Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Feeling lucky

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

and upgrading my pretty recent install of Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 Beta.

I actually installed Ubuntu since I’ve experienced major performance issues when running Java applications on my native amd64 bit Gentoo installation, which has been around for over 5 years.

Since my primary language for business development is Java and a lot of work needs to be done, I needed a quick 32bit environment and chose Ubuntu which has I must say come a long way since the 4/5 days when I last gave it a real try.

The update process is about to finish (fully automated, very neatly executed!) so I’m going to copy over the needed files to my boot partition and perform a quick reboot to see what gives.

Enabling FXP transfers from a different IP address than the source IP in vsftpd

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Since I keep forgetting, to enable fxp transfers from a different IP than the one initiating the transfer put the following in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf:

pasv_promiscuous=YES
port_promiscuous=YES

That’ll be all :-)

Installing RHEL 5 packages on CentOS 5

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Good idea is to make /etc/redhat-release
look like : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga)

Might suppress a few errors because of failed OS detection for example.