Riaan's SysAdmin Blog – Page 21 – My tips, howtos, gotchas, snippets and stuff. Use at your own risk!

Howto grab additional lines when grep is ancient

In modern grep utilities can use -A (after) and -B (before) to return additional lines from your search. Solaris 11

Very short note on how I used SPICE for accessing a Windows 7 desktop running under KVM. SPICE and QXL

Sometimes you have a Window client sitting around running an important piece of software and the hardware is ancient. All

Somewhere between Fedora 18 and 20 the default firewall switched to FirewallD. FirewallD is a replacement to the default iptables

Just a few notes on getting the VirtualBox Guest Additions to work on Ubuntu 14.04 alpha1. 1. Unknown version of

Quick reminder of how to split a “ls -l” listing. It is problematic because the last field which is the

A short write up on how to bootstrap a webpy app and at the same time show how to make

Just a quick snippet on doing exclusions when you loop through a list. For some reason on Solaris sed had

Normally I would just use a diff tool to compare text. However sometimes a spreadsheet like MS Excel comes in

I wrote a couple articles on respectively using sendmail and postfix to block outbound email and only allow selective domains