Managing ACL’s all over the place
I’m sure some of you have set access lists on several directories on a server, thats a reasonable straightforward task right? Well what about setting ACL’s through an entire production environment? When your list grows it gets more and more complicated to manage such access lists. I’ve dealt with this issue myself a few months [...]
ZHLUG Goes mobile!
As of a few day’s ago, I’ve added the WPtouch plugin. This way we’re also mobile. A quote from WordPress.org: WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Palm Pre, Samsung touch and BlackBerry Storm/Torch mobile devices.
RHEL5u6 upgrade to RHEL5u7 /var space issues
Last week we began upgrading our RHEL5u6 OTA (development, testing and staging) environment to RHEL5u7. After the mandatory reboots we started noticing that the /var partition on hundreds of nodes had exceeded their disk space threshold. It is not uncommon for yum to create a local cache and we decided that a mass yum clean [...]
/etc/init.d/svnserve missing on RHEL6
It seems somebody forgot to add /etc/init.d/svnserve to the RHEL6 subversion RPM: $ rpm -q redhat-release-server redhat-release-server-6Server-6.0.0.37.el6.x86_64 $ rpm -q subversion subversion-1.6.11-2.el6_0.3.x86_64 $ ls -la /etc/init.d/svnserve ls: cannot access /etc/init.d/svnserve: No such file or directory After browsing through the RHEL5 subversion change log I stumbled upon the following entry: 2010-09-08 04:00:00 Joe Orton <jorton@redhat.com> – [...]
SELinux talk with Dan Walsh
Yesterday I’ve been to a Red Hat technical session in Maarsen (NL) with Dan Walsh (mr. SELinux himself) as key-speaker. He talked about issues like hypervisor vulnerabilities, and some new SELinux stuff that’s coming out in RHEL6. One of the most interesting stuff was that there will be a new sandbox environment, so you can [...]
Configuring Cyberoam iView for https
If you’re using Cyberoam iView for logging and reporting you can do it more securely through https. iView is a open-source reporting and logging tool that can read log files from many different appliances and software packages. For instance I’m using Squid as a proxy server for managing outgoing Internet traffic. So I use iView [...]
NLUUG 2011 Spring Conference
On May 12th NLUUG is hosting their 2011 spring conference, Open is efficient as title. Sadly due to earlier commitments none of us could make it there. The main talk is about how Open Source and Open Standards are easily implemented with limited effort and hardware. And how this way you can avoid vendor lock-in. [...]