Installing an rpm on Debian

My days of supporting Debian are numbered.  That isn’t a complaint, it will actually be nice to support one platform soon.  Until then I thought I’d share a little. I needed to install oci8 to support a PHP application.  In doing this I ran into the following two problems, here are the solutions that worked […]

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UCARP and Squeeze

IP fault tolerance on Debian Squeeze couldn’t be easier than with UCARP!: Install UCARP on all nodes: apt-get install ucarp Edit /etc/network/interfaces on all nodes, replacing <CLUSTER IP> and <PASSWORD> as appropriate: iface eth0 inet static … ucarp-vid 3 ucarp-vip <CLUSTER IP> ucarp-password <PASSWORD> ucarp-xparam -n iface eth0:ucarp inet static address <CLUSTER IP> netmask 255.255.255.255 […] Continue reading

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