Author Archives: jaye

KnowledgeForum Serial Number Generator

It turns out that the SN Gen app was on www2. I was able to grab the files and copy them to Transfer. Files are: /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/gensernum.cgi /Library/WebServer/Documents/license/cal.htm /Library/WebServer/Documents/license/calendar.htm /Library/WebServer/Documents/license/kforumsn.txt Need to tweak firewall (ipfw) to secure it now.    

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Fun with iptables

In CentOS 6, on backwater, iptables was not starting cleanly. Found a patch for the init script. Create a file named centos.iptables.patch that contains: — 5350.orig.sh 2011-05-27 19:58:32.000000000 +0100 +++ 5350.sh 2011-05-27 19:57:32.000000000 +0100 @@ -120,6 +120,12 @@ for i in … Continue reading

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Setting up Nagios on Backwater

The first thing I wanted to do was deal with the web server. I didn’t want apache serving any pages other than nagios. I decided to redirect everything to techmentor.com. To do this I has to allow overrides int the main conf … Continue reading

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VNC, MRTG, and More

Setup VNC servers on liminf03 and kfserver01. Used http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/VNC-Server as a reference. Also added additional disk volumes to MRTG. These included Share and Backup volumes on ShareA, ShareB, and ShareC. Reconfigured shareb_usedroot target on ShareB, it was monitoring the Share volume instead. This … Continue reading

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Setting Up ResourceSpace on CentOS 5.8

yum install ghostscript yum install libtool yum install libtool-ltdl yum install lcms yum install zip yum install mysql yum install mysql-server yum install php53-gd yum install php53-mysql yum install php53-mbstring chkconfig httpd on chkconfig mysql on service httpd start (or … Continue reading

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Digital Asset Management (DAM) Tools

Looking for a good, open source, DAM tool. Here’s what I am findind: http://www.resourcespace.org/ http://entermediasoftware.com/views/download/index.html (XML, optional DB plugins; CentOS 6.3) http://notredam.org/download-and-install/ https://www.phraseanet.com/en/download/ http://razuna.org/

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OS X Tricks: Command line fun…

Amount of Memory sysctl -a | grep hw.memsize: or /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep Memory Amount of Swap ls -al /private/var/vm/swapfile0 | awk ‘{print $5}’ Amount of Free Swap vm_stat | awk ‘/Pages free:/ {print substr($3,1,match($3,/\./)-1)}’

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Boy, what did I get into…

So I discover a little Mac command line tool, a system profiler (/usr/sbin/system_profiler ), that I thought I could use to generate a cfg2html type report. Well, I want to convert the text output to HTML. I looked at txt2tags, … Continue reading

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Backup Status 11/02/2012

ShareA: Running occasional error 23 “Result too large (34)” ShareB: Running ShareC: Running occasional error 23 “Result too large (34)” QBServer: Running 65% disk space available Company: Running kforum: Running Kforumhost: Running Kfserver01: Running

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Backups for Monica

Using an external 250GB disk, identified by Mike, I setup Time Machine to backup Monica’s iMac.

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