All Posts tagged as "server management"

Upgrading R from version 3.0 to 3.5

R is a free software package for statistical computing. It is part of most Linux distributions. However the latest version of R is not always available. To install the latest version of R we need to add the URL of a CRAN mirror to a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d.

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Upgrading from Debian Jessie to Debian Stretch

Debian 9, also known as Debian Stretch is currently the latest stable version of the Debian operating system. It was released on 17th June 2017 as successor to Debian 8 also known as Debian Jessie.

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Securing Linux servers with SeLinux, ClamAV, SpamAssassin and RkHunter

Securing your servers is a very important task that can save your organization a lot of problems. Recently there have been a lot of cases where insecure servers belonging to high profile organizations have been exploited and used for nefarious purpose. It is therefore important to secure your servers.

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Running multiple versions of mailx command

Certain commands in Linux can be provided by multiple packages. The command provided by each package may differ. For example the mailx command is provided by the bsd-mailx package as well as the heirloom-mailx package. The mailx command provided by the packages use different command line parameters.

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