I never thought getting bridged network for libvirt clients to work under archlinux. Here is the digest.
eth0 needs to be up in order to get the bridge working
/etc/netctl/bridge
Description='bridge'
Interface=br0
Connection=bridge
BindsToInterface=(eth0)
IP=static # or dhcp
Address …I have the fortunate situation that i have hosted mail on a trusted second party (my father) so i do not have to deal with anything mail server related. I have a domain for receiving mails and i use a wildcard address to receive all the mails.
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As some may have heard, vim stores your actions (and undos) as a tree, which is great. With vim 7.3 there is even a option to persist these changes between session. But with vanilla vim this tree is pretty much unusable.
A friend showed me a great plugin which …
When hearing WPS(Wifi Protected Setup) i always think of the worst idea in network security. 'Hey, how about changing a long key with a minimum length of 8 characters to something like... 4 numbers! And with that number you get the original password! GENIUS' . But WPS consists of more …
This Blog post is the first of the many blog posts to come around elchOS and its internals.
ElchOS is a linux distribution with the purpose of providing a simple way to share disk storage and data in a streamlined fashion. The intend is to solve the 'Filesharing on the …
I was in the unfortunate situation that i needed to fix an ldap server, specifically fixing a 'login failed' situation. There was only one problem, i had fucking clue how ldap is configured, or even working. Also, i didn't knew any passwords. But i had a user account on the …
I was facing the problem that i desperately needed git on one of the development Redhat 5 systems which had no direct internet connection. As EPEL is an open repository to retrieve all kinds of cool packages also Git is available there. All i needed to do was to find …
I was looking for a simple analytics tool for this blog. As everyone seems to be using piwik and everyone loves docker for rapid deployment. As i am always short on resources on all my machines i decided to deploy piwik on another of my VMs which is mediengewitter.krebsco …
I am using tmux on pretty much all hosts i control but all-too-often i need to work on retarded hosts which only have screen installed.
I love to use ctrl-b because ctrl-a is the beginning of the line in default bash keybindings. Here are my changes in ~/.screenrc
# use ctrl-b …2 years ago i lost this blog in an unexpected VPS shutdown and of course i had no backups (duh!) and had not used any kind of version management. Thanks to archive.org at least the content of the blog left intact. I guess that's why it is sometimes called …