InspIRCd Error: Unable to load GnuTLS server private key (conf/key.pem):...
With a local build of the InspIRCd server software, we were able to get everything up and running from the build directory, which was unfortunately in a user's home directory. We tried to move this...
View ArticleDebian: "/lib/lsb/init-functions: line 428: FANCYTTY: unbound variable"
Today's attempted dist-upgrade in Debian Sid caused issues with LSB files and the error:/lib/lsb/init-functions: line 428: FANCYTTY: unbound variableThe fix is easy but a bit obscure; just add...
View ArticleAdobe .air downloading as .zip files on Windows
If you have an Adobe .air file hosted on an apache2 webserver and download that .air package with Windows and IE, Windows will decide for you to change this to a .zip file. You need to explicitly tell...
View ArticleAmazon AWS: Keys to the Kingdom, unconfused (maybe)
Amazon AWS has a lot of identifiers, certs, passwords, etc., for an account. To clarify these:AWS Username and Password:The basic login information, used on the AWS website. These are not the same as...
View ArticleWindows Batch Script: Getting Unique IPv6 IP
This is a basic, somewhat dirty, Batch script to get a Windows IPv6 address into a text file to use as a unique identifier. I used Windows Server 2008 for this script, to use in an Amazon EC2...
View ArticleInstalling Virtualbox Extension Packs (Debian Sid 2012-06)
Download the extension pack for your version of Virtualbox from the Oracle website. Become the root user on your machine and browse to your downloaded files, and install with:root# VBoxManage extpack...
View ArticleCreating an animate GIF with Free Software
1. Install ffmpeg, gifsicle, and imagemagick:shell# sudo aptitude updateshell# sudo aptitude install ffmpeg gifsicle imagemagickThat install command should work on Debain and Ubuntu (if you have sudo...
View ArticleMoving Red Hat licenses on RHN website
On the Red Hat Network website (rhn.redhat.com) you can move your licenses to allow updates or software to be installed or downloaded to various machines. This is extremely handy for if your server is...
View ArticleHowTo: Rip CDs to MP3 in Amarok on Linux (Video)
Ripping CDs in Amarok on Linux. This requires the LAME library (aptitude install lame). This is on Debian Linux Sid with KDE 4.8.4 but should work on other platforms and distros as well.
View ArticleInstalling Exim4 on Red Hat and CentOS and setting up GMail Relay
Exim4 is my favorite email transport software; it's rather easy to use (especially on Debian) and has far more simple setups than Sendmail.On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6) and CentOS 6, installing...
View ArticleSolved: Moved MySQL Database doesn't have SELECT permissions
We recently exported a database from one machine to another and were having issues with SELECT statements, even though we had granted all privileges to the account: shell# mysql -u root -p mysql>...
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KDE colours in Firefox, finally resolved
Quick post about an issue which has driven me crazy:I have installed the package 'kde-config-gtk-style' and in System Settings > Application Appearance > GTk Style I have that set to make GTk...
View ArticleArduino Ultrasonic sensor pings distances (HC-SR04)
An Ultrasonic Distance Sensor such as the HC-SR04 is an easy module to add to an Arduino Uno or other Arduino board. In this example video we see different distances lighting up different LEDs:This...
View ArticleDebian Lenny: Installing software after End of Life
Debian Lenny had its End of Life in Feb 2012, but many people are still running this OS version (Debian 5). How do you get additional packages installed etc after Debian is no longer supporting the...
View ArticleSendmail: Sending email from different IPs
Sendmail is a highly-configurable, rather complex MTA (message transfer agent) which runs as the default MTA on Red Hat Linux and clones. I prefer Exim4 for it's simple configuration, but if a client...
View Articletail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling
Getting this error when I use the tail command:tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to pollingThe solution that I found is to increase the limit set within the file at...
View ArticleRKHunter: checking for Root Kits and Intrusions on Linux
Ever wonder if that server, the one being pounded for SSH logins and strange Apache2 requests, is still a secure machine?The package 'rkhunter' is a nice tool to create a baseline of a server which can...
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Linux: Java Control Panel and turning off TLS v1.0
If you're having trouble launching Java applications for your NetApp or other software that is using Java technology (why??), you may need to turn off TLS v1.0.Error messages include the...
View ArticleOnly Download updates to install later (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint)
Aptitude (and it's less intelligent cousin apt-get, which doesn't try as hard for dependency resolution) are great for installing packages from the command line, but if you want to download the...
View ArticleOnly Download updates to install later (Red Hat, CentOS, Scientific Linux)
If you need to only download updates (or any packages) using Yum, for installation at a later time, you can do this by first installing the 'yum-downloadonly' package:shell# yum install...
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