sysadmin
2014
- Install sysstat on Fedora 21 Dec 12
- Adventures in live booting Linux distributions Jul 29
- Configure remote syslog for XenServer via the command line Jun 3
- Switching to systemd on Debian jessie May 20
- Helpful Linux I/O stack diagram Apr 30
- Configure static IP addresses for Project Atomic’s KVM image Apr 23
- openssl heartbleed updates for Fedora 19 and 20 Apr 8
- Installing Xen on Fedora 20 Feb 28
- MySQLTuner v1.3.0 Feb 22
- Puppy Linux, icanhazip, and tin foil hats Feb 10
- Be an inspiration, not an impostor Feb 5
- Hierarchy of DevOps Needs from DevOps Weekly Feb 3
2013
- Learn octal file permissions easily with stat Dec 10
- Speed up your Fedora PXE installations by hosting the stage2 installer locally Nov 3
- One month using a Linux laptop at work: Back to the Mac Sep 23
- Keeping bwm-ng 0.6 functional on Fedora 19 Sep 20
- Moving from OS X to Linux: Day One Aug 27
- PXE boot Fedora 19 using a Mikrotik firewall Jul 23
- Come and get your SELinux shirts! Jul 18
- Confine untrusted users (including your children) with SELinux Jul 5
- My interview on the Dave and Gunnar Show Jun 19
- Supermicro X9SCI/X9SCA server does a shutdown rather than a reboot Jun 3
- Installing the Xen hypervisor on Fedora 19 Jun 3
- Handling terminal color escape sequences in less May 22
- Changing your ssh server’s port from the default: Is it worth it? May 15
- Limit access to the su command Apr 26
- Remove sensitive information from email headers with postfix Apr 15
- Late night virtualization frustration with kvm Mar 20
- Survive the Google Reader exodus with Tiny Tiny RSS Mar 17
- New icanhaz features: reverse DNS and traceroutes Mar 17
2012
- Using git clean to remove subdirectories containing git repositories Oct 24
- Lenovo ThinkPad T430s review Oct 21
- Going back to Linux as a desktop Oct 12
- Automatic package updates in CentOS 6 Sep 21
- See you at LinuxCon North America 2012! Aug 15
- Monitoring and protecting your reputation online Aug 6
- Privacy and icanhazip.com Aug 5
- DNS Service Review: Luadns Jul 22
- Boot the Xen hypervisor by default in Fedora 17 with GRUB 2 Jul 16
- Mounting an LVM snapshot containing partitions Jul 15
- X forwarding over ssh woes: DISPLAY is not set Jul 14
- SELinux, Xen, and block devices in Fedora 17 Jul 10
- Red Hat Summit 2012: Thursday Jun 29
- Red Hat Summit 2012: Wednesday Jun 28
- First day of the Red Hat Summit Jun 27
- Off to the 2012 Red Hat Summit Jun 26
- Great guide for using traceroute and understanding its results Jun 13
- What installing a ceiling fan can teach you about administering servers Jun 11
- Lessons learned in the ambulance pay dividends in the datacenter May 31
- Lesser-known but extremely handy Linux tools May 11
- Why technical people should blog (but don’t) Mar 30
- Preparing for Red Hat Exams Feb 28
- Five years of rackerhacker.com Feb 14
- Looking back at the long road to becoming a Red Hat Certified Architect Feb 13
- Installing Fedora 16 in XenServer Feb 12
- Using OpenSSL’s s_client command with web servers using Server Name Indication (SNI) Feb 7
- The Kerberos-hater’s guide to installing Kerberos Feb 5
- Create a local PyPi repository using only mod_rewrite Feb 1
- Getting started with SELinux Jan 26
- Fight SOPA & PIPA Jan 12
- SELinux and .forward files Jan 2
2011
- Live upgrade Fedora 15 to Fedora 16 using yum Nov 15
- Getting back to using eth0 in Fedora 15 Sep 25
- Receive e-mail reports for SELinux AVC denials Sep 16
- Getting apache, PHP, and memcached working with SELinux Sep 8
- How to write e-mails to nerds (that they will actually read) Aug 26
- Contest winners from the “Inspire a sysadmin” contest Aug 22
- Xen Summit 2011: My Takeways Aug 8
- Xen 4.1 on Fedora 15 with Linux 3.0 Aug 6
- Success with stress Jul 22
- Keep all old kernels when upgrading via yum Jun 16
- Do your homework before a technical interview May 3
- Strategies for detecting a compromised Linux server Mar 10
- Dual-primary DRBD with OCFS2 Feb 14
- Strategies for storing backups Jan 10
- One RHCA exam down, five to go Jan 7
- Using GNU sort to sort a list by IP address Jan 6
2010
- Mounting a raw partition file made with dd or dd_rescue in Linux Dec 15
- Locate RPM packages which contain a certain file Dec 9
- Tap into your Linux system with SystemTap Dec 8
- Keep web servers in sync with DRBD and OCFS2 Dec 3
- Happy Thanksgiving Nov 25
- Monitor MySQL restore progress with pv Nov 24
- Throwing thoughtful “403 Forbidden” responses with apache Nov 17
- Accessing Rackspace Cloud Servers and Slicehost slices privately via OpenVPN Nov 16
- 400th post: Looking back at where this blog started Nov 14
- Switching from GlusterFS to DRBD and OCFS2 Nov 10
- Upgrading Fedora 13 to Fedora 14 on Slicehost and Rackspace Cloud Servers Nov 3
- Do professional certifications belong in your e-mail signature? Oct 16
- Securing your ssh server Oct 12
- Installing Xen 4 on Fedora 13 Sep 10
- A nerd’s perspective on cloud hosting Aug 25
- Very unscientific GlusterFS benchmarks Aug 13
- One month with GlusterFS in production Aug 11
- Adding comments to iptables rules Jul 26
- A modern implementation and explanation of Linux Virtual Server (LVS) Jun 27
- GlusterFS on the cheap with Rackspace’s Cloud Servers or Slicehost May 28
- How to sell: a guide for technical people May 27
- Why I’m a Racker Mar 26
- Rackspace Cloud Tech Podcast Episode 2 Mar 9
- Private network interfaces: the forgotten security hole Mar 2
- System Administration Inspiration: If it’s broken, break it a little more Feb 28
- Crash course in dsh Jan 20