About

My name is Wes, I am a proud father, avid traveler, and 3D printer enthusiast. I also do Linuxy stuff for work as a lead systems engineer at Salesforce; basically I am a professional problem solver.

I started this blog years ago while I was a novice Linux administrator at Rackspace. A couple of my posts still get a lot of traffic, but for the most part the site has been abandoned. I recently moved the blog from a self-hosted Wordpress installation to Jekyll and hope to start blogging again!

What can we expect from this site?

I am certainly no longer a novice but the world of Linux and open source is so expansive and ever-changing that it requires constant learning. I personally try to keep a beginner’s mindset, ask a lot of questions, and fully explore topics that interest me. Over the last 9 years my life has changed immensely, but I am still very passionate about my work and eager to grow and share my knowledge.

This site is intended to be a notebook of sorts where I can document things I find interesting. I also plan to discuss issues that I find are common conversation topics with other techs. In this way the site will serve as a conversation aid as well as a quick reference after the fact.

“While we teach, we learn”¹ is a powerful truth. With that in mind, it can be said that this site is intended to further my own knowledge first and foremeost, but I truely hope that other people will find the site helpful too!

What’s with the website name?

Necrux (nec·rux) is a portmanteau of “necromancer” and “Tux.” I believe that the idea of a penguin bringing Linux servers back from the dead perfectly embodies what it means to be a Linux administrator.

April 2023

• What's with this?.

January 2016

• SMTP Sender-Dependent SASL Authentication in Postfix.
• My Adventures with Multiple Monitors on Linux.
• Parse Log Files with sed.

December 2015

• Backup and Restore Permissions in Linux.
• Bind Mounts in Linux.
• (S)FTP(S) or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love File Transfer.
• Bash Shortcuts.
• The Anatomy of an SSH Connection.
• Getting Started with Mailgun.

September 2015

• SSH Match Statements.
• Finding Help in Linux.
• Headless VMs with VirtualBox.

1. Seneca, a Roman philosopher ↩