Operations

Including LDIF Files in OpenLDAP

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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 …

Cron Daemon

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Cron is a pretty standard utility and there isn't much to it. I generally use cronie as my cron daemon with the associated anacron helper for systems that …

Auditd

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Auditd collects any configured syscall execution with critical security metadata associated with the event. This can help enrich other security tools such as …

Using OpenWRT's Dnsmasq as a TFTP Server

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I recently re-flashed my primary router to a newer version of OpenWRT and attempted to follow my own directions written in an earlier blog post to add PXE …

Updating the BIOS on Dell PowerEdge C6100

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The BIOS was quite a bit more complicated and there was a few options that I had available to try, all of which require either Windows or DOS environments. I …

Configuring PXE Booting on OpenWRT

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I needed to support PXE booting on my home network. I use OpenWRT as my main router and DHCP server and it took me a bit of searching how to configure the BOOTP …

Running Emails Through Ruby

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Following up on my earlier post where I covered how to backup your Gmail account using "fetchmail" and "procmail"; I wanted to cover how I …

Logrotate

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Logrotate is a pretty simple and straight forward program. It's generally run as a nightly cron job testing the various configured file to see if they match …

Linux N Issues & KDE Multi-Monitor Woes

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