Ryan's Random Ramblings ← Random notes about technology, (motor)bikes, and whatever's on my mind ← Page 2

Run ASDM in Linux

Jul

17

2010

Here’s how to run Cisco’s ASDM client in Linux: First, verify that you have a compatible version of java: java -version Next, navigate to the URL of the ASA/Pix, select “Run ASDM” and save the file to you computer. Finally, open a terminal window, navigate to where you downloaded the ASDM launcher and run this ...

Find drive space hogs in Linux

Jul

1

2010

Here is a command that I’ve worked out to help find the source of drive space issues in Linux. This format will only look at directories (ie, it will not report file sizes, just size of directories) and it will recurse into subdirectories. du | sort -n -r | head | awk ‘{print $2}’ | ...

DHCP and Dynamic DNS

Apr

18

2010

How to enable Dynamic DNS updates from a Linux DHCP server to a Windows DNS server. Create the forward and reverse lookup zones on the Windows server. You must allow secure and nonsecure updates. I’m still researching if it is possible to do secure updates from Linux to Windows. Set up DHCP on the Linux ...

Configure Linux client for BackupPC

Mar

24

2010

Instructions to add a linux client to an existing BackupPC installation. These are also good instructions for allowing automatic login from another PC. The full how-to can be found at HowToForge. Log into BackupPC with backuppc user at http://ServerIP/backuppc. Click the link to “Edit Hosts” and add the hostname of the new client. Add the ...

Outbound mail

Dec

19

2009

I recently set up a security camera and wanted to be able to mail myself security events. The first thing I had to do was get AT&T to open port 25 from my house. This was painlessly done by asking an agent in the online support chat. Within a minute of asking if it can ...

PVR-150, LIRC and IR Blaster

Nov

12

2009

I’ve finally made progress with the IR Blaster portion of my PVR-150. I have not yet configured it to work with my cable box, but I was finally able to get the little red light to come on. In case I do something stupid and mess these files up before I get it fully working, ...

Log onto another user’s mailbox using OWA in Exchange 2007

Nov

7

2009

It is possible to connect to another users mailbox (if you have proper permissions) using OWA. The trick is to append the users mailbox to the OWA URL. For example, if the URL to your OWA was: https://webmail.mycompany.com/owa you would simple go to https://webmail.mycompany.com/owa/[email protected]. You can then log in with any user account that has ...

MythTV DB backups

Oct

18

2009

MythTV .22 has introduced a new script to automate backups and restores of the database. The script will work with earlier versions of mythtv also. Get the backup script here and the restore script here. I saved the scripts to /usr/local/bin and made them executable so that I do not need the full path to ...

Edit photo timestamps

Oct

18

2009

After moving photos around my network, the file timestamps no longer match when the photo was actually taken. Using digiKam, I confirm that the exif data is correct and then use jhead to synchronize the exif data with the file timestamps. The syntax that works best for me is this: jhead -ft *.jpg I actually ...

Moved to a new host

Sep

25

2009

I have been working on moving my website to a new host over the last couple days, so here are a few of the things that “got me” along the way. I created an account with hostmonster.com to take advantage of “unlimited” drive space as well as the ability to ssh into my web server. ...