Category Archives: Fedora

lmsensors for Monitoring a Hetzner EX41 with nct6775 on Centos7

Hi, I recently rented a new Hetzner Box to replace my old. I moved from EX40 to EX41 and saving even some money every month :-). Every thing went smooth, but the sensors did not work. I had to use … Continue reading

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qemu/kvm libvirt and trim with Fedora 25

Hi, after more then 10 years of using VMWare Workstation (Starting with VMWare Workstation 5). I’m in the process of moving to KVM/libvirt, but I want to use qcow2 with trim support. I’m using Fedora 25 with virt-manager to create … Continue reading

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Citrix Reciever and SELinux

Hi Internet, sorry for the longtime being absent from this blog. But marriage and a child takes time and the blog was the first to go. But I will restart writing blog posts today with a project I started a … Continue reading

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We need 64bit, everywhere!

Just bought a new 8TB disk drive. Following my standard procedures I run a badblock -w against the disk as burn in test. Running on Fedora 20 on x86_64 I was surprised to see this: badblocks -v -v -w /dev/sdf … Continue reading

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my T-Shirt

root is god selinux is blasphemy

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yum vs. dnf

Sorry for the long silence. I will try to post more often from now on. I playing around with dnf, which is the package manager that should replace yum in the future and had some very nice insight. [root@mysystem ~]# … Continue reading

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Bachelor Thesis: Centralized and structured log file analysis with Open Source and Free Software tools

After a lot of hard work I finished my bachelor thesis end of August and gave my colloquium end of September. Because of all the other stuff going on in my life I just have now time to upload my … Continue reading

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uptime madness, or why do you need to reboot just because you replace the harddiscs?

I just got an new HP Microserver for a customer. I only had two 500GB disc available and installed Centos onto it. But now the 4* 3TB discs have arrived and I need to move everything from the 2 small … Continue reading

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Thank you Seth Vidal, my first ansible playbook

I was shocked when I heard about Seth Vidal’s death. Of course I use yum daily, but it brought tears to my eyes, when I was reading my  “my TODO List after a install” and realized that Seth was one … Continue reading

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my TODO List after a install

I had to reinstall a couple of machines recently and I had to do the same thing more then once. So I wrote a script,and for my own future self I post it here, as reference. sed -e ‘s:ONBOOT=no:ONBOOT=yes:’ -i … Continue reading

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