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Practical guides for CentOS administration, focusing on automated package updates with yum-cron and open-vm-tools installation.

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Linux2015-10-28

Installing open-vm-tools on CentOS

Just a quick post here today. This is in regards to installing open-vm-tools on CentOS. There's no need to download and install separate epel-release files…

Karl Nyen

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Guides2015-07-28

CentOS nightly auto updates using yum-cron

It seems like new security vulnerabilities comes out at least once per month now a days. Keeping your systems up to date is the easiest way to keep these…

Karl Nyen

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