Category: sysadm

Cisco VPN Client 4.8 and Recent Linux Kernel Versions

I have been playing with this for some time .. Below are patches over Cisco VPN client 4.8 rev 490 some are compiled from around and some are my own ports (especially for 2.6.24+ ): For 2.6.18 based kernels (OEL/RHEL/CentOS 5), download and apply vpnclient-4.8-2.6.18-XceptN.patch on your vpnclient build directory. e.g.: # wget -q http://xceptn.com/patches/vpnclient/vpnclient-4.8-2.6.18-XceptN.patch…

internet

How to do find and execute .. An example

to find files that has “TeXt” in them: find . -exec grep “TeXt” ‘{}’ \; -print

linux

backup the mbr

dd if=/dev/sdX of=/tmp/sda-mbr.bin bs=512 count=1

linux

Unconditional Shutdown on PC HW

Uhm .. My home PC screwed up .. It kept shutting down even starting Debian in addition to Windows XP. That had happened before due to a dangling CPU fan before, and I had replaced the fan with a state of the art double 2000+ RPM one .. But no problem with that now …..

desktop

Installing Debian 3.1 / DVD / Floppy / SATA and Others

I decided to have Debian Sarge (3.1) – www.debian.org on the new disk that I installed on my home server. The new disk is a 250GB SATA Maxtor and my SATA controller is SiS 180. Installing from ISO-burned DVD’s I got error: Disk error 80, AX= 4280 drive 9FFirst I thought it was due to…

storage

HOWTO: Find which RPM is a file from

The RPM database holds that information. e.g.: $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/asmscan oracleasm-support-2.0.1-1

sysadm