February 2008 Archives

Emacs meta key in the Mac OS X terminal

By Baldwin Sung on February 1, 2008 10:02 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

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"

Password Recovery for Netware 6.5

By Baldwin Sung on February 1, 2008 9:54 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

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.

Firewall Rules for NFS

By Baldwin Sung on February 1, 2008 11:56 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

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
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