mounting nfs via fstab
server:/usr/local/pub /pub nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr
Can check the nfs sharing status by using “showmount -e server”
for nfs in autofs,
to mount the directory /hostdir on /misc/mountpoint on your machine, add the following line to auto.master:
/misc /etc/auto.misc –timeout 60
then in auto.misc
mountpoint -rw,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 nfshost.com:/hostdir
service [...]
first of all, need to install a yum plugin
yum install yum-downloadonly
After that, to just download a yum package, say mysql
yum reinstall mysql –downloadonly –downloaddir=/opt
need the repoquery command.
yum install yum-utils
then
repoquery –list package-name
It is possible to run machines in vmware instead of xen. Vmware comes in handy when you have an old kernel that doesn’t support para-virtualisation.
vmware server is now web-based starting from ver 2.0. vmware is one of the pioneers when comes to virtualisation. It is meant to be as stable as a rock. I use [...]
There are some useful shortcuts in the the command line that can make life abit easier.
ctrl+k = delete everything from this char onwards.
ctrl+u = delete everything before this char.
ctrl + a = move cursor to the first char
ctrl + e = move cursor to end of char
ctrl + rightarrow = move one word after this [...]
