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Installing Git and EPEL Packages on RHEL 5.*

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I was looking to install Git on a Linux server running RHEL 5.*. And using the EPEL repos helped me to locate the required Git rpm along with its dependencies. I followed the following steps to install Git: wget http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/epel-release-latest-5.noarch.rpm rpm -ivh epel-release-latest-5.noarch.rpm yum install git

Shell Script to Detect If the IP Address Is Googlebot

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1. Introduction Google has explained here on how to verify if the given IP belongs to Googlebot. So instead of hard-coding all the IPs which might change eventually, Google has suggested doing a DNS lookup using host command on Linux. The steps suggested in the article are: reverse DNS lookup using the IP to get … Read more

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