Rainsbrook - rb

as400

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-05-15T16:53:28+00:00

AS400 i5/os random notes [IBM AS400 / i5 hardware] Most of this is a dump from my notebooks, edited to remove any sensitive information. As such it is just a dump, not a tutorial in any way. Use with caution, I wrote these notes because I didn't know anything about AS400 at the time. I still don't

brocade-200e

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-01-13T17:40:02+00:00

SilkWorm200E config Introduction [SilkWorm200e] This documents my work configuring a pair of HP StorageWorks 4/8 SAN switches from an initial factory cleared config for use in a test fabric environment. These are labelled HP, but are made by Brocade and have rather old firmware.

brocade-backup

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-07-09T15:49:34+00:00

Backup Brocade SAN switch Note, this is a few years old and updates to the fabos may require changes to the expect script. Background In the event of a hardware failure, a switch config is desirable to enable the rebuild of the config with minimal downtime. The Brocade Fibre Channel switches have a command which will produce a switch config and put it on a remote server. As this is an interactive command which requires feeding with answers, it cannot just be run without user interaction.

brocade-commands

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-01-13T17:40:44+00:00

SAN Fabric Config Background Port Types E Expansion Port, connect two switches together via ISL F Fabric Port, connects to Node L Loop Port, U Universal Port, connects to tape drives etc. Fabric IDs Domain or Switch ID All switches in a fabric MUST have different Domain ID number.

brocade-licencing

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-01-13T17:40:43+00:00

Brocade Licencing For all these examples, you will either need to be logged in via telnet/ssh or use the java applet from the location. I have yet to get jnlp files to launch correctly in windows, Fedora (with the “real” Sun Java) either launches in a browser or from the command line (javaws fcsw1-01.jnlp), so upgrade to Linux now.

brocade-pwreset

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-10-10T14:21:13+00:00

Brocade Serial Cable Switch end, modem 9pin D female to 25 pin male, plugged in to 25p f to 9p female adapter. Passwords Default passwords for the ‘root’ and ‘admin’ accounts: * fibranne * fibreanne * password * default Reset Passwords

checkdisks

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-04-10T22:34:43+00:00

Check Disks Run:- # mke2fs -n /dev/sdb to find the disks Superblocks backups. # mke2fs -n /dev/sdb mke2fs 1.45.6 (20-Mar-2020) Creating filesystem with 12976128 4k blocks and 3244032 inodes Filesystem UUID: 2500590e-c494-4e0b-ab27-2e000a1fb6d9 Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424

documentation-as-code

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-01-25T11:10:09+00:00

Documentation as Code

emailmanners

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-10-14T09:26:03+00:00

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Say NO! to top posting.... ---------- Similar idea for instant messaging000

evacreatehost

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-08-23T16:59:32+00:00

HP EVA create host You will need to be logged in to an sssu client somewhere.... Create Host wwn mon01-3.00$ sssu SSSU for HP StorageWorks Command View EVA Version: 6.0 Build: 35 Manager:sma01 Username:Administrator Password: NoSystemSelected> ls system Systems available on this Manager: array01 array02 NoSystemSelected> NoSystemSelected> select system array02 array02> array02> ADD HOST "\Hosts\Database server\Production\db05" WORLD_WIDE_NAME="5001-4380-340f-01b4" array02> SET HOST "\H…

evacreatevdisk

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-08-28T13:38:33+00:00

HP EVA createvdisk array02> ls vdisk Vdisks available on this Cell: \Virtual Disks\Database\clust02\disk1\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\aktest1\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\db-disk\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\ocr-disk1\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\ocr-disk2\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\vote-disk1\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\vote-disk2\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\vote-disk3\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\test01…

evacreate_lun

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-08-23T16:52:43+00:00

HP EVA create_lun array02> ls vdisk Vdisks available on this Cell: \Virtual Disks\Database\clust02\blu_db_disk1\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\aktest1\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\db-disk\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\ocr-disk1\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\ocr-disk2\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\vote-disk1\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\vote-disk2\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\vote-disk3\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\…

