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Enlarge a xen Image (.img) File

admin — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:03:30 +0000

This HOWTO will allow you to increase the size of .img files created with dd. Note that this process changes the on-disk image in place and hence it is highly recommended that you back up the image first. Also, make sure the image is not already mounted or backing a live domain or virtual machine! Continue reading →

smbd unable to connect to cups server

admin — Sun, 29 May 2011 21:26:09 +0000

I have printing disabled (load printers = no, commented the printer share) in Samba but still puts lots of lines like this in the syslog: May 29 16:31:02 home smbd[9505]: [2011/05/29 16:31:02, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_connect(69) May 29 16:31:02 home smbd[9505]: Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost:631 – Connection refused After trying many things, this worked Continue reading →

Setting up mod_ssl on Apache Centos 5

admin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:11:02 +0000

This tutorial will explain how to set up a site over https on Centos 5.2, although it should work on most linux distributions. The tutorial uses a self signed key so will work well for a personal website or testing purposes. This is provided as is so proceed at your own risk and take backups! Continue reading →

Linux force reboot/shutdown

admin — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:53:24 +0000

Forcing reboot Linux is not Windows XP and if reboot fail you usually still connect by SSH and do something. This commands will show you how to remotely hard reboot machine. Hard reboot mean that shutdown scripts will not run and machine reboot immediately without syncing hard disk drives, shutdown applications etc, it’s more like Continue reading →

Xen on centos 5.5

admin — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:49:34 +0000

Xen Guest OS boot error looks like: Mounting root filesystem. mount: could not find filesystem ‘/dev/root’ Setting up other filesystems. Setting up new root fs setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file Continue reading →

Testeaza autentificarea SMTP a serverului tau de email

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:20:36 +0000

[ad#ad-1] La instalarea unui server de mail, unul din lucrurile trebuie să faceţi înainte de “a fi online”, este de a testa daca totul functioneaza ok, adica ce trebuie sa mearga sa mearga si ce nu .. sa ne asiguram ca nu. Unul din lucrurile care le testam este dacă serverul dvs. suportă corect comanda Continue reading →

RUNNING A SECURE DDNS SERVICE WITH BIND

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:22:08 +0000

Posted on March 12, 2007, 21:54, by Julien. Last updated on January 17, 2009, 12:11. This article will give you a short introduction to DDNS, and will only apply to a precise example. I will not detail the reasons of my choice. However, the links provided at the end of the document will allow you Continue reading →

Use wget or curl to download from RapidShare Premium

admin — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:03:09 +0000

The last days I needed to download a bunch of medical videos which have been uploaded to RapidShare by many other people. Although RapidShare (and all the other 1-click file-hosting services) is very convenient, it has some strict rules for free accounts, for example a guest has to wait for 120 seconds per 1 MB Continue reading →

Sendmail-SMTP-AUTH-TLS-Howto

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:19:36 +0000

Sendmail-SMTP-AUTH-TLS-Howto Version 1.0 Author: Falko Timme Last edited 03/11/2004 This document describes how to install a mail server based on sendmail that is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS. It should work (maybe with slight changes concerning paths etc.) on all *nix operating systems. I tested it on Debian Woody so Continue reading →