Tag Archive for 'Linux'
January 15th, 2019 by Ronny
I have put together a fully updated vCORE VirtualBox appliance based on Debian 9.6 that includes the latest versions of CORE, EMANE, Quagga OSPF-MANET, and NASA’s ION. This version of the virtual appliance includes the following releases: CORE 5.2 (git)EMANE 1.2.3 (git)NRL Quagga mr_0.99.21mr2.2 (source)NASA ION-DTN 3.6.2 (sourceforge) All dependencies were installed via apt-get including […]
April 28th, 2015 by Ronny
In a multi-user environment you really do not want a full list of usernames being displayed in the GDM login screen for security reasons. In order to disable this feature on my Gentoo lab systems running Gnome 3 and GDM I performed the following actions.
November 25th, 2013 by Ronny
In my last post I outlined how to get Open vSwitch installed on Gentoo from source for version 1.11.0 as well as from portage using version 2.0.0. I also described how to associate Open vSwitch with with Xen based virtual machines. This guide will detail how to build your first virtual switch from scratch and […]
November 5th, 2013 by Ronny
The Gentoo ebuild for Open vSwitch does not seem to work with the latest available kernel as of this writing (3.10.7-gentoo-r1). This post is documentation of the process that I performed in order to successfully install Open vSwitch on a Gentoo server running the Xen hypervisor. This guide assumes that you already have a Gentoo […]
November 9th, 2011 by Ronny
If you have the need for a FTP server on your Gentoo system, Pure-ftp is a good choice. It is a lightweight, standards compliant, and production quality FTP server that is available in portage. To install pure-ftp do the following: The default use flags should be fine for most installations.
August 17th, 2011 by Ronny
The Zoneminder ebuild in the portage tree has been broken for a couple of years now. Here is the process I use to build Zoneminder from source on a Gentoo x86 install:
August 16th, 2011 by Ronny
ISO images are very easy to manipulate at the command line in Linux. To make an ISO image from a CD or DVD simply insert the disc into the drive and type: This uses the dd command with the input set to /dev/cdrom and the output set to filename.iso. Change these values as necessary. Note […]
August 11th, 2011 by Ronny
The main hard drive seems to be flaky in one of my XCP servers. I decided to use Clonezilla to clone sda to another drive to see if it is in fact the hard drive. After cloning over the drive I found that my LVM storage group VG_XenStorage-xxx was not mounting, and XenCenter was giving […]
August 11th, 2011 by Ronny
If you are tired of staring at a black console screen on your Gentoo box you can trick it out a bit using Gensplash. Gensplash or “fbcondecor” allows you to use different background images, fonts and colors to decorate your console so you don’t have the standard black background and white text. It also allows […]
August 11th, 2011 by Ronny
If you find your ssh server is getting hit by a lot of brute force attempts from the internet, and want to do something to defend yourself against them then denyhosts is for you! It helps to alleviate some of the stress on your server that occurs when someone or lots of someones are trying […]
