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OpenSSH Session Timeouts

May 3, 2019 Jeff Blaine Leave a comment

It is often desirable to terminate SSH sessions after they have been sitting idle for a period of time. If…

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Posted in: DevOps, Linux, Musings, Security, Sysadmin, Tips, UNIX/Linux Filed under: cis, infosec, linux, openssh, security, sshd, stig

Using test-kitchen and kitchen-vagrant behind an HTTP proxy

October 28, 2015 Jeff Blaine Leave a comment

Here’s what got us working with test-kitchen and kitchen-vagrant behind an HTTP proxy. Comments inline.

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Posted in: DevOps, Tips, UNIX/Linux, Yak Shave

64 bits is Too Many Bits

December 18, 2014 Jeff Blaine 1 Comment

A seemingly simple move of NFS-exported home directories resulted in Apache suEXEC freaking out when referencing the new space. Here…

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Posted in: DevOps, Linux, Sysadmin, UNIX/Linux

When bare ‘tee | command’ won’t suffice

April 25, 2014 Jeff Blaine 1 Comment

In my 20 years of touching UNIX/Linux, I’d never had a need for this until today. If you search around…

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Posted in: DevOps, Linux, Sysadmin, UNIX/Linux

Syslog Output for Chef Runs

June 27, 2013 Jeff Blaine 15 Comments

A new blog post category was added to my blog for this post: Yak Shave. It was a small yak…

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Posted in: Quality Control, Sysadmin, UNIX/Linux, Yak Shave

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