20 February, 2020
Increasing allowed nproc in Centos 7
The nproc are the number of proces units a user can start; This is managed in the file : /etc/security/limits.confbut can be overwritten in /etc/security/limits.d/ normally in /etc/security/limits.d/20-nproc.conf which has priority over the limits.conf file. To check how many nproc’s you are using, you need to include the amount of threads, this can be seen […]
Read More17 February, 2020
bare minimum samba share on Centos 8
This is a quick guide on how I got a simple samba (4.10.x) share to work on Centos 8.1.1911 (Core) and Windows 10 Enterprise (1903). By god this should not be so hard, but it f*cking is. Generic setup Install samba : yum install samba edit /etc/samba/smb.conf change the workgroup, netbios name and security, add […]
12 February, 2020
Proxmox upgrading from 5.4.* -> 6.1-7
It’s the first time I’m upgrading Proxmox’s; There is luckily good documentation on the upgrade path; So this is only a small summary of how I did the upgrade of a few standalone proxmox machines; (big note : this is for non cluster proxmox) First I upgrade everything to the latest : apt-get update && apt-get […]
11 February, 2020
create ntfs partition on Centos
I could already read ntfs file systems but creating one seems to require more packages; I was surprised as I installed ntfs-3g but still could no run : [[email protected] ~]# mkfs -t ntfs /dev/sda1 mkfs.ntfs: No such file or directory The solution is a tiny other package : yum install ntfsprogs And magically : mkfs -t […]
11 February, 2020
Proxmox VE 6.1 fix update & upgrades
14 January, 2020
nothing provides libsz.so.2 Centos 8
12 December, 2019
binary : No such file or directory, 32 bit
04 December, 2019
Set IPMI to use DHCP
21 November, 2019
Disable 2FA in Proxmox 6
