Category Archives: Unix
Obtaining ethernet interface statistics under linux
The power surges and power outages hitting titahi bay in the last week adversely affected my main desktops ethernet card, all network connectivity died and th ethernet port status light became red instead of green. Swapped out the network switch … Continue reading
An update on my conversion from Fedora30 to CentOS7; Bugzilla
As mentioned in my earlier post on
An alternative to git, fossil a quick review
First a disclaimer, after reviewing fossil I will be remaining with git as my source control system. From a command line perspective it provides no benefits to me over git and while it can sync changes made in fossil to … Continue reading
Using “screen” on Linux
The screen utility is available on most Linux systems, including Fedora, CentOS and RedHat. The history of screen is that it was an essential tool in the old days of dial-up access to servers, terminal sessions running under screen could … Continue reading
Converting a Fedora30 webserver to CentOS7
There are two supported versions of CentOS in the wild now. Note that I exclude CentOS6 as that is pretty much end of support now. So we have only versions 7 and 8 to play with. Version 7 is EOL … Continue reading
qemu-img shipped with fedora corrupts qcow2 disk images
Up to and including F38 there were no problems with using qemu-img to compress disk images. On both F29 and F30 using qemu-img to compress a qcow2 disk image results in severe virtual disk corruption, visable as virtual machines dying … Continue reading
Free OpenSource Project Managers for small business and home users running Linux servers, I chose WebCollab
This is by no means a comprehensive post, it only covers three, two I looked at and discarded and the one I finally settled on for home use. OpenProject – discarded, I did not evaluate it First there must be … Continue reading
Obtaining CherryTree under f31
I, like many people, when Fedora no longer included the essential Desktop note taking app BasketNotes in its repositories migrated to the CherryTree application which was functionally compatible with BasketNotes and could import the BasketNotes data files, so no data … Continue reading
How to fsck a Linux system at boot time
The old method of creating a file with “touch /forcefsck” should still work on modern systems even though it is a hangover from the old sysvinit days, however it obviously relies on the root partition being mountable in order to … Continue reading
Fedora31 released, buggy as always
In the upgrade from f29 to f30 I lost ownCloud, which is not supported with the version of php shipped with f30. While a pain I could live with that. However in the upgrade from f30 to f31, while it … Continue reading