Every so often, whether it is just the amount of cruft left on our system, or the desire to switch distributions, a clean Linux install becomes necessary.
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In the past, installing open-ssh-server has conveniently created a group named ssh, that has often been used as the group to allow users ssh access.
Continue reading “How Debian Broke SSH Server on Upgrades on Bookworm and Ubuntu Noble.”Ditching Google Voice for VOIP.MS
Call me old fashioned, I like having a Landline. Its been VOIP via adapter since whenever FIOS got installed at my house, and with Google Voice for a long time. Google Voice had VoiceMail Transcription and it was completely free. Not surprisingly I’ve often had reliability issues with the free service. Sometimes calls got put straight to voicemail, sometimes it won’t make an outbound call and I had to switch to my Cell.
Read more: Ditching Google Voice for VOIP.MSTip: How to Fix Windows Security Prompt for Mapped Drives
Windows applies internet security rules in annoying ways to a local system. Forcing you to click through a security warning on every file on a mapped drive. Even after you dig your way through settings to find the internet security tab, whitelisting the IP addresses on your local area network still doesn’t work for mapped drives. On a whim I tried entering my mapped drive letters (drive letter colon i.e. H:), and much to my surprise the annoying dialog went away.
Getting Date to Default to 24 Hour Format
On some of my systems the Linux date command would give the time in AM/PM and on others in 24 hour notation. On my servers which are set to UTC, I strongly prefer the 24 hour time notation, it reminds me that it’s not my local time.
Continue reading “Getting Date to Default to 24 Hour Format”vrrp and keepalived
I’ve found keepalived to be lacking in the area of supporting tools. This post is about the scripts I wrote to get important data.
How to Use an Ubuntu or Debian Cloud Image
Canonical and Debian provide images for cloud deployments, but you can use them instead of ISOs to speed up new VM creation in smaller environments without having to create the preseed ISOs or an OpenStack environment.
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A Simple Script for Listing Every Cron
Remarkably there is no well known Linux utility for listing out every cron job on a system, a task which Systems Administrators frequently need to do. Recently when I yet again had to inventory cronjobs I set out to automate it.
A Working Serial Console in KVM Guests
You can’t login to your kvm guest via ssh, and you want to connect with virsh console. Then nothing happens.
Splunk and Fluentd
Splunk is currently the ruling solution for log aggregation and analysis. Last Year I took time to look at both it and the best FOSS option I could find, Fluentd/Fluent-Bit + TimeScaleDB.