How To Install qotd on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qotd
on CentOS 7.
What is qotd
QOTD (quote of the day) is specified in RFC 865 as a way of broadcasting a quote to users. On both TCP and UDP, port 17 is officially reserved for this purpose. This program is meant to provide a simple QOTD daemon on IPv4 and IPv6 over TCP/IP.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install qotd
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qotd.
Install qotd on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install qotd
using yum
by running the following command:
Install qotd 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 qotd
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall qotd on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the qotd
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qotd
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.