Author Archives: nipeng

A few days ago I recompiled the stock kernel to adjust settings regarding CPU architecture and preempting. Take a look at slackbasics for instructions regarding compiling your kernel. Compiling a new kernel went smoothly but I had some trouble on … Continue reading →

I’ve been experimenting with the Red Hat Cluster Suite to gain more experience with it. To build a functional cluster I had to get fencing working. You can read here what fencing is. At my work we use HP iLO … Continue reading →

Recently I blogged about VMWare server 2.x. After a few days of use I found the web interface a showstopper. I understand what VMWare did in 2.0, they created a feature rich management client as a web application which removes … Continue reading →

Hi, if you are wondering why the webmin bind module does not seem to support aaaa (ipv6) records stop wondering. IIt does have support for ipv6 records, you only have to enable it. Just go the the module config of … Continue reading →

From the man page: DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the partprobe command. partprobe is a program that informs the operating system kernel of partition table changes, by requesting that the operating  system  re-read the partition table. Quite handy if … Continue reading →