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Linux

Installing xpra (or winswitch) on Centos 6 using a custom repo

This is a short post about installing xpra (or winswitch) on CentOS 6.

Security

One-liner to mail when someone logs in as root

This is a short post describing how to automatically send an email every time someone logs in as root on a linux server. Add the following line to /root/.bash_profile if you are using bash as your default shell interpreter. Refer to /etc/passwd. (echo “Subject: ALERT: servername Root Shell Access from `who | awk ‘{print $5}’`”; […]

Linux

Installing build-essentials in CentOS or Ubuntu

This post desrcibes how to install “build-essentials” on CentOS/RedHat og Ubuntu/Debian. build-essentials provides the packages you need to build or compile source code (make and gcc) and create binary files. The build-essentials package is a quick way to install the packages needed to compile VMware Tools on a VMware guest. In Ubuntu $ sudo aptitude […]

Linux

Configure console email client mutt with Zimbra as IMAP/SMTP server

This is actually a an extended version of a post I did in 2009 titled Configure mutt for Zimbra and IMAP but this time I have added more options to the mutt config file.This example was tested on a Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server with Zimbra version 8.0.5 but will most likely be working on other […]

Virtualization

Mount VMware virtual disk VMDK-file in a physical linux machine

This example has been used on a machine with VMware Workstation 9 installed locally. To mount a VMDK-file you can use the VMware command vmware-mount like this $ sudo vmware-mount /path/to/vmdk/file/name-of-vmdk-file.vmdk 1 /path/to/mount/point In the example above we have mounted partition 1 in the VMDK-file from the disk /path/to/vmdk/file/name-of-vmdk-file.vmdk The files are now accessible from […]