To avoid having stuff like “ls” in my bash history, I added “ls” to the “HISTIGNORE” environment variable.
However, on late nights, the result of this, and my left and right hand becoming out of sync with each other when I’m tired, is that the entry “sl”, which really doesn’t do anything, started showing up in [...]
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One of my biggest issues with moving from Windows to Linux as my desktop is how the mouse is handled in xorg. In xorg, the mouse had (and still has, in Debian Lenny) two settings for mouse speed: acceleration and threshold. Simply put, what these do is that whenever the mouse is moving faster than [...]
A howto stolen from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=101066 for later use. All credit to its writer, Iandefor.
ssh: how to permit root login only from local network / ip
Posted in Howto's on Oct 22nd, 2008
From version 4.3p2, sshd supports an interesting option called Match. At the time of writing, this is the version supplied with Debian Etch (stable).
Encrypted swap in Debian
Posted in Howto's on Oct 18th, 2008
So, you got your home directory encryopted, but you’re not sure what sensitive material could end up in swap? After a long day of running a whole lot of applications and processes, many interesting things could potentially wind up there. So here’s how to make sure that data is completely garbled after a reboot.
irssi auto-connect and auto-identify
Posted in Howto's on Oct 5th, 2008
There are loads of irssi scripts which do this, but the truth is irssi actually supports these things very well out of the box. Here’s how.
On machines which are set up to have no local mail and send all their messages to a smarthost, using e.g. exim4, the “No mail.” message at login is both unnecessary and annoying, because when things are set up correctly, there should never be any local mail in the first place.
This can be remedied by [...]
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Edit /etc/motd, [...]
Today I had to bring up an old virtual machine which was used to test some homebrew modifications to the apache webserver. The root password, of course, was nowhere to be found. What can you do?
Has your desired eth0 ended up as eth1 and the other way around? Did you put in a new network card, having every config file set to use eth0, and the card shows up as eth1?