Monthly Archives: March 2010

[GnuScreen] What laughs at “script”? :)

Posted on March 22, 2010 by swinful

Have you ever tried to capture a terminal session using “script” for a tutorial you were writing only to find, when you were done that there were unreadable characters and manual removal was too tedious? Or, using “col -bx < … Continue reading →

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[Security] Cisco Switch — Disable a network port if a switch is used

Posted on March 22, 2010 by swinful

We are considering disabling a user’s ability to connect a third party switch to the Ethernet jack in order to allow multiple machines to connect. This will be particularly useful in conference rooms where there are enough ports for the … Continue reading →

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[Drobo] Accessing the Drobo on Solaris

Posted on March 22, 2010 by swinful

Did the OS see it? What did dmesg say after I plugged it in? # dmesg …edited… Jan 27 13:56:46 icon sata: [ID 663010 kern.info] /pci@0,0/pci1028,276@1f,2 : Jan 27 13:56:46 icon sata: [ID 761595 kern.info]        SATA disk device at port … Continue reading →

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[nessus] libtool mandatory mode option

Posted on March 22, 2010 by swinful

After about several minutes and a couple of modifications to a couple Makefiles, I was finally able to compile nessus from ports. I ran into the following problems when I initially started: thinkcentre# make install clean => nessus-core-2.2.9.tar.gz doesn’t seem … Continue reading →

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[Tar.gz] A little help from Awk to calculate space an archive will take without extracting it!

Posted on March 17, 2010 by swinful

Ran into a situation today where there was limited space on a server, about 4GB free. I had a good feeling that the tar.gz file that needed to be extracted would exceed the available space. So, I came up with a really … Continue reading →

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AIX: Mounting LUN from EMC SAN

Posted on March 17, 2010 by swinful

List fibre channel adapters on an AIX box: # lsdev -Cc adapter ent0    Available       Logical Host Ethernet Port (lp-hea) ent1    Available       Logical Host Ethernet Port (lp-hea) ent2    Available       Logical Host Ethernet Port (lp-hea) ent3    Available       Logical Host Ethernet Port (lp-hea) … Continue reading →

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[Gmail] Missing Feature [Mark-Undelete]

Posted on March 3, 2010 by swinful

Just thought about an option that would be really useful in Gmail. Maybe there is a workaround that could achive the same thing, but I have not yet found it. Wouldn’t it be great if in Google’s Gmail one could … Continue reading →

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