• So Server, tell me about yourself. An introduction to facter, osquery and sysdig

This is a list of noteworthy directories and files on Windows-based operating systems. Note that locations might differ between versions of Windows.

• C:\Windows\NTDS: On Windows 2008 R2, this is the default location for the Active Directory domain controller database and log files. The location can be on a FAT32 or NTFS partition.
• C:\Windows\SYSVOL: On Windows 2008 R2, this is the default location for the Active Directory domain controller SYSVOL. Requires NTFS.

• Static FFmpeg builds

• How to check hard disk health on Linux using smartmontools

• Setting Up Prerequisites for Oracle 12c Installation in RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux 6.5 – Part I
• Installing and Configuring Oracle 12c in RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux 6.5 – Part II

This is a quick tip on how to install the closed-source version of Virtualbox, currently at version 4.3.16, on a machine with Linux Mint 17.

This is a list of software tools that can be used to create presentations.

Installable

• LibreOffice Impress
• OpenOffice Impress

Web-based

• Reveal.js
• Bespoke.js
• Impress.js

See also

• 3 open source tools to make your presentations pop
• 3 tools to make creating presentations easy

RHEL can be installed from various different sources. One of them is over the network, from an FTP accessible repository. Here's how to create such a repository:

1. You will first need to install vsftpd from the RHEL DVD. See Install packages from RHEL DVD with yum on how to do that.

2. After you have installed vsftpd, enable it and start it:

   chkconfig vsftpd on
   service vsftpd start
   

   At this point, you should be able to open ftp://localhost/ from the same system on which you are working, which will show you the contents of the /var/ftp/pub directory, the default FTP directory on RHEL.

3. Create a directory for the repository:

   mkdir /var/ftp/pub/rhel
   

4. Copy all the files from the DVD to the repository. Assuming that either the DVD or the .iso image is mounted at /media/rhel:

   cp --recursive --archive /media/rhel/. /var/ftp/pub/rhel/
   

5. Change the SELinux context of the files in the repository:

   chcon --recursive --reference=/var/ftp/pub/ /var/ftp/pub/rhel/
   

6. At this point the repository is only accessible from the system on which it runs, since iptables by default does not allow FTP traffic from other hosts. To open this access, edit your /etc/sysconfig/iptables and add these lines before the COMMIT command:

   -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT
   

   ...and reload the firewall:

   service iptables reload
   

   Alternatively, you can do from the command line:

   iptables -I INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT
   service iptables save
   

I was testing Point-to-Point Tunneling today, between a CentOS 6 server running pptpd, and some Mikrotik routers as the clients, and I wanted to change the listening port on the pptpd side. After searching and reading a bit of documentation for a while, I was surprised to find that pptpd respects the record for pptp as defined in /etc/services.

This is a random list of filesystems.

• zfs
• btrfs
• xfs
• ext2
• ext3
• ext4
• GlusterFS
• MooseFS
• Ceph
• Lustre
• Fraunhofer Parallel Cluster File System (FhGFS)
• DRBD