I hate building packages, but it’s a necessary part of the job sometimes. I have loved checkinstall for years, which basically replaces “make install” with something more like “make an rpm package for me”. But of course, when you have a simple tarball, and there’s no make install step to replace, then what ? One...
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1 – I’m glad that tcpdump has been the standard for capturing network traffic, cause I’ve learned a lot over the past 12 years using it. 2 – tcpdump tools suck. But I’ve been using pktstat recently, and it’s pretty damn good. ‘top’ for network, without all that stuff that ntop comes with....
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when you see this: (loaded box, lots of network, 2.6.9.x kernel, etc.) Dec 21 04:05:58 hostname kernel: ————[ cut here ]———— Dec 21 04:05:58 hostname kernel: kernel BUG at net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:927! Dec 21 04:05:58 hostname kernel: invalid operand: 0000 [#1] Dec 21 04:05:58 hostname kernel: SMP do this: Add to sysctl.conf: net.ipv4.tcp_retrans_collapse = 0...
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Alright, it’s not the most original or groundbreaking blog theme ever, but here it is, let’s see if I can’t try to post something once a day....
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