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  • Renew LetsEncrypt in Traefik

    I’d setup Traefik to use LetsEncrypt, but due to the scarey words around rate limits etc, I felt it sensible to use the staging LetsEncrypt servers, rather than the production ones – basically I wasn’t sure how many changes I’d have to make as it has been a while since I played with any of…

  • Traefik Log Rotation

    An explanation of how to set up Traefik Log Rotation. This covers both the access log AND the traefik log. I initially setup simple log rotation using the standard logrotate package i have installed for everything else. I implemented this by following this page (there are others about) but this covered my scenario the best…

  • Pi with FAN-SHIM problem diagnosis

    I purchased a FAN-SHIM and Raspberry Pi 4 from Pimoroni last year but occasionally saw a problem, and struggled with a diagnosis. The FAN-SHIM generally worked great, but I noticed that it didn’t seem to always work when I didn’t have a lead coming off the header to a breadboard. The fan would just run,…

  • Configure Microsoft Live Writer to work with Drupal

    Hey! I’ve managed to configure Microsoft Live Writer to work with my Drupal install (see this URL). I had a minor issue configuring Microsoft Live Writer, where I couldn’t login as my non-administration user. Initially, I worked that that returning the edit privilege in Drupal “Authenticated Users” made it work. Since then I had a…

  • Persisting Bering changes locally

    So I decided to add an user wolagent and put the script into his home directory. The question is how to backup this user.  Simply using the ‘s’ – command from the Bering 3.x – menu doesn’t backup the user and his homedir. In short, there seemed to be no way to persist this Bering…

  • eBusiness Autoconfig Customisation

    Why customise? Autoconfig Customisation has the potential to make life much easier for an Oracle Applications DBA. In short, it enables the creation of controlled templates that can make all of the things that have to be done after running autoconfig go away. For example, generally after you run adautocfg.sh you then have to remember…

  • Update Tripwire policy

    It’s pretty simple really. Just run this: sudo twadmin -m p > twpol.txt

  • Update Tripwire

    OK, only waited a few months before adding this! I’d recommend not doing this as root, as if you do, the root directory modification time will change as you modify twpol.txt. Also twpol.txt will change as you modify it. All of this means you’ll have to run 1-3 before you can run 4. And tripwire…

  • Configure Tripwire on Debian

    I have finally gotten around to configure the Tripwire setup on my Debian installation, after having it bleat at me for the last 3 years! I found details on http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-6034353.html which pointed me in the correct direction. My installation is Debian based, so it fitted the “no twinstall.sh” case shown most closely. I have had…

  • Compile an SRPM

    Download SRPM into a directory of choice. Generally files out to go into: /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS Then run: rpm –rebuild <file>-<version>.src.rpm This will then build the new RPM. Everything will then happen automatically, and the newly built RPMs will go here: /usr/src/redhat/RPM/<cpu-type> If the configuration file needs to be changed then run: rpm -i <file>-<version>.src.rpm The spec…