I’m looking into the ssh keys issues, and trying to solve it with a script. But the only two I need to solve are cobra and orangutan. But they seem different because edavis5 can ssh into orangutan, but not cobra. … Continue reading
We keep most disk space on our server un-allocated and grow partitions as needed. Here’s how: To see how much space is used: root@tempest ~] df -H Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mountpoint /dev/mapper/vg_tempest-lv_root 42G 825M 39G 3% / … Continue reading
I wasn’t sure whether a particular file from a yum-managed package had changed. (/etc/sysconfig/httpd as it happens, but that’s not essential to this problem. So, I wanted to (1) download the RPM, and (2) look at the files in it. … Continue reading
Several things conspired. First, I intended the yum updates to Tempest to *not* happen automatically, because if anything went wrong, I wanted them to happen moments after I had personally typed in the “yum update” command. On the clients, updates … Continue reading
Are complete. And they went smoothly. So now all of those machines are up and running on CentOS 6.3. With their designated IP Addresses.
The Moodle configuration check suggests quite a few packages to be installed: yum -y install php-soap php-intl Oh, and don’t forget (I did, at first): apachectl graceful
After installing Moodle, I went to the main URL and it automatically ran some checks, the first of which failed. The message in horrible (or at least, noticeable) red, is this: It is required that you store all your data … Continue reading
We followed the instructions for installing Moodle from here: http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Installing_Moodle with some small variations: 1. We created a “moodle” user and installed the software as that user: useradd_faculty moodle su – moodle git clone -b MOODLE_24_STABLE git://git.moodle.org/moodle.git mv moodle/* public_html/ … Continue reading
There’s a small but useful package in Fedora called “pwgen”; it generates random passwords. I’ve used it to generate random passwords for MySQL accounts, for example. (My reasoning is that those passwords often end up in PHP scripts and such, … Continue reading
Querying the RPM database is harder than I’d expect. I was having trouble with cups, and so I thought I’d verify the package, in case some file was missing or had the wrong permissions: [root@tempest ~] rpm -V cups .M……. … Continue reading