Category Archives: UNIX/Linux

Nextcloud: running in Docker Compose on Debian with Let’s Encrypt SSL
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30 November 2019

I while ago I’d tested the Nextcloud, see the NextCloud: installing server on Debian behind NGINX with PHP-FPM and client on Arch Linux post. In general, it looks good, so it’s time to try to run in a production environment and finally migrate from Dropbox to it. Today, let’s spin up a Nextcloud instance using… Read More »

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Arch Linux: package-query: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.11
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26 October 2019

Didn’t install upgrades for a couple of weeks, today packages to be upgraded became over 100, so I run it. Upgrades on my Arch Linux are installed with a simple alias in the.bashrc: … alias osupgrade=”yaourt -Syua –noconfirm” … (seems eventually it’s time to change it to the alias osupgrade=”yay -Syua –noconfirm”) The error Usually,… Read More »

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Debian: logrotate won’t rotate logs with an “unknown group ‘syslog'” error
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9 October 2019

We have an AWS EC2 with Debian and logrotate. One day its root partition was exhausted and when I started investigating it – found, that we have a bunch of files like /var/log/syslog.N.gz. At the same time by default logrotate creates a config file to rotate syslog log files: [simterm] root@monitoring-dev:~# cat /etc/logrotate.d/syslog # Ansible… Read More »

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Redis: main configuration parameters and performance tuning overview
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10 September 2019

Currently configuring Redis server as our backend caching service and during that wrote this post with some things to pay attention at in Redis config file. Shortly enough but with links to other posts or documentation. Let’s begin with the redis-benchmark utility. Will be installed alongside with Redis service, so can be used right after… Read More »

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Redis: fork – Cannot allocate memory, Linux, virtual memory and vm.overcommit_memory
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28 August 2019

Currently, I’m configuring a Redis as a caching service for our application and during that, I faced with the question: do I need to set vm.overcommit_memory to the value 1, i.e. disable it – or not? The question is quite old for me, see The story, but only now I found time to get to… Read More »

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Debian: unattended-upgrades – automatic upgrades installation with email notifications via AWS SES
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23 May 2019

A unattended-upgrades package performs automated upgrades installation on Debian/Ubuntu systems. It’s a Python script (1500 lines) located at /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade (and /usr/bin/unattended-upgrades is a symlink to the /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade). CentsOS/RHEL analog – yum-cron. Install it: [simterm] $ sudo apt -y install unattended-upgrades [/simterm] The main config file is /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades where upgrade types, email settings etc can be… Read More »

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