Posts Tagged ‘Linux

To interact with amazon S3, we have many languages we can use as well as python. I chose python because it’s a scripting language. That means we don’t need to compile and we don’t need a virtual machine to run it, only an interpreter is needed.

1. Setup More than one IP address for one network interface:

The file which contains descriptions of the network interfaces on Ubuntu or debian is /etc/nework/interfaces
A network interface (material) by default is referenced by eth0 so if you have more than one it would be eth1 eth2,

A quick overview of how to create an mp3 from a podcast in Ubuntu Linux using Audacity.

A few simple tips on setting up apachectrl with chkconfig in a non-standard, packaged version of apache.

I knew I had done this before, but all the explanations I found today were amazingly long and convoluted, which is not what I remembered from the first go around.
Basically, I wanted sendmail to take all inbound email and immediately relay it to another host. In my situation it makes sense because my servers [...]

What a day… So we have a fancy new(new to us) Dell 6000 series switch, a 6224 actually. As it turns out, our typical remote serial solution won’t work with this switch. Normally we’ll connect the console port of these switches to a Digi Passport Server. The network has 2 entry [...]

I’ve been looking for an easy way to do some imaging so I can swap back to a clean Ubuntu load that has a certain amount of prep done in a relatively quick fashion.  What I think I’m going to use is partimage .    Here’s the breakdown of how I’m doing it:
I have 2 machines.  [...]

Dump SELinux

In: Linux| Maintenance

8 Nov 2008

The real problem here is that I don’t have the time to understand the perks of SELinux.. and.. it always seems to be in my way.  Current problem is with a yum install of bind.
Here’s the error:
Nov  8 07:21:24 localhost named: none:0: open: /etc/named.conf: permission denied
Nov  8 07:21:26 localhost setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing the named-checkconf [...]

I had to dig a while on this one. I think it was mostly because it took me a while to get what was going on. Basically, I have 4 server pairs that I needed to setup. Three where to be mysql instances, a master instance, a slave instance that was only [...]

Ok, so I really have wanted to move to a linux desktop for a long time, but I haven’t done it.  One of the main reasons is the speed that windows gives me on my laptop with keystrokes.  All the die hards have told me that I can make “anything” that I wanted happen with [...]


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