When installing Go (Golang) on Enterprise Linux systems, the default package repositories are usually behind the official Go release cycle. This can cause compatibility issues when compiling modern projects or building statically linked binaries. This guide walks through a proper, official installation method using the Go project’s own binaries. The result is a clean, system-wide Go installation that is safe…

In modern Linux systems, both users and groups are assigned numeric IDs. Users have UIDs, and groups have GIDs. By convention, system accounts typically use IDs below 1000, while regular user accounts use IDs 1000 and above. When a user account is created, a corresponding group with the same name is usually created as the user’s primary group. To identify…

This is the raw process used to install Jellyfin on Ubuntu. Ubuntu supports the latest packages unlike the RHEL Linux flavors. This is unfortunate since the clients used for the Fire TV sticks and the like require the latest version of Jellyfin. As a bonus, I was able to copy over the metadata and everything seems to be working just…

While using rsync on ESXi 7 to copy files and directories from one ESXi datastore to another remote ESXi datastore, the screen fills with “rekeyed outbound cipher rekeyed inbound cipher” messages about every 10 seconds. There is a way to fix this. There is a setting in /etc/ssh/sshd_config that I commented out and changed to RekeyLimit default none. Restart the…