So you’re facing a system or security audit and you need to quickly print a list of accounts for the auditor as well as their statuses. Depending on your setup, this could be a trivial task. In other cases, especially with a passwd instance that doesn’t support the -a option, Read more…
Every now and then there arises a need to send e-mail from a command prompt. In this case, the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the desire is to have mailx send e-mail to a 3rd party, external system using a relay server. To do this, you need to Read more…
I searched for a while to come up with a method for expanding swap in an online way thinking that it might now be possible given all kinds of disk and file system advances over the past few years. It's been a little bit since I've had to do this Read more…
So I decided to mess around with bitcoins, not for any purpose other than to learn something new. At this point it's difficult to 'mine' for them since BC's have been around for several years now and they've designed a system which will get exponentially harder over time (a good Read more…