Posts Tagged centos
how to use the Distributed Numeric Assignment (DNA) plug-in in 389 Directory Server
Hello everybody ! Today’s post is about the Distributed Numeric Assignment (or « DNA » ) plug-in for the 389 Directory Server (also known as the Fedora, Red Hat, and CentOS Directory Servers). Although this plug-in has existed for quite some, there isn’t a whole lot of documentation about how to implement it in a [...]
CPAN RPMs in RHEL / CentOS : generation, conflict, and solutions
Hello all ! Today we’re going to take a look at a somewhat obscure problem that – once encountered – can cause nothing but headaches for a system administrator. The problem relates to conflicts in CPAN RPM packages, and what can be done to work around the issue. If you’ve made it this far, i’m [...]
how to deal with broken time zones during a CentOS 5.3 kickstart
Hello again fair readers ! Today’s quick tip concerns the problem with missing time zones when deploying CentOS 5.3 (and some of the more recent Fedoras) in a kickstart environment. It’s a known problem, and unfortunately, since the source of the problem (an incomplete time zone data file) lies deep in the heart of the [...]
load balancing, or, « how i learned to love a piranha »
Hello again, everybody ! Today i thought that we’d take a look at a fun and useful topic of interest to many system administrators : load balancing & redundancy. Now, i know, it doesn’t sound too exciting – but trust me, once you get your first mini-cluster set up, you’ll never look at service management [...]