Warewulf is a Linux cluster solution that is scalable, flexible and easy to use. Managing and distributing Linux systems to any number of nodes becomes a simple master / slave relationship. Warewulf is the first of its kind which elegantly solves many of
After a basic install of Centos 4.3, the first thing that we do is to configure a firewall (iptables). To do this easily, navigate here and then select the relevant options. The important ones are to open port 80 for HTTP, port 21 for FTP, port 22 for SSH
There are some apps that you may want to use on CentOS that for whatever reason need to know that RHEL 4 is installed. Thanks to the CentOS community there is a "fix" for this that will make apps think that you're actually running "the real thing." All yo
CentOS as a group is a community of open source contributors and users. Typical CentOS users are organisations and individuals that do not need strong commercial support in order to achieve successful operation. CentOS is 100% compatible rebuild of the Re
The server will be running RAID 5 for performance and redundancy. This means that three disks will work together to power the server with the other being a hot drive (back up disk). If one disk should fail, the hot spare will kick in automatically with no
A common task for System Administrators is to monitor and care for a server. That's fairly easy to do at a moment's notice, but how to keep a record of this information over time? One way to monitor your server is to use the Sysstat package.
This is a detailed description how to set up a CentOS 4.3 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall,
CentOS software and documentation is supplied in the form of files called RPM packages. Each package is a compressed archive containing product information, program files, icons, documentation and management scripts. Management applications use these file