Thank you Johnny and Lorenzo! Much, much appreciated. I do feel silly just asking for general advice, and not Googling (I am, but time is restricted) but I need to get up to speed using CentOS instead of Deb ASAP.. as our servers are deployed next week. Thank you so much again, I shall get reading! *Matt Harwood* Designer, NannyGroup Limited Mob: 07887 817769 Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: > Matt Harwood ha scritto: >> All, >> >> Apologies for cluttering the list, but I just wanted to say hello and >> prepare all for a barage of silly discussions from a >> tech-hypochondriac! We have recently purchased two servers running >> CentOS, and as I'm from more of a Debian based background, it would >> be good if someone could point out the two or three main differences >> please? I'm reading up on the package management as I type, but any >> quick tips and tricks for (web) server admin with CentOS would be magic. >> >> Sorry for being cheeky! Hope everyone is well, too. > > Well, Welcome :) > > My 2 cents: > > 1) "yum list all > yla && yum info all > yia" for offline searching > and info reading of packages > > 2) "grep system-config yla" and you'll find the main tools for > configuring the system > > 3) Setup the priorities > "http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities" and add new > repository > "http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories?action=show&redirect=Repositories" > > > 4) http://wiki.centos.org > > 5) google > > 99) when anything else fails: ask this list ;) > > Regards > > Lorenzo Quatrini > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080620/57fdddf7/attachment-0005.html>