evadeletelun

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-08-28T13:45:27+00:00

Delete EVA LUN CLI using sssu array02> ls vdisk Vdisks available on this Cell: \Virtual Disks\Database\clust02\db_disk1\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\aktest1\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\db-disk\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\ocr-disk1\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\ocr-disk2\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\vote-disk1\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\vote-disk2\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\rac\vote-disk3\ACTIVE \Virtual Disks\TestSystems\test01\V…

evapresentlun

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-08-28T14:08:36+00:00

Present LUNS to host You will need to be logged in to an sssu client somewhere.... You should have already created a vdisk you wish to present to a host:- array02> ls vdisk test2vdisk \Virtual Disks\test2vdisk\ACTIVE information: object objectid .............................: 094007108043016000DCDE050030000000004C00 objectname ...........................: \Virtual Disks\test2vdisk\ACTIVE objecttype ...........................: virtualdisk

evapresentvdisktohost

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-08-28T14:11:18+00:00

Present vdisk to host You will need to be logged in to an sssu client somewhere.... You should have already created a vdisk you wish to present to a host:- array02> ls vdisk test2vdisk \Virtual Disks\test2vdisk\ACTIVE information: object objectid .............................: 094007108043016000DCDE050030000000004C00 objectname ...........................: \Virtual Disks\test2vdisk\ACTIVE objecttype ...........................: virtualdisk

evaresizesanfilesystem

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-09-04T14:38:00+00:00

Resize filesystem on SAN LUN [root@log01 ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on ...edited... /dev/sda1 104G 82G 17G 83% /var/log/syslog-ng /dev/mapper/logs_vg_logs_lv 197G 187G 32K 100% /var/log/ [root@gy-asp-log01 ~]#

evasystem

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-08-28T14:05:37+00:00

System Level work All this command line work relies on console access to a copy of sssu, a windows version is running on sma01, but mon01 also has a copy. The unix version has the advantage of being able to operate over ssh and does not require rdp access via a firewall. It also runs faster without the overhead of windows and RDP. It should run as your unpriviledged account without root permission.

fc-pathfail

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-07-09T16:42:35+00:00

Fibre Channel Path failing manually Note in progress. Not to be believed! Currently if there is a fabric failure, the db servers notice the failure at a kernel level and the db server reboots. The objective is to be able to switchdisable one of the FC switches and the server/cluster not notice. This allows for firmware updates on the FC switches and also would give protection against one of the fabrics having a failure.

findwwnonswitch

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-02-16T13:03:15+00:00

Find out which port wwn is connected to This script was written to find out the port on a Brocade FC switch which a server port is patched to, knowing the wwn of the server fc port. You will need to add the switch names (not FQDN) into the for SWITCH in

firefoxhacks

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-10-10T14:21:13+00:00

Firefox Hacks Don’t highlight the domain name of the website: browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled = false (new in Fx 6) Always display the protocol of the page (including http:): browser.urlbar.trimURLs = false (new in Fx 7)

footballbollocks

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-30T22:22:46+00:00

Football Ever needed to pretend you actually know or care about football?? Here are some vital phrases to learn, said with conviction they will impress any supporter, in fact the more fervent the supporter, the more they will impress. By country. 000

gbic

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-06-24T10:50:01+00:00

GBIC [GBIC module] * SC fibre optic connector * Model : SOC-1063N Shortwave Multi-mode GBIC Tranceiver with Auto-sensing OFC control * Up to 1.25Gb/s bi-directional data links * 1310nm Fabry-Perot Laser Transmitter * Wavelength: 850nm Wavelength * Hot-Pluggable (complies with GBIC specification Rev. 5.4)000

git-cheatsheet

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-11-26T16:19:33+00:00

Git Cheatsheet Don't believe anything here.... :-} At the moment this is just for my benefit and is being added to and edited as I discover “stuff”.... Background to Git Usernames and passwords It's recommended that two factor authentication is set up for Github accounts. This does introduce a few subtle gotchas:-000

