First, you need to install swift command line utility and here is how to do it: Install OpenStack swift client only In general, you will…
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Sometimes the user manual may be unclear and you came here searching for a solution of dropping a published repository. We have aptly version: 1.3.0…
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If you want to mirror repositories from your current aptly server to a new server you must import the GPG key from your old server…
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To manage files in the OpenStack cloud you need the swift client. This is not so tiny python tool (a lot of dependencies), which offers…
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A quick notice for your ansible scripts and as a reminder the right syntax for making a link with ansible is: src must be existing…
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Here you can see how to online resize your root ext4 file system. The free space of your partition will be increased after the operation….
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Zswap is an interesting way to extend your swap space with a memory write-back cache. Here is our simple explanation: When this feature is enabled…
Ubuntu with PHP 7.2 and mcrypt module
As mentioned in our previous article PHP 7.2 or PHP 7.3 with mcrypt – manual build the PHP versions 7.2 and 7.3 do not include…
PHP 7.2 or PHP 7.3 with mcrypt – manual build
Newer PHP versions do not include PHP mcrypt library. The mcrypt module was part of PHP 5 till 7.1, in which it was deprecated and…