Chris Schuld's Blog

I am a fan of the REMI Repository. Here are the steps necessary to add, enable and then update your box w/ the latest packages from the REMI Repository.

Here are the commands to install Webmin via Yum: echo -e "[Webmin]\nname=Webmin Distribution Neutral\nbaseurl=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum\nenabled=1" > /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo rpm –import http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc yum install webmin

I still use a lot of NFS connections on my equipment and when I create OpenVZ VPS systems I need them to have access to NFS. Here are the steps I use: From the Host Node (HN): modprobe nfs vzctl set 101 –features "nfs:on" –save From the VPS: yum -y install nfs-utils nfs-utils-lib chkconfig –levels [...]

Here is my quick-and dirty way to build DNS servers using OpenVZ, CentOS and Bind/Named. This assumes you are creating a new server via OpenVZ. Although Bind is easy to admin with the configuration files recently I have found it is easier to simply admin the zones with Webmin. This setup will create the VPS, [...]

There are a few tutorials out there on installing OpenVZ in CentOS 5.3. Here are the steps I use to install OpenVZ on a brand new installation of CentOS 5.3: Note: this tutorial / walkthrough is for use 64 bit only Update the box via yum Install the OpenVZ Repository and grab the GPG key [...]

All of our name servers I use are virtual servers and we add them into our network as OpenVZ VPS systems.  Here is the setup I use for setting up a Bind server on an OpenVZ VPS with CentOS 5. Setup the Open VZ VPS and get into the VPS: vzctl create 1031 –ostemplate centos-5-i386-default [...]

If you are missing the dig command it means you are missing a package called bind-utils.  To install this package use yum to install bind utils: yum install bind-utils Or if you do not have access to yum, maybe from a hosted VPS solution you can grab the RPM packages (this is 100% assuming you [...]

If you happen to have a Asterisk solution for voice on your network occasionally it is nice to be able to send faxes from your network without the need of a PSTN line at your endpoint. At my company we do this by running a fax server on an OpenVZ VPS on the same subnet [...]

PLEASE NOTE: I have posted an update for CentOS5.4 and GhostScript 8.70! Today I needed a newer version of ghostscript on my server pool for some back-end processing we do. Updating ghostscript for RHEL5 / CentOS 5.2 turned out to be a pain! I was nearly stucked into RPM hell! **** Warning: An error occurred [...]

After digging through the Internet looking for a solution to install PBX in a Flash on an OpenVZ VPS and coming out empty handed I decided to dissect the installation myself and I came up with the following method for installing the PBX system on an OpenVZ VPS. Now, that being said I could not [...]