Category Archives: HOWTO’s

Arch Linux: installation, troubleshooting and playing EVE Online
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4 March 2019

After the successful installation of WoT on my new Arch Linux setup (see the World of Tanks: installing and running on Arch Linux post) I decided to “achieve the next milestone” – install EVE Online. On a Google search by the “EVE Online Linux” request, I found the wiki.eveuniversity.org guide and tried to use it… Read More »

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Arch Linux: OpenVPN – resolv.conf is not updated
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2 March 2019

On an Arch Linux setup – local resolv.conf not updated after connection to OpenVPN AS. As far as I know – the problem is specific to Arch Linux and its “child’s” like Manjaro Linux installations. Local openvpn installed via pacman – see the OpenVPN: OpenVPN Access Server set up and AWS VPC peering configuration post for… Read More »

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Linux: systemd-unit files edit, restart on failure and email notifications
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1 March 2019

We have a RabbitMQ service which sometimes can go down. So need to: restart it if is exited with the failure send an email notification Let’s do it via RabbitMQ’s systemd service (though there are various options, e.g. using the monit, check the Monit: мониторинг и перезапуск NGINX post). Will use two options here: RestartSec=: delay… Read More »

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OpenVPN: SSL and hostname configuration
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26 February 2019

We already have our OpenVPN AS running in Production, so a few more posts about last steps in its configuration. For now – need to configure SSL to avoid alerts in clients browsers. OpenVPN AS documentation for SSL setup – here>>>. Let’s Encrypt Install Let’s Encrypt client: [simterm] root@openvpnas2:~# git clone https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt /opt/letsencrypt [/simterm] Open… Read More »

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World of Tanks: installing and running on Arch Linux
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25 February 2019

Didn’t think it will work, but it did 🙂 Used guide of the 2017 year from here>>>, and after everything was done – found another one here>>>. Not sure if it will work on the nouveau drivers – I did with nvidia. Enable the Multilib repo. Update packages: [simterm] [setevoy@setevoy-arch-pc ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu [/simterm]… Read More »

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Arch Linux: installing with EFI and Windows dual-boot
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24 February 2019

The goal is to set up a new Arch Linux and Windows (just for some games) on my new PC and use dual-boot using GRUB. Disks Currently disks layout is next: [simterm] [root@archiso ~]# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT loop0 7:0 0 476.7M 1 loop /run/archiso/sfs/airootfs sda 8:0 0 223.6G 0 disk… Read More »

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