Author Archives: mark
Using Bacula to backup your Fedora/CentOS Linux servers
This post was written to acknowledge bacula has saved my ass again. My main desktop machine failed, a new replacement was purchased and swapped in, new OS installed with same hostname and ip-address. Then installed puppet and let the puppet … Continue reading
Installing the OpenStack Stein release from the RDO repositories
As you are I am sure all aware the OpenStack Stein release is available and documented on the RDO site now. While the “stein” release has been available for a while this post took a long time to prepare as … Continue reading
Looks like Google is breaking the rules
It would appear I am blocking Google from indexing my site, at least until they fix their robot indexers to perform as documented. The documentation at http://www.google.com/bot.html, url thoughtfully provided in the user agent string, clearly says Googlebot and all … Continue reading
Logcheck on Fedora, for my use
Logcheck on fedora, by default when installed, runs every hour. For my use this generates so much email traffic (as it runs on all my servers) that it becomes garbage, and I ended up just deleting all the emails rather … Continue reading
Suppressing audit messages to /var/log/messages on Fedora 29 and 30
One of my machines has started rebooting for no reason that I can find, possibly power surges as my UPS seems have now have a dead battery. One difficulty in finding the issue is that the messages file if full … Continue reading
Using the certbot package on Fedora 30 to get LetsEncrypt certificates
There was a post on the fedora forums stating that the certbot apache plugin does not work on fedora, so I had a look. The post was correct, the apache plugin for certbot wants to use the “apachectl -v” command … Continue reading
Interesting issues with grub2 and Fedora 30
While the resolution was found in the Fedora forums as RedHat is built from successfull pilots of new code in Fedora in may exist in RedHat systems as well. I had major issues upgrading my KVM F29 instances to F30. … Continue reading
BasKet notes appear to be no more, switched to CherryTree
I used to rely on BasKet notes on both Fedora and Redhat After rebuilding a Desktop I discovered it was no longer available in the Fedora repositories. This may not be a new thing as I discovered I had also … Continue reading
Mirroring up two spare internal disks under Fedora29
Having had to rebuild another machine, After it was up and running I had a server with the OS installed on the boot disk and two spare internal disks that used to be in a raid array. While the machine … Continue reading
Interesting issue with creating CentOS7 KVM machines on the F29 OS
The interesting this is that is seems specific to the CentOS7 install media, and the issue is the intsaller cannot detect VIRTIO disks. My OS is Fedora 29 fully patched, the CentOS7 install media I was using is CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1503-01.iso When … Continue reading