OT: VPS: Hosting providers? How it's done?

[Tony Nelson]

At 9:24 AM -0500 4/24/07, Chris Mohler wrote:
>On 4/23/07, Mauriat M <mirandam at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/23/07, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I use a company called powervps - I think they're a spin-off from
>> > defender hosting.  I *think* that I can use a custom kernel, they're
>> > using VZ, we're running CentOS, & I set up firewall + apf without much
>> > trouble.  Their support has been pretty decent thus far (going on two
>> > years with them).
>> >
>> > Chris
>>
>> Out of curiousity:
>> Which kernel RPM is installed ? 'rpm -q kernel'
>$ rpm -q kernel
>kernel-2.6.9-34.EL
>kernel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL
>kernel-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL
>kernel-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL

What kernel is running?  uname -r


>> What is there in '/boot' or '/initrd' ?
>$ ls /boot/
>System.map-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL  config-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL
>vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL
>System.map-2.6.9-34.EL      config-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL      vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.EL
>System.map-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL  initrd-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.img
>vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL
>System.map-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL  initrd-2.6.9-34.EL.img
>vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
>config-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL      initrd-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL.img
>config-2.6.9-34.EL          initrd-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.img
>
>$ ls /initrd/
><empty>
>
>> How many modules are available '/lib/modules' ?
>$ find /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.3.EL/ -iname "*.ko" | wc -l
>860
>
>> Can you see what modules you have loaded? '/sbin/lsmod' ?
># /sbin/lsmod
>Module                  Size  Used by
><empty>

OK, as expected.  Try an insmod or modprobe.
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