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
Tag Archives: Server
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 »
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 $LOGF
sar – System Activity Report
4
Mar
HowTo: Create sar Graphs With kSar [ Identifying Linux Bottlenecks ] ksar : a sar grapher (SF.net project page) System Monitoring With sar And ksar
Creating a Xen DomU on Debian “squeeze” (6.0.6)
3
Jan
This applies to a default (=debian-packages) installation of Xen on “squeeze” using LVM for storage management. Tested with these package versions: xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64: 4.0.1-5.5 xen-tools: 4.2-1 Choose a name for the DomU host and select the LVM volume group to be … Read More »
VirtualBox as a service on windows
16
Feb
http://vboxvmservice.sourceforge.net/ DON’T run the service using the Administrator account! Steps required to run it as a “regular” user: Start “secpol.msc” as Administrator Select the “Local Policies” folder Select the “User Rights Assignment” folder Double click “Log on as a service” … Read More »
open ports on windows
13
Feb
http://www.petri.co.il/quickly_find_local_open_ports.htm
migrate from SVN to GIT
3
May
a short cheat sheet of commands I used several times to migrate SVN-repositories to GIT… preparation sudo aptitude install subversion git-svn svn co https://my.server.private/repos/my_repo cd my_repo svn log q | grep v ‘^*$’ | cut -d ‘|’ -f 2 | … Read More »
hp-snmp-agents on debian 6.0 (squeeze)
30
Mar
hp-snmp-agents error: Service snmp has to be enabled to start service hp-snmp-agents If you get an error like: Setting up hp-snmp-agents (8.5.0.1.1-2) … insserv: Service snmp has to be enabled to start service hp-snmp-agents insserv: exiting now! update-rc.d: error: insserv … Read More »
Monitoring MySQL queries
12
May
Monitor All SQL Queries in MySQL is a very nice (though short) posting about how to debug and monitor what’s going on inside your DBMS. There’s supposed to exist a similar tool for MSSQL called “Profiler”.