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2013


A humble farewell to Seth Vidal

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I was shocked to see Robyn Bergeron’s email today about Seth Vidal’s passing.

Installing the Xen hypervisor on Fedora 19

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It’s been a little while since I last posted about installing Xen on Fedora, so I figured that Fedora 19’s beta release was as good a time as any to write a new post.

Limit access to the su command

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The wheel group exists for a critical purpose and Wikipedia has a concise definition:

Seriously, stop disabling SELinux

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After many discussions with fellow Linux users, I’ve come to realize that most seem to disable SELinux rather than understand why it’s denying access.

Remove sensitive information from email headers with postfix

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I’m in the process of moving back to a postfix/dovecot setup for hosting my own mail and I wanted a way to remove the more sensitive email headers that are normally generated when I send mail.

2012


Log Android events remotely to a syslog server

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I’m still quite pleased with my Samsung Galaxy SIII but there are some finicky Bluetooth issues with my car that I simply can’t figure out.

SELinux, Xen, and block devices in Fedora 17

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If you try to run Xen without libvirt on Fedora 17 with SELinux in enforcing mode, you’ll be butting heads with SELinux in no time.

New Fedora and EPEL package: httpry

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A fellow Racker showed me httpry about five years ago and I’ve had in my toolbox as a handy way to watch HTTP traffic.

Preparing for Red Hat Exams

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I originally wrote this post for the Rackspace Blog but I’ve posted it here just in case anyone following my blog’s feed finds it useful.

Installing Fedora 16 in XenServer

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Getting Fedora 16 working in XenServer isn’t the easiest thing to do, but I’ve put together a repository on GitHub that should help.

Kerberos for haters

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I’ll be the first one to admit that Kerberos drives me a little insane.

Getting started with SELinux

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I used to be one of those folks who would install Fedora, CentOS, Scientific Linux, or Red Hat and disable SELinux during the installation.

SELinux and .forward files

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If you want to forward e-mail from root to another user, you can usually place a .

2011


Dual-primary DRBD with OCFS2

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As promised in one of my previous posts about dual-primary DRBD and OCFS2, I’ve compiled a step-by-step guide for Fedora.

Gearing up for FUDCon 2011

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FUDCon 2011 in Tempe hasn’t even fully started yet, but it’s been well worth the trip already.

2010


Tap into your Linux system with SystemTap

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One of the most interesting topics I’ve seen so far during my RHCA training at Rackspace this week is SystemTap.

Installing Xen 4 on Fedora 13

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Installing Xen can be a bit of a challenge for a beginner and it’s made especially difficult by distribution vendors who aren’t eager to include it in their current releases.

2009


Upgrading Fedora 11 to 12 using yum

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As with the Fedora 10 to 11 upgrade, you can upgrade Fedora 11 to Fedora 12 using yum.