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 […]
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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, […]
My first glance at OpenSolaris
Today I was having my first glance at OpenSolaris. Getting the ISO burned, booting the LiveCD and all this didn’t take long and the system was booted, welcoming me with a Gnome Desktop environment – which I personally dislike for several reasons – but at least it is something to work with. And don’t forget: Solaris is the […]
Certificates and the mobile phone
It has been quite a while since I started to get SSL Certificates working on my server machines – so it was time to get that stuff running on my mobile phone too. You might wonder now why the phone would need such a certificate, but in this case it’s just some root certificates to enable it to […]
KDE4 drives me crazy
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.