Downloading envoy for linux
Looking to download the envoy proxy? Try here – but note it needs glibc 2.18, so no Centos 7.
Archive of posts tagged centos
tdiff – compare directories
tdiff looks very handy – more details & copr repository here
idmapd for NFSv4 doesn’t do what you think it does
After wasting a lot of time trying to remap UIDs for an NFS mount using idmapd, I came across this article. In summary: “The problems start when we want to access the file contents or modify a file/directory and suddenly we get ‘permission denied’ type messages. Now NFS itself doesn’t do the security authentication but …
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Skip building debuginfo files for rpm files
You can use a –define rpmbuild –define “debug_package %{nil}” -ba SPECS/original.spec
Building remacs (rust emacs) on Fedora
The equivalent to install the dependencies is: dnf install texinfo libjpeg-devel libtiff-devel giflib-devel libXpm-devel gtk3-devel \ gnutls-devel ncurses-devel libxml2-devel
Cleaning up repos in cobbler
Here’s a cobbler snippet that disables the default repomirror (presuming you are serving the rpms yourself) and adds the updates channel # disable Centos Base Repo (get updates elsewhere) sed -i -e ‘s/^/#/g’ /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo # download updates repo file wget -O – http://$http_server/cobbler/repo_mirror/Centos6-UPDATES/config.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/Centos6-Updates.repo sed -i -e ‘s/\${http_server}/$http_server/’ /etc/yum.repos.d/Centos6-Updates.repo Change the name of the …
Glances – an alternative to top
Glances is a CLI curses based monitoring tool for GNU/Linux and BSD OS.Glances uses the PsUtil library to get information from your system.It is developed in Python. via Glances by nicolargo. Nice and available in the EPEL repository for Centos / RHEL.
Having trouble getting mod_dumpio to work?
Note that it works with a default loglevel of debug, so in your vhost set: LogLevel debug or change the loglevel it activates at
[CentOS-announce] CentOS-5.6 Continuous Release i386 and x86_64
“The CentOS-5.6 Continuous Release CR repository is now available on mirror.centos.org. This repository contains rpms to be included in the next CentOS-5.x release. Because these include security and bugfix updates, we strongly recommend everyone using CentOS-5 install and update their system using this repository.” via [CentOS-announce] CentOS-5.6 Continuous Release i386 and x86_64. Particularly useful if …
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apt-fast and Axel: Roughly 26x Faster apt-get Installations and Upgrades
The apt-fast script I have created is a little shellscript that increases the speed of apt-get by many times. You need to have the axel download accelerator installed, which is a simple, short process, but everything else is extremely straight forward. I started out downloading the upgrades for Kubuntu, at 32kb/s. Not terrible, but not …
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