Taskomatic troubleshooting, systems always show available updates – Spacewalk 2.3 / Satellite 5.x
Lately one of my projects at work is to get a patch management solution in place for our RHEL/CentOS Linux systems. Since Red Hat’s Satellite product doesn’t manage CentOS systems, and because there is no easy method of configuring the pieces that Satellite 6 is based on, we decided to go with Spacewalk. For longer …
Running Linux commands on many servers at a time
I’ve been busy at work lately… setting up a new patch process to include implementation, migration from our old, counter-intuitive system (apt on Red Hat servers, :|), so lots of registering systems with Spacewalk has been necessary (until we finish a Puppet module that is). During our regularly scheduled patching, we have to do blocks …
New TrueAbility tests WordPress and Linux administration skills
Update (1/26/15): The final results are in, and I ended up at 23rd out of 189 challengers. Not bad, I get (another) TrueAbility Linux shirt. TrueAbility has added a new Linux challenge, Hard Pressed, that challenges IT pros’ WordPress skills. I’ve been using WordPress for a little while now on my own personal site here, …
Minor victory at work after months of boredom
It’s been a while since I’ve been happy to do nothing at work. For a short while, I didn’t mind sitting here with next to nothing to do, while upper management wrangled with their finance people over how we could ever afford to outsource our e-mail environment to Microsoft’s Office365 product. That conversation began November …
Hiring companies: if you want it written in X, ask for it to be written in X
I recently took an online AbillityScreen through TrueAbility for a remote position, and one of the tasks was to program some generic automation scripts to do various file operations and so on. In the description, it stated to complete the task in whatever language you wanted as long as it worked. I set about doing …
TrueAbility Linux Showdown #6! Part 2
Day 2 of TrueAbility’s Linux Showdown #6 hit us with some MySQL stuff. Again, some things I had never touched but I’ve done enough MySQL in my time to have figured it out quicker than 250 others who tried. I’m currently at #10, with 100% and finishing in 33 minutes 49 seconds, only 3 seconds …
TrueAbility Linux Showdown #6! Part 1
Almost forgot about TrueAbility’s Linux Showdown… Having never touched an nginx config file in my life, I’m happy to have finished the challenge and got all of the questions in ~49 minutes. Many others didn’t finish at all. I got an 83%, which puts me at 34th out of 279 others that attempted it so …
Quite possibly the best answer to an old interview question we had at CSC
The question was: “What is the difference between hard and soft mounts when using NFS?” I will copy and paste a reply I found today with the notice that this is not my own answer, but I thought it thorough and informative enough to post here… From an hp.com forum post: Honored Contributor Matti_Kurkela Honored …
Google (GMail team specifically) randomly decides to enforce strict SSL for external POP3/IMAP accounts
After Google announced it was doing away with personal (or was it trial?) Google Apps accounts, I’m getting the impression they want to get rid of freeloaders (like me). I have a free GMail account, which I’ve setup to retrieve messages using POP3S from my e-mail server at home. This allows me to get better …
DNSMasq breaks DNSBL! Fixed…
So this was driving me nuts, and was effectively stopping me from turning off GMail and using my own e-mail server with RoundCube/ZPush. Basically, I get a ton of spam. One of the reasons I’d been using GMail is because the spam detection is great. To block spammers, there are RDNSBLs (Reverse DNS Black Lists) …
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- Senate Republicans are wrestling with a dilemma over witnesses in Trump's trial in a tussle that risks antagonizing him and fueling claims of a cover-up January 29, 2020Senate Republicans are wrestling with a momentous dilemma over whether to call witnesses in Donald Trump's trial in a closed-door tussle that risks antagonizing the President and fueling Democrat claims of a cover-up.
- Analysis: Republicans will find a way to ignore John Bolton's incriminating revelations January 29, 2020Ever since details from John Bolton's manuscript leaked to The New York Times, it seemed like it would be the smoking gun that would push Republicans to at least entertain the idea of hearing from witnesses like Bolton at President Donald Trump's Senate trial, if not ultimately support removing Trump from office.
- Next step: Republicans aim to lock in votes against witnesses
- Watch: Cooper throws cold water on GOP arguments January 29, 2020CNN's Anderson Cooper discusses the Senate impeachment trial against President Trump, calling out some of the GOP senators who don't wish to bring forth witnesses.
- Schumer: 10 to 12 GOPers 'know in their hearts' witnesses should testify January 29, 2020Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday said there are 10 to 12 Senate Republicans "who know in their hearts" there should be witnesses and documents in President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial ahead of a looming vote later this week.
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- Apple posts record quarter as iPhone sales make a comebackIt appears iPhone sales really are on the mend.
- Atari is opening its own hotels in eight US citiesAtari might be best known for 1970s video games and its money problems, but now the brand is opening its own chain of branded hotels. The first one, in Phoenix, Arizona, will start construction in early fall, and should be finished in about two years.
- UK will allow Huawei to help build its 5G network despite US pressureThe British government said Tuesday that it will allow China's Huawei to help build the country's next generation of super-fast wireless networks, a decision that could undermine trade and intelligence ties with the United States.
- Huawei just dodged a bullet in the UK. Europe is the next showdownHuawei has been granted a limited role in building Britain's 5G network, allowing the company to maintain its presence in a crucial market despite US efforts to rein in its growth.
- MacKenzie Bezos dumped a ton of Amazon stockMacKenzie Bezos, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has unloaded about $370 million worth of Amazon shares since their divorce last year.