TheMadAdmin

A long, long time ago… I can still remember how
The Internet used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
that I could make a website dance
And user would be happy for a while
But December made me shiver
With every update that was delivered
Bad news in my inbox...
I could tweet one more time...
I can't remember if we cried
When congress kill or techno bride
but something touch me deep inside
the day the internet died.

http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2011/11/usa-computer-professiona...

A bill is currently making its way through the United States Senate that effectively eliminates overtime pay for IT professionals. The important text of the bill is:

Section 13(a)(17) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 213(a)(17)) is amended to read as follows:

OK so you want or need a new user id to be associated with a system user, in this case tomcat.

These are the steps:

First mod the user tomcat to the new uid(see below):

/usr/sbin/usermod -u 755 tomcat

This has the unintended affect of removing tomcat from owing its own files so you have to change that. File permissions are done by uid not name.

So now you have to change all tomcat's files to the new UID. Remember that ufs and ext* file systems store all ownerships with the UID, not the userid string.

I just installed PCBSD on an Atom based netbook.

It is cool.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/safer-access-without-passwords

Great how to from Linux Journal.

How do you make sure that your passwords are safe? You can make them longer, complicate them by adding odd characters, making sure to use different passwords for each user account that you have. Or, you can simply skip them all together.

The secure shell, ssh, is a key tool in any Linux user's toolbox. As soon as you have more than one machine to interact with, ssh is the obvious choice.

Have you ever wanted to open 16 ssh sessions at once and have them all type at the same time what you type on one. Then you need cssh.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/clusterssh/index.php?title=Main_Page

Very cool. Save me so much time.

Also if your machines are numbered sequentially, this loop will connect to all of them:

cssh username@`for i in $(seq 1 13); do echo hostname$i.com; done`

I have taken a new job.

I am now working as a full fledged Linux Network Engineer. I work with Red Hat, Cisco, Juniper.

Very happy and learning and doing a lot.

More later.

Welcome to the CentOS 6.0 release. CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by our Upstream OS Provider (UOP)1.

CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendor's redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.)

CentOS 6.0 represents many changes from previous releases.

CentOS 6.0 has been completely rebuilt using a newer build system and library checks to confirm upstream binary compatibility.

This is a great article if you are serious about programming games in flash.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/games/articles/getting-started-flash-games.html

Putting it here so I don't lose it. Great information, really.

Dave