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I ran into this issue while trying to install wine-devel on my Mid 2012 MacBook
Pro running El Capitan and MacPorts 2.3.4. As the install progressed, here is the
error I got:
Error: org.macports.build for port glib2 returned: command execution failed
Please see the log file …Posted on in System Administration
It is well-documented that I am a heavy Google user. I use Gmail and Google Docs for just about everything. Additionally, I have used an Android phone since I got the HTC Dream (AKA T-Mobile G1) when it first came out.
However, I have been using OS X full-time since …
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Out of the box, Magento has four methods available for storing session data: filesystem, database, memcached, and tmpfs. The default method is to store session information in the filesystem. I believe that storing sessions in Redis is actually superior to all of the aforementioned methods. Each of the four default …
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I recently ran into an issue on a Wordpress site running behind an nginx web
server. The site was frequently being attacked by a botnet hitting /xmlrpc.php
so rapidly, it would eventually force the FastCGI processes behind nginx to
consume all available CPU. Naturally, this would cause all legitimate …
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Great!
Once again, Apple has made a change in how DNS is handled in Mac OS X. Originally,
Yosemite (10.10) had replaced mDNSResponder with discoveryd. This meant that
all of those who had made a change to force mDNSResponder to always append
search domains to DNS lookups had to …
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If you have a directory that you want to keep clean, tmpreaper is a great way
to remove files based on how old they are. The other day, I had a directory that
looked like this:
x@x:~/dump$ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 x x 212268169 Mar 15 01:02 …Posted on in System Administration
We run several (read: hundreds) of servers that are still running Debian 6 (Squeeze).
A few months ago, we started seeing the following errors coming from the daily
apt cronjob: "WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!" When
running apt-get update the following errors dump out:
$ apt-get update
W: GPG …Posted on in System Administration
It seems
this problem
has resurfaced again with the new version of Mac OS X. More specifically, this
problem seems to affect appending search domains when the hostname contains a
dot. In Yosemite (10.10), mDNSResponder has been replaced with discoveryd.
Fortunately, all we need to do here is add …
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Every time I restart my OS X Mountain Lion (10.9) laptop, it stops using the DNS search domains I've added via the Network preferences pane. I have found that restarting mDNSResponder fixes this issue. There are two ways to do this.
The first is a simple restart by sending …