hpeva

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-08-23T16:48:36+00:00

HP EVA storage HP EVA create_lun HP EVA createhost HP EVA createvdisk HP EVA deletelun HP EVA system HP EVA presentlun HP EVA presentvdisktohost HP EVA resizesanfilesystem

html-head

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-03-30T16:26:16+00:00

HTML Example header zzzzzzz

linuxlogindownload

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-10-10T14:21:13+00:00

Linux Login Downloads [Filesystem Icons, 16x16, 22x22 and 48x48 pixels] 48×48 icons:- Please copy these files to the following locations:- Centos 5 (KDE3) /usr/share/icons/default.kde/48×48/filesystems Centos 5 (Gnome) /usr/share/icons/gnome/48×48/filesystems [copyicons.sh - a basic script to copy these for kde3] Login shell scripts:-

linuxloginscripts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-28T15:01:36+00:00

Moved to Linux Login Scripts

linuxlvm

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-10-10T14:21:13+00:00

LVM filesystems Linux SAN disk with LVM based filesystem This assumes that a vdisk has been created and presented to the host, and that SAN zoning is in place to allow the host to see the storage. In this run through, the multipath.conf file had the multipath definition commented out before the multipath command was run. This created the

linuxsan-lvm

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-08-19T16:23:26+00:00

Linux SAN disk with LVM based filesystem This assumes that a vdisk has been created and presented to the host, and that SAN zoning is in place to allow the host to see the storage. In this run through, the multipath.conf file had the multipath definition commented out before the multipath command was run. This created the

linuxsan

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-10-10T14:21:13+00:00

SAN Storage Overall Sequence * Create Aliases for WWPN's on SAN switch * Create Zone on SAN to allow server to see storage & save config * Create Host on EVA storage and add WWPN's * Create vdisk on EVA storage and present LUN to Host created above.

linuxsantesting

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-10-10T14:21:13+00:00

SAN Storage Testing Testing Linux multipathd SAN paths * Format and mount the SAN LUN. * Start a write to the mounted filesystem cat /dev/zero >> /pathto/mnt/testfile & * Now connect to the multipath daemon in interactive mode multipathd -k *

loginscript-txt

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-04-02T22:37:46+00:00

rem #Staff profile rem #Written Andrew Stringer, copyright Birmingham MediaHub CLS write "Start of OU=ERC.Mediahub Profile Login Script." write " " write "Good %GREETING_TIME %LOGIN_NAME, it is %DAY_OF_WEEK, %DAY %MONTH_NAME, %YEAR." lastlogintime map s16:MARS/SYS:PUBLIC map root p:=MARS/sys:\public map root i:=MARS/vol11:erc_all rem #P:\Dataprot.exe write "You are %LOGIN_NAME.%LOGIN_CONTEXT " DOS SET user="%LOGIN_NAME" @P:\NAL.exe rem sayit can be used for simple broadcast messages at login. r…

loginscripts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-04-02T23:02:21+00:00

Novell Login Scripts After too many years attempting to get windows to run correctly, I have come to the conclusion that it sucks. To ease the pain of setting windows up consistantly and quickly, I started to create some scripts to install things like the Novell windows client automatically. The Novell client can be installed automatically from a shell using a response file. The binaries to install are downloaded from an internal ftp server.

lotuscoursenotes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-10-10T14:21:13+00:00

Lotus Course Notes These are course notes I made from an R5 admin course. They are in no particular order and may well be totally obsolete. File extensions .nsf Notes Storage Facility .ntf Notes Template Facility Mail Files On disk structure code

lotusnotes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-09-28T10:37:52+00:00

