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Friday, August 9, 2013

Puttygen's Public Key Problem with Linux Server

A need comes up to set up password authentication between my notebook and Linux server. I have to use puttygen to generate public/private key on my notebook because it is running Windows 7. Then I uploaded public key(example.pub) to Linux server and run the the following command to add it into ssh's authorized_keys file.
#cat example.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
But passwordless authentication with putty failed with message saying "Server Refused Our Key". Then I googled the error and found below link.
http://www.walkernews.net/2009/03/22/how-to-fix-server-refused-our-key-error-that-caused-by-putty-generated-rsa-public-key/

To make long story short, you have to modify the public key so that it will work on Linux server. Below are the steps extracted from above link. Pardon me for being lazy..
Hope it useful for somebody.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

GFS2 & CLVM

GFS needs to go together with CLVM according to the following Red Hat KB. Otherwise Red Hat won't support any problem for GFS.

https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/46637

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Rocks Cluster Installation Problems

Yes, I am damn stupid enough to screw up Rocks Cluster Installation that is as easy as ABC. Here is culprits giving me headache for 2 days -
  1. Never ever try LVM during installation. Or your installation will fail with some python error. But you can use LVM on other harddisks after installation. 
  2. Don't use ".local" as domain suffix for frontend node. I used "headnode.local" for my frontend hostname. Installation went through well without complaining anything. However, server came up without public network/interface after installation finished. I had been barking the wrong tree for 1 and half day checking switch, using lower version of Rocks and using different IP schema. Finally, I used other FQDN like ".netlynker.net" and it solved the issue.
Really hope this post helpful for somebody out there. :D