Tuesday, September 27, 2016

LSB Init Standard


This is a good-to-know for anyone working with Linux.

There's a standard to try and normalize / rationalize the init scripts across Linux distributions.

Here's a little blog on that topic:

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/03/lsbinit-script/

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

More Fun with VirtualBox


Created a VirtualBox without enough disk space (compiling Boost / ASIO - another topic for another day).

Had to resize the drive.

Used this resource here, which worked like a champ.

http://www.howtogeek.com/124622/how-to-enlarge-a-virtual-machines-disk-in-virtualbox-or-vmware/

I did create a Primary partition at the end of the disk, and made it a Swap Partition (with Label Swap and formatted as linux-swap).


Installing VirtualBox GuestAdditions

Good blog on how to do this.

https://naveensnayak.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/installing-virtualbox-guest-addition-on-centos-7-server-no-gui/

I did not realize that GuestAdditions plugs into the kernels with a bunch of kernel modules, which requires you to have the kernel-devel packages in order to build those modules.

SLAs using Zabbix in a VMware Environment

 Zabbix 7 introduced some better support for SLAs. It also had better support for VMware. VMware, of course now owned by BroadSoft, has prio...