Notes and more
2016-04-25
With the release of Ubuntu 16.04 it was time to do some maintenance on my home ESXi server. This server is a small variation of the Baby Dragon II and is so low maintenance that I even forgot what version of ESXi it was running. But, I did remember that you could actually download the Vsphere client… » read more
2013-06-27
Pureftp is a simple and secure ftp server that supports virtual users that can be chrooted. That was I was looking for when I needed to provide some external access to my home server. However, as often, on Ubuntu things work a bit different then on other platforms and the documentation I found was only… » read more
2013-04-19
While I was evaluating Gerrit 2.6 I ended up installing the building the latest snapshot version (2.7RC) myself. All was fine until I was about to setup Jenkins to verify my commits. I was surprised to find the label “Verified” missing from the reviews. After some googling I found that in version 2.7 this has… » read more
2013-04-16
I was trying to install Openindiana using the Supermico AOC S2308L-L8i HBA but I was unable to get Openindiana to recognize the card. At this point I decided to cross flash the card to the LSI SAS 9207-8i firmware that uses the same controller. As a back up I downloaded the original Supermicro firmware from… » read more
2013-02-28
I recently migrated my tomcat7 server to a new esxi server and had the following issue: Caused by: java.lang.Error: Probable fatal error:No fonts found. There are a few explanations found on the web: Tomcat is running headless. Add this -Djava.awt.headless to /etc/init.d/tomcat7. Checked, was there already so this is not the cause. Add missing fonts:… » read more
2013-02-25
These are some quick notes on how to setup a subversion mirror on ubuntu 12.04 First install apache2, subversion and the binding create dir /etc/apache2/ssl and copy you ssl files to this folder. Update /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl or create a new site. Make these changes to the site config. Enable ssl module, the ssl site and then… » read more
2012-12-05
I am running a small Ubuntu server that I have just given 8GB of virtual HD space. I thought that would be enough. However, as I was trying to transfer some data to it I ran out of space. This left me wondering what happened. I went to search where the data was stored and… » read more
2012-11-23
I recently upgrade an Ubuntu server from 10.04 to 12.04 and I encountered this error when trying to mount a cifs folder on a Windows 7 machine. mount error(12): Cannot allocate memory Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) I suspected it was related to the recent upgrade but it turns out that the… » read more
2012-11-22
This site runs on a Ubuntu 12.04 LAMP server behind another Ubuntu Apache proxy using a virtual host. When I tried to set up the permalinks it didn’t work straight away. The .htaccess file was correct and mod_rewrite was enabled. It was the virtual host that had some issue. The website has been configured under… » read more
2012-11-21
I love cookies
2012-11-21
When I started what I thought would be a simple update of a few of my Ubuntu server virtual machines I didn’t know how much trouble the mirrors would give me. For a start, the sg. mirror failed to load completely. Then I found some info about ec2 mirrors, but they gave me Hash Sum… » read more
2012-11-21
After my previous successful and speedy upgrade I thought I would continue to the 12.04 precise. However, I found myself running out of space of the /boot drive. That left me wondering why I made it this small but I think it is really a default setup. This is the message I saw when performing… » read more
2012-11-21
After my previous problem trying to update my Ubuntu server running 10.04 I tried to do a release upgrade. Before I was able to do this I had to change the sources.list again, this time I used the mirror schema as recommended here. Old: deb http://ap-southeast-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid main restricted deb-src http://ap-southeast-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid main restricted New:… » read more
2012-11-21
I just notice that when trying to update some of the Ubuntu server I have running that they can not find the archives. This is the error I get: Err http://sg.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg Could not connect to sg.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (111.90.255.252). – connect (111: Connection refused) I found some info about archives being hosted on the Amazon… » read more