Quick post:
Use
strace -e trace=network
to quickly figure out where a process is connecting to.
This traps only system calls that the process makes regarding networking. Very useful to make sure that your process believes the same things about servers and ports that you do.
(Turns out the process needed to be told that 443 is not 8443)
strace, I love you
February 10th, 2007 · No Comments · general
Tags:linux·networking·strace
Using GNU Stow to manage source installs
August 7th, 2005 · 1 Comment · general
Installing packages from source used to be the only way to get software onto your Linux box. SLS was the first real Linux distribution, but I believe Slackware was the first to offer package management, with Debian to offer the first package management with dependency resolution.
Since then, source installs became a problem. Installing your own […]
