Thursday, April 30, 2009

HOWTO configure ntp on a windows 2003 server

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Wow, this is really sucky. I can't believe this is the blessed procedure . I have reproduced it here: Open Registry Editor (regedit.ex...

Nagios check_proc fooled by 15 character limit in /proc/pid/status

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Interesting problem with the nagios check_proc command. It does not take into account that the status variable in /proc/pid is limited to 1...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Using python ldap to authenticate a django app to a windows domain controller

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I used a HOWTO and the auth backend from django ticket 2507 to get django working with a linux openldap. The next task was to get it work...
Saturday, April 25, 2009

Upgrading ubuntu

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When upgrading ubuntu I usually just change my sources.list and do a dist-upgrade. There is now a utility that essentially does this for yo...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Backup and restore openldap 2.4

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Backup /etc/init.d/slapd stop sudo slapcat -n 0 > backup/config.ldif sudo slapcat -n 1 > backup/users.ldif sudo cp /etc/ldap.secret ba...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Openldap 2.4 and TLS

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The HOWTOs I used were: TLS section of the admin guide The TLS FAQ entry - also includes a quick howto for creating your own CA The most ann...
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Friday, April 17, 2009

Python distutils installer and user_options

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I found the standard doco for distutils to be pretty appalling. It is really only useful for simple cases. The API Reference is slightly...
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