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12.17.07SOCKS 5 HTTP proxy via SSH Security, Windows, System Management, Linux (0)
If you don’t trust the network your on, wan’t to appear to be in another location or need to bypass forced (aka transparent) proxying of your web traffic SOCKS proxying over an SSH tunnel maybe for you!
It’s very straight forward on Windows or Linux, the one thing you do need though is some other computer […] -
09.25.07SSH tunnel via a middle system System Management, Linux (1)
Often you need to create a tunnel from one system to another, this is simple enough to do. Either you want to forward a local port on your system to a remote system securely (think POP3 etc) which you can do like this on the local system:
ssh -f -N -L 110:localhost:110 ruser@remote.system.com
Then you would configure […] -
05.23.07Rebuild CentOS/RHEL 5 kernel kernel, Development, Linux Comments Off
Download the kernel source package for example kernel-2.6.18-8.el5.src.rpm and install it after following the instructions on creating a user specific build layout.
Then the minimum that’s required is -cd rpm/SPECS
rpmbuild -ba –target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec
If you need to patch the kernel with your changes, place the patch in the rpm/SOURCES directory and update the spec file with the […] -
05.16.07Kernel build system (kbuild) - building a module using binary objects kernel, Development, Linux (0)
Using the kernel build system to build a module when you ony have access to binary object files is not as straightforward as it may seem.
The kernel kbuild documenation does not have a complete description of this, so i had to piece it together from mailing lists. The reason for this is probably simply that doing this is discouraged because drivers should have their code released and if possible integrated into the kernel.
So, you’ve got some […] -
03.09.07Building RPM’s as non-root user System Management, Linux (1)
As is recommended by the new RPM book it is always a good idea to build RPMS as a user other than root. It’s very simple to do this, just run the following commands in order -
echo “%_topdir $HOME/rpm” > ~/.rpmmacros
mkdir -p $HOME/rpm/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
mkdir -p $HOME/rpm/RPMS/{i386,i586,i686,noarch}
Thats it; you can install SRPMS in your home directory […] -
12.21.06Fedora Core 5 on Dell Inspiron 1300 Linux (0)
I’ve got a powerful desktop machine (running Windows), but i wanted something more mobile to run linux on that i could use in the kitchen or sitting on the sofa. After trialing an ebay sourced tablet PC (the RM 10.4 Centrino) which i found somewhat lacking in input terms, i decided it was time to […]
