How To Install ElectricFence on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ElectricFence on CentOS 7.
What is ElectricFence
ElectricFence is a utility for C programming and debugging. ElectricFence uses the virtual memory hardware of your system to detect when software overruns malloc() buffer boundaries, and/or to detect any accesses of memory released by free(). ElectricFence will then stop the program on the first instruction that caused a bounds violation and you can use your favorite debugger to display the offending statement. Install ElectricFence if you need a debugger to find malloc() violations. ElectricFence is a utility for C programming and debugging. ElectricFence uses the virtual memory hardware of your system to detect when software overruns malloc() buffer boundaries, and/or to detect any accesses of memory released by free(). ElectricFence will then stop the program on the first instruction that caused a bounds violation and you can use your favorite debugger to display the offending statement. Install ElectricFence if you need a debugger to find malloc() violations.
We can use yum or dnf to install ElectricFence on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ElectricFence.
Install ElectricFence on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install ElectricFence using yum by running the following command:
Install ElectricFence on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install ElectricFence using dnf by running the following command:
How To Uninstall ElectricFence on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ElectricFence package we can use the following command:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ElectricFence on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.