When using Ricci as the engine for ‘cman_tool version -r’ command, you will experience timeouts (and practically – you will be unable to use ricci to update the cluster configuration across the nodes) when the ricci user password contains XML-sensitive characters, like <>&, etc.
As they say – FYI 🙂
I’ve been using DBMail as my own personal mail server for a long while now. I’ve known the software ever since it’s 1.x release, and been using it for its great benefits – Quick and accessible large IMAP folders (and I have over 60,000 items in there). DBMail is a filtering backend for server based…
All ZFS users are familiar with ‘zpool iostat’ command, however, it is not easily translated into Linux ‘iostat’ command. Using large pools with many disks will result in a mess, where it’s hard to identify which disk is which, and going to a translation table from time to time, to identify a suspect slow disk….
I was required to auto map a USB DoK to a KVM VM (specific VM, mind you!), as a result of connecting this device to the host. I’ve looked it up on the Internet, and the closest I could get there was this link. It was almost a complete solution, but it had a few…
Most modern servers use Broadcom network cards. The module is called tg3 and is known to have issues. You can find in my blog several posts about weird problems with tg3. This post is about another one I’ve encountered only recently. The server: Dell PowerEdge (PE) 830. Linux version: RedHat Advanced Server 4 (RHEL4) Update…
During the past few days/weeks, I’ve had the pleasure (and will have in the future as well) of playing with VMware ESX (2.5.2) and GSX (3.2.1), as well as Workstation in my long forgotten past, and here I try to describe my own personal impressions of the product. First – it is a good product….
Kickstart is a great method of hands-free installation of RHEL/Centos (and other derived systems). Its power is in its easy interface and rather powerful %post scripting directives. Its weakness is in its lack of flexibility where it comes to package selection and various custom actions. On some cases, companies use web interface (usually home-made) which…
