After my previous entry about my PowerEdge 1750 , I’ve been trying to get Wake-On-LAN working. On every other machine I own, it simply involves at most activating WOL in the BIOS, then running ‘ethtool -s eth0 wol g’ on boot, but the PowerEdge 1750 with the “Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet” …

I recently received a free Dell Poweredge 1750 from work ( they were having a clearout of old hardware and I grabbed it first ), and naturally the first thing I installed was Funtoo ( essentially it’s an experimental version of Gentoo ) . Installation worked fine, but the only problem I have is the server is quite …

While attempting to upgrade one of my Gentoo Linux machines to the latest version of PulseAudio ( media-sound/pulseaudio-2.0 ) today I encountered the following error: libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libprotocol-cli.soT …

After upgrading a few packages on one of my Gentoo machines, I was greeted with repeated errors like this one, whilst trying to emerge Avahi: /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pango-script.h:132: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'G_CONST_RETURN' /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pango-script.h:133: error: …

There are many ways to create a new AMI for use with Amazon EC2, the best solution is to simulate EC2 with a local Xen install, however this sometimes isn’t possible, so the next best thing is to create a VirtualBox based VM, then generate an EC2 AMI from it . Preparing the Virtual Machine The main special requirement …

I’ve been looking at cloning ( or somehow maintaining synced ) file-systems between multiple servers, and after looking at other solutions ( regular rsyncs, inotify etc ), a clustered file-system seems to be the best solution. GlusterFS looks to be a popular Open Source based solution, however there doesn’t seem to be …

Just upgraded net-fs/nfs-utils to nfs-utils-1.2.3-r1 on my Gentoo machine, and came across this error: checking for keyutils.h... no configure: error: keyutils.h header not found. !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /var/tmp/portage/net-fs/nfs-utils-1.2.4/work/nfs-utils-1.2.4/config.log * …

I’ve recently been testing out a VPN service, and normally while running the VPN, all internet traffic goes over the VPN interface. This isn’t really ideal, as I only want traffic from specific applications to use the VPN. IPTables doesn’t seem to have the option to filter specific processes, but it can filter based on …

I have logrotate running on my virtual servers ( both local and Amazon EC2 based ) and configured to send myself all log files by email daily. They are all running virtually the same configuration, and this makes it difficult to work out which log file is tied to which machine. The simplest way to fix this, is to …