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🇬🇧 Solaris Security

Piped sandboxes

I got one question via Twitter: "What if there were a convenient way to run typical Unix commands in a sandbox? E.g. grep, awk, sed, etc. Could they work as...

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🇬🇧 Aviation Monitoring Telegraf Python

Monitoring the sky - dump1090 to InfluxDB

You may know that I'm very interested in aviation, despite the fact that I had a quite severe case of "being totally afraid of flying" in the past . Or perhaps...

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🇬🇧 Solaris LDAP Security

Nested netgroups for fun and profit

Imagine you have several hundred systems to manage. The systems are for separate projects and each project has different teams of admins and only assigned...

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🇬🇧 Solaris LDAP Security

Setting up LDAP for Solaris 11

Some time ago I was asked to provide a walkthrough for the configuration of LDAP in Solaris 11. It's a walkthrough on how to set up LDAP name services for...

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🇬🇧 Smarthome HomeAutomation Monitoring MQTT Telegraf

Telegrafing data to MQTT

On Friday I wrote an article describing how I configured Telegraf to gather monitoring data from my Technische Alternative CMI . In this article I wrote that...

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🇬🇧 Solaris ZFS

Out of ID

Recently a customer observed on one of their systems that the first n databases started quite nicely on a system. However when they tried to start database n+1...

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