Recently I have been facing some issues with locales in Debian and Ubuntu based Xen based virtual servers. These typically appear while running the man command and apt-get or dpkg commands.
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Locale Problems in Debian and Ubuntu
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Migrating RHEL 4.7 to CentOS 4.7
Recently I was asked by one of my clients to convert their RHEL system to CentOS after their RHEL subscription expired. At the time of migration the server was running RHEL 4 update 7. Based on the current version, I chose the target version as CentOS 4.7.
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Balancing Traffic Across Data Centres Using LVS
The LVS (Linux Virtual Server) project was launched in 1998 and is meant to eliminate Single Point of Failures (SPOF). According to the linuxvirtualserver.org website: “LVS is a highly scalable and available server built on a cluster of real servers, with the load balancer running on Linux. The architecture of the server cluster is fully transparent to the end user, and the users interact as if it were a single high-performance virtual server. The real servers and the load balancers may be interconnected by either a high speed LAN or by a geographically dispersed WAN.”
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Fedora 10 x86-64 on a Laptop
I recently bought a Compaq Presario V3000 laptop after my IBM Thinkpad gave up on me. Since this is a 64-bit laptop I thought it will be a nice opportunity to jump into the 64-bit desktop experience.
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Tightening up OpenSSH
Often I am required required to run a public ssh server, so its a good idea to restrict the OpenSSH server as much as possible.
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