http://motors.shop.ebay.com
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Dual Chroot'd DNS Servers
Sweet: http://www.etherboy.com/dns/chrootdns.html
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Add Color To Your Bash Profile
Did you know that you can add color to your bash prompt. Let’s do a little basic color. Save this into your .bash_profile and then restart your terminal session. Enjoy: export CLICOLOR=1 export LSCOLORS=ExFxBxDxCxegedabagacad
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Reset the Admin or Root Password in Mac OS X
Forgot the admin password in Mac OS X? Well, Apple let’s you boot computers into what is known as Single User Mode. To boot a Mac into Single User Mode, boot the machine holding down Command-S. Once the system boots up, you should see a command prompt. Here, run fsck: fsck -fy Then mount the file system: mount -uw / Then reset the password using the passed command passwd <username> For example, if the user is root: passwd root When prompted, provide the desired administrative password.
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NXDOMAIN
When you do a dig, nslookup or another kind of DNS lookup you will occasionally get an error of NXDOMAIN. This error indicates that the domain (or record) does not exist. This is the same with zone transfers as it is with standard lookups.
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If/Then/Else From Bash Programmers Manual
#!/bin/bash if [ "foo" = "foo" ]; then echo expression evaluated as true else echo expression evaluated as false fi
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Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book on the Way!
I have signed the contract to write my first book. Woo-hoo!!!
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High Availability in Mac OS X
AFP548 did a great little article on high availability in Mac OS X environments: http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20041202093128481
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Reconfigure Xinetd to Eliminate FTP Wait in 10.3 Server
Tthe FTP service uses RFC 931 for user identification, which isn’t supported in Mac OS X (why we’ll move on to other FTP servers in the future). To resolve, add the -I option in the xinetd configuration as you see here: service ftp { disable = no instances = 100 socket_type = stream wait = no user = root server = /usr/libexec/xftpd server_args = -aI groups = yes }
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Splunk.com
Best log analyzer ever. For centralizing and reviewing logs on lots of servers it’s a must have.