Lotus Notes Links Lotus Course Notes Lotus Notes - Linux

lotusnoteshomedir

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-08-04T13:16:01+00:00

Lotus notes files to have in network home dir This dates from Notes5/6 era so may well be very much out of date. user$ ls -l H/notes/ Cache.dsk cluster.ncf desktop.dsk .id favourite.nsf jobsched.njf journal.nsf journal4.ntf log.nsf log.ntf names.nsf notes.ini pernames.ntf perweb.nsf perweb64.ntf pib.nbf prtflo46.ntf user.dic

nifi

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-05-19T08:50:42+00:00

Apache NiFi notes The following command can be used to change the username and password: $ ./bin/nifi.sh set-single-user-credentials

nw6

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-01-09T23:44:56+00:00

Netware 6.0 and 6.5 NetWare 6.0 Change IPaddress One job with Netware 6.0 has been to change the base ipaddress of a server because of a change in ipaddress range at a site. There are lots of places to alter the ipaddress, but they are listed in the TID below. Actually, follow the instructions and it is straightforward.

nw312

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-07-31T17:54:12+00:00

NetWare 3.12 Licensing NetWare 3.1x licences are contained in the server.exe file, this file also contains the serial number of the licence. Console Commands syscon, manage users, file server operations, login scripts pconsole, manage printing

perl-to-update-riunning-total

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-09-13T12:16:33+00:00

Update script in Perl This writes out a new runningtotal.shtml file. With hindsight, a cgi include could just read a value in from a file as part of the include file. cgi-bin/updatetotal.pl [host1] $ ~/cgi-bin/updatetotal.pl #!/usr/bin/perl #written Andrew Stringer 27/08/2008 #to process update to total cash raised. use strict; use warnings; use CGI; my $password="handel"; my $inputpassword=' '; my $target="150000"; my $query = new CGI; $inputpassword = $query->param("password"); my $tot…

postgres

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-06-11T22:02:12+00:00

PostgreSQL Notes on PostgreSQL Install from Ubuntu repo root@study:~# apt-get install postgresql-client postgresql ...edited... Setting up postgresql-common (154ubuntu1.1) ... Adding user postgres to group ssl-cert Creating config file /etc/logrotate.d/postgresql-common with new version Building PostgreSQL dictionaries from installed myspell/hunspell packages... en_au en_gb en_us en_za Removing obsolete dictionary files: * No PostgreSQL clusters exist; see "man pg_createcluster" Se…

projects

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-05-07T12:44:02+00:00

Projects Enterprise DNS management Network Testing Linux Login Scripts Web-based Certificate Authority Access Control

pwsafe

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-12-23T12:37:13+00:00

Password Safe [Not this Safe!] Although most work done as root is done via sudo, there are times when it is necessary to have access to the root password. (Generally for recovery scenarios). To allow secure storage of the root passwords and ILO/ALOM passwords, pwsafe (

q1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-10-10T14:21:13+00:00

Samsung Q1 Ultra Portable PC Pics and links How do I access the Bios to change the boot or…

redis

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-04-26T12:32:01+00:00

Redis Redis is an in-memory data structure store, it listens on port 6379. I just wanted to see if redis was in use on a server so this was just enough to establish there were no keys in use and no other processes using it so I could stop it and remove it.

redmine

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-07-19T09:33:20+00:00

Redmine Info Background The Redmine project homepage is Create issues automatically Cronjob runs on ops01 to create daily jobs:- /var/spool/cron/redmine 00 07 * * * /opt/redmine-1.2/scripts/create_issue.sh check-daily-alerts 00 07 * * * /opt/redmine-1.2/scripts/create_issue.sh check-daily-backups

sanconfig-infrequent

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-10-10T14:21:13+00:00

Infrequently used or dangerous commands Commands View Switch Model fcsw2-03:admin> chassisname SilkWorm4024 View Fabric Topology fcsw2-03:admin> fabricshow Switch ID Worldwide Name Enet IP Addr FC IP Addr Name ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21: fffc15 10:00:00:05:1e:02:75:c7 172.27.206.216 0.0.0.0 >"gy-fcsw2-01" 22: fffc16 10:00:00:05:1e:04:95:07 172.27.208.152 0.0.0.0 "gy-fcsw2-02" 23: fffc17 10:00:00:05:1e:0…

sanconfig-upgrade

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-10-10T14:21:13+00:00

Upgrading SAN firmware The main prerequisite for this work to proceed is that all SAN connected hosts must have been tested to ensure that loss of a Fibre Channel port will not cause that host to fail, ie. traffic fails over to the unused fabric. If this is met, it will be safe to portdisable all server connected ports on the switch to be upgraded prior to disabling the switch. See this link below for the status of all SAN connected hosts and if they have been tested individually.

