Paul's Blog
The articles below are on various topics, though the majority are focused on some aspect of systems administration.
IPMI tool function
In the vein of my post about an SSH login function I’ve added to my bash profile, here’s another profile function, this one for invoking ipmitool.
September 28, 2015 • Read more…
FQDN SSH login function
September 23, 2015 • Read more…
Ethernet Device Names in CentOS 7
January 07, 2015 • Read more…
oVirt Engine 3.4.4 Interoperability with Fedora 21
December 19, 2014 • Read more…
Dueling fail2ban and ipset timeouts
December 10, 2014 • Read more…
IT Operations on TV Shows
A recent thread on a technical mailing list I frequent was started by someone observing (perhaps complaining) that many television show plots rely on ridiculous IT operations.
I agree, but I don’t really care. I even approve.
November 25, 2014 • Read more…
Great Utilities: pbcopy
This is the first of what I hope will become a series of posts that highlight useful command-line computing utilities.
November 20, 2014 • Read more…
ALL CAPS at NWS
November 11, 2014 • Read more…
Running ssh-add on a Remote Host
November 06, 2014 • Read more…
Evolution of Flushing MacOS DNS Cache
I recently updated both my work and home Macs to OS X 10.10, aka Yosemite. As with most OS upgrades, little changes have accompanied the marquee upgrades. In particular, Yosemite has yet another way to flush the local DNS cache.
November 03, 2022 • Read more…
IPv6 Autoconfiguration
October 22, 2014 • Read more…
Installing Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0 on CentOS 6
October 07, 2014 • Read more…
Warding Off IP-based Web Scans
Like any other web server on the Internet, mine is frequently the target of IPv4-based scanning attacks.
October 02, 2014 • Read more…
Launch oVirt 3.3 VNC consoles in OS X
I recently ran into obstacles getting oVirt 3.3 VNC console sessions to launch in Mac OS X.
September 26, 2014 • Read more…
Steven Soderbergh on Raiders of the Lost Ark
Steven Soderbergh has done a really cool experiment.
September 24, 2014 • Read more…