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How to use yum without Serial Number (RHN) ?

Asked in: Shell Scripting with 4 answers

I installed Redhat 6.1 64bit and I'd like use yum command for installing packages. How to can use yum in RedHat for install an update package without Serial Number (RHN) ?

Asked in: RedHat-Linux-Servers (4 answers)
hamid13's response: yum install htop I use it but error : Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, subscription-manager Updating Red Hat repositories. rhel-beta/metalink | 20 kB 00:04 Could not parse metalink https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=rhel-6Server-beta&arch=x86_64 error was No repomd file Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rhel-beta. Please verify its path and try again

When I'm downloading large files direct to my server sometimes the URL ends with something like &var=esdfvklwejflkejrn and breaks when I'm using wget. How do I get round this ? I sometimes have to download it to my desktop and then upload it to the server which is ridiculous. Thank you.

Asked in: Linux-Servers (3 answers)
hamid13's response: general : # wget -o LOGFILE -bc URL -b go to background -c continue download -o log all messages to LOGFILE # wget -bc -i FILE -i read URLs from FILE Site mirror : # wget -bc --mirror URL # wget --mirror --convert-links --backup-converted -w 1 URL -w Wait the specified number of seconds between the retrievals Changing host header : # wget --header="Host: foo.bar" http://localhost/ Recursively download special file extensions : # wget -r -l0 -N -H -t2 -np -A.mp3 -erobots=off -i url-file.txt -r Turn on recursive retrieving -l Specify recursion maximum depth level -N Turn on time-stamping -H Enable spanning across hosts when doing recursive retrieving -t Set number of retries -np Do not ever ascend to the parent directory -A Specify comma-separated lists of file name suffixes or patterns to ACCEPT -R Specify comma-separated lists of file name suffixes or patterns to REJECT -e robots=off Ignore the robots.txt file/no-follow attribute -i Read URLs from

What would cause this ? It looks scary.

Err http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Sources
  Something wicked happened resolving 'gb.archive.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname)

Asked in: Ubuntu-Linux-Servers (3 answers)
hamid13's response: Check Internet connection. If error only about this resource you can disable it. sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list and use # to change status to commit

MySQL client error 2013 "Lost connection ...". It's on the same server as the web server though !

Asked in: Ubuntu-Linux-Servers (1 answers)
hamid13's response: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/error-messages-client.html

I'd like to give a server an IP on Debian at boot time over DHCP and config it from there. Is PXE the way to go? Thanks.

Asked in: Debian-Linux-Servers (2 answers)
hamid13's response: You can use the dhclient command. You can add this cammand in: /etc/rc.local