Creating a new RAID 6 drive & attaching it to a Xen VM
I have 4 2TB drives in my NAS. They are split into 2 partitions, 500GB and the remaining ~1.5TB. The 1.5TB partitions were used in a RAID5 for media – music, backups of DVDs, etc. The remaining 500GB partitions were supposed to be for crucial documents, stuff that warranted double protection against disk failure. Except […]
Linkdump – 18/8/11
Posted by in Uncategorized on August 18, 2011
www.ossec.net/main/downloads Fully featured HIDS. For free. I look forward to messing around with it soon.
Link dump: 14/08/11
Posted by in Uncategorized on August 14, 2011
Only 1 today: www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9218765/10_essential_MySQL_tools_for_admins – Tool #2 & 3 seem the most useful for small-scale stuff… #1 looks interesting, but I need to find out how to set up query logs… or whatever the analyzer is running off of. =|
SELinux and Apache userdirs
Posted by in Uncategorized on August 13, 2011
Normally I disable SELinux – for a home user, the additional security it provides isn’t worth much. But for some reason I left it enabled on this install of Fedora 15. Which led to problems when I tried to get phpMyAdmin working out of my home directory.
When a yum update kills itself…
Posted by in Linux on August 12, 2011
There’s a bunch of clean up to do. New kernel isn’t working properly – boot from old one. Try yum update again, get an error message about an existing transaction. Have yum-utils already installed, so yum-complete-transactions is a command away. Even after repeating it multiple times, yum still complains about broken packages. Turns out yum […]
Linkdump – 11/8/11
Posted by in Uncategorized on August 11, 2011
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/hh377174 – Critical Career Paths for IT Pros
Link Dump – 9/8/11
Posted by in Uncategorized on August 9, 2011
www.pixelatedimage.com/blog/ – David du Chemin, an interesting photographer. Manfrotto did a webinar with him, which I’ve been meaning to watch. (Signed up, but they’re held at 3AM local time, which is..not going to happen.) nerdfitness.com/blog/ – As the URL suggests, a fitness blog… thing. Sells a book, but it seems to have a bunch of […]
Getting Xen up and running
Posted by in Uncategorized on May 14, 2011
Now that Xen and a dom0-capable kernel have been installed, it’s time to combine the two. There’s essentially two steps to this: Set up grub to boot Xen Set up Fedora to automatically start the Xen management services
Because setting up automated kernel compilation is annoying
Posted by in Uncategorized on May 9, 2011
git checkout -f xen/next-2.6.39 && git pull && yes “”|make oldconfig && make rpm-pkg && git checkout -f xen/next-2.6.32 && git pull && yes “”|make oldconfig && make rpm-pkg && git checkout -f xen/stable-2.6.32.x && git pull && yes “”|make oldconfig && make rpm-pkg Now I have to mix it all together in a crontab […]