For anyone taking RHCSA9 exam soon, this might be helpful.
On newly installed Rhel9.3 virtual machines, the grub2 boot menu gets hidden after successful boots.
This makes test exam tasks more difficult that wants you to reset root passwords, by going to emergency mode and remounting /sysroot rw.
This …
read moreI've looked for an rss feed link for the Ansible Community release (not ansible-core) that I usually install with pip, but could never find.
I should have looked on pypi.org first, from https://pypi.org/project/ansible you can find Release history tab, which gives this link that can …
read moreNever again will I buy any SMR hdds.
I cheaped out on 2 drives years ago and I've been regretting it ever since.
read moreProject 1 for the weekend:
replace shorthand image references in my ansible/docker-compose playbooks from eg:
'traefik:2.9'
to
'docker.io/library/traefik:2.9'
I also need to change them in my Dockerfiles, yay.
read moreDilbert.com now redirects to https://linktr.ee/scottadams, making my Dilbert comic scraper useless.
The scraper collected a total of 12382 comics over the past 6-7 years I was working on it. I had to save the last 2 available comics from archive.org.
So the collection has a …
read moreIn the Sander Van Vugt RHCSA video rcsa_01_06_08.mp4 video(L6: Managing Users and Groups/Managing Password Properties), he mentions looking into the pam_tally2 module.
What is pam_faillock and how to use it in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
The kb above says pam_tally2 has been replaced with pam_faillock.
Its man …
read moreI've been following a few projects' releases over RSS to determine see new releases and when to upgrade docker images I use locally.
For some software, it's not worth it to upgrade straightaway to a new release(eg on a new v13.0 release). I like to see if there …
read moreAs someone who uses Gitlab CI a lot, I ought to take a look at the following link soon.
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/usage_quotas.html#namespace-storage-limit-enforcement-schedule
read moreI've been updating my dockerfiles on my several git repos across Gitlab and Github.
Some of them have working images now for armv7(32 bit arm), armv8(64 bit arm) and amd64(most desktops these days).
I only use armv7 and amd64 images for my raspberry pies and my pc-s …
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