Running a personal domain

Running a personal domain

[Zachary Kline]

Hiya,
    I recently bought the domain name blindlinux.com from a registrar and set it's DNS and such using the control panel they provide.  I'm also allowed a virtual private server for my site and such, which I can access via SSH.  I guess I have a desire to learn how all that works internally.  I'm not gonna run a massive site off it or anything, but maybe host some files and just a personal page.
I was wondering if anybody here is familiar with Cent OS.  I'm not, though have heard it's based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  I'm not familiar with Red Hat in general.
Any tips from anybody?
Thanks muchly,
Zack.
PS: I wish I could host it myself, but I'd need to talk to my ISP about getting a static IP, and anyway it isn't my connection.

Re: Running a personal domain

[Scott Berry]

What exactly do you want to know I am using Fedora here which is based on 
the Redhat scheme of things.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@hotmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:40 PM
Subject: Running a personal domain


> Hiya,
>    I recently bought the domain name blindlinux.com from a registrar and 
> set it's DNS and such using the control panel they provide.  I'm also 
> allowed a virtual private server for my site and such, which I can access 
> via SSH.  I guess I have a desire to learn how all that works internally. 
> I'm not gonna run a massive site off it or anything, but maybe host some 
> files and just a personal page.
> I was wondering if anybody here is familiar with Cent OS.  I'm not, though 
> have heard it's based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  I'm not familiar with 
> Red Hat in general.
> Any tips from anybody?
> Thanks muchly,
> Zack.
> PS: I wish I could host it myself, but I'd need to talk to my ISP about 
> getting a static IP, and anyway it isn't my connection.
> _______________________________________________
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Re: Running a personal domain

[Gaijin]

Zachary Kline wrote:
> PS: I wish I could host it myself, but I'd need to talk to
> my ISP about getting a static IP,

     Debian used to/still has a package called "dhis" that let you
piggyback with dhis.org and run a virtual static IP.  I'm not sure
they're free anymore, though.  They're at www.dhis.org.  You'd register
a domain name, and they'd append a .dhis.org to the end.  Unfortunately,
they filtered out the mail ports.  Dunno if they still do that, now that
they're taking money.  I rememver having to run a key generator, putting
my key in the /etc/dhis.conf file, and handing over their key.  It had a
script that ran when the machine connected to the net, to let dhis.org
know that my system was online.    Only tried it out and never actually 
used it for anything, as I was only interested in having SMTP running.

         Michael

Re: Running a personal domain

[Zachary Kline]

Hiya,
    Well, I'm mostly wondering about how Yum works, and a lot of that basic 
kind of package management stuff.  The problem is that the server I have 
access to is probably customized in some way, so I need to figure out how it 
does things.  I'm afraid of breaking it and needing to call in the tech 
support folks to fix it.
To quote them, they say that only advanced users need to access the machine 
via SSH.
Thanks,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Berry" <sberry@northlc.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: Running a personal domain


> What exactly do you want to know I am using Fedora here which is based on
> the Redhat scheme of things.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@hotmail.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:40 PM
> Subject: Running a personal domain
>
>
>> Hiya,
>>    I recently bought the domain name blindlinux.com from a registrar and
>> set it's DNS and such using the control panel they provide.  I'm also
>> allowed a virtual private server for my site and such, which I can access
>> via SSH.  I guess I have a desire to learn how all that works internally.
>> I'm not gonna run a massive site off it or anything, but maybe host some
>> files and just a personal page.
>> I was wondering if anybody here is familiar with Cent OS.  I'm not, 
>> though
>> have heard it's based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  I'm not familiar with
>> Red Hat in general.
>> Any tips from anybody?
>> Thanks muchly,
>> Zack.
>> PS: I wish I could host it myself, but I'd need to talk to my ISP about
>> getting a static IP, and anyway it isn't my connection.
>> _______________________________________________
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Re: Running a personal domain

[Scott Berry]

Well to run yum you have the following syntax:

yum install package
yum remove package
yum update package
Now in Fedora we have what they call:
what provides
this tells you what a package depends on:

So for an example the statement might look like this:

yum whatprovides perl
or the name of the package.

Do you need to know how to install rpm's?

Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@hotmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: Running a personal domain


> Hiya,
>    Well, I'm mostly wondering about how Yum works, and a lot of that basic
> kind of package management stuff.  The problem is that the server I have
> access to is probably customized in some way, so I need to figure out how 
> it
> does things.  I'm afraid of breaking it and needing to call in the tech
> support folks to fix it.
> To quote them, they say that only advanced users need to access the 
> machine
> via SSH.
> Thanks,
> Zack.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Scott Berry" <sberry@northlc.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:52 PM
> Subject: Re: Running a personal domain
>
>
>> What exactly do you want to know I am using Fedora here which is based on
>> the Redhat scheme of things.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@hotmail.com>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:40 PM
>> Subject: Running a personal domain
>>
>>
>>> Hiya,
>>>    I recently bought the domain name blindlinux.com from a registrar and
>>> set it's DNS and such using the control panel they provide.  I'm also
>>> allowed a virtual private server for my site and such, which I can 
>>> access
>>> via SSH.  I guess I have a desire to learn how all that works 
>>> internally.
>>> I'm not gonna run a massive site off it or anything, but maybe host some
>>> files and just a personal page.
>>> I was wondering if anybody here is familiar with Cent OS.  I'm not,
>>> though
>>> have heard it's based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  I'm not familiar 
>>> with
>>> Red Hat in general.
>>> Any tips from anybody?
>>> Thanks muchly,
>>> Zack.
>>> PS: I wish I could host it myself, but I'd need to talk to my ISP about
>>> getting a static IP, and anyway it isn't my connection.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Speakup mailing list
>>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Re: Running a personal domain

[Zachary Kline]

Hiya,
    I don't think so.  The server seems to have a lot of stuff already on 
it...An Apache web server, Postfix, etc.  I'm just a bit overwhelmed by the 
idea of doing the whole website thing.  I'm not creating anything too 
elaborate, but I did contemplate the idea of starting up a small personal 
mud or the like.  The possibilities just seem rather endless now that I have 
the domain.
Thanks,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Berry" <sberry@northlc.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: Running a personal domain


> Well to run yum you have the following syntax:
>
> yum install package
> yum remove package
> yum update package
> Now in Fedora we have what they call:
> what provides
> this tells you what a package depends on:
>
> So for an example the statement might look like this:
>
> yum whatprovides perl
> or the name of the package.
>
> Do you need to know how to install rpm's?
>
> Scott
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@hotmail.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 5:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Running a personal domain
>
>
>> Hiya,
>>    Well, I'm mostly wondering about how Yum works, and a lot of that 
>> basic
>> kind of package management stuff.  The problem is that the server I have
>> access to is probably customized in some way, so I need to figure out how
>> it
>> does things.  I'm afraid of breaking it and needing to call in the tech
>> support folks to fix it.
>> To quote them, they say that only advanced users need to access the
>> machine
>> via SSH.
>> Thanks,
>> Zack.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Scott Berry" <sberry@northlc.com>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: Running a personal domain
>>
>>
>>> What exactly do you want to know I am using Fedora here which is based 
>>> on
>>> the Redhat scheme of things.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@hotmail.com>
>>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>>> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
>>> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:40 PM
>>> Subject: Running a personal domain
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hiya,
>>>>    I recently bought the domain name blindlinux.com from a registrar 
>>>> and
>>>> set it's DNS and such using the control panel they provide.  I'm also
>>>> allowed a virtual private server for my site and such, which I can
>>>> access
>>>> via SSH.  I guess I have a desire to learn how all that works
>>>> internally.
>>>> I'm not gonna run a massive site off it or anything, but maybe host 
>>>> some
>>>> files and just a personal page.
>>>> I was wondering if anybody here is familiar with Cent OS.  I'm not,
>>>> though
>>>> have heard it's based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  I'm not familiar
>>>> with
>>>> Red Hat in general.
>>>> Any tips from anybody?
>>>> Thanks muchly,
>>>> Zack.
>>>> PS: I wish I could host it myself, but I'd need to talk to my ISP about
>>>> getting a static IP, and anyway it isn't my connection.
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Speakup mailing list
>>>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>>>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> 6/29/2007
>>>> 2:15 PM
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>>>
>>>
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Re: Running a personal domain

[Butch Bussen]

I'd like to know how to install rpm files.
Thanks.
73s
Butch Bussen
wa0vjr

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Scott 
Berry wrote:

