SELinux and .forward files

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2 January 2012 · 1 min · 144 words · Major Hayden

Live upgrade Fedora 15 to Fedora 16 using yum

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15 November 2011 · 3 min · 589 words · Major Hayden

Getting back to using eth0 in Fedora 15

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25 September 2011 · 2 min · 287 words · Major Hayden

Receive e-mail reports for SELinux AVC denials

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16 September 2011 · 3 min · 448 words · Major Hayden

Getting apache, PHP, and memcached working with SELinux

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8 September 2011 · 3 min · 470 words · Major Hayden

How to write e-mails to nerds (that they will actually read)

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26 August 2011 · 4 min · 789 words · Major Hayden

Contest winners from the “Inspire a sysadmin” contest

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22 August 2011 · 3 min · 440 words · Major Hayden

Xen 4.1 on Fedora 15 with Linux 3.0

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6 August 2011 · 3 min · 636 words · Major Hayden
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Success with stress

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22 July 2011 · 3 min · 529 words · Major Hayden

Keep all old kernels when upgrading via yum

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16 June 2011 · 1 min · 204 words · Major Hayden

Do your homework before a technical interview

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3 May 2011 · 4 min · 817 words · Major Hayden

Strategies for detecting a compromised Linux server

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10 March 2011 · 4 min · 741 words · Major Hayden

Dual-primary DRBD with OCFS2

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14 February 2011 · 5 min · 979 words · Major Hayden

Strategies for storing backups

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10 January 2011 · 3 min · 510 words · Major Hayden

Using GNU sort to sort a list by IP address

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6 January 2011 · 1 min · 82 words · Major Hayden

Mounting a raw partition file made with dd or dd_rescue in Linux

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15 December 2010 · 2 min · 361 words · Major Hayden

Locate RPM packages which contain a certain file

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9 December 2010 · 2 min · 290 words · Major Hayden

Tap into your Linux system with SystemTap

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8 December 2010 · 4 min · 641 words · Major Hayden
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Keep web servers in sync with DRBD and OCFS2

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3 December 2010 · 3 min · 535 words · Major Hayden

Monitor MySQL restore progress with pv

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24 November 2010 · 2 min · 250 words · Major Hayden

Throwing thoughtful “403 Forbidden” responses with apache

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17 November 2010 · 1 min · 209 words · Major Hayden

Accessing Rackspace Cloud Servers and Slicehost slices privately via OpenVPN

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16 November 2010 · 3 min · 630 words · Major Hayden

Upgrading Fedora 13 to Fedora 14 on Slicehost and Rackspace Cloud Servers

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3 November 2010 · 1 min · 81 words · Major Hayden

Do professional certifications belong in your e-mail signature?

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16 October 2010 · 4 min · 688 words · Major Hayden

Securing your ssh server

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12 October 2010 · 4 min · 748 words · Major Hayden

Installing Xen 4 on Fedora 13

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10 September 2010 · 1 min · 85 words · Major Hayden

A nerd’s perspective on cloud hosting

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25 August 2010 · 3 min · 533 words · Major Hayden

Very unscientific GlusterFS benchmarks

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13 August 2010 · 2 min · 375 words · Major Hayden

One month with GlusterFS in production

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11 August 2010 · 6 min · 1153 words · Major Hayden

Adding comments to iptables rules

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26 July 2010 · 1 min · 106 words · Major Hayden

A modern implementation and explanation of Linux Virtual Server (LVS)

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27 June 2010 · 4 min · 813 words · Major Hayden

GlusterFS on the cheap with Rackspace’s Cloud Servers or Slicehost

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28 May 2010 · 4 min · 742 words · Major Hayden

How to sell: a guide for technical people

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27 May 2010 · 4 min · 776 words · Major Hayden

Why I’m a Racker

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26 March 2010 · 1 min · 176 words · Major Hayden

Private network interfaces: the forgotten security hole

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2 March 2010 · 3 min · 561 words · Major Hayden

System Administration Inspiration: If it’s broken, break it a little more

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28 February 2010 · 2 min · 413 words · Major Hayden

Crash course in dsh

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20 January 2010 · 2 min · 371 words · Major Hayden