setting the from address in GNU mail
Today i’m going to address a question that comes up again and again on the various Linux help forums and mailing lists (in one form or another) : « How do i set the From address when using mail ? » Of course, « mail » in this case refers to that most basic of [...]
force disk geometry with sfdisk
Hello again ! This is a quick and dirty update which covers a handy little trick when dealing with writeable removable media – especially USB drives, compact flash cards, and the like. I end up using a lot of USB keys in my environment for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is [...]
pohmelfs – the network filesystem of the future !
Hello again fair readers ! Today we’re going to take a look at POHMELFS, which is a network file system that was just recently integrated into the Linux kernel. This is an excellent exercise for three reasons : we’ll learn about some great new concepts related to network file systems, we get to compile and [...]
how to be properly lazy, with perl !
Posted by dan in Code, Commentary on 2009/06/12
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 [...]
initrd, modules, and tools
An explanation of initrd, how modules live within it, and an example of how it can be modified on a Fedora-based system. Contains supplementary information about gzip, tar, and cpio.
pohmelfs update
Posted by dan in Commentary on 2009/07/01
Hello again ! You may be wondering when the next update in the POHMELFS series is coming – well, rest assured that i’m working on it even as you read this, and that it will be worth the wait. Remember that we’re working with Staging-level code, and that sometimes things don’t always go as well [...]
filesystem
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