An intro to bash: Easiest guide to .bashrc. I particularly liked this one:
var() {
eval "export $1=\"$2\""
}
Dangerous, but cool.
Category Archives: Sys Admin
DNS over HTTPS
Today I read Run Your Own DNS over HTTPS (DoH) Resolver on Ubuntu with DNSdist which mentioned BIND will support DoH in version 9.17, which is still in development.
apt-rdepends
Today I learned about apt-rdepends which can show what dependencies an apt package has… handy!
ZFS performance tuning
I read The Next Gen Database Servers Powering Let’s Encrypt which mentioned how they tuned ZFS.
My traceroute
So today I learned about the `mtr` command. Handy!
macOS show connected servers on desktop
In Finder -> Preferences -> General there is a checkbox option to show ‘Connected servers’. Use that to show connected servers and then you can make aliases for them. I learned about this setting today over here.
5 lines I put in a blank .vimrc
See 5 lines I put in a blank .vimrc for some sensible defaults… my .vimrc is rather a bit longer…
Vagrant
There are a bunch of great examples of using vagrant for testing purposes in
High Availability for the LAMP Stack: Eliminate Single Points of Failure and Increase Uptime for Your Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP Based Web Applications by Jason Cannon which I have on my Kindle.
This is how I git
Bumped into This is how I git which is full of tips about working with git.
Protecting TimeMachine backups from itself
Today I bumped into Protecting TimeMachine backups from itself. A good article, covers various TimeMachine Mac things including `tmutil`.