Posts
All the articles I've posted.
Speed Up tar with pigz
Updated:The usual tar cvzf ... uses box standard gzip. A parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines https://zlib.net/pigz/ Swi
Git Hooks
Updated:I wanted to ensure I wasn't pushing unencrypted data onto our Git repo. It's set as private anyhow, but the repo I'm using is for our Ansible library. It c
journalctrl
Shortcuts to getting meaningful data from journalctrl Specific time frame journalctrl --since "18:00" --until "18:03" More descriptive times journalctrl --
Multistage Python Container
Updated:When building a python container, I ended up with a huge 450MB image just because I needed it to have psycopg2 . Time to chop it down using a multistage bu
Holy Guacamole!
Apache Guacamole - not the answer I was looking for, but impressive. I wanted to get a remote desktop session to a client machine to support them in the se
sudo-ldap Fails to Authenticate
I mainly use two Linux distros - Manjaro and Debian (or Debian based distro Mint). For most remote workers, I rolled out Manjaro with caching authenticatio
Nginx Container with Custom Modules
The dev team wanted a version of Nginx that included some custom modules. I've previously built custom Nginx on bare metal, but this time it wanted to be i
gdm3 Tweaks
Updated:When setting up a new Debian Gnome it's nice to make things look the way you want. Here's a few changes I make to sort out my desktop. Hide a User from the
polkit-agent-helper-1[6160]
Updated:After setting up LDAP authentication on my machine, things went as expected, and I was able to authenticate at the GDM login and sudo from the command line
Manjaro - Static IP Address
Updated:It surprised me today that all of my Manjaro builds are using DHCP. I needed to make one of the devices a static IP, as it delivers DHCP, and would be a cy