Fixing Bad Drive Sectors on Linux
There’s some weird thing with modern SATA drives where they will fail a sector on read, but do the proper rewriting when asked to, and… Read More »Fixing Bad Drive Sectors on Linux
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The Case of the Mysterious Linker
On a few of my Fedora 19 machines, I’ve had odd linker problems. Apps that used to work, like k3b’s ripper, Audacity, etc. would fail… Read More »The Case of the Mysterious Linker
SMTP, STARTTLS, and Stastistics
Do mail servers really encrypt mail opportunistically? Does STARTTLS really leak metadata?
vsftpd Configuration for TLS and Passive Mode
The vsftpd standard FTP daemon on Fedora 17 comes configured to not work. It doesn’t work in normal mode (chroot problems) it doesn’t handle TLS,… Read More »vsftpd Configuration for TLS and Passive Mode
‘watch’ for Solaris (or any other machine with bash)
Solaris variants (i.e. Nexenta) seem to lack the ‘watch’ program that’s so useful on Linux/BSD. There are several people asking for this on various forums.… Read More »‘watch’ for Solaris (or any other machine with bash)
Expanding a ZFS filesystem on LUKS/md-raid
I run my backups on a stack that consists of: md-raid mirror LUKS encryption ZFS zvol This works nicely as it’s easy to split off… Read More »Expanding a ZFS filesystem on LUKS/md-raid
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