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market place EBS volume as secondary device

I managed to lock myself out on AWS marketplace centos 6.3 server. It seems to be a permission issue (SELinux) and needs some reconfiguration. I was going to mount the root drive of the problematic ...
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What is the sequence of diagnostics I should run on a troubled diskdrive on centos (on AWS)

Running CentOS release 5.4 (Final) on AWS All of a sudden a disk drive went awol on me. the device is /dev/sdh ... what do I do to start recovering it? dmesg results in: sdh: unknown partition ...
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Yum installing wrong MySQL version on CentOS 5 (Amazon)

I'm having trouble with a CentOS server running on AWS. This is CentOS 5.6 i386 from RightImage, but the problem was the same on all RightScale AMIs. When issuing the following command: yum install ...
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Any advantage to building from source if I can get it from repo of a similar distro

I'm using Amazon Linux AMI, which seems to be some RHEL or CentOS offshoot. I've read that it should be binary compatible with RHEL. My question is: is there any advantage to compile a package from ...
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How to add user with SFTP/ FTP access to '/var/www/html/website_abc' folder on Amazon EC2 Centos? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Linux directory permissions I'm working with some third-party developers and I would like to grant SFTP (or FTP) access to the root folder for a website they're working ...
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Create image (EBS AMI) takes forever - possibly caused MySQL Server to break?

I'm trying to create an EBS AMI from my running EC2 instance to reuse my LAMP fully configured (for my needs). I got my website up and running yesterday on this EC2 instance my MySQL was working fine ...
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How many EBS drives I can mount on a single EC2 instance using Amazon Web Services ( AWS )?

How many individually functioning EBS drives ( non-raided ) can I connect to a single Amazon EC2 server running Linux CentOS? I can't find a value in the EC2 or EBS manuals. Are there any other ...
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How can I make a CentOS 6 AWS AMI from a loopback?

I am able to make a Centos 5.x AMI by following steps similar to those outlined here: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/creating-loopback-s3-linux.html and detailed here: ...
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CentOS 6.1 AMI for running on EC2?

I don't seem to see any public AMI images created for CentOS 6.1. Is there a reason for that? Is it recommended I spin my own up?
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CPU Utilization LAMP stack

We've got an ec2 m2.4xlarge running Magento (centos 5.6, httpd 2.2, php 5.2.17 with eaccelerator 0.9.5.3, mysql 5.1.52). Right now we're getting a large traffic spike, and our top looks like this: ...
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netcat not found in Amazon AMI (Centos)

I followed this guide to migrate my amazon image from one zone to another. Everything goes fine, but when i run this command: netcat -p 9999 -l >/dev/sdf It shows that the command is not found. ...
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Use of Export in Bash Script on CentOS

I am very new to Linux and am having problems with what should be a very simple Bash script in CentOS. #! /bin/bash # script to restore the cognos rds from snapshot export ...
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Problems bootstrapping Chef from Rubygems on CentOS5.4

I am new to Chef and am trying to install chef-server on an AWS t1.micro instance based on RightScale CentOS5.4 32 bit ami. I am bootstrapping from Rubygems following the guide from the opscode wiki ...
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encryption on AMIs for Cent OS?

We wanted use encrypted for 10GB partitions on AWS cloud using Cent OS i have following Cent OS following link to do that http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/EncryptedFilesystem After attaching 10GB from ...