How to recover from an interrupted “yum update”
angioni This week I suffered from a lost internet connection during a "yum update" on my CENTOS server. The MySQL Community Server was totally corrupted because there where multiple double lib's…
Include loggedin user, ipaddress and timestamp in Linux’s CentOS history.
By default, the username, ipaddress and timestamp are not recorded in the history log. You cannot see who gave the commands that rebooted your server or who removed that file?…
Blog moved to new server
Yesterday my entire server's services where moved to a new server running CentOS 7.6 and IBM Domino 10.0.1FP1. Everything is now in warpspeed. During the move, i also tweaked everything.…
Clustered frontend Apache WebServer powered by Linux Pacemaker
After installing Apache with Load Balancer for a failover backend infrastructure on a Linux CentOS 7.x server ( see my article: https://www.angioni.nl/2018/03/02/use-apache-load-balancer-with-session-affinity-for-domino-webservers/), we still have a single point of failure…
Linux CentOS 7: X11 Forwarding broken when you disable IPV6 (solved)
When you disable IPV6, the X11 forwarding will stop working. Disable IPV6:vi /etc/sysctl.conf (and add the following 2 lines at the bottom)net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1Type "sysctl -p" to activate…
Mount Linux Directory on a server from another Linux server.
This mounting procedure is needed when you want to mount a directory between 2 Linux servers. In this example I created it in Linux Centos. What you need? Host Linux…
Linux in place upgrade from 6.x to 7 for RedHat and CentOS
It's possible to upgrade Linux RedHat and CentOS in place to release 7. Not without any risk, but it's possible and do-able. Redhat: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/637583 CentOS: http://linuxsysconfig.com/2014/07/upgrade-to-centos-7/