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Grow Linux Filesystem

Applications Google Cloud Compute

Problem I need to make a disk bigger Solution Resize the disk: $ gcloud compute disks list | grep...

Updated 5 months ago by david

Squashing multiple commits into one

Applications git

(2017-09-14) Squashing multiple commits into one: git log shows you the history: [dave@store02 an...

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Running Fetchmail

Applications Fetchmail

Simple, in crontab: # /opt/sfw/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc --syslog Interactively: # /opt/...

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cron

Applications Environment Modules

(2020-02-25) Problem The module command doesn't work in cron jobs. Solution You have to source th...

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Power Save

Applications eXceed

This also applies to situations with eXceed 8 where the screen saver engages, but never goes into...

Updated 5 months ago by david

Trace DNS Lookups

Applications Bind

Interesting: [dave@store01 ~]$ dig +trace xdroop.com ; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-20.P1.el5_...

Updated 5 months ago by david

dnstop

Applications Bind

dnstop is a tool for monitoring dns requests on a particular network. It is a libcap snooper, so ...

Updated 5 months ago by david

SOA values

Applications Bind

(2019-09-11) I've only been doing this for 25 years, I guess it's high time I learned what it all...

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Dump A DNS Zone

Applications Bind

Problem You want to know what the current content of a DNS zone is. Possible Solution This will w...

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Delegation Of in-addr.arpa Subdomains

Applications Bind

(12 October 2012) Problem: I need to delegate part of my /24 to another name server. Solution Thi...

Updated 5 months ago by david

Counting Denied Queriers

Applications Bind

(2016-05-09) Problem Show IPs getting denied responses to queries on my local DNS server, sorted ...

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CAA

Applications Bind

(2018-10-16) Problem What is CAA record Solution CAA record is a DNS record that indicates who is...

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zone forwarding

Applications Bind

(2013-03-28) Problem I want to tell a BIND server that a particular DNS zone can be resolved at s...

Updated 5 months ago by david

Bind Logging

Applications Bind

Log to a file with enough information to make it useful. CAUTION: there's no built in log rotatio...

Updated 5 months ago by david

dhparams

Applications OpenSSL

2023-06-30 About generating dhparams with 4096 bits instead of 2048 bits When you use dhparam, O...

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DH group to OAKLEY_GROUP table

Applications IPsec

(2023-10-31) DH Group to OAKLEY_GROUP values DH Oakley DH Group 1 768-bit MODP Group DH ...

Updated 5 months ago by david

Daemon Tools

Applications Daemon Tools

Hi Dave Finally got the daemontools on netmon01 to supervise radiusd, and it should restart if th...

Updated 5 months ago by david

saslpasswd2

Applications Cyrus SASL

This is the utility for creating, changing, and deleting users and passwords from the local sasl ...

Updated 5 months ago by david

sasldblistusers2

Applications Cyrus SASL

Lists the contents of the sasldb2 database. # sasldblistusers2 cyrus@gwx1: userPassword dave@gwx1...

Updated 5 months ago by david

SASL build

Applications Cyrus SASL

(Note from 2024: probably dangerously outdated) Customer Information (brains) : # export PATH=/op...

Updated 5 months ago by david