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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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
Again, some things have changed since 11.10. The following has been tested on a fresh Ubuntu “server” installation, 15.04. The goal of these instructions is to use packages provided by the Linux distribution wherever possible, and to install the rest … Read More »