These are just misc. items that I put here for my own reference. If you find anything of use, great. Drop me an email.

raidalert

This is a small bash script that checks to see if the status of you linux software raid has changed since it was last run.

xdm setup on mandrake and most other linux distributions

1. edit /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config and comment out the line that reads: DisplayManager.requestPort: 0
2. edit /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and change under the xdmcp section Enable=true
3. restart kdm by either changing runlevel or stopping and starting the kdm service
4. you might also need to add remote hosts to your /etc/hosts file if a reverse lookup won't resolve for them
5. to connect from xclient, use either X -query ip_of_xdm_server or for cygwin xwin.exe -query ip_of_xdm_server

starting multiple xservers on linux

1. at a shell prompt type: X :1.0 increment the 1 in the example to start another Xserver
2. set DISPLAY variable to X session you want apps to display on: export DISPLAY=:1.0
3. now you can start a desktop/window manager such as kde startkde or blackbox blackbox
4. use X :1.0 -query ip_of_xdm_server to load an xdm session from a remote server to another display on your current box

Maintained by Dennis Webb. Updated: Sun Mar 9 20:37:38 CST 2003