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SElinux SSH Pubkey Bug

Linux CentOS 6

(14 February 2013) Problem CentOS 6 is not accepting pubkey login attempts. Solution SElinux has ...

Updated 2 days ago by david

Remove Host ID

Linux CentOS 6

(2014-06-26) Problem Host-ID has changed and ssh is complaining about it. Solution Shell alias: #...

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winbind

Linux CentOS 6

(2016-09-14) Configuring Winbind On A Fresh CentOS 6 Installation With this example, AD users in ...

Updated 2 days ago by david

Samba full_audit

Linux CentOS 6

(2016-11-07) Problem I'd like to log activity that my samba server is doing. Solution CentOS 6 Sa...

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Revert To eth Device Names

Linux CentOS 6

(2014-05-05) Problem: I have a piece of software that expects my first ethernet device to be call...

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nfs v4: Nobody Ownership

Linux CentOS 6

(21 January 2013) Problem When I look at the files exported from my CentOS 6 server, everything's...

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netdisco-1.1-1.el6.noarch

Linux CentOS 6

(2013-05-29) How I Got NetDisco netdisco-1.1-1.el6.noarch Running On CentOS 6 From epel-testing: ...

Updated 2 days ago by david

mod_fastcgi

Linux CentOS 6

(2016-02-24) Solution Fastcgi is available through RPMforge. To add the module: Install RPMforg...

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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...

Updated 2 days ago by david

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 ...

Updated 3 weeks ago by david

Calculating 95th Percentile

War Stories

(2018-04-05) TL/DR: If you want something done right, you have to check the math and be willing t...

Updated 3 weeks ago by david

Label Maker

War Stories

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

Updated 3 weeks ago by david

Too Clever For My Own Good

War Stories

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

Updated 3 weeks ago by david