Category Archives: sysadmin

Sometimes virt-manager (over a less than optimal link) will be unusable. Never fear, it’s simply creating an ssh tunnel, and then connecting you to vnc. No reason to let it have all the fun. First find out what port the … Continue reading →

Lately I have taken a small personal interest in LDAP, and OpenDS in particular. The Directory concept is startlingly easy to grasp, while the finer points of actually working with a directory are a little harder. I decided it might … Continue reading →

To get rid of all the crazy ^M’s that appear in files from windows boxes. In vim: :%s/C-vC-m//g (That’s Control-v, Control-m).

Let’s say you belong to some high volume lists and generally get a load of email everyday. You need a way to highlight important message. Using PATTERNS in your muttrc is an easy way to make that happen. This pattern … Continue reading →

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Oddly, when restarting Bind 9 on Ubuntu I noticed it would tell me it restarted OK, but in fact wouldn’t be running. npowell@chihiro:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/bind9 restart * Stopping domain name service… [ ok ] * Starting domain name service… [ … Continue reading →

I ran into a package today that I couldn’t find in the repos for Dapper. So I had to figure out a way to get it on there. Luckily I ran into mah online, and I asked him for some … Continue reading →

**EDIT, don’t use this :) I am pretty sure it’s not working properly, see previous edit, I am running out of time today to fix it. If I don’t get it right soon, I am going to take this down … Continue reading →

Since Zenoss runs inside of Zope, you have to do a couple of things to get it to run over ssl. There are zope plugins, and perhaps there is another way that Zenoss would recommend, but I have never been … Continue reading →