Posts Tagged fedora
Upgrading to Fedora 23 on OpenVZ
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux, Sysadmin on December 11, 2015
TL;DR: Run dnf –releasever 23 distro-sync instead of dnf system-upgrade on OpenVZ systems I run Fedora on my servers almost exclusively. This means I usually fall behind in upgrading to the latest release, leading me to wonder why I don’t just go with the latest version of CentOS. Then I have lovely cases where CentOS gets horribly […]
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 […]
Getting OpenVPN to work on an OpenVZ VPS
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux, Sysadmin on September 28, 2012
Note: This is a personal VPN, so I just used static keys. A general guide to getting OpenVPN set up is available on the OpenVPN website, but this guide is targeted at CentOS 5 on an OpenVZ VPS. This guide should be usable in other RH derivatives without much (any?) modification; and with slight modifications […]
HLDS on EC2
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Uncategorized on August 16, 2012
Update Jul 2014 – use the shiny new SteamCMD tool. Also, I started using DigitalOcean instead of EC2 (marginally cheaper, incredibly easier to setup) Create a Instance – spot works Install wget, tar, ncompress – depends on your distro, fedora 17 by default didn’t come with this (which, btw, is WTF?!) Also, screen to run […]
Removing bloat from Fedora 17 on EC2
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux on June 6, 2012
I’m in the middle of trialing EC2, and I’m using the official Fedora 17 images kindly provided by the community. They make a great starting point, because I can then install my needed software. Some of which, though, I consider absolutely crucial. So far, I’ve need to install vim, less, rsync and screen. I can […]
cron screwyness
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux on May 2, 2012
While trying to diagnose a problem with my VMs (namely, why starting a fedora 16 based vm fails to bring up the network connection), I ran into a strange issue – on my dom0 and some of the domUs, logrotate hasn’t been running, leaving me with insanely long logfiles! So I set out trying to […]
Because this is worth repeating
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Xen on November 23, 2011
I could have sworn I did this a while ago. But I got the error “‘Out of memory’, “xc_dom_boot_mem_init: can’t allocate low memory for domain\n “” when I tried to do a virt-install today. The problem? I was installing a 64bit domU on a 32bit dom0. Which is a no-no. Didn’t realise until I found […]
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 […]
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 […]