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LDAP Commands on RHEL5
During the migration of a production system from Solaris 10 to RedHat Enterprise Linux 5, I discovered that I had a problem with a couple of my LDAP scripts. The commands being run were standard ldapsearch and ldapmodify commands in a format similar to the following: ldapsearch -h hostname.domain.com -p 389 -b o=organisation -D cn=admin [...]
Openfiler LVM to RAID conversion
As many of your know, I have a Plex-based Mac Mini media center setup which has enabled me to to the cord with the cable monopoly. Part of this setup is the Openfiler NAS that I use to store all of the digital copies of my dvd collection. Lately I have been wishing that I [...]
iPad for the sysadmin
A few weekends ago I had the privilege of being assigned to evaluate an iPad for use as a support tool by my boss. (thanks Ike!) The first order of business was to figure out some basic tasks that we would need to accomplish as sysadmins that we could realistically use the iPad for. Remote [...]
Life without cable – Part 3
This is the third in a series of articles on my trials and travails about living the cable-free life. The first part dealt with moving to Apple’s AppleTV platform by way of MythTV and Tivo. In part two talked about the reasons why I moved from an AppleTV to a Mac Mini-based HTCP setup. This [...]
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