If your Linux box gets its IPv6 routing information via router advertisments, you may have noticed that upon enabling forwarding, it disregards those advertisments and it loses the configured gateways. The have this configuration working again, set accept_ra 2 in /etc/network/interfaces. This value is not documented in the interfaces manual, but since kernel version 2.6.37 it allows the interface to both do forwarding and accept router advertisments. Source

On some Linux distributions, running rabbitmqctl as root may fail with the following error: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Error: unable to connect to node rabbit@host: nodedown DIAGNOSTICS =========== attempted to contact: [rabbit@host] rabbit@host: * found rabbit (port 25672) * TCP connection succeeded * suggestion: hostname mismatch?

While installing Powerline on MacOS X following the documentation, there are some import problems. It turns out that running python setup.py install installs everything into /path/to/site-packages/Powerline-beta-py2.7.egg/. This folder should be named powerline instead. Symlinking the included powerline folder to site-packages/powerline seems to fix this.

There is a fork of ZSH that has a Python module. It is able to run Powerline smoothly. However, on MacOS X, it doesn’t correctly detect the Python libs upon compilation. There seems to be a similar problem for Vim with python support: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6490513/vim-failing-to-compile-with-python-on-os-x The workaround is the same. Editing the Makefile in the config directory of the Python installation fixes this. The modification is PYTHONFRAMEWORKINSTALLDIR instead of PYTHONFRAMEWORKDIR on the line beginning with LINKFORSHARED

On FreeBSD with ZFS, only NFSv4 ACLs are supported. At the time of this writing, the FreeBSD documentation regarding ACLs is a bit vague. Specifically, it doesn’t talk about inheritable attributes. The -d argument, used to define default POSIX ACLs is not supported. Instead, there are some flags one can set in order to define how ACLs are inherited. For an explanation, look in the manual for setfacl, section ACL inheritance flags.