If you have created a custom RightScript in the RightScale interface that uses git to clone a repository and you are running that RightScript on boot following the RightScale git_repo recipe then you likely are having issues. The problem appears to stem from the fact that the environment variables are not completely cleaned up as…
It can be useful to set temporary environment variables from the command line in Linux. Even more useful is the output of a long command being set to a single environment variable. Below I show an example of setting an environment variable followed by setting an environment variable to the output of a command or…
If you are working with multiple Nexpose vulnerability scanners it makes sense to want to generate a bunch of Nexpose Scan Templates on one Nexpose Seurity Console and distribute to a bunch of other Nexpose Security Console’s. There is not much documentation I could find on doing this so luckily it is fairly easy. Follow…
I upgraded to Nmap 5.51 early this afternoon because a friend asked me to take a look at creating a topology image of a network scan of around 3,000 hosts. After upgrading I opened his scan in Zenmap and attempted to export the topology of the scan as a PNG but I received an error…
This afternoon I was using PGAdmin and needed to export some data from a query I had run but realized I wasn’t even sure if PGAdmin had this capability. Typically I would export data using the PSQL command line but since I was already working in PGAdmin I wanted to try and figure out if…
Someone asked me how to open .ecw files earlier today. After a little research I was able to find out that the files were associated to EclipseCrossword which is crossword puzzle software. Below are instructions on how to install Eclipse Crossword Puzzle, open the .ecw file, and export the file to something that MS Paint…
A client of mine still has a computer running Microsoft Outlook Express and they wanted me to import the address book contacts into their Yahoo Mail account. At first I was a little worried that Yahoo Mail may no longer support the format of Outlook Express address book contacts but then I remembered that you…
When working on a project where I was required to merge two sets of like data to make sure there were not any conflicts I needed a way to dump PostgreSQL database tables to Excel formatted .CSV files. Anyhow dumping Postgres tables to excel is easy to do by following the below directions.
Gnome has just upgraded their version and there is a bug which breaks the menu. This affects anyone who is migrating from any previous versions of gnome to 2.26. I am not sure about Linux Distributions which use binary packaging systems but on Gentoo Linux There are some things that break on the upgrade.