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reinventing the wheel again 12 Jul 2013 | 11:06 am
I knew this script looked familiar, I just wrote the same script as I wrote almost a year ago. I guess I didn't do a good job getting it on the google's, cause I couldn't find it until I started posti...
accessing files under a mount point (getting at the files that have been obscured by another filesystem mounted on top of them) 12 Jun 2013 | 03:06 am
This has come up 3 times in the last few days so I thought I'd share it. The situation is that there are files at /var/spool/mqueue that are part of the /var filesystem. But there is also another file...
Updated slides for my talks at LOPSA-EAST 5 May 2013 | 12:43 am
Overview of KVM Intro to puppet Thanks everyone who came to the talks, great conference this year. Thanks to puppetlabs for all the support. Getting better every year, looking forward to next year! ...
using augeas to add a user to the system 19 Mar 2013 | 10:18 am
The scenario is that users are controlled by sssd and you want to add a user locally for those times when your connection to your password backend goes down. Useradd won't let you do it though, cause ...
streaming dlna from fedora to a Samsung TV (mediatomb) 15 Feb 2013 | 11:13 am
I was trying to get my Samsung TV to play files from my Beefy miracle box and although it was able to connect, it would not show any files. It took a bit of hunting around but I found the following pa...
linux-kvm talk 7 Dec 2012 | 07:36 am
A talk I gave at Lopsa NJ on linux-kvm, slides in a google doc here John recorded the talk so maybe it'll be posted on lopsa's website soon... -->
skype 4.1 on RHEL6 (Springdale Linux/PUIAS) 28 Nov 2012 | 12:36 am
The latest version of skype doesn't appear to work well on RHEL6, I found the following forum http://community.skype.com/t5/Linux/Skype-for-Redhat-Enterprise-6/td-p/1... and followed the two things me...
puppet nfs export with augeas 12 Nov 2012 | 09:36 pm
I wanted to be able to define nfs shares with puppet and have puppet take care of the exports line and exportfs. I found this page, but I didn't like that there was perl code thrown in the midst. I re...
using nested acl's with exim 6 Oct 2012 | 12:15 am
I wanted to configure rate limiting on our exim server and needed to setup an ACL that I could include in multiple spots in the configuration. The keyword acl = acl_name is supported (referred to as n...
using a large floppy image with memdisk 13 Sep 2012 | 08:22 pm
I ran into a snag when trying to update the bios on my PE R210ii, the Bios update is 8MB, too large to fit on a floppy image, so I needed to make a floppy image large enough for the file. I tried incr...
