Random posts about networking, storage, guns, reggae, probably booze and whatever else I feel like posting about.
Just a tip; the rsync download listed later in this article works on VMware ESXi too! October 2020 Update: This process continues to work for vSphere since Vmware continues to Continue Reading…
So you are trying to wean your users off of using FTP for obvious reasons, but your FTP server was at least doing chroot’ing which was nice for keeping them Continue Reading…
Here’s a weird issue to be aware of. If you are using centralized syslogging on RHEL5/Centos5 servers, you may be surprised to find this in your netstat or lsof: Well Continue Reading…
Do you ever run into this issue? You need to reconfigure networking and do a network restart and this happens: That duplicate ip address check takes a LONG time. On Continue Reading…
I’ve got a Smörgåsbord of CentOS servers of varying version and patch status; 4 through 6, i386, x86_64, up to date, not up to date, etc. In any case, sometimes Continue Reading…
I found this useful shell script on a website a while back; works perfectly: The output will look like this:
Fortunately this is far easier to do on CentOS 6 than it is on CentOS 4. If you do need the CentOS 4 directions, those are located here. Prerequisites for Continue Reading…
ROFL, Clippy is here to help with regular expressions!
Not that this is some magical new development, it’s probably been around for decades, but I find there’s often things I don’t come across until I need them and then Continue Reading…
Ever have some kind of text file or command output where you want to just get a sum of the numbers presented? If it’s a single column, just pipe it Continue Reading…