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Tag Archives: linux
HOWTO: Mount your USB hard drives at boot time on Ubuntu
I’ve got a number of external USB hard drives connected to my ubuntu server that need to mount to a predictable directory. When you log into Gnome, the desktop environment does it’s nifty thing and mounts any drive you’ve got … Continue reading
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Tagged bash, linux, lucid, shell hackery, sysadmin, ubuntu
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OpenDNS updater for linux/ubuntu
The OpenDNS service is great — it provides anti-phishing and the ability to filter out some of the less desirable detritus from the internets. OpenDNS needs to be periodically notified about what your IP address is, and I don’t have … Continue reading
Verifying file integrity with debsums
After upgrading my Ubuntu server, some security applications grumped about changed contents of some common binaries. Just to be safe, I wanted to verify them explicitly with debsums, but debsums looks for package names, not paths to binaries. Here’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged debsums, linux, rkhunter, security, shell hackery, ubuntu
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Running a command for all files whose name matches…
I found a stray image named “img_1234.jpg” on a laptop and wanted to see if I already had it on my server. On my Mac I could use spotlight’s nifty “kind:image” filter along with quicklook. Macworld has a great article … Continue reading
DegradedArray event on /dev/md0:gronk
Due to an unscheduled powercycle on my linux server, I got a very troubling page from mdadm, the multi-disk administrator, saying it had marked one of the disks as failed. This, presumably, was due to a flaky SATA controller that … Continue reading
Recursive sort-by-modification-time
This certainly isn’t rocket science, but it also is certainly not something you want to type more than once. find . -type f -printf ‘%T@\t%p\n’ | sort -n | cut -f2 And an application using feh: find . -type f … Continue reading