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Me in IT | UNIX, Linux and BSD information
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Information about UNIX, Linux and BSD related technologies. Articles about setting up, configuring or doing tricks with software on these platforms. Apple is also discussed frequently.
- Added on: Jan 4th, 2008
- Country: Netherlands
- Language: English
- Author: Robert de Bock
- Listed in: Technology Computers
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Recent Posts
Restore hidden files with Apple Mac OS X Time Machine
Apple's Time Machine works great, but restoring hidden files (files that start with a dot, like .ssh, .bashrc or .Trash) is difficult, but possible! Time machine uses the settings as used by the Finder. So first step is to change Finders behaviour, t...
Nagios time check using SNMP
When you would like to retrieve the remotely configured time using SNMP and compare it to see how accurate the time is, here is a script to help you out. This setup does not specifically require NTP to be running on the hosts that are checked, it jus...
Optimize only fragmented tables in MySQL
When you are using MySQL, you will (likely) have tables that can be fragmented. In MySQL terms this is called "OPTIMIZE". You could simply OPTIMIZE every table in every database, but during an OPTIMIZE, the tables are locked, so writing is not possib...
Failover on OpenBSD is so easy to setup using carp!
I am not the first (and last) to write about carp, the failover/vip/floating-IP solution OpenBSD is using. Many articles describe this topic including a very complete answer to a frequently asked question about carp. If you are not familiar with IP ...
Your Soekris OpenBSD as a OpenVPN appliance
I have an existing network at home, but would like to be able to connect to it using a VPN every now and then. This enables me to access the fileserver, printer and so on. My network contains an Apple Time Capsule as a nat router, an ethernet modem p...
Managing a Linux Virtual Server
When you have setup an LVS you will need to administer it. Here are the tools you can use. Discover what machine is the master. Log in to both boxes and issue the command: # ipvsadm A list of active services and it's IP-addresses will be printed on t...
