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CentOS 3.x YUM Errors

Ronald Bradford
June 20, 2004

When getting an error stating the PGP key is not correct rpm –import http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-3 The PGP Key is also reportedly on each CD. More info at http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=29

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Changing A Server’s Timezone

Ronald Bradford
June 19, 2004

For RedHat 9 $ redhat-config-date (except this requires X) or $ clock $ rm /etc/localtime $ ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Brisbane /etc/localtime $ /usr/bin/rdate -s time.nist.gov $ /sbin/hwclock –systohc The last two commands can be added to cron for regular syncing with running ntp

Ronald Bradford
January 1, 1

RDS Database Instances The instance type used has 8 vCPUs and are selected to support a larger number of database threads in a production workload. Instance Type Resource Specs Price Per Hour (us-east) db.