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Building my Homeserver : Webmin administration

It’s time to install webmin .  Webmin is a web based system administration for unix based system. Webmin is accessible through any browser. For more info visit the website . But before we need to setup something  before. It’s a minimal install so it needs to install wget first. yum install wget Next we will install some other requirements for webmin yum -y install perl perl-Net-SSLeay openssl perl-IO-Tty There’s actually 2 ways to install webmin as the website states . One is using the yum repos and other is downloading the rpm. I prefer rpm that’s why i installed wget first. Next we will download the webmin rpm. wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.760-1.noarch.rpm Next we will install the rpm rpm -U webmin-1.760-1.noarch.rpm Once the webmin is installed it is accessible through the network using the port 10000 and also through https. But in centos we need to add the port and https in to the firewall. Run the following c...

Adding proxy in YUM Fedora 13

Recently i need a linux machine in my office for server . So i installed Fedora 13 and try to install mysql server using yum. But i can't complete it because yum is not connecting to internet. It's because of our proxy server.  Before 2 months i installed Fedora 12 and failed to install Mysql using yum. I just searched for setting proxy in yum and got the answer for it. This is the solution, 1. open /etc/yum.conf 2. add proxy=http://proxyaddress:port Voila :D , it works fine for me. Atlast my 3 months quest ends here . :P .