After a long development time, Centos 4.8 was finally released on the 21st August. This is a good thing that after the latest problems between the centos developers, they were able to pull this out finally and now be able to focus on the upcoming 5.4 release. There are no major changes in this update, [...]
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This is my second activity on using AWS – this time the use of EBS. Objectives: Format a new EBS (10GB) and mount it on a running instance of private AMI (created on first activity – add link/ref to old post) Setup a MySQL server with the datastore on EBS partition Setup the partition(EBS) to [...]
Are you often waiting over 1 minute to get a ssh prompt? This can be caused by several things however more often then not is a missing PTR record for server address and enabled GSSAPIAuthentication in ssh_config. GSSAPIAuthentiction is Kerberos 5 centralized authentication/authorization mechanism that relies on resolving a hostname for proper operation, when it [...]
Here’s my first try working with Amazon Web Services. Covered tasks are the following: – getting familiar with AWS, specially EC2 and S3. – working with EC2 instance using CentOS image – search, start/stop, and do some customization of an instance – create AMIs (private) and start instance from it. – S3 buckets – upload [...]
In this guide i will provide the steps in moving Drupal sites with CiviCRM – with Drupal and CiviCRM in one or separate databases. I will outline the steps and sample commands but won’t give much details, so feel free to ask if you need any clarifications. Also, refer to my previous guide on “HowTo [...]
Here’s my quick howto on installing GNUPG PHP Pecl extension (pecl docs) in Cpanel. Please note that this covers only the installation process and no further details on setting up gpg keys or using the function with extension or sample PHP scripts. Installation process is very straightforward provided you met the requirements like php-pear, gnupg, [...]
Anyone running centos/rhel x86_64 systems has probably noticed that redhat has a strange way to install a mix of i386 and x86_64 rpms on such a systems. This is how redhat is using the 64bit architecture in a mixed way to be able to support also i386 applications. This is completely different from how for [...]
Here’s a quick how-to for installing ImageMagick and Imagick on Cpanel server. I will cover only the procedure using the Cpanel built-in scripts, although you can also install it the usual way (rpm or source install). ImageMagick is the application for working with images while the Imagick is a PHP extention to modify/create images using [...]
MySQL conference notes on cloud computing shoot out text summary atranscript Lew Tucker, Cloud CTO, sun Monty Taylor, MySQL Drissel Geek, Sun Jeremy Zawodny, MySQL hacker, craigslist Chander Kant, CEO, Zmanda Thorsten von Ficon, CTO, Rightscale Prashant Malik, Cassandra Dude, Facebook Mike Culver, Evangerlist, Amazon Web Services Some interesting subjects touched upon were: elasticity – [...]
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There is a module released for monitoring Drupal sites with Nagios. Monitoring includes the check if your site is up and running, check for new updates on Drupal core, security, and modules, database updates, write permission on “files” directory, check if cron is running on the specified period, and other sections of your Drupal site. [...]
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