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I wanted to add some colour to the output of my bash shell script and was able to do so with the following – very simple red and green: if [ $COUNT -eq 0 ]; then tput setaf 2 echo “OK There are no problems” tput sgr0 else tput setaf 1 echo “WARNING There are… Read more »
On a misbehaving application we were seeing 200 transactions per second to a MS SQL Server database when normally there would be approximately 10 queries per second. To analyse the type of SQL queries received by the server I used ‘SQL Server Profiler’ as follows: File > New Trace … Connect to the database if… Read more »
The notes here are a quick howto for using LDAP authentication against Active Directory. It is possible to use Samba/Winbind/Kerberos authentication within Radius too and I may post those notes when I get a chance but for now this is how I implemented it with LDAP. Install required software on CentOS/Red Hat: yum install freeradius… Read more »
I was looking for an alternative to the Windows software ‘Softerra LDAP Browser’ and I stumbled upon Apache Directory Studio. Apache Directory Studio is based on Eclipse and allows browsing to LDAP directories, searching and editing. I tested it with connections to Active Directory, Novell eDirectory and another lesser known LDAP directory. Install Apache Directory… Read more »
Over the past few days I have had a number of questions asking about the meanings of phrases used in AWStats. So to summarise: BW BW stands for bandwidth – the amount of megabytes/gigabytes used per month – this was important when people paid for the amount of bandwidth their website used. It can also be… Read more »
Today I had a problem booting my Ubuntu desktop – with booting stuck on the purple screen. An Alt-1 showed me that there were problems with the disk and a manual fsck should be run. So at the Grub screen I pressed ‘e’ to edit the current entry and on the linux (kernel) line I… Read more »
The results from last Friday’s 2km-ish swim at Camlough Lake. 2013 – Position 29/148 00:39:17 2011 – Position 27/107 00:42.40
Just making a copy of a /etc/samba/smb.conf file that works for sharing a single directory within a private network. There is no security / privacy just a public share. [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) dns proxy = no log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 syslog =… Read more »
I am not necessarily a fan of this software as I find it a bit less than intuitive to use but I set it up on one of our CentOS servers for someone else and thought I would jot a few notes about the process. Install dependencies: yum –disablerepo=rpmforge –enablerepo=epel install httpd gdal-perl perl-CGI perl-CGI-Session… Read more »
Although it wasn’t causing any problems I wanted to stop proftpd logging these lines: Aug 15 09:51:00 servername proftpd: pam_unix(proftpd:session): session opened for user joebloggs by (uid=0) Aug 15 09:51:01 servername proftpd: pam_env(proftpd:setcred): Unable to open config file: /etc/security/pam_env.conf: No such file or directory Aug 15 09:51:01 servername proftpd: pam_succeed_if(proftpd:session): error retrieving information about user 0 Aug… Read more »
