And you think your compile box using distccd is ready you start emerge in your server/desktop/laptop and the first package is OK, the your emerge…
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Resume compilation of a package from where it failed under Gentoo
Sometimes problems are too specific, but they can show us a path to look for a more general problem and its solution. There was a…
Delete millions of files slowly without loading the server
There a situations when we need to delete a great deal of files from our filesystem and if we just execute rm -Rf the server…
Resume installation after a package build error, when emerging firefox under Gentoo
If you recently tried to emerge the latest Firefox in Gentoo (firefox 58.0/58.0.1) and you ended up with a compilation error of this kind: The…
Busybox ash, Debian dash and simulating bash arrays
Busybox ash (Almquist shell) shell and Debian dash (Debian Almquist shell) are lightweight Unix shell and they are a variant of System V.4 variant of…
SUPERMICRO IPMI/KVM module tips – reset the unit and the admin password
After the previous howto “SUPERMICRO IPMI to use one of the one interfaces or dedicated LAN port” (in the howto is showed how to install…
Tunneling the IPMI/KVM ports over ssh (supermicro ipmi ports)
The best security for the remote management unit in your server such as IPMI/KVM is to have local IP. All IPMI/KVM IP should be switched…
Bring up network interface with an IP address using “ip” command
Lately many linux distributions do not ship by default with ifconfig which is considered as old style of setting the network when we need to…
Replace default program to open text files in Linux console
Ever wondered how to change your text editor when editing text files in Linux? Here is a newbie tip! For example if you when you…