centos Old Dog Learns New Trick Middle aged server hacker and software packager reads manual pages, gets enlightened.
fedora Pardon the disruption.. Due to a lost / corrupted GPG keyring and passphrase I’ve had to issue a new RPM signing key for my ThatFlemingGent repository. I’m fixing the breakage now and I can’t say I’m too pleased, it’
caffeine Keeping afloat in a binary ocean Micro-rant: One of my pet peeves as a guy who likes to say his piece online is the number of really interesting and useful technologies / ideas completely ruined by lazy attempts at marketing by even lazier “salesmen” and marketers. Look at email
dns Getting a PowerDNS recursor up and going, fast! This post is another one of my “quick and dirty” service tutorials This time, I’ll cover getting a recursive DNS service up and going, using the PowerDNS recursor package. Traditionally Red Hat/Fedora users would opt for BIND (with or
courtesy How polite! I’m testing the Prosody XMPP server package I’d mentioned some time back (I’ve worked with jabberd/jabberd2 and ejabberd, figured a new tinker toy was on the cards) and got this when trying to check the service status
bloodyidiots Just Plain Bad Service I almost lost two of my domains this week – a registrar / hosting company that will not be named decided to close them off without any notice – no email, letter or even a phone call. 15 minutes in a phone queue as the
centos New hosting arrangements If you’re reading this (and not a “Page Cannot Be Displayed” or “Internal Server Error”) then I’ve successfully moved my site(s) to the new server. After years of hosting off my own gear, either at
fedora Things I thought I'd never see If I hadn’t been present for these, I’d probably call myself a bullspit artist. But I swear on a stack of $documents I was there and my experiences are 100% true. Firstly, I thought I’d never ever see
backup More of Michael's Not So Quick Tips Migration I migrated my filesystems to ext4 (I’ve come from an all0ext3 F10 to F11 upgrade, FWIW) and just like to mention that if you’re migrating your root filesystem you might want to regenerate your initrd via mkinitrd; the stock
fedora Presto, We Have No Gallery! Fedora / Linux stuff: For those users of my package set, you can now use yum-presto to grab deltarpms of my packages for Fedora 10 and 11. This should make your life easier – I know my upstream link isn’t always fast so
courier I'm IPv6 ready - are you? Firstly for those wondering about Courier-IMAP / authlib / maildrop+authlib packages for Leonidas: I’ve built them successfully – only a minor adjustment needed after all that – and it’s available in the usual place. Enjoy, and let me know if there&
fedora Some updates, and a little "open sermon" I’m in the unusual position of being inside, yet rugged up with a jacket and scarf with what feels like a cold. I can’t say I’m happy about it. Upgraded WordPress here to 2.7.1 (Fedora 11
fedora That Fleming Gent Meets Leonidas My long-running repository at ThatFlemingGent (or “Enlartenment” for those who haven’t caught up) is live and ready for use. As releases have progressed the list I offer has become smaller, as many have been pulled into Fedora proper (either by
ejabberd Experiences in both success and failure I did my bit: I really do like where things are headed and I’m sure the good work will continue 🙂 There’s been some lively debates on the mailing lists of late, but it’s worked out smoothly and courteously
fedora Scale and speed and spam Obligatory Laugh-and-head-shake digression: I’ve been fighting email spam for 12 years plus, and I still see stupid spammers – pardon the tautology – indiscriminately junkmailing abuse@ role addresses. Idiots. Why not just offer crack to a cop? With that thought out of
fedora Result may be fit, social with an open messaging standard on top. Techie Happenings: I’ve been tinkering with more XMPP (Jabber to you oldies) messaging in general, as it happens. I’ve had a look at the python Yahoo transport and found it a little lacking – it’s config is a
fedora Murphy is my co-pilot. After moving what seems to be several mountains at the workplace over the last few weeks, I’m finally on holiday. Additionally, my girlfriend is back from interstate, which makes me even happier. Alas, nature doesn’t like us and lo, as
courier New courier-imap packages Sam released 4.5.0 today (and maildrop 2.1.0, which I’m trying to package up now and having an interesting time tracking a compile problem with the db/gdbm stuff) – I’ve updated my packages for CentOS/RHEL
fedora This should be obvious, but.. If it’s not notifications / oddly explained failures to build from gcc itself (hello davfs2 on CentOS/RHEL5, where did that fail? Insights welcomed as the build.log is charmingly opaque. Cheers) or flex & bison (Hello vulcan on F10/x86_64, whaddaya
buddhism De-stressing Hey Yaakov, make that four users once I’ve set it up, I certainly do like the looks of it. A good tool that makes any job easier is a winner in my book, and that looks like a good one indeed. This
fedora Quick head-scratcher avoidance tip When upgrading versions of Fedora, it’s almost never a bad idea to force a SELinux relabel on reboot (or via fixfiles if it’s a little too late ;-)) I yum-upgraded my doorstop-cum-network box without doing so, then had a momentary
apache I hate it when that happens... I had a bit of free time – and a half-day at work yesterday to boot – so I thought I’d modernise my set of hacked-up shell scripts (calling mock/createrepo/rsync+ssh) and install the all-singing & dancing Koji suite. Now
bloodyidiots The Sir Humphrey Appleby Award goes to... ObFedoraContent: I have now permanently retired the Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 sections of my repository. As I mentioned a few nights ago, those with older releases should really consider upgrading to a supported release or move to RHEL/CentOS. Cheers. Skip the rest
fedora A Koan A novice once came to a systems software roshi seeking wisdom: “I am troubled. My project has become large and I am having trouble reproducing the environment across test servers. I have all my sources and I’ve installed them from source
fedora Know Your Product. Remi Collet ponders usage rates of the Enterprise RH versions vs Fedora. It’s a good question too, actually. Personally I think a lot of it comes down to what you offer in your repo – I know most of my downloads are
