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[one-liner]: Securing your Subversion Password using GPG Agent 17 Jun 2013 | 02:04 am
Background If you’ve ever dealt with subversion on Unix, one of the annoyances is that it essentially stores it’s password in clear text under your $HOME/.subversion/auth/svn.simple directory in text...
How to programmatically determine the highest version kernel RPM installed? 25 May 2013 | 04:21 am
Background Recently on the StackExchange site Unix & Linux the following question came up which seemed easy enough to answer. How to programmatically determine the highest version kernel RPM install...
Why are “executables” such as reboot, shutdown, and vgscan symlinks in the /sbin directory? 25 May 2013 | 03:51 am
Background If you’ve ever gone poking around in your Linux system’s /sbin directory the site of files like this might make you scratch your head. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 7 2011 ...
How does a process deal with user credentials? 22 May 2013 | 05:17 am
Background A question came up on the Stack Exchange site Unix & Linux in which I wrote up a pretty good answer, that describes some of the mechanics of how a process deals with its user credentials, ...
How is my password stored in Linux? 19 May 2013 | 05:50 am
Background People that use Linux on a daily basis probably are completely oblivious to the actual mechanisms being used to store their passwords safely and securely on a given Linux system. Oh they m...
How to rsync certain files, exclude the rest, all while ignoring .svn directories? 18 May 2013 | 03:16 am
I came across this question on the Stack Exchange site Unix & Linux. The question interested me so I answered it but thought I’d cross post it on my blog as well, given I took a pretty significant amo...
[one-liner]: Dealing with UEFI 15 May 2013 | 02:31 am
Background UEFI looks to be a major pain in the @$$, but like it or hate it everyone in the Linux community will need to learn to navigate it. Here’s a list of useful UEFI resources that I’ve come ac...
[one-liner]: Debugging Bash Scripts 11 May 2013 | 03:39 am
Background From time to time it’s useful if you can turn up the debugging messages that come from Bash, when working out either interactive or shell script problems. Here are 2 methods that can help ...
[one-liner]: Why is Conky reporting a lower CPU frequency, when my CPU frequency is actually much higher? 21 Apr 2013 | 04:41 pm
Background If you’ve every dealt with Conky you may have gotten a little confused when you’re trying to get it to display your CPU frequency like so: 1 ${freq_g cpu0} Ghz … and Conky is reporting y...
[one-liner]: How do you capture the status of a command ($?) in Bash, when run through a pipe? 21 Apr 2013 | 03:20 pm
Background While answering questions on the stackexchage website Unix & Linux I saw the following question which was about something I’d encountered, but until today never knew how to accomplish, so ...
