I have spent many years in IT starting as a programmer in C and Basic then moving into general, data centre and infrastructure management. I am now back writing software mostly in bash and C. These are usually in the form of AutoTools projects which are often then packaged for various Linux distributions such as Debian, Raspbian, Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE.
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May 12, 2024 · 1 min read · During apt-get update fatal errors such as size mismatch may occur. These errors can often be resolved by reloading the index files. To do this we need to delete the current index files and then reload them:- sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*_* sudo apt-g...
Join discussionJul 2, 2023 · 4 min read · dnsmasq log files are extremely useful but the package itself does not offer any way of managing them. So using the dnsmasq-logrotate package outlined here will ensure that logs are created and then managed by the standard distro logrotate utility. A...
Join discussionJun 18, 2023 · 2 min read · There is nothing clever about this script, it is really just a helper script which saves typing. The APT system used by Debian and it’s derivatives (Ubuntu, Raspbian, etc.) mainly revolves around updating the package lists and upgrading installed pac...
Join discussionJun 15, 2023 · 2 min read · It is common to have Suspend / Hibernate problems, especially on VM Guests which have their own mechanisms. If these features do not work it is somewhat risky to leave the menu options in place, especially given their close proximity to functions in ...
Join discussionJun 14, 2023 · 3 min read · Caveats This describes a setup suitable for an internally facing server, not a publicly visible one, thus no attention is paid to security. This has been implemented on Debian bullseye but it should be similar on other distros / releases. Why bother?...
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