Here is some low hanging fruit to improve your RHEL environment and simplify your work… setup a simple Yum repository.
Making a simple Yum repository.
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Keepalived 1.1.20 RPMs for CentOS 5
Keepalived is a very handy piece of ops-sauce. Dash some on your operations project and it adds a bit of tangy high availability and an aroma of robust fail-over.
It implements a VRRPv2 stack to handle LVS director failover and acts as a userspace daemon for LVS cluster nodes healthchecks and LVS directors failover.
While trying to reverse engineer how a previous co-worker setup a MySQL load balancing scheme using keepalived I discovered how difficult it was to find rpms for it (I found 1.1.10 out there). I’ll be posting later on the MySQL HA scheme later.
I tried building the latest version (1.2.2) which continually broke in RHEL5 (despite there being a RHEL6 rpm)… so I gave in and built the latest version of the previous release (1.1.20).
Here we go…
Adjust your slab! Memcached 1.4.12 RPMs on CentOS 5.7.
So, memcached 1.4.11 lets you rebalance and reassign slab memory!
This is epic!
Info why this is epic here.
Info on the implementation is in the release notes
From the release notes, please remember that the slab reassignment feature is in beta and is subject to some changes.
I just took the regular spec file I found for the project elsewhere and modified it a little. I disabled the SASL stuff in my spec file since we don’t use it and I didn’t want to mess with building it.
EDIT: Actually, this article has revised for less yak shaving. With the help of Dormando and Justin Lintz. I was able to shed some unneeded dependencies.
So here you go:
Building and Installing Python 2.7 RPMs on CentOS 5.7
I was asked today to install Python 2.7 on a CentOS based node and I thought I’d take this oportunity to add a companion article to my Python 2.6 article.
We’re all well aware that CentOS is pretty backwards when it comes to having the latest and greatest sotware packages and is particularly finicky when it comes to Python since so much of RHEL depends on it.
As a rule, I refuse to rush in and install anything in production that isn’t in a manageable package format such as RPM. I need to be able to predictably reproduce software installs across a large number of nodes.
The following steps will not clobber your default Python 2.4 install and will keep both CentOS and your developers happy.
So, here we go.
New method for installing Python 2.6.4 (with mysql-python) on CentOS 5.5
So I wrote in an earlier post about alt-installing Python 2.6 from source on CentOS, which was easy enough. But, this made it more difficult to maintain and deploy as well as add modules. So, I was lucky enough to come across a nice little yum repository hosted by Rizwan Kassim (Geekymedia.com) that contained an RPM that would do the alt-install work for me 
I’m aware that EPEL has a Python 2.6 package, but the Geekymedia RPMs have a whole flurry of modules you can add as well as an RPM for setuptools which will make your life immeasurably easier when running Python 2.4 and 2.6 side-by-side for installing python packages.
The only problems with the Geekymedia RPMs are that the binary packages are all 32-bit (I’m running servers here folks!) and I was unable to get the MySQL-python26 one to work right for me.
So, let’s get down to business.
Building Scribe from Silas Sewell’s source RPMs for CentOS / RHEL 5
Before, I wrote about how to build Scribe 2.1 and its’ dependencies on CentOS from source by hand.
I’m not a life long Linux admin, only been at it for a few years, so the process of discovery involved in getting it built made my hairline recede a bit…
The author just after running ’make install’
However, you’re in luck if you want to avoid all that and keep your hair, if you’re willing to make a few compromises.
Silas Sewell was awesome enough to share his own source RPMS with the world!