1. Installing Chef on CentOS

    I have been playing around with Chef for the past week and while I liked it, it was a pain it setup. It seems to be work well if you run Debian and Ubuntu. Everything else … not so much.

    First sign of trouble is when I attempt to bootstrap the …

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  2. FreeBSD and OpenLDAP Grief

    Finally got my FreeBSD client to authenticate against my OpenLDAP server.

    The configuration is fairlystraightforward. What took the time wascompilation the dependencies (running it in a VM can do that to it). That and the following issues.

    • It seems that Perl is not a requirement for a FreeBSD install …
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  3. TLS problems with OpenLDAP Client

    I ran into an interesting problem sometime back that I only now resolved.

    Originally, I was running Scientific Linux on most of my VM. I have since upgraded most of them to Centos 6.0 - and converted on in particular to Centos CR.

    That “broke” my ldapauthentication- when connecting to …

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  4. A Note on Installing FreeBSD on KVM + DHCP

    If you install FreeBSD on KVM, you encounter a problem where you are able to install it over the network, but not be able to get it to obtain an IP address after the initial reboot.

    The solution is to add the following in /etc/rc.conf:

    synchronous_dhclient=“YES”

    And …

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  5. Linux: CentOS CR for CentOS 6.0

    reallinux:

    CentOS has been criticized heavily earlier this year, mainly because of the big delay their distribution normally has (compared to the original RHEL releases).
    One of the problems that comes with this delay is that security fixes that RedHat writes for their latest release are unavailable for…

    Linux: CentOS …

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  6. bash: Field Separator Variable

    sys-log:

    By default when using a for loop in bash the field separator is set to a space.

    Example:

    [bcane@bcane \~]\$ for x in list:like:this; do echo \$x; done
    list:like:this

    One of the cool things about bash is that you can change this by setting a …

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