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

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

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

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 linux, red hat centos, ubuntu

27
Mar
2009

Default Gateway Location

Centos and Red Hat:/etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yesNETWORKING_IPV6=noHOSTNAME=myhostGATEWAY=123.123.123.1 Ubuntu/Debian: 1/etc/network/interfaces 1gateway 192.168.1.254 Command Line: 1route add default gw 192.168.1.254

Written by jonny in web design

25
Mar
2009

Privacy Policies

Great tutorial on using the IBM privacy policy editor for standards compliance:http://www.awardsites.com/tutorials/w3c/p3p_privacy-01.htm

Written by jonny in mysql

24
Mar
2009

MySQL Old Passwords

We had a application using version 4 libraries of MySQL to talk to a MySQL 5 database which reported:<br /> Error: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; [...]

Written by jonny in linux, ubuntu

11
Mar
2009

Checking for Updates on Ubuntu

On Ubuntu/Debian servers install apticron with: apt-get install apticron This will run a daily job and send an email with available updates. The email address can be amended in /etc/apitcron/apticron.conf [...]

Written by jonny in linux, ubuntu

9
Mar
2009

Ubuntu Ibex (8.10), Opera and Flash

Opera is a great browser – magic wand, mouse gestures and less memory hungry than Firefox. It’s also pretty good on the Wii. Install the .deb from www.opera.com/downloadThen to get [...]

Written by jonny in photography

5
Mar
2009

Great site for camera reviews

http://www.cameras.co.uk

Written by jonny in Uncategorized

5
Mar
2009

Plesk SSL Certificates from Comodo

Trying a free SSL cert from Comodo and had some difficulties with an error message: The CA certificate does not sign the certificate So downloaded the following CA bundle:https://support.comodo.com/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=viewdownload&downloaditemid=77and used [...]

Written by jonny in linux, spam

2
Mar
2009

Sophie make problems

I had a few stumbles when setting up Sophie, so for future reference: v3.05 checking for DllGetClassObject in -lsavi… noHave you downloaded the correct version of Sophos? There are a [...]