Red Hat Infos

RedHat Packages

When installing a local RedHat network I found the following package vitally important:

• The Apt package system, ported from Debian to RedHat.

You probably will need a librpm package will can be fetched e.g. from findrpm.net

• RedHat Network, I do not use anymore. Apt is much nicer. :)

What to do if rpm hangs?

If rpm crashes (e.g. a script hanged) than it does not react to SIGHUP/SIGQUIT etc...

• killall -9 rpm (killall -9 rpmq for rpm -q) to kill rpm

• rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.??? to remove locks

• rm --rebuilddb

:-)

Useful Linux Admin Packages

• If you have your files scattered at different networks (university, job, home) your definitely will need Unison too.

It's a nice synchronization utility that handles conflicts nicely and has a basic understanding of the differences between Windows and Unix. (Thanks Volker!)

• Of course, you would need Nessus. A state-of-the art vulnerability scanner.

To scan your own network!

• Cfengine is nice, reliable and convergent configuration engine for Linux and Windows.

Version 2 is now available.

• Here are the Nvidia drivers.

You would need NVIDIA_kernel*.rpm and NVIDIA_GLX*.rpm.

Windows Remote Desktop

RDesktop for Linux