Vim-Fu » SysAdmin http://www.vim-fu.com A SysAdmin's Notebook Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:14:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Patching Chef to support dry-run mode by Darren Dao http://www.vim-fu.com/patching-chef-to-support-dry-run-mode-by-darren-dao/ http://www.vim-fu.com/patching-chef-to-support-dry-run-mode-by-darren-dao/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:37:39 +0000 ddao http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=1093 http://www.vim-fu.com/patching-chef-to-support-dry-run-mode-by-darren-dao/feed/ 1 Resetting root password in MySQL http://www.vim-fu.com/resetting-root-password-in-mysql/ http://www.vim-fu.com/resetting-root-password-in-mysql/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 17:41:49 +0000 jroberts http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=1076 This is taken directly from MySQL home page:

Log on to your system as the Unix user that the mysqld server runs as (for example, mysql). Locate the .pid file that contains the server’s process ID. The exact location and name of this file depend on your distribution, host name, and configuration. Common locations are /var/lib/mysql/, /var/run/mysqld/, and /usr/local/mysql/data/. Generally, [...]]]> http://www.vim-fu.com/resetting-root-password-in-mysql/feed/ 0 OpenSSL-Fu http://www.vim-fu.com/openssl-tricks/ http://www.vim-fu.com/openssl-tricks/#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:50:49 +0000 jroberts http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=1064 http://www.vim-fu.com/openssl-tricks/feed/ 0 MySQL tuning script http://www.vim-fu.com/mysql-tuning-script/ http://www.vim-fu.com/mysql-tuning-script/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:07:05 +0000 jroberts http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=1023 http://www.vim-fu.com/mysql-tuning-script/feed/ 1 Using Screen to connect to a serial console http://www.vim-fu.com/using-screen-to-connect-to-a-serial-console/ http://www.vim-fu.com/using-screen-to-connect-to-a-serial-console/#comments Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:10:50 +0000 jroberts http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=999 Not much to write about here.  You can use screen as a replacement for minicom. Who knew!?!?!  Screen will never stop amazing me with all the cool stuff that it can do.

screen /dev/ttyUSB0

To set the baud rate to 57,600:

screen /dev/ttyUSB0 57600

To enable CTS/RTS handshake:

screen /dev/ttyUSB0 57600,ctsrts

^a,k to end the session. ^a,i to check the status of [...]]]> http://www.vim-fu.com/using-screen-to-connect-to-a-serial-console/feed/ 0 Cisco POE and Polycom phones http://www.vim-fu.com/cisco-poe-and-polycom-phones/ http://www.vim-fu.com/cisco-poe-and-polycom-phones/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:41:29 +0000 jroberts http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=970 http://www.vim-fu.com/cisco-poe-and-polycom-phones/feed/ 1 Cisco’s DNS Rewrite – My new best friend http://www.vim-fu.com/ciscos-dns-rewrite-my-new-best-friend/ http://www.vim-fu.com/ciscos-dns-rewrite-my-new-best-friend/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:33:24 +0000 jroberts http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=943 http://www.vim-fu.com/ciscos-dns-rewrite-my-new-best-friend/feed/ 0 Bulk Adding users to Gmail and notifying them of their new credentials http://www.vim-fu.com/bulk-adding-users-to-gmail-and-notifying-them-of-their-new-credentials/ http://www.vim-fu.com/bulk-adding-users-to-gmail-and-notifying-them-of-their-new-credentials/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:12:23 +0000 jroberts http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=937 My company is making a small jump from Google Apps Standard this morning to the Premier service, but because we are taking the opportunity to change the domain name, we are forced to do a migration.  This is really not a big deal compared to the mail migrations I have done in the past, in [...]]]> http://www.vim-fu.com/bulk-adding-users-to-gmail-and-notifying-them-of-their-new-credentials/feed/ 0 Great iPhone app for working out regexes. http://www.vim-fu.com/great-iphone-app-for-working-out-regexes/ http://www.vim-fu.com/great-iphone-app-for-working-out-regexes/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:30:38 +0000 jroberts http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=923 This is a great little utility to have on your iPhone.  It’s called Regexen and it is a tool that allows you to enter some text, and then cook up a regex that will match it.  You can then mail it out to your own email account or a co-worker.  It also has [...]]]> http://www.vim-fu.com/great-iphone-app-for-working-out-regexes/feed/ 1 Converting from Apache to Nginx http://www.vim-fu.com/converting-from-apache-to-nginx/ http://www.vim-fu.com/converting-from-apache-to-nginx/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:38:05 +0000 jroberts http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=862 http://www.vim-fu.com/converting-from-apache-to-nginx/feed/ 0