Category Archives: Unix
Installing webacula on Fedora core 20
This guide is for Fedora core 20 only. The start of course is the “yum -y install webacula”. Do that first. That will amongst other things place an install guide /usr/share/doc/webacula/docs/INSTALL, I skimmed it to find the minimum steps needed … Continue reading
Openshift looks more interesting
VM disk image for openshift-origin3 finally downloaded. Converted the supplied vmdk disk image to raw as the doco suggested (40Gb). Then converted it to qcow2 (less than 6Gb now) as I didn’t have 40Gb free on my test VM host … Continue reading
Openshift looks interesting
Looking at PaaS. Passed on CloudFoundry as I do not want to install Ruby which seems to be needed to use that. So I am looking at OpenShift Origin instead. That works better for me as it’s Redhat oriented and … Continue reading
Snort – open source intrusion detection system
As my only site protections at the moment (excluding firewall rules so tight they cause me problems sometimes) are apache rewrite rules to automatically add ip-addresses to iptables drop rules (if an http request is for a page only a … Continue reading
Changes I always make to WordPress
Posted for my re-use; so I can just cut/paste from this post after every WordPress update. Due the the number of access requests for wp-login.php from ip-addresses that are clearly not authorised to use my wordpress installation I always insert … Continue reading
Private /tmp and /var/tmp directories under systemd
Who knew, well I suppose it is in a manual somewhere. Took me a while to figure out what this was. The answer was at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12206857/php-cant-read-file-on-var-tmp I have Apache rewite rules that run a bash script from /cgi-bin/ and write … Continue reading
Blasted Fedora, the F20 release is still a mess
Well some of the update packages are a mess anyway. Did a simple ‘yum update’ on the VM host machine. Something in one of the rpm pre/post update scripts decided to destroy the network configuration completely. The host server plus … Continue reading
Decided to buy a new desktop to use as a server, Fedora can be a pain.
Was googling to find a solution to an issue I had a few weeks ago, and on the first page of the google results was my own website… and no it didn’t have the answer I was looking for; although … Continue reading
A wasted evening, disk encryption is a pain
Been quite a few burglaries this way, every single machine I have apart from the webserver (which must start without human intervention) and my main desktop have encrypted disks; so I thought it was time to encrypt the home folder … Continue reading
Installing ownCloud on a Fedora webserver
Whats ownCloud then ? ownCloud is an opensource equivalent to DropBox, it provides a way of keeping all folders and files under a monitored directory in syncronisation across multiple machines, the main difference being that it is your server controlling … Continue reading