sanconfigupload-exp

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-10-10T14:21:13+00:00

SAN config Upload Expect #!/usr/bin/expect #Andrew Stringer, 09/09/2010 #Purpose is to automate saving SAN switch to backup02 server #This is to be run from within the backup shell script #variables are set in the scell script. #Completely rewritten to work with both firmware revisions #Sample transcript of the session to automate #Older firmware #[backupsan@monitor01 ~]$ ssh -l admin gy-fcs1-01 #admin@gy-fcs1-01's password: #gy-fcsw1-01:admin> configupload #Protocol (scp or ftp) [ftp]: scp #…

sanswitchbackup

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-10-03T09:01:31+00:00

SAN Switch Backup Example switch list:- fcsw1-01 fcsw2-01#!/bin/bash #Written Andrew Stinger 08/09/2010 #Purpose is to backup SAN switch config #This should be run from cron once per week, maybe less frequently. #turn on debugging, -x starts, +x stops set +x DAY=`date +%F` SWITCHUSER="admin" SWITCHPASS="password" SWITCHLOGIN="login:" SWITCHPROMPT="admin>" #BACKUPHOST="monitor01" BACKUPHOST="172.27.206.210" BACKUPUSER="backupsan" BACKUPPASS="l4t1tud3" BACKUPPATH="/home/backupsan/backupfiles"…

scripts-fillmeup

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-10-10T14:21:13+00:00

Fill Me Up Created to test SAN multipath connectivity This can run in the background and will fill a file up until it is at a fixed size. After this size is exceeded, the file is reset to zero bytes. Whilst this is running SAN paths can be failed off manually with some load on IO.

scripts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-05T14:53:27+00:00

Scripts Apache Stop and start Apache instances Certificate and CA Check Root CA expiry date in cacerts file Export CA root certs to file Regenerate CACERTS file from root certificates Check Revocation lists for CA roots DNS DNS address change Backup DNS config Backup DNS config 2 DNS check forward and reverse lookups FTP & File Manipulation sftp batch mode Delete files older than X days bzip2 compress log files NTP Check NTP on multiple servers Check T…

sdi-video

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-10T13:06:16+00:00

SDI and Video links Nageru and Futatabi

sfp

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-11-30T22:34:10+00:00

SFP module (Small Form-factor Pluggable) SFP modules followed on from GBIC modules and are used in both ethernet and fibre channel switches (and others too), they are usually optical I/O modules although RJ45 copper Ethernet ones are available. Ethernet modules are most commonly 1GB/s but 10GB/s and higher are available.

sftp

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-11-10T11:05:26+00:00

sftp batch mode #!/bin/bash #written by Me 25/07/2011 onwards #This script is intended to be run from cron hourly #It will ftp all the files it finds to remote ftp server #turn on debugging, -x starts, +x stops set +x BASE=/wworks_ftp/bar_ia SCRIPTS=${BASE}/scripts UPLOADS=${BASE}/uploads ARCHIVE=${BASE}/archive EMAIL=${SCRIPTS}/emailtmp-$$ MAILTO=user@company.com SENDEMAIL=no DATENUM=`date +%d` #Test to force 1st of the month #DATENUM=01 if [ $DATENUM == 01 ] then MONTHTEST=" - 1st of t…

