Enabling Splunk as a Startup Service in RHEL and CentOS via the init.d script

Splunk (TM) LogoIf you’ve installed Splunk for RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) or CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) and are happy with it, chances are you want it to startup automatically for you.

First, run this command to Continue Reading

Four Sided One Sided Six Sided Three Dimensional Box

I was trying to think of a way to portray how when we hear someone elses suggestion, we often may not see the potential the other party sees, as our vision may be limited by what we’ve come to accept as routine or the normality of how things are and should be in our minds. Yet, if we were to learn something beyond our current understanding, it would become apparent to us that Continue Reading

Install wget on Apple OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

How to install WGET on Apple OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

WGET is a reliable download utility for UNIX and Linux. I have found it to be more reliable to Continue Reading

View the current working directory in Linux

After traversing directories and files it is easy to forget the exact path you may be working in. To see this in unix or Linux, use Continue Reading

Setting up your SPF Record to Include WhatCounts Servers

If you use WhatCounts email marketing in behalf of your domain name, it is a good idea to add these to ensure email deliverability, as publishing these in your SPF record tells recipient email servers that WhatCounts is authorized to send email in behalf of your domain name. You will need Continue Reading

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