This tutorial will cover how to mount an NTFS drive on CentOS 7. We’ll use the open-source version of the NTFS for Linux driver by Tuxera, NTFS-3G. The Prerequisites To mount an NTFS drive, start off by adding the remi-release…
We’ll look at installing and configuring ZFS on CentOS 7.6 today. Why ZFS? “It is an enterprise-ready open source file system and volume manager with unprecedented flexibility and an uncompromising commitment to data integrity. ZFS is a truly next-generation file…
Running a headless (terminal only) server is great and all but sometimes a GUI helps. We’ll be installing GNOME 3.28 on CentOS 7.4. This comes really handy when you want to remotely administer a server and keep the bloat to an…
Logging RSYNC output to file can be cumbersome but useful at times. Cumbersome because if you’re transferring a large number of files then the log file becomes intelligible but useful in cases where you need to track successful vs. unsuccessful transfers.…
On of our server providers was running a deal on servers equipped with the newly released AMD Ryzen CPUs. We got a couple to test them for future placements. Right off the bat we started experiencing issues with them, the…
Got this while trying to compile nginx from source. ./configure: error: the Google perftools module requires the Google perftools Issue the following at shell to fix this: yum install gperftools-devel
Ran into this error when I was trying to compile nginx from source: ./configure: error: the HTTP XSLT module requires the libxml2/libxslt libraries. You can either do not enable the module or install the libraries. Luckily there’s a quick fix…
The elusive latest version of OpenSSL, we finally meet. As everyone knows, CentOS does not always ship with the latest version of softwares. The core repo focuses more on stability rather than freshness. We recently needed to update OpenSSL on…
Python PIP is a package installed similar to Yum on CentOS. It is the recommend / preferred way of installing Python packages on machines. To get started make sure you have the epel-release repo installed, make sure by running the…