Here is my small, crude, little Kickstart configuration and post install script that I have up and running in my lab at home. Don't expect to find anything too fancy here, as this Kickstart was purposefully built to be small and to the point. Here, the point was to spin up a VM, run through a basic install of CentOS/Redhat Linux, and install VMware Tools along with a Puppet agent.
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RHEL6 – How to Setup an Anonymous Download Only FTP Server
A while back I spit out a post on how to configure an anonymous ftp server that allowed uploads and downloads, which you can find here. Its a very exciting read and will tell you everything that you need to know to get you up and running with an anonymous ftp server. However those instructions are specifically for a server that allows anonymous uploads as well as downloads. So today we are going to go over only the steps for anonymous download, which is actually much easier.
RHEL6 – Snapshotting an LVM Volume
Snapshotting in the context of LVM is the process of taking a point-in-time image of a filesystem and creating a separate copy of that filesystem on another filesystem... using LVM of course. Snapshoting can be useful if you need to take a backup of a filesystem but want the filesystem to be a quiesced state when you do so. Using LVM and snapshots you just backup the snapshot of the original filesystem.
RHEL6 – How To Configure an NFS Server
Do you know whats almost as delicious as a tasty waffle with pure AAA Vermont maple syrup smothered all over it. Neither do I. However I did run across a very well written blog post on how to configure an NFS server on RHEL6. Wierd, is it a NFS server or an NFS server, the … Continue reading RHEL6 – How To Configure an NFS Server