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Parallels Plesk Panel 11 hangs on backup
For some unknown reason a customer's backup job hung. A ps axuww looked like this after a failed kill 3150 attempt:3150 ? Z 0:00 [mysqldump] <defunct>There was no other way of getting...
View ArticleSteam games installing DirectX on every start
Steam has this reputation of games re-installing 3rd party prerequisites on every single time you launch a game. Stupid, huh? Find discussion about that on Steam's forums. The official Steam...
View ArticleProftpd setup on Fedora 19
I needed to transfer really big files (10+ GiB) between couple of servers. Since I was not in a hurry I decided to go with FTP. It performs very well when doing large file transfers, see File Transfer...
View ArticleMigrating access control into Apache 2.4
Fedora 19 ships with Apache 2.4. After the install completed it very soon become obvious that my previous Apache 2.2 setup didn't work without changes. At the time I just took a bigger hammer and kept...
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Samba 4 ldaps:// server functionality
My Fedora 19 project continues... An attempt to get Samba working. They upgraded into version 4 and obviously my version 3 smb.conf had issues. See my article about getting Samba to use LDAP as...
View ArticleSyncro Soft XML Editor - Avoid! Avoid! Avoid!
When doing XML-editing, I always use a suitable editor for that. Recently I've been using oXygen XML editor. It has all the features I need, I like it and naturally I bought a license. On a minus side,...
View ArticleMigrating into Samba 4 - part 2
On my previous post about Samba 4, I stumbled on printers. I had a weird warning in my log:../source3/param/loadparm.c:3121(lp_do_parameter) Ignoring unknown parameter "printer admin" printer...
View ArticleLinux distros moving all the important directories from / into /usr
This is a cool move! At least Arch Linux and Fedora Linux have done this. A typical root directory listing will look like this:lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 May 30 23:17 bin -> usr/binlrwxrwxrwx....
View ArticleSecurity: IPMI / BMC backdoors
I got a new Supermicro server. Pretty much the next day there was a writing about computer security. The article is in Finnish, and it contains interviews fromStonesoft, the Finnish firewall /...
View ArticleWindows 8 losing autoconfig IPv6-address after sleep
Windows 7 and 8 IPv6-stack has a nice feature. Every now and then when waking up from sleep/hibernate there is no autoconfigured IPv6-address. It looks like this when checking for IPv6-address with...
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Breaking php LDAP admin with PHP 5.5
Linux-distros are having a race for the most popular one. Part of the setup is to have the latest Linux kernel, and any other part of the software library a distro has. This effect yields into a "nice"...
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Losing OpenLDAP DB for a BDB0060 PANIC
My Fedora 19 got an update for KVM. It was a no biggie, nothing really happened at the time.Then one of the virtual guests got a new kernel (RHSA-2013:0911-1). I rebooted the guest and BANG! My KVM...
View ArticleFiguring out Fedora 19 sysctl.conf
Fedora Linux guys replaced the ancient Initd with Systemd in Fedora 16. Bold move. I understand it had to be done. It speeds up booting and does a bunch of other things Initd can't or won't.The classic...
View Articleudev wrangling
Most Linux distros have udev. It has been around a while and is pretty much the way of handling physical devices in your box.In The Old Age™ making a device to be something was very simple. /dev was in...
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Windows Azure trial purchase on IE10
This was pretty funny one. I was about to start a Windows Azure 30-day trial on Windows 8 with Internet Explorer 10, but it failed on payment options.I waited for 10 minutes, but no avail. It was...
View ArticleSolving Microsoft Secure Download Manager issues
Ok. SDM is not the best piece of software ever written. It fails on everybody and everything. There is a lot of grievance in a MSDN discussion thread.Problem 1:The first issue I encountered was that it...
View ArticleDoing secure dynamic DNS updates with BIND
ISC BIND is the most popular DNS in the entire Internet. Most hostmasters never need to allow DNS-clients to change records, but then there are cases where it can be handy.When thinking of the...
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Windows Azure web sites in West Europe data center
Well ... you cannot create one. They're just saying that there are "capacity issues" and due to that "West Europe was turned off for new subscriptions a short while back".Is the old M$ is back? They...
View ArticleConverting classic init.d startup script into new systemd
I have couple of own daemons running on my Linux-box. Now that all the distros are going systemd, my scripts are becoming obsolete. Sure, the systemd can piggy-back into old init.d-scripts, but ... I'd...
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Where in my keyboard is the € (euro) -character?
I don't know who stole my €-char. It is supposed to be on AltGr-e, but my keyboard doesn't do it. There is a discussion about the same problem. On the thread on French keyboard layout the problem is...
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