Todd's HowTo Emporium

Dumping ground for various HowTo documents that I produce as I stumble through my digital life. They are all Linux-focused —and often Fedora/CentOS/RHEL focused— HowTos.

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How to...

General deployment (ties together many of these howtos)

• Deploy and Configure a Fedora Linux Server

Specific applications

• Install Syncthing on a Headless Linux Server
• Install Syncthing on a Linux Desktop
• ~~Deploying Ghost on Fedora Linux - OUT-OF-DATE!~~
• ~~Install Wordpress on Fedora Linux, MariaDB (Mysql), and Nginx - OUT OF DATE~~
• Install the Joplin secure notebook management application on the Fedora, OpenSUSE, and CentOS Linux Desktop
• Backup your linux machine using the Rsync Time Backup (rtb) command line utility

Networking and Access

• Configure FirewallD for Linux (laptop and server)
• Configure Fail2Ban for Linux
• SSH Tunnel (Port Forward via SSH)
• Create and Use SSH Keys

Filesystem / Performance

• Improve SSD Write and Delete Performance for Linux
• Configure Swap with a Swap File for Linux
• Rotate Log Files on Linux

Maintenance and Deployment

• Schedule a Nightly YUM or DNF Download of RPM Packages After Hours
• Set up a local DNF RPM repository
• Package an Application as an RPM and Build It Using Mock
• Schedule Cron Jobs to Run at Random Intervals

Other

• Configure "send-only" Email via SMTP Relay
• Run an Application from a USB drive on Linux
• Enforce a base script is "sourced" or "executed"
• How to do Miscellaneous Things (a grabbag)
  • What's my external IP address?
  • What's my MAC address?
  • What's my network device name?
  • Port Introspection
  • Checking a GnuPG public key file for it's signature

Other other!

• Minuses, Hyphens and Dashes. Oh, My!

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