CategorySystems

Quick Update on polkit/pwnkit

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The internet is alight this week with news of a widespread vulnerability in the Linux “policy kit” framework, specifically a root compromise via the pkexec program, designated CVE-2021-4034. Most of our systems do not fall under this advisory, and the ones that do have been fully patched. Of note, our Snipe-IT hosting systems were completely unaffected by this advisory.As always, we...

LonghornPHP 2021

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Grokability CTO Brady Wetherington gave his first conference talk (ever!) at LonghornPHP 2021 in Austin, TX in October about how the systems-sausage is made here at Grokability, and how to bootstrap a million-dollar open source SaaS business for just one dollar a customer per month. This talk gets into some of the the weeds of how our hosted platform works, some mistakes we made, some challenges...

Neat Crontab Tool

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Crontabs are important to many systems, and are SO easy to monkey up, especially if you don’t have to change them often.

If you find yourself struggling with remembering the order of the numbers, check out this handy tool at

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