Install Docker:

1. Install Docker via the convenience script:

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | bash

2. Start the docker service:

systemctl start docker

3. Create a Docker container running Alma Linux 8.4 for testing:

docker run -dt --device /dev/fuse --cap-add SYS_ADMIN --name s3ql_test almalinux:latest bash

4 …

Consider the following scenario:

On my local desktop I am using docker to do some testing with a Mongo database. My router doesn't expose the Mongo port. A friend at work needs to access my awesome and suuuuper important data in Mongo but he's also behind a firewall.

In other …

These are my quick notes on how I compiled and built an RPM package out of S3FS for CentOS 7.

1. Download and get the source code:

cd /tmp
curl -LO https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse/archive/v1.82.tar.gz
tar -xzf v1.82.tar.gz 
cd s3fs-fuse-1.82 …

I'm trying to teach myself more Mongo, so here's my quick notes on how I installed it, configured it and run a benchmark using YSCB (Yahoo! Cloud System Benchmark).

Installing Mongo:

1. Add the Mongo repository file /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-3.4.repo:

[mongodb-org-3.4]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl …

Sometimes you just need an encrypted tunnel. There's lots of options - You can use SSH ... or you can use cryptcat. Or you can use socat. The problem is that those will only work per application (per port) - For example, you can set up an SSH tunnel and then MySQL can …

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Folks who have worked with me before (or who have been reading my blog - yeah I know, I know) know that redir is one of my most favorite tools.

Unfortunately CentOS 7 (including EPEL) does not come with redir. What's a sysadmin to do when one of his …

Hello internet,

A long time ago, I wrote about installing Jruby 1.7.3 on FreeBSD 9.1. Recently I was looking to build a small Sinatra application on CentOS 6.x.

Here's my notes on how I got it done.

MRI Ruby first:

1. Install MRI Ruby:

I used …

Most folks are familiar with iSCSI. In a nutshell, iSCSI is a way to share a block device over the network. You can format the device and use it as if it were a local disk. But there’s also a way less popular alternative to iSCSI called NBD. Network …

This is my first attempt at using Let's Encrypt. Let's Encrypt is an SSL Certificate Authority -- which is completely free and open.

To make things easier, I'm using Hugo Leisink's Let's Encrypt script - more details on this can be found here: https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/weblog/110

1. Add my …

It turns out that installing Apache 2.4 on CentOS 6.6 is a bit of a pain.

These are the notes I compiled after a lot of effort and many Google searches :) Scroll to the bottom for the sources!

Install the Development tools and dependencies:

yum groupinstall Development tools …