Running headless LM-Studio on Linux
Running LM-Studio without display on Linux
bash | Disk Storage | Linux
Preventing AutoFS from slowing down the system
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 –…
Mitigating Docker Build Issues on Older glibc Hosts
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…
SSH Client improvements
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…
Oracle Linux 8 RPM installation broken
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:…
Replace Old NTP Commands With “chronyc” on a Modern Linux
With the migration of Enterprise Linux to ‘chronyd’ ntp clock toolset, some of the more common commands were deprecated, and do not exist anymore. In this article I will go over the most common uses I have in the context of NTP, and how to address them using ‘chronyc’ command line. Perform ‘ntpdate’ command A…