CentOS

Around 3 years ago I’ve checked the age of various base images available on Docker Hub. Curiosity recently got the better of me, prompting another investigation into the current state of affairs. Since then, there have been significant changes: CentOS 8 has reached its end of life  external link , prompting a shift to CentOS 8 Stream  external link , which is also nearing its demise 🤣 OpenJDK images have been deprecated  external link and no longer receiving updates....

On Debian in default installation you have different configuration files for PHP in Apache, FPM, CLI, etc. But on CentOS you have only one php.ini for all of them. In case I have, I need to have different configuration file for scripts running in CLI mode (more memory, etc). I could run it like this: php -c /etc/php-cli.ini script.php But this a little burdensome. So I do it like this:...

When I was trying to update packages on one host I’ve stuck with yum hung on update. I run strace and see: strace -p 43734 Process 43734 attached - interrupt to quit futex(0x807c938, FUTEX_WAIT, 1, NULL <unfinished ...> Process 43734 detached It looks like yum database was corrupted, to repair this run: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm --rebuilddb yum clean all yum update Instead rm on db-files you could use gzip to have backup of these files....