Keeping a GitLab installation up-to-date.
6
Oct
Use the “—force-unsafe-io“ of dpkg to speed up the upgrade. Source: GitLab Omnibus Package issue #1403
Oh, Ubuntu…! Upgrading to 17.04
17
Aug
After upgrading from 15.10 to 17.04 (via 16.04), the NetworkManager refused to control the wired ethernet device, listing it in its menu as device not managed. Turns out after some googling that the package’s configuration was changed in 16.10 to … Read More »
Fixing redmine / RoR after upgrading from Debian 6 via 7 to 8
20
Nov
From 6 to 7: export GEM_HOME=/opt/ruby_gems export LC_ALL=C gem1.8 uninstall mysql gem1.8 install mysql —version=2.8.1 From 7 to 8: export GEM_HOME=/opt/ruby_gems export LC_ALL=C gem1.8 uninstall passenger gem1.8 install passenger apt-get install apache2-dev /opt/ruby_gems/bin/passenger-install-apache2-module Plus adjustments in the corresponding module config … Read More »
Upgrading the sheevaplug bootloader
4
Oct
How to upgrade the bootloader version on the sheevaplug – just the raw log for now… sudo minicom —device /dev/ttyUSB0 Marvell>> version U-Boot 1.1.4 (Jul 14 2009 – 06:46:57) Marvell version: 3.4.16 Marvell>> print ethaddr ethaddr=00:50:43:01:4C:70 Marvell>> usb start (Re)start … Read More »
Running X apps with sudo (gparted, …).
17
May
By default running X applications with sudo doesn’t work in Ubuntu, the result will look something like this: $ sudo gparted (gpartedbin:15568): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: To allow the sudo child process to connect back to the caller’s X … Read More »
Avoiding Cisco’s extremely annoying VPN client on Linux.
19
Apr
This is how to set up vpnc using NetworkManager to replace the messy Cisco VPN client to connect to the University of Basel: Gateway: vpn.mobile.unibas.ch User name: your full email address Group name: UniBasel-Intern Group password: B82FD7FF53F21B38104EE3BD0A4474BB6A907524EE8D2D6848512BDD966911506C572EC571C246C960094BC42BE80ED9695A7BB121E96166 Advanced Options: leave … Read More »
installing CellProfiler2 on Ubuntu 14.04 / Mint 17.3
19
Apr
Another one in the long series of same same, but different installation instructions for CellProfiler: CP2 on 11.10 CP2 on 15.04 The following has been tested on a fresh Linux Mint 17.3. The goal of these instructions is to use … Read More »
Installing Git on Citrix XenServer 6.5
17
Mar
As XenServer 6.5 is based on CentOS 5, we can use the corresponding EPEL repositories to install Git as follow: yum repolist wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-5.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh epel-release-latest-5.noarch.rpm this will install git, perl-Error, perl-Git and perl-TermReadKey yum install git now disable … Read More »
Testing logcheck rules…
17
Mar
I keep on forgetting how to do this, so that’s simply a short reminder. Running this command will show the MATCHING lines for the rules in the given rule-file: RULES=“ntp-local” LOGF=”/tmp/syslog_logcheck_testfile” sudo -u logcheck logcheck-test —rule-file $RULES —log-file $LOGF
Configure ConEmu to run shells as different user in tabs
16
Mar
To run a new shell in a ConEmu tab using a different ActiveDirectory user account than the one currently logged on to the system, use the following settings: cmd (the regular Windows shell): cmd.exe /k “ConEmuBaseDir\CmdInit.cmd” -cur_console:n:u:DOMAINNAME\username:t:“cmd (adm)” PowerShell: powershell.exe … Read More »