Tag Archives: rhel

find-debuginfo.sh invalid predicate

Posted on 2012-05-23 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 2012-05-19 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 2012-03-04 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 2012-01-06 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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DHCP, I/O and other virtualisation fun with KVM

Posted on 2011-03-06 by Jethro Carr

I recently shifted from having two huge server racks down to having a single speedy home server running KVM virtual machines, with the intent of packaging all my servers – experimental, development, staging, etc, into a single reliable system which … Continue reading →

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CentOS, RHEL and future possibilities?

Posted on 2011-02-25 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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