Monthly Archives: November 2008

How to View a Specific Page or Section of Manpage

Posted on November 30, 2008 by Masao

For example, the “kill” manpage shows: SEE ALSO bash(1), tcsh(1), kill(2), sigvec(2), signal(7) This is how to view section 7 of the “signal” manpage: man 7 signal

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How to keep SSH sessions alive

Posted on November 30, 2008 by Masao

Edit your ssh_config file like this: /etc/ssh/ssh_config: ServerAliveInterval 30 This will cause your SSH client to send a keep alive ping every 30 seconds to the server.

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Extract parts of string into array using Perl regular expression

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Masao

How to go directly from string to an array using Perl Regex extraction: my ($first, $second, $third) = ( $string =~ /not(.*?)this(.*?)stuff(.*?)/ );

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Disable auto commenting in VIM using the .vimrc file

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Masao

Combined some tips together to figure this one out. Put this into your .vimrc file: au FileType * setl fo=cql I’m using VIM version 7.1.12

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Minimal PhpMyAdmin new server config

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Masao

Besides the boilerplate at the top, here’s the least you need to add another database server to the dropdown list in PhpMyAdmin: $i++; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = ‘cookie’; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = ‘my.host.com’;

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Munin MySQL plugin not working or blank graphs

Posted on November 23, 2008 by Masao

Add a user “nobody” only accessible via “localhost” with no password and only “usage” privileges. If you look at the MySQL log, you will see the munin client accessing MySQL via the “nobody” user. To test the munin client, connect … Continue reading →

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How to fix sshfs "Connection reset by peer"

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Masao

Clear out the /etc/hosts.deny file on the destination server Also, make sure these lines are uncommented in your sshd_config file on the destination server: /etc/ssh/sshd_config: Subsystem       sftp    /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server DenyGroups nossh Restart sshd.

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