Posts Tagged Linux
Path to building Nginx Mainline RPMs for Fedora & CentOS
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux, Programming, Sysadmin on February 13, 2015
Or: How I spent an afternoon doing a deep dive into the RPM spec and solving a problem for myself tl;dr – Nginx Mainline packages are being built for Fedora & CentOS at copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/kyl191/nginx-mainline/ My webserver’s running nginx 1.4.7, a version that hasn’t gotten non-bugfix attention since March 2013, according to the changelog. Oddly enough […]
Dual-booting with Dropbox
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on March 15, 2012
Or, how to not waste your hard drive space when you’ve got dropbox installed on two OSes on the same drive.
Why I’m becoming increasingly disillusioned with SELinux
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux on October 22, 2011
My history with SELinux is a… varied one. I first remember using it back in Fedora Core 6. I soon gave up on it, the labeling wasn’t consistent and I didn’t have the time nor inclination to relabel everything, especially when a quick one work change in a config file fixed all my problems. The […]
Upgrading to Fedora 16 Beta with yum
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux, Xen on October 9, 2011
So… I saw that Fedora 16 was out in Beta. I decided to try out the supposed Xen dom0 capability, using my old 1U. It had Fedora 15 installed, but nothing on it, so I just decided to blow it all away. To start, I went and downloaded the Live CD. First problem: I grabbed […]
Sharing Resources
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux on August 20, 2011
Or how I’m designing a system such that my stuff doesn’t get mixed up with the family’s docs, but both reside in the same disk.
Creating a new RAID 6 drive & attaching it to a Xen VM
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux, Xen on August 20, 2011
I have 4 2TB drives in my NAS. They are split into 2 partitions, 500GB and the remaining ~1.5TB. The 1.5TB partitions were used in a RAID5 for media – music, backups of DVDs, etc. The remaining 500GB partitions were supposed to be for crucial documents, stuff that warranted double protection against disk failure. Except […]
When a yum update kills itself…
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux on August 12, 2011
There’s a bunch of clean up to do. New kernel isn’t working properly – boot from old one. Try yum update again, get an error message about an existing transaction. Have yum-utils already installed, so yum-complete-transactions is a command away. Even after repeating it multiple times, yum still complains about broken packages. Turns out yum […]