Category: Linux

Posted by kevin
June 21, 2010

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Quick tip: Mounting CIFS volumes on Linux

I recently got myself a Netgear ReadyNAS duo. Amazing bit of kit, best purchase I’ve made in a while. OneI always run into is remembering how to mount a CIFS volume. Do do this, create a mount point (I choose /mnt/cifs but use whatever you want), then execute the following command; $ mount -t cifs [...]

Posted by kevin
January 5, 2010

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How to install LibSSH2 on a CentOS 5 system

Libssh2 is a C library implementing the SSH2 protocol for PHP. Here’s how to get it installed on a CentOS system running PHP 5.1.6. First step is to install some dependencies. yum install automake php-devel libtool openssl-devel gcc++ gcc Next, let’s download the latest release of libssh2 (1.2.2 at time of writing), unpack and install [...]