Category Archives: Bash

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

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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Yum Update excluding packages

Posted by on October 14, 2010 Comments Off

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/redhat-centos-linux-yum-update-exclude-packages/

yum –exclude=perl* update

Block IP addresses with iptables

Posted by on August 19, 2010 Comments Off

iptables -A INPUT -s IP-ADDRESS -j DROP

then save

service iptables save

Spawn Rsync Expect Timeout!

Posted by on July 24, 2010 Comments Off

So you’ve written a bash script to do a rsync backup, but the script times out?

Scratching your heading trying to figure out what the issue is?  
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CHROOT local users to their own directory

Posted by on July 21, 2010 Comments Off

Once VSFTPD is installed, edit the

/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf file and add the following line if it does not exist

chroot_local_user=YES  
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