Keeping a GitLab installation up-to-date.
Use the “—force-unsafe-io“ of dpkg to speed up the upgrade. Source: GitLab Omnibus Package issue #1403
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Use the “—force-unsafe-io“ of dpkg to speed up the upgrade. Source: GitLab Omnibus Package issue #1403
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 »
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 »
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 »
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
HowTo: Create sar Graphs With kSar [ Identifying Linux Bottlenecks ] ksar : a sar grapher (SF.net project page) System Monitoring With sar And ksar
As currently (v4.3) VirtualBox doesn’t provide the possibility for compacting VMDK files, you have to go for the workaround of converting it into a VDI file, compacting that one, and finally converting it back into a VMDK. Here’s the gist … Read More »
This applies to a default (=debian-packages) installation of Xen on “squeeze” using LVM for storage management. Tested with these package versions: xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64: 4.0.1-5.5 xen-tools: 4.2-1 Choose a name for the DomU host and select the LVM volume group to be … Read More »
ever wondered where TSM stores its passwords? Documentation and lots of websites are talking about the file TSM.PWD, but where is it? VoilĂ : /etc/adsm/TSM.PWD
just to remember how to test if a certain directory and its files are included in the backup using the TSM commandline interface: ./dsmc preview backup -console /path/to/dir/ delete one or more files from your backup (NOTE: the quotes in … Read More »