In happy distro hopping, I installed CentOS Stream 9 on my QNAP TS-473A.

These are my installation notes. They are similar to my RHEL8 notes and my Fedora Server notes.

I installed Fedora Server 35 on my QNAP TS-473A.

These are my installation notes. They are similar to my RHEL8 notes.

I installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 on my QNAP TS-473A.

These are my installation notes.

I purchased a QNAP TS-473. This comes with a AMD Ryzen Embedded V1500B 4-core/8-thread @ 2.2 GHz CPU.

These are my notes from initial bringup.

In further happy distro hopping (since Ansible makes this quite painless), I installed RHEL8 on my four TerraMaster F5-422.

I received my 3 additional TerraMaster F5-422.

Time to install CentOS Stream in preparation for Ceph Luminous.

I reinstalled my TerraMaster F5-422 with CentOS Stream.

I bought a TerraMaster F5-422.

These are my notes on initial bringup.

On customer site, I am quite often forced to use a Windows machine to access the Linux boxes I work on. This means I will not have an ssh-agent (nor a gpg-agent) running on the machine I’m sitting at (the Win box) and the Linux boxes I access via putty tend to have shared home directories.

Long story short, I need one agent per Linux box taking into account that I may have more than one login shell to the Linux box (i.e. multiple putty windows) and config files including the hostname.

from time to time I need to configure an apache httpd with Kerberos authentication, a quick braindump follows.

New SSL certificate.

this machine is now using a StartCom SSL certificate.