Archive for the ‘linux’ Category

rsync to samba file-share

This morning I was working on a script to put in cron that would rsync a few local folders to a network file-share via samba. It was mostly working, but there was some data that wouldn’t copy over and the shell output was giving me the following error:
rsync: chown “/files/to/rsync″ failed: Permission denied (13)
After [...]

Thunderbird Won’t Open…

I use the Mozilla Thunderbird client to check our departmental e-mail account. This morning, it hung on me and I had to Force-Quit the application. Every time I tried to re-open the application after that, I kept getting the following message:
Close Thunderbird. A copy of Thunderbird is already open. Only one copy of [...]

Mount Time Capsule in Linux

I recently decided to swap my home file-server from OpenSuse to FreeNAS. I needed to temporarily copy all the data somewhere, and my Time Capsule seemed to make sense. Only problem was, I’d never mounted it on my Linux box before. It turns out to be really simple though, here’s how:

Create a [...]

Change forgotten Windows passwords with Knoppix

I needed access to the XP Recovery Console on a client’s computer. There was a password set for the Administrator account, but they only knew the password to their own. ERD Commander requires the computer successfully booting into Windows after changing (which this computer would not do), Ophcrack said all LM Hashes were [...]

One-Click KDE4 Install for OpenSuse 10.3

Click on the One-Click Install button below to install the required packages for KDE4. If you get a message that dependencies cannot be resolved, enter the “Advanced Mode of the one-click handler and enable the “standard online repository of your distribution.

The following repositories will be subscribed to:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_10.3/ (KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Desktop)
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Extra-Apps/openSUSE_10.3/ (KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Extra-Apps)

Additional applications to install [...]

Server Configuration Done

The server has been back up for a while now…but I’ve been neglecting necessary backups ever since. I finished configuring my backup scripts and installing them in cron today. I would have done it sooner, but I’ve been a little preoccupied with my new toy. It’s a 2ghz MacBook with an 80gb hard drive and [...]

One step forward for Microsoft…

Although the project is still in the beta phase, Windows Live definitely shows potential. According to the Ideas page, Microsoft may finally be trying to make good on promises made amidst all the discussion of Service Pack 2 some time back. Live could prove to make a very useful homepage for your browser, [...]

phpSysInfo Bug

phpSysInfo is vulnerable to multiple issues, including a local file inclusion leading to information disclosure and the potential execution of arbitrary code. Christopher Kunz from the Hardened-PHP Project discovered that phpSysInfo is vulnerable to local file inclusion, cross-site scripting and a HTTP Response Splitting attacks. A local attacker may exploit the file inclusion [...]

Spam Filter

In light of the latest string of mass mailing viruses, I opted to install SpamAssassin on the server to help filter emails coming in. Setup was a little in-depth and involved a bit of trial and error, but all in all it wasn’t too difficult. I highly recommend this software.
Also, I just [...]

late night…

Stayed up until about 2:30 last night working on the box. Finally got postfix and fetchmail running. Eveything is going good after installing squirrelmail too. I couldn’t get aliases working last night for some reason though, but it took me 10 min. to fix after I woke up this morning.