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Lenny ldap problem solved
After some poking around I found the solution to my ldap problem. I started reading the log files, turned on debugging in the init.d file and determined ldap was not starting. I started reviewing and...
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Moving CentOS to new hardware
I’ve been working on a customers system, upgrading the motherboard and memory for better performance and reliability. We replaced an MSI motherboard with a SuperMicro Server board. When I tried to boot...
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OpenSuSe hardware failure
I got a call from a customer asking for help with a subversion server that suddenly went off-line. The system was running SuSe 10.1, apache2 and subversion, and almost nothing else. It had been...
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Redhat Enterprise 5.4 Released
This is at it’s heart an update to RHEL 5. But Redhat is promoting it as “the first product to deliver commercial quality open source virtualization featuring Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)...
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Is MeeGo Linux’ Answer to iPad?
Three weeks ago, the technology world was aflutter with buzz of the iPad. But with yesterday’s MeeGo announcement from Intel, the Linux Foundation and Nokia, it appears that Apple could have a...
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Apache with Syslog
I just updated the page for Remote Logging Apache with Syslog-ng. I hope it saves you some time and you find it useful.
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Nagios monitoring mysql
I was asked by a client to configure nagios to monitor two database servers, running on Redhat Enterprise Linux 5. Here are the steps, including a couple mis-steps to get it working. Nagios was already...
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Three Virtual Machines, one host
Just a word about this post: If this seems disjointed, illogical with more than a few misspelled words, come back later. This started out as my notes on configuring a set of virtual servers inside a...
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Replacing failed software raided drive
I referenced these instructions to remind me how to replace a drive. In my case the output of mdstat looks like this: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md2 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1]...
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Upgrading from Debian Etch to Lenny
I recently decided it was time to upgrade my workstation from Etch to Lenny. Several of the applications were showing bugs and it looked like Lenny had stabilized enough to use it. I’m alway reluctant...
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