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Git through apache, anonymous pull but authenticated push

I have been having this annoying issue where I needed to open ssh up to the internet in order to allow authenticated push with a centralized git server. After hours and hours of trying to master anonymous pull and authenticated … Continue reading

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Kickstarting RHEL 6.1 or newer, registering with subscription-manager

I’ve been spending the last few hours trying to register a Red Hat Enterprise Linux machine during kickstart. What I wanted to achieve: Kickstart Register the machine with certificate based method (subscription-manager) Install Puppet which will take care of the … Continue reading

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SElinux and Proliant Support Pack (PSP) on RHEL or Centos 5

I’ve been getting these annoying messages in the audit log, /var/log/audit/audit.log after installing the Proliant Support Pack on RHEL5. type=AVC msg=audit(1262639482.789:2027381): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=18916 comm=”ethtool” path=”/dev/hpilo/d0ccb5″ dev=tmpfs ino=6784 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:device_t:s0 tclass=chr_file type=AVC msg=audit(1262639482.789:2027381): avc:  denied  … Continue reading

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RocketRaid on Red Hat / CentOS 5

Been dabbling with getting RocketRaid 1740 to work on Centos 5. It was not as easy as I had hoped but below you can view the steps needed for the implmentation. HighPoint RocketRaid 1740 is only supported on Red Hat … Continue reading

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Making Oracle work with SELinux on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

I wanted to put up for easy reference, how to setup the Oracle Instant Client packages on a SELinux enabled Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 machine, the documentation was created on a x86_64 machine but should work on the 32 … Continue reading

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Fedora 10, a real treat

Installed Fedora 10 a couple of days ago and I must say I’m very pleasantly surprised. Install went smoothly as ever and getting everything up and running was pretty much painless. Here’s pretty much what I needed to do to … Continue reading

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Update to AsteriskJA because of changes of CallerID Lookup Sources

There was a change in recent module for FreePBX where the lookup source uri could not contain cid=${CALLERID(num)}. The fix for that is to change it to cid=[NUMBER]. See the AsteriskJA page.

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Automaticly blacklisting password attempts

I’ve tried quite a few methods to block password guessers from guessing passwords on machines that have open SSH, POP, IMAP… What I usually used was iptables and the recent module “iptables -m recent –help” if you are interested in … Continue reading

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New version of tv_grab_is for Icelandic program listings

I just finished updating my tv_grab_is script to use the xml interfaces which every Icelandic broadcasting company has. Continue reading

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Gnucash scripts for kaupþing and landsbanki

Just re-added my gnucash scripts for importing data from Kaupþing XML transaction data and Landsbanki kredit card statements. Find them at /gnucash

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