Ubuntu

Upgrade my workstation and now NFS mounts in fstab not mounting on boot but working with mount -a command works as expected. in short, systemd is worth learning and I cant believe ubuntu was released with such a basic bug.

The new trend in linux is the shift to netplan as a network manager that uses either NetworkManager or systemd-networkd to manage interfaces is pretty much the default now for Ubuntu Desktops. This breaks OVS and linux bridging, but there is a way

Continuing on with my theme of compiling and patching linux kernels. Let’s look at the Ubuntu way that creates a .deb file for use with apt package manager. Git work flow thrown in for free.

Missing OpenSSL blows up kernel compile..Oh Why? So, I’ve walked into this one a few times when compiling a new kernel for the first time after a new distro install. Each time I shake my head.

Though, every now and then I hit a snag when installing a new package, especially from a PPA. The most common of these relate to security/verification using PKI.

I installed Wireshark the other day on Ubuntu 16.10 so I could analyse what is going over the wire in GNS3 and later on physical network topologies. Unfortunately, Wireshark has implemented Privilege Separation which means that the Wireshark GUI (or the tshark CLI) can run as a normal user while the dumpcap capture utility runs as root