News for February 2008

Emacs meta key in the Mac OS X terminal

I fired up emacs in my terminal and to my surprise, the meta key did not work. To fix this, I had to do the following.

  1. In the Terminal Application
  2. select Terminal Prefrence
  3. select Keyboar
  4. select “use option as meta key”

Posted: February 1st, 2008
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Password Recovery for Netware 6.5

Recently I had to recover the admin password on a Netware 6.5 server. To do run, just hop onto the server console and run the adminadd.nlm.

Posted: February 1st, 2008
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Firewall Rules for NFS

To allow NFS through a firewall,the following services & ports need to be opened up on the firewall. You should not expose these ports to the public internet.

  1. Sun RPC aka rpcbind 111 tcp/udp
  2. NFS mountd 871 tcp/udp
  3. NFS rquotad 863 tcp/udp
  4. NFS status listen 865 tcp/udp
  5. NFS status send 866 tcp/udp
  6. NFS nfsd 2049 tcp/udp
  7. NFS lockd 4045 tcp/udp
Posted: February 1st, 2008
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