Yes, we all “hate” SELinux. But, as I tell my kids, “hate” probably really means this: prefer not to use it because it stops me doing things and since I don’t know how to manage it, I can’t do anything but turn it off entirely and feel dumb about it…. 🙂 However, it’s probably actually a […]
From an e-mail I wrote today to a colleauge confused about character encodings. We copied a bunch of files from an old HPUX web server to a new RHEL server running modern Apache. The files viewed from the new server have the dread black diamonds all over the place and he is trying to understand […]
I’m deploying a Cisco Unified Wireless Network at the office. It’s a cool, but complex beast. Along the way, I’m learning lots and lots of stuff…. one of which is how to use RADIUS to authenticate users. It’s an old but great protocol. In my situation, I want the Cisco Wireless Control System (WCS) to […]
Some fellows in another office asked for help figuring out why the CGI script they were writing wouldn’t run. Yesterday, I’d helped them find that the interpreter named on the she-bang line (#!) of their scripts didn’t exist and I’d recommended they use “#!/usr/bin/env perl” instead. They did, but wrote the test.cgi script in notepad […]