You cannot do this directly for reasons that I have not tried to understand, but I suspect "it is hard" may have something to do with it.
The process is:
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Simple, except there are some gotchas. The process …
I am a fan of Gitlab. While Github is great, and I use it heavily, one should never be 100% reliant on the whims of a for-profit company. After all, their agenda is not the same as mine and could chang in the future. I also use it for projects …
Fedora do not bundle Microsoft's core Truetype fonts for licensing reasons. Normallly I do not care, personally I prefer Liberation fonts anyway. However, today I needed Verdana.
Traditionally, the way to install these on RPM based distributions has been:
The current project (as of this week) has me moving away from Openstack for a while. For the next couple of months I will be immersing myself in monitor, metrics and logging. Naturally, this being a shiney new environment, this involves a significant amount of VMware time.
I have inherited …
I had a request on Reddit to share a document I wrote about connect Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Active Directory. The original document I wrote is confidential, but I said I would write it up.
This works for both Server 2008(R2) and 2012. If I recall correctly it …
BambooInvoice is free Open Source invoicing software intended for small businesses and independent contractors. It is easy to use and creates pretty good looking invoices.
It is a simple PHP application that is based on the CodeIgniter framework. This means it is really simple to install on a typically LAMP …
Well this caught me out for an embarassingly long time. There are loads of examples of setting up a TFTP server on the web. The vast majority of them assume that you are using them read-only for PXE booting.
I needed to make it writeable so that it could be …
What am I doing today? Documentation that is what. I am writing a document on how to do this. To any Linux user it is a very simple process and I could just give them a link to my own website.
I am not writing this for a technical audience …
This came up today where I needed to give secure file transfer to customers. To complicate things I had to use an out-of-the-box RHEL6 system. The obvious answer was to use SSH and limit those users to SFTP only. Locking them into a chroot was not a requirement, but it …
This based on my last post where I documented building a Highly Available NFS/NAS server.
There is not a huge amount that needs to be done in order to add iSCSI functionality as well.
Add a file called /etc/drbd/iscsi.res containing:
resource iscsi {
on nfs1 {
device /dev …