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Comment on How-to Create Preseed Answer Script For Debian by guy

guy — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:17:01 +0000

Thanks guy, you helped me

Comment on Convert a VMWare vmdk to Qemu raw For use on Proxmox by quipper8

quipper8 — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:08:09 +0000

thanks for this, wanted to setup a zabbix server today on a proxmox host and he latest version had vmdk image. I had tried myself, but didn’t think to match the disk size that it wanted. worked nicely

Comment on How-to Create Preseed Answer Script For Debian by stiqs

stiqs — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:33:46 +0000

Very insightful on late command use. Thanks!

Comment on Fixing Home Directory Permissions and Ownership by Updating Samba – Duplicate UID’s » Adrenlinerush's Blog

Updating Samba – Duplicate UID’s » Adrenlinerush's Blog — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:30:35 +0000

[...] So this script gets a listing of all users and groups from wbinfo and puts them in a text file. It then loops through each user, getting its SID and finding the first available UID and creates a script that when called with create the new map and do an SID lookup from the UID. I am not sure why the uid -> SID lookup is required but nsswitch didn’t see the new idmap until after I did this. I then loops through the groups and does the same thing with gid’s. Finally it calls my fix home directory script to assing the proper permissions back to the users. That is posted here: http://blog.adrenlinerush.net/?p=50 [...]

Comment on Vixiecron Gentoo Editing by Mark

Mark — Wed, 18 May 2011 15:39:03 +0000

Thanks for sharing! I for one use Thibault Godouet’s fcron, which understands that vintage cron syntax and more.

For example, you can set nice(10) levels, or have runs excluded from system logs by nolog or suppress emails by mail(false). What I like the most is first(5), which executes the given command 5 minutes after booting;

To be honest, I find syntax like 10 4 */2 * * rather cryptic. With fcron you can write 2d, which is not only shorter but easier to read.

My crontab begins as follows:
# & – classic cron syntax
# @ – frequency or timespan (every 30 minutes; with options: best moment within every 30 minutes)
# % – (once) within time interval

# classic cron syntax:
… after which the cheat sheet of yours follows.
(You cannot read that? Then your WordPress has stripped the “pre class=…” tags.)

Oh, before I forget it. Check out %nightly, @lavgor,lavg and friends.

Have fun!

Comment on Eliminate Multiple Instances of Processes – Terminal Server Rant by Christian

Christian — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:19:26 +0000

I use Foxit Reader for Windows…it uses a lot less hard drive space and seems to crash less in the browser. Of course if you only use Chrome on those middle school boxes, you wouldn’t need to install Adobe – Chrome has a .pdf reader built in.

Comment on Eliminate Multiple Instances of Processes – Terminal Server Rant by Barabara

Barabara — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:04:32 +0000

Great facts! I have been seeking something similar to this for some time now. Cheers!

Comment on Naming Conventions by thatoneguy

thatoneguy — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:39:12 +0000

I still say:

ni

shrubbery

tracts-of-land

holy-hand-grenade

fleshwound

would be optimal…

Comment on Naming Conventions by Marshal White

Marshal White — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:21:56 +0000

What about shrubbery???!?

Comment on FOG – Debian Netboot by Pre-Seeding your PXE Boot Debian Installer » Adrenlinerush's Blog

Pre-Seeding your PXE Boot Debian Installer » Adrenlinerush's Blog — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:16:19 +0000

[...] So you see in the append there needs to be some additional options including the answer file you created. More information on setting up the boot entry in FOG can be found in this previous post: http://blog.adrenlinerush.net/?p=189 [...]