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 linux
14
Sep
2010

Top of the Tops

A roundup of my top top utilities for troubleshooting problems on servers.htopIn terms of alternatives to the traditional top command htop is pretty good (being better than the older atop [...]

Written by jonny in linux
14
Sep
2010

Samba Client

Smbclient operates like a command-line ftp client which allows sending commands to the samba server. The following syntax worked for me: /usr/bin/smbclient ‘//anotherserver/myshare’ -D ‘mydirectory/’ -c ‘mkdir “testlog5″‘ -U ‘myusername%mypass’ [...]

Written by jonny in linux
8
Sep
2010

Get iPlayer

The previous version of get_iplayer had stopped working for me but there is still people updating this script. Get it here: http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html