Pario TechnoBlob

A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!

Month: December 2011

Network

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. Add the following line to the end of the file /etc/sysctl.conf (as root or use sudo) net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 Run the following […]

Scripting

Grab several screenshots from specified window in linux

This was a short bash script I wrote to help document some startup problems on a server. The script was grabbing screen dumps from iDRAC during boot on a RHEL6 server, but it can be used on other distributions as well since the console command xwd is common. #!/bin/bash # Description: # Grab screenshot of […]