If /home is just a folder under / and you have a reason to put this on it’s own partition the process isn’t that difficult. Here is the steps I followed to do this. First, create the new partition on the drive. I was using LVM, so I created a new logical volume, do whatever [...]
Had a need to capture some traffic on the remote machine and analyze it in Real Time ™. Found to solutions to this. The first, involved just sending the output of tcpdump across the ssh session. ssh host.example.org tcpump – eth0 -w – > capture.pcap The other method, picked up from the wireshark wiki allows for the [...]
I needed to remove a physical volume from a LVM volume group, and found this is done using the pvmove command. However, trying to run this, resulted in an immediate, and suprising error # pvmove /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 Required device-mapper target(s) not detected in your kernel After some quick google’ing I found on this list a [...]
This years OhioLinux Fest starts tomorrow and runs until Sunday. I’ll be there. You should to. More info at the OhioLinux website
I’ve often found the need to break out the console cable to configure a router, switch, or other device that only had a serial console. On Windows, most folks fall back on the good old hyper terminal to get the job done. This works great, as long as your on Windows. Since I’ve been getting [...]
If you’re going to be using Asterisk with a PRI card, there are some important steps you have to follow in the right order. Normally, I install the zaptel package then install Asterisk. This is all great, until I need PRI support. For that, I must also install the libpri package. Important to note, for [...]
Continuing with my exploration of using some form of version control to hand configuration file managent, I’ve been using svn over ssh. Setting up svn access over ssh is a fairly stright forward process. The first set is to create the actual repo on the server. mkdir /var/repo/configs Then use svnadmin to create a repository [...]
From the Google Help site: “Here’s a quick list of some of our most popular tools to help refine and improve your search.” Doesn’t provide any new information, but it’s a nice refresher one basic search operators. You can find the site here, and the rest of Googles help is here.
I was going to post today on why I think email has losts it’s appeal in the last few years. Instead, I’m going to share a very good series of posts with from another blog I’ve been reading lately online… There is a nice series over at 43folders on managing your inbox. The series goes [...]
Found this today. Probably older news for most of us, but I’m a bit behind on some of the graphical appliactions for Gnome. It’s a twitter client for the Gnome desktop envirmont. Oddly enough, it’s named gtwitter. Info can be found at the project site here. I’ve been using it for about two days now, [...]