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Hi, I often change the machines (and thus the hostkeys) that are on a IP (a service environment with a IP assinged for the machine to test). So every time I want to connect to a new machine I have to delete the previous key from the known_hosts file. Since I got tired of running a remove script manually, I made this small patch which adds the possibility to replace the real key with the

Hi, I tried the patch recently added to support 5G ups by APC. Connecting to the ups failed because of wrong permissions of the usb device node. I had to add the new usb id to the udev rules to make it work. I attached my patch to this mail. Please consider applying. Thanks. Kind regards, Gerd -- Address (better: trap) for people I really don't want to get mail from: jonas at

I am having a problem with setting up diskless clients under CentOS 5.2. I have everything working under CentOS 4.7. This is an adaptation of the (somewhat old) Diskless Linux with PXE HOWTO by Gerd v. Egidy, originally at the URL http://www.intra2net.com/opensource/diskless-howto/, which is now defunt (there is a mirror of it at http://blog.chinaunix.net/u/2389/showart_82438.html). What I am

I would like to get IP adress from WINS (not from broadcast or LMHOSTS file) for given NetBIOS name using Windows netbios API (functions) - however - I can't understand what I should specifu into NBC structure - should I make socket connection to WINS server and issue NCBFIND or should I use SEND/RECEIVE to communicate directly with WINS - if later is teh case - then what chunk of data should