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Fixed Flash not working in Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04
June 13, 2009 – 3:05 pm | 5 Comments

Recently I did a full re-install of one of my Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 boxes to the new Ubuntu Junty 9.04. After installation, adobe flash was no longer working within mozilla for some sites.

Tinkering at Home Continued
March 14, 2009 – 4:59 pm | One Comment
Tinkering at Home Continued

The last time I posted about my home setup, I spoke about Virtual Iron. I went out and purchased a 4GB USB thumb drive and downloaded the Virtual Iron Standalone Edition and set up the USB drive to install.  And then it occured to me….Virtual Iron is great, but the server I was planning on [...]

sed and awk magic
March 5, 2009 – 8:58 am | No Comment

To remove all blank lines from a file… sed ‘/^$/d’

CentOS 5 PHP 5 Build Issues
September 27, 2008 – 10:59 am | No Comment

http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=139324 ln -sf /usr/lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2 /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/libkrb5.so.3.3 /usr/lib/libkrb5.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/libk5crypto.so.3.1 /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so ln -sf /lib64/libcom_err.so.2 /usr/lib/libcom_err.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/libexpat.so /usr/lib/libexpat.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/libm.so /usr/lib/libm.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/libssl.so /usr/lib/libssl.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/libidn.so.11 /usr/lib/libidn.so

Openfire SSL instructions
February 23, 2008 – 6:43 pm | No Comment

The instructions for openfire ssl are incomplete. I had my certificate signed by a CA and following the instructions in the openfire ssl guide, I had difficulty. After you follow the steps down to the part about the truststore, you need to follow these instructions, replacing the filename, alias and password with your own. Once [...]

Jive Software Clearspace LDAP Administrative Login
December 19, 2007 – 3:44 pm | No Comment

Problem on the last page of setup getting the system to accept the admin login. This worked for me… I used these instructions to change from the default authentication method to LDAP. It worked fine except I could no longer login to the admin interface using the "admin" user. The only way I could get [...]

How to set up ssh login with no password
August 28, 2007 – 10:09 am | No Comment

How to do it First log in on A as user a and generate a pair of authentication keys. Do not enter a passphrase: a@A:~> ssh-keygen -t rsa Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/a/.ssh/id_rsa): Created directory '/home/a/.ssh'. Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: [...]

pam login authorization using both local and winbind
July 30, 2007 – 10:09 am | No Comment

I have a situation where I need the linux server to accept either local password or active directory password. Below is the relevant code from /etc/pam.d/system-auth. The commented out line was how the file was setup before and the line below it shows how it should be setup to allow this functionality. All other setup [...]