08 April, 2021
Okay so while playing with older hardware I faced an issue on Centos 8 where my RAID controller was not being recognized; I found this method to be working; from ElRepo yum install https://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-8.el8.elrepo.noarch.rpm then install yum install kmod-megaraid_sas I got this “warning” during installation : Failed to add dependency on unit, unit systemd-ask-password-plymouth.service does […]
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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 […]
09 February, 2021
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
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