Linux

This last Thursday I had the privilege of giving a talk at our local Linux User Group about diagnosing firewall issues on Linux entitled "It's Never the …

I have the privilege of working full remote. To stay connected with our other remote workers and the main office we keep a live video conference going all the …

I regularly find myself inspecting traffic on Linux systems. Usually I'm already on the client or server when doing this (such as when diagnosing weird low …

While setting up and OpenLDAP server I found my distribution shipped with a couple of schema files, but no equivalent LDIF files. I found ways to convert the …

I've been writing software to work against an OpenLDAP instance, with a highly customized schema. The operators of the existing system only had the schema files …

Note: If you've come here looking to build a root filesystem for 32 bit ARM devices I suspect everything but the build tuple will be the same. The issues that …

I needed to convert a directory full of CPIO files to tar balls. This quick script did the trick for me but didn't preserve the user / group. Running it as root …

While trying to build up a minimal Gentoo graphical environment I kept running into an error every time I logged into XFCE from lightdm (I didn't try starting …

While setting up a Gentoo install with a full disk encryption, I continuously got to a point where the passphrase would show up on boot but I was unable to …