Author Archives: turbo124

Sparse files in linux

Posted by on February 4, 2012 Comments Off

dd if=/dev/zero of=sparse_file_name bs=1 count=0 seek=500G

iscsi target

Posted by on January 15, 2012 Comments Off

config files for the latest version if iet are found in /etc/iet/ NOT /etc/init.d

install pmacctd on XenServer

Posted by on December 23, 2011 Comments Off

Download

http://www.pmacct.net/#downloads

enable Base repo on Dom0

yum install gcc gcc-c++ autoconf make libpcap libpcap-devel

./configure
make
make install

GIT

Posted by on December 14, 2011 Comments Off

I hate setting up new repo’s…

If you have a local repo that you would like to share, on the remote server create a new directory (with correct permissions).  
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NFS Port Mapping IPTABLEs Setup

Posted by on November 25, 2011 Comments Off

Great post instructing how to lock down an NFS server

http://nxlinuxadmin.blogspot.com/2010/05/iptables-for-nfs-server.html

Postgresql 9.0 Centos Install and Config

Posted by on August 11, 2011 Comments Off

Download repo

wget http://yum.pgrpms.org/reporpms/9.0/pgdg-centos-9.0-2.noarch.rpm

Install repo

rpm -i pgdg-centos-9.0-2.noarch.rpm

Install Postgres

yum install postgresql90-server

Initialise DB

service postgresql-9.0 initdb

Start Service

service postgresql-9.0 start
  
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php-wkhtmltox

Posted by on August 4, 2011 Comments Off

wkhtmltox is a great piece of kit to convert webpages to PDF format.

It is – however – an absolute Pita to install, as there are minimal resources on the net for installing this onto a Linux Server.  
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DNS Cache Flush Mac OS X

Posted by on July 31, 2011 Comments Off


dscacheutil -flushcache

Resize XEN VM disk and Swap Disk

Posted by on July 21, 2011 Comments Off

master:~# fdisk /dev/xvda

Command (m for help): p
Command (m for help): d

Partition number (1-4):<enter partition number>  
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Xcode 4 Source Control Woes

Posted by on April 26, 2011 Comments Off

I spent an age trying to work out why i couldn’t check out my code from a SVN REPO.

So turns out Xcode will not allow you to download from a SVN source that uses a untrusted SSL certificate.  
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