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Taskomatic troubleshooting, systems always show available updates – Spacewalk 2.3 / Satellite 5.x

Taskomatic troubleshooting, systems always show available updates – Spacewalk 2.3 / Satellite 5.x

Lately one of my projects at work is to get a patch management solution in place for our RHEL/CentOS Linux systems.  Since

17 Aug
general linux
Running Linux commands on many servers at a time

Running Linux commands on many servers at a time

I’ve been busy at work lately… setting up a new patch process to include implementation, migration from our old,

14 May
linux
Using getmail to retrieve e-mail and dump it to MySQL

Using getmail to retrieve e-mail and dump it to MySQL

Recently I worked on an eLance side project after hours to retrieve e-mails that included CSV files from a GMail account and

13 Feb
linux system administration
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New TrueAbility tests WordPress and Linux administration skills

Update (1/26/15): The final results are in, and I ended up at 23rd out of 189 challengers. Not bad, I get (another)

02 Jan
life linux
Hiring companies: if you want it written in X, ask for it to be written in X

Hiring companies: if you want it written in X, ask for it to be written in X

I recently took an online AbillityScreen through TrueAbility for a remote position, and one of the tasks was to program some

13 May
linux
How hidden (dot) files in Linux came to be, by Rob Pike on G+

How hidden (dot) files in Linux came to be, by Rob Pike on G+

Interestingly enough, they were a consequence of a shortcut and subsequent “bug” in code, as Rob Pike describes

04 Mar
linux system administration
TrueAbility Linux Showdown #6! Part 2

TrueAbility Linux Showdown #6! Part 2

Day 2 of TrueAbility’s Linux Showdown #6 hit us with some MySQL stuff. Again, some things I had never touched but

26 Feb
linux system administration
TrueAbility Linux Showdown #6!  Part 1

TrueAbility Linux Showdown #6! Part 1

Almost forgot about TrueAbility’s Linux Showdown… Having never touched an nginx config file in my life, I’m

25 Feb
linux system administration
Quite possibly the best answer to an old interview question we had at CSC

Quite possibly the best answer to an old interview question we had at CSC

The question was: “What is the difference between hard and soft mounts when using NFS?” I will copy and paste a

19 Jul
linux
Installing the nVidia drivers on Fedora 18 – version.h does not exist [Fixed]

Installing the nVidia drivers on Fedora 18 – version.h does not exist [Fixed]

For a gaming system, I always want the latest driver. So, I often go nVidia’s site, download the latest (sometimes

21 Feb

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