Links of the day: Running IPv6 at home

April 20, 2012 at 05:44 PM | categories: IPv6, Links, Linux | View Comments
I have been running IPv6 on my internet servers for over 2 years now, so i thought it was time i take to running it at home as well. I run a couple of Linksys WRT34GL routers with TomatoUSB...

Exim commands you should know

April 15, 2012 at 11:56 AM | categories: Tips, Exim, Linux | View Comments
Print out the exim configuration options exim -bP Print the contents of the queue exim -bp Print the number of items in the queue exim -bpc Test addresses exim -bt addresss Print exim version and test...

Tip: Extract RPM name without version numbers

April 11, 2012 at 05:56 PM | categories: Tips, Linux | View Comments
for rpm in $(rpm -qa|sort); do rpm=${rpm##*/}; rpm=${rpm%%-[0-9]*}; echo ${rpm}; done You can also use a simpler command just from within rpm rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}\n"|sort ...

Tip: Push static routes to clients via DHCP

April 09, 2012 at 11:26 AM | categories: DHCP, Tips, Linux | View Comments
While researching a fix for ICMP redirect messages generated when you point a route to a device on the same segment i came across RFC3442, which defines how DHCP servers can push static routes to DHCP clients. Unfortunately i did...

NFS server on Fedora 16

April 08, 2012 at 08:44 AM | categories: Tips, Fedora, Linux | View Comments
With the advent of systemd on Fedora 16 setup of NFS has changed quite abit, some of the services have been renamed which can cause a bit of frustration for users who are used to the old setup. The...