Gitlab is an open source, powerful, robust, scalable, secure, as well as efficient software development and collaboration platform for all stages of the DevOps lifecycle. It allows you to plan your development process; code,...
Do you know the version of CentOS/RHEL release you are running on your server? Why is this even important? There are several reasons to keep this information in mind: to quickly gather information about...
The RPM database is made up of files under the /var/lib/rpm/ directory in CentOS and other enterprise Linux distributions such as RHEL, openSUSE, Oracle Linux and more. If the RPM database is corrupted, RPM...
By default the CentOS 7 official software package repositories have PHP 5.4, which has reached the end of life and no longer actively maintained by the developers. To keep up with the latest features...
When you compile a custom kernel module such as device driver on a CentOS system, you need to have kernel header files installed on the system, which include the C header files for the...
In one of our earlier articles, we described how to boot into single user mode on CentOS 7. It is also known as “maintenance mode”, where Linux only starts a handful of services for...
ionCube is a commercial software suite consisting of a PHP encoder, package foundry, bundler, a real time site intrusion detection and error reporting application as well as a loader. PHP encoder is an application...
In this article, we will show you how to quickly get accurate server time in CentOS distribution. Normally, if you have installed CentOS with a desktop environment, the easiest way to configure your computer...
The CentOS CR (Continuous Release) repository contains packages that will ship in the next point release for a specific CentOS Version. If you consider CentOS 7, a point release is the next release such...
In this tutorial we’ll cover the process of rescuing a corrupted boot loader in CentOS 7 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and recover the a forgotten root password. The GRUB boot loader can...
