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Linux

As a Linux server administrator (and a Linux desktop user wherever possible), I tend to do a lot of repetitive and boring things. That’s probably why I write up the tutorials below :P

Generic

  • Elevator
    An application which assists with elevating the permissions of an application without having to go through su or sudo. This setuid bit-powered application is helpful if you’re writing system applications that you don’t want to run as root.
  • LightBulb
    LightBulb provides a modular, profile-orientated means of compiling LAMP stacks on servers. It’s written entirely in Python, though it does depend on Elevator (or another means of escalating permissions of a process).

CentOS / RHEL

  • Making CentOS a tad lighter
    A light introduction to reducing the attack surface, boot time and memory footprint of your new CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux server.
  • Web server stack on CentOS 5
    A complete walkthrough of installing and configuration nginx (a really, really fast web server) and a few scripting languages (Ruby via RVM is coming, I promise).