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SELinux, Samba, rsync and (maybe) others

Those who installed Samba on Fedora or any other SELinux enabled distribution may have faced the problem when they actually cannot access any Samba shares from their Windows machines. Samba logs in /var/samba/log may show lots of such messages: [2007/07/03 … Continue reading

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Avidemux – How to add an second audio track (Dual Audio)

  Caution: Avidemux can only handle one audio track internally. Nonetheless, there is a way to add a second audio track, with limited support and no processing at all on that second audio track. The second audio track must be … Continue reading

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Email notification with yum-updatesd via mailx

  1. Install and configure yum-updatesd 1# yum install yum-updatesd mailx ssmtp # Or msmtp We want only be notified of new updates. We want not to install them automatically. Your /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf should be similar to this: 1234567891011121314151617181920[main] # how … Continue reading

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Netzwerkgeschwindigkeit messen mit netcat und pipe viewer

Netcat auf Maschine 1 im “listening-modus” starten,  mit zwischen-geschaltetem pipe viewer: nc -l -n 12345 | pv -tbr > /dev/null Netcat auf Maschine 2 starten und Daten an Maschine 1 schicken: time yes | nc -n 192.168.1.34 12345 > /dev/null … Continue reading

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