Author Archives: Simon

GlusterFS 3.2 on Gentoo

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Simon

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 … Continue reading →

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configure: error: keyutils.h header not found.

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Simon

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

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

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Simon

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 … Continue reading →

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Adding a hostname to Logrotate email subjects

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Simon

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 … Continue reading →

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The HP LaserJet P1102w Printer on Ubuntu 11.04

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Simon

After publishing my previous post on Setting up a HP LaserJet P1102w Printer on Gentoo , I’ve noticed that I seem to be getting a lot of visitors searching for how to setup the same printer under Ubuntu, so decided … Continue reading →

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