When did that change?

Trying to shutdown an old web server from the late 1990’s that had it’s guts transplanted onto a newer system around 2003 and again around 2009. As you can imagine there are accounts and files that are like those items in your junk drawer, they beg the question…why is this here?! In an attempt to […]

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Cleaning Up Memory Usage

I noticed my Ubuntu desktop was using a rather large portion of available memory.  I usually have a lot running on my system, multiple terminals, background jobs, etc so this is nothing unusual.  Today however I noticed my system was sluggish so I started digging.  Memory use was near 100%.  I closed all of my […]

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Splunk Installation

Fairly short and sweet to get the agent installed; details are below. 1)      Install the appropriate package from a designated and trusted source: 2)     The default installation path, ${INSTALL_PATH} = /opt/splunkforwarder 3)      Next, create a file with the path /opt/splunkforwarder/etc/system/local/deploymentclient.conf with the contents: [deployment-client] [target-broker:deploymentServer] targetUri = splunkdeploy.uits.uconn.edu:8089 4)      Run the following (supplying your own […]

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