As part of my work to uniformize my server setup around systemd, I decided to make nginx log everything with journald. By default, it logs accesses and errors in log files under /var/log/nginx. I already had one log file per vhost.

To do the change, I changed my …

Podman is an alternative to Docker and Docker compose. It uses the same CLI interface than Docker and uses the same standardized image format. So you can use an image built with Docker with it or build an image and then use it with Docker. Its podman-compose command is compatible …

After using anacron for years to run a backup script regularly, I decided to have a look at systemd timers. Overall, anacron worked fine: I could run tasks as my user and it would start tasks if they missed a run. But, I was still frustrated with how it worked …

You can run scripts (written in Python or any other language) directly on a server if the proper interpreter is installed. I recently used it to run a Python script over several servers without the need to copy the relevant script on the server. It all relies on the following …

This article is a follow up to Installing openSUSE next to Fedora with BTRFS where I detailed how I switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed. In this article, now that I have been using Tumbleweed for about 2 months and a half, I'll give some feedback on my experience.

The issues I …

Update: My feedback article is now available.

I wanted to install openSUSE Tumbleweed (the rolling release version of openSUSE) on one of my computers to see how it looked outside a VM (and thus to try to use it daily). I am thinking about switching to this distribution to avoid …

This will, for instance, allow you to redirect all matching domains to a certain server: dnsmasq will intercept the DNS query and return the ip you specified.

To do this, edit NetworkManager configuration in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and add in the main section dns=dnsmasq:

[main]
dns=dnsmasq

You …

Today I am going to explain how you can run multiple docker daemons on the same host. This can be useful if you want several users to use docker and want each of them to be isolated from one another (ie don't see images, containers, … of other users). The solution …