Kickstart is a great method of hands-free installation of RHEL/Centos (and other derived systems). Its power is in its easy interface and rather powerful %post scripting directives. Its weakness is in its lack of flexibility where it comes to package selection and various custom actions. On some cases, companies use web interface (usually home-made) which…
Actually, this post has become less of the non-technical type and more of the technical type, however, for the sake of the cute little Nabaztag (you can send me messages too! Go here and send a message to “fatutchi”!), I keep it still in this category as well. Today is a busy day, so I’ll…
I have received my Nabaztag/tag just a day ago, and it is a cute little thingie. At-ten-tion! What can it do? Actually, not much. It is a wireless device (client) which access Violet’s Nabaztag servers to get its commands. You, theoretically, cannot hijack the session and use it directly over LAN, but you must go…
I’ve had a belief for quite a while now that Linux, unlike other types of systems, was unable to produce any I/O SNMP information. I only recently found out that it was partially true – all production-level distros, such as RedHat (and Centos, for that matter) were unable to produce any output for any SNMP…
First and unrelated – this is my birthday. It reminds me that another year passed, and generally speaking, I do not take this too well… Due to massive SPAM attacks, my commenting system is turned off for a while now, and I need to see how I can re-enable it safely. Bash – here we…
This was a tricky action. Assume I have a list of variables, obtained by an external source: var1=a var2=b var3=c I cannot use loop and in it the phrase ${var$i} (where i is the integer counter). It just doesn’t work. I used this instead to assign the values to an array: var[$i]=$(eval echo "${var${i}}") That…
