I posted back in January about RPM Spec Files for nodejs 0.9.5 and v8 on CentOS 6. In that post I also said that I was unable to get recent NodeJS to build on CentOS 5 because of a long chain of dependencies including node-gyp, v8, http-parser, glibc …

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 …

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 …

I recently had to setup Fedora 16 to test something on a SuperMicro 6015T-TV 1U “dual” server. This is a 1U enclosure with two separate servers in it - based on the SuperMicro X7DBT motherboards - each with an AOC-SIMSO+ IPMI and KVM-over-IP management card. Every time I …

I just installed php-suhosin 0.9.29 from EPEL on a CentOS 5.6 box. I’m running a whole bunch of name-based vhosts in Apache, and have a bunch of web apps, so I opted to run suhosin in simulation mode (don’t actually block anything, but log …

Update July 2011 - We’ve been using rsyslog for our centralized syslog infrastructure at work (site being redesigned at the moment) for about a year now. As a result, our colleagues at Rutgers University Open System Solutions have been nice enough to include rsyslog in their koji build system. Updated …