KHE (Posts about sysadmin)

A Bash Client for the ACME Protocol

Kenneth H. East — Tue, 15 May 2018 05:00:00 GMT

These are my notes on installing acme.sh and using it on an aging Django site. They were originally written sometime in 2016 and updated in May of 2018.

Culling Duplicate Photos with rmlint

Kenneth H. East — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 05:00:00 GMT

I have twenty-five years worth of old personal hard drives that I wish to scour for photos and videos that should be preserved prior to destroying the drives. In searching for tools to assist me in this effort, I ran across rmlint¹, fim², and fdupes³.

Plex Media Server on Ubuntu Under Proxmox VE

Kenneth H. East — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 06:00:00 GMT

Notes on installing Plex Media Server in an Ubuntu VM running under Proxmox VE.

Plex Media Server on Ubuntu Under Proxmox VE

Kenneth H. East — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 06:00:00 GMT

Possible duplicate content with plex-ubuntu-proxmox

gopass on a new system

Kenneth H. East — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 21:36:55 GMT

I find gopass to be a great password and credential manager; it's replacee pass in my workflow. These are notes on how to bring over passwords managed by it to a new macOS system.

Using acme.sh with cpanel on a2hosting

Kenneth H. East — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:28:24 GMT

I've used a2hosting.com for many years with good results. This site lives there on an inexpensive shared hosting plan. I've been converting client sites to use Let's Encrypt (LE) and decided to do the same for my site. Here is how I automated LE SSL certificate renewal and installation using acme.sh, Cpanel, and a short python script.

A Simple Method for Obtaining a Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate

Kenneth H. East — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 20:50:07 GMT

I finally decided to update a few sites to use Let's Encrypt (LE) for SSL certificates. These are my notes about using a nuts-and-bolts / low-level method of doing this that doesn't involve automation.

email via the command line on OS-X

Kenneth H. East — Sun, 10 May 2015 21:55:05 GMT

I needed to email cron job output from my OS-X machine to off-site recipients. To do this, I had to configure the OS-X Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), postfix, to route outgoing mail through a working SMTP server, in this case, GMail. These are my notes about how to configure this on OS-X Yosemite 10.10.3.

Install SystemRescueCD on USB Stick under OS-X

Kenneth H. East — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 05:00:00 GMT

I needed a bootable FreeDOS USB stick. It's a bit of a problem to make on OS-X for a number of reasons that I'll skip. I discovered that FreeDOS is included in the SystemRescueCD (SRCD) (which I wanted a copy of anyway), so I decided to make a bootable SRCD USB stick instead. Here's what I did:

Notes on Data Rescue

Kenneth H. East — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Random notes on recovering a failed/failing hard drive.