Recently, I made the script to patch your BASH environment available on this site, but that meant a need to copy and paste. Using a user with the appropriate rights, you can now pipe directly using a ...
Updated to latest kernel patch bash43-30 You’ve heard of ShellShock, and the bash-exploits that are currently doing the rounds, across platforms, that make use of these bugs (CVE-2014-6271 and t ...
Quick note to myself, as I keep forgetting the syntax, though it is so easy — to block an incoming connection by null routing or rejecting the connection is as simple as route add -host IP rejec ...
Oftentimes, you may need to just delete all messages in queue (for example, when your script has gone mad and generated too many messages to handle, once you’ve stopped postfix). It’s quit ...
So that it’s documented… I’m using port 8080 as the default port as the likelyhood of your upstream proxy being on 8080 is high – else, typical proxy ports are, of course, 80, ...
You knew it already – but I keep forgetting – the power of zgrep and zcat both of which behave as their z-less counterparts. So, to search a gzip’d file, you can simply zgrep <ter ...
For self-reference, mainly: For the Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection on an old kernel that doesn’t have the drivers compiled into it – get the driver and make install it ...
To find all files by file name containing THE TEXT I SEEK: grep -lir "THE TEXT I SEEK" * ...
In the story relating to release upgrades for Ubuntu, below the end-of-life table for the Ubutu Releases from the Ubuntu Wiki – just to have it all in one place; I’m only including the LTS ...
Windows Vista and 7, if not before, allow symbolic links — mklink is your command-line friend! Creates a symbolic link. ...
It’s a simple one-liner that one tends to forget (that is, one that I forget as I untar more than I manually tar). So creating a tar file from directory and all subdirectories is as simple as ta ...
Assuming you have a Windows machine and you interact with Linux boxen at any stage, chances are high that you have used and interacted with PuTTY at one stage or another. That beautiful, less than 2 s ...
Just a quick note – remember to upgrade now! But you knew that already! 🙂 218 people helped fixing the 1217 bugs, with a new default theme called Twenty Ten and a whole lot more. ...
MongoDB has been around for a while now, with the current version of production-level code at 1.4.3. Full integration to PHP is available via PECL, across platforms, or precompiled binaries. And yes, ...
Samba. Whopping goodness. Here are a few notes that help in the setup – from user creation, to directory settings etc This blog post contains a few lessons learnt and thus by extension a migrati ...
Just a quick note (as I keep forgetting, and a cut-and-paste solution is a quicker time to market) – but you knew that already. Installing Webmin is quite simple (download directly, or from the ...
So the Security Summit 2010 has come to an end. Featuring speakers such as Moxie Marlinspike, Joe Grand and Jeremiah Grossman (again), it’s a pity to say that there wasn’t much new that wa ...
Sven Welzel
May 14, 2010
bash, code, conferences, javascript, linux, mysql, open source software, php, security, synch.cc, sysadmin, windows
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They’ve passed their RC status and have moved into full Long-Term Release for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx — local mirrors are still showing the RC version, but it’s out! What’s new? F-Sp ...
It’s quite simple, really: POP3 (Exchange, dovecot etc) you know, IMAP (Exchange, dovecot, courier etc) you know — so this is just a recap, right? You know how to telnet into the machine & ...
They’ve been working hard! Well done!! 🙂 Function Status Comments CAPTCHA whois Not affected http://captcha.coza.net.za Port 43 whois Not affected whois://whois.coza.net.za Primary Database Not ...