Riaan's SysAdmin Blog – Page 11 – My tips, howtos, gotchas, snippets and stuff. Use at your own risk!

LVM Removing VG with missing disk

If you removed a disk from a server and forgot to cleanly remove the configuration you may experience something similar.

You may ask why and the answer is just sometimes you have to do stupid things. bastion == jump host

I am converting some scripts to python3 and noticed the pip modules in use for python2 need to be added

Sometimes you need more than a bastion for reaching your cloud resources. Bastions are great for SSH and RDP tunneling

It’s possible you will never need to do this and most likely there are experts that say avoid doing this.

Recently I wanted to test the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(OCI) CPE(Customer Premises Equipment) networking; using an IPsec VPN tunnel. The online

I spent some time getting this working so documenting for reference. Trying to grab an IP address from a ssh

If you want to see how a large copy is proceeding you can send -USR1 to the process. Copy In

Boto3 and AWS DynamoDB usage… http://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/services/dynamodb.html

Quick note on connecting to a MSSQL database from Linux using tsql from FreeTDS. FreeTDS is a set of libraries