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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
