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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
I was looking for a way to rename a Logical Volume on a Linux system, and found the following website useful.
Unfortunately my attempt to rename a LVM based Linux installation failed miserably, and it never booted. So, I'll have to retry it sometime later again.
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
I found an interesting post on a HyperVM forum, on how to Secure & Optimize a VPS - the link can be found here
Although a lot of this is aimed at cPanel VPS's it can be used on any other VPS without a cPanel control panel as well.
Please note, ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
For some odd reason, one of the VPS's on my OpenVZ Virtual Server sometimes looses the /dev/pty device files - I don't know why, but it happens.
So, a quick fix, is to run the following commands, as root, on the main host node.:
In my case, the VPS's ID is ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
This one annoys me a lot! South African ISP's who don't know how to properly configure a transparent proxy server.
I don't mind if they force us to use their transparent proxy servers, but it does get to me that we still pay for the bandwidth which they have cached. ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Here's a nice tip on how to install Linux over the network (in this case a http / webserver), from a kickstart file
Put this in the /ks.cfg file on your bootable CD:
[php]
title Remote Install
root (hd0,0)
...
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