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Enabling a serial console in CentOS

Mon, 05/09/2011 - 16:32 — Nathan

I have a headless LINUX server (CentOS 5.5) attached with a serial cable to a Windows client and I want to use PuTTY to connect to the console on the LINUX host.  Here are the file modifications I made.

[root@linux etc]# diff inittab.201105081915 inittab
18c18
< id:5:initdefault:
---
> id:3:initdefault:
42a43,44

Configuring a TrendNet TEW-623PI in CentOS

Mon, 05/09/2011 - 16:09 — Nathan

I recently installed CentOS 5.5 on an old Celeron-D with a TrendNet TEW-623PI Wireless N PCI adapter.  It took some poking about on google and centos.org to figure out how to make it work with my access point.  Here's the list of modifications I had to make. To give credit where credit is due, some of this is based on "http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/WpaSupplicant".

Installing NTFS support in CentOS 5.5

Wed, 04/06/2011 - 07:57 — Nathan

These are my notes from my experience installing support for NTFS in CentOS 5.5 (x64).

  1. Add RPMFORGE to the YUM Repository database
    1. Install the repository's key
      1. cd /tmp
      2. wget &quot;http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt&quot;

Windows XP VMware Guest Gaining Time

Fri, 09/17/2010 - 14:48 — Nathan

So I have this VMware guest running Windows XP on a x86_64-based CentOS VMware Server 1-based host.

The clock on the guest was gaining - between 5 and 10 seconds every minute or something ridiculous like that.

Finally I figured out what to do after reading this thread (http://communities.vmware.com/thread/51781?start=0&amp;tstart=0).

On the host:

Learn SQL in a Weekend

Sat, 05/29/2010 - 09:00 — Nathan

Ok, so it's taking me longer to read this than a weekend.  But I've got other responsibilities and priorities so I can't completely devote myself to reading and hacking.  It's called work-life balance.

ISBN: 
9781931841627
Authors: 

Dicken, Deanna; Thompson, Kevin

Publish Date: 
2010

sed & awk

Thu, 12/31/2009 - 08:48 — Nathan

I've been working with UNIX for about 19 years but I've never taken the time to learn sed and I've only worked a bit with awk.  This book has help fill in quite a large gap in my knowledge and skills.

ISBN: 
1-56592-225-5
Authors: 

Dale Dougherty & Arnold Robbins

Publisher: 
O'Reilly Media, Inc
Publish Date: 
1997

JBoss at Work: A Practical Guide

Fri, 09/04/2009 - 13:59 — Nathan
ISBN: 
987-0-596-00734-8
Authors: 

Tom Marrs & Scott Davis

Publisher: 
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Publish Date: 
2006

SSH and Permissions

Fri, 09/04/2009 - 08:14 — Nathan

Recently, I and some coworkers ran into a problem with ssh where it would prompt for a password even though we had created a private/public key pair and had distributed the public key into the authorized_keys.

Using Emacs to Write Perl

Wed, 09/02/2009 - 12:36 — Nathan

So, I've been fiddling with Emacs for a while now, and I'm starting to actually learn some Lisp.  Now I want to get Emacs to play nicely with Perl including with perltidy and perlcritic.

I found the following two Emacs (Emacs Lisp) programs:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/perltidy.el

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/perlcritic.el

xargs

Wed, 09/02/2009 - 08:17 — Nathan

Processing a list with one argument per line

(such as a list returned by find . -name "<pattern>")

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