I came across the site blitz.io which will test your web sites performance. It is free and easy to use. I tested it against www.apriorifarm.com and www.zebulak.com. www.apriorifarm.com performed magnificently whereas www.zebulak.com performed so poorly it locked up my server and I had to do a hard reboot just to get it back. So why …
These scripts work together to backup and restore the Men&Mice data. It can backup the Men&Mice database but the database needs to be copied to a secure location away from the Central Server. These script were designed to work with version 5.6 and 5.6.1 of the Men&Mice suite. They were tested on a Fedora 16 …
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I started getting a lot of errors with the following pattern [Wed Mar 14 20:02:51 2012] [error] [client 66.222.111.44] PHP Warning: include(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File() is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www) in /var/www/zebulak/wp-admin/post-new.php on line 48, referer: https://www.zebulak.com/zebulak/wp-admin/edit.php This is obviously related to the open_basedir setting in the /etc/php.ini. But disabling open_pasedir …
I was investigating some aspects of Microsoft Active Directory. In order to do this I created a new forest and then I needed to create a child domain of the forest on a different server. When ever I tried to create the child domain I received the following error: The wizard cannot gain access to …
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Response Policy Zones Bind9 recently acquired the ability to deal with blacklists. This means any application that does a DNS query using an appropriately configured DNS server will resolve any of the zones found in the blacklists and, depending on how the DNS server is configured, the response is a redirection. This ability is achieved …
It appears that you can put differing domains on a single SSL certificate. For this test I used a self signed certificate. There are a lot of sites that go into the commands more in depth I will try to be brief here. This was done on a fedora 13 OS using Apache 2.x if …
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This is designed to work only on a bind9 installation on a redhat or fedora distribution that has been modified and controled by men&mice 5.6. It expects all the directories and files to be in expected places and be well behaved. One more thing, it will not change the NS records. You will have to …
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The following perl script will add records to a Men&Mice controlled DNS server. It only has been tested on “A” records. And Only accepts two commands, A for add and E for edit. Typing the command by itself or using the -h option will show a help message: Usage: ./mm_modrecords.pl: -h -d -m master-server …
This script we developed on Men&Mice 5.6. Use -h or type the command by itself and you will get a rudimentary help. As follows: Usage: ./mm_addzone.pl: -h -d -m master-server -u user -p password -z zone_name -r “comment” where: -p password to M&M Central -m Master server default: somehost.localdomain.local -c central server default= 192.168.x.x -r …
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CVS – Concurrent Versions System These notes are taken from the free CVS book listed below. It’s a great book and gets you and going very quickly. For the most part, cvs is quick to learn, easy to use and therefore great for small software projects. It may not have all the other features that …