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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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:
Error: The Google perftools Module Requires the Google PerfTools – Nginx / CentOS 7.3
Got this while trying to compile nginx from source. [crayon-5c63a4dc8d6cb073061343/] Issue the following at shell to fix this: [crayon-5c63a4dc8d6d2522515392/]
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…
503 Guru Meditation Error / Backend Unavailable – Varnish
503 Guru Meditation Error / Backend Unavailable ugh. This error is the worst, it could mean so many things. Luckily in our case, we were getting this error when we…