Random posts about networking, storage, guns, reggae, probably booze and whatever else I feel like posting about.
I recently had a power surge come through my Pentair IntelliTouch-based pool control system, destroying its control board, and unfortunately destroying the control module of my home automation system on Continue Reading…
Need to get the CA certificate out of an Active Directory server for use with other systems? I had this need when trying to connect Atlassian Jira to an internal Continue Reading…
Recently had a need to demonstrate for an auditor that a given key encryption key in a Thales HSM environment was RSA and was 4096-bits. The correct command to do Continue Reading…
Recently had a Thales nShield Connect 6000 fail. Replacing them is fairly easy, but there are a large number of steps, so figured I’d write them out here in case Continue Reading…
Recently had an issue where a series of XML files were refusing to import into a program due to invalid characters; invalid from the importing software’s perspective. I needed to Continue Reading…
Every have a database you want to clear out in one shot so you don’t have to get into the MySQL command line interface and drop them one at a Continue Reading…
June 2019 update: altered the rounds from 96 to 192. After living with 96 for a couple years, the delay was no longer noticeable, so I moved to a higher Continue Reading…
I’m guessing the lack of useful examples for nearly anything firewalld-related is a testament to how few people use it; ugh. Anyway, had a customer server that had a malfunctioning Continue Reading…
Here’s my play by play for installing a Thales nShield Connect network-based HSM into a CentOS linux environment: Edit your ~/.bash_profile to include the following additional directory in your path Continue Reading…
So in RHEL 6 / CentOS 6, there is of course the yum-cron package which will let your system auto update. Generally, you don’t want to auto update kernel packages. You’d Continue Reading…