Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Linux”
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Maplins weather station fun
weather station control unit weather station sensor pole A while ago I bought one of the Maplins weather stations, just for fun really no plans with it.
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Ensure systemd services restart on failure
I wrote a post a while ago covering the use of Monit to monitor services running and the use case I covered was to ensure these services restarted on failure.
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Hardening SSH with OTP for 2 factor authentication
Something I’ve been meaning to do for a while is look into the possibility of using 2 factor authentication, or 2FA, with SSH connections.
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Etckeeper - config version control
A valuable tool I have been using for many years is etckeeper, it works by essentially turning your /etc directory into a git repository.
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SSH known hosts verification failure one liner
WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED
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Getting Fedora 21 on the Raspberry Pi 2
The recent release of the Raspberry Pi 2 uses a newer version of the ARM architecture spec, the ARM Cortex-A7 uses ARMv7 whereas the previous model ARM11 uses ARMv6.
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Monit - monitor your processes and services simply
Monit is an application I’ve been meaning to setup for a while, I was first made aware of it from a chap I had the pleasure of talking to at OggCamp this year, he seemed to use it to the n’th degree to monitor files and services within docker containers to ensure a development environment was as it should be.
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Gluster, CIFS, ZFS - kind of part 2
A while ago I put together a post detailing the installation and configuration of 2 hosts running glusterfs, which was then presented as CIFS based…
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Upgrade CentOS 6 to 7 with Upgrade Tools
I decided to try the upgrade process from EL 6 to 7 on the servers I used in my previous blog post “Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and C…”
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Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and CTDB for Highly available data
This tutorial will walk through the setup and configuration of GlusterFS and CTDB to provide highly available file storage via CIFS.
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Raspberry Pi Wildlife Camera
A while ago I built a Raspberry Pi based nature camera, sometimes known as a trail camera.
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Installing dig on a CentOS or Red Hat machine
Gone are the days where we install nslookup for DNS resolution testing, the new(ish) kid on the block is dig.
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Import regular kvm image to oVirt or RHEV
I recently replaced a couple of servers within a friends business with an oVirt virtualisation setup, I’m really pleased with the whole configuration which consists of a single engine host and 2 hypervisor nodes, the storage is shared over the 2 hosts with glusterfs.
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OggCamp and LinuxCon Europe: Part 2 LinuxCon Europe 2013
Whoa I’m getting a bit slow here
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OggCamp and LinuxCon Europe: Part 1 OggCamp
Although it’s been over a week since I returned from both these events I thought I better put a little something up about them and the experiences …
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New projects: Pi's and Arduinos
Recently I’ve been working on several new projects, all of which use either a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino.
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New hosting for my blog
After one of my LUG colleagues mentioning about the BigV service from Bytemark I just had to try it.
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Why I'm uninstalling Ubuntu
I wouldn’t normally write about this kind of move, but I’m in a position where I feel I have to.
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GlusterFS Quickstart Howto on Fedora
GlusterHere’s a (very) quick howto showing how to get GlusterFS up and running on Fedora.
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rsync with spaces in filenames fun
While I was trying to copy a load of files from one server to another I found a problem I’ve seen time and time again, rsync with filenames that have spaces in them.
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Post Virtualisation Talk
Well I finally got there, after a bout of illness causing me to postpone the talk, I finally delivered it last night.
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Virtualisation talk
So this coming Monday will be the 2 year anniversary of the Rossendale Linux User Group, not too shabby really.
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Potentially another couple of Linux Users
So I’m forever raving about how good Linux is to the guys at work, it seems that over the last 18 months or so my rants have been getting louder/stronger.
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Hourly Backup Script for Email
So I was working on a script a while ago to backup all my email on my Linux box.
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