Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• Don't Go To Sleep

  Updated:7 May, 2021

  I need my office PC to be permanently available so I can access it remotely. This was working just fine after I disabled all the sleep mode settings when I

• Minio and Nextcloud

  Updated:4 May, 2021

  As a follower of Open Source it's time to look at a storage platform that offers an S3 service like Amazon. Minio offers us a storage platform that we can

• Setting rfkill state requires authentication

  30 Apr, 2021

  After a reboot I found I was being presented with an authentication dialog after login stating: setting rfkill state requires authentication It turns out t

• Nginx GeoIP

  28 Apr, 2021

  With the plus version of Nginx you get access to the compiled version of geoip2 plugin. This means you can use it out of the box just add it into the confi

• acme.sh

  Updated:19 Apr, 2021

  We've been using certbot and Let's Encrypt for years. But we have some legacy systems hidden in the bowels and darkest corners or our data centre that are

• Github and Deploy Keys

  13 Apr, 2021

  When it comes to pulling code from some of our private repositories we've configured a couple of systems with deploy keys. This allows them to pull the cod

• AutoFS

  Updated:12 Apr, 2021

  Using AutoFS you can automatically mount network shares onto your system. Installing it from your repository is easy enough, but some distros have slightly

• NFSv4 and IDMAPD

  12 Apr, 2021

  A simple task of installing Manjaro on my office PC turned into a running battle that burned away the day. When connecting to the NFS share for my home dri

• Forgotten root Password

  9 Apr, 2021

  Maybe not so much forgotten, but an undocumented password. It's an easy process. Boot into grub, press e on your usual boot line and then change the /boot/

• Terminal Not Starting

  3 Apr, 2021

  I just installed Manjaro on my laptop and found a quirk problem where the terminal won't fire up. I resorted to installing xfce-terminal to see what was do