SE

Yesterday's Samba problems became today's Apache problems. Late last night I figured out a way around the samba problems I'd been having, such that Abi could write to her choice... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on March 14, 2006 10:23 PM

Upgrades

For a while now there have been bits of my linux machine (the one serving this page up to you now) that I've wanted to update. OpenSSL for one example.... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on December 07, 2004 07:50 PM

Done

Well I think the harddisk upgrade went ok, I mean the BIOS seemed to think it was an 8GB drive, but Linux happily formatted it to 160GB. I managed to... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on November 23, 2004 08:10 PM

Harddisk Upgrade

So today's fun and games after work is fitting a new harrdisk to my linuxbox. Need to try and move /home onto it. That will be fun and a half.... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on November 23, 2004 07:23 AM

Anti-Spam

Over the Christmas break I started routing my parents email through my email server. The reason being is that they get about as much spam as I do, typically 30-40... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on January 08, 2004 07:14 AM

logging again

Mail logging problem found. ps -aux revealed that syslogd had been run with the argument -m 0 which the man pages suggest means it isn't really running at all. So... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on December 16, 2003 06:49 PM

Logging

Upgraded sendmail this morning (as the version I was using had a pretty serious hole in it), also got an ftp daemon working. All seemed well until I noticed this... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on December 14, 2003 08:18 PM

Sendmail

So encouraged a little by yesterday's linux tinkering, I decide that I should at least try to move all my server type stuff (mail, ftp etc.) across to the Linux... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on December 12, 2003 06:13 PM

DNS Cache

So last day of the week for me as far as work is concerned. No complaints. Out for a game of pool later, but first... ...Back home and I decide... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on December 11, 2003 10:37 PM

ls, cd, rm

I spent a while this morning helping my brother with some fluid dynamics he was doing simulation of. Luckily for me I didn't have to contribute any of the fluid... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on April 02, 2003 11:14 PM

Samba

As ever Samba proves to be a little recalcitrant. It'll connect ok to my windows machine and grab files as needed (ie. do my backups). But it doesn't like the... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on February 04, 2003 10:17 PM

Getting Access

A reinstall didn't sort the Internet problem. This suggests that there's something particular about my network setting breaking things. Pinging anything (name or IP address) gives "Network is unreachable". That... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on February 04, 2003 09:31 PM

Using XDMCP

How to get an X server (note, they call it a client, but they're just wrong, honest guv): These are quick details, following a more verbose email to me from... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on October 31, 2001 06:27 PM

Setting up SWAT

Swat's a nice web based admin tool for Samba. Samba's a bit fidly to get working for a complete beginner (like me) just with the smb.conf file. Swat helps here.... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on October 30, 2001 06:26 PM

Redhat and Large Harddisks

If you're not into Linux in a big way, or are just starting out, you may be inclined to do a Windows style install, and put everything on one partition.... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on October 27, 2001 06:26 PM

Various

Some of these are going to seem so silly, but I've forgotten them at least once: Telneting in - make sure that telnetd is installed and running (silly people like... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on August 23, 2001 06:25 PM

Samba

The following is the script I used to setup Linux to backup a Windows 2000 shared directory: cd backup rm backup1.tar.gz mv backup.tar.gz backup1.tar.gz smbclient //w2kmachinename/sharename -Uusername%password -N -Tc backup.tar... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on July 27, 2001 06:24 PM