Category: AWS

Installing Postgresql 9.5 To setup YUM repositories, first disable the default postgres repo Edit the /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf [main] section and append the following line exclude=postgresql* Install the official PGDG RPM file. Go to http://yum.postgresql.org and find your correct RPM. For e.g. to install Postgres 9.5 on 64 bit RHEL yum localinstall http://yum.postgresql.org/9.5/redhat/rhel-7-x86_64/pgdg-redhat95-9.5-2.noarch.rpm Note:…

  This post lists the steps needed to create a simple RHEL image on Amazon AWS EC2 service, using the AWS free tier quota. Pre-requisites (Follow the steps given here. A brief overview is given below) Create a AWS account at http://aws.amazon.com (and choose sign in to console). If you are…

To login to AWS linux machine images, one has to use public/private key pairs. There are no passwords, so no way to gain root access. But, since the user with which we login has administrator privileges (ec2-user), using 'sudo' command doesn't require any password. So, to go to root user,…