Install MariaDB and MySQL on AlmaLinux 10 and Secure It
Install MariaDB 10.11/11.8 or MySQL 8.4 from AlmaLinux 10 AppStream, secure it with mariadb-secure-installation, apply a hardening config and verify.
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Configuring DNS and GNS for Oracle RAC SCAN: Three SCAN IPs, Round Robin and Verifying with nslookup
Oracle Infrastructure Series, part 6. Previous: part 5, HAIP vs bonding for the private interconnect. Next up, part 7. Every RAC client connects to one name, the Single Client Access…
Find Linux Server Uptime
Find Linux Server Uptime Find Linux Server Uptime if you have ever needed to check when the last reboot of your Linux server was (if you are like us, it…
Solaris Process Management: ps -ef, pgrep, pkill, kill Signals and nohup
Find, inspect and stop processes on Solaris 10 and 11 with ps -ef, pgrep, pkill, kill and nohup, plus the /proc tools, Solaris signal numbers, SMF and zone gotchas.
PostgreSQL SSL/TLS and PgBouncer Connection Pooling on AlmaLinux 10
Enable SSL/TLS in PostgreSQL 18 on AlmaLinux 10 with a private CA, enforce hostssl and verify-full, add client certificates, then pool connections with PgBouncer using SCRAM auth_query and TLS.
Change Default Printer CUPS CentOS 6
Change Default Printer CUPS CentOS 6 Change Default Printer CUPS CentOS 6 Each Linux system has a default, even if you have a full CUPS Server, the local system default…
Configure DRBD CentOS 6
Configure DRBD CentOS 6 Configure DRBD CentOS 6 DRDB or Distributed Replicated Block Device is nice for HA situations of distributed block devices. This can be used for NAS, SAN,…
Mount NFS Share OpenSUSE 11
Mount NFS Share OpenSUSE 11 Mount NFS Share OpenSUSE 11 This blog takes you through the basics on mounting a NFS share on OpenSUSE 11. Login and su to root open…
Solaris Text Editors on a Bare System: vi Essentials and ed When Nothing Else Works
Solaris Admin Series part 9: the editors that ship on Solaris 10 and 11.4, fixing TERM and terminfo so vi works, the vi commands admins need, and ed for recovery edits of /etc/vfstab and /etc/system.
Change Default Home Directory Linux
Change Default Home Directory Linux Change Default Home Directory Linux This is a relatively easy task, that allows us to change the default home directory of new users added to…