Archive for the 'Unix' Category

Howto reinstall / restore Grub with an Ubuntu

After a windows fresh install, the windows setup decided to drop my MBR to put its stuff in. Fine .. but I want my grub back now !
This is an old trick, but udev added a little complexity, so let’s give it a try. First boot on a Ubunty CD, open a console and run:
(here [...]

admin October 30th, 2007

Howto to get openGL working on Debian (for Google Earth)

3D drivers (openGL) have awlays been a source of problem on Linux.
A lot of people just don’t care, since they don’t use there computer
to play games. But yesterday, something change this fact: Google released
a native version of Google Earth for Linux[1]. As I already played with
Google Earth before, I really want to test this new [...]

admin June 13th, 2006

Find a PID with ps + awk

This is really something i need to learn, and never forget. But this is kind of stuff, I always forget. So I write it up right now.
ps aux|gawk ‘$11 == “ssh” {print $2}’

admin November 15th, 2004

Grub install on Debian Howto

By default Debian install Lilo on i386 arch. I really like lilo, but after a couple of broken config file and severall other hitch. I decided to install grub. Grub is a bit hard if you never install it before. But mainly because the apt-get install grub doesn’t install a default file. So
apt-get install grub
grub-install [...]

admin August 3rd, 2004

Pam_USB

Pam_USB is a pam_module that allow you to log in w/ a usb-key (or a cdrom/ floppy .. any removable device w/ a serial number or a free space to hold DSA keys.)
This is pretty kool since, this kind of stuff can be usefull. I think about:

security of course ( using Additional directive )
or usefull [...]

admin December 19th, 2003

Security

Last week, Debian server has been hacked. Ok but take a look at http://www.wiggy.net/debian/developer-securing/ you will learn how they try avoid this in the future. Mainly by avoiding lkm in linux.

admin November 29th, 2003

Redhat Magazine en Francais

Un petit nouveau dans les kiosques http://www.redhatmagazine.com/fr/ . A la lecture du sommaire, il me semble assez interessant à suivre donc ..

admin November 29th, 2003

Building OpenBSD CD

I have been asking for this for a while .. and the only answer is : buy a CD.
That said, here a sample doc found here: http://deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20031105030127

admin November 7th, 2003

Bind zone files

A really nice tutorial for bind zone files here

admin October 27th, 2003

PPPd Old School

Setting up PPPD server (with no auth )
edit /etc/ppp/options change auth to noauth ( cause -noauth is disable on debian)
pppd /dev/ttyS1 115200 192.168.2.3:192.168.2.10
on the iPaq just pppd .. that all :))

admin October 24th, 2003