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Development System Administration Technical

2025 Bash tips

Been doing a lot of Bash coding in the past year developing Zesk Build: Pipeline, build, and operations tools useful for any project an open source project I started after I realized I kept using the same code base for all of my projects to build and maintain them. bash was a logical choice largely […]

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System Administration Technical

Pattern for setting root paths in a bash binary

(2025 – updated to current practices) I find myself constantly seeking to set up a coding pattern where I have a project (say, a web application) which has root directories such as: etc. where various resources for our application are stored. What is essential is that that sometimes there are multiple versions of an application […]

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DNS Email System Administration Technical

DKIM TXT Records in DNS exceeding 255 characters

Wow. It’s 2009, and apparently DNS can only support reading configuration file lines which are not greater than 255 characters. I received the following error