I was using the mcrcon utility to retrieve performance statistics from a Minecraft server for use in Nagios: /opt/minecraft/mcrcon -c -H 192.168.1.111 -P 25575 -p “topsecret” list However the output included dodgy unrecognised � characters (see screenshot). To remove these characters from the output I converted with iconv to UTF-8 and was then able to… Read more »
Posts By: jonny
Pxeboot CentOS Environment
While re-purposing a few old Google Search Appliances I set up a Network Boot Enviornment as follows: Install Dependencies yum install tftp-server tftp syslinux httpd dhcp Configure tftp mkdir /tftpboot vi /etc/xinetd.d/tftp service tftp { socket_type = dgram protocol = udp wait = yes user = root server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd server_args = -s -v /tftpboot… Read more »
Compiling Dansguardian with Increased MaxChildren
I have three main proxy servers running Squid, Squidguard and DansGuardian servicing over 1300 desktop computers. The stock DansGuardian code includes a setting to limit the number of potential DansGuardian child processes to the operating system file descriptor limits. I have managed to increase this to 900 but would like to push it further. The setting… Read more »
smbclient: Special Characters and UTF-8
I have a PHP web application that communicates to Windows Shares via the smbclient binary. My problem was that some characters (particularly accented characters such as é ) were not being shown on the PHP page and were even causing lines of output to be omitted. After ensuring the PHP page was outputting UTF8 I… Read more »
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo
I ordered a CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo from Amazon for £26.50 to keep my machine a little cooler than the stock heat sink. The two heat sinks are shown below. The CoolerMaster is much bigger and could be a struggle to get in to most cases but I am very happy with the results. It… Read more »
WordPress Bulk Actions with WP-CLI
I manage a WordPress Multi-user environment and needed to bulk add LDAP users (which is already quite easy) and also to bulk create blogs for users – which I couldn’t find an easy method for. I started exploring how I could script the creation of this when I happened upon WP-CLI. yum install git Then… Read more »
RSA Security Console Forgotten Admin Password
My colleague forgot the password he used for the admin user account on the RSA Security Console – since it needs to be changed and a previously used password cannot be re-used. We have it installed on a Windows Server 2008 so to create a temporary admin account: Open Command Prompt Change directory to the… Read more »
Media Streaming on Ubuntu with Mediatomb
Install with: sudo apt-get install mediatomb Amend the /etc/mediatomb/config.xml file. I find the configuration below works well for all the video types I throw at it. Then access the web interface at http://localhost:49152 logging in with mediatomb/mediatomb and add some video directories to be served. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <config version=”2″ xmlns=”http://mediatomb.cc/config/2″ xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” xsi:schemaLocation=”http://mediatomb.cc/config/2 http://mediatomb.cc/config/2.xsd”><!– Read /usr/share/doc/mediatomb-common/README.gz… Read more »
Testing SMTP AUTH PLAIN Over TLS
To prepare to test a TLS connection to an SMTP server we first need to Base64 encode the Login credentials: perl -MMIME::Base64 -e ‘print encode_base64(“\000LoginID\000password”)’ The result of this is: AExvZ2luSUQAcGFzc3dvcmQ= I tried using the base64 linux command but did not get the same result or a result that would work: echo -n “\000LoginID\000password” |… Read more »
Retrieving folder.jpg thumbnails: PHP Script
When using XBMC we usually use the ‘Files’ menu. The folder icons under ‘Files’ do not show a preview thumbnail unless there is an image in the folder named ‘folder.jpg’. I could manually search for folder images for each movie but decided that would be time-consuming so I put together a wee PHP script –… Read more »
