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mkpasswd

June 15, 2017

The other day I couldn’t remember what package provided the mkpasswd binary….. yum whatprovides */mkpasswd yum install expect mkpasswd -l 12 The above creates a password of length 12 with two uppercase letters, two numbers […]

Multipule Web Nodes using GlusterFS with CentOS 6.6

July 20, 2015

Check to see if there are any trusted storage pools already configured. Check you can establish communication from web01 to web02. This will fail if the peer isn’t listen or if the firewall is blocking […]

Installing GlusterFS on CentOS 6.6

July 20, 2015

You will need to download the following repository file to the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory before trying to install the glusterfs-server package. It will pull-in a load of dependencies… …Accept the GPG key imports you are alerted […]

Rackspace Cloud Monitoring Agent

April 11, 2015

The Rackspace cloud monitoring agent allows you to monitor CPU, memory, filesystem usage and system processes. It does this by collecting information about the system and pushing it out to Rackspace Cloud Monitoring web services, […]

Protect Your Cloud Infrastructure Servers with Isolated Cloud Networks

March 31, 2015

Contents1 Create a Private Cloud Network2 Create a Proxy Server and Attach to the Private Network2.1 Proxy Bastion Configuration2.1.1 CentOS 6.62.1.1.1 Enable IP Forwarding2.1.1.2 Configure Static NAT and Forwarding Rules2.1.2 CentOS 72.1.2.1 Method 12.1.2.1.1 Define […]

Unable to Install mkpasswd on CentOS 6.4

November 3, 2013

I was surprised to find the mkpasswd utility missing from my new installation of CentOS 6.4. Yum has a feature called whatprovides, which can be used to find out which installable package provides some feature, […]