I am configuring a CentOS 5.2 box to act as a gateway. After doing the initial configuration I want the ADSL connection that I configured not to try and start when doing a /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart or service network restart. This may seem like a no brainer but...
I've just been nosing around the Fedora 8 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions script and noticed a call to a utility named ipcalc. Seeing as I usually spend quite some time trying to figure out how to calculate the correct subnets for a given subnet mask...
I have just been trying to find the good old adsl-setup command in Fedora 8. No good! system-config-network was a no go either. No option to configure a pppoe connection. pppoe-setup looks like it has replaced adsl-setup. Problem solved move along. Nothing to see...
I got this error "error:java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError" on the status bar of Firefox 3.0 while attempting to load Gallery 2's Java Upload Applet. Looks as though the IcedTea Java plugin is not compatible with the Upload Applet The fix: sudo apt-get remove...
I had to test a console cable to see if it was indeed a console cable. The piece of equipment I was connecting to was outputting a garbled console leading me to wondering if I had a bad cable or a bad piece of equipment. Using the serial-console howto at...
filelight: kde application gives a really cool overview of how much and where you are consuming disk space. boabab: gnome/gtk application
I am currently investigating setting up a connection with the following features: Linux 2.6.x Base System IPSec Compliant Gateway NAT on the Gateway to hide internal addresses from the remote network http://www.sherman.ca/archives/2004/11/21/linux-26-ipsec-vpns/...
The scenario: Your path environment is similar to "/home/user/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games" You have a binary in your path such as /home/user/bin/putty which you delete hoping to use the same binary further down the path...
I'm putting this here so I can recall it for later The following snippet finds all files where the File's data was last modified more than 2 days ago and run the move command on each file to move them to the specified directory. find -mtime +2 -type f -print -exec mv...
I have installed a small app using Wine under Ubuntu 8.04 however the desktop launcher icon isn't the correct one for the application. Windows frequently stores application icons in the programs exe file. So to fix my launcher icon I need to extract the icon from the...