Record of the UNIX Wars

It began as a personal voyage through the strange world of systems, network, and storage administration. Original stops were in the usual (Linux/Windows/Unix/OSX/Cisco/Brocade/Juniper) stations, but later on more were added. Please don't tip the delivery boy. This was never planned to be the ultimate authoritative source of knowledge, but more like quick notes and thoughts to help me remember how to do something. If you learn something by reading this, don't blame me!

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Configuring an interface in Linux without(!) nmcli

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In ages past, when you wanted to configure a network interface eth0 with MAC CC:00:FF:EE:12:34 with static IP 128.227.3.20 and using uran...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Debugging bash multiline commands in vi

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The ancient vi (1976), and its enhanced and slightly more modern (1991) successor vim have become unnapreciated workhorses in recent years...
Thursday, March 09, 2023

Docker container user cannot write to shared volume

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Something that has been baffling me for a while was how to mount a volume in a docker container such that a specific user inside said conta...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Yet another post on the demise of CentOS and the ascension of CentOS Stream

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A friend of mine has been told me that 2020 is the year you expect one catastophe each month: we had Australian wildfires, pandemic (which s...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Variable expansion and searching for packages that contain a file using yum/dnf

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I know some articles in this blog are rather clever, but this one is here to remind me (learn from my mistakes!) that understanding how a co...
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