Recently I’ve been administering my first Ubuntu machine and I already feel a bit perplexed about its security setup. The issue is that by default, the root account password is locked in Ubuntu and you are encouraged never to use root, but rely on sudoers for system administration. I’ve read the rationale on Ubuntu’s wiki …
Category: SysAdmin
mod_tunnel for Apache 2.2.x
mod_tunnel is a simple Apache module that can be used to create TCP tunnels using your Web server. It is useful to expose services which can be reached through a proxy, bypassing firewalls. After only 4 years since the previous version, you can now download version 2.0 which works with Apache 2.2.x (and maybe 2.0.x, …
Don’t shout at your hard drives!
It appears that hard drives don’t like it… It also proves that some sysadmins have far too much time to spare. 😉
Who’s linking to your site?
If you’re using LogMiner to analyse your Apache/IIS logs, here’s an easy recipe to be notified of sites that send visitors your way. First, let’s define a Pg/PLSQL function to extract the new referrers: 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748CREATE TYPE new_referrer AS ( site_id int8, site_name text, …
lm_sensors config for Asus T3-P5945GCX (P5L13L motherboard)
I’ve just installed the latest Mandriva 2008.1 RC on this fine Asus barebone. Everything went fine, except that the output of sensors showed too many ALARM messages for my taste… so, here’s how I’ve modified the pre-installed sensors.conf to set some min/max values closer to reality and to hide useless lines: 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748# Winbond W83627EHF configuration …