Why “portmap unrecognized service” on RHEL 6/CentOS 6

Question : During the deployment of Samba and NFS services on one of the RHEL 6 server, I’m hit by this message when trying to start, stop and restart service portmap : [root@rhel6 ~]# service portmap start portmap: unrecognized service Answer :Portmap is replaced by rpcbind on some linux distributions such as Fedora 8,RHEL 6 …

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FlipHost Review

FlipHost is a privately owned web hosting company based in Elon, North Carolina. We provide premium web hosting solutions that are a step above the competition at an affordable price.Our mission at FlipHost is customer satisfaction. We believe that we exist only because of our customers and it is our driving force to ensure that …

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How to Setup Open Source Puppet Server and Puppet Agent on Centos 6.5

Puppet is an open source IT automation software and configuration management tool for systems administrators that helping them to manage and operate infrastructure of Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems. It will improve the efficiency because with puppet, we can easily automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy critical applications, and proactively manage the changes. This post will …

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How to Configure Linux TCP keepalive Setting

How to Delete User Account in Linux There is an easy way to delete the user account on linux which is using userdel command. You can read the manual page of this userdel command by typing ‘man userdel‘ at you terminal as below: Example : Userdel with option -r will removed user’s home directory and the user’s mail spool Userdel without -r will only …

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How to Secure MySQL Database Server

A Default MySQL installation is completely vulnerable to attacks. MySQL installation should be made as secure as possible. This is to protect the data collections and the information maintained by the MySQL server from unauthorized or anonymous access. In This post, i will share with you on how to secure your database server with the …

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