As a full time Senior Linux System Administrator in real life I was quite interested to get my fingers on this book for a review. After all, the job of a smart sysadmin pretty much dictates scripting away as much of your work as possible. We are a lazy bunch and we call that […]
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 […]
Probably 50% of a SysAdmin’s job revolves around information. Knowing what is going on with your systems can make all the difference. Just don’t make the mistake of thinking that the more information the better. What you really need is the *correct* information at the appropriate time and it shouldn’t be obfuscated by extra information. […]
I am moving some old backups from a suspect broken NAS to a new one (before all my power goes out from an impending storm) and ran across my backups from my original blog. Interesting side note is that I started blogging on September 17th 2003. Anyhow, while looking at that I found what is […]
I have been asked to review the “Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook” by Packt Publishing. It’s supposed to be coming in a couple days, so here’s your teaser to stay tuned! Packt Pub vs. Curmudgeonly SyaAdmin, a dead tree death match, only here at lincgeek.org/blog.