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OpenSSH SFTP chroot() with ChrootDirectory 11 Jun 2013 | 08:20 pm
The upcoming version of OpenSSH (4.8p1 for the GNU/Linux port) features a new configuration option : ChrootDirectory. This has been made possible by a new SFTP subsystem statically linked to sshd. Or...
sandboxed Python development environments with pythonbrew 30 May 2013 | 09:13 pm
As developers get started with a project, they prefer having total control over the development environment, as much as possible to perfectly match the deployment environment. The other strong require...
MySQL Database Restore 30 May 2013 | 09:11 am
I've had to do mysql database restores based on lvm snapshot backups, one too many times... from damaging sql statements. So here is some notes from the last one for future reference: * Prior to rest...
Access VirtualBox Guest via Host 29 May 2013 | 01:46 am
Go to VirtualBox Preferences and under "Network", add host-only network. This will add a new vboxnet0 interface, which comes up as "192.168.56.1/24" In the Guest Settings, add the "Host-only" to a se...
Ensim Zone File Template 9 Apr 2013 | 06:09 pm
All bind templates are at "/usr/lib/opcenter/bind" location. Modify "named_conf_zone.tmpl" file to allow for transfers adding in the IP addresses of secondary DNS. read more
Changing IP address of Ensim server 4 Apr 2013 | 01:33 am
To change the IP address of an Ensim server, modify the following files replacing any instance of the old IP address with the new one: /etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf /etc/sysconfig/network /etc/sysconfi...
How to install Icinga (Nagios Fork) in Ubuntu 12.10 server 15 Mar 2013 | 11:25 am
Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance d...
manually updating java in ubuntu 27 Feb 2013 | 07:59 pm
Below is outlined the process of updating to the latest JDK in ubuntu and updating the alternatives link manually to point the the latest java: Step 1: Download: wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-...
Resetting WordPress admin password 23 Feb 2013 | 12:09 am
Here is the sql to reset admin password for wordpress: update wp_users set user_pass=md5("NEWPASS") where ID=1; Even if the passwords are salted, you can still replace the password with an MD5 hash....
Install yum from centos vault 13 Feb 2013 | 12:53 am
I had to update an old release of CentOS-5.5 on an OpenVZ container where yum was not available. The below script should automatically download and install the required rpms from "vault.centos.org". ...
