Posts Tagged Linux

Path to building Nginx Mainline RPMs for Fedora & CentOS

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 […]

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Dual-booting with Dropbox

Or, how to not waste your hard drive space when you’ve got dropbox installed on two OSes on the same drive.

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Why I’m becoming increasingly disillusioned with SELinux

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 […]

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Upgrading to Fedora 16 Beta with yum

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 […]

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Sharing Resources

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.

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Creating a new RAID 6 drive & attaching it to a Xen VM

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 […]

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When a yum update kills itself…

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 […]

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