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CPAN RPMs in RHEL / CentOS : generation, conflict, and solutions

Hello all !  Today we’re going to take a look at a somewhat obscure problem that – once encountered – can cause nothing but headaches for a system administrator.  The problem relates to conflicts in CPAN RPM packages, and what can be done to work around the issue.  If you’ve made it this far, i’m [...]

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(complex) partitioning in kickstart

Bonjour my geeky friends ! :)  As you are likely aware, it is now summer-time here in the northern hemisphere, and thus, i’ve been spending as much time away from the computer as possible.  That said, it’s been a long time, i shouldn’t have left you, without a strong beat to step to. Now, if [...]

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how to be properly lazy, with perl !

One of the wonderful things about Perl is that it enables the busy System Administrator to be lazy – and that’s a good thing ! Of course, i don’t mean lazy as in unmotivated, or possesed of a poor work ethic, i mean it in the sense that Perl lets us do as little work [...]

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