sftp hardening with chrooting and ACL
Chrooting is always a great option when you want to roll out a service that will be accessed by a lot of users, even more so if it’s on the…
2015 Linux Gaming haul: Game On!
So 2015 is sort of a big year for Linux gaming isn’t it? Steam releases their long awaited Steam Controller, the steam, Humble, and GOG linux library are growing bigger…
Updating Nvidia Graphic driver on your Ubuntu 14.04/15.04/15.10 boxen
The release of SteamOS bring a slew of new exciting new games to our beloved platform, on top of hefty discounts on them as well as a couple of other…
The curse of apt-get dist-upgrade
So a couple of days a go, I foolishly attempted a “apt-get dist-upgrade” on my 14.04.3 install. The box has seen moderate customization, custom hibernate and boot scripts, non-canonical repos…
Preventing your smtp server being marked as spam sender
So my last post talked about setting up an smtp server strictly for the purpose of sending e-mail out. Google sometimes categorizes such server as a bulk sender. Mail servers…
Realtek r815x USB 3.0 Ethernet adapter on Linux
So if you’re using Ubuntu 14.04 (and derivatives) and you are having trouble using an RTL815x based USB ethernet adapter, like connection being dropped after a while, or the interface…
Scripting gmail download and saving the attachments with fetchmail, procmail, and munpack
One of our partner is having a difficulty in automating the email attachment processing. So basically attachments on each email, hosted on a secured POP3 server must be downloaded and…
Publishing a Webmethod IS WSDL behind a NAT
So I need to publish a webservice to one of our business partner. For security (through obscurity, HA!) we decided to put the ESB behind NAT. Obviously, WSDL generated by…
AIX 0506-324 and 0516-1736
Transporting servers from one site to another site is always a painful job. There are a lot of precautions that must be addressed, such as backup, for data and OS…
Identifying LUN ID on Redhat Enterprise Linux
Applies to: RHEL v5 or newer Any other linux distro, I guess? You can get the LUN ID info for certain LUN, by either performing several commands. If you have…