12

Nov

2014

Install Logtail on CentOS

November 12, 2014 jonny red hat centos

I had a munin plugin script that uses the logtail program. Logtail comes with the 'logcheck' package - available in the EPEL repository. To install it make sure you have the EPEL repository installed. If not (for CentOS 6): rpm -ivh... » More

31

Oct

2014

Set Default Theme in phpMyAdmin on CentOS

October 31, 2014 jonny apache, php

I have installed phpMyAdmin on CentOS 6 via the EPEL repository using: yum install phpMyAdmin I was asked to set the default theme from the new jazzy one to the traditional one. To do so I edited the phpMyAdmin config file. On CentOS this was at... » More

27

Oct

2014

Load Testing FTP with JMeter

October 27, 2014 jonny open source

I needed to test a ProFTP server to ensure that it could cope with 200 simultaneous users. The relevant lines in /etc/proftpd.conf to control this are: MaxInstances 30 MaxClientsPerHost 20 "Only %m connections per host... » More

21

Oct

2014

Getting Started PhoneGap/Cordova on Linux

October 21, 2014 jonny android

I was following the guide How to Install PhoneGap in Ubuntu  and I am regurgitating that advice here with my own changes: Install PhoneGap and Pre-requisites sudo apt-get install default-jre default-jdk ant sudo apt-get install npm sudo npm update... » More

15

Oct

2014

DigiCert Certificate Inspector on CentOS 6

October 15, 2014 jonny apache

Installation on CentOS Download the 64-bit RPM: wget https://www.digicert.com/certificate-inspector/agent-pkg/digicertagent-x64.rpm Install the package: rpm -ivh digicertagent-x64.rpm Register the Agent You will need your DigiCert credentials... » More

07

Oct

2014

Unlocking Active Directory Accounts using LDAP

October 7, 2014 jonny php

I am using PHP with LDAP to manage some aspects of user accounts within Active Directory. One of the things I needed to do was to reset the accounts of users who had incorrectly entered their password too many times. Initially I thought that the... » More

07

Oct

2014

LDAPS Active Directory Issues with php-5.3.3-27.el6_5.2.x86_64

October 7, 2014 jonny php, red hat centos

I upgraded a CentOS server today updating PHP from php-5.3.3-27.el6_5.x86_64 to php-5.3.3-27.el6_5.2.x86_64 This stopped a PHP web application I had written from being able to communicate with Active Directory over LDAPS. Normal LDAP appears to... » More

06

Oct

2014

SSH Socks Proxy for Web Browsing Private Network

October 6, 2014 jonny ssh

We were configuring OpenStack on a private 192.168 network and needed to use a web browser to browse to the OpenStack dashboard. The quickest easiest way to do that is by: ssh -D 8888 jonny@sshgateway From the ssh manpage: -D Specifies a local... » More

02

Oct

2014

SSH config for SSH Proxy Hopping

October 2, 2014 jonny ssh

I regularly need to connect to SSH hosts behind a firewall via a single SSH host with SSH access enabled. Since I am connecting to many hosts through this proxy SSH host I can make my life a little easier by adding some entries to my ~/.ssh/config... » More

29

Sep

2014

VMWare ESXi – Attach Host USB disk to VM

September 29, 2014 jonny virtualisation

I needed to copy some data from a virtual machine onto a USB Disk that was plugged into the ESXi machine hosting the virtual machine. Step 1 - Plug the USB Disk into the ESXi host Step 2 - Add a USB Controller to the VM   Step 3 -... » More