In this guide, we will be exploring how to use the tools which come with OpenVZ and setup a internet facing container/vm. This part of the guide also assumes you have followed part 1 to setup the container already and have a working environment.
In part 1, we setup a CentOS container which we could [...]

This quick guide will walk you through setting up OpenVZ on CentOS. I followed these steps on CentOS release 5.5 x64 version. If you want more detail on install via different methods and/or have different flavor of CentOS and run into an issue, you can follow instructions provided by OpenVZ site. Once [...]

I am currently working on a project to deploy new website builds to a
small number of servers. I needed something simple and reliable that could
be built in a very short period of time. I decided to whip something up in
bash with the intent of refining it in Python later.
As I began to write [...]

I got the following error when I was trying to modify my existing installation of Apache. Only thing I changed was to add –with-expires to my configure. Here is the error:
libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/local/src/httpd-2.2.14/srclib/apr-util/xml/expat/lib/libexpat.la’ or unhandled argument `/usr/local/src/httpd-2.2.14/srclib/apr-util/xml/expat/lib/libexpat.la’
I was able to fix this error by adding: –with-expat=builtin
Remember to [...]

I have been annoyed by the fact that I couldn’t easily print file count for all of the folders in certain directory.  Most of the time I just want to see what space each folder is using (du -hs *) but there are times when I need to know how many files are in each [...]