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Category Archives: Sys Admin
Using filesystem capabilities with rsync
This a note for Future John: Using filesystem capabilities with rsync by Hazel Smith. Use the CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH capability. AKA: how I learned to stop worrying and love CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH. There are some more notes over on Linux Capabilities and rsync, from presentation to practice.
DigitalOcean in Sydney
At the moment I’m mostly all in on AWS, but this is tempting, and good to know about: Introducing DigitalOcean’s state-of-the-art data center in Sydney, Australia.
More books!
I’ve got a kickass collection of old engineering books:
The Linux man-pages project
Today I discovered: The Linux man-pages project.
Forcing a partition table reload
I’m reading How Linux Works, 3rd Edition: What Every Superuser Should Know and I learned that you can force the kernel to reload a partition table with a command like this:
# blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdX
Why is firefox trying to access fstab and how can I stop it?
My first question on Ask Ubuntu: Why is firefox trying to access fstab and how can I stop it?
hostinfo.sh
I created a new script hostinfo.sh, it works a little like this:
------------------- Mon Mar 27 00:13:55 [bash:5.1.16 jobs:0 error:0 time:0] jj5@charm:/home/jj5 $ hostinfo.sh id.............: 218-jj-wrk-8-charm-prod-home fqdn...........: charm.jj5.net host...........: charm host-prod......: charm host-test......: charm-test domain.........: jj5.net sysid..........: 218 system.........: jj-wrk-8 realm..........: jj class..........: wrk typenum........: 8 deployment.....: prod provider.......: home environment....: home netenv.........: prod net............: GREEN instance-type..: None -------------------
moreutils: ts
I recently discovered the `ts` command from the moreutils package. You can use it to prepend a timestamp to each line.
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
This is good: The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security.
It referenced this, which is also good: Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle by R.P. Feynman.