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
8
Oct
2009

Shell Script: Search Apache Logs

This shell script is for future reference. Used to copy zip apache log files into a temporary directory by day/month. Log files are unzipped and then searched for the strings [...]

Written by jonny in web design
1
Oct
2009

Example robots.txt

Not all crawlers obey all of these rules but as a reference point. The crawl delay is the number of seconds between requests and the newer request-rate is set here [...]