Posts Categorized: Systems Administration

The problem with Macports PHP 5.4, composer and OS X Update, April 19, 2014: @neverpanic has informed me that running the command sudo port select –set php php54 will create the symlinks for you. This command will also allow you to switch between PHP versions easily. One annoying thing about using composer under OS X… Read more »

I ran into one of those *facepalm* moments earlier today when attempting to setup a CentOS 6.5 domU guest on a legacy CentOS 5.8 Xen 4.1.0 dom0 host. Steps to reproduce the problem. Boot CentOS 6.5 domU using netinstall iso and isolinux kernel / initramfs Run Anaconda text mode installer Configure your server as normal… Read more »

This was verified on CentOS 6.5, CentOS 5.9 and XenServer 6.2 This is a very basic guide on getting iSCSI storage up and running on a CentOS 6 server. You should obviously review more about security, authentication and other best practices when implementing this in a production environment. Configuring iSCSI storage on CentOS linux: 1)… Read more »