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		<title>Resolving Puppet Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: undefined method `closed?&#8217; for nil:NilClass</title>
		<link>http://backdrift.org/resolving-puppet-error-could-not-retrieve-catalog-from-remote-server-undefined-method-closed-for-nilnilclass</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this odd puppet error while setting up a puppet client on a host running in amazon EC2 and it took me a bit of head scratching to figure it out.

(/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]) Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass
&#160;
(/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]) Failed to retrieve current state of resource: undefined method `closed?' [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Generate Random UNIX Passwords</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backdrift.org/?p=758</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are probably a million and one individual pieces of software and websites you can use to generate a randomized password string.  But the truth of the matter is that, if you have a UNIX machine, you don&#8217;t need them at all!  Here&#8217;s how to generate a randomized password using widely available UNIX [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Free Must Have iPhone Apps for IT Professionals</title>
		<link>http://backdrift.org/5-free-must-have-iphone-apps-for-it-professionals</link>
		<comments>http://backdrift.org/5-free-must-have-iphone-apps-for-it-professionals#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backdrift.org/?p=598</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re like me then you enjoy time away from the desk.  For IT professionals, however, it is not unusual to be interrupted during your personal time with a question or problem from a panicking co-worker or user.  It used to be the case that you&#8217;d have to drop what you were doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to SCP from host to host from a central machine</title>
		<link>http://backdrift.org/how-to-scp-from-host-to-host-from-a-central-machine</link>
		<comments>http://backdrift.org/how-to-scp-from-host-to-host-from-a-central-machine#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backdrift.org/?p=586</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the fact that ssh can tunnel standard input, however, there is a simple way to effectively scp directly from remote host to remote host using your machine as an intermediary.  Here's how.]]></description>
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		<title>Online ext3 grow / resize with lvm</title>
		<link>http://backdrift.org/online-ext3-grow-resize-with-lvm</link>
		<comments>http://backdrift.org/online-ext3-grow-resize-with-lvm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Performing an on-line resize of /dev/vg0/vol_mysql to 2883584 (4k) blocks.
The filesystem on /dev/vg0/vol_mysql is now 2883584 blocks long.]]></description>
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		<title>How to use bind mounts in linux</title>
		<link>http://backdrift.org/how-to-use-bind-mounts-in-linux</link>
		<comments>http://backdrift.org/how-to-use-bind-mounts-in-linux#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backdrift.org/?p=540</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever dealt with a system that wasn&#8217;t partitioned properly when it was built and now it has gone into production?  You&#8217;ll probably be hard pressed to find the time and patience to rebuild the system any time soon.  Luckily there is a way to step around many of the limitations of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Automounting iSCSI with Autofs</title>
		<link>http://backdrift.org/automounting-iscsi-with-autofs</link>
		<comments>http://backdrift.org/automounting-iscsi-with-autofs#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 04:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[autofs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backdrift.org/?p=498</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I use SAN snapshots extensively to provide point-in-time recoverability for a number of different systems.  This is a very reliable and efficient backup solution but it comes at the cost of additional complexity for individual file restoration.  This is because the snapshot backups are of the entire volume and not each individual file. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Apache Firewall Using mod_rewrite</title>
		<link>http://backdrift.org/simple-apache-firewall-using-mod_rewrite</link>
		<comments>http://backdrift.org/simple-apache-firewall-using-mod_rewrite#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backdrift.org/?p=477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, most web sites are powered by content management systems.  And while this is great news for most users and content writers it can spell disaster for system administrators and webmasters.  These systems can be incredibly complex and often lack robust security hardening and auditing features.  In order to make up for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hardware vs. Software RAID in the Real World</title>
		<link>http://backdrift.org/hardware-vs-software-raid-in-the-real-world-2</link>
		<comments>http://backdrift.org/hardware-vs-software-raid-in-the-real-world-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hardware]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backdrift.org/?p=375</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a sysadmin by trade and as such I deal with RAID enabled servers on a daily basis.  Today a server with a hardware RAID controller reported (when I say reported I actually mean lit a small red LED on the front of the machine) a bad disk, which is not uncommon.  But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Logging bash history to syslog using traps</title>
		<link>http://backdrift.org/logging-bash-history-to-syslog-using-traps</link>
		<comments>http://backdrift.org/logging-bash-history-to-syslog-using-traps#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backdrift.org/?p=234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a handy way to log user&#8217;s bash histories to syslog without making any modifications to the bash source code itself.  Simply drop the following snippet into either the per-user or system-wide bash profile (~/.bash_profile and /etc/profile, respectively)

function log2syslog
&#123;
   declare COMMAND
   COMMAND=$&#40;fc -ln -0&#41;
   logger -p local1.notice [...]]]></description>
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