This article explains how to install and configure R in RHEL 8 / CentOS 8.
In this tutorial you will learn:
- R Overview
- Statistical Features of R
- Download, Compilation, Installation of R
- Hello World with R
As interconnected computer networks enter more and more fields of everyday life, cybersecurity is getting louder and louder. We protect our websites, the traffic on our websites, the computers we initiate the traffic from, maybe (part of) the disks our operating system run from, our connection to work, the computers we attach to at work, and so on.
openssl
is an essential tool on any recent GNU/Linux distribution if one have to work with various certificates.
In this tutorial we will install (and reinstall) the openssl package, and test it’s functionality by checking a website’s certificate chain with it’s help.
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In this tutorial we will learn how to install Apache Tomcat 8 application container to RHEL 8 / CentOS 8. We will be using the zip package available to download from the Apache Tomcat website. As this package will not handle setting up the environment, we will create it from the command line.
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Remote connection to computers is as old as computer networks. Accessing the graphical interface (GUI) is a convenient way of working on a remote desktop. We can leave our graphical programs running and working, and we don’t need to keep the session open – we simply reconnect when we feel to do so.
VNC server is well-known graphical session server enabling remote connections that we can run with a non-privileged user. This way many users can access their own desktop on the same machine remotely, and will not block each other (apart from maybe using up the resources of the remove machine).
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The syslog functionality is one of the main tools for a sysadmin. While writing logfiles with events of interest is a common feature of any application, having a system-wide logging functionality means all logs can be handled as one on the system. But syslog does not stop there. With these tool, a sysadmin can centralize log processing in the datacenter by forwarding the incoming events from applications to central logservers, where they can be processed at a large scale.
Centralized logging is an overkill on a home system with a few computers, but already have it’s benefits around a dozen machine. For example, a dozen desktops sending all their logfiles to a central logserver mean they don’t need to store them on the long run, the logs will occupy disk space in the logserver. The admin can check for problems in only one place (possibly by means of automated reports), the logs can be preserved in a safe way by the means of backups, stored more effective by means of heavy compressing, and will not be lost on a client’s failure or user error.
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Postfix is a common mail server, many large distributions are shipped with Postfix installed by default. The default configuration allows local mailing only, but that in itself is very useful on a machine used by many users, and even if there is no such traffic, many services dump their reports and messages into e-mails, which is delivered to the root
user locally, so the sysadmin will be noticed on any events of interest when he/she logs in and switches to root
user.
A simple example would be scheduled cron
jobs: any output not redirected from the output of a script running from cron will be wrapped to an e-mail and will be delivered to root
‘s mailbox, so the administrator does not even have to make any effort to have the reports of the nightly backup jobs at hand.
While this standalone mode is certainly a nice service as it is, postfix is a full-fledged mail server, capable of receiving, forwarding, relaying, filtering of e-mails, it basically have every feature we need for a mail server.
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