Ports. Rhel. Rpm. PHP 5.2 on Red Hat 5 / CentOS 5. The following is a build log for installing PHP 5.2.5 on Red Hat Enterprise 5 / CentOS 5.
I grabbed the source RPM from Fedora 9. Some people just have to have the latest version. Sigh. I highly recommend this build method if you require PHP 5.2. It folds in all the latest Fedora patches, which will eventually make their way into Enterprise. Please note that you can tweak the configure options by editing the php.spec before executing rpmbuild. I happen to be building on x86_64 64-bit, but this will most likely work on 32-bit as well. For obvious reasons, installing a non-standard non-stock version is not recommended on production systems. Update: It looks like php 5.2 is in the CentOS testing repository, so you can install via yum. [c5-testing]name=CentOS-5 Testing baseurl= Installing and Running the BOINC client on Unix. This page describes how you can install and run the BOINC client on a Unix computer (such as Linux) as a system service (a "daemon").
Last modified: 28 March 2010 It is relatively easy to install and run BOINC on Unix. Pre-built packages now exist for the Fedora and Ubuntu distributions of Linux, so installing those packages is probably the easiest way to get up and running quickly. In that case, you don't need to read this page. See instead the article in the BOINC wiki about Installing BOINC. If you would like to know more about how BOINC works and how to set up the client on a Unix computer then you can follow the instructions presented here.
You will need to make a few decisions as you go along, such as whether to run BOINC under a separate account dedicated to the task (running as a Unix "daemon") or under your own account (a "personal" installation), and where to put the working directory. Overview Here is what has to be done: The rest of this page simply expands upon these steps. Ch09 : Linux Users and Sudo. Before we proceed, it would be best to cover some basic user administration topics that will be very useful in later chapters.
Adding Users One of the most important activities in administering a Linux box is the addition of users. Here you'll find some simple examples to provide a foundation for future chapters. It is not intended to be comprehensive, but is a good memory refresher. You can use the command man useradd to get the help pages on adding users with the useradd command or the man usermod to become more familiar with modifying users with the usermod command.
The super user with unrestricted access to all system resources and files in Linux is the user named root. Debian Note: When installing Ubuntu Linux systems, you are prompted to create a primary user that is not root. Adding users takes some planning; read through these steps below before starting: 1) Arrange your list of users into groups by function. Parents Children Soho Paul Alice Accounts Jane Derek Sales Other Examples.