If you’ve ever tried to run modern versions of ssh, rsync, or other essential tools on an old Linux system, you know the pain. OpenSSL errors, OpenSSL support, or even library dependency hell. The Problem With Old Linux Systems Sometimes, you’re stuck with an old Linux system that you can’t update, and you need these…
Running LM-Studio without display on Linux
I am using autofs (or automout) to handle shares presented on an NFS server I am using. When I am not home, or when the server is inaccessible, I do not want to be delayed by autofs failure to mount. This failure could take a long while, causing Autofs delay mount. During that time –…
When running newer operating systems as Docker containers on older host systems—such as Ubuntu 20.04 or CentOS 7—a compatibility issue arises due to a new glibc call (clone3) not translating correctly to the older glibc (<=2.34) of the host system, resulting in the call being incorrectly translated, and blocked. One workaround to this issue involves…
This article is going to concentrate several SSH client related topics and optimisations I have implemented. Amongst are: SSH client modular configuration Initially, the configuration for SSH client should be present (per-user) in the user’s home directory, under .ssh/config. I believe that this configuration file is not modular enough, and when you want to add/edit/remove…
I got the following error message when attempting to upgrade RPM packages: Oracle Linux 8 introduced a bug with a package called rpm-plugin-selinux (details: rpm-plugin-selinux-4.14.3-28.0.1.el8_9) which prevents RPM packages from being installed correctly, either by dnf/yum or manually. The solution, as shown in this Oracle community forum is to downgrade the package rpm-plugin-selinux like that:…
