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Happy Valentines and Ash Wednesday

Posted on February 14, 2018 by larry

Weird combo of a day, ash Wednesday and Valentines. Starting off Lent by giving up soda (carbonated drinks). Almost forgot it was Lent. But knew we were going about Valentines, got tickets to air supply.  Woot woot.  

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Modernizing Our Linux Environment

Posted on February 13, 2018 by larry

At work I did an audit of our Linux machines, I surprised that we were pretty up to date.  Felt like we were running old stuff, but I guess when you look at the numbers, we aren’t doing so bad. … Continue reading →

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Trouble Kickstarting From USB

Posted on February 12, 2018 by larry

I am not sure why this is not working, but I can’t seem to boot from a USB drive to kickstart a CentOS 7 build. I am getting in to it though,  I like where this is going. Burned so … Continue reading →

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Reinforcing Screens

Posted on February 11, 2018 by larry

We have been having problems with birds entering our attic, so spent the afternoon reinforcing the screens blocking the holes to the attic. Today continued to prove how out of shape I am, I barely could help when we put … Continue reading →

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LDAP Server

Posted on February 10, 2018 by larry

Trying to get openldap server working. Struggling to get it going, not sure what I am doing wrong.  

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Putting New Knowledge To Use

Posted on February 9, 2018 by larry

Been playing with CentOS 7 all day.  Work related too, I kind of enjoy it. I created a boot DVD and know I can move it to USB easily using dd. Now just working on different kickstart and hoping to … Continue reading →

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Final Day Of Class

Posted on February 8, 2018 by larry

Today concluded my class with Redhat Enterprise Linux 7. It was good, an old dog learning new trigs. We did some kickstart stuff today, as I post I am building a custom DVD. Going to be interesting.  

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Systemd and Other Changes

Posted on February 7, 2018 by larry

There are enough changes in RHEL 7 that it warrants buying a book. I am not overwhelmed by any means but I sure do not want to get caught off guard when  dealing with CentOS 7. Also I really need … Continue reading →

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SeLinux

Posted on February 6, 2018 by larry

Learned some SELINUX today.  Getting motivated to turn it on my network. Kind of tricky though.  Dont want to break stuff. In the meantime, I am getting to know more about CentOS and RHEL 7

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Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks

Posted on February 5, 2018 by larry

I been doing Linux for 20 years now (purchased my first set of CDs in 98 or 99). Thought I knew it all but when I attended RHCA class today, got to admit I learned a few new things. Some … Continue reading →

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