Tag Archives: systemd

/tmp mounted as tmpfs on CentOS

Posted on 2016-02-18 by Jethro Carr

After a recent reboot of my CentOS servers, I’ve inherited an issue where the server comes up running with /tmp mounted using tmpfs. tmpfs is a memory-based volatile filesystem and has some uses for people, but others like myself may … Continue reading →

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Puppet modules

Posted on 2015-07-18 by Jethro Carr

I’m in the middle of doing a migration of my personal server infrastructure from a 2006-era colocation server onto modern cloud hosting providers. As part of this migration, I’m rebuilding everything properly using Puppet (use it heavily at work so it’s … Continue reading →

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First thoughts and tips on EL 7

Posted on 2014-08-21 by Jethro Carr

Generally one RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux (aka EL) release isn’t radically different to another, however the introduction of EL 7 is a bit of a shake up, introducing systemd, which means new init system, new ways of reading logs plus dropping some … Continue reading →

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