SysAdmin

Recently I had some disk issues on my server and unfortunately it went to load average above 20 (which was killing for this machine). It forced me to power down the machine completely and to investigate it further. (It turned out that issue was with space on /home partition – sharing

I’m using my stationary PC for building packages, so most of the time I’m accessing this server via SSH. Almost everything is working fine, except pinentry (curses) which isn’t asking for a password during repository signing. Fortunately, reprepro has option that you can pass in command line

Recently I wrote about extending existing VG in LVM by adding new external hard disk on USB. Basically I covered the topic fully, although today during installation of new kernel (2.6.39 from squeeze-backports) I encounter some errors. It took my awhile while I found out, that the most

Recently my brother gave me his old laptop (some Sony Vaio) and I decided, that I will make mini-shell-server from it. It actually works great this way, but I encounter  small obstacle – it has only 80G hard disk. It’s hard to extend this  disk inside, so the more straight

This is crash howto, so few important notes are needed: * You may and you probably will loose your data, so backup is highly recommended. * I’m assuming you have all needed tools to provide actions described below. * I’m also assuming, that you have basic knowledge of Linux command line

If you want to check if there’s and RFP or ITP bug reported on https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp, you may simply install devscripts and type: wnpp-check $name