Tag Archives: Linux

Making all network traffic for a Linux user use a specific network interface

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Simon

I’ve recently been testing out a VPN service, and normally while running the VPN, all internet traffic goes over the VPN interface. This isn’t really ideal, as I only want traffic from specific applications to use the VPN. IPTables doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Adding a hostname to Logrotate email subjects

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Simon

I have logrotate running on my virtual servers ( both local and Amazon EC2 based ) and configured to send myself all log files by email daily. They are all running virtually the same configuration, and this makes it difficult … Continue reading →

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The HP LaserJet P1102w Printer on Ubuntu 11.04

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Simon

After publishing my previous post on Setting up a HP LaserJet P1102w Printer on Gentoo , I’ve noticed that I seem to be getting a lot of visitors searching for how to setup the same printer under Ubuntu, so decided … Continue reading →

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Using Apache to intercept HTTPS traffic

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Simon

Due to the increase in processing power available, the use of SSL has become more widespread. This is obviously a good thing, especially with UK ISPs spying on ( and annoyingly, replaying ) web traffic recently, however this can be … Continue reading →

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Hosting a Gentoo Layman repository on Amazon S3

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Simon

I’ve recently had to create a lot of custom Gentoo ebuilds, and distribute them out to separate machines. Luckily Gentoo has the layman system for adding experimental overlays, so we can use this to add our own custom one, hosted … Continue reading →

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