A technical blog about HCL Connections, HCL Domino and other stuff
That CentOS 7 would go end-of-life at the end of last month, shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone any more, although many CentOS 7 servers are still around. That CentOS Stream 8 went end-of-life in May 2024 did come as a surprise to me.
Continue readingBoth my own article about installing SNMP for Domino and HCL’s documentation on the subject have become outdated. Time for a new article on how to install SNMP for Domino
Continue readingIt’s not difficult to make your site available over IPv6, but IPv6 does work differently from IPv4. This article describes what I did to make my site available over IPv6.
Continue readingA small tip that can make troubleshooting in Domino a lot easier. Domino thread IDs contain the PID of the Domino process!
Continue readingPodman 4 includes some major changes to the networking stack (the responsible service is called Netavark and aardvark for dns resolution). These changes are incorporated into podman-compose, but this comes with a major caveat, which I cover in this post.
Continue readingYour Domino server could be victim to brute force attacks to guess user’s passwords and subsequently use your Domino server a spam gateway. Fail2ban is a elegant way to stop these brute force attacks. If you use Domino containers, you might have to do some extra configuration
Continue readingEvery now and then I run into a handy little tool which makes life on the command line just a bit easier. This is one of them: bat
Continue readingAs a next step we’ll import the components of the Component pack into a Docker registry. If you have an
Continue readingIncreasing your file systems in Linux is not hard, but I couldn’t find a concise guide applicable to the general situation for a Domino server. So I created one
Continue readingAs companies like Red Hat are starting to abandon Docker as the container platform, daemon etc. of choice, I decided it was time to take a look at podman, the supposedly “drop-in replacement” of Docker in RHEL. This wasn’t an easy ride. This article tells about my first steps of replacing Docker as my container platform with Podman for the containers I’m running privately (including this blog)
Continue readingThis is a collection of things I encountered during my work and were interesting enough to write down. Both for myself and for others. Topics include HCL Connections, HCL Domino, Linux, SQL etc.
