Yum is the Red Hat package manager. It automatically handles RPM packages and determines required program dependencies. The most basic Yum function is the update process. To begin type:
yum update
It will provide you a listing of all the files that can be upgraded. If you have not setup your /etc/sudoers file, you may be required to access root priveleges manually:
sudo yum update
Update often, as most updates are security and bug fixes!!
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When creating a virtualBox guest OS using Fedora 7 you will notice seamless functionality, and compatibility with guest additions. Although it is apparent than on a Debian host system that Fedora 7 boots extremely slow, and experiences a marked performance decrease as compared to a physical partition installation.
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In the Cube Panel installation instructions is a list of dependencies to install on Fedora 7. The print method used in the PDF does not make it easy to copy paste the apt-get files into a terminal, therefore I have properly formatted a file that can be easily launched with ./.
Cube Panel Dependencies Update
Simply download the file to your Fedora 7 home folder (user home folder), and run with:
sudo ./update
You may need to chmod the file to be executable; just give it 777 permissions then delete it afterwards.
sudo chmod 777 update && ./update
This will install all the Cube Panel dependencies. Then install Cube Panel with the standard installation file:
sudo sh cubepanel_fc7_lite-2_3_0.shar
Cube Panel installs very easily, and once the installation is complete simply go to the ip address of the server and access port 8443; for example my Cube Panel server runs in a VirtualBox that has a local ip address of 192.168.0.102. The following is an example of how to access Cube Panel, via a web browser, after a successful installation:
http://192.168.0.102:8443
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On Fedora Core distributions, and Fedora 7 & 8 you will not be able to enable VirtualBox host networking the same way as on Debian based system. Red Hat and the Fedora distributions do not include uml-utilities which is a required application for proper host networking functionality. You have reached a dead end on this blog for support for VirtualBox host networking on Fedora distributions. I have decided to use Debian because of their inclusion of uml-utilities in the default repositories.
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To setup a FTP server on any Linux machine start by installing vsftpd:
sudo apt-get install vsftpd
Or:
sudo yum install vsftpd
Then open the configuration file. In Fedora distributions the vsftpd configuration file is located in:
/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
On Debian and Ubuntu systems the vsftpd configuration file is located in:
/etc/vsftpd.conf
Four lines need to be added to the top of the file for the system to operate as expected.
chroot_local_user=YES
listen=YES
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
You should also disable anonymous login. Change the line that says:
anonymous_enable=YES
to:
anonymous_enable=NO
Explicitly specify NO and do not just comment the line, or delete it.
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Fedora 8, and all distros in the Fedora series do not have uml-utilities in the preinstalled repositories. Because of this the host networking feature of VirtualBox is not implementable without doing substantial digging to determine an alternative method. I have chosen to utilize Debian, whereas I have had some trouble with the X server settings on Ubuntu, my recent Debian installation works flawwlessy auto adjusting the resoltuion to 1024×768 on first boot. Debian obviously has uml-utilities and bridge-utils in its repos 
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Rather than having an entire machine dedicated to a single server operation, a graphical desktop can be installed to administrate the implementation of a single or multiple Virtual Servers. VirtualBox is the Virtual environment of choice, with the main decision being the base OS. Contrary to past experience, Ubuntu Gutsy won’t install Graphically on the new machine that I purchased; I guess is an incompatible graphics card. Not a problem, Fedora 8 is close by. Overall my OS choices typically ranges between Ubuntu and Fedora, and Fedora 8 will be the Desktop environment of choice for my new server. I will be using Debian for the server environment in the Virtual machine.
Utilizing a Virtual machine for your web server allows for substantially easier backups. Instead of having to copy multiple files, a single file represents the entirety of the server environment. A single VDI file represents everything, consolidating everything for supremely easy management.
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