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Articles by Steve Talley

Fixing locale and setlocale LC issues in CentOS and RHEL

February 10, 2014 Steve Talley 5

Locale and setlocale LC error messages You may receive the following errors when logging in to your CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system […]

Change the default runlevel in CentOS and RHEL

February 9, 2014 Steve Talley 0

Most servers are run without a GUI, although some administrators will install the GNOME desktop on a server in order to perform some tasks. By […]

Back up your ESXi configuration with vCLI tools

January 28, 2014 Steve Talley 0

VMware provides command line tools that allow you to back up your ESXi configuration. You should always back up before updating the ESXi image, and […]

Creating a customized image with MDT

January 19, 2014 Steve Talley 0

Please note, if you need customized  help with this, contact us for reasonably-priced help with MDT. No job is too small or too large. Making […]

Old PC as AirPlay receiver with Shairport & Ubuntu

January 14, 2014 Steve Talley 4

The steps in this tutorial are designed to allow an old laptop with Ubuntu server – without any desktop environment installed – to output audio […]

SnagIt! 11 Automated and Silent Installation Instructions

December 18, 2013 Steve Talley 0

SnagIt! is a screen capture utility.On the SnagIt website, you can download an enterprise installation manual. Unfortunately, in my experience, this manual is incomplete, and […]

Create a Mac OS X Service to Open a New Instance of an App

September 9, 2013 Steve Talley 0

In Windows, it’s easy to open another instance of an application. In Mac OS X, there is no way to do this except from the […]

Configuring Bacula to Use TLS to Encrypt Connections

August 3, 2013 Steve Talley 10

UPDATE: There is a new version of this post located here. ARCHIVED VERSION Bacula is a powerful, open-source backup system that can be installed in […]

Postfix relay using Gmail on CentOS

May 14, 2013 Steve Talley 25

Many ISPs block sending email over port 25. This means that you won’t be able to send mail from your Linux server through simple commands […]

FAN Hyper-V Kernel Panic Fix for switchroot: mount failed

May 14, 2013 Steve Talley 29

Fully Automated Nagios 2.4 is based on CentOS 5.9, so these instructions also apply to any upgraded or new installation of CentOS 5.9 on Hyper-V. CentOS […]

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