I recently ran into a situation where a customer of mine had purchased a new HP Proliant server with a Windows Server 2008 R2 ROK license (Reseller Option Kit). This specific customer is using the Proliant as part of their virtual infrastructure, so naturally the server has VMware ESXi Server installed on it. The issues… Read More
If you have installed Bind DNS Server on Debian or Ubuntu, you probably noticed that all the output will be redirected to /var/log/syslog. We like to have our logs separate for each daemon, so in order to make that change we will need to add some configuration to bind9. First in /etc/bind/named.conf you will need… Read More
If you are using Pfsense Firewall as an OpenVPN endpoint, then chances are, you are aware that you can authenticate your users against multiple types of authentication providers. Beyond that, you can also use authentication providers to allow access to the administration interface of Pfsense itself. In this tutorial I will show you how to… Read More
If your are creating a custom log and would like to use logrotate, then this tutorial is for you. In this example I will show you how I am using logrotate to rotate a custom log created during Unison File Synchronization. The log file I will be rotating is at: /var/log/unison.log. We will also create… Read More
If you have ever done work with the Government or Military, then you know all too well that in order to access nearly any Government website you need a CAC card. Beyond needing a CAC, your machine needs to have the DOD Root CA’s installed on it as well. There are many sites that provide… Read More
Post revisions in WordPress are a great feature, however some users might not need them especially if they have limited database space, or are using WordPress as a CMS and don’t need auto-save. If this is the case, you can totally disable the post revisions feature in WordPress. This process requires editing wp-config.php located in… Read More
If you have ever patched a software package, for example Postfix using this tutorial, then you probably noticed that on the next apt-get update, apt reports that the package needs updated. Of course we don’t want apt to update the package we just patched so in comes the package hold. You probably know there are… Read More
If you are working with VMware ESXi Server, you are probably aware of the ability to export your entire virtual servers into handy little packages called OVA Templates. Occasionally we need to restore a server from an OVA Template but when you go to deploy the template you get the following error seen below. What… Read More
If your shop is in a situation where you have multiple admins working on group policy from different machine’s then you are most likely aware of the problems that may occur. The Microsoft management console GPO editor by default will pull the policy definition files from the computer it is being run on. On the… Read More