To build a Murmur server on CentOS 5, we need:

Compiler

Remove "gcc-c++" if you have this package installed.

The CentOS 5 source RPM files are no longer hosted on mirror.centos.org. According to the README file http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/SRPMS/readme.txt, the new location is at

http://vault.centos.org/5.7/updates/SRPMS/

Upgrading CentOS 5 to 5.6 is as simple as "yum update", and then reboot.

CentOS 5.6 / RedHat RHEL 5.6 has now the production ready Ext4 filesystem. To get this, simply run

# yum install e4fsprogs

Then you can create filesystem using 

# mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdc1

At the end of the above "mkfs", there is a message as below:

I have a CentOS server that keeps changing the timezone to CDT whenever we upgrade the ntp rpm. It turned out the setting in /etc/sysconfig/clock is wrong. To have the ntp rpm upgrade stay at the desired timezone, just change the line for ZONE to the correct one.

I found this guy http://www.atoomnet.net/php/  offers the RPM and SRPM for the more recent php packages on CentOS.

Another one here: http://www.jasonlitka.com, or http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/SRPMS/ for the SRPM.

Server setup

1. Install subversion
   root# yum install subversion
2. Create a Repository. This is where all your files will be stored. You can put this anywhere, such as /var/subversion/repos/mycodes
root# svnadmin create /var/subversion/repos/mycodes
root# cd /var/subversion/repos/mycodes/conf
root# vi svnserve.conf
   Now add the following into the file svnserve.conf:
   anon-access = none

Determine which Services are Enabled at Boot

Run the command:
# chkconfig --list | grep :on


The first column of this output is the name of a service which is currently enabled at boot. Review each listed service to determine whether it can be disabled.

If it is appropriate to disable some service srvname , do so using the command:
# chkconfig srvname off

The original post is here http://www.how-to-linux.com/2008/12/set-up-mongrel-as-a-service-and-star...

Below are my modified steps in order to get it to work.

Step 1. Create a file /etc/mongrel/redmine.conf:
# mkdir /etc/mongrel
# vi /etc/mongrel/redmine.conf

and put the following into the file:

To have the containers use the named on the host, we first install the bind package on the host. For CentOS, we just need to do

# yum install bind-chroot

Then follow a post like this one http://www.wains.be/index.php/2007/12/13/centos-5-chroot-dns-with-bind/, and configure the local named.

After that, just set the nameservers for each container:

# vzctl set 101 --nameserver 192.168.1.10 --save

(Assume the local host's IP is 192.168.1.10).

In wiki.openvz.org, there is an article on Install OpenVZ on a x86 64 system Centos-Fedora.

Some problems and fixes:

404 file not found

I kept getting random "404 file not found" when running "vzpkgcache" to install the cache template. To fix this, I found some  "yum.conf" files