My CentOS 6 machine is running Python2.7 alongside the default Python 2.6. A user wanted me to install Pygame. Pygame is in the yum repos but only for python 2.6. How to get it for Python 2.7? I started with … Continue reading
I needed to renew the certificate for my server and the certificate request (CSR) needed to be 2048 bits and SHA-2. My server is a RHEL (RedHat Enterprise Linux) system, so there is a Makefile in /etc/pki/tls/certs that should do … Continue reading
I wanted to make a bootable USB drive to install Linux (CentOS 6.6) on a PC. I downloaded the CentOS .iso file using Bittorrent, but then I needed to write it onto the USB drive. My office machine is a … Continue reading
I’m configuring rsnapshot to run on Tempest. It had been running, for many years, on Puma, but we’re going to re-install on Puma and I want the two machines to be as identical as possible, so both will be acting … Continue reading
This is for a RHEL/CentOS 6.6 machine. There isn’t a genkey command, but in /etc/pki/tls/certs/ there is a Makefile that seems to do what we want: make usage prints some helpful and encouraging messages. Since I want to set up … Continue reading
To create a signed certificate, we first ran genkey and created a file that I happened to call cs.wellesley.edu.1.csr. I put that in /etc/pki/tls/certs. When I uploaded it to the certificate company’s website, they complained that it didn’t meet the … Continue reading
Our backups on Puma have been taking a long time, finishing late in the day, almost in time for the next backup. The problem seemed to be in the cp -al step, not in the rsync step. I investigated, looking … Continue reading
Rhys asked for us to install Tkinter for Python2.7. [Remember, that Python2.6 is the default Python on Tempest because it’s what RHEL comes with, but most users are using Python 2.7.] Here’s the current behavior: [anderson@tempest ~] python2.6 Python 2.6.6 … Continue reading
I’m following the instructions here: http://newpush.com/how-to-install-tomcat-6-on-rhel-6-or-centos-6/ First up, install yum-priorities. That allows us to prioritize some repos over others. So, for example, we can make sure the RHEL repos take priority over EPEL, I guess. He also installs two repo … Continue reading
Sohie wants the cs111 tutors to be able to read the contents of /home/cs111/drop so that they can grade dropped assignments, but not to be able to write to other cs111 files and directories. Currently the drop folder is owned … Continue reading