If you are a web hosting company and deploying CentOS 5 or 6 images in a Cloud, I want to speak with you. Please get in touch via one of the mechanisms listed at : http://www.karan.org/contact.html Alternatively, if you use services from a hosting co… more »

Looks like EL5.8 just got released upstream. Lots of sources just showed up on the ftp sites. Time to start up the CentOS-5 buildsystem. more »

I am often surprised by the sort of questions asked in the forums or on irc around open source projects - it just feels as if people are going out of their way to inflict pain and suffering upon themselves by trying to find the most awkward and most com… more »

I've now had the SSD in my laptop for about 10 days. Its made a massive difference to the way I work. Its striking as to how much of a difference having this extra performance in the laptop would make. In march I upgraded the memory on this laptop fr… more »

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-6.0 for i386 and x86_64 Architectures. CentOS-6.0 is based on the upstream release EL 6.0 and includes packages from all variants. All upstream repositories have been combined into… more »

Earlier in the day today Red Hat released RHEL 6.1 ( http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2011/Red-Hat-Delivers-Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-6-1 ). Congratulations to them, it looks like a great release with lots of cool new stuff in there. Most peo… more »

Trying to sign a bunch of rpms usually means having to type in your password for the gpg key multiple times, once for each rpm. However, you can avoid doing that with this :rpm --resign `find `pwd` -name *.rpm`That will only prompt you once for t… more »

Hi Guys, CentOS 5.6 is now out and available from all mirrors. In the next few hours, all yum operations will switch from 5.5 to 5.6 ( for people who run the default yum configs ). All the Release Details : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-… more »

What was the issue:There was an invalid rpm ( eclipse-ecj ) in the x86_64/os tree. Premature EOF in rpm payload.Report:Early morning on the 7th James Hogarth, BSkyB Entertainment repoted to the QA team that there was an issue with the eclipse… more »

Couple of things that should answer most questions that people are asking about the 5.6 Release status: TimeLine: Stuff is syncing around, it could be upto another day before you see packages, tree and isos on your local mirrors. Updates: Yes,… more »

Firstly, CentOS is super popular out there with the ruby guys and there are quite a few ruby based apps deployed on CentOS these days. Secondly, every man - his dog - and kitchen sink seem to be building ruby rpms. Not apps or gems or anything, but Ru… more »

People who have been following the centos-devel list would have noticed a ressurection of the CnetOS website Ver2 effort[1]. Which is a great sign, however, the intensity and the enthusiasm shown is about at par with the efforts that went into creating t… more »

A while back, Red Hat started pushing out early-releases for some updates. I'm guessing it was due to customers and users asking for eary access to trivial fix's. These early releases were put into a repository ( channel for you RHN users! ) called fastr… more »

Trying to pull from a remote repo, just ran into this strange error being reported by gitosis. ERROR:gitosis.serve.main:Arguments to command look dangerous And in typical gitosis ways, its down to trawling the sources to workout what the problem… more »

Should open source projects, not focused on source or code at all but more on a service or a resource, really be called 'open source' projects ? I feel there might be a need to define the idea of an 'open service' or an 'open resource' project.- KB more »

I've never been big on new years resolutions, but this year I have one. To Blog. Started off initially as a 'I should blog more often', then I realised that I didnt really blog much at all through 2009 and 2010. So the aim is to change that : 2011 will b… more »

if you insert data using server side metadata like now(), there is a very high possibility that the replica you have running will not get the same information. more »

One fact of life with the sysadmin lifestyle is that most issues are task and event driven rather than project driven. For me, over the last 6 months, the split has been about 80% issue driven and 20% project driven. And most tasks tend to be short, even… more »

This question comes up often : how does one get started in the world of Linux sysadmin. And to be honest, I dont think there is a clear answer to that. The state of Linux certification is not ideal. There are a few courses one might get onto, like the RH… more »

@reboot : Run once after reboot. @yearly : Run once a year, ie. "0 0 1 1 *". @annually : Run once a year, ie. "0 0 1 1 *". @monthly : Run once a month, ie. "0 0 1 * *". @weekly : Run once a wee… more »

Hi Guys, A few days back I announced that there will be a 'week of rpm-metadata' hacks, starting from today. With great regret I haveto now announce that this must be postponed for a few weeks. Things are going to be extremely hectic for the next two… more »

One of the most under utilised things around in any CentOS sysadmins toolset is the rpm-metadata repositories. Some part of it comes from the fact that most people consider it to be yum specific, and while thats true to quite an extent - its not the only… more »

Given the recent developments on the opensolaris front, there is again the issue of what OS do people run on their existing sparc hardware ? And I wonder if now is a good time to consider bringing up the CentOS on Sparc conversations again.I have s… more »

I had to build a fresh set of rpms for the area_cli tools, and decided it was also a good time to rebase some of my local personal build tools to rhel6beta2 since its there and I need to do some tests with it anyway. Firstly, there are a couple of coo… more »

A question that has come up a few times in the last week. So I thought a blog post about it is in order here. While some people are aware of the situation, most of the people are not. In the early days of EL5, there was a perl.i386 included in the dis… more »