Ubuntu rndc.key dynamic DNS updates failing
there’s a thing in Ubuntu called Apparmor. Never even heard of this. This is what was keeping the files from being written to by the bind daemon.
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Is a hardware firewall really a software firewall anyway? 4
I love how people always say that a software firewall like IPCop is a “lesser” product than a hardware system. I ran into one site speaking of Netsentron as a hardware solution. I’d also include Endian Firewall and Untangle when we talk about a “linux based hardware firewall”. Well here’s […]
Fixing Grub and IPCop boot on Linux after cloning a hard drive
When you clone or image your Linux hard drive with Ghost or Drive Image (or any other imaging software) you might not be able to load Grub. Usually just running some Grub commands off a Linux System Rescue CD will fix it. I think most any bootable Linux Live CD […]
IPCop 1.4.15 with PPTPd would not run because of libpcap link
I fought with this one for a while, like several hours. I installed the pptp addon for IPCop, which, by the way, you must Google for. I installed version 0.2.9 (pptpd_0.2.9.tar.gz) and found that on a forum somewhere. If you go to the addon’s from IPCop, you will only find […]
Self-Signed IIS SSL Certificates using OpenSSL
Gregs Uberfast version: Linux: openssl genrsa -des3 -out CA.key 1024openssl req -new -key CA.key -x509 -days 3650 -out CA.crtchmod 400 CA.keychmod 400 CA.crt (the above made a new CA, you want to install the crt into IE’s trusted certs.) Win: Make cert request in IIS – take to Lin. Linux: […]
Set duplex on linux network card
Statically/manually define/set duplex on linux network card Use mii-tool or ethtool ////////////////////////////// A Note About Duplex Settings By default, Linux NICs negotiate their speed and duplex settings with the switch. This is done by exchanging electronic signals called Fast Link Pulses (FLP). When the speed and duplex are forced to […]
Remote ssh rsync linux backups with certificates and no passwords
Uber quick howto: (based on Debian) 1. Make sure ssh, rsync and sudo are installed and working. 2. Add a user account, on remote system. 2.a Add a certificate with openssl or ssh-keygen (look that up elsewhere) 2.b Make sure the cert is unencrypted with no password. Yes, that is […]
Debian apt error mmap ran out of room 1
I spent quite a while searching for solutions to this issue: Reading Package Lists… Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room I found several posts and sites that mention updating the cache limit, but that did not work. Here’s what I found though. First, create the file if it […]
Setup virtual users and domains on Courier (Debian package)
Courier Virtual Email Hosting – No SQL Servers Using USERDB Add the domain(s) Add your domain name to esmtpacceptmailfor.dir/default Add your domain name to hosteddomains/default Then create the courier system files, run: makeacceptmailfor makehosteddomains Add the users You run 2 commands to add a user. (same user/pw for smtp also) […]
Compile Apache 2 with PHP 4 and MySQL 5 (while MySQL 4 is also installed) 1
Download and unpack Apache and PHP. MySQL 5 is install already. (as per another blog: https://www.1stbyte.com/2006/04/02/mysql-5-upgrade-compiled/ Make sure you have the proper dev packages. In my case I had to install ‘libflex’ and ‘libgdbm-dev’ using apt-get install to install PHP. (I have Debian Unstable) ./configure –prefix=/var/httpd –enable-so –enable-proxy –enable-proxy-ftp –enable-proxy-http […]
Mysql 5 upgrade – compiled 1
I just upgraded my MySQL server from 5.0.7 to 5.0.10. I wanted to make a few notes about what I did to set it up. 1. I compiled MySQL 5.0.10-beta. ./configure –prefix=/var/mysql5010 –with-unix-socket-path=/tmp/mysql5.sock –with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static –enable-assembler –with-low-memory –with-named-curses-libs=/lib/libncurses.so.5 –with-mysqld-user=mysql 2. Did a make && make install 3. Stop mysql507 (on my […]
Install a non-linux USB Wireless adapter on Ubuntu 1
Wow! This has turned out to be a real pain. Below is a process I started, but ran into issues. I could see the module, but it would never make a Wlan0 to access using iwconfig or ifconfig. I tried this on the Trendnet TEW-229UB and the TEW-424UB. Maybe because […]
Python Script/ZSQL – Alternate data over 2 columns 1
Here’s a quick post based on a Python Script I made in Zope to display the data from a ZSQL method in a 2 column table layout. Not that big of a deal, but I wanted to save this because it took a little bit of thought and some learning. […]
Compile PHP 5.1 with JPEG support on Debian
Ok, here’s my configure command: ./configure –with-apxs2=/path/to/httpd/bin/apxs –with-mysql=/path/to/mysql –with-mysql-sock=/tmp/mysql.sock –prefix=/path/to/httpd/php –with-config-file-path=/path/to/httpd/php –enable-force-cgi-redirect –disable-cgi –with-zlib –with-gettext –with-gdbm –with-gd –with-png –with-png-dir=/usr/lib –with-jpeg –with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib –with-pdo-mysql –with-mysqli I ran into errors trying to run the function imagecreatefromjpeg and imagesx and imagesy. And the system could not find the jpeg libs. On Debian Sarge, you […]
Configure and compile Python with Zlib 25
I just spent an hour trying to figure this out, AGAIN! To compile Zlib support into your Python interpreter, do this: 1. Install the Zlib-dev package for your distribution. (you probably have zlib already, but not the dev package) On Ubuntu it’s called ‘zlib1g-dev’, on others it might just be: […]
