The old howto archive (outdated)

So what is this about and why are these howtos outdated? Sure, most of these howtos can still be applied on todays systems, however these articles were written before I started using the blog system to create the howto articles. I decided to keep them here as 'legacy howtos' to continue sharing the information.

Unix/Linux Howtos

• Shrink (Reduce) a ReiserFS formatted LVM partition
• Extend (Make it bigger) a ReiserFS formatted LVM partition
• Extend (Make it bigger) an ext3 formatted LVM partition
• Install Legato Networker on Gentoo Linux
• Stop and start an Oracle Database
• Use a ssh connection within a shell script
• Delete files older than X days
• Problem with vsftpd (500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket)
• Delete specific mails from Mail Queue
• Reset (root) system
• PHP make install under Debian with Apache 2
• Proftpd IPv6 getaddrinfo 'domain.com' error: Name or service not known
• Postifx error message Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 75
• Reset (forgotten) root password with rescue system
• Custom Ruleset for SpamAssassin to download
• IF test [] examples
• Confixx Counterscript fails after Debian Upgrade (Lenny)
• Upgrade Debian etch (4) to Debian lenny (5)
• Change Confixx email account password in Roundcube
• Syslog-NG: Which are the possible log facilities to use?
• Why -while read line- does not work with stdout
• The tabulator (\t) in bash
• Get the mcrypt command on SLES10
• Solve high loads due to Apache and Googlebot's CLOSE_WAIT status
• Install HP Management Agents and System Management Homepage on SLES11
• Postfix: Rewrite mail address ONLY for outgoing/sending mails
• Enable HTTP access logs in Apache Tomcat
• Dump and Restore a Postgres database
• Comparing port forwarding in Linux and Mac OS X
• Install DBD::Perl without CPAN on SLES servers
• Solving errors 'ndc: error: ctl_client' when reloading bind dns server
• Installing db-devel on SLES11
• Solve error 'perl: warning: Setting locale failed'
• Upgrade Debian lenny (5) to squeeze (6) on a VPS and solve MySQL problems
• Convert ext2 to ext3 partition
• Solve SuSE SMT errors (Access to http URIs has been disabled)

Windows

• Firefox 3 crashes when trying to play Flash videos on Windows XP
• Asus EAH2400Pro graphic card shows videos in green
• Use both wired LAN and WLAN connection and use WLAN for Internet Access
• Import SSL Certificates in Windows Server 2003/2008 and configure IIS
• Exchange: Find the destination mailbox or public folder of an e-mail address
• Extend/increase disk size/partition on a virtual Windows server without reboot
• Using NTLM for Proxy Authentication in Windows 7 (Part 1)
• Using NTLM for Proxy Authentication in Windows 7 (Part 2)
• Solve error '550 5.7.1 authentication required' in Exchange 2007/2010
• Windows 2003 setup doesn't find (SAS)- hard disks
• Create automatic ftp transfer script behind proxy on Windows
• Understand and solve virtual memory fragmentation errors in Exchange 2003

PHP

• Birthday script (Defines your age with the date of birth you give as value)
• Generate dynamical RSS feed with MySQL entries
• PHP make install under Debian with Apache 2
• PHP script Delete files and folders created by Apache user
• Change Confixx e-mail account password in Roundcube webmail
• PHP compilation fails on IMAP U8T_DECOMPOSE: The Debian solution
• Solve open_basedir restriction warnings when using eAccelerator
• Apache module comparison: mod_php, mod_suphp, mod_fcgid, mod_fastcgi
• Script to calculate/show percentage of current year passed

VMware

• HA error messages appear after update of VirtualCenter 2.5
• Upgrade ESX from 3.0.2 to 3.5 Update 1
• VI Client is suddenly in German after ESX 3.5 Update 2
• Snapshot function is disabled, not possible to create or manage snapshots
• Error on boot of VM: ESX server cannot open the virtual disk for clustering
• Schedule automatic reboot or shutdown of physical ESX/ESXi server
• ESXi 4.1 does not use whole disk capalities for VMFS3 HOT!
• Solve error 'Another task is already in progress' when trying to take snapshot
• Monitor Hardware of ESX/ESXi server HOT!
• vSphere client doesn't show performance graphs anymore

Bluecoat

• Set objects for certain file extensions

SAP

• Find system information (Kernel version, Patches, ...)

AS400 / IBM iSeries

• Command Examples on AS400