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12 questions linked to/from How should an IT department choose a standard Linux distribution?
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CentOS vs. Ubuntu [closed]
I had a web server that ran Ubuntu, but the hard drive failed recently and everything was erased. I decided to try CentOS on the machine instead of Ubuntu, since it's based on Red Hat. That ...
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How can the little guys effectively learn and use Puppet? [closed]
Six months ago, in our not-for-profit project we decided to start migrating our system management to a Puppet-controlled environment because we are expecting our number of servers to grow ...
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VMware ESXi shutdown triggered by APC UPS connected via USB
I am shipping a bunch of ESXi 5.1 servers to remote offices where they will be powered via APC UPS.
I would like to have the UPS trigger a shutdown of the connected server - I would then rely on the ...
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Why is it so difficult to upgrade between major versions of Red Hat and CentOS?
"Can we upgrade our existing production EL5 servers to EL6?"
A simple-sounding request from two customers with completely different environments prompted my usual best-practices answer of "yes, but ...
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The XFS filesystem is broken in RHEL/CentOS 6.x - What can I do about it?
Recent versions of RHEL/CentOS (EL6) brought some interesting changes to the XFS filesystem I've depended on heavily for over a decade. I spent part of last summer chasing down an XFS sparse file ...
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How can I pass kernel arguments via PXE to an Ubuntu-like OS installer ISO?
I'm in a tough situation in which I need to perform a remote installation of a QuantaStor (Ubuntu-based - hiss) appliance onto hardware with limited out-of-band access functionality.
The target ...
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Why does Centos 6 have an older kernel than Ubuntu 12.04 [closed]
Hi can some one help me in understanding this.
On Centos 6.2 its showing kernel as 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64
whereas on Ubuntu 12.04 its showing as 3.2.0-23-generic.
3.0 kernel is one of the latest ...
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Newer GLIBC for RHEL/CentOS 5.x
I have a situation where a group of developers is attempting to deploy a binary application to a series of RHEL 5.5 and CentOS 5.5 servers. Unfortunately, the application was developed on another ...
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KVM-Host OS recommendation [closed]
I am about to migrate a server installation (one OS) to a newer hardware and wish to enable/use KVM. So the hardware is fixed (https://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex40) , now I got the ...
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balanced (currentness vs. stability) linux server distribution
I am a long-time user of Gentoo, both on the desktop and server. As a software engineer,
I love its flexibility and customizability (as well as the fact that it is bleeding edge and a rolling release)....
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hpacucli is unstable - Sometimes finds controller, sometimes not
I try to monitor the RAID-status on my HP ProLiant DL380 G5 with hpacucli 9.20. But, it's acting rather weird. Most of the time, it will return:
root@SERVER:~# hpacucli ctrl all show
Error: No ...
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Best Linux server OS versions to use [closed]
I am going to get a VPS/VDS and will be hosting several websites, Some type of chat server (XMPP, Openfire or eJabberd), and possibly a Teamspeak server.
The websites will be mostly PHP based with ...