Category: Sysadmin

System administration is a special are of IT. It also has a special place in my heart. It is an interesting mixture of all the other disciplines, both common across the whole industry, and at the same time unique for each person, company, and geographical location. When I have something to say or share about system administration, I use this category.

The collection of evil scripts

Via the GitHub’s daily email I came across a collection of evil scripts.  Here they are:

These are fun to read and are mildly educational, but on some level it’s scary how much knowledge and effort went into this.

Fedora and USB disks going into /run/media/user

Fedora and USB disks going into /run/media/user

As part of systemd/DBus revolution, newer Fedoras have this annoying feature that all USB disks get mounted into to /run/media/[user]/[diskname] (also /var/run/media, which is a symlink).

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To return old behavior back and make udisks2 change mount point to /media, create a file /etc/udev/rules.d99-usb-shared-media.rules:

ENV{ID_FS_USAGE}=="filesystem", ENV{UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED}="1" 

udev should notice and read this file automatically. After this, just unplug and plug your USB drive back to see it in good old /media.

Quick server update

And here is the moment we’ve all been waiting for … every single site on this server is now served by Nginx.  Of course, there is Apache behind for now to smooth out the migration, but The World Domination is right around the corner.

P.S.: Placeholder websites are served by another instance of Nginx, which runs inside an OpenVZ virtual machine.

P.P.S.: Can anybody make any sense out if it?