So, as mant of you know, RedHat has efectively killed CentOS as a free alternative to running RHEL at home. Because of the blowback from that announcement (I’m sure) then have changed their license for developer use to allow up to 16 servers. This developer license is free and you are free to use those […]
Bitten by the rsync bug? I was. Apparently in the new RHEL 5.7, and I am sure the RH clones like CentOS, Scientific Linux and ClearOS(?) as well, there is a bug in rsync when you use it with ssh transport like so: rsync -avz -e ssh remotehost:/data /data The fix is to make sure […]
A friend asked me for a quick primer on how to set up a windows accessible share under RHEL 5, so I thought I would include it here for the benefit of anyone interested. sudo yum -y install samba sudo vim /etc/samba/smb.conf replace the file with something like so: [global] workgroup = SOMEWORKGROUPNAME server string […]
Last night on the TechShow I was asked about providing some info on a decent default server build. Here are some quick notes to get people going. Adjust as necessary. Just for ease, here, lets assume you are installing CentOS 5, a nice robust enterprise class Linux for your server needs. CentOS 5 / RHEL […]
I have this ISCSI volume mounted on a RHEL 5 system that is running out of space. How do you grow your mounted iscsi volume? Good question! * Unmount the volume. In this case it was /dev/sdb1 for me. umount /dev/sdb1 * Grow the volume size on your san/nas (however your san/nas does this). In […]
As many of you know, RedHat released RHEL 6 recently. I just finally got a chance to install the production version and thought I would share some of my immediate notes: RHEL 6 Installation Notes: (text/net install) No boot.iso available. Must use the ENTIRE installation DVD to boot, even for a network install. Press tab […]
You know, there are just some things you do not need first thing on a Monday morning. This was one of them… I came and and started reviewing my reports and was looking at an access report, which is basically a “last | grep $TheDateIWant” from over the weekend. I keep a pretty tight ship […]
Another one for posterity here. I was asked to find out how to upgrade on PHP RHEL 5 / CentOS 5 to v 5.3.x and to test the procedure. It turns out to work pretty well and is not as difficult as you might think as long as you have the right repositories enabled: wget […]
I had the opportunity to check out some encrypted filesystem stuffs recently. The one that really stood out as easy to install. manage and use, for me, was EncFs. Now this post is mostly for posterity, but I wanted to share that, unless you are trying to get it running on RHEL, it’s pretty easy […]
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