February 17th, 2010 by Stargazer
CentOS strikes again
If things are running smoothly, things might get really nasty. Today’s special: KVM on CentOS 5.4
My plan was giving KVM a shot for virtualizing a couple of machines. So I inserted the CentOS CD and did a network install, added KVM and Virt-Manager.
Tags: centos, linux, virtualisation
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Extending CentOS
February 12th, 2010 by Stargazer
If you are a company, Gentoo Linux might not always be the best choice for you – especially as it’s not supported by enterprise products like the kerio mailserver, various backup systems or some database engines.
So I had to find a suitable distro and found that RedHat based thing called CentOS. In general, it’s said that it’s a quite secure distribution and it should do the trick – but the packages it offers could be considered as poor.
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KDE4 drives me crazy
December 6th, 2009 by Stargazer
Since a system update during the last days, my system does strange things. As taking a closer look, the troublemakers are related to KDE. My first clue was a broken dependency which causes services to crash – so I ran revdep-rebuild.
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syslog-ng trap
November 5th, 2009 by Stargazer
Today syslog-ng acted up as the most bitchy program of the day – which I won’t forget that soon. Due to a configuration issue the program ate 100% CPU power of one core. This was quite annoying as it happened without a trace in a logfile.
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First impressions of GRUB2
October 5th, 2009 by Stargazer
If a known computer magazine writes about the new grub2 version, it cannot be that bad at all, isn’t it? True, Grub2 is still unfinished, but it should be already quite useable. So why not giving it a try?
The first steps are quite simple: Unmask the current Live-Ebuild and add the USE-Flag ‘multislot’ to prevent the removal of your current bootloader. You know – if things break, we do need a working bootloader. And there it starts working, the emerge magic, delivering a nice GRUB2 build.
Tags: linux
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Online Backup – Review
October 2nd, 2009 by Stargazer
As I am using Online Backup as a virtual data safe since some time now, it is time to look back and see what it did:
The amount of data I am keeping safe is something around 2 GB. Sure, this doesn’t seem to be much but it is only the important stuff I which I cannot get back if lost. For the initial backup we had to transfer that mass of 2 GB across public lines. Thank to ASDL and SDLS lines, this happened ‘over night’ and wasn’t really worth being mentioned.
Tags: backup, linux, tip, windows
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A different kind of suicide
September 27th, 2009 by Stargazer
It is official by now that there are maniacs out there who already migrated their root-filesystem on BTRFS. So why not joining those freaks?
Theoretically it shouldn’t be a big hassle: Boot a Live-CD, mount and backup the Linux partitions including their permission stuff to prevent breakage and dangle the Windows space in shape as you already have your hands on it and migrate to BTRFS. Theoretically.
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