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

Browsing all articles from February, 2011

Ubuntu Desktop Showing Home Folder Contents

I was playing with a shell script to rename a bunch of image files to lowercase then resize them but I had a typo in one of my variables resulting [...]

Joomla 1.5 – Customising

A few minor notes on changing some of the text in Joomla 1.5: Welcome to the FrontageIn the Admin Control Panel go to Menus > Main Menu > Home > [...]

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 [...]

Troubleshooting Munin

Having given up on installing and using Munin once already I thought I would jot a few notes to help in future troubleshooting. Test the connection by telnet from the [...]

Plesk ClamAV and SpamAssassin: ART

Configuring Plesk’s version of Qmail to use Clam and Spamassassin. I followed the instructions here:http://www.jaguarpc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19328But I also received an error: Cannot find any reference to the Q-S administrator Email address [...]

Courier IMAP maximum connections

Just increased the maximum number of IMAP (courier) connections (for thunderbird and Mac users) in /etc/courier-imap/imapd 1MAXDAEMONS from 40 to 80 1MAXPERIP from 4 to 40as discussed here. I also [...]

MySQL 4 to MySQL 5 Character Sets and Collation

Moving from MySQL 4 to MySQL 5 caused a few issues on Joomla websites. The problems stem from MySQL 4 using latin1 swedish as default but some applications like Joomla [...]

Live TV Soccer Online

Found the following streaming live soccer: http://www.iraqgoals.net/ http://www.justin.tv

Debugging PHP Errors

To debug PHP without having to amend the php.ini for all websites add the following in a .htaccess file in the directory of the application. Easy to switch on and [...]