Category: General

Disabling NetworkManager

Disabling NetworkManager

I found NetworkManager to be a bit too big for its boots in Fedora 10 and it gave me absolutely no control over my resolv.conf, overwriting it every time I so much as thought...

Preventing bandwidth theft

Preventing bandwidth theft

I was just looking through the log files for my website and ran a quick command (below) to check out any 404s my site is sending back.

I spotted a few referrers pointing...

BASH! scripting that is…

BASH! scripting that is…

I’ve been looking at ways to take my new Fedora 10 server offline for maintenance and other things recently and basically came to the conclusion that simply disabling all the websites in one fell...

2009 Film-a-thon!

2009 Film-a-thon!

There’s some amazing films (well, the premise is amazing anyway) due for release this year! Terminator: Salvation – Christian Bale and more CGI than you can shake a stick at! The Fast & The...

VSFTPD, chroot, mount –bind & fstab

VSFTPD, chroot, mount –bind & fstab

While I’m still setting up my new Fedora server, today’s task was getting an FTP server up and running. I wanted the same kind of functionality with VSFTPD as I had with Serv-U on...

Fedora 10, 4GB, PAE

Fedora 10, 4GB, PAE

So after recently installing Fedora 10 on a half decent machine and running VMWare Server 2.0, I discovered I didn’t really have enough memory in the host machine. A measly 2GB was blitzed by...