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Systems Administration with Perl and SSH
Hey there! Today I wanted to focus on something that’s helping me do my job in a more efficient fashion. At a former workplace, I was responsible for ~500 high capacity webhosting machines, and a host...
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A Basic IPFW firewall HowTo for FreeBSD…
Of all the different OS’s and the multitude of firewall implementations for each, my favorite has to be FreeBSD’s IPFW ruleset. It’s powerful, super efficient, and most of all, *EASY* to read! So I’m...
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So if you’re ever connected to a remote machine (or several), and you frequently see this message after you walk away from your term for a bit… Write failed: Broken pipe Do this from the machine you’re...
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For loops and pillar data in saltstack states
I was tinkering with iterating through pillar data in saltstack and I hit an odd bump. First and foremost, pillar data is apparently only available during the highstate runs. Calling a state that...
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