Posts of centos Tag

  • Migrate and Using ZFS on Centos

    After I learned what is lvm, I started to use it every time. Creating volumes, resizing them, snapshots,… They are wonderful tools for managing disks. Especially msdos disk label sucks. After gpt I didn’t change my mind. Especially using lvm at at libvirt feels like I am the god of the disks. [read more]

  • Using Ubuntu Inside Centos

    Nowadays I am building custom CM-12 (Lolipop) roms for my i9300. Building requires several libraries however they are not inside Centos baase, update and epel repositories. I do not like using other repositories. And also I know that Ubuntu have all the required packages. However I do not want to install a second Ubuntu OS on my machines with/without using virtualization. [read more]

  • Using Ubuntu Inside Centos

    Nowadays I am building custom CM-12 (Lolipop) roms for my i9300. Building requires several libraries however they are not inside Centos baase, update and epel repositories. I do not like using other repositories. And also I know that Ubuntu have all the required packages. However I do not want to install a second Ubuntu OS on my machines with/without using virtualization. [read more]

  • Hardening with Tripwire

    Nowadays, I am trying to harden my servers. I use a benchmark tool named as lynis. After scanning my system, I try to follow lynis recommendations. One of them is using a integrity scan tool for watching file system changes. [read more]

  • Migrate pv-grub on Linode VPS

    Some of my linux vps servers are on Linode. Linode provides direct booting by default. I need to use SELinux, so I want to migrate pv-grub for booting my kernels on /boot folder. [read more]

  • SSH timeouts make me sick with CentOS 7

    I like using CentOS on my servers and desktop machine. After I start using, my ssh connections terminate so quickly if I do not type anything at terminal in a few minutes, may be seconds. It is very annoying when you loose a active connection. [read more]