rpm -qa –last | less (gets a list of dates when packages were installed) “yum history” to see a history of yum transactions use “yum history undo transaction_number to roll back the change # yum history Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, subscription-manager Updating Red Hat repositories. ID | Login user | Date and […]
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Yearly Archives: 2017
Getting started with VMwares ESXi/vSphere API in Python
I’m really glad I found this: https://www.jacobtomlinson.co.uk/vmware/2016/06/22/using-vmware-esxi-vsphere-python-api/ It made it super easy to get started with connecting and querying VMware from Python. I’ll post more on the topic as I go.
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Work From Home (WFH)
http://www.midnightdba.com/Jen/2017/05/employers-let-people-work-home/ I miss working from home. I did it full-time for three years. OK, I occasionally do it now too, but it has to be for a particular reason. In all honesty, I actually probably get more done at home than in the office. I have a super home office with everything I need including […]
Continue ReadingMr. Brightside
fun fact – Mr. Brightside has not been off the UK charts since 2004 The girl in the video is Izabella Miko
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Parsing nmap output with Python
While seeking out servers that needed to be patched for the WannaCry Ransomware attack yesterday, I ran a nmap scan on most of my company subnets. The nmap output looks like this: Nmap scan report for prelude.nyc.domain.com (172.16.0.9) Host is up (0.00046s latency). Not shown: 993 closed ports PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 111/tcp […]
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The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle’s-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions
you can read the entire book right here: https://www.slideshare.net/swatiupadhyay3956/the-dilbert-principle-scott-adams or you can help out Scott Adams a little and buy it here on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Dilbert-Principle-Cubicles-Eye-Management-Afflictions/dp/0887308589 Either way, its written in 1997 and it still holds up.
Continue ReadingRHEL 7 – How-To enable EPEL packages
make sure you are correctly configured: subscription-manager list –consumed you may need to add a subscription: subscription-manager register –auto-attach –force if everything is OK: subscription-manager repos –enable rhel-7-server-extras-rpms subscription-manager repos –enable rhel-7-server-optional-rpms subscription-manager repos –enable rhel-7-server-rpms subscription-manager repos –enable rhel-ha-for-rhel-7-server-rpms
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Breakthrough by Michael C. Grumley
“Breakthrough” by Michael C. Grumley. Start reading it for free: http://a.co/f40KnsL – I initially thought I knew where this book was going .. then I didn’t. There are a few plot changes and multiple story lines that kept me guessing. The character development was also good. It’s my first book by this author, and I’ll […]
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