sgi-fibrechannel

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-19T23:29:21+00:00

SGI Fibre channel stuff This information was collected from an Origin 200 with a QLogic 64bit PCI card. During boot:- Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended Tape drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 1: DAT CDROM: unit 7 on SCSI controller 1 Integral SCSI controller 3: Version Fibre Channel QL2310, 33 MHz PCI Integral SCSI contr…

sgi-irix

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-20T12:54:40+00:00

IRIX commands What version of IRIX origin1 2# uname -Rs IRIX64 6.5 6.5.19f Commands # set term = vt100 # sysinfo -vv # hostname (reads /etc/sys_id) # toolchest -title SERVERNAME # hinv (hardwware inventory) # exportfs --see NFS exports (set in /etc/exports)

sgi-o2-webcam

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-08-05T14:44:18+00:00

SGI O2 Webcam The SGI O2 workstation has a multimedia card option, fitted in the right hand side rear slot. Two versions of these are available, * An audio only card which is of no use for a webcam as there is no video interface. * An audio and video capture capture card.

sgi-o2-xaccess

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-05-21T13:09:15+00:00

X over telnet access issue Maybe this should have been with ssh -X o2-r12k not telnet. andrew@cube:~$ xhost +o2-r12k o2-r12k being added to access control list andrew@cube:~$ telnet o2-r12k Trying 192.168.1.104... Connected to o2-r12k. Escape character is '^]'. IRIX (o2-r12k) login: andrew Password: IRIX Release 6.5 IP32 o2-r12k Copyright 1987-2000 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Last login: Sat Apr 22 00:24:15 2006 on :0 bash$ bash$ bash$ toolchest & [1] 32502 bash$ Warning:…

sgi

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-08-05T15:08:05+00:00

SGI Disk mirroring with XLV and then General links SGI Fibre channel stuff SGI O2 webcam X access issue SGI IRIX commands

ssl

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-04-10T11:24:13+00:00

OpenSSL SSL background SSL background Create self signed cert This creates an sha2 hash (sha1 is deprecated), nodes does not add password, 4096 bits should be good for the lifetime of the cert. # openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem -days 10000 -nodes -sha256

sslbackground

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-04-06T12:47:06+00:00

SSL Certificates The organisation operates a Certificate Authority Service (CA) for creating SSL certificates traceable back to an internal Root Certificate. This page will explain why we have such a service and how to use it. Encryption Overview

sssu-runningonfedora

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-07-08T09:48:43+00:00

Running sssu on Fedora HP's EVA command view linux version can be run on Fedora, even thought it does not seem to be officially supported. After downloading the Redhat version from HP, I encountered this:- [andrew@fedora16 sssu]$ ls -l total 7728 -rw-rw-r-- 1 andrew andrew 7909895 Aug 21 18:41 sssu_linux_x86 [andrew@fedora16 sssu]$ chmod u+x sssu_linux_x86 [andrew@fedora16 sssu]$ ./sssu_linux_x86 ./sssu_linux_x86: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared obje…

start

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-04-30T20:33:32+00:00

Go Up a level Rainsbrook Tech

startstopapache1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-10-10T14:21:13+00:00

Stop and start Apache instances #!/bin/bash #Start and Stop Apache #written Andrew Stringer Feb 2011 #Get action to perform from 1st command line argument ACTION=${1} #This must be run as user web. if [ "${USER}" = "web" ]; then #echo "Running as user web" #echo " " #do something to keep if happy DUMMY=0 else echo "Sorry, you need to be the web user to run this script." exit 1 fi echo "This will stop or start all running instances of apache on t…

storage-san

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-02-27T12:20:22+00:00

Storage and SAN Brocade Password reset Brocade FABOS commands SilkWorm200E config Linux Storage and fibre channel SAN Solaris SAN Storage Basic SGI fibre channel stuff Find out which port wwn is connected to Xyratex Storage array

tophitsonwebsite

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-30T09:54:50+00:00

Check for top ipaddresses hitting website Nagios check for too many requests from one ip address. This may give a false positive if users are behind a proxy server with one internet facing ipaddress for many users. Note the excluded list of ipaddresses. This should probably not be embedded in the code. v2 will sort this. Sometime

unpackingdebfiles

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-07-09T16:29:54+00:00

Extract .deb contents DEB files are ar archives, which contain three files: * debian-binary * control.tar.gz * data.tar.gz As you might have already guessed, the needed archived files exist in data.tar.gz. It is also obvious that unpacking this file is a two-step process.

