19. July 2009

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Enabling SSH on ESXI

On the console screen press ctrl+alt+f1 Type in unsupported then press enter and then type in your root password, You should know have a console window like the one below Run the following command vi /etc/inetd.config Press the i key and then use the arrow keys until you come down to the line that beings [...]

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14. July 2009

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Setting up a FTP Server on debian

Install vsftpd apt-get install vsftpd Edit the file /etc/vsftpd.conf and make the following changes: Change Yes to No in the following line Anonymous_enable = YES Uncomment the following lines by removing the # #local_enable = YES #write_enable = YES #local_umask = 022 #chroot_local_user = YES Finally restart the vsftpd /etc/init.d/vsftpd You and any of your [...]

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14. July 2009

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Creating a USB bootable XP recovery console

First off all you will need to download the following zip and extract it UsbRecoverySata.zip Run hpusbfw.exe, Select your device, pick FAT32 for the file system and the enter any volume label press start and it will begin to format your drive Open a CMD window start -> Search -> CMD, Drag bootsect.exe over onto [...]

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8. July 2009

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Nano write check before editing

Have you ever been using nano to edit a long configuration file and when you've just finished you go to save and you get "Error writing /dir/somefile: Permission denied" as you've forgotten to use sudo or switch user if so this tutorial might just be your solution. What this does is it runs a script [...]

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7. July 2009

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Disabling IPV6 on Debian

If you don't use ivp6 for anything and your ISP doesn't support it theres not much of a need to have it enabled. To disable it we need to edit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases nano /etc/modprobe.d/aliases By default you will have the following line alias net-pf-10 ipv6 Replace it with the following alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off [...]

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