26 Jan 2012 Disable DLNA in Windows 7
If you are using your Windows 7 and have a active wireless network, then the chances are that you are sharing your media files with DLNA enabled devices like smartphones, TVs with wireless access and media centers.
This HOWTO describes how you can disable DLNA in Windows 7.
- Type “Manage advanced sharing settings” in the Start Menu
- Go to “Home and Work”
- Under “Media Streaming” you click the “Choose media streaming options” link
- Click the “Block all” button followed by the “OK” button
You have now disabled DLNA sharing on your computer.
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
13 Jan 2012 Using Lsyncd to perform “live” syncronization of a local directory to a remote directory
This post is a short HOWTO and describes how you can install and run lsyncd to perform a rsync syncronization from local to a remote server using SSH.
Lsyncd is a daemon to continuously synchronize directory trees and relies on inotify. If you need real live syncronization DRBD might be a better alternative since it is a block level syncronization.
Installing Lsyncd 2.0 from source on CentOS 6
Lsyncd is not included as a package in CentOS 6, so you need to download the source file from http://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/downloads/list.
You should have rsync, GCC and lua-devel installed on your system before you continue installing Lsyncd.
# yum install rsync lua-devel
Unpack the lsyncd source file and run the following commands from the unpacked file
# configure # make # make install
make install copies the compiled files and install them to the right directories in your system.
I need to configure a non password SSH communication between the two servers with a shared SSH key.
On the source server run the following command to generate a SSH key, if you have not done this already.
Remember to do this as the user you are going to perform the sync with.
# ssh-keygen
Secure copy the generated SSH key from the source server to your target server
# scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub root@remoteserver:/tmp
On the target server you need to add the copied SSH key to your existing authorized keys file.
Also remember to do this with the user you are going to connect with from the source server.
# cat /tmp/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
If you do not have this file, just create it using the touch command described below
# touch ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
Test if you can ssh without a password from your source server to the target server.
I have made a config file, /root/scripts/lsyncd.conf that tells Lsyncd where to put the log- and statusfile. That it should be running as a daemon in the background, and a sync should occur after 900 seconds (15 minutes) if there have not been any filesystem changes and there should not be more than 6 parallell Lsyncd processes.
settings = {
logfile = "/tmp/lsyncd.log",
statusFile = "/tmp/lsyncd.status",
nodaemon = false,
maxDelays = 900,
maxProcesses = 6,
}
sync{default.rsyncssh, source="/path/on/source/", host="hostnam.target.server.tld", targetdir="/path/on/target/"}
To start lsyncd you run the command
# lsyncd /root/scripts/lsyncd.conf
You should now see a Lsyncd process running as a daemon on your system. It performs a sync when you start and then waits for any filesystem changes or sync after 900 seconds.
If you would like Lsyncd to start at boot, just add the following line to the bottom of file /etc/rc.local
lsyncd /root/scripts/lsyncd.conf
You do now have a working secure rsync syncronization between two servers.
What directories you are syncing
# tail -f /tmp/lsyncd.status
What is happening now
# tail -f /tmp/lsyncd.log
Tags: CentOS, howto, lsyncd, rsync, ssh, ssh-keygen
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
02 Jan 2012 How to join *.001,*.002,… files from your Linux terminal
This is a easy way to combine/join/merge several .001 .002 .003 etc files to one file.
# cat filename.avi.* > filename.avi
The .001 .002 .003 files can be deleted after you have verfied that the files have merged together successfully to one file.
If you were using Windows you would normally use a software like HJSplit or similar.
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
09 Dec 2011 Disable IPv6 on Ubuntu 11.10
This is a short HOWTO on disabling IP version 6 support on your ethernet devices like eth0 on Ubuntu 11.10.
I guess you can do this on earlier version of Ubuntu as well.
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
Run the following command to make this change effective immediately
# sudo sysctl -p
A result from this command could be like this
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
To check that IPv6 has been disabled or not, run the following command from your console window
# ip a | grep inet
IPv6 has been disabled if this command does not return any IPv6 addresses.
Tags: 11.10, howto, ipv6, sysct, sysctl.conf, Ubuntu, ubuntu oneiric
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
19 Sep 2011 Fix low volume issue in Ubuntu 11.04
This post is a short howto to fix/workaround the problem with low volume in some Ubuntu 11.04 installations.
The fix for me was to open a console window (as the user I’m logged in with) and start the alsamixer
# alsamixer
You will then see the alsamixer window. Use the left/right arrow keys and choose the device you would like to configure. In my case it was the headphone.
Choose which sound card you would like to configure on the headphone by pressing the F6-key. Make your choice and press the Enter-key.
Use your up/down arrow keys to choose the right volume for your configuration. You should have some audio playing while you configure to determine the right value.
Press the Esc key to exit alsamixer when you have found the right volume. Your settings are persistent and will survive a reboot.
You are now done with configuring your sound card.
Tags: 11.04, alsamixer, howto, Ubuntu
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
