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HP provides a command line utility called HPE Smart Storage Administrator (HPE SSACLI) used to configure, manage and monitor their RAID storage controllers. This application has changed its name over the years but is now […]
There are a number of tools that will allow you to generate secure passwords including urandom, OpenSSL, GPG and pwgen. I will briefly demo these below. OpenSSL The below generates a random string of 14 […]
Sometimes, when you’re testing your access to a website for example, it can be useful to change the IP address you appear to be coming from. Ordinarily, when you go to a website, the website […]
Here we create our own yum repository on a fresh up-to-date installation of Centos 7. Configure Nginx First install the EPEL repository. And then Nginx. Start and enable Nginx. Install and configure a local firewall. […]
Occasionally I need to find the usable IP address range given a particular CIDR notation. Usually I use an online calculator but today I found a better Linux based CLI tool, sipcalc, which save me […]
Today I finally found a bit of time to migrate my GitLab instance from one cloud provider to another. Following my own guide on how to migrate to a new instance, I began by installing […]
Most cloud computers don’t come with swapping pre-enabled. There can however be times where this is required and/or beneficial. The process is pretty much the same for any Linux distro. To the the current state […]
Dependencies Run to the below command to install the GitLab dependencies. When prompted, select Internet Site when configuring Postfix. Enter the FQDN. Installing GitLab GitLab provides a bash script that add their repository for you. […]
Install XWiki and all dependant programs on a 4 GB cloud server. This means: 1) Java 2) Tomcat 3) MySQL/MariaDB 4) XWiki 5) Nginx Here we use Nginx as a reverse proxy to firstly redirect […]
Do not attempt to shrink a volume if the partition is mounted! Always unmount first! If it is the root volume you need to reduce in size, use a Live DVD/USB instead. You should also […]
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