Customize SSH
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in Linux | 1 Comment »SSH is a staple of *nix environments, however most people don't take the time to customize it in order to take advantage of the deeper features. If you have more than a few machines to log into or administer, it's ...
death to the tilde
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in Linux | 1 Comment »Well, for the past 2 hours, I've been fighting with mod_rewrite to get rid of the ~ character that apache shoves into a url for the UserDir directive by default. Since having a url like http://example.com/username/foo.html is far neater than ...
Sysinit triggers
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in Linux | No Comments »When you boot up a typical RHEL or CentOS system, there are a number of checks that occur during that boot process. While you can see most of them mentioned during startup, or via the green [OK] during boot if ...
PHP with ODBC and MSSQL
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in Linux | No Comments »Building off yesterday's entry, today we're going to add php into the mix. Mostly to add php, you'll need to go through all of the previously mentioned steps, and a couple more for php. I'm going to assume that ...
Chatting with MSSQL
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Linux | 5 Comments »As much as I wish I could have a pure Linux machine room, this just is not to be. I have to watch over several windows machines in addition to the Linux bits I love so much. Recently I've had ...