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Software actually works sometimes….

By On 4. November, 2005 · Leave a Comment · In computers, software

I was playing around with my PC at work, and saw that in Gnome there is an ‘Blog Entry Poster’ applet, which can post entries to blogs…

Great now I no longer need to login to my blog to post entries.

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sshd – Invalid user ….

By On 5. September, 2005 · Leave a Comment · In software

I’ve written a couple of entries about my anoyance and solving the issue with "Invalid user", after I started running my script it seams that there are 40 ipaddress which actually is causing this.

If you want to get ridge of this, then either run my script block_idiots_ssh.pl, or start by blocking the following [...]

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Howto block scripts kiddie’s

By On 18. August, 2005 · Leave a Comment · In computers, howto, software

So you probably have the same issue as I do – you see ‘[sshd] … Invalid user … ‘, a couple of hundred times a day. And would like to stop that, well you could write a script which scannes the /var/log/secure every couple of seconds, or you could do as I did.

First I [...]

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Daemonize Perl – or howto create a daemon in Perl

By On 17. August, 2005 · 4 Comments · In howto, software

Perl have never been something I’ve looked in to as it is not as easy (I think as) as what I’m used to, which is C/C++, PHP, Shell scripts, etc. But I’ve found out that there are a few things where nothing beats Perl, and one of them is to create small deamons (and also [...]

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New blog software….

By On 12. August, 2005 · Leave a Comment · In software

Ok, I did not end up using WordPress, I found that Serendipity would be able to almost everything I need.

Now I only need to customize it….

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SSH

By On 21. March, 2004 · Leave a Comment · In computers, software

I am very keen user of ssh, and what can frustrate me, is that I have to type passwords again and again. So after some digging around I found a solution.

Add the following to you .bash_profile
if [ ! -f $HOME/.ssh-agent.sh ]; then
ssh-agent -s > $HOME/.ssh-agent.sh
chmod o+x $HOME/.ssh-agent.sh
[...]

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Building RPM’s

By On 1. January, 2004 · Leave a Comment · In computers, software

I have been used to build software from source for I don’t know how many years, actually I think since I started using Linux, which was in 1993-94 (Slackware 1).

But as I have to maintain more than one server, with the same packages on them, I have started looking into how to build [...]

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