Problem: for some applications a mouse coursor in disturbing. E.g. video players, signage display. Solution: the tool unclutter hides the mouse coursor after a chosen idle timeout. Unclutter is part of the main debian repository. Version: Debian 7.1
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Problem: I got the following error message in the the freshclam.log file on several servers with clamav installed. ERROR: getpatch: Can’t download daily-16682.cdiff from database.clamav.net Due to this bug the virus database wasn’t updated for days! It seams to be a bug in clamav with dialy-16682.cdiff (dialy.cvd increment)Normally that would be solve automatically by downloading
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Problem: You want to check the hardware health status on you debian server running on an HP ProLiant hardware. After spending some time on the HP.com homepage, I got really angry. HP does a really bad job on their support homepage. If you search for DL360 G5 you see a list of operating systems. The
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Problem: You want to know which switch and what port your Linux machine is connected to? Solution: If the switch does CDP (all Cisco switches do), it tells you a lot of information. Tcpdump can capture and show this information. # tcpdump -i eth0 -n -v -s 1500 -c 1 ‘ether[20:2] == 8192’ tcpdump: listening
Problem: I wanted to provide a CWMP (TR-069) ACS URL to an AVM modem using DHCP on the WAN Interface, but the DHCP server ignores this vendor-option. Discussion: Following the TR-069 specs, the CWMP-ACS Server can be included in an dhcp response using vendor-option (SubOption 1). Usually vendor options should work with isc-dhcp-servers like that:
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The IPv6 designers refused to define an IPv4/IPv6 gateway, because it’s a contradiction to the NO-NAT, End2End paradigm of IPv6. The result is that IPv6 doesn’t really lift off, because every IPv6 user has IPv4 too (Dual Stack), which gives no pressure to move on to implement IPv6. Large providers had to implement NAT instead
Problem: After updating from debian lenny (5) to squeeze (6) ejabberd authentication (PAM) stopped working. Solution: ejabberd uses an external programm called epam to authenticate. But this programm had no permission to use pam. I had to type these commands: chown root.ejabberd /usr/lib/ejabberd/priv/bin/epam chmod 4750 /usr/lib/ejabberd/priv/bin/epam killall epam ejabberd 2.1.5-3+squeeze1
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When you have a mysql table with lot’s of attributes, it’s hard to read the output of a statement like this in mysql: select * from table limit 1; The data is folded very ugly. Easy Solution: select * from table limit 1 \G Mysql is showing one “Fieldname: Value” per line.
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I had to update the software of a new Cisco Catalyst 4948 yesterday. As usual I did: copy tftp://<hostname>/<filename> bootflash: conf t boot system flash bootflash:<filename> exit reload But the switch ignored the new software image. During boot it said: Booting first image from bootflash Solution: The config-register was set to 0x2101 right out of
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Cisco routers are capable of different routing protocols and static and connected routes. Every routing protocol engine has its own distance/metric/weight to decide which route is best. When a routing protocol has chosen its best route, the route is entered into the routing table. The routing engine uses an “administrative distance” per routing protocol to
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