Network packet capture on different OSes
I ran into a problem 2 years ago where I couldn’t remember the native packet capture tool for Solaris and couldn’t install tcpdump, so i thought I’d put down as many as many native packet capture...
View ArticlePHP mail(), Apache, and SELinux (FC7)
(Originally drafted November 2nd, 2007, finally finished and posted much later) As I posted last night, we built a new Fedora Core 7 box last night for PHP testing. Whenever at all possible, I leave...
View ArticleDNS Configuration for AD
Many are the times we’ve run into DNS configuration problems with Microsoft AD. After being asked for advice a few more times than normal this year, I’ve pulled together several emails for this list...
View ArticleUpdating CentOS 4.9
I recently booted up a long-powered-off test system for a customer, and realized it was still CentOS 4.7. up2date gives one of these error messages: Error: Bad/Outdated Mirrorlist and Baseurl [Errno...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Windows Domain Controller boot failure: Database Corruption
The UPS on the lab servers is near the end of its life, so we’ve changed the shutdown script in power outages to simply hard-power off some of the servers (using Rob’s fork of ESXIDown from...
View Article
