Posts
All the articles I've posted.

Libc6 and OpenSSH
Updated:This morning was pretty much written off by some nasty occurrence I didn't pay attention to yesterday. Whilst trying to fix gimp with lots of apt manipulat

Raspbian & Realtek 8192eu Wifi - Revisited
STOP READING NOW IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE DISAPPOINTMENT. It's been a while since I originally wrote about the Raspbian & Realtek 8192eu WiFi USB Wifi adapter a

History to Timesheets
Updated:I'm not great at remembering what I did so I can include it on my time logger. I found I could trawl through my zsh history file to get an idea of what I'd

Upgrading MySQL in a Container
Updated:Upgrading MySQL 5.5 to 5.7 in a docker container set caused me some trouble. Setting the tag to 5.7.30 was all well and good but when I fired up the contai

Apache Directory Studio and memberOf
Life got easier after I found this in Apache Directory Studio - edit your connection go to the "Browser Options" tab and tick the Features option at the bo

Nginx Configuration Synchronisation
Updated:Back when I built the Nginx failovers using Nginx and Keepalived I also required that should the config change on the master then the config would automati

Nginx and Keepalived
Updated:I have a need to deploy a High Availability Load Balanced reverse proxy solution. We have a back end web service that requires resilience. To achieve this

SSH and SOCKS
Updated:Here's my handy script for bringing a socks proxy up and down. Saves the hassle of finding the PID of the ssh proxy process to kill it when you're done. so

PAM_LDAP and uniqueMember
Updated:After upgrading the LDAP server so we could make use of some new features like olc and in particular memberOf I ran into a major issue. Where many programs

SSH Multiplexing
Updated:Typically SSH creates a new tcp session for every time you connect to a remote host. But there is a feature of ssh that allows connections to reuse an exis