Month: October 2008
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Getting lighttpd RPM
There are many places you can download the latest lighttpd RPMs: Primary: http://packages.sw.be/lighttpd/ http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/lighttpd/ Secondary: EL4: http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/testing/EL4/lighttpd/ EL5: http://www.kevindustries.com/media/kw/files/linux/lighttpd/RPMS/EL5/ EL5 x86_64: http://linuxwave.blogspot.com/2007/08/installing-lighttpd-in-centos-5-for.html 1.4.17: http://www.kevindustries.com/media/kw/files/linux/lighttpd/RPMS/
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Stress test a new server
Got a new server and want to stress test its CPU & disk? Run Folding@Home or other computing service and also BitTorrent (download some Linux distros like Fedora, CentOS). Testing and yet help the community. Folding @ Home wget http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/release/FAH6.02-Linux.tgz tar -zxf FAH6.02-Linux.tgz ./fah6 –config echo “./fah6 -smp -verbosity 9 $* &” > fah chmod…
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How to automatically reboot after a kernel panic?
You should investigate the root cause when possible but if the machine needs to be up and running again without much interruption, you can have it reboot when panicking after a number of seconds. Put this into /etc/sysctl.conf kernel.panic = 60