[Cialug] New Linux User orientation?

[David Champion]

It is also possible to change the runlevel that services start in... in 
Redhat-ish systems you use chkconfig for that.

Or you could use a hackish method like add a script to rc.local that 
runs after all of the normal system inits are done to start your 
services that depend on the iSCSI mounts.

I'm guessing some of the guys that have been doing virtual machines with 
NAS have had to deal with these kinds of issues.

-dc

Josh More wrote:
> Matt,
>
> You can deal with the driver issue by rebuilding your kernel and
> changing the drivers you need to be built-in instead of modules.  It's a
> bit of a pain, but that's kinda the "standard" way to do it.
>
> I do have to ask, though, why you'd want to mount /var.  Given what I
> suspect of what you'll be doing, you should be fine with mounting a
> single /srv volume and redirecting Apache logs to /srv/www/$site/logs. 
> You can lock their home directory to /srv/www/$site, and just basically
> move everything there.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC 
>  morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
>  515-245-7701
>
>   
>>>> "Matt Breitbach" <matthewb at flash.shanje.com> 11/17/09 7:28 PM >>>
>>>>         
> Generally, I need to make some modifications to CentOS systems and
> manage
> them once we have installed Cpanel on them.
>
> One of my main goals is to get all of the user files on to our iSCSI
> system
> since storage is tight on our blade.  The folders that will need to be
> moved
> are /home /var and /usr.  From what I've seen moving just the /home
> folder,
> I'm probably going to run into some circular dependencies by moving /var
> and
> /usr - IE - lots of drivers appear to be in /var, but if I mount an
> iscsi
> device and bind /var to a mount point of /iscsi/var, it won't be
> available
> until networking is initialized and iSCSI services are started, many of
> which probably reside on /var.
>
> Past the initial installation and configuration, there are probably
> going to
> be a lot of day-to-day headaches that I'll need to know where things are
> typically stored at, easy search methods, etc.
>
> I've done a lot of this before, but I haven't done it enough to have it
> committed to long-term memory.  IE - I know how to use grep, but I don't
> remember all of the switches and what they do.  I don't have any clue
> what
> the shortcuts for VI are, and as such will be installing a different
> text
> editor, as I have no desire to learn VI.  I can configure networking,
> and
> can muddle my way through things, but I'd love to have a desk reference
> that
> gives me something within arms reach that has lots of good information.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Morris Dovey
> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 4:17 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] New Linux User orientation?
>
> Matt Breitbach wrote:
>   
>> So I'm foraying into the linux world hot and heavy.
>>
>> I'd love to find some good resources for new linux users - I don't
>>     
> need to
>   
>> know how to use GIMP, I don't need to know how to tweak the user
>>     
> interface,
>   
>> I need to know the meat and potatoes of Linux.  Mounts, permissions,
>>     
> file
>   
>> sharing, user management, etc.
>>
>> Anyone know of a good book or site that covers this information
>>     
> without
>   
>> going into extra crap that I don't need? 
>>     
>
> It'd help people to help you if you told from whence you come into the 
> Linux world...
>
> I have an old copy of "Linux in a nutshell" ISBN:1-56592-167-4 
> (O'Reilly) that provides a large serving of the meat and potatoes you've
>
> asked for.
>
> For a bit (a /big/ bit, actually) more depth, I've resorted to "Advanced
>
> Programming in the UNIX Environment" ISBN:0-201-563-17-7 (Addison
> Wesley).
>
> What constitutes "extra crap" depends very much on the specifics of what
>
> you'll be doing, and at what level - and you haven't provided any clues 
> in that direction, either.
>
>
>
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