Monthly Archives: February 2008

wireless mac address cloning on WRT54GL

Posted on February 27, 2008 by ward

I have a bunch of WRT54GL units that still run OpenWRT Kamikaze 7.07 (latest version is 7.09). I needed to swap out a unit that is one half of a WDS pair, but preferred not to touch the other half. … Continue reading →

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xen 3.2 serial

Posted on February 18, 2008 by ward

Getting access to the serial port in a Xen 3.2 dom0 is somewhat complicated. This is the magic incantation for your grub menu.lst file to get console at 115200 bps on the first physical serial port, as well as on … Continue reading →

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sanitizing /var/log

Posted on February 13, 2008 by ward

I don’t know about you, but I like to have my system logs split day by day, particularly on busy machines. I also like to have a full timestamp (including year and timezone thank you) in system log files. The … Continue reading →

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