06
Jan
2011

Uptime

linux

1084 days on this internal monitoring machine. Unfortunately I had to take the machine down as I was replacing it.

05
Jan
2011

Linux Find Not Owner

linux

In Linux to find files not owned by user using the 'find' command we negate with the exclamation mark so rather than:find . -user jonnywe use:find . ! -user jonnyWhere:find <dir> ! -user <username>

01
Jan
2011

VirtualBox 4.0 on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick

ubuntu

Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.listdeb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian maverick contribThen run:wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get... » More

01
Jan
2011

msconfig Startup Programs

windows

This searchable list if programs could come in useful when disabling programs from starting on slow windows machines.

31
Dec
2010

MySQL: Too Many Connections

mysql

On a shared server with MySQL and Apache the MySQL server was periodically disallowing connections as there were already too many connections. The default is 150+1 so I added the following to /etc/my.cnfmax_connections=200To increase the maximum number... » More

21
Dec
2010

Clamd and Iptables

linux

Running Clam on a separate machine to our Mail Transfer Agent we needed to configure iptables to allow access to clam from those machines. Clamd listens for connections on port 3310 by default but appears to hand off to other 'passive' ports for each... » More

20
Dec
2010

Google Font Directory

web design

The Droid Sans font from Google Font Directory is a lovely font with great readability for use on web pages.To use Droid Sans add a css link:<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid+Sans' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>then in... » More

24
Nov
2010

Dansguardian Randomise Rules

linux, red hat centos, squid

If you plan to use URLBlacklist.com or Shalla rules in Dansguardian you may suffer from very slow (or impossible) restarts of the daemon. Dansguardian prefers the rules randomized rather than in alphabetical order. I couldn't find the randomize lines... » More

24
Nov
2010

Screen – Watching 2 log files at once

linux

I needed to tail two log files in one terminal so on the server I was using:yum install screen  screenCtrl-A  c        Ctrl-A Shift-s Ctrl-A TAB     Ctrl-A "         Run "tail -f filename1" in one frame then Ctrl-A TAB to the other... » More