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Firestarter is a GNOME program which offers a GUI interface to the IP Tables firewall. If you have Firestarter configured to allow all IPs addresses to all ports or a particular port on your server, you can’t block a specific IP from accessing those ports using the GUI interface. However, Firestarter does allow you to [...]
If you are using Yum to manage packages from multiple repositories it may be beneficial for you to not update a particular package against a specific repository in favor of another one. To do this, simply add the following line to the Yum configuration file for the repository you want to ignore: exclude=packageName1 packageName2 packageName3 [...]
Some web hosting providers have a limit on how many inodes you can use. Here is the shell command to display how many inodes the current directory you are in is using: find . -printf “%i\n” | sort -u | wc -l If you don’t have shell access to your web server, you can do [...]
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7 Feb 2009After you setup an OpenLDAP server, one of the first things you’ll want to do is disable anonymous access to it. This will prevent unauthenticated users from connecting to your OpenLDAP server and extracting information about your users and network resources from it. To disable anonymous access to your OpenLDAP server, you need to edit [...]
This blog is about technology related topics. It will primarily contain problems and solutions to IT problems that I encounter on a day-to-day basis. In addition interesting things I come across either on or off the internet will be posted here as well. I will also include step-by-step tutorials to common tasks people may need to do with their computers.