gem cannot access rubygems.org

api.rubygems.org is currently experiencing issues with IPv6 setup: this hostname has 4 IPv6 addresses, but responds on neither of them. Neither to ping, nor to TCP connection attempts. When you are running gem, your gem tries IPv6 addresses first and times out on them, not having time to even try IPv4 addresses. The solution is … Read more

In Docker image names what is the difference between Alpine, Jessie, Stretch, and Buster?

In docker-Context here are the important informations you need. Alpine Url: https://alpinelinux.org/ Imagename: alpine Shorty: Its very small. Packagemanger: apk Shells: /bin/sh Size: Few MBs – current tag needs 2.7MB Jessie aka Debian 8 Url: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianJessie Imagename: debian:jessie Shorty: No LTS anymore Packagemanager: apt Shells: /bin/bash Size: ~50mb Stretch aka Debian 9 Url: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch Imagename: … Read more

systemd’s journalctl: how to filter by message?

Currently, journalctl does not support patterns or wildcards in field matches. grep is your best option. I had the same problem, and I think that journalctl only searches for an exact match for VALUE when NAME=VALUE is passed as arguments. My investigations: man page From journalctl(1) The pattern is not mentioned in the description of … Read more

Debian jessie nginx with openssl 1.0.2 to use ALPN rather than NPN

Update 2016/08/08: nginx in jessie-backports (version 1.9.10-1~bpo8+3 was built against openssl >= 1.0.2~. Getting ALPN working now if running jessie just requires the packages out of jessie-backports, no need anymore to pull packages out of stretch. — Original answer: Well, here goes my answer, according to the comments: In my opinion, there aren’t that many … Read more

Supervisor sock file missing

This happens to me when the physical machine reboots. My machines run Ubuntu, ranging from 12.04 to 16.04. I resolve it by restarting supervisor as a service. sudo service supervisor stop sudo service supervisor start (This somehow works a lot better than simply using ‘restart’) Obviously this is not an ideal fix if you depend … Read more