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(Ab)using Samba and inotify to implement simple menu of privileged actions

When you want SSH and sudo, but all you have is a Samba share. Similar to using a flag file in a network share to trigger some scripted action, this solution uses inotify to watch for files that get deleted, and then even shows the status of each job.

ORA-12170: TNS:Connect timeout — resolved

ORA-12170

MySQL 5.0 and SSL

I needed to get an old version of MySQL server 5.0 running with SSL on Debian Etch. It was not as simple as you might have thought.

Build an inode Lookup Database using SQLite3

I show a simple but effective use of SQLite3 to help me with an analysis problem.

NFS Lock Analysis with tshark (Wireshark) and Python

NFS locking can impede the performance of your clustered application. Learn how to capture and analyse NFS traffic to see where your locking issues are.