I’m sure most people know about the Raspberry Pi and all of the cool and interesting things you can do with but I’m interested in using my Pi as a headless networked computer.

I have been helping a friend recover his 123-Reg CentOS 6 based VPS from an rsync files backup. My friend has a 123-Reg VPS with a number of small websites running on it, last weekend 123-Reg completely wrecked his VPS by “upgrading” the underlying host. The upgrade led to massive file-system corruption and because it’s “not a managed product” 123-Reg washed their hands of helping repair their mistake. The only “support” that 123Reg offer is button to trigger a fresh rebuild with the latest CentOS installed.

Yesterday morning after a 6am! train to Leeds I took and passed my RHCSA exam which combined with my RHCE pass from December means that I am once again officially an RHCE. I have held 3 RHCE certificates originally passing way back in 2000 on Red Hat 6.1 (no not RHEL 6.1) and again in January 2005 on RHEL 3.0.

I’ve been playing with RedHat storage server which runs GlusterFS under the hood and cloned the nodes from a single master but got an error about “overlapping export directories from the same peer” when creating a new volume on GlusterFS.

After fighting with Apache for a while I’ve finally managed to get a redirect from a users public_html to a new domain.