High IOWait on VMWare Server on Linux

In using VMWare Server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (CentOS 5) I discovered a rather difficult problem.  My setup includes Red Hat Linux 5.2, Solaris 10 and Windows Server 2003 guests running on a Red Hat 5.2 host server all 64bit except for Windows running on AMD Opteron multicore processors on an HP …

Resizing VMWare Server Virtual Disk

Today I needed to resize a VMWare Virtual Disk (vmdk) for a Windows Server 2003 image running on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 host using LVM to manage the physical, local disk space.  In my case, my logical volume was too small to accommodate the vmdk expansion and so I had to grow my …

Subversion Permission Issues

In my installation of Subversion (SVN) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (a.k.a. RHEL 5 or CentOS 5), I was attempting to access my working Subversion repository through the web interface using Apache.  I came across a permissions issue giving the following errors: This one is from the Apache error log (/var/log/httpd/error_log) and is generated …

Installing Subversion on RHEL5

Subversion (SVN) is a popular open source, source code change control package. Today we are going to install and configure Subversion on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (a.k.a. RHEL 5.2), I will actually be doing my testing on CentOS 5.2 but the process should be completely identical. Installing Subversion on Linux Installation of subversion is …

Twitter from the Linux Command Line

Okay, so you are a crazy BASH or Korn shell nut (DASH, ASH, TCSH, CSH, ZSH, etc., etc. yes, I mean all of you) and you totally want to be able to Tweet on your Twitter feed without going to one of those krufty GUI utilities.  Such overkill for such a simple task.  I feel …