I reinstalled the OS. Was a little worried about disk druid and getting the partitions back in the same structure (without erasing the data on the big RAID5 volume!) But it seems like it worked out okay. Back at WHQ now and I can SSH in and see all the data. So now I'm back to where I was before yesterday. :-(

Now to try again.
- jim 1-27-2006 12:26 am

For my records:

// First do a minimal OS install

Install from CD. Reboot.

// Now the rest from the command line

// make sure everything is up to date
yum upgrade

// Mount the RAID5 in new directory /data2 (this is specific to my server)

mkdir /data2

mount /dev/sdc1 /data2

// install Apache, PHP, Perl, MySQL, gcc (the LAMP suite)

yum install perl-DBD-MySQL mysql-server mysql php-mysql mod_auth_mysql openssl-devel openssl mod_ssl php-devel php httpd rpm-build rpm-devel gcc perl-CPAN autoconf automake

// secure mysql

mysql_secure_installation

// make apache and mysql start on boot

chkconfig httpd on

chkconfig mysqld on


// start apache and mysql by hand now (because we don't want to reboot)

/etc/init.d/mysqld start

/etc/init.d/httpd start


// symlink the RAID5 into the web directory as /dmtmusic (again, specific to my server)

cd /var/www/html

ln -s /data2 dmtmusic

// main IP was entered during install from CD. We need to bind 2 other IPs to the same port (again, specific to me, these will be for ns1 and ns2) - Replace the red with the appropriate values.

ifconfig eth0:0 ip address 1 netmask netmask

ifconfig eth0:1 ip address 2 netmask netmask


- jim 1-27-2006 1:06 am


Oh, you mean I need port 53 open to run djbdns? Maybe that was the issue before.

lokkit is an easy way to open and close ports.
- jim 1-27-2006 3:13 am





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