(sung to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song) Oh, this is a story ’bout a man named Joe. He sent me an OSD a couple years ago. An’ just the other day he said “You really should review…” Then he boxed up and sent me a Neuros Link too… OK, OK I know, […]
On an rpm based system, say CentOS, first make sure that the rpm-build package is installed. In your user account, not as root (bad form and all) make the following directories: mkdir -p ~/rpm mkdir -p ~/rpm/BUILD mkdir -p ~/rpm/RPMS mkdir -p ~/rpm/SOURCES mkdir -p ~/rpm/SPECS mkdir -p ~/rpm/SRPMS mkdir -p ~/rpm/tmp And create an […]
Many of you know that I am strangely fascinated by what sorts of things people name their servers after. I, personally, use cryptids. I have machines named things like Sasquatch, Nessie, Yeti, Chupacabras and the like. Last night I had to do some work. One of the things I needed to take care of was […]
OK, I must be doing something wrong here, so if you are familiar with building rpms and can help me out, please do! I am trying to build an rpm which has (for the sake of discussion) a script file in it that I want to install. The first thing I did was to install […]