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.
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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.
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
My experience with Fluentd was a disappointment. Trying to use it in real production will either result in living with a lot less or spending what you’re saving to build what’s missing.
PulseCast Update, Ansible Role Published to Galaxy
My updates to Linux Mint Ulyana (Focal based) on my workstation and Debian 10 (Buster) on the devices broke my setup.
While revisiting the setup I also took the time to create an ansible role for configuring the devices.
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