Linux
Redundancy and flexibility with RAID1+LVM
This week’s techmail was Redundancy and flexibility with RAID1+LVM which talks about how to combine RAID1 with LVM for a few rich, flexible storage management solution. The tip describes how to get started with setting up RAID and LVM (although here’s a hint: the Anaconda installer makes this an absolute snap). Combining RAID and LVM [...]
Printing to AirPort shared printers from Linux
Last week’s techmail was Printing to AirPort shared printers from Linux, which looks at how to configure a Linux system to print directly to an AirPort shared printer. This is actually quite easy to do, as the tip explains, but it’s not overly straightforward (hence the need for said tip)
Two tips: Using GTG and using NX
I’m a little behind on putting up my recent articles for TechRepublic here, so I’m going to put them all in one post. The first one is Use Getting Things GNOME to get things done which looks at Getting Things GNOME (GTG), a GTD application for GNOME. It’s pretty basic compared to other GTD apps [...]
Use APF to manage your firewall
Last week’s techmail was Use APF to manage your firewall which takes a look at using the APF (Advanced Policy Firewall) set of scripts to configure an iptables-based firewall on Linux. I was always a big Shorewall user; used it on my servers whether they ran Mandriva or Annvix. Recently I’ve been fiddling with /etc/sysconfig/iptables [...]
Ok, I’m committed now
Well, I’ve been working for Red Hat for two years, one month, and 14 days now. It’s actually amazing how time flies. I guess when you’re doing something you love, with amazing people you respect and enjoy working with, time has no real bearing on anything. When I first started working for Linux-Mandrake (now Mandriva) [...]
Nagios monitoring with NRPE allows better tracking of remote systems
The Linux tip from a few weeks ago was Nagios monitoring with NRPE allows better tracking of remote systems which talks about using the NRPE daemon on client systems to allow Nagios to get more information from the remote host that would normally be only available to a local user. Nagios is one of my [...]