Category Archives: Linux

OpenSUSE AutoYast/AutoInstall Howto Part 1

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Jon Smith

OpenSUSE and SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) both come with AutoYaST which is a very powerful tool that allows administrators to quickly and easily deploy servers that have an identical configuration for rapid server deployment. In this three part series … Continue reading →

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Monitoring Linux Disk Statistics with Cacti

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Jon Smith

Cacti Monitoring of Disk Statistics with iostat and vmstat that will show the disk mount point on the graph with details similar to what is found in Windows PerfMon. Continue reading →

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Linode Linux VPS

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Jon Smith

I Migrated away from Web24 to Linode because I was having some performance issues with my VPS. This article is about the migration and a quick review of some of the services offered by Linode. Continue reading →

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Monitoring VMWare’s Free ESXi 3.5 with Cacti

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Jon Smith

Monitor the free VMWare ESXi 3.5 with Cacti to keep historical data based on CPU Utilisation and Memory Usage over time. Continue reading →

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CTRL-S issue when using PuTTY or other terminal sessions?

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Jon Smith

If you press CTRL-S during a PuTTY session and the screen locks up. All is not lost, just press CTRL-Q and things should return to normal.

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