How Debian Broke SSH Server on Upgrades on Bookworm and Ubuntu Noble.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Splunk and Fluentd
[Splunk](https://www.splunk.com/) is currently the ruling solution for log aggregation and analysis. Last Year I took time to look at it and FluentD an Open Source Alternative.
Working with Splunk
This is the second of three posts about Splunk and Fluentd. This one is about some of the things I do to set up Splunk.
Rejecting Fluentd
Fluentd was a disappointment, the savings won’t offset the extra effort it would take.