Mounting an S3 filesystem on Amazon from a CentOS 4 using FUSE/s3fs
Well this was more of a challenge than expected. A customer had an old CentOS 4 server with about a terabyte of data on it that was by itself at Continue Reading…
Category: Linux
Find directories on a server with the most files per directory
This command will go through your entire server, count the number of files per directory, then output the list sorted: The output will look like: 100 ; /path/to/directory 200 ; Continue Reading…
Statically configuring IPv6 address & gateway on CentOS/RHEL
By default RHEL/CentOS 5 and 6 have SLAAC enabled, to automatically configure IPv6 addresses if a router advertisement is received on an interface. I find this VERY undesirable on a Continue Reading…
Disabling IPv6 on CentOS
I’ve seen a number of online articles on disabling IPv6 and they often involve blacklisting kernel modules, etc. which is a really bad idea. In most cases it does not Continue Reading…
Installing CPAN modules for perl
Some of the scripts I’ve written and posted on this site require various CPAN modules to be present on the system where the scripts are used. For the benefit of Continue Reading…
Changing the timezone on RHEL and CentOS
Seems like an easy enough thing to do but 99% of the websites out there that walk you through changing the timezone on a CentOS or RHEL server fail to Continue Reading…