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How To Disable fsck at boot on RHEL

Recently ran into the need to disable fsck on a large filesystem at boot. This is not recommended to do by RedHat but in this case it was a evil that had to be put in place with the caveat of making sure to manually run fsck at a later time. According to RedHat: Red Hat does not typically suggest disabling the on-boot fsck except in situations where the machine does not boot, the file system is extremely... read more

Gathering System Statistics for Linux using SAR

You know how it happens, you are working on a killer bash script and all of the sudden your manager is standing at your cube asking you to look at slow performing server. It happens all of the time, but luckily we have many tools at our disposal and one such tool is Sar. If you are needing I/O, CPU stats and other data from today or several days back, then sar is the tool to use for Linux. If you are... read more

Install and Setup Samba on CentOS / RHEL

It is a fact of life,, there are Windows clients that need to access shared data and as admins we like to have control and secure way to deliver the data from Linux to Windows and this is where Samba comes into play. A basic Samba share on a Linux server is not very hard to implement and in this post we will be using CentOS to deliver the goods. Install Samba package $ sudo yum install samba samba-client... read more

Using Dell racadm on RedHat / CentOS

Recently have had the pleasure of using part of the the Dell Server Administrator tools to manage their hardware on RHEL 5 and 6 servers. The servers had been built and shipped out but the DRAC’s were un-configured. With RACADM command this is not an issue and can be done with command line tools and the use of configuration files. This is assuming the Server Admin tools have been installed on the... read more

How to install Plex Media Server 0.9.6.6 on CentOS / Fedora / RHEL

In an earlier post we covered installing Plex Media Server 0.9.6.3 on a Windows 7 system. In this post we’ll cover how to install and configure on a Linux system, CentOS 6.2 to be exact, but this process can be used on Fedora / and RHEL as well. First make sure you meet the system requirements. System Requirements: 1.6 GHz processor (2.4 GHz dual core for 1080p transcoding). 256 MB RAM Gigabit... read more

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