Removing the default kernel aka the loaded kernel in CentOS 8 maybe challenging because the package is protected and cannot be removed by the yum…
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Gentoo emerge GO lang failed – atomic_amd64x.go: too many errors
Upgrading GO lang under Gentoo maybe a little bit tricky. The upgrading go lang from 1.13.7 to 1.15.5 failed with strange error: Googling a little…
Booting network installation from ipxe disk using IPMI KVM
There is a project for extended PXE Boot features https://ipxe.org/. This article is not for describing what this project may offer, but to show how…
gentoo network interface with hyphen in the name
Using the OpenRC (i.e. init system) and network names with special symbols like hyphen in the name may lead to errors of “command not found”…
xdg and autostart in Linux X server regardless the desktop environment
There is a tool xdg, which manages application integration with the different GUI Desktops in the Linux world. One of the features it offers is…
multiple random crashes of firefox in a docker container under Linux
Multiple random crashes in Firefox under Linux, when started in a docker container with errors of the kind: The chances to stop these multiple random…
Using xtrabackup to make fast MySQL backups – backup and restore
Percona provides a really interesting tool for MySQL backups! It works on a live running MySQL server by copying the MySQL binary files from the…
gitlab in podman cannot create unix sockets in glusterfs because of SELinux
Installing gitlab-ee (and gitlab-ce) under CentOS 7 with enabled SELinux (i.e. enforcing mode) looped endlessly the container in restarting the installation process! There were multiple…
gpg list key and display key details from a file (without importing the key)
Files with GPG keys – public or private. Here is how to get more information without importing the keys. GPG cli could give enough information…
syslog – UDP local to syslog-ng and send remote. Forward syslog to remote server.
After writing an article for the rsyslog daemon about forwarding local UDP logging to a remote server using TCP – UDP local to rsyslog and…