Category Archives: Linux

IPv6 and Shartak

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Simon

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been trying to figure out IPv6. Having worked through some of the IPv6 certification at http://ipv6.he.net/ I now have an IPv6 enabled web server and mail server as well as IPv6 connectivity at … Continue reading →

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ip6tables and CentOS 5.6

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Simon

Having just recently obtained an IPv6 address for my server, I figured it would be a good idea to setup a firewall on the IPv6 address. Although most services are bound to the main IPv4 address only, it doesn’t hurt … Continue reading →

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Compiling on a 64 bit Linux

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Simon

I’m currently in the process of upgrading my old server to a nice new 64 bit CentOS 5 install and came across a few issues rebuilding some of the packages. In general I try not to use customised versions of … Continue reading →

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Upgrading CentOS4 to CentOS5 – rpm error

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Simon

After a recent upgrade of a server from CentOS 4.4 to 5.1 using yum, I ran into a bit of a problem with rpm. Pretty much any rpm command would result in the following error: rpmdb: Program version 4.3 doesn’t … Continue reading →

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SMF and the case of the missing pound signs

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Simon

I’ve been helping a friend setup a new forum using Simple Machines Forum (SMF) and even though it worked fine on a previous installation I’d done, the pound signs (UK currency, not a #) just wouldn’t show up as anything … Continue reading →

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yum reports bad marshal data

Posted on October 28, 2007 by Simon

I’ve been trying to check for updates on one of my CentOS machines using yum and got the following error. root:~# yum upgrade Loading “installonlyn” plugin Options Error: bad marshal data

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Using vmware server console on Mac OSX

Posted on August 5, 2007 by Simon

Just recently I’ve been experimenting with VMWare Server on a Linux host and although it’s easy enough to use the console to manage it from a Windows PC, I normally only have my aging PowerBook to hand. Since there’s no … Continue reading →

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MySQL bug (followup)

Posted on October 25, 2005 by Simon

As a followup to my previous MySQL bug post, I tried PostgreSQL and didn’t like it all that much. I found there was too much of a learning curve for someone who’s only really used MySQL to any great extent. … Continue reading →

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MySQL bug

Posted on October 17, 2005 by Simon

It seems that in gaining over 100,000 players, Kevan’s Urban Dead game has managed to find a bug in MySQL that causes corruption of indexes. Unfortunately no-one at MySQL AB is able to replicate the bug so it can’t be … Continue reading →

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iChat AV through Linux NAT

Posted on September 14, 2005 by Simon

This assumes the following conditions: * the Linux gateway is forwards all outgoing traffic after rewriting the source address as the external IP (i.e NAT) * the incoming policy is to drop all packets unless they’re related to an existing … Continue reading →

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