Installing Ubuntu
This week I reinstalled one of my Fedora machines with an Ubuntu 8.04. Not that I don’t like Fedora anymore but just because I want something new. One of the big annoyancies I noticed during the...
View ArticleInput/Output redirection, appending
In a previous post I wrote about output redirection of STDOUT, STDERR and both to a file. Off course you can do the same to append to an existing file: ls >> output.txt ls 2>> error.txt If...
View ArticleUbuntu Intrepid Ibex
Last week a new version was released of Ubuntu, 8.10 aka Intrepid Ibex. It’s already installed on my laptop and it’s looking nice! The installer still doesn’t support LVM. To be able to install Ubuntu...
View Articlesyslog-ng bug
Today I stumpled upon a syslog-ng bug. We are using syslog-ng-2.1.3 on one of our machines which sends part of his messages over UDP to 2 syslog machines. On some days we noticed that syslog-ng and...
View Articlemv inuits pinuits
Today is announced that Inuits is rebranded to Pinuits. This change happened to line up with other MySQL consultancy companies, but the P also points to strong focus on Puppet, aPache, Php, Perl,...
View ArticleApt-rpm dependency problem
When installing some rpm’s on a CentOS5 system I encountered a dependency problem. Apt told me that it depends on a specific file which isn’t provided by any package in the repository. After some...
View ArticleAdding Local Folders in Thunderbird
Thunderbird has something called “Local Folders”. What Local Folders are is described here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Local_Folders This webpage however doesn’t explain how to add an extra set of Local...
View ArticleSSH known host management
When you frequently connect to ssh servers with changed RSA keys (reinstall, change ip, …) you will know this annoying message: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING:...
View ArticleHeartbeat v3. resource-stickiness
We are running a heartbeat cluster with several resource groups. One of these groups is depending on a drbd disk which is configured as a master/slave resource. Everything was working fine with...
View ArticleSUID flag of a file magically disappeared
If you set a SUID flag on a file, this flag will disappear when the ownership (user or group) is changed of that file! Let me show you: [root@raskas ~]# touch test [root@raskas ~]# ll test -rw-r--r-- 1...
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