It’s hackweek at Suse! Probably one of my favourite times of year, though I think they come up every 9 months or so. Anyway, this hackweek I’ve been on a WireGuard journey. I started reading the paper and all the docs. Briefly looking into the code, sitting in the IRC…
Hello world, It’s been a while since I have blogged on this site, I apologise for that. My previous position was a tad proprietary, so although I worked with Linux, what I was doing needs to be sanitised before I can post about it. I have a bunch of posts…
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…
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…
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:…
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,…
A few of us here at work are using Fedora 12, two of the guys upgraded Fedora to find X not starting, seemingly a broken nvidia driver. Because they had issues I was careful about updates. But the inevitable happened.. I updated killing my Xorg. I decided I’d do a…
At the point in writing there aren’t many ways of backing up your SMS’s from your iPhone, but you do a system backup when you sync with itunes but what if you want your SMS conversions backed up as a simple non proprietary format? Well the answer is here! Shea…
FUSE (Filesystem in userspace) gives not only non privileged users a little more power, but also allows file systems that for legal reasons cannot be linked to the kernel life on a Linux system. Thanks to this fuse layer, you can access gmail as a harddisk, ssh mount devices, and…