centos

Migrating GitLab from internal to external PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL Installation This will cover CentOS 7 and PostgreSQL 10, and GitLab 10/11 installed using Omnibus. On other systems YMMV. Find the URL for the current CentOS 7 PostgreSQL RPM,…

noobient 2018-06-25No Comments

Installing GitBucket with PostgreSQL and Tomcat on CentOS 7

Preamble When it comes to on-premises Git hosting, GitBucket is definitely my current favorite. It has monthly updates, LDAP authentication, email notifications, forks, wikis, issues, pull requests, inline commenting, public…

noobient 2018-01-18No Comments

Migrating your /home to Btrfs

There may be several reasons to switch to Btrfs, for me personally it’s because my KF2 server is eating up too much space, and Btrfs supports both compression and deduplication.…

noobient 2017-12-22No Comments

Silent SELinux denies on CentOS

You do something, and it won’t work. In this example it’s Tomcat trying to delete a file. You already wrote an SELinux module to allow reads, but now you need…

noobient 2017-11-08No Comments

Dedicated Killing Floor 2 Server on Linux

BIG FAT WARNING This tutorial is deprecated. Please use the revised guide. This one is only here for historical reference. Prelude This article will guide you through setting up a…

noobient 2017-10-09No Comments

CentOS 7 done right on Linode

Linode Account Sign up to Linode. You’ll have to top up your account with at least $5 and your account will be manually reviewed, too. To me it took around…

noobient 2017-10-05No Comments

SELinux woes with Tomcat on CentOS 7.4

Update: make sure to check out the relevant post for CentOS 7.6, too! Preamble After the SELinux Crash Course it’s time to put that knowledge to good use. Keep that…

noobient 2017-10-021