My Gixxer

2012-12-27 stintel  1 minute read

Might be a bit late to blog something about a bike I bought more than a year ago, but they always say "better late than never", so here goes ... Early 2011, I had an accident with the CBR. The costs to fix it were too high, so it was declared a total loss :-(

How to really flush the various nscd caches

2012-05-10 stintel  1 minute read

Since I keep finding posts that tell you to restart nscd to flush its caches, I'll tell you how to really do it. The nscd caches are saved to disk, On my Fedora system, they are located in /var/db/nscd:

cron.daily on SLES

2010-08-19 stintel  1 minute read

Have you ever noticed that if you put cron jobs in /etc/cron.daily on a SLES machine, they seem to run at random times? I noticed it a few times, and I find it to be really annoying. Say, I rebooted a machine yesterday around 14:00, and today at 14:15, the machine starts rebuilding the man db, backing up the rpm db, cleaning /tmp, rotating logs, etc. Huh?! Looks like a bad idea to do such things when the system is currently in use by multiple people. Imagine that you put a database backup in there, and that backup locks your database...

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