Filebeat is the tool used to forward logs from a client to an ELK server. It can be seen as equivalent to using rsyslog to forward to a syslog server. I’ve recently finished setting up an ELK server at Rob and I’s apartment, and have been setting VM’s that we run to forward their logs
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As-simple-as-I-can-manage instructions on how to install the ovirt-guest-agent in an Alpine Linux VM,
The ovirt-guest-agent package is currently broken on Debian 9, and possibly older versions. The package will install successfully but then fail to start until a few extra steps are taken. I have not confirmed if this will work for Debian 8 and earlier. If you start the tools, and then get a systemctl status like
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Preface iptables has been a part of linux for over 20 years now, and it’s starting to show its age. In fact, it has already been replaced by nftables as of kernel 3.13. As a consequence of this transitional period, you might run into some bumps along the road while maintaining your iptables based firewall.
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Despite not really knowing what is so “unbreakable” about Oracle’s UEK, I find myself strangely fascinated by it. So I have taken it upon myself to figure how to compile and boot other flavor of Linux on it, which is simultaneously easier and harder than one might expect. As I write this article, I am
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A few quick notes before that actual post: I posted this originally in early 2018 on a different website, but no longer use that site. So I decided that it would make sense to re-upload here with a few edits. There is something called Xen and something called Xen Server. Xen is a virtualization platform
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If you have the following error upon startup, do this to make the system bootable again. Failed to set MokListRT: Invalid Parameter Something has gone seriously wrong: import_mok_state() failed: Invalid Parameter
There are many guides on the process of adding Ubuntu to a Windows Domain. None really worked for me, so here's my attempt at making a tutorial on how to do this. With help from Rob.
Installing open-vm-tools in Gentoo can lead to errors if the kernel is misconfigured. Here is how to fix that.
Ctrl+u is super useful, which means Windows doesn't have it.