'RedHat' Tag

• MySQL HA with DRDB and Heartbeat on CentOS 5.5

  July 20, 2010

  This is one of a few MySQL High Availability strategies.  I have used this for years and found it work great.  If you don’t know about DRBD and MySQL you should read Peter’s comments. These are step by step instructions for Redhat 5 or CentOS. If you need more details please refer to: http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/ Configuring [...]

  posted in CentOS, DRDB, HA, Heartbeat, Redhat by mark

• Install MariaDB on RedHat 5.4

  May 4, 2010

  Is MariaDB really a drop in replacement for MySQL?   I’m running CentOS 5.4.  What happens if… Use “mysqldump –all-databases > FullBackup.sql” to make a full backup. (Better safe then sorry) Go to http://askmonty.org/wiki/MariaDB:Download and download the CentOS 5 packages. Stop msql “service mysqld stop” Pull MySQL out by the roots with “rpm -e mysql-server mysql [...]

  posted in Commentary by mark

• Compiling Drizzle on CentOS 5.4

  April 6, 2010

  I was able to compile Drizzle on CentOS today thanks to Neil Armitage post on his website. Clean install centos 5.4 with Development Tools and Development Libraries yum groupinstall “Development Tools” yum groupinstall “Development Libraries” Setup the drizzle user account and allow it to sudo /usr/sbin/visudo uncomment %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL useradd drizzle gpasswd -a [...]

  posted in Tips & Tricks by mark