Category: OS configs

If you want to lock some packages on your debian PC, then you can use next variants. As told in debian online manual (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkg_basics.en.html):

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When you are running the new servers, the one thing you do not want to do – is upgrade the kernel. Because that is the only Linux update operation that requires a reboot once it is done — and in a production environment you often can’t have downtime.

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There is no specific command on CentOS to set the default route or gateway, there are several ways to do this on CentOS (as there often are). The method I am showing you will work on all versions of CentOS with or without a GUI and involves directly editing the network configuration file using Vim.

Setting default gateway on CentOS first requires us to open /etc/sysconfig/network config file using Vim:

$ vim /etc/sysconfig/network

You now need to add your default GW, if you don’t know the IP of your default GW (aka default route) then you need to ask your ISP / web host or network admin. The example below assumes our default GW is 192.168.0.1

GATEWAY=192.168.0.1

I always append this information to the bottom on the network config file on CentOS.

After adding the default route (GW) you need to restart the networking service using:

# service networking restart