The command “doesn’t complete” because the daemon function does not run your application in the background for you. You will need to add an & to the end of your daemon command like so: daemon –user someproguser $exec & If someprog doesn’t handle SIGHUP, you should run the command with nohup to ensure that your … Read more
du -m –max-depth=6 / | sort -nr | head -n 20 would show you 20 largest directories with the biggest ones on the top, usage indicated by megabytes.
Being able to run fstrim on the / partitions would be the best solution however with they way your ESXi is configured it would not be possible. You need to be able to enable discards on both the VM and the storage device. Trying to reduce to size of a partition or logical volume with … Read more
Honestly, you shouldn’t have problems with NTP in a virtual environment and modern operating systems… It’s worth finding the root cause of that problem. If you can, make sure you have a good NTP infrastructure (I usually use an external NTP source or point everything to a core switch or router) and that you have … Read more
We recommend everyone run through a reinstall rather than attempt an inplace upgrade from CentOS-4 or CentOS-5! Source: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-July/017645.html You can run this upgrade centos6 just by using yum upgrade –enablerepo=centosplus. Do not forget: each system running centos is individual (!). I recommend you to test this upgrade on a virtual machine before upgrading (i … Read more
1 is the RPM epoch number. It overrides the normal comparison order on version checking. So, if there is some odd reason why you as a packager want to mark a lower version number as an upgrade, you can tag it with an Epoch number. yum info xorg-x11-xauth Name : xorg-x11-xauth Arch : x86_64 Epoch … Read more
Being able to run fstrim on the / partitions would be the best solution however with they way your ESXi is configured it would not be possible. You need to be able to enable discards on both the VM and the storage device. Trying to reduce to size of a partition or logical volume with … Read more
These should be installable via yum and the base RHEL repositories. Have you tried querying if they are already installed but not in your path? Also, have you successfully installed anything via yum? To check what package you need to install: [user@server]# yum whatprovides autoconf automake Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security autoconf-2.59-12.noarch : A GNU tool … Read more
Go decentralized. Instead of signing certificates, make ssh keys. Don’t give the keys to non-admins You can use Git as your transport instead of subversion, and then you can branch for different machines/roles, and then version your changes, as well as allowing for… but you must know the DVCS spiel at this point. It’s faster, … Read more
There should be an /etc/auto.smb already, use that, and add the following line to /etc/auto.master: /cifs /etc/auto.smb –timeout=60 Now all cifs shares will show up under /cifs: ls /cifs/<server> will show all the shares available. You might want to put some options in /etc/auto.smb to mount with specific modes. I have a auto.smb that I … Read more