Technology & Life Related Musings

Impressed? Here’s how I did it:
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I recently had to deal with a non-responsive Windows machine, it pinged but that was about it.

In the end I managed to reboot it remotely from a cmd prompt.

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Is your favourite update tool Yum doing the below?

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[root@server ~]# yum check-update
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30978) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30978)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 80, in main
base.getOptionsConfig(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 170, in getOptionsConfig
self.doConfigSetup(fn=opts.conffile, root=root)
File "__init__.py", line 82, in doConfigSetup
File "config.py", line 273, in __init__
File "config.py", line 385, in _getsysver
TypeError: rpmdb open failed
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Read the rest of this post to learn how to quickly fix it.
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If you’re like me then you spend almost all your time SSH’d somewhere and that’s a lot of passwords to remember and enter on a daily basis.

Using RSA Keys would allow you to SSH straight in without being prompted every time.

Which would allow you to go from:
to

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Today my XP machine decided that it was no-longer going to boot. Entirely of it’s own discretion as I hadn’t used it for days.

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Recently I was on public WI-FI in The Aviator and I wanted to encrypt my traffic to prevent anyone else from sniffing it.

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Google have made their own public dns servers.

I doubt they’re doing this out of the goodness of their heart…

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