Archive for the ‘Tool of the Week’ Category
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
I was asked to provide more ram for a server today, specified only by name. I have login details, but it's in a datacentre in Auckland, and I'm in Hamilton, so I can't wander over to check details.
Enter dmidecode:
[code]
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System Information
Manufacturer: Dell ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
I'm very interested in the topic of network deployments of operating systems, specifically the various Microsoft OSs, as I can already install linux via PXEboot. There's two main groups of software in this field - unattended or scripted installs, and imaged installs.
A while ago I found a tool called Unattended, ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
One of the servers I maintain is the jabber server at jabber.meta.net.nz. This is a free public service, anyone can use it, and it does get quite a wide range of use - for a long time we seemed to be very popular for south american users, possibly because of ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
I was tweaking the UPS rules at a client's site, when I noticed that the base NUT configuration that we use didn't really do a hell of a lot. The example config files had some hints as to what were needed, but unless I missed something fundamental, didn't have the ...
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
A coworker was doing some work on a server we're building up, and wanted to kill a bunch of processes. The killall binary wasn't installed for some reason (default etch install, probably just missing the package), but he found a killall5 binary instead.
For those of you who don't know, killall5 ...
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007
Miro, formerly known as Democracy TV, made its first public release a few days ago. It's available at http://www.getmiro.com/. Miro is like a blog aggregator for video sources such as YouTube and Google Video, as well as provider content such as various news and science tv channels, The Onion.
Installing it ...
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
Matt Brown asked if I could think of any way to allow a certain group of users to scp into a host and use a password, while requiring a valid key pair for most other users. Perry suggested a solution to this a while ago, so I sat down and ...
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
I have recently had to build some debian packages for software we distribute to our clients. I've built debian packages in the past, but I was a bit rusty so was looking at a similar package to the one I was working on at the time, a collection of php ...
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
If you have computer on a public-facing IP address, and it runs an SSH server on port 22, chances are pretty good you'll be subjected to a number of dictionary attacks. Compromised hosts will try to login with a list of common user names and passwords.
Now, this isn't a ...
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Friday, April 7th, 2006
SSH public key management can be a real pain. Adding or removing a user to your system, and distributing the account details and ssh keys is time consuming. Revoking keys is the bigger issue. Has a user added an ssh public key to the root account? To other people's accounts?
Enter ...
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