Operations
Including LDIF Files in OpenLDAP
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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