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/etc/postgresql/12/main/postgresql.conf is where you define the interfaces for postgresql to listen on. It’s done with the line “listen_interfaces =”So, to get postgresql to listen on a docker interface, you have to add the IP address to the configuration: This will make postgresql listen after connections from my docker container. Unfortunately when i rebooted the machine,…
Continue ReadingUsing Windows subsystem for Linux (WSL) is so nice, when you are forced to work from an inferior OS, sometimes also referred to as “a gaming console”Especially combined with the Windows Terminal, which I wrote about here: https://www.nordal-lund.dk/?p=592 I’m sure that most Linux/Unix administrators will feel right at home. Despite all the goodness, there are…
Continue ReadingTip! Check out my new post about making the terminal great again here For years and years Windows users have had to work with disabled tools when trying to work in the command line interface. The old cmd had a bad interface, and even powershell until very recent, has also been a pain. One of…
Continue ReadingLogin services not using encryption, is unfortunately still often seen in the wild. I started out in the IT business around 2000, and even back then, clear text authentication was bad, but still we see it today. Examples of services using clear text authentication is: HTTP, FTP and telnet. Don’t ever authenticate using any of…
Continue ReadingThe Citrix guys in my company has a bad habbit of using local storage, probably because they have had some bad performance experiences in the past. Local storage is not good for the vSphere admin, as vMotion is set out of play, and I need to move things around manually when doing maintenance. Furthermore the…
Continue ReadingDo you ever need to give some input to a script? Maybe its a long filename or some other long and complex string, or maybe you’re just lazy like me? I wrote a script for handling the input, it’s a bit like the curses based menus you see in some network equipment, and in Linux…
Continue ReadingI just got a replacement laptop, as my previous Thinkpad T580 started to freeze after > 10 minutes of usage. Luckily my company just replaced the thing, so I didn’t have to think about anything else than reinstalling (since i don’t use coorporate Windows image) and copy in my backup. The T580 has a Nvidia…
Continue ReadingI’m running a small CS:GO server for the local E-Gaming club. It’s based on https://linuxgsm.com/, which makes managing game servers easy. Today I got a call from the trainer, telling that the server was not running. I have some tasks running every night to check for updates, and my first thought was that something had…
Continue ReadingDo you also hate the big facebook login box nagging you when you’re not signed in? Even sites that should be public available is ruined by this, luckily there’s a solution 🙂 Maybe you already have an add-blocker, if not I can recommend ublock origin, but anyone will probably do. Create a custom filter and…
Continue ReadingYesterday I had to upgrade a VCSA 6.5 U1b to U2e, but I got stuck in the process because the VCSA manager said this: Latest updates already installed on vCSA, Nothing to stage/install Hmm, thats not right… google, google, googleSeems that vmware changed the build numbering scheme, and they have an article about my issue:https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/59659Unfortunately…
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