You guys know me, I do script a lot of stuff to make my life easier. Starting from my (smart)home to my server maintenance – it just saves too much time. And today I would like to share some ideas on how (not?) to work with configuration stuff in bash. First of all: Configuration on some scripts may […]
Yubikey for system auth
Linux is a beautiful system that can be customized in very many ways – it amazes me everytime how easy or which features I can add to my system for making life easier for me. Today: Login using the Yubikey. System Authentication is pretty easy on Linux system if we stick to PAM, which allows us to mix […]
Central logging vs dns targets
Oh boy – I was not ready for a hit like that. But let me start with the whole picture, shall we? I do run a central syslog using graylog and I tend to ship my logs to that device for easier searching and poking around in those. No big deal until I looked at my DNS traffic […]
ccache on kernels
As I am building debian packages of recent kernels, I have to build the same thing over and over again – pretty much three times to be exact. Once for ‘vanilla’, second time for virtual machines and third time for gameservers using the gentoo patchset. If you check back on my post about ccache on gentoo you might […]
My own kernel repo
Debian is awesome. Really. I love Debian – but sometimes the well-aged kernel is a tad too old for me. Currently it’s about fstrim and as I’m already doing my own Gentoo-Kernel for Debian, I had to do it properly and build an upstream ‘vanilla’ kernel too. What I dislike about my current setup is having to install […]
Building a Gentoo Linux Kernel on Debian
Debian is a solid Linux distribution with nearly nothing to complain about besides its well aged software. And in my case this ‘nearly nothing’ was more about the nearly than the nothing as due to the old kernel, fstrim didn’t do its job. So I decided to build a new kernel. But as I am running Gentoo on […]