Monthly Archives: January 2010

Set proper origin domain for Zimbra server

(This turned out not to be how I fixed it. I just configured exim and /etc/mailname as I do always and that fixed it. However, exim does not run as the SMTP server listening on port 25, that is the postfix installed by Zimbra. I don't know how and if this exim configuration conflicts with zimbra.) Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on January 12, 2010, at 16:01 | No comments

Changing lost MySQL root password

When you don't know the current mysql root password and you want to change it, do this: /etc/init.d/mysql stop mysqld --skip-grant-tables & mysql -p use mysql; update user set password=PASSWORD("NEW-ROOT-PASSWORD") where User='root'; flush privileges; quit; killall mysqld /etc/init.d/mysql start Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on January 11, 2010, at 14:01 | No comments

Convenient iptables rules

Here are some convenient iptables rules. This first list is for not allowing anything in, accept packets that come back from outgoing connections, complicated related traffic like FTP, everything from the localhost, ICMP (ping and stuff) and SSH. It also sets the default policy to DROP. This you would use on a machine connected directly to the internet. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on January 04, 2010, at 12:01 | No comments

My custom Linux environment

On every machine that I install, I need a custom environment. At the very basic, I need screen and bash customizations. I will attempt to keep this blog post up-to-date with my most recent config. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on January 04, 2010, at 11:01 | No comments

Pasting in Vim

When you want to paste in Vim, you want vim to not use indenting, because that messes up your code. I used to use :insert, but on some machines, it would still indent. I discovered the :set paste command, which works quite well.

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By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on January 03, 2010, at 13:01 | 3 comments