Tagged: CentOS

Production Cron Tasks

Useful if you run scheduled tasks in production and want to leverage cron, via Orchestrate.io. The Gist shell script for cron_helper.sh is below. Production Cron Tasks was last modified April 9th, 2016 by Justin...

Service Process Start, Service Start Process

I may be slightly dyslexic as I am constantly typing service start nginx or service restart mysqld when interacting with services controlled via init.d. Rather than making myself constantly retype it I created a...

GoDaddy SSL Certificates on NGINX

To properly install a GoDaddy SSL certificate on an NGINX install, you will need to include the gd_intermediate.crt and gd_bundle.crt the SSL certificate file for your server. The location of this file can be...

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...

Create a Self-Signed Certificate for Apache SSL on CentOS

A self-signed certificate can be used for many things, but in this case it is to provide HTTP over SSL from Apache, HTTPS. In many cases a CA signed certificate is not required –...

Dual Primary DRBD on CentOS 6: GFS2 & Pacemaker

This guide describes how to create a pair of redundant file servers using DRBD for replication, RedHat GFS2 (Global File System), and Pacemaker for cluster management. In this case we are also using RackSpace...