CentOS

Script to monitor assigned IP address on a local network

Jun 19th, 2009 | By Roma | Category: CentOS

I wanted to monitor all assigned IP addresses on my local network. Since I have a hardware router/DHCP server, looking at the DHCP table was not an option. So I wrote a script on a CentOS Linux server.
You might need to install nmap on your distribution before using the script. On CentOS, install nmap with:

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Samsung CLX-3160FN linux driver (tested on CentOS 5)

Jul 24th, 2008 | By Roma | Category: CentOS, Features

Samsung sells the Samsung CLX-3160FN network printer as Linux compliant. It is indeed packaged with their Unified Linux Driver on CD. Just in case you didn’t receive it, the whole package can be found on their download center. However, using this original driver will result in poor print quality, especially for text documents. So the [...]



WordPress permalink on CentOS 5 tutorial

Jul 11th, 2008 | By Roma | Category: CentOS, Features, WordPress

The installation of WordPress is simple and straightforward. Really. So I’m not going to detail the installation process, which is well documented here. However, the permalink feature does not work out of the box on a standard CentOs 5 distribution. Some changes have to be made in the apache configuration files to enable mod_rewrite in [...]