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Setting Up a Public/Private Key Pair on Centos

First you have to create the public and private key pair files. Open the Terminal application Execute the following command ssh-keygen -t rsa Go through the questions and answer.  Most of the time the defaults are fine. This will generate two files in your user’s ~/.ssh/ directory (if you followed the defaults).  The first one, […]

Generating a CSR on Apache and Centos

Generating a CSR for your Apache Web server is easier than you might think.  Once you have the csr generated you can copy and paste the result into your venter’s portal. To Generate a Certificate Signing Request for Apache 2.x on Centos Log in to your server using ssh. At the prompt, type the following […]

Generating RSA Key on Mac

Here are the steps to create a new RSA key on an Apple Mac. Open the Terminal application Execute the following command ssh-keygen -t rsa Go through the questions and answer.  Most of the time the defaults are fine. This will generate two files.  The first one, or private key, will not have an extension. […]

Managing Outbound Mail On Centos Using exim

Being a website hosting company, one of the main reasons that we send emails from our servers is to notify our developers and administrators about an issue (hopefully before the end user sees anything wrong).  The only issue with this is when a problem that spawns a lot of messages comes up, the mail queue […]

Glusterfs Brick is already part of a volume

While trying to rebuild a volume from scratch this morning I started running into issues when my new bricks were named the same thing as my old bricks. Specifically, I was receiving a message stating “volume create: images: failed: [path to brick] is already part of a volume.”  These new bricks were empty and were just […]

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