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Keep web servers in sync with DRBD and OCFS2

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3 December 2010 · 3 min · 535 words · Major Hayden

Monitor MySQL restore progress with pv

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24 November 2010 · 2 min · 250 words · Major Hayden

Throwing thoughtful “403 Forbidden” responses with apache

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17 November 2010 · 1 min · 209 words · Major Hayden

Accessing Rackspace Cloud Servers and Slicehost slices privately via OpenVPN

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16 November 2010 · 3 min · 630 words · Major Hayden

Upgrading Fedora 13 to Fedora 14 on Slicehost and Rackspace Cloud Servers

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3 November 2010 · 1 min · 81 words · Major Hayden

Securing your ssh server

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12 October 2010 · 4 min · 748 words · Major Hayden

Parsing mdadm output with paste

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14 June 2010 · 1 min · 193 words · Major Hayden

GlusterFS on the cheap with Rackspace’s Cloud Servers or Slicehost

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28 May 2010 · 4 min · 742 words · Major Hayden

Idiot’s guide to OAuth logins for Twitter

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20 May 2010 · 2 min · 296 words · Major Hayden

Adjusting tty’s in Fedora 13 with upstart

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26 March 2010 · 2 min · 314 words · Major Hayden

Testing network throughput with iperf

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20 March 2010 · 2 min · 262 words · Major Hayden

Private network interfaces: the forgotten security hole

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2 March 2010 · 3 min · 561 words · Major Hayden

MySQL: The total number of locks exceeds the lock table size

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29 January 2010 · 2 min · 335 words · Major Hayden

Switching between audible and visual bells in screen

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21 January 2010 · 1 min · 142 words · Major Hayden

Crash course in dsh

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20 January 2010 · 2 min · 371 words · Major Hayden

Change the escape keystrokes in screen

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7 January 2010 · 1 min · 153 words · Major Hayden

Deleting all e-mail messages in your inbox with mutt

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19 June 2009 · 1 min · 180 words · Major Hayden

Linux: emergency reboot or shutdown with magic commands

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30 January 2009 · 2 min · 416 words · Major Hayden

What is the difference between file data and metadata?

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12 March 2008 · 1 min · 134 words · Major Hayden

ntpd_initres: ntpd returns a permission denied error

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20 February 2008 · 1 min · 150 words · Major Hayden

Limiting which commands are kept in the bash history file

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29 January 2008 · 1 min · 105 words · Major Hayden

Rebuilding the initial ram disk (initrd)

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28 January 2008 · 1 min · 85 words · Major Hayden

ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet

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24 January 2008 · 1 min · 211 words · Major Hayden

EXT3-fs error (device hda3) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted

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20 November 2007 · 2 min · 238 words · Major Hayden

Red Hat Perl Issues: unable to call function somefunction on undefined value

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19 November 2007 · 1 min · 65 words · Major Hayden

OpenSSL Tricks

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7 November 2007 · 1 min · 113 words · Major Hayden

Attractive aterm/rxvt .Xdefaults configuration

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4 November 2007 · 1 min · 76 words · Major Hayden

Installing package groups with up2date

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17 October 2007 · 2 min · 304 words · Major Hayden

Counting open files per user

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26 September 2007 · 1 min · 73 words · Major Hayden

Yum equivalents of up2date arguments

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17 September 2007 · 1 min · 48 words · Major Hayden

Check the modulus of an SSL certificate and key with openssl

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14 September 2007 · 1 min · 154 words · Major Hayden

RHEL limitations cheat sheet

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12 September 2007 · 1 min · 45 words · Major Hayden

Low priority Plesk backups

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6 September 2007 · 1 min · 114 words · Major Hayden

Use a different IP for sending mail

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28 August 2007 · 1 min · 100 words · Major Hayden

Reset the Urchin admin password

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9 August 2007 · 1 min · 62 words · Major Hayden

Adding IP aliases in FreeBSD

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9 August 2007 · 2 min · 214 words · Major Hayden

Disable X support in FreeBSD

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18 July 2007 · 1 min · 6 words · Major Hayden

Installing Lighttpd + PHP + FastCGI on FreeBSD

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18 July 2007 · 1 min · 44 words · Major Hayden

Upgrading FreeBSD remotely

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18 July 2007 · 1 min · 50 words · Major Hayden

Importing existing keys and certificates into java keystore files

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18 July 2007 · 1 min · 150 words · Major Hayden

/bin/tar: Argument list too long

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6 July 2007 · 1 min · 52 words · Major Hayden

Active FTP connections through iptables

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1 July 2007 · 1 min · 195 words · Major Hayden

Basic SNMP Configuration

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27 June 2007 · 1 min · 55 words · Major Hayden

Corrupt /dev/null

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19 June 2007 · 1 min · 107 words · Major Hayden

PHP CLI memory limit is different between users and root

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14 June 2007 · 1 min · 213 words · Major Hayden

Rebuild RPM file permissions and ownerships

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14 June 2007 · 1 min · 63 words · Major Hayden

FreeBSD: Limiting closed port RST response

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7 June 2007 · 1 min · 115 words · Major Hayden

Arrow keys in iTerm not working in vi/vim

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1 June 2007 · 1 min · 69 words · Major Hayden

Install snort and BASE on FreeBSD

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27 May 2007 · 3 min · 567 words · Major Hayden

Errors with ifup regarding MAC addresses

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27 May 2007 · 1 min · 58 words · Major Hayden