Archive for October 3rd, 2007
One way to unemerge lots of unneeded packages on Gentoo Linux
Posted in October 3rd, 2007
by Dennis in System Administration
As part of a recent project, I had installed a lot of packages on a separate machine to test my configuration. As is common, with Gentoo, you want to run the following before you actually emerge anything: emerge -p <package_name> In this particular case, I noticed the dependency list was pretty long (50 packages to [...]
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The Pix xlate command
Posted in October 3rd, 2007
by Dennis in System Administration
I’ve recently had cause to change a couple static routings on our Pix 501 Firewall. I’ve done this in the past, but each time, it has resulted in a period of time where the new static mapping doesn’t take effect. Thanks to Jake on the PLUG Mailing list for pointing out to me the xlate [...]
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