Another post that I’m basically making for my future self. I have a local network that is a common network, and if I VPN into it and the network I’m at (hotel, friends house, etc) could be the same network range – we have a problem. I was going to renumber my entire LAN, but… Continue reading Static Route for Windows 11 and VPN
A while back, I had a gentoo server reboot, and it failed to boot relating to not finding libreadline: Run /sbin/init as init process INIT: version 3.09 booting /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I was assuming it was a disk failure or partition… Continue reading initramfs with dracut
I have a couple of servers that require llvm, and to compile them is a strain. There are no bins for these, so I read that ccache is an option to help with that. Here is the procedure on how to install and configure ccache to only be used for llvm emerge -v ccache cd… Continue reading Setting up ccache for llvm package only
I’m writing this for my future self. Today I had a remote server that was down to power failure. On site a person read me the boot prompt, and I was surprised with the message ‘net.eth0 does not exist’. WTF? After they logged in, they did an ifconfig -a and told me that net.eth0 was… Continue reading net.eth0 does not exist? ifconfig shows enp4s0?
Way back, I wrote a how-to on replacing a primary drive. I had to reference this with a recent server that had a primary failure, and want to update the process. First, I followed the above how-to and ran into MAJOR issues with grub. Since that article, there has been an update to grub2, which… Continue reading Replace primary drive how-to (2021)
Dealing with a system with multiple SATA drives and having a drive failure after fsck, you’ll want to pull the appropriate drive. But how do you identify what drive is what? Use hdparm! I have 2 separate drives in this particular system. sda is the failed drive, so wanted to if there was any specific… Continue reading Identifying Hard Drives
I wanted to make this post for myself, since I always forget and need to google this. Basically, I wanted to see who the heavy traffic IPs were to a certain website on the server. I have access_logs broken out per vhosts, so typically I tail or grep these logs for a variety of reasons.… Continue reading Sort logs by IP count via sed
Using Rackspace’s Virtual Terminal (Emergency Console) I noticed that it appeared that my server was ‘hung’. After it gets to Starting Local [OK] there be nothing. No login prompt. Line breaks don’t register, etc. But I can SSH to the server, etc. It was up and not hung. I kept feeling like it was related… Continue reading No login after Local Start Up with Rackspace Virtual Terminal
I’ve been running an old gentoo-sources kernel on Rackspace for a time and it was desperate times to get it updated. In the past, it was a major pain in the butt to do this. At one point, I was able to update it via PV Grub – which involved support to configure it with… Continue reading Updating Kernel on Rackspace Cloud
I had an interesting situation where Rescue Mode at Rackspace still gave me an unresponsive image. Talking with support, they stated the rescue image was based on the current image, and that might be the cause and to use a Debian image via their API to do this. They do have a helper service/site where… Continue reading Rackspace – Rescue Server With Specified Image