Tag Archives: centos

Updated Repositories

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Jethro Carr

I’ve gone and updated my GNU/Linux repositories with a new home page – some of you may have been using this under my previous Amberdms branding, but it’s more appropriate that it be done under my own name these days … Continue reading →

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cifs, ipv6 and rhel 5

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Jethro Carr

Unfortunately with my recent project enabling IPv6 across my entire personal server environment, I’ve bumped into a number of annoying issues – nothing that isn’t fixable, but things that are generally frustrating and which just shouldn’t be an issue. Particular … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 10, 2012 by Jethro Carr

Whilst my network is predominately  CentOS 5 hosts, I’ve started moving many of them to CentOS 6, mostly on a basis of doing so whenever a host needs a particularly newer version, since I don’t really want to spend an … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 23, 2012 by Jethro Carr

I do a lot of packaging for RHEL/CentOS 5 hosts, often this packaging is backporting of newer software versions, typically I’ll pull Fedora’s latest package and make various adjustments to it for RHEL 5′s older environment – typically things like … Continue reading →

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acpid trickiness

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Jethro Carr

Ran into an issue last night with one of my KVM VMs not registering a shutdown command from the host server. This typically happens because the guest isn’t listening (or is configured to ignore) ACPI power “button” presses, so the … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Sync Server RPMs

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Jethro Carr

A few weeks ago I wrote about the awesomeness that is Mozilla’s Firefox Sync, a built-in feature of Firefox versions 4 & later which allows for synchronization of bookmarks, history, tabs and password information between multiple systems. (historically known as … Continue reading →

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apt-get install debian

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Jethro Carr

Early last year I wrote how I was concerned about the progress and future of the CentOS project and was considering other options. As of today, I’ve now shifted my primary workstation (Lenovo X201i laptop) from the somewhat out of … Continue reading →

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CentOS, RHEL and future possibilities?

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Jethro Carr

Those who know me will know that I’m a long term CentOS user – this actually started from my love of RHEL,  back in my early Linux using days when I was running Red Hat 8.0. Whilst it made financial … Continue reading →

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