You have installed CentOS and now you’d like to either change the IP address or add additional LAN cards (NIC). There are a couple of ways to configure the network card using the command line but only some commands will take immediate effect on kernel. Configure network with immediate effect Using a single command line
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6 Comments » Most Red Hat-based distributions, like CentOS, should have a file called redhat-release which will contain the CentOS version. # cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.5 (Final) or # rpm -q centos-release centos-release-5-5.el5.centos.1 and finally # lsb_release -i Distributor ID: CentOS # lsb_release -r Release: 5.5 # lsb_release -d Description: CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
Since the release of CentOS 5.5 we noticed that the default CentOS install assigns a considerable amount of its available storage space to Swap. If you don’t catch this during the installation don’t worry, Logical Volume Manager or LVM will rectify this post install. LVM is a logical volume manager for the Linux kernel; it
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In this CentOS 5.5 tutorial we will be showing you how to change the hostname. The assumption is that you are running as root and have a basic understanding of the software required but if you follow this tutorial you should be able to complete the task successfully. To find the machine’s fully qualifier domain
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