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Category Archives: Linux
Linux Desktop for VMware Administration
I recently replaced my daughters aging Toshiba laptop with a used MacBook Pro. The MacBook Pro was much faster and she reallylikes working in OS X so it was a great fit for her needs. With the freeing up of … Continue reading
Script to Install Cacti on a CentOS or RHEL 6.5 host
I while back I wrote a post about this script and it had since broken as some updates to RHEL/CentOS and rrdtool caused the script to crash. I updated it this weekend and verified it using a CentOS 6.5 x64 … Continue reading
Posted in Automation, Linux, Scripting, Sysadmin
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MacBook Pro 8,3 Linux Success… Kinda
In my previous post about my frustration getting Linux installed on my 8,3 MacBook Pro I mentioned that I could not get an installer to boot. Well, with Open SuSE 12.1 I was able to finally get the installer to … Continue reading
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Script to install Cacti on CentOS 6 or Red Hat 6
I have installed Cacti several times and it is a somewhat tedious process on a new system so I thought I would just build a small bash script to perform the install for me. This script will install everything needed … Continue reading
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SSH Connection Sharing
I was reading a post on a perl blog the other day and leaned about connection sharing in ssh. It allows you to open a ssh connection to a server and while that 1st connection is open, all subsequent connections … Continue reading
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How to have a cifs (smb) share mount on startup with authentication
If you want to have a smb share mount on start up on a Linux system there are several options. I think the easiest option is to embed the auth info in a file only readable by root. All you … Continue reading