We have an AWS EC2 which suddenly rebooted. The issue is that its /var/log/messages incomplete and the latest record is about rsyslog service killed – but nothing about who killed it and why. Then I went to the journald but surprise – it stores logs only for the current boot so there was no way… Read More »
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 »
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 »
The issue happened on a fresh Arch Linux installation but the solution here can be used on any systemd-based distributive. So, during restarts system hangs for 1.5 minutes with a message like: A stop job is running for Session c1 of user setevoy (1min 30s) To check which process(es) exactly caused this you can use… Read More »
pass – a password manager for Linux/UNIX. Stores data in tree-based directories/files structure and encrypts files with a GPG-key. In Arch Linux present by default, in Debian can be installed using apt from default repositories: For macOS can be installed with Homebrew: The pass itself is just a bash-script: GPG keys management Creating GPG key… Read More »
Usually, I’m using vim almost for everything excepting big Python projects (which happen rarely last time). In such cases, I have PyCharm, which is also used for AWS CloudFormation templates with the aws-cloudformation plugin. For the Go lang programmes I have used vim with the vim-go plugin but on last weekend I tried the Atom… Read More »
Have a new Redis service which has to run alongside with one already existing During starting this new service – it fails with the Can’t open the log file: Read-only file system error, although /var/log and log file itself have correct permissions. The root cause was not very obvious so in this post –… Read More »
Upsource is a self-hosted service from JetBrains for code reviews by teams of developers which can be integrated with any IDE from JetBrains. Is a Java-based application with Apache Cassandra as a backend for storing data and indexes. Minima requirements – 8 GiB memory on a host – not surprise at all. Up to 10… Read More »
chroot() was added to the Version 7 Unix in 1979 and used for filesystem isolation. In fact, it’s the predecessor of the whole current containerization idea, just now there are namespaces and cgroups are used while earlier chroot was used to create an environment which is isolated from a host and can be used for… Read More »
Have the telegram-desktop installed via pacman on the Arch Linux. After starting – no systray’s icon present and thus can’t see new messages and even can’t exit in a normal way. This issue is not specific for the Arch Linux and happens on any Linux systems. Go to the Google and make search with “telegram linux… Read More »