01Linux
Install Jenkins as a Service on CentOS 7
I have previously written about how to Install Jenkins on CentOS as a Service where it was necessary to write your own startup, shutdown, configuration, and init.d scripts.…
April 27, 2016
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02Linux
Upgrade wget on CentOS 5
As time progresses some of my VPS machines are starting to show their age running CentOS 5. As CentOS is based on Redhat, the yum repositories often contain older versions of…
October 18, 2014
03Linux
Install logtail on CentOS
The developer of logtail has not made the repository available via yum for quick installation. Even if you don't want to access logtail from the command line, it is still used by…
June 2, 2014
04Technology
Upgrade From MySQL to MariaDB on CentOS
Here is how you upgrade from MySQL 5.5+ to MariaDB 5.5, 5.6 or 10.0. After running MySQL 5.5 for a while and getting tired of not taking advantage of the features and performance…
April 22, 2014
05Linux
Munin mysql_ suggest Cache::Cache Error
I was trying to set up the newer mysql_ plugin for Munin, but got the following error when using the "suggest" argument to determine how to link the file. The "fix" was to…
April 14, 2014
06Linux
Upgrade Python on CentOS
The version of python that is distributed with CentOS is the same of that for RHEL, which reads as not cutting edge. Typically this will be version 2.6, so even to run 2.7.6 you…
March 21, 2014
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Install PHP Memcached() on CentOS 5
If you want to have direct access to the Memacache() object from PHP on CentOS, the easiest way is using yum and the Remi repository. To install the repository for various…
May 27, 2012