If you want to get all images (and other fancy stuff like scripts, css) from a website (even if the files referenced in the Html source are hosted on other domains), you can do it with the following wget command:

wget -E -H -k -K -p -U "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"  http://the.domain/file.name

note: if you don’t specify the browser type, the server possibly will think of you as a Crawler, a search engine bot, and will only serve you the robots.txt file.

Create a new file in init.d (i like nano for file editing):

nano /etc/init.d/makefull100mode

type in:

ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off

exit. in shell, type:

chmod +x /etc/makefull100mode
update-rc.d makefull100mode defaults

when you reboot the machine or restart the network stack, the interface will come up with true full duplex.

The other day I tried to create an ISO under Ubuntu, finally I found out how:

mkisofs --cap -o myVolume.iso /home/balint/archive

With cdrecord, you can write it to disk, and if you want to eject the disk (as i did with my slot-loader drive):

cdrecord -eject myVolume.iso

I’ve added MRTG to Cron, but later I found that it is not running. Checking the logs, and found the following:
<code>
ERROR: Creating templock /var/lock/mrtg/_etc_mrtg.cfg_l_3723: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1757
</code>

The folder doen not exist, so <code>mkdir -m 0755 /var/lock/mrtg</code>…


mount -t smbfs //10.1.1.99/folder /mnt/mymount -o lfs,username=administrator,password=xxxxxx


the parameter lfs is to disable Samba’s 2G filesize limit, so you can copy huge files over as well.

today, a 5 disk SATA raid5 array misteriously went to ‘beeping mode’, it was unable to mount the JFS partition, however the ext3 root partition worked (thank God!) so we’ve needed to do the following:

apt-get install jfsutils
fsck.jfs -a -f /dev/sda2 -j /dev/sda2


wget -c http://the-failed-download-s.url

I like to use OpenSSH for Windows on my XP box, but unfortunately it does not understand utf-8.
Ubuntu, however forces utf-8.


balint@s-xxx:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=


All we need to do is to remove the ‘.UTF-8′ from all listings, by inserting the following lines into our .bashrc (or the configuration file of the shell we use):


export LANG=en_US
export LC_ALL=en_US


Edit /etc/network/interfaces, and do it like this below:

Make sure, you have all interfaces listed and automatically started:


auto lo eth0 eth1
iface lo inet loopback


First uncomment the DHCP, if it was active for eth0:


# The primary network interface
#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp


Now you can enter the fixed values for eth0:


#custom
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.1.1.233
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 10.1.1.0
broadcast 10.1.1.255
gateway 10.1.1.254


If you have more interfaces, type all in as abowe.

iface eth1 inet static
address 80.xx.xx.xx
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 80.xx.xx.254
network 80.xx.xx.0