Mar 06 2021
I was writing a new Ansible role to upgrade all of my VMs with apt update and apt upgrade. I was still using an old Rancher that only works with docker-ce package up to version 18.06. A first task holds back the package with Ansible Dpkg module, basically an apt hold, as recommended on many […]
Dec 19 2009
All systems need bridge-utils package installed either with yum or apt-get. Redhat / Fedora Edit each network interface startup file that is going to be added to the bridge And create the bridge configuration file Ubuntu Debian
Dec 14 2009
Dynamips and dynagen let you create a virtual Cisco router on a Linux box. It would be even better if that router was reachable from the LAN, wouldn’t it? Going further, that same router could lead us to another couple of virtual routers running in a lab. Download and Installation Download dynamips and dynagen from […]
Sep 04 2009
WPA encryption is not much hassle to set up and is way more secure than WEP if you use a strong pre-shared key. First off, we’ve got a wifi interface that can be displayed with iwconfig (from the wireless tools): [root@db ~]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. ath0 IEEE 802.11g […]
Dec 21 2008
Here’s a package managers basic commands quick reminder/comparative for (in this order) – Linux Debian/Ubuntu, – Linux Redhat/Suse and – Solaris/OpenSolaris. rpm and dpkg are basic package managers while yum (rpm) and apt-get/aptitude (dpkg) manage dependancies and (online) repositories. # List ALL installed packages dpkg –list rpm -qa | grep rpm pkginfo […]