28 February, 2021
I love Putty , its my go-to ssh client emulator on Windows, recently I got this problem that it would not accept my keyboard’s numeric keypad. I have a pretty cheap remote keyboard, but it works nicely so why is Putty pestering me ? Turns out Putty has a special Application Keypad mode, in which the […]
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So scrubbing ZFS: Giving ZFS a moment to sit down and think about its behavior. It should happen now and again, but if everything is going smooth sailing we tend to forget to do this; With the ever increasing amount of ZFS servers around, it tends to be a hassle, so this is a perfect […]
02 February, 2021
A quick howto install automatic updates on Centos 8 using the new dnf command; Install : dnf install dnf-automatic -y Config : nano /etc/dnf/automatic.conf from apply_updates = no to apply_updates = yes Add to systemd : systemctl enable –now dnf-automatic.timer Check / verify : $ cat /etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/dnf-automatic.timer $ systemctl list-timers dnf-* | grep automatic
07 December, 2020
Greeted with this error while trying to upgrade a Centos 6 machine? [[email protected] root]# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Setting up Update Process Determining fastest mirrors YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file. Eg. Invalid release/repo/arch combination/ removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: /var/cache/yum/x86_64/6/base/mirrorlist.txt Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl […]
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