: March-2013

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Would you like to have your own Cloud? Or your own local storage that has clients etc, then maybe ownCloud is something you may want use. I like it for all the devices etc it supports.   Do a basic installation of Centos 6, I like to use the minimal install iso image. Make sure ..

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  Wanted to test out Nginx, I heard that it is very lightweight and fast.   Do a basic installation of Centos 6   Make sure that everything is up to date. # yum update   Enable Additional Repositories # rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/0608B895.txt  # rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm If above doesn't work then go to the ..

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  So you want to install MariaDB 5.5 on Centos 6 x86_64. This is the process I used. MariaDB can be a replacement for MySQL.   Login to Centos 6 server you want to install MariaDB. Create a repo file. # vi /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo and add the information below. [mariadb] name = MariaDB baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/centos6-amd64 gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB ..

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OpenVZ container based Virtualization is easier on system resources compared to full virtualization. Performance seems much better than full virtualization. So here are the steps I took for the setup on Centos 6 X86_64.   1. Do a minimal Centos 6 x86_64 installation. Click here to download the minimal install ISO.   2. Do all ..

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IScsi installation on CentOS 6 This server has a Intel i5 processor with 8G memory. 3ware data raid adapter with 14 - 1TB sata hard drives. The Iscsi server is running VMware Virtual Windows 2008 r2 and it is performing well. Do a minimal Centos 6 server installation. Do all updates on Server # yum ..

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To create basic iptables firewall in a Redhat compatible distro, edit the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file and add the info below: *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] -A INPUT -m state --state INVALID -j DROP -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -s 192.168.0.50 -p udp -m udp --dport 123 -j ACCEPT ..

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