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• dnsmasq-base has to be installed:
  sudo apt-get install dnsmasq-base

• Remove dnsmasq because it conflicts with NetworkManager:
  sudo apt-get remove dnsmasq

• Restart NetworkManager:
  sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager restart

• Add a new wireless network with NetworkManager (left-click on NetworkManager icon, then select "Create New Wireless Network").
  
• Set encryption to WEP 40/128-bit Key with a 13 characters key. (Note: You may have to experiment here according to what type of encryption with ad-hoc the device supports. WPA is not supported).
  
• NetworkManager now should connect to itself (which means it creates the ad-hoc wireless network and routes any Internet traffic to your wired network interface). Now, connect with the client(s), and you should have a working Internet connection.
  
• You have to make sure that this connection is shared to other computers and devices (clients). Make sure that the Connect automatically check-box is selected and on the IPv4 Settings tab make sure that the Method option is set to "Shared to other computers".

While updating vzctl to latest on CentOS-5.8, I was getting the below error:

Turns out that ploop is no longer required for vzctl on CentOS-5.8 and can be removed:

yum update problem on CentOS 5.8 server

"Since you have RHEL5-based kernel that do not require ploop, you can remove ploop when installing vzctl-4.0. I have made vzctl not requiring ploop by dynamically loading it when it's available. Note that vzctl is not requiring ploop anymore, it just conflicts with the old version of it."

The solution was to remove ploop in single transaction as mentioned:

iscsi target

• Install iscsi utils:
  
  yum install scsi-target-utils
• Bring up tgtd:
  
  chkconfig tgtd on
service tgtd start
• Define an iscsi target name:
  
  # tgtadm --lld iscsi --op new --mode target --tid 1 -T iqn.2012-10.com.linuxweblog.srv01:lv1_iscsi0
• Delete specific iscsi target:
  
  # tgtadm --lld iscsi --op delete --mode target --tid 1
• Add a logical unit to the target:
  
  # tgtadm --lld iscsi --op new --mode logicalunit --tid 1 --lun 1 -b /dev/vg1/lv1_iscsi0
• Delete logical unit:
  
  # tgtadm --lld iscsi --op delete --mode logicalunit --tid 1 --lun 1
• Enable the target to accept any initiators:
  
  # tgtadm --lld iscsi --op bind --mode target --tid 1 -I ALL
• View configuration:
  
  # tgtadm --lld iscsi --op show --mode target
• Save the tgt conf:
  
  # tgt-admin --dump >/etc/tgt/targets.conf

iscsi initiator

• install the initiator client:
  
  # yum install iscsi-initiator-utils
• startup the iscsi daemon so all kernel modules get loaded:
  
  # chkconfig iscsid on
# chkconfig iscsi on
# service iscsid start
• Discover targets:
  
  # iscsiadm --mode discovery --type sendtargets --portal 192.168.1.11
• Login to target:
  
  # service iscsi restart
• To manually login:
  
  # iscsiadm --mode node --targetname iqn.2012-10.com.linuxweblog.srv01:lv1_iscsi0 --portal 192.168.1.11 --login
• To manually logout:
  
  # iscsiadm --mode node --targetname iqn.2012-10.com.linuxweblog.srv01:lv1_iscsi0 --portal 192.168.1.11 --logout
• To delete targets:
  
  # iscsiadm --mode node --targetname iqn.2012-10.com.linuxweblog.srv01:lv1_iscsi0 --portal 192.168.1.11 -o delete
• List sessions:
  
  # iscsiadm -m session
• List nodes:
  
  # iscsiadm -m node

Create a "config" file in your "~/.ssh" directory with the below contents:

The key is to set CheckHostIP to "no" and use "HostKeyAlias" to specify an alias that should be used instead of the real host name when looking up or saving the host key in the host key database files.

The Port line avoids having to specify the port when connectig.

Connect to corresponding host via:

This will attach strace to each of the apache child processes.

-v verbose
-ff with -o will log the output to "/tmp/strace.out.{pid}" and follow forks.
-tt prints the timestamp of each call.
-T prints the duration of each call.
-s specifies the maximum size of the output string to more than the default 32.

Related links:

• Strace
  
• Beyond web developer tools: strace
  
• Check System Calls

md5 digest:

sha1 digest:

Base64 encoding with openssl:

Base64 decoding with openssl:

-print0, prints the full file name on the standard output, followed by a null character instead of the newline character.

IFS, is the "Internal Field Separator" that is used for word splitting after expansion. Here, IFS is set to null string.

-r, specifies that backslash "\" does not act as an escape character.

-d, is the delimeter. Which in this case is the null character '\0'.

$'\0', the $ prefixed single quoted string decodes the backslash escape character. In this case a null character.

[], is simply there to print out the text, so you notice any spaces in the beginning and end of text.

Get current public IP via command line curl and wget.

With curl:

With wget:

This executes the date command via shell script and logs it to the specified file with current pid.