Tag Archives: centos5.2

How do I find out if I am running 64bit or 32bit Centos?

Posted on July 20, 2010 by admin

Sometimes you can’t remember if you installed 64bit or 32bit centos, to find out which version you are using; uname -a And you will get a response like [root@monitor zenoss]# uname -a xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

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How Do I Find Which Version of Centos I Am Running?

Posted on July 20, 2010 by admin

Sometimes you install a centos machines ages ago and can’t remember what you installed. If you want to find out which version it is, easy tail /etc/redhat-release This will return something like; [root@]# tail /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.2 (Final)

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Upgrade from zenoss 2.5.2 stack installer to zenoss 3.0 on Centos

Posted on July 19, 2010 by admin

Instructions from http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/zenoss/Documentation/zenoss-3.0.x-docs/zendocs-3.0.0/Zenoss_Core_Installation_04-072010-3.0-v01.pdf Get the ZenPacks.zenoss.PreUpgrade30-1.0-py2.4.egg wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/zenoss/zenpacks-3.0%20%28Latest%20Stable%29/zenpacks-3.0.0/ZenPacks.zenoss.PreUpgrade30-1.0-py2.4.egg?use_mirror=nchc&ts=1279596576 Change the permissions chown zenoss.zenoss ZenPacks.zenoss.PreUpgrade30-1.0-py2.4.egg chmod 777 ZenPacks.zenoss.PreUpgrade30-1.0-py2.4.egg Become the zenoss user su zenoss Run the install zenpack –install ZenPacks.zenoss.PreUpgrade30-1.0-py2.4.egg Restart zopectl zopectl stop zopectl start Start the zencatalog zencatalog start … Continue reading →

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How To Install IonCube Loader on Centos

Posted on July 9, 2010 by admin

Go to http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php Download wget http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86.tar.gz tar xvfz ioncube_loaders_lin_x86.tar.gz tar xvfz ioncube_loaders_lin_x86.tar.gz cd ioncube Copy loader-wizard.php to location you can access on a web browser. I then get told that there is an updated script so I down load the … Continue reading →

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How To Fix Yum When It Hangs With No Error Message

Posted on April 1, 2009 by admin

Yum on one of my centos boxes simply would not work.  Once you entered a yum command such as; yum clean all yum upgrade it hung and would not work. Apparently I needed to remove the __db.* in /var/lib/rpm rm … Continue reading →

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How to Install a Puppet Master and Client Server on Centos 5.2

Posted on February 21, 2009 by admin

Puppet is an open-source next-generation server automation tool. It is composed of a declarative language for expressing system configuration, a client and server for distributing it, and a library for realizing the configuration. Setup the EPEL repos for Centos – … Continue reading →

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How to Setup SSH X Forward from a Remote Centos Server to Vista

Posted on February 17, 2009 by admin

You can push x server gui’s from a remote server to your local machine.  This is how to send an x server gui from a remote centos machine to your vista machine. Install Cygwin, choose the default installation package for … Continue reading →

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How To Create a Centos 5.2 EC2 Amazon Machine Image – AMI

Posted on February 13, 2009 by admin

Create the disk image dd if=/dev/zero of=my-image.fs bs=1M count=1024 Create root file system inside file mke2fs -F -j my-image.fs Mount it mkdir /mnt/ec2-fs mount -o loop my-image.fs /mnt/ec2-fs Create /dev mkdir /mnt/ec2-fs/dev Populate /dev with a minimal set of devices … Continue reading →

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The Best SSH Client for Vista

Posted on February 13, 2009 by admin

I have used this SSH client for the last 6 months and can heartily recommend it. http://www.bitvise.com/tunnelier Below are the features directly ripped from their site; one of the most advanced graphical SFTP clients; state-of-the-art terminal emulation with support for the bvterm, xterm, and … Continue reading →

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How To Install EC2 Automatic Scaling App Scalr on Centos 5.2

Posted on February 12, 2009 by admin

Scalr is a fully redundant, self-curing and self-scaling hosting environment utilizing Amazon’s EC2. It allows you to create server farms through a web-based interface using prebuilt AMI’s for load balancers (pound or nginx), app servers (apache, others), databases (mysql master-slave, … Continue reading →

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