I used this as a starting point http://askubuntu.com/questions/505446/how-to-install-ubuntu-14-04-with-raid-1-using-desktop-installer I did my own pairs of /boot and / partions on my real disks sda and sdb, then installed mdadm and created the md0 and md1 raids from the command line then Read more
GIMP is my new goto for editing pdfs, not as good as the real thing — it edits by drawing graphics over the page — rather than typing in forms on the page — but for filling out basic paper Read more
after you’ve already done this: http://rln.d13dns.com/2014/07/19/djbdns-dnscache/ (if you’re not interested in a djbdns dns cache do the first two parts to install daemontools and ucspi) Install outbound only qmail smtp service to your box with the following: cd /var/tmp/ yum Read more
#This always seems to bite me in the ass. #dont’ forget to : # modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp –dport 21 -m conntrack –ctstate NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT # -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m tcp –dport 21 -m Read more
#get the uuid of the box you want to add the eth1 to xe vm-list #list the interfaces that are associated with that box xe vif-list | grep #get list of network-uuids to pick from (in my case there are Read more
Discovered this slow roll ssh attack from looking at bandwidth graphs on a new hardly used server (6 bytes per second). The attached file is actually just ascii… bar.
Able to download at 8-20 Mbps, only able to upload at 300kbps. Advertised rate is more than 10x that. It was on all uploads I tried (ssh, ftp, http). Aside: it is nearly impossible to do anything on Charter’s website Read more
xe sr-list #gives you a list of sr’s from which to pick a sr-uuid xe vdi-create sr-uuid= name-label= type=user virtual-size= #the above vdi-create outputs a vdi-uuid xe vm-list # gives you a list of vm’s from which to pick a Read more
yum update -y ; vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables; #configuring iptables is an exercise for the reader iptables-restore /etc/sysconfig/iptables; /etc/init.d/httpd stop; chkconfig –del httpd; /etc/init.d/sendmail stop; chkconfig –del sendmail; /etc/init.d/xinetd stop; chkconfig –del xinetd; #install daemontools (djb does crazy things with symlinks – Read more