first – determine the dev of the hard drive – as in /dev/sda /dev/sdb etc Then excute shred -vz -n 3 /dev/XXX where XXX is the identifier of the hard drive Increase 3 to a larger value for higher security … Continue reading →
Updated xrdp on a Centos 7 system and xrdp would not start. Error logged in /var/log/messages: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/sbin/xrdp: Permission denied Fix: chcon -t bin_t /usr/sbin/xrdp /usr/sbin/xrdp-sesman Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177202
Continue reading →HANDY ONE-LINERS FOR SED (Unix stream editor) Apr. 26, 2004 compiled by Eric Pement – pemente[at]northpark[dot]edu version 5.4 Latest version of this file is usually at: http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/sed1line.txt This file is also available in Portuguese at: http://www.lrv.ufsc.br/wmaker/sed_ptBR.html FILE SPACING: # … Continue reading →
This is a new feature in bash that it “helps” you by trying to install software you dont have. To disable this, edit /etc/PackageKit/CommandNotFound.conf and change the line SoftwareSourceSearch=true to be SoftwareSourceSearch=false
Continue reading →Identify the broken drive Start by identifying the device as the system know it (ie. /dev/sdX or /dev/hdX). The following commands should provide you with the information: cat /proc/mdstat You will see something like this: [root@server1 ~]# cat /proc/mdstat … Continue reading →