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Fedora 11 and xorg.conf

by dervish on Sep.12, 2009, under Fedora, Linux

If you install Fedora 11 and find that your X11 display is less than ideal (as in it won’t do better than 800×600) run:

Xorg -configure :1

as root to create a new default xorg.conf.new in /root.

Run ‘X -config /root/xorg.conf.new’ to test the new config. If the display sizes properly, copy it to /etc/X11 and overwrite the existing xorg.conf. This was the only fix I needed in do in order to get a clean install of Fedora 11 going.

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VMware vCenter Server Upgrade

by dervish on Jul.20, 2009, under VMware

If moving a host to a new VMware vCenter Server produces this error:
Failed to install the VirtualCenter Agent service.
Login failed due to a bad username or password.

Do this at the host:
service mgmt-vmware restart

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Acquired By The Borg

by dervish on Jul.06, 2009, under Hacker

So, your company has been acquired. If climbing inside an escape pod and jettisoning your self into deep space is not an option, here is a list of things to expect:

An order will be made to lower your firewalls and surrender your servers.
You will be assimilated. Resistance will only slow the process down.
Assimilation is a means of adding or replacing spent drones.
The Borg have no feeling, no emotion, no individual thought.
Each Borg is part of a giant subspace communications network called Exchange Server.
All communication is transmitted to the entire Collective via a process entitled Carbon Copy.
Your present function and title is irrelevant.
Strength is irrelevant.
Negotiation is irrelevant.
Freedom is irrelevant.
Self-determination is irrelevant.
Your life as it had been is over.
From this time forward, you will service them.
Your culture will adapt to service them.
They will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to their own.
Resistance is, and always has been, futile.
You will become one with the Borg.

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BASH: createsftpaccount.sh

by dervish on Mar.04, 2009, under Linux, Scripts



#!/bin/sh

#

# Create SFTP user account

#

# 20090304 jah - new

#

if [ "$1" == "" ] then echo echo user login to create is blank echo use: $0 user echo exit fi /usr/sbin/useradd -g sftponly -d /sftpusers/$1 $1 mkdir -p /sftpusers/$1/data chown root:root /sftpusers/$1 chmod 755 /sftpusers/$1 chown $1:sftponly /sftpusers/$1/data chmod 700 /sftpusers/$1/data passwd $1