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Parsing ASA logs using ELK and my central syslog archive

November 30, 2015July 28, 2019 Ed Goad 3 Comments

Previously, I had setup a centralized syslog archive and directed all of my network devices to report into it. This

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Passed my RHCSA exam! But not the RHCE

February 1, 2011 Ed Goad 70 Comments

I am proud to announce I just received the results for my RHCSA and I passed with a score of

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Programatically managing a user’s crontab

January 5, 2011 Ed Goad 0 Comments

In Linux, there is a central crontab or scheduler for the entire system. Trying to schedule things through here is

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System Configuration and Management — Build a simple RPM that packages a single file

January 4, 2011 Ed Goad 4 Comments

This is an interesting objective – something that I have never had to do before. After looking around at various

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Setting runlevel at boot

December 30, 2010 Ed Goad 0 Comments

Changing runlevel on a live system is fairly simple – as root simply type init 3 (or whatever runlevel you

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