Posts Tagged sysadmin
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 […]
I’m annoyed at Crashplan now
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on July 31, 2012
I’ve been using crashplan for the last 10 months – the combination of low price, family pack of 10 computers and Windows & Linux support means it beat out BackBlaze for my online backup of choice. However, I’ve run into multiple problems with it, all in one day.
You know you need more RAM when…
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on May 10, 2012
aka, my errors, let me show you them. or, inadvertent DDoSes are fun when you do them to yourself! finally, A: “I can see 4GB of RAM but I can only use 1.5.” Q: What is “Why I loathe 1and1”? sudo -i sudo: unknown uid: 10003 sudo: cannot fork: Cannot allocate memory -bash: /usr/bin/sudo: Argument […]
3 things about backups
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on May 5, 2012
In this post I’ll talk about 3 things about backups that you should know. At the end of it, you should understand the different types of data involved in a backup, and some programs which can help you with the backups. 3 different types of data (Or, why not all data is equal) Data can […]