[root@mbpc-pc mnt]# at now htpc.ksh syntax error. Last token seen: h Garbled time [root@mbpc-pc mnt]# at now at> /mnt/htpc.ksh at> job 12 at 2014-10-12 14:04 [root@mbpc-pc mnt]# [root@mbpc-pc mnt]# ps -ef|grep -i htpc.ksh root 26031 26030 0 14:04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/ksh /mnt/htpc.ksh root 26042 24646 0 14:04 pts/2 00:00:00 grep -i htpc.ksh [root@mbpc-pc mnt]# For […]
October 12th, 2014 | Posted in NIX Posts | No Comments
So I had an established connection on my router that didn't look like it belonged. I didn't recognize the device and it wasn't pingable so it was probably a stale old connection. In this case it was one of my mobile devices which went offline sometime back but didn't close the connection. On most systems […]
July 29th, 2013 | Posted in NIX Posts | No Comments
WOL or in other words Wake On LAN is a feature that allows you to send a magic packet to a machine that is suspended or hibernating (Potentially when it's off as well) to wake that computer up. This is handy, particularly where you have DD-WRT installed on your router(s) which allows you to send […]
July 20th, 2013 | Posted in NIX Posts | No Comments
Windows 7 Home Premium edition doesn't come with RDP enabled by default. Luckily, there is a set of files available out there if you wish to enable it. However, keep in mind, this is a workaround to lack of RDP on Windows 7 Home Premium so naturally there are risks associated (see the site disclaimer). […]
June 11th, 2013 | Posted in NIX Posts | 4 Comments
When trying to launch System -> Preferences -> Sound you get the following message in a panel: Waiting for sound system to respond In this case, this was the result of my tinkering with the sound system, in an attempt to try to make multiple applications use the sound drivers simultaneously instead of the sound […]
March 17th, 2013 | Posted in NIX Posts | No Comments
While uploading images to the blog, I run into this little error: Fatal error: Unknown: Cannot use output buffering in output buffering display handlers in Unknown on line 0 The solutionw as to disable WP Super Cache temporarily while I try to figure out the real root case. Cheers, TK
January 12th, 2013 | Posted in NIX Posts | No Comments
So I'm in the process of making a copy of my blog to my Linux installation and LAMP configuration I have there. The purpose of this exercise is to upgrade my blog to the latest available WordPress available, 3.4.2 at the time of this writing. (I'm way overdue). I want to test the upgrade before […]
October 13th, 2012 | Posted in Web | No Comments
DD-WRT run what's known as a busybox, which is a single tiny executable designed to run on enbedded devices. busybox provides common UNIX utilities normally found on larger UNIX / Linux installations such as desktop computers. Unfortunately it's limited and even with the shell it provides, alot of functionality such as common shell loops no […]
September 10th, 2012 | Posted in NIX Posts | No Comments
Apache HTTPD is the most popular web server to date. It's extensible and configurable to meet various needs both small and big. Here we'll focus on extending it's reporting functionality by enabling full status capability to see more granularity in status reports. As you probably know, the service on Red Hat Linux systems can be […]
January 14th, 2009 | Posted in NIX Posts | 8 Comments
Not a big post today. Just a solution to a problem I ran into earlier. This may appear self explanatory if you assume disk space issue, as in this case the error is actually not referring to mailbox size. PROBLEM Feb 8 04:02:06 lhs sendmail[4105]: l18924AB004105: low on space (SMTP-DAEMON needs 0 bytes + […]
January 15th, 2008 | Posted in NIX Posts | No Comments