, Read Large btmp Files

ErrorsBy alexJanuary 15, 2011Leave a comment

Earlier today while investigating the logs on a CentOS Linux server I noticed the btmp file had grown to over 5GB. I was curious to look into the log and when attempting to read the 5GB file using last I received an error since last will only handle files that are 2GB in size or…

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Install The EPEL Repository On CentOS Linux 5.X, EPEL Repo

InsightsBy alexApril 22, 20102 Comments

Installing the EPEL repository on CentOS Linux is easy to do so the below is simply a reference point if needed by anyone. EPEL stands for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux and is a community based repository that was created for add-on Fedora Linux packages. There are many cases where installation instructions assume that the…

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Error: Missing Dependency: libffi.so.5 is needed by package python26-2.6.2-2.i386

ErrorsBy alexMarch 10, 20105 Comments

One of the annoying things about CentOS Linux is the current dependency on Python version 2.4. Typically I install Python version 2.6 and compile new programs using the 2.6 version of python instead of the 2.4 version. Recently on a server I had just installed CentOS 5.4 on I had a dependency issue when attempting…

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Install ncftp, ncftpget, ncftpput Using Yum On CentOS Linux Server

InsightsBy alexJanuary 25, 201013 Comments

I was messing around with the CPAN the Perl world wide archive of resources earlier today and it was asking for the default location of ncftpget. By default this is no longer installed on CentOS so you will first need to install the EPEL repository and then install NCFTP using yum. Follow the directions below…

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How To Install Python 2.6 On CentOS 5 Without Breaking Yum

InsightsBy alexDecember 25, 200921 Comments

I recently was installing Django for a test project and needed to upgrade Python on a CentOS server to 2.6. The current revisions available via yum on CentOS are 2.4. The yum package manager requires Python 2.4 still to function properly so upgrading Python to 2.6 manually will break the CentOS yum package manager. After…

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