Zero Filling a Disk in Linux

Zero Filling a Disk in Linux

The simple way to wipe or zerofill a disk is: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=1M However I found an article describing how to zero-fill with a progress indicator using pipebench, installed on Debian/Ubuntu ...

Increasing CentOS LVM under VMWare

Increasing CentOS LVM under VMWare

Background: I had an existing CentOS machine as a virtual machine running on VMWare ESX Server and it was running out of space so for future reference I did the ...

SquidGuard LDAP User Search and Special Characters

SquidGuard LDAP User Search and Special Characters

So I had a problem with the ldapusersearch string as some eejit has created an OU with spaces and an apostrophe in the name. So the characters are represented as: comma ...

Flushing local client DNS cache

Flushing local client DNS cache

From info I found here. This is how to flush the local client DNS cache. Windows: ipconfig /flushdns Linux: sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart Mac: lookupd -flushcache

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Written by jonny in Uncategorized
19
May
2008

Change Hostname on Red Hat / CentOS

Good article here:http://www.xenocafe.com/tutorials/linux/redhat/change_hostname_without_reboot/index.php Short and to the point!

Written by jonny in Uncategorized
18
May
2008

New iPod Nano Video on Ubuntu

Used the instructions at the following link:http://maketecheasier.com/how-to-sync-amarok-with-ipod-classic-3rd-generation-ipod-nano/2008/03/10to get the new iPod Nano Video working. Shame Apple can’t be more open!Now to work out how to get videos working on it…

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8
May
2008

MySQL: mysql is not running but lock exists

A MySQL crash on Red Hat system resulted with: /etc/init.d/mysql status coming back with: mysql is not running but lock exists Solved by removing the lock file: rm /var/lock/subsys/mysql If [...]