Archive for the ‘linux’ Category

How do I sign a Certificate Request?

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Quick not to myself since everytime I spend hours in searching it again. The command line is: openssl x509 –req –in <path>/<certificate_request>.csr  –signkey <path-to-CA-private-cert>/CA-private-cert.pem –out <path-to-certs-repository>/signed-cert-name.pem Hopefully next time I do not have to search it again hours and hours ;) Naturally this command required to ...

Want to know the IMAGE LABEL of my ISO file

Monday, January 18th, 2010

This is something not so easy to find on the internet, and once again Linux shows its immense power in the simplest way: CLI. Question: I have a .ISO file representing the image of a DVD and I want to know the LABEL of that DVD. Answer: Issue ...

uPnP Media Server with llink.

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Let's start this new year by referencing an excellent system I happened to find on the Internet to perform uPnP server functionality on my Linux system. The name of the thing is LLink and although I haven't exploited at full yet, it looks VERY promising. Some features: Parses various video containers: vob, avi, ...

Scripting Galore – The beauty of randomic sort

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Although it could seem an oxymore, sort something in randomic order might be usefl sometimes. Give a look to the script below, which I’m writing here for future reference. #!/bin/bash # # This script creates a list of file or symbolic link to ...

Scripting Galore – Copy list of files from bigger repository into another location

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

I don't consider myself a script guru, but sometimes I like to create small pieces of bash code to ease operations on my linux box... and I guess it's good idea to note here some of the recent solutions I've found for later remembering. I'll try to comment them, so that ...

Extending an ext3 partition on Linux (without losing data)

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Here’s another successful operation done on fantastic Linux OS that is a pure dream for other operating systems. Situation: I have a virtual machine with 20 GB HDD, partitioned as follows: 95% ext3 on primary partition 5% swap on first partition of extended partition I certainly ...

Enabling SPDIF sound on Ubuntu with Dell Docking station

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Should you come across the same need, I just found a working solution, even if quite odd. The trick to get it working is to go into sound settings and enable IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA, checking that volume is set to… 0. Magically sound will begin to flow out ...

How to check for new files in a directory

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Made this small script for this purpose… #!/bin/bash # # Script to check a directory and write in file the new files # since last check. # ...

Enabling root access to vsftpd

Friday, March 6th, 2009

It took me a while to figure out due to misleading information over the vast Internet suggesting to search for non existing /etc/vsftpd.users or something like this. Thing you have to do is to edit /etc/ftpusers and remove root from there.

Scripting elegance: reading filenames containing spaces

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

You might need to do something with a list of files contained in a file… and maybe these file names include spaces, therefore using a standard for i in `cat filename` do echo $i done does not work ...