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How To Install ClamAV On Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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Want to install ClamAV on your Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, or Fedora Core box? Their documentation is pretty darn easy to follow, but this fills in some of the missing pieces for RHEL. clamd is the scanning daemon, clamav-milter is the milter, and freshclam is the process that updates the virus definitions. All the commands, in Courier font, should be on one line if they happen to wrap. Install gmp, gmp-devel, sendmail, sendmail-cf, sendmail-devel, zlib, zlib-devel, bzip2, bzip2-devel. Get the sendmail source from sendmail.org. Extract it, go into the libmilter subdirectory. Run "make" and "make install". That will install libmilter into /usr, where sendmail can find it. No need to build the whole sendmail. groupadd clamav useradd -g clamav …

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How to Configure IPMI on a Dell PowerEdge running Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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This is intended to help fairly knowledgeable people get IPMI working on their hosts so they can issue remote commands to their hardware. I focus on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a Dell, but it is likely to work on other hosts, distributions, and OSes, too. This works for me on Dell PowerEdge 1850, PowerEdge 2850, Dell PowerEdge 1950, and Dell PowerEdge 2950 hardware. Dell PowerEdge 1650, 2650, and 1750 servers have an older implementation of IPMI which will let you issue commands locally, but not to these models over the network. Before you begin: The Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) is the thing that implements IPMI. It piggybacks on the first built-in NIC so you have to have that attached …

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