Introduction I was getting problems with hung NFS mounts on some Red hat boxes. Busy boxes so didn’t want to reboot. Fix The fix was a good one. I forced unmounted the problem mount using: umount -lf found via: http://joelinoff.com/blog/?p=356
Example syntax for Secure Copy (SCP)
Examples Copy the file “foobar.txt” from a remote host to the local host $ scp your_username@remotehost.edu:foobar.txt /some/local/directory Copy the file “foobar.txt” from the local host to a remote host $ scp foobar.txt your_username@remotehost.edu:/some/remote/directory Copy the directory “foo” from the local
Stop Apache Asking for SSL Passphrase after Restart
Introduction After upgrading my sites to SSL/TLS I had an annoying issue where after a reboot, I would have to kill the Apache process and start it again manually because it would fail first time because it did not have
Dante Server SOCKS Proxy Setup
Introduction You may have read my post of turning a Linux machine into a SOCKS proxy with a single command. Well this is a somewhat more permanent solution but achieves the same thing but I hasten to add significantly more
Unable to Browse .local suffix Linux Mint
Introduction Wow what a pain in the arse this was and it didn’t make any sense at first. Short story is .local anything didn’t work even though my domain servers had lookups for .local addresses and there was the domain
Using Egrep to Return Multiple Lines From a List
Introduction When you get verbose output from a system but you want to only see a number of specific lines: Required Command The following is an example from an Isilon node: isi nfs exports list –verbose | egrep “ID|UID|Paths” >
SCP Example Cisco ASA to Linux
Introduction I’m adding this here cause sometimes I’m dense and I forget the command. Command Examples copy running-config scp://dave@myVM/home/dave/running-config-scp Source filename [running-config]? Address or name of remote host [myVM]? Destination username [dave]? Destination filename [home/dave/running-config-scp]? Cryptochecksum: 5b1178ff 4db70c26 45645f8f 7ec33023
Allow Linux Clients to See Directory Usage EMC Isilon
Introduction If you have Linux clients accessing NFS shares on an Isilon Scale out NAS then they may not be able to see the usage of a directory using the “df” command. Fix Now the fix only works on directories
Search and Replace Vim
Introduction Well with my previous post deleting whole lines, I also wanted to delete a whole load of IP addresses which repeat frequently throughout the document and so achieving a clutter free doc. Fix Again in vim, a simple find
Network Problem Linux Mint Using Motherboard Intel Driver
Introduction If like me you are having issues with the default network driver with a constantly disconnecting/reconnecting adapter, this was/is my fix Solution First step is to download the latest driver to your PC. Change to the driver src directory and