Transmission is Torrent / Magnet link client vastly used on Linux, its available for almost all distros. If you are willing to use it as headless / VM to download torrents with minimal installation on your CentOS / Fedora / RHEL distro following is the packages needs to be installed & configuration required to access [...]
Full Story »XenServer- Take VM Backup using Bash
Following is the basic bash script to take vm backup using bash & send confirmation mail. This script assumes you already have your backup storage mounted as /mnt/back/ #!/bin/bash #dpthakar@gmail.com #http://www.linuxreaders.com # #this basic script is created to take xenserver guest backup using snapshots #it will first of all create a snapshot for a specific [...]
Full Story »XenServer- Take VM Snapshots using Bash
Following is the script that can be used to take snapshots of running vm, once run it will send mail to ADMIN for the list of the VM snapshots #!/bin/bash #dpthakar@gmail.com #http://www.linuxreaders.com # #this basic script is created to take xenserver guest snapshots #ths script is tested only on standalone server NOT ON SERVER POOL [...]
Full Story »CentOS / Fedora does not shut / reboot using virsh -KVM
Once you are done installing centos / fedora os on kvm as a guest / vm, you may face trouble shutting / reboot using virt-manager or virsh. This can happen only if acpid is not installed or running. Run following commands on centos / fedora guest to enable support for shut / reboot. yum install [...]
Full Story »Starting a new blog?? Things to do…
Whenever we read some really cool blog/ or hear a story of someone who made a fortune out of blog, we get excited and start our own blog.. thinking of earning more than sharing (yes most of us think that ). But if you really wanna make something big out of your blog, then there [...]
Full Story »Upgrade Bugzilla 4.0 to 4.2
With the latest release of Bugzilla, you get many features. Such as… HTML Bugmail Improved Searching System Accessibility Improvements Auditing of All Changes Within Bugzilla Displaying a Custom Field Value Based on Multiple Values of Another Field Release Notes Make sure you have all dependencies covered, such as Mysql, perl modules as mentioned in release [...]
Full Story »Change htpasswd using web page
During svn configuration you must have created htpasswd file for user auth, using chpasswd you can let users change their password using web page. Following are the steps to install & configure chpasswd for svn users. Download chpasswd from install chpasswd tar zxvf chpasswd-2.2.4.tar.gz cd chpasswd-2.2.4 ./configure && make && make install following are the [...]
Full Story »Kvm – Add Nfs Storage Pool
This post is to demonstrate howto add nfs storage on KVM using virt-manager. Goto details of localhost & select Storage tab Select netfs as type Mention hostname & sourcepath
Full Story »Firefox 10 comes to RHEL & CentOS 5/6
This is the major update for Firefox on rhel & centos. So far redhat was avoiding firefox rapid releases which made it jump from Firefox 3 to Firefox 10,in support for long term release. Firefox 10 which has long term support has been adopted by redhat. Rhel & centos users can upgrade Firefox packages using [...]
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