The directory /etc/ is vital for our Linux systems as it contains (most of) the configuration files of the system. In case of trouble, it’s quite common, that you’ll visit this directory after browsing through syslog. Sometimes it would be nice to be able to really track down changes to see what happened over time; and this is […]
Author: ToeiRei
Clickable shell scripts
I am working quite a lot using shell scripts to make my work easier and a few of them are even on my desktop to perform some one click actions. Sadly this doesn’t work on my mac as it just gets opened in an editor, ignoring the executable bit (chmod +x). That drives me crazy. So what’s the […]
Activating SSH on OSX
My beloved Lenovo notebook actually is gone for repair due to some hardware trouble – so I am stuck with a not-so-beloved mac. For working I do need a sshd daemon running, which is – hooray – shipped per default. You just need to activate it: Go to System settings, look for ‘Sharing’. There’s a Tab named ‘Services’ […]
MSSQL vs Access via JET/ODBC
If you are dealing with a greater amount of records in a Microsoft Access database, it’s recommended to use a SQL server as a backend database to handle those and get rid of unpleasant surprises. Usually those servers are connected via JET/ODBC – and that’s where the fun starts.
Safenet Authentication Client 8.1.0-4 vs Gentoo64?
Today someone pointed me towards SAC 8.1 which is the middleware for my eToken which I am trying to use on Gentoo (pure 64bit) for quite a while. After downloading and unpacking I peeked at the binaries shipped, as the old version offered 32 bit ones which I couldn’t use on my system. So a quick check using […]
Unpacking a .deb package without dpkg
Debian is a nice distro, as long as you don’t need to mess around with its packages on other systems. Today I was playing around with the SafeNet stuff for eTokens on gentoo – and all I had was the debian package, but no dpkg command. After looking at the package it was quite simple to open it: […]