*nix is shorthand for UNIX-like.
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Read files from remote repository using nixOs
I am building a project using the nixOs package system.
I have a remote git repo containing different config files.
I want to access those files using nix, with out editing the remote repo.
The project would access the remote repo with a specific…
Mohamed Zouari
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How to install Postgis with Osm2pgsql on NixOS
When installing PostGIS on NixOS with an expression like
services.postgresql.extraPlugins = [ (pkgs.postgis.override { postgresql = pkgs.postgresql94; }).v_2_1_4 ];
How to add other extensions like Osm2pgsql to it?
frlan
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Invalid domains in DNS don't work on mac/*nix like systems
At work we use domains like abc-01, which work fine on windows. Whilst developing mobile applications we already saw that this doesn't work on both iOS and android which we fixed for a few specific domains (by setting the dns up that…
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Well supported *nix with auto update
We're going to migrate some of our applications to linode.com and I would like to install a self-updating operating system.
We have pro sysadmins on call to if the sh*t his the fan but we would like to keep maintenance to a minimum.
Our technology…
Simon
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NixOS starting a daemon process example - is the example broken?
In the python flask example application given on https://nixos.org/guides/dev-environment.html ... Isn't it just killing the daemon process whether it passes the health check or not? Maybe there's something implicit going on that I'm not…
