Setting Up Logrotate on RedHat Linux
1. Introduction Logrotate is a utility designed for administrators who manage servers producing a high volume of log files to help them save some disk space as well as to avoid a potential risk...
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How to encrypt a partition with Cryptoloop on Linux
1. Introduction This article will describe how to encrypt entire partition with a Cryptoloop. Cryptoloop is a disk encryption module for Linux. It was first introduced in the 2.5.x kernel series. Cryptoloop has an ability...
How To Configure Network Bonding on Debian
Bonding This article will show how to “bond” two Ethernet connections together to create an auto failover interface. Installation First install the ifenslave-2.6 package, necessary to enable bonding: apt-get install ifenslave-2.6 Shutdown / Unconfigure Existing Interfaces...
Using OpenSSL to encrypt messages and files on Linux
1. Introduction OpenSSL is a powerful cryptography toolkit. Many of us have already used OpenSSL for creating RSA Private Keys or CSR (Certificate Signing Request). However, did you know that you can use OpenSSL to...
How to Install Spacewalker RHN Sattelite + PostgresSQL on Centos 6.3
I have got a few test machines running different Linux distributions. All these installations want updates and a network installation source. While it’s possible to just use the repositories on the Internet, it’s a...
Linux finding text inside files
Well this one is just so I remember how to do this, I keep forgetting the exact syntax and have to look it up on other sites, so if I put it on mine...
Bacula – Performance Tunnig With Postgresql
Currently i have one Linux server that hosts about 300 clients backups, the storage size is about 1 PentaByte. I want to share some experiences about Bacula Backups system in large deployment enviroment. 1....
Bacula – How To Install Bacula Backups + Postgresql on CentOS 5
1. Install Remmi Repository wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm rpm -Uvh remi-release-5*.rpm epel-release-5*.rpm 2. Install Postgresql yum –enablerepo=remi install postgresql84 3. Edit the start-up script vi /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql 4.Change the PGDATA and PGLOG variable to wherever...
How to Create a Partition Size Larger than 2TB ON LINUX
Linux desktop user generally uses small hard disk and partition, but on server you need a large partition. For example, you cannot create 4TB partition size (RAID based) using fdisk command. It will not...
How to Add I New disk To LVM
Suppose the Disk is /dev/sdb, the second scsi disk, fdisk /dev/sdb create as many partitions as you need using command n Label them with command “t” as “8e” for making it Linux LVM Write...
