I needed to install web2py on a RHEL machine. Before it was working fine on Ubuntu. But I already spotted that the Apache VirtualHost configuration is different on RHEL than on Ubuntu. web2py comes with Installation Scripts like scripts/setup-web2py-ubuntu.sh and scripts/setup-web2py-fedora.sh. But apparently the Fedora one is faulty. I even checked the latest one in […]
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Install screen on unRaid 5.x and keep it after reboot!
unRaid 5.x doesn’t come with screen. You can manually install it, but there’s a trick to keeping it after a reboot. Go to http://packages.slackverse.org and download the following packages: screen / libelf / utempter You can use wget if you telnet / ssh into unRaid or save it your PC and then copy it to […]
OSSEC Wui and Parallels Plesk gives “unable to access directory” error
So I tested installing OSSEC on CentOS 6 running with Parallels Plesk. There are some tutorials for this (even though the installation is straight forward using the Atomic repo which should be disabled afterwards). Still after setting up the WUI I go this ‘unable to access directory’ error. Of course I added the user apache […]
How to really test autofs / automount Home Directories
I just installed and configured autofs on Ubuntu 12.10, so that the /home Folder is automatically mounted from a NFS server. Most tutorials suggest to just run ls /home and then those directories should be mounted and visible in the output. Well as it turns out, they are not. I spend at least half an […]
Raid Device gone after reboot with mdadm on Ubuntu 12.10
There are a lot of HowTO’s on how to install a Raid using mdadm on Linux. Now I just created one device /dev/md0 and after a reboot it was gone, or rather renamed to /dev/md127 or /dev/md/HOSTNAME:0 Here is the creation of a Raid 6 with one spare disk, spanning 9 disks in total (yeah […]
