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Minimal Install Can't Mount NFS Homedirs

Linux CentOS 6

(2014-05-13) Problem Install with @Base and @Core, plus ypbind and autofs. But once configured, t...

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rssh

Linux CentOS 5

Jailing sftp/scp connections (1206.12) Short notes: this uses the rssh functionality from rpmforg...

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Remote X Display

Linux CentOS 5

Displaying Remote X Applications On Your Local Display ...ie, connect to a remote machine, run th...

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Process Accounting

Linux CentOS 5

(26 September 2012) Process Accounting # chkconfig psacct on; service psacct start This will cre...

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NVidia Multihead

Linux CentOS 5

Problem I am running a CentOS 5.3 x86_64 (fully updated as of today). It has a video card I canno...

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NFS File Creation Cache Problems

Linux CentOS 5

Problem If I create a file on an nfs-mounted filesystem on one machine, the file may not be immed...

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kickstart POST nfs mount

Linux CentOS 5

Mounting nfs file systems in the %POST section of a CentOS 5 kickstart mount 172.20.0.1:/home /mn...

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Building Subversion 1.85

Linux CentOS 5

(2014-01-16) Problem I want to run Subversion v1.85, client and server, on CentOS 5 (today's vict...

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A Pox On Your Freedom

War Stories

(2011-12-04) Jonathan Zittrain explains that the personal computer is dead because our computing ...

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Label Maker

War Stories

(2014-ish) What has been my best moment in IT? There have been several moments -- how about the o...

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Too Clever For My Own Good

War Stories

(2018 sometime) 15 years ago, I accidentally ran a complicated shell command that muffed a couple...

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Unclean

War Stories

Why the fuck do PC guys think that they can "clean" infected PCs? I'm old-school unix -- if there...

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Why Do Blackberry Apps Suck So Much?

War Stories

(21 September 2011) The Problem The problem with the Blackberry App (or AppStore App (or whatever...

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Why Build From Source?

War Stories

Question: Why would anyone in their right mind build and install software from source code? (orig...

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When Tools Just Work

War Stories

(12 January 2007) This is just a little story illustrating what happens when you use the best too...

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User Environment Churn

War Stories

or, It Will Happen To You Too, Kid (15 November 2011) I had to laugh the other week. Some Ubuntu ...

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The Tennents Of Buellerism

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Get along with everyone. Strive to be welcomed by all: the sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bl...

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The War On Email

War Stories

(11 January 2012) There seems to be an almost-declared war on email going these days. I have read...

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Superstitions

War Stories

(2013-08-15) 11:03:49 < xdroop> I just pulled another private /24 out of my ass for overlapping u...

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Seriously, Oracle?

War Stories

(May 6, 2010) Recent History At one of my customer sites, I have a pile of Sun X2200-M2 systems. ...

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