Daily Archives: October 3, 2007

One way to unemerge lots of unneeded packages on Gentoo Linux

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> … Continue reading

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The Pix xlate command

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. … Continue reading

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