Many, many, many thanks to our awesome volunteers who helped David Parter and I with the LOPSA booth: Scott Schmitz, DJ Gregor, Stephen Potter and Charles Johnson. I am very happy with the number of people we connected with. We have a list of 25 people who are interested in A Columbus local LOPSA group….
Download xtrlock source code from the Debian project (I used http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xtrlock/) xmkmf make make install Then, take the first of the two gcc commands that were run by make, and rerun it manually, but add -DSHADOW_PWD to the defines section of the command line (-Dthis -Dthat -DSHADOW_PWD). (I tried to muck around with the 1000+…
Today I am going to TRY to start logging a daily blog entry. I’ll add more info about myself later, but I am essentially a sysadmin generalist. That means I manage a LOT of stuff, and I don’t necessarily specialize in ONE particular thing. My blog entries are going to be totally random– mostly tech…
We are migrating from our old mail server to a new one with a completely different internal structure and many new features. I am using imapsync to migrate the data over (slow, but it works well). Before we do the last sync, my boss asked me to figure out a way to run the servers…
I posted my cfengine config, it’s the 2nd half of my cfengine presentation to UUASC-LA (chapters 14 – 34). http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/cfengine/cfengine-presentation-to-uuasc-la-on-1-oct-2009/ Maybe it can help somebody start or expand their cfengine config. Presenting on cfengine 2 made me really excited to learn 3… as it’s promised that the cfengine language has been standardized and streamlined in…
ping tip: CTRL + (backslash) confirmed on Linux
In our profession, where a single mistyped command can have catastrophic consequences, attention to detail matters. Today I am proud to have received this recommendation from my good friend and colleague, Alice Yang: “Aleksey was my mentor at Earthlink. When I first worked for him, I thought that he was very *picky*. He checked and…
I recently read “Documentation Writing for System Administrators” by Mark C. Langston. In this post, I share a documenation set template written in DocBook and based on Mark’s book, some TPOSANA, and my own experience. Version 1.0 of the template: http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/sa-site-doc/ DocBook sources: http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/sa-site-doc/sa-site-doc.docbook-xml.tar.gz Why I chose DocBook: A) Theoretically, I can output HTML and…
By popular request, my OLFU slides: Spam Filtering with Open Source Tools Introduction to LDAP: Provisioning, Managing, Integrating Enjoy in moderation!
I needed to convert a PDF file to PNG With “convert”, it’s as easy as: $ convert rose.pdf rose.png More at http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php