This summer we are having 15th edition of Dgplug [https://dgplug.org/] summer training. July, 2022 is when the training begins. It was a long due task on me to revamp the infrastructure. Website update Our foss.training [https://foss.training/] website is now all ready with it’s new…
The VirtualHost [https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/examples.html] directive in Apache [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server] configuration enables us to run multiple websites on a single server. I wanted to have two different VirtualHost entries for the same domain on different IPv4 [https:…
It is has been a few months since I have moved to Stockholm. Since we were planning to move in here, the first thing I searched for was the PyLadies Stockholm [https://twitter.com/PyladiesSthlm]. Within days of arriving, I attended my first PyLadies meetup in November 2021. What a…
For one of my learning projects I needed have passwordless sudo access for a user and group (my sys-admin brain goes "urg urg!"). * sudo access to a group which does not have sudo power * sudo access to a user who does not have a sudo power, not a…
On Fedora when we create a Virtual Machine (via libvirt) we get an IPv4 address (NAT). But for my experiment I wanted a NATed IPv6 address. With the following steps one can get NATed IPV6 address on VMs. On the host First, stop the default network and edit the configuration…
Keeping the system updated is a daily task of sys admins. To find out the available security updates on a Ubuntu machine use the commands here under. I have done this on a virtual machine Ubuntu [https://ubuntu.com/] 21.04. apt update This will update all the package information…
I wanted to upgrade one of my servers from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8 [https://www.centos.org/]. The following are the steps I followed : Check the kernel version Before we start the upgrade process, let us see the kernel version. # uname -a Linux centostest 3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_…
I have been maintaining dgplug [https://dgplug.org/] infrastructure for sometime now. We have a blogging platform, blogs.dgplug.org [https://blogs.dgplug.org] for our community. We were planning to migrate it to the latest version of Operating System and the blogging software, but my post covid symptoms hindered…