This howto describe how to run wget behind authenticated proxy to download files. GNU Wget is a package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.
GNU Wget comes as default software with almost every distribution, so we are going to just configure it to start downloading using authenticated proxy. Read the rest of this entry…
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This how to describe to configure YUM to work behind proxy server using username / password for authentication. YUM is great tool available in RHEL/Fedora/CentOS to install/update/remove packages easily from local and internet repositories. In the most offices / schools / colleges where proxies are implemented and direct connection to the internet is not possible and all internet traffic goes through proxy servers. Same as in my office we have to use proxy server with username / password to authenticate ourself to get internet access. So we are going to configure my YUM software to use proxy to get my LINUX updated with new softwares all the times with repositories available on internet. Read the rest of this entry…
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This howto describe to split big files / directories into multiple archives under Linux using RAR software which can be used to backup, copy onto CDs or download into small chunks where large files downloading is limit to size etc. These files then can be downloaded to any machine to re-assemble again and extract data from it. RAR software developed by RARLAB (http://www.rarlab.com) and have Linux, Windows and MacOS versions. Read the rest of this entry…
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This howto describe how to install yum on CentOS 5.2 VPS. VPS (Virtual Private Servers) usually comes cheap to install, administrate and manage LINUX with administrated (root) priviliges. In this way you have fully fuctional LINUX available to work on it. But some of the host provide very basic template of CentOS 5.2 for VPS which only install minimal amount of software to run these VPS. I came across one of my VPS with very minimal installation and which doesn’t have YUM install in it. YUM (Yellow Update Manager) is a very necessary tool now a days to install any software from internet using online repository without getting any getting problems of dependencies. Read the rest of this entry…
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This document describes how to attach modems to a Linux box and allow it to receive calls to connect users to the network. Its like being your own ISP (Internet Service Provider). If your Linux box is connected to the Internet, then the users will also be connected to the Internet. Your Linux box becomes a router. This is also known as RAS (Remote Access Services) in the Microsoft world. In the Linux world its called PPP (Point to Point Protocol). Read the rest of this entry…
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