Install GUI with VNC – CentOS 7.4
Running a headless (terminal only) server is great and all but sometimes a GUI helps. We'll be installing GNOME 3.28 on CentOS 7.4. Start off by issuing the following at shell:…
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Logging RSYNC output to file
Logging RSYNC output to file can be cumbersome but useful at times. Cumbersome because if you're transferring a large number of files then the log file becomes intelligible but useful in…
Mount ZFS Pools on Boot
We recently ran into a snag with a new ZFS installation, the darn thing wouldn't mount the pools we created on boot. The solution turned out to be pretty straight forward, Issue the following at shell and reboot to test:
Fix AMD Ryzen Freeze/Hang/Crash issues – CentOS 7
On of our server providers was running a deal on servers equipped with the newly released AMD Ryzen CPUs. We got a couple to test them for future placements. Right…
Error: The Google perftools Module Requires the Google PerfTools – Nginx / CentOS 7.3
Got this while trying to compile nginx from source. [crayon-5cc2a85af04d9878524462/] Issue the following at shell to fix this: [crayon-5cc2a85af04e0906685151/]
Error: the HTTP XSLT module requires the libxml2/libxslt – Nginx / CentOS 7.3
Ran into this error when I was trying to compile nginx from source: [crayon-5cc2a85af0732287469287/] Luckily there's a quick fix for this, issue the following command shell to install the required…
Install OpenSSL 1.0.2k – CentOS 7.3
The elusive latest version of OpenSSL, we finally meet. As everyone knows, CentOS does not always ship with the latest version of softwares. The core repo focuses more on stability…
Install Python PIP – CentOS 7.3
Python PIP is a package installed similar to Yum on CentOS. It is the recommend / preferred way of installing Python packages on machines. To get started make sure you…
Delta RPMs disabled – CentOS 7
Received this error recently on a fresh installation of CentOS 7. The Delta RPMs package reduces the overall download size of patches, this is great for bandwidth constrained servers. The…
Install Homebrew – Mac OS Sierra / El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks
Homebrew is a package manager similar to Yum on CentOS and Apt-get on Ubuntu. You may at times need packages that are available on other Linux distributions that are not, out of the…