2013-02-25 | 0 comments
I’m not sure why it had never occurred to me before this morning but it’s trivial to umount just NFS mounted filesystems by combing umount‘s -t and -a flags. This is particularly useful for fixing hung NFS mounts. Attempt to … Continue reading
2013-01-24 | 0 comments
It appears that the pip provider for the package type on RHEL6 / $::osfamily = redhat seems to think that the pip utility (provided by the python-pip rpm) should be, and logically it would be, named pip. It’s actually installed … Continue reading
2012-08-09 | 0 comments
After a very frustrating hour of trying to figure out why pwauth called from the Apache module mod_auth_external was failing for some user accounts but not others, I finally discovered that the source code has a default mimum UID of … Continue reading
2012-07-26 | 2 Comments
The sas_snmp-3.17-1118.i386 package as provided by LSI in the Megaraid storage manager package is buggy and fails to uninstall. This even blocks upgrades to newer versions of this package. Unfortunately, I have this package installed on a lot of systems … Continue reading
2012-05-16 | 3 Comments
I have a test host that is constantly generating EDAC errors after an upgrade to Scientific Linux 6.2. It’s possible that these are real errors but it’s also possible that it’s a problem with the motherboard hardware and/or BIOS. It’s … Continue reading