> Well to run yum you have the following syntax:
>
> yum install package
> yum remove package
> yum update package
> Now in Fedora we have what they call:
> what provides
> this tells you what a package depends on:
>
> So for an example the statement might look like this:
>
> yum whatprovides perl
> or the name of the package.
>
> Do you need to know how to install rpm's?
>
> Scott
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@hotmail.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 5:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Running a personal domain
>
>
>> Hiya,
>>    Well, I'm mostly wondering about how Yum works, and a lot of that basic
>> kind of package management stuff.  The problem is that the server I have
>> access to is probably customized in some way, so I need to figure out how
>> it
>> does things.  I'm afraid of breaking it and needing to call in the tech
>> support folks to fix it.
>> To quote them, they say that only advanced users need to access the
>> machine
>> via SSH.
>> Thanks,
>> Zack.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Scott Berry" <sberry@northlc.com>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: Running a personal domain
>>
>>
>>> What exactly do you want to know I am using Fedora here which is based on
>>> the Redhat scheme of things.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@hotmail.com>
>>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>>> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
>>> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:40 PM
>>> Subject: Running a personal domain
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hiya,
>>>>    I recently bought the domain name blindlinux.com from a registrar and
>>>> set it's DNS and such using the control panel they provide.  I'm also
>>>> allowed a virtual private server for my site and such, which I can
>>>> access
>>>> via SSH.  I guess I have a desire to learn how all that works
>>>> internally.
>>>> I'm not gonna run a massive site off it or anything, but maybe host some
>>>> files and just a personal page.
>>>> I was wondering if anybody here is familiar with Cent OS.  I'm not,
>>>> though
>>>> have heard it's based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  I'm not familiar
>>>> with
>>>> Red Hat in general.
>>>> Any tips from anybody?
>>>> Thanks muchly,
>>>> Zack.
>>>> PS: I wish I could host it myself, but I'd need to talk to my ISP about
>>>> getting a static IP, and anyway it isn't my connection.
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Speakup mailing list
>>>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>>>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> 6/29/2007
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>>>
>>>
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Re: Running a personal domain

[Scott Berry]

Hi Butch,

Okay here is what you can do.  Now it depends if your installation is local 
or off the web.

To install them locally you do the following:
rpm -i package
where I is install.  Now to do them remotely you do:
rpm -jvh website I believe.  I do mostly local installs so I may have this 
wrong.

Scott
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <butchb@shellworld.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: Running a personal domain


> I'd like to know how to install rpm files.
> Thanks.
> 73s
> Butch Bussen
> wa0vjr
>
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Scott
> Berry wrote:
>
>> Well to run yum you have the following syntax:
>>
>> yum install package
>> yum remove package
>> yum update package
>> Now in Fedora we have what they call:
>> what provides
>> this tells you what a package depends on:
>>
>> So for an example the statement might look like this:
>>
>> yum whatprovides perl
>> or the name of the package.
>>
>> Do you need to know how to install rpm's?
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@hotmail.com>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
>> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 5:57 PM
>> Subject: Re: Running a personal domain
>>
>>
>>> Hiya,
>>>    Well, I'm mostly wondering about how Yum works, and a lot of that 
>>> basic
>>> kind of package management stuff.  The problem is that the server I have
>>> access to is probably customized in some way, so I need to figure out 
>>> how
>>> it
>>> does things.  I'm afraid of breaking it and needing to call in the tech
>>> support folks to fix it.
>>> To quote them, they say that only advanced users need to access the
>>> machine
>>> via SSH.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Zack.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Scott Berry" <sberry@northlc.com>
>>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>>> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
>>> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:52 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Running a personal domain
>>>
>>>
>>>> What exactly do you want to know I am using Fedora here which is based 
>>>> on
>>>> the Redhat scheme of things.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@hotmail.com>
>>>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>>>> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:40 PM
>>>> Subject: Running a personal domain
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hiya,
>>>>>    I recently bought the domain name blindlinux.com from a registrar 
>>>>> and
>>>>> set it's DNS and such using the control panel they provide.  I'm also
>>>>> allowed a virtual private server for my site and such, which I can
>>>>> access
>>>>> via SSH.  I guess I have a desire to learn how all that works
>>>>> internally.
>>>>> I'm not gonna run a massive site off it or anything, but maybe host 
>>>>> some
>>>>> files and just a personal page.
>>>>> I was wondering if anybody here is familiar with Cent OS.  I'm not,
>>>>> though
>>>>> have heard it's based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  I'm not familiar
>>>>> with
>>>>> Red Hat in general.
>>>>> Any tips from anybody?
>>>>> Thanks muchly,
>>>>> Zack.
>>>>> PS: I wish I could host it myself, but I'd need to talk to my ISP 
>>>>> about
>>>>> getting a static IP, and anyway it isn't my connection.
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Speakup mailing list
>>>>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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>>>>>
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