Fedora infrastructure Puppet training

20 September, 2008 (10:34) | 1 comment

Mike McGrath, the Fedora infrastructure lead, made an awesome presentation on puppet and how to use it. Slides and audio record are posted at http://mmcgrath.fedorapeople.org/puppet/.

Sysadmin’s monday blues: clean your RPMs

14 July, 2008 (22:50) | 5 comments

From time to time, I need to clean my disk from useless stuff I’ve installed over time. It’s just amazing how much of packages I can install during debugging and configuring every day. If I’m short of disk space, I start first by reviewing biggest packages on my system:
[mmahut@mmahut repo]$ rpm -qa –queryformat ‘%10{size} %{name}-%{version}\n’ [...]

Everybody loves Eric Raymond

12 April, 2008 (17:59) | No comments

Just for these who did not know about this comics. And Eric, don’t worry, we still love you.