Category Archives: Gentoo

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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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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Using Apache to intercept HTTPS traffic

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Simon

Due to the increase in processing power available, the use of SSL has become more widespread. This is obviously a good thing, especially with UK ISPs spying on ( and annoyingly, replaying ) web traffic recently, however this can be … Continue reading →

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Hosting a Gentoo Layman repository on Amazon S3

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Simon

I’ve recently had to create a lot of custom Gentoo ebuilds, and distribute them out to separate machines. Luckily Gentoo has the layman system for adding experimental overlays, so we can use this to add our own custom one, hosted … Continue reading →

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Google Cloud Print on Gentoo

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Simon

Google have recently released their Google Cloud Print service . It is currently built into Google Chrome on Windows and Mac, but unfortunately it is not yet available officially for Linux. Fortunately there is an unofficial open source project on … Continue reading →

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