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 anymore as it’s now in the CentOS extras repo directly.
To install them, just use this command, then install open-vm-tools.
yum -y –enablerepo=extras install epel-release
– extras is enabled by default but the –enablerepo caters for those that have disabled it.
Enjoy!
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 threats at bay as well as overall system stability. You can do nightly YUM updates automatically with email notifications via a package called yum-cron. This is a simple and easy solution to keeping servers up to date without using a centralized patching solution (such as Spacewalk).
yum -y install yum-cron
chkconfig yum-cron on
Then edit /etc/sysconfig/yum-cron (CentOS 6) to set MAILTO= email address or /etc/yum/yum-cron.conf (CentOS 7) to set email_to= for email notifications. If you don’t need email notifications you can skip this part.
For CentOS 6:
For CentOS 7:
service yum-cron start
Check that the service is running.
service yum-cron status
You can check your cron log at /var/log/cron to see if it ran using the following command.
cat /var/log/cron | grep yum.cron
You can also check the yum.log when it does notify of updates by email.
cat /var/log/yum.log
