Introduction Lustre is a filesystem often used by clusters because many computers can mount the filesystem simultaneously. This is a small log/instruction for how to setup Lustre in 3 virtualized machines (one metadata server, one object storage server and one client). Basic components: VMWare Workstation 3 x CentOS 6 …

Previous post: https://www.guldmyr.com/how-to-update-spotify-on-rhel6-x64-native-client/ Installed spotify-client-0.8.2.637.g252b980.486-2.x86_64.rpm - this is converted from the .deb package that is downloaded from: http://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify/ you convert with 'alien' and this command: alien --to-rpm spotify-client_0.8.2.637.g252b980.486-1_amd64 …

CentOS 5.8 was released today 8th of March. http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.8 You can download it from many mirrors, for example from FUNET: http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/INSTALL/Centos/ It installs just fine on an HP DL360 G7 with P410 and P411 controller …

http://www.cromwell-intl.com/unix/linux-break-in-howto.html On RHEL 6.2-based systems (like Scientific Linux 6.2): edit /etc/sysconfig/init # Set to '/sbin/sulogin' to prompt for password on single-user mode # Set to '/sbin/sushell' otherwise Like this: SINGLE=/sbin/sulogin Then if you add an 's' to the …

There's a couple of places (naturally). It's easy to be fooled and think: "anybody can type man man". But in all fairness, you need to figure out which man page to look into, or what command to run and sometimes it's just a blank. In RHEL there is /usr/share …

Not allowing root to log in By default sshd is running on SL6 and you can ssh in with 'root'. Probably a good idea to change this in /etc/ssh/sshd_config permitrootlogin no But first, create a user that can log in. useradd mart passwd mart Then you can change …

See the post for how to install spotify on a Linux Client (RHEL 6 x64 in my case). This post is for how to upgrade. 2012-02-01: Updated, added --nodeps to the rpm upgrade. 2013-01-08: This has been confirmed to work with spotify-0.8.8, updated typo in symlink part. Why …

Time for some more Linux testing. The reason for this is because I think I will go ahead and try to study for the RHCSA - Red Hat Certified System Administrator. Work might send me to a course in December, probably wise to play around with it before this. So here …

Hey! You need premium for RHEL6 native client to work. If you get it to work with WINE it would work for free (as a plus you get it with the very annoying ads). My machine is a RHEL 6 64-bit. The only requirement I had was that I did …

The problematic PDF The CFP300 material on http://community.brocade.com/docs/DOC-2041 is encrypted so that it cannot be printed/re-edited without a password. If you try to open this with evince (default .pdf viewer in Gnome) it will ask for a password. pdftotext (comes with the software suite …