Running ansible from a git checkout
The Fedora and EPEL ansible packages are as up to date as possible, but sometimes you want to run a newer, not yet released ansible version for any of a number of reasons: To confirm a bug is fixed. To...
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Some interesting gnome 3.22.x gsettings
As I have mentioned in the past, I switch off between Xfce and Gnome desktops here. While in Gnome, I have a number of settings I have picked up in various places (bugs, talking to maintainers, various...
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gnome extensions
In general when using Gnome I try and avoid extensions. Most of the ‘default’ setup is fine or I was able to get used to it and it works well enough. There are a few extensions I do use however for...
View Articledebugging koji build failures
From time to time builds fail in koji (The Fedora build system), and it’s good to know how to figure out where to look for the reason. Koji has a central hub that manages jobs and a bunch of builders...
View Articlepass – The standard unix password manager
In my line of work (sysadmin), I have to deal with a LOT of passwords. For a number of years I was a fan of keepassx, but the upgrade to version 2.0 there didn’t thrill me. (There were some features I...
View Articlekeepalived: Simple HA
We have been using keepalived in Fedora Infrastructure for a while now. It’s a pretty easy to use and simple way to do some basic HA. Keepalived can keep track of which machine is “master” for a IP...
View Articlexfce4-terminal: lots of progress recently
Most Linux desktop’s have their own terminal programs, and Xfce is no exception. There’s been a number of releases of xfce4-terminal recently, so I thought I would share some of the changes with people...
View Articlesome IOT ideas
With the massive denial of service against a large DNS provider (in turn causing a lot of other things to have outages) on friday using a network of insecure IOT (Internet of things) devices (mostly...
View ArticleAnother Fedora cycle, another painless Fedora upgrade
As we near the release of Fedora 25, as always I upgrade my main servers to the new release before things come out so I can share any problems or issues I hit and possibly get them fixed before the...
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Security Score Card For Fedora Infrastructure
Josh is asking folks to send him their security score card via twitter. Since I’ve been trying to blog more and like pontificating, I thought I would respond here in a blog post. There’s 4 parts to the...
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