Between RHEL/CentOS 5 and 6 the default RPM compression format was
changed to xz. As such, trying to build a recent Fedora or Cent6 SRPM on
Cent5 will error out with a message like
error: unpacking of archive failed on file foo;51a4c2a5: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
because tar …
I use git quite a bit these days, both with an internal server at work and with a bunch of my projects and random code that now live on my github account. The transition from SVN hasn’t always been easy. Here’s a quick cheat sheet of some of …
more ...This post is part of a series of older draft posts from a few months ago that I’m just getting around to publishing. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a build system that meets my requirements (see the last paragraph).
At work, we have a handful - currently a really …
more ...I’ve been configuring Apache httpd for over a decade, from a single personal web server to web farms running thousands of vhosts. In most of the “real” environments I’ve worked in, we’ve had some variation of production, stage/test/QA and development hosts; and usually some method …
more ...The latest version of nodejs that I could find as an RPM for CentOS was 0.6.16, from http://patches.fedorapeople.org/oldnode/stable/. That’s the one that puppetlabs currently uses in their puppetlabs-nodejs module. There is, however, a nodejs 0.9.5 RPM in the Fedora Rawhide …
more ...As part of the transition from a contractor to a full-time employee of Cox Media Group Digital & Strategy (check out our github), I’ve been issued a Mid-2010 (6,2) 15” MacBook Pro laptop, to replace my current Early-2008 (3,1) MacPro desktop. The desktop is currently running Fedora 17 …
more ...Note 2014-12-16: I’m leaving this here for historical reasons, and since some older OS versions still need properly-written init scripts. Since starting to use Arch Linux on my laptop, I’ve become a convert to the systemd world. I know this is a hot topic and has sparked a …
more ...Some random interesting links from Slashdot for today:
If you’re like me and most humans, the Nagios logfile timestamp (a unix timestamp) isn’t terribly useful when trying to grep through the logs and correlate events:
# head -2 nagios.log
[1350360000] LOG ROTATION: DAILY
[1350360000] LOG VERSION: 2.0
Here’s a nifty Perl one-liner that you …
more ...On the lighter side, I found a few web sites by Tom Blackwell that do some fun stuff with text overlays on images. seems like a nice little tool for those end-of-project powerpoints, or to send out the monthly “most rolled-back commits” medal…
