Now syndicated on “Planet Fedora”

I’m now syndicated on the Fedora Project planet. If you haven’t read through my blog yet, let me introduce myself, I’m James, and I write The Technical Blog of James.

I’m a sysadmin, DevOps/Puppet hacker, I.T./network architect and physiologist. Hi! I run Fedora as my primary desktop, but I also use it for servers, particularly for development before future versions of RHEL and CentOS release.

I’m most well-known for Puppet-Gluster, but I’ve also written a decent Puppet-IPA (FreeIPA) module. I’m currently working on porting Puppet-Gluster to Fedora and looking forward to the upcoming release of Fedora 20.

Please feel free to comment or contact me and tell me which articles you like, and which you don’t. I’m on Twitter, and on IRC as purpleidea.

Happy hacking,

James

 

Upgrading to centos 6.4 with shorewall onboard

In case you upgrade your CentOS 6.x box to version 6.4, the shorewall service might complain. With a scary message:

ERROR: Your kernel/iptables do not include state match support.
No version of Shorewall will run on this system

This is selinux at work, and the problem can easily be solved by running:

# restorecon -Rv /sbin

Thanks shorewall-users and

Happy hacking,

James