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Dan Langille ☛ How to recover when booting to multiple zroots?
On Nov 28, I rebooted r730-01 after an update, and it didn’t come back. At all. I had inserted 2x 4TB SSDS a few days earlier. It seems they contained remnants of a zroot. The host was trying to boot from them. I couldn’t get the host to boot from the real zroot. It frustrated me. I gave up and went to sleep later.
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LinuxConfig ☛ ntpdate Command not Found: Solution
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Peter 'CzP' Czanik ☛ How to test the syslog-ng Kafka source by building the package yourself?
A long-waited feature for syslog-ng, the Kafka source, is getting ready soon. The development is still in progress, but you can already try it, and it is worth the effort. How? Using the very same tool the syslog-ng testing and release process relies on.
From this blog you can learn how to download and patch syslog-ng git sources and build packages for popular RPM and DEB GNU/Linux distributions. Once you have installable packages, comes the fun part: getting the Kafka source working.
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XDA ☛ 5 Linux networking commands everyone should know
From containers and VPNs to VLANs and firewalls, Linux networking has become the backbone of modern home labs and servers. But no matter how advanced the setup, the same core commands keep showing up when something breaks. These are the tools you’ll end up using the most, and the ones worth committing to muscle memory.