CentOS 6 Cobbler Server
Introduction This article will be a step-by-step guide of how to set up a Cobbler server on CentOS 6. Once the server is complete, you will be able to have CentOS 6 automatically installed onto client computers when they are PXE booted on a private network.
Caching RPMs with automirror
Introduction In a previous article, I wrote about how to use pkg-cacher to cache requested RPM files. Since then, the website for pkg-cacher has become unavailable and coincidentally I wrote my own tool that provides the same functionality called automirror. This article describes how to use it.
Cobbler, ESXi, CentOS, and VMWare Tools
Introduction This short article will detail a Cobbler snippet for automatically installing the ESXi VMWare Tools. Table of Contents Method VMWare Repo Cobbler Snippet Snippet Inclusion Conclusion Method This method was inspired by this blog post. It imports the VMWare RPM key and then creates a Yum repository to download the VMWare RPMs. I simply [...]
Deploying BIRT on Tomcat
Introduction As an alternative to my article on Deploying BIRT on JBoss, this article will cover BIRT and Tomcat. Background information on BIRT and the usefulness of hosting BIRT reports on a central server is covered in that prior article.
Deploying BIRT on JBoss
Introduction BIRT is one of the best projects I have found in the past few years. In a nutshell, it’s a reporting framework that allows you to easily create visual reports (that include graphs, charts, and tables) from any Java-compatible data source (JDBC, for example). BIRT reports are created and viewed with Eclipse. The only [...]
Modifying Vixie Cron for Fun
Introduction Cron is an essential *nix package that silently runs in the background running scheduled jobs. The most common version of cron is Vixie Cron. Coincidentally Vixie Cron is also the most vanilla version — it doesn’t provide any flashy features that other variants have, just the ability to read from a crontab and run [...]
64-bit On A Personal Level
I never paid much attention to 64-bit. I figured 64-bit operating systems were just a natural evolutionary step and I’d just casually start running 64-bit Linux distros whenever it was convenient. I understood the technical benefits with larger integers and stuff, but in my experience, Apache, MySQL, et al ran just the same whether it [...]