[2024-feb-29] Sad news: Eric Layton aka Nocturnal Slacker aka vtel57 passed away on Feb 26th, shortly after hospitalization. He was one of our Wiki's most prominent admins. He will be missed.
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Edward McGuire
Contact
slackware at metaed dot com
Professional summary
Computer professional since 1981. Slackware-filtered detail:
- Unix and others of that ilk
- coding (Bash, C, JS/ECMA, Perl, PHP)
- Apache web service (httpd)
- host management using DNS/DHCP (dnsmasq), NTP, SNMP, syslog, Zabbix
- e-mail service (postfix/dovecot or good ole' sendmail)
- NFT firewalling
- relational DB including MySQL/MariaDB
- X Window System
Ask me about my PDP-11.
HOWTO revision history
| Page | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Synchronize your network with NTP | 2022/09/20 19:46 (UTC) | [Sources] tag to Slackware 15.0 and additional author |
| VNC | 2023/03/13 18:26 (UTC) | contribute new section starting Xvnc on-demand |
Contributions to sysklogd
| Commit | Date |
|---|---|
| Prevent logfile corruption by control codes | 2022-06-16 |
| Prevent overread when scanning the message buffer | 2022-06-16 |
| Don't skip the <PRI> field in the call to wallmsg() | 2022-05-14 |