vicommands

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-08-04T12:22:59+00:00

vi Editor commands Navigation k 1G | h 0 -------------$ l | G j l - forward one character h - back one character k - up one line j - down one line w - forward one word b - back one word

watchguardsoho6

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-01-31T10:51:07+00:00

Firebox WatchGuard 6 Default ipaddress ipaddress:- 192.168.111.1/255.255.255.0 DHCP should start at 192.168.111.2, but seemed to give out 10.0.0.x range. Needed to set static address on 192.168.111.x Factory Reset * Power off the Watchguard 6.

websites

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-07-11T14:06:09+00:00

Website Design Whilst I don't pretend to be a graphic designer, I have produced various websites for different organisations and groups. Below is a list of some of the sites produced, if you would like me to consider producing a website for you, please email me, {andrew at domainname} of this website.

whywin7isrubbish

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-02-16T18:29:51+00:00

Windows 7 is rubbish and KDE/Linux is better Why you should use Linux instead of windows 7. I'll be honest and upfront, I don't like Windows. I like windows7 even less than xp and that wasn't much. I also don't like Microsoft, but for different reasons. This page is my reasons for wanting to use superior Open Source software over mediocre closed source commercial software.000

whywin10isworse

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-02-16T19:01:52+00:00

Why windows 10 is even worse then 7, 8 or 9 Plenty to write here, just not formatted it as I want yet. Where did windows 9 go? Reasons I can find include calling it “9” would get confused with 95 or 98 and cause software install errors, so because m$ can't write a regex to distinguish, they had to miss a version number.000

win8laptop

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-02-09T17:15:48+00:00

Get Windows 8, 9 or 10 on the cheap If I wanted a toy laptop, I'd have bought one of these:- [Windows 8 Professional] This is probably how you will feel after being forced to use windows, only to find that what is easy with Linux seems to have obstruction after obsticle thrown in your way by micro$oft.000

x11

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-08-04T12:50:09+00:00

X11 tips and tricks X11 is the graphics server used by Linux, Xfree86 used to be the most widespread, now x.org seems more common. These are a few hints I have used. Launching an application on a remote screen Authorise the X server to accept connections form your other machine. (Rememver the server and client are the opposite way round to what you expect, the server is your machine with the display and the client is the machine attempting to make the connection.)

xmms

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-10-10T14:21:13+00:00

xmms Tone Generator [andrew@evo ~]$ cat xmms-tone-generators.pls [playlist] NumberOfEntries=5 File1=tone://50 File2=tone://400 File3=tone://1000 File4=tone://2000 File5=tone://4000

xnest

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-04-26T20:57:15+00:00

Xnest xset fp+ tcp/10.64.64.105:7100 Xnest :1 -query 10.64.64.105 & #!/bin/bash #start xnest and login to server echo "running xhost to $1 " /usr/X11/bin/xhost $1 echo "Loading font path with \"xset fp+ tcp/$1:7100\" " #/usr/X11/bin/xset fp+, tcp/$1:7100 /usr/X11/bin/xset +fp tcp/$1:7100 echo "Starting Xnest with \"Xnest -ac -kb -pn -query $1 :4\" " /usr/X11/bin/Xnest -ac -kb -pn -query $1 :4

xyratexstorage

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-10-10T14:21:13+00:00

Xyratex Storage array Xyratex RS1220 [RS1220 ] RS1220 is a dual controller, 12 bay SAS or SATA storage array with Fibre channel connectivity. USB port is a serial port and not a true USB port as such. GUI default username and password are “admin” and