Linux related posts
If you are using a 3rd party application / package installer to install a service onto a system that using chkconfig to manage your run-levels, or writing your own which are incompatible with chkconfig. That is to say when trying to add them you get the following error: # chkconfig <service> on service <service> does […]
In case anyone out there in internet land happen to have a BIND DNS server still running RHEL 4 or Centos 4 and require a version that has been back ported from the Centos 6.2 source, one that has the CVE-2012-1667 fix. Then you can download the RPMs I build from here. NOTE: I’ve only […]
Squid is one of the biggest and most used proxies on the interwebs. And generating reports from the access logs is already a done deal, there are many commercial and OSS apps that support the squid log format. But I found my self in a situation where I wanted stats but didn’t want to install […]
Was just looking into a software RAID howto.. for no reason really, but kinda glad I did! When you set up software raid you want to make sure all disks are partitioned the same, right. so check this out: 3. Create partitions on /dev/sda identical to the partitions on /dev/sdb: sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk […]
Some old windows servers require authentication through the old NTLM protocol, luckily with the help from squid, samba and winbind we can do this under Linux. Some URLs a much of this information was gathered from are: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Authenticate/NtlmCentOS5 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Authenticate/Ntlm HOW TO In order to authenticate through winbind we will be using that and samba to […]
Squid – Reverse Proxy In computer networks, a reverse proxy is a type of proxy server that retrieves resources on behalf of a client from one or more servers. These resources are then returned to the client as though it originated from the reverse proxy itself. While a forward proxy is usually situated between the […]
The maillog The maillog is easy enough to follow, but when you understand what all the delay and delays numbers mean then this may help really understand what is going on! A standard email entry in postfix looks like: Jan 10 10:00:00 testmtr postfix/smtp[20123]: 34A1B160852B: to=, relay=mx1.example.lan[1.2.3.4]:25, delay=0.49, delays=0.2/0/0.04/0.25, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent Pretty straight forward: date, […]
If you want vim to nicely format an XML file (and a xena file in this example, 2nd line) then add this to your ~/.vimrc file: ” Format *.xml and *.xena files by sending them to xmllint au FileType xml exe “:silent 1,$!xmllint –format –recover – 2>/dev/null” au FileType xena exe “:silent 1,$!xmllint –format –recover […]
Debian 6 was released the other day, with this release they not only released a Linux kernel version but they now support a FreeBSD version as well! So I decided to install it under VirtualBox and check it out… The install process went smoothly until I got to the end when it was installing and […]
If you have a local mirror and want to use it as the mirror for preupgrade then follow the these normal steps EXCEPT do the following BEFORE you run the preupgrade(-cli) command: Download the releases.txt file used: wget http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/releases.txt Modify the releases.txt file, I changed the Fedora 14 (what I’m upgrading to) options to: [Fedora […]
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