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Dell PowerEdge 1750 Wake On LAN on Gentoo/Funtoo Linux

May 24, 2012 · BCM5704 dell poweredge Linux poweredge 1750 tg3 wake on lan wol

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” …

Upgrading Dell ESM firmware on an unsupported OS

May 20, 2012 · bios upgrade dell poweredge esm upgrade Linux poweredge 1750

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 …

file not recognized: File truncated

May 11, 2012 · compile error Gentoo pulseaudio

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:

Printing to Google Cloud Print using CUPS

Oct 15, 2011 · cloud cups Gentoo Linux mac printing

I previously blogged about allowing printing to local printers via Google Cloud Print on Gentoo , and recently I have been looking at the opposite of this – printing to Google Cloud Print from Linux.

error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘…’ before ‘G_CONST_RETURN’

Sep 30, 2011 · compile Gentoo glib Linux pango

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:

Converting a VirtualBox VM to an EC2 AMI

Sep 24, 2011 · amazon ec2 Linux virtualbox

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 .

GlusterFS 3.2 on Gentoo

Sep 22, 2011 · cloud Gentoo GlusterFS Linux

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 …

configure: error: keyutils.h header not found.

Sep 1, 2011 · compile Gentoo Linux nfs-utils

Just upgraded net-fs/nfs-utils to nfs-utils-1.2.3-r1 on my Gentoo machine, and came across this error:

Making all network traffic for a Linux user use a specific network interface

Aug 28, 2011 · iptables Linux routing vpn

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 …

Adding a hostname to Logrotate email subjects

Jul 31, 2011 · Gentoo Linux logrotate

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 …