The default glabels-3.4.x install on Fedora 25 through 29 segfaults when using the glabels-3-batch command. The following command fails: glabels-3-batch -o output.pdf -i crossdock-data.csv 150x200-crossdock-labels.glabels I found compiling from source with defaults...
The End of Ye Olde Ugly NGinx Config Files
Install python3. This is for CentOS Download and install nginxfmt.py. The download and the instructions are at https://github.com/1connect/nginx-config-formatter Once installed usage is as follows. [code...
When outbound HTTP and HTTPS is denied you have to get creative with 3proxy and SSH
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-route-web-traffic-securely-without-a-vpn-using-a-socks-tunnel The above link has a how-to on running a socks5 proxy just by using ssh. PS I have used Digital Ocean for 3+ years and except for one instance of...
SeLinux Apache Joomla — No network connect for you!
If you have Apache+PHP+Joomla and are trying to use the Joomla Update feature while seLinux is enabled you will probably see But you can get it to work if you set the correct option in seLinux ...
Windows 7-Zip Chunks, Linux Un-chunk My Heart
Chunking Files with 7-Zip on Windows From windows you can do the whole shebang directions here ==> http://www.techulator.com/resources/6601-How-split-join-files-using-7-zip-free-tool.aspx This is my directions for chunking something on windows and then...
Notes from PHP 5.x to PHP 7.1 Upgrade
PHP Install on Mac I use CakePHP 2 and 3 so they need intl and mcrypt brew install php71 --with-httpd24 brew install php71-imagick brew install php71-intl brew install php71-mcrypt Also I found that calling a function as follows fails # this PHP 5.x code calls a...
nginx suddenly can’t proxy to non-standard ports – Boolean SeLinux
I did an upgrade recently and suddenly nginx wasn't forwarding requests to remote hosts on non-standard ports.... this was on a CentOS host which had seLinux enabled. Turn seLinux off temporarily setenforce 0 Does nginx now work proxying to non-standard ports? Turn it...
Booklet Printing in Linux
The Dream I want to create a booklet from a PDF file, like so: I've been having trouble when I try to print Booklet format under Linux so I thought I would try to capture the settings I used in a blog post. Configure for Booklet in Adobe Reader & Print to...
pdftk – Usage Examples
For future reference. http://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-cli-examples/
Stop people listing home directories on a Linux Host
If you issue ls -al /home on a Linux computer as a standard user. You will normally get a list of users on the system. This is because the permissions to /home/ are 755 which equates to drwxr-xr-x However if you as root run chmod 751 /home giving permissions of...