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NFS export

Disks and partitions

Mount it to freshly created directory. Add to fstab for automatic mount during boot process. Preparations: sudo su dnf install \ nfs-utils Configure # vi /etc/idmapd.conf # [General] # Verbosity = 0 # Domain = (domain) # systemctl daemon-reload # system...

PiHOLE

Domain Name System (DNS)

Purpose: Trusted and Filtering Feature Domain Name Resolution Solution: Pi-hole (https://pi-hole.net/) OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) preparations: setup # Pi-hole Automated Installer This installer will transform your device into a network-wide ad blocker...

Big-Files upload

Nextcloud

To enable big files management, there are several components need to be fine-tuned. Good practise is to backup configuration file by copying and renaming it by adding timestamp prefix. Also, duplicate the line to be modified and add timestamped and signed comm...

2025-02

Journal

За последний месяц, спустя НГ:- Oracle Linux v9.5: repository proxy- MariaDB Galera Cluster with ClusterControl- MaxScale load balancer: manual config- WindTerm- CrossHair python- Nextcloud deployment to GCP- Creating and interconnecting virtual machines in Vi...

2025-03-30

Journal

SketchUp (WebUI) BetterDisplay (new display) CloudText

2025-04-02

Journal

Pi-hole as reverse DNS for home OpenWRT router Internal A records in Pi-Hole for local infra myip.in.2dz.fi analog of myip.2dz.fi but in use with conjunction of internal DNS server "Alpine Quest Pro" on Android for map orientation - measuring azimuth of aerop...

Replicate Nextcloud instance to another server

Nextcloud

Destination: Prepare export user="user" export src="(source host)" export dst="(destination host)" export path="/home/${user}/delme/${src}--${dst}/" mkdir -p ${path} chown -R ${user}:${user} /home/${user}/delme/ ls -la ${path} namei -mo ${path} Clean before b...

keepassxc-cli with keyfile and YubiKey hardware token

Passwords, keys, certificates KeePassXC

Install https://keepassxc.org/download/#macos Make alias (for Macintosh) vi ~/.zshrc alias kp='/Applications/KeePassXC.app/Contents/MacOS/keepassxc-cli' If you have YubiKey Manager installed, you can see the serial number of connected token from CLI. Otherw...

Update and/or upgrade of OPNsense in GCP

Virtual Personal Network (VPN) OPNsense

Considerations: Time: from v24 to v25 it took around two-three hours to complete upgrades. Prepare Console gcloud config set disable_usage_reporting false gcloud config set accessibility/screen_reader false gcloud auth login ? gcloud auth login --no-browser g...

2025-05-15 - at KAFD, Riyadh, KSA

Journal

There was a hectic weeks behind, some topics I briefly touched: Audacity: conference mic spectrum analysis OPNsense: upgrade v24.1.7--25.1.5_5 (FreeBSD v13.2--14.2) OPNsense: script to extract users' certificates and list expired (users), but after upgrad...

BookStack @OL9 (Oracle Linux 9)

BookStack

Let's deploy BookStack web application to the isolated environment, but with repository server available: Solution: BookStack (www, github) Resources: VM in the laptop lab. Stack: lt58dox1: OL9 + nginx + MariaDB Create VM. Install Oracle Linux 9, perform ...

Cloning the machines and post-install for Oracle Linux v9

Virtualization Oracle VirtualBox @Windows10Pro

At the moment of writing, on 2025-07-18, my VirtualBox is v7.1.6. Open VirtualBox, find the source machine, click once to select It is possible to either use menu: Snapshot> Clone Or click on [Clone] icon with a sheep: Or right-click on virtual machine its...

Adding more space to virtual machine by adding new disk and expanding using LVM

Virtualization Oracle VirtualBox @Windows10Pro

Daily task, which comes as daily routing, to extend the disk space: Switch off the machine Open VM properties in Oracle VirtualBox Manager, Storage, Click [Create] Name the disk accordingly to be consistent with other drives. Ensure that disk is saved nearby...

EnterpriseDB PosgreSQL with TDE Support @OL8 (Oracle Linux 8)

EnterpriseDB (PostgresSQL from Enterpri...

Pre-requistes In my setup, I planned to virtualize VM in Parallels on Macintosh with M1 processor, because of this, I have chosen arm64 version. But there is no RPM repository from EnterpriseDB PostgreSQL for ARM architecture. I decided to switch to another vi...

Fail2Ban - securing services and web applications

Hardening

Determine, which firewall is running systemctl is-active ufw ufw status systemctl is-active nftables nft list ruleset iptables outputs, when active iptables -L Install, enable and start apt install fail2ban systemctl enable fail2ban systemctl start fail2ban...

Research on alternative to native Calendar application in MacOS

Awaiting list MacOS

Disadvantages or "What could be done better" Creating overlapping event The biggest challenge in the native calendar app on Macintosh is to get the new meeting of the new event created in the middle of the day because there is many layers of events overlappin...

2025-07-26 - here and there

Journal

Deployed PAM solution: goTeleport Garmin Boating (former Navionics) on Android tablet for a week long charter in the Med, Turkey. began to gather digital assets (photos, documents and similar) from different places into on: Samsung SSD 990 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVMe M...