07 Mar 2020
2 minutes read
Rotating Image on Raspberry Touch Screen
Raspberry Pi 4 with FLIRC case I’m rebuilding my Raspberry Pi called becky, it’s a centralised RSyslog server and a home office monitoring station.
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06 Mar 2020
2 minutes read
Git Push Asks for Username and Password
I’ve been refreshing my gleb.reys.net website recently and experienced a weird error: pushing latest changes to …
03 Mar 2020
1 minutes read
Force Filesystem Repair in Raspbian
Raspberry Pi systems use microSD cards and therefore are more error prone than typical servers with hard disks or SSD. …
03 Mar 2020
3 minutes read
NEVER Edit /Etc/Sudoers File Directly
Unix Tutorial But if you do have to edit /etc/sudoers, at least follow this advice to avoid locking yourself out.
02 Mar 2020
2 minutes read
Ansible Support in SUDO
Red Hat Ansible I’m building new servers for Unix Tutorial VPS pool and for some functions within my Tech Stack …
02 Mar 2020
4 minutes read
Why I Bought Sublime Text 3
It’s taken me exactly two weeks to recognise the value of a native editor like Sublime Text 3 used for Ansible …
29 Feb 2020
1 minutes read
Log Fail2ban Messages to Syslog
With quite a few servers accepting SSH connections and protecting themselves using fail2ban, you very quickly recognize …
27 Feb 2020
1 minutes read
Colorized Ls With Grc
I blogged about Generic Colouriser (grc) last week, cause I’m using it now to monitor syslog messages in my …
27 Feb 2020
4 minutes read
Removed DHCP Daemons in Raspbian
Raspberry Pi 4 - Specs I got one of my Raspberry Pi servers attempting to obtain DHCP IP address, a behavior that …
26 Feb 2020
3 minutes read
How To: Disable Sleep on Ubuntu Server
Ubuntu 19.10 You may remember that I have a small automation server in my home office that’s running Ubiquiti …
How to decrypt files with Ansible Vault
ansible-vault decrypt restores an encrypted file …
Just discovered the macOS footprint command
I’ve administered Linux systems for around 25 …
How to Fix Ubuntu Packages Held Back
When trying to run do-release-upgrade on an Ubuntu …
How To Resize Filesystem with resize2fs
Quick note on filesystem resize on a typical …
macOS Tahoe
macOS Tahoe is the upcoming major release of macOS …
Centralized Bash history with timestamps
BASH is my Linux shell of choice (it’s zsh on …
Inspect filesystem operations with fs_usage in macOS
hey Unless you disable SIP, most of DTrace based …