CentOS Server Tutorials

CentOS Server

CentOS is a very popular Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a well known North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS continues to gain popularity as Windows administrators move to Linux to save money and for the performance gains.

We've listed all of our CentOS tutorials below to get you started using CentOS. We also provide an online CentOS training course and live CentOS class.


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SNMP Version 3 on Linux
Server - CentOS

Configure SNMP Version 3 to securely access your CentOS server using encryption. This article shows how to quickly set up SNMP versions 1,2 and 3 and then will show you have to make it secure.

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Saving System Resources with No atime
Server - CentOS

Saving System Resources with No atimeAdministrators can save a lot of needless writes to the disk by mounting partitions with noatime.  Even if a file is read a write will occur to disk when you are using atime.

 

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CGroups on CentOS 6
Server - CentOS

CGroups on CentOS 6A new feature implemented in CentOS 6 are control groups which are provided by the kernel.  Control groups or cgroups, provide a way to control resources used on the system like CPU, memory, bandwidth and other resources.  The use of cgroups will allow an administrator to provide precise control over the allocation, prioritizing, monitoring and managing of resources on the server.

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Automatic Logouts with Screen
Server - CentOS

CentOS Automatic Logouts with ScreenThe screen application can be used to make sure users do not leave accounts logged in.  You can set an automatic log out when an idle time has been reached.

 

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Minimal Desktop Install on CentOS 6
Server - CentOS

Minimal Desktop Install on CentOS 6This example of a minimal desktop shows how to manually create partitions using ext3 and ext4 for a server that has a minimal desktop for a graphical interface.

 

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