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Node Health Check Script in Cluster
Node health (hardware/software) is very critical in cluster environment. Whether you run a lot of web servers in load balancer or having compute node in High Performance Computing setup, each node is critical which is been used for any type of work. It has to be healthy to run processes we need to run. This script created to check node health before using as a compute node or any service in load balancer. If all checks run fine then node will be mark good and will available to run in production. Continue Reading
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How To Enable NTFS Support in CentOS 6.3
In this how to I will describe how to enable NTFS support in CentOS 6.3. By default CentOS 6.x doesnt comes with NTFS support to mount NTFS partition either on hard disk or usb drives. Fedora provies EPEL repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is a volunteer-based community effort from the Fedora project to create a repository of high-quality add-on packages that complement the Fedora-based Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its compatible spinoffs, such as CentOS and Scientific Linux. NTFS drivers ntfs-3g is available through EPEL repository. Continue Reading
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How To Install ATI Radeon Drivers in Fedora 18
In this how to I will describe how to install ATI Radeon Drivers in Fedora 18. Fedora 18 fresh out and ATI latest driver version 13.1 dont support it. I also checked the older version i.e 12.8 and 12.6 but all of them unable to install on Fedora 18. In future they will provide right drivers for Fedora 18 but for now you can install akmod-catalyst beta driver from rpmfusion repository. Continue Reading
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How To Fix Kernel (3.7.2-201) version.h file in Fedora 18
I came across an issue while installing ATI Radeon Catalyst drivers on my new Fedora 18 installation. It kept failing by saying one of the required tool is missing to proceed further with installation. By looking into log file, I found that it try to access one of my install kernel 3.7.2-201 header file named version.h in /lib/modules/3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64/build/include/linux/. Its a bug and kernel 3.7.2-201 devel rpm i.e kernel-devel-3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64 miss installing version.h in /lib/modules/3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64/build/include/linux/ location. Continue Reading
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How To Install Shutter (Screenshot Tool) on Fedora 17
In this howto I will describe how to install shutter (screenshot tool like snippingtool in windows) on Fedora 17. Shutter is a GTK+ 2.0 screenshot application written in perl. It gives a sophisticated way of capturing screenshot of your desktop or selection of it. The captured screenshot later on can be edited to fit your need. You can crop, add caption, hide something personal using its beautiful GTK based GUI tool and even can capture any website screenshot using url. You just need to install shutter which comes with a heavy list of dependencies and will use up to 47M approximately of your disk space. Continue Reading
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Free Icon/Symbol from Open Icon Library
A project Open Icon Library (http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/) will be very useful for the developers / designers to use icon free, modify and redistribute. I found it very helpful to community and some how everybody in this community need icons either they are web designers or application developers.
Read More »A free and open Icon collection. Over 10,000 Unique Icons. Free for anyone to use on you computer, website or any other project. The library is not a theme. Its a centralized source for icons to cover all your needs. The goal is to cover all common apps, operating systems, mimetypes, devices, and country flags. Continue Reading
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How To Downgrade RPM Package Using YUM
In this howto I will describe how to Downgrade a RPM Package Using YUM. Yum came with a plugin named yum-allowdowngrade which allow you to downgrade any existing install RPM to older version. This requirement came from one of my client server that it requires to downgrade PHP version from 5.3.8 to 5.2.17. Continue Reading
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How To Remove i386 RPM Package from x86_64 Install
In this how to I will describe how to remove any i386 RPM Package from your x86_64 version of install. The operating system can be RHEL, Fedora or CentOS. Sometimes using yum we accidentally or intentionally or as requirement we install i386 rpm package on our x86_64 install of RHEL, Fedora or CentOS. Continue Reading
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How To Add EPEL Repository on CentOS / RHEL 6.x
In this How To we are going to add EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) on CentOS / RHEL 6.x. Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL),CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL). Continue Reading
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How To Prevent Package Update Using YUM
In this howto we will discuss how to prevent any package to be update using yum even its update is available. Sometimes we require to stick with current version of any installed rpm package and does not need to update. But whenever you execute yum command, it will search for available update for the current package install. Even if any package which is part of dependencies of installing rpm package will get update using yum. Continue Reading
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