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Setup NTP on CentOS 5.2

I am working on building a DRBD cluster and as with all cluster tools , you must have a synced time between nodes.

1. install ntp

yum -y install ntp

2. enable ntp on boot

chkconfig ntpd on

3.run a manual time sync before starting the service

ntpdate 0.pool.ntp.org

4. start the service

service ntpd start

Install Dell Openmanage on CentOS 5.2

follow this link : Dell OMSA 5.5 Linux repository

Install Webmin on CentOS 5

Install dependency :

sudo yum -y install perl-Net-SSLeay

Get the latest RPM from the Webmin website and install it

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.441-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -ihv webmin-1.441-1.noarch.rpm

open port 10000 in your iptables :

sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Add the following line :

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state –state NEW -m tcp -p tcp –dport 10000 -j ACCEPT

Reload iptables :

sudo /sbin/service iptables restart

access your webmin install via browser :

https://your server name:10000/

Note: you should probably limit the ip’s that can access your webmin interface , cant be too careful now days…
this can be done by changing the above iptables line and add a “-s subnet or ip” , for example limit access to the 192.168.1.0 subnet only :

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state –state NEW -m tcp -p tcp -s 192.168.1.0/24 –dport 10000 -j ACCEPT

and of course reload your iptables again.

Kerenl tunables for VMware Host

add to sysctl.conf

vm.swappiness = 0
vm.overcommit_memory = 1
vm.dirty_background_ratio = 5
vm.dirty_ratio = 10
vm.dirty_expire_centisecs = 1000
dev.rtc.max-user-freq = 1024

Mount ISO on Linux/FreeBSD

On Linux

mount -o loop -t iso9660 path/to/iso.iso /mnt

On FreeBSD

mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /isofile -u 0
mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt