Once in awhile I hear (since the pandemic mostly see on chat) people comparing Ansible and CFengine: this is better, that is better. etc. I use both and like both, I think both have their […]
Comparing Ansible and CFEngine
Linux: Keep That Process Running
For whatever reasons a process can crash. The best is always to find out why and fix it. However, sometimes you can have higher priority tasks and you want that process to be running. With […]
NGINX Headers For Docker
In case you run docker behind nginx some of your container might need specific headers otherwise a browser trying to access them might want to connect to a local or private address, something like https://127.0.0.1:8080. […]
How To Extend HDD
How to extend ZFS on FreeBSD How to extend ext4 on Ubuntu using LVM (Linux Volume Group)
LibreNMS & docker-compose
If you don’t know LibreNMS, it is a great monitoring tool with auto discovery, auto operating system detection, custom alert settings, extended application support and more. For details check out: https://www.librenms.org, https://github.com/librenms I was recently […]
.vimrc
vi and vim are two out of many text editors on Unix, this is my .vimrc. I put this here mostly so I can easily grab it.
Fun With /etc/cron.*
If you are reading this you probably know what /etc/cron.hourly/ , /etc/cron.daily/ and so on does. What you might not know is that on CentOS, RHEL, Fedora you can name a script living in these […]
sssd.conf – case sensitivity
Secure System Service Daemon or SSSD is used to setup authentication on various Linux distributions. You can also use it to define how to interact with Active Directory. It has a configuration line which will […]
MikroTik OpenDNS with DoH
OpenDNS is my preferred DNS service. This is how you can configure a MikroTik router for OpenDNS using DoH or DNS over HTTPS. Athe actual URL of the server, then, because you have no other […]
Block Adds With MikroTik
Ionut Micu created a cool MikroTik script to block adds by assigning 127.0.0.1 to their hostname, similar to Pihole. This is basically the same I just included a few allow list that I usually use, […]