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.
Author: ToeiRei
Extending CentOS
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 […]
PHP on CentOS 5.4
Dealing with CentOS isn’t always fun, but at least it is a distribution suitable for professional work. But all that doesn’t help if it comes to problems. The problem today is called PHP. CentOS ships with PHP 5.1.6 which is slightly old. I don’t see that as a huge problem, but some applications like dotproject do as it […]
Is WP-Blackcheck effective?
That was the basic question of the research I did during the last days, greping through the logs to find some info to get an impression of the blacklists effect. Now I know, it isn’t in vain. If we’d say we have 10000 requests we would get about: 9000 Spam Comments 1000 Ham Comments 100 Reports
Doing iSCSI targets on ZFS
As ZFS did quite well here – even after messing around with disks, I decided to give it another try. This time I am out to use its features on other systems. But to do so, I need to share it. As I am running virtual machines, it would be nice to have iSCSI shares to (ab)use. So […]
Disk failure and ZFS
ZFS is a beautiful filesystem – even in case of hardware failures, as it was build to deal with them. Allow me to demonstrate a defective disk on a Raid-Z1 pool. As long as only one disk breaks down, it is still functional – even while rebuilding. To do the recovery, we need to locate the bad disk, […]