fighting the lack of good ideas
Thanks to @Anon on Unix.SE for the pointer on how to do this. And to @Andy‘s comment on @mmckinst‘s answer for the warning about additional packages you may need. As my three readers know, I run a CentOS mirror. One of the idiosyncrasies of CentOS, like its upstream RHEL, is that DVD ISOs aren’t always…
Attached is the presentation for my talk on initial CentOS/RHEL 6.x server configuring. bglug-2014-08-04-myers
To add to my tutorial collection, here’s how to setup EtherPad on CentOS 6 (x64). As in the IRC tutorial, I used a Digital Ocean VM for this 🙂 What is EtherPad? It’s an open-source collaborative text editor that works like Google Docs – ie, all editors/viewers can see changes from everyone else in realtime….
I had need to automatically process emails to a specific address to pull attachments out, and this is how I did it: $ yum install mpack $ cat extract-attach.sh #!/bin/bash rm -rf ~/attachtmp mkdir ~/attachtmp mv ~/Maildir/new/* ~/attachtmp cd ~ munpack ~/attachtmp/* rm -rf ~/attachtmp $ crontab -l */5 * * * * ~/extract-attach.sh Why,…
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I wanted to try something different when playing with CentOS 6 recently, so I did a network install. Other thanĂ‚Â one very small detail, the install is identical to installing off a normal ISO. Here’s the difference: use the netinstall.iso (egĂ‚Â http://centos.datente.com/media/6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-netinstall.iso) when it asks for the URL to grab your image from, use something likeĂ‚Â http://centos.datente.com/media/6/os/x86_64 (make…
This past weekend I went to OLF with my friend Peter and a fella who’s now more than an acquaintance, NathanielĂ‚Â – one of the lead devs for FreeIPAĂ‚Â at Red Hat. Got to go to a variety of great talks and sessions, met some awesome folks, and just generally enjoyed the geek weekend 🙂 I’ll be…
2013 will not be the YoLD. Nor will 2014. Or 2015. This will be a shock to the fanatical FLOSS heads out there. But not to me. I’ve never thought that “this will be the year of the Linux desktop” – regardless of how many magazine, journal, blog, and other articles have been published about…