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About: I am in Belgium.

Best backup software for two partitions

Asked in: Linux Servers with 1 answers

Adding a CNAME to TinyDNS

Asked in: DNS Servers with 1 answers

Running wget in a script properly

Asked in: Shell Scripting with 3 answers

Copying files from one machine to another with SCP

Asked in: Linux Servers with 3 answers

List of reliable public DNS resolvers

Asked in: DNS Servers with 1 answers

Files and modules in use

Asked in: Ubuntu Linux with 2 answers

Getting SSL working with Postfix

Asked in: Email Servers with 2 answers

Securing webmin from attacks

Asked in: Linux Servers with 2 answers

Converting a physical server install into a VM

Asked in: Virtual Machines with 3 answers

Does IPtables hide a port completely ?

Asked in: Server Firewalls with 2 answers

DNSSEC with djbdns

Asked in: Linux Servers with 1 answers

Generating an strace report for a developer to debug a problem

Asked in: Ubuntu Linux with 4 answers

PHP link shortening function

Asked in: Programming with 3 answers

Writing comments or other output to dmesg

Asked in: Shell Scripting with 5 answers

Extract a PHP variable from an array

Asked in: Programming with 2 answers

PHP while loop with preg_match inside

Asked in: Programming with 2 answers

PHP whitespaces issue means variable is broken

Asked in: Programming with 1 answers

Can you use WUBI on Ubuntu Server ?

Asked in: Linux Servers with 1 answers

Saving a whole drive to an image file without dd and rsync

Asked in: Linux Servers with 2 answers

Command line RSS validator to check feeds vailidity

Asked in: Shell Scripting with 1 answers

Swap two words around in a bash script

Asked in: Shell Scripting with 2 answers

Odd MYSQL error message in logs

Asked in: Ubuntu Linux with 1 answers

Fastest compression for rsync over SSH

Asked in: Linux Servers with 1 answers

How do I configure squid for NTLM authentication ?

Asked in: Linux Servers with 1 answers

Disabling mod_log_config to speed up Apache

Asked in: Linux Servers with 1 answers

Really easy port knocking access or similar for an SSH user

Asked in: Ubuntu Linux with 0 answers

How to check which MAC address has which IP address

Asked in: Ubuntu Linux with 1 answers

DNS zone transfers from BIND to djbdns - using them at the same time

Asked in: DNS Servers with 0 answers

From around 9am UK time this morning I get BADSIG errors and the package tzonedata is offered for an update from these package servers.

archive.ubuntu.com
gb.archive.ubuntu.com
us.archive.ubuntu.com

The German .de version is fine though. Malicious or cock up ?

Asked in: Ubuntu-Linux-Servers (3 answers)
uxbrid's response: It's been reported and a few have noticed it. You're correct about the .de workaround: http://tinyurl.com/6cjuxea

Has anybody used any APIs for shortening links in PHP? I need a noobie function that even I will be able to understand. Thanks.

Asked in: OtherProgramming (3 answers)
uxbrid's response: Such as a 50 character URL: http://www.domain.com/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.html I'd like it shortened to: http://www.domain.com/aaa ...

How to install proftpd in centos linux and create users?

Asked in: Linux-Servers (4 answers)
uxbrid's response: This should help: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=79588 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-installing-configuring-proftpd-ftp-server.html

Sometimes dmesg gets full of junk and I want to add something to the end. I know logger works with syslog but what about writing to dmesg so the last few entries are no longer junk ? Thanks in advance for any help.

Asked in: ShellScripts (5 answers)
uxbrid's response: Interesting approach ! Thanks very much.

I need to get the "shortUrl" element out of this array into a variable but can't ! ["shortUrl"]=> string(20) "http://bit.ly/LALALA" } } ["statusCode"]=> string(2) "OK" } Help appreciated.

Asked in: OtherProgramming (2 answers)
uxbrid's response: Lifesaver, thanks ! I'll try it out !

Is there a simple tool to backup a whole partition or drive of a server ? The server must still be running. I don't want to fiddle with dangerous dd or rsync commands but can use a command line rather than a GUI if needed. I need it to be simple so I don't write over a live server drive ! It's important the backup and restore can be done without a reboot. Thank you.

Asked in: Linux-Servers (2 answers)
uxbrid's response: Thanks for your answer and help. You can save a "live" partition with such things as WUBI which uses loop disks but obviously you need to disable as many services as possible beforehand to take a snapshot that has less "dymanic" data changing as it happens. Interesting about XFS freezing the FS.

I need to swap surnames and Christian names around in thousands of names from a database. It is possible without too much pain ?

Asked in: ShellScripts (2 answers)
uxbrid's response: Brilliant ! Thanks !