Before you install|upgrade|reinstall anything, you need to uncomment
ONE mirror in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors and run:

# slackpkg update

# slackpkg upgrade-all

Unsure if the following two commands are required - if so, and if you find yourself unable to boot the updated system, simply boot from CDROM, mount the disk (and the associated --bind mounts) ( Read more... )

Had no idea xeyes was considered a unix "power tool"

[root@princess ~]# dnf --enablerepo=powertools install xorg-x11-apps

I walk into the office and Dorian has her head down; hoodie up, pounding away on her mechanical keyboard authoring her first shell script, listening to Industrial on YT. Talk about embracing your authentic self 😍

Find the Hog ( Read more... )

When you need to recursively grep for a keyword in an older system which otherwise has no such functionality:

find . -type f -exec grep keyword {} /dev/null \;

Was working in my openSUSE 15.3 desktop and rebooted. So far, so good. When the box came back up and presented with with the login GUI, attempting to login errored with, "Sorry, you have to log out a previous session first. Multiple sessions are not supported." I mean, I assumed multiple sessions weren't supported but as the box had *just* come ( Read more... )

Let's talk ClusterSSH on macOS. Because ugh.

ehowton@minime % brew install csshx
Running `brew update --preinstall`...
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated 1 tap (homebrew/core).
...
ehowton@minime % csshx
Unimplemented: POSIX::tmpnam(): use File::Temp instead at /System/Library/Perl/5.30/darwin-thread-multi-2level/POSIX.pm line 185.
Unimplemented ( Read more... )

When:
dnsmasq[454824]: dnsmasq: cannot open log /var/log/dnsmasq.log: Permission denied

Do:
ausearch -c 'dnsmasq' --raw | audit2allow -M my-dnsmasq
semodule -X 300 -i my-dnsmasq.pp
systemctl start dnsmasq

● dnsmasq.service - DNS caching server ( Read more... )

So I thought it would be fun and easy to simultaneously de-register VMs from one datastore path and register them on the identical datastore but through a private GB interface while also exporting an ancient WinXP VM require for iDRAC from some random volume on one computer to my VM volume on another computer utilizing two different hypervisors ( ( Read more... )

When I first set up my FreeNAS server, I had no idea what I was doing. At all. This was my proverbial toe in the water of storage. I read over all the documentation beforehand, sure, but that didn't mean I knew what I was doing ( Read more... )