389 directory server quick note
To avoid “cannot find name” when looking up GIDs for LDAP users, you need to do New->Other in the Directory tab, choose a new object “posixgroup” and fill in the name & GID.
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Highlight your source code in the console
Your editor supports source code highlighting, so why not the console? Actually it can with source-highlighter via Peter Eisentraut’s Blog: Adding Color to the Console: Code Syntax Highlighting with less and source-highlight. I’ve just created a shell alias like alias shl=”/usr/bin/source-highlight -fesc -oSTDOUT -i ” though
Eight reasons to upgrade to Apache 2.4
The Event MPM is no longer experimental and is fully supported – this gives greater performance ala nginx. Conditionals in config – so you can have for example, a generalized config across multiple hosts with slightly different requirements. Similarly, you can have config file variables. mod_remoteip – allows you to easily get the “true” …
Mosh: the mobile shell
The #1 reason you should replace ssh with mosh, if your environment permits: “With Mosh, you can put your laptop to sleep and wake it up later, keeping your connection intact. If your Internet connection drops, Mosh will warn you — but the connection resumes when network service comes back.” via Mosh: the mobile shell.
Conspy – remote control of Linux virtual consoles
Conspy allows a possibly remote user to see what is displayed on a Linux virtual console, and send keystrokes to it. It works with Linux and FreeBSD, as far as I know.It is rather like VNC, but where VNC takes control of a GUI conspy takes control of a text mode virtual console. Unlike VNC, …
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Critical Kernel update for Centos 6 vulnerability available
kernel-2.6.32-358.6.2.el6 has been released and it’s currently syncing to mirrors. I’ve verified that this kernel does indeed fix the issue. via www.centos.org – Forums – CentOS 6 – Security Support – Kernel 2.6.32-358 Local Privilege Escalation.
Change default config file for pynag
Create a shell function in your ~/.profile like: function pn() { pynag “$@” –cfg_file=/etc/icinga/icinga.cfg ;} If you use icinga instead of nagios
Puppet 3 on Centos 5
Puppet 3 wants Ruby 1.8.7, Centos 5 supplies 1.8.5. So to get round this, add this repo Add then add a exclude=ruby* line to the updates section in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo yum update && yum install ruby then you are good to install puppet from the PuppetLabs repo.
Empathy on Ubuntu 12.10 / 13.04 is enormous!
The contactlist on empathy has swollen and in the name of Gnome “advanced” preferences for a compact size have been removed! Not happy, moving back to Pidgin.
Who’s been viewing your LinkedIn profile?
I’m intrigued by this one: