If you install FreeBSD on KVM, you encounter a problem where you are able to install it over the network, but not be able to get it to obtain an IP address after the initial reboot.
The solution is to add the following in /etc/rc.conf:
synchronous_dhclient=“YES”
And …
read moreread moreCentOS has been criticized heavily earlier this year, mainly because of the big delay their distribution normally has (compared to the original RHEL releases).
One of the problems that comes with this delay is that security fixes that RedHat writes for their latest release are unavailable for…
I always feel intimidated with setting NAT. I knew, of course, how to filter packets with iptables, but I always felt that NAT to be just a tad bit confusing. Then I studied for the RHCE exam and it turns out that it is a lot easier than I expected …
read moreread moreCentOS 5.7 is out: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.7
CentOS is built from the original RHEL sources and aims to be binary compatible with the RedHat distribution.
Setting up a caching server on RHEL6, by default, works out of the box for a RHEL-type distributions. From there, it is just the matter of adding additional changes to make it either a forwarding, master or slave name server.
Of course, in our case, there were glitches.
Reviewing through …
read moreI have been playing around with my newQNAP NAS appliance, getting the storage configured and the volumes setup with my Scientific Linux 6 virtual machines using Daniel’s articles as a reference point. While the articles worked well easily for me at the beginning, setting client VMs with authentication …
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