Category Archives: Unix
Setting up and using a local (insecure) Docker registry service container
The first thing to note about this post is that it sets up an insecure local registry facility using the standard registry container. This type of registry is ideal for local ‘internal network’ development use. It is also suitable for … Continue reading
Running remote X-windows applications across ssh from a Fedora server
This post has been created as it may assist others who want to do the same thing. It is not complicated or world shaking. Often you will run Fedora (or CentOS/RHEL) servers and do not want a GUI desktop installed. … Continue reading
Installing airgraph-ng on Kali Linux
There are many tutorials on using airgraph-ng on youtube; most omit the small detail that it cannot be installed using a package manager. The airodump-ng utility within the aircrack-ng toolkit is used to scan wireless activity near your location, including … Continue reading
Generating a new puppet client certificate
This is for the community edition of puppetserver, although will work for all recent puppet releases. I use puppetserver as it is supposed to be able to manage up to 100 agents without having to hook it up to a … Continue reading
Installing a local GitLab instance using the supplied container
There are lots of complicated ways to install a local GitLab instance, however for small environments it is easiest to simply use the supplied container image. Instructions on installing that are at https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/docker/ and are simple to follow. Install, start, … Continue reading
Re-initialising a bacula database
OK, first on a well managed system you would never need to do this. Despite the fact my system I thought was well managed and had 250gb free in the backup storage pool rotating around quite happily when one of … Continue reading
A few very simple Video file manipulation tips for Linux users
This post is obviously aimed at Linux users, as it is my prefred desktop of choice. Shrinking the size of Video files (linux users only) Sometimes Video files you have, whether provided by a friend, downloaded from youtube, or even … Continue reading
OpenStack Magnum Container Infrastructure – My Tests
Summary of results: While OpenStack deploys all the necessary components to create a working infrastructure the available ‘atomic’ images just do not work. You end up with all the VMs and new private networking required in place, but the OS’s … Continue reading
Is there a future for Docker ?
With Fedora no longer supporting Docker out-of-the-box (kernel changes are needed https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F31_bugs#Other_software_issues) and RHEL8 no longer supporting Docker (https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/building_running_and_managing_containers/index) one may wonder if Docker itself has a future. The reason RedHat give (in the link above) is that they wish … Continue reading
An update on a couple of old posts
As you may recall I have posted earlier on installing snort as an intrusion detection system (IDS). And also an earlier post on dynamically adding firewall blacklist rules based upon traffic hitting my website based upon apache rewrite rules to … Continue reading