David Bomba

Sparse files in linux

turbo124 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:55:19 +0000

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

iscsi target

turbo124 — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:11:39 +0000

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

install pmacctd on XenServer

turbo124 — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:29:01 +0000

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

turbo124 — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:26:34 +0000

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). then, cd into the dir and type git --bare init on …

NFS Port Mapping IPTABLEs Setup

turbo124 — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:03:04 +0000

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

turbo124 — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:59:56 +0000

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 Turn levels on chkconfig --levels 235 postgresql-9.0 on Edit conf file nano /var/lib/pgsql/9.0/data/pg_hba.conf Change IDENT to …

php-wkhtmltox

turbo124 — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:40:19 +0000

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. The first …

DNS Cache Flush Mac OS X

turbo124 — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 08:13:57 +0000

dscacheutil -flushcache

Resize XEN VM disk and Swap Disk

turbo124 — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:35:18 +0000

master:~# fdisk /dev/xvda Command (m for help): p Command (m for help): d Partition number (1-4):<enter partition number> Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4): p Partition number (1-4): <enter partition number> First cylinder (32-6527, …

Xcode 4 Source Control Woes

turbo124 — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:58:34 +0000

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. You …