A friend asked me for a quick primer on how to set up a windows accessible share under RHEL 5, so I thought I would include it here for the benefit of anyone interested. sudo yum -y install samba sudo vim /etc/samba/smb.conf replace the file with something like so: [global] workgroup = SOMEWORKGROUPNAME server string […]
This is somewhat of a reprisal of some thoughts I shared on a recent episode of the LinuxLink TechShow. I have been asked many times about being a Linux admin. After a few years of walking the walk and being in on a lot of interviews, I have compiled a few mental notes and thought […]
Nope, I am not talking about the curious little Madagascan primate, I am talking about the one from System 76! It has been a while since I have done a review, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been working one up 🙂 At this past years Ohio Linux Fest I got to rub elbows with […]
I have this ISCSI volume mounted on a RHEL 5 system that is running out of space. How do you grow your mounted iscsi volume? Good question! * Unmount the volume. In this case it was /dev/sdb1 for me. umount /dev/sdb1 * Grow the volume size on your san/nas (however your san/nas does this). In […]
As many of you know, RedHat released RHEL 6 recently. I just finally got a chance to install the production version and thought I would share some of my immediate notes: RHEL 6 Installation Notes: (text/net install) No boot.iso available. Must use the ENTIRE installation DVD to boot, even for a network install. Press tab […]
You know, there are just some things you do not need first thing on a Monday morning. This was one of them… I came and and started reviewing my reports and was looking at an access report, which is basically a “last | grep $TheDateIWant” from over the weekend. I keep a pretty tight ship […]
I had the opportunity to check out some encrypted filesystem stuffs recently. The one that really stood out as easy to install. manage and use, for me, was EncFs. Now this post is mostly for posterity, but I wanted to share that, unless you are trying to get it running on RHEL, it’s pretty easy […]
It has certainly been a while since I last posted, so I thought I would find something either interesting or funny to get things going here again. This happens to be funny (I think). I came across this tidbit of information I wrote at work some time ago and thought I would share. Retired Server […]
i just love cssh. This is the way updates should be run.
I don’t know why, but I have always been fascinated by what people have on their desktops and how they have them configured. Well, today I ran into a link to a site I hadn’t visited in a long time, and that is Unixporn. No, it’s not porn, it’s a bunch of people sharing how […]