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Shut up, auditd!
(Happy 2021, may it be better than 2020!) On my tiny, Raspberry Pi based Fedora systems, I have a lot of audit messages in my journal. And I mean a lot, I mean like over 50,000 over the course of 9 days. That's over 5,500 per …
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Batch downloading GitHub binaries
As much as possible, on my Fedora systems (which runs on my desktop, laptop and a handful of Raspberry Pis), I use what dnf provides me with. The same goes for machines I run other operating systems on, like my pihole server (which runs Raspberry Pi OS …
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Joplin and webdav
What's Joplin? Joplin is a cross-platform note taking app that I use a lot to keep track of my projects, and to organize my notes and thoughts. Joplin allows you to create note books, and add an infinite number of notes to them. You can link between …
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Using Minikube On Fedora With The Registry Addon
Setting up minikube on Fedora 31 Setting up a minikube VM Downloading the required binaries Configuring minikube Starting the minikube VM Enabling the registry addon Pushing images into the registry and running them! Starting the container Update (March 6, 2020) I have updated the below description for …
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Tempus Fugit, or moving from hubpress to Jekyll
The other day, I was looking at writing a new blog post about something I was trying out with Quarkus1 and Kubernetes. When I opened my blog, I realised I hadn't updated the underlying hubpress code in quite a while. A long while. So long, in fact, that I …
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The confusing Bash configuration files
This blog is mostly a reminder for my future self, because I always end up forgetting this. Bash has a bunch of configuration files it parsers through when you fire it up. Bash reads them in this order (on Fedora, and I suppose RHEL and derivatives too) if invoked as …
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Running cockpit on a Satellite Capsule / Foreman Proxy
When I bought my new workstation - those Ryzen beasts are FAST! - I decided I would build my new lab properly, and with properly, I meant with proper SSL certificates for all apps. So I set up Red Hat IdM on a simple VM, and then imported the CA into my …
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Using the ovirt_vms module with cloud_init
A quick blog today. I've been wrestling with the ovirt_vms module in Ansible 2.5. I wanted to deploy a RHEL VM from a template on a RHV 4.1 cluster and use cloud-init to customize the VM. The ovirt_vms module offers a cloud_init option that takes a custom_script parameter …
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Fencing RHV or oVirt nested hypervisors
I have this nice AMD Ryzen ThreadRipper, with 64GiB or RAM. What I want to do is run RHV 4.1 in virtual machines, and be able to play around with nested virtualization, HA and fencing. Problem is, that my virtual machines will live on libvirt, and VMs …
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Screencasts on Linux, part 2
A while back, I wrote a post comparing some screencasting and video editing software on Linux. I that post, I mentioned a couple of video editing programs that are available, and basically noted that - as far as video editing is concerned - things were painful on Linux, at least for me …
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