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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Install Google Gears on Firefox on Ubuntu Karmic

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

So simple: Don’t install from the website, it will – till the time of this article – give you an error message that your browser isn’t supported Install the “gears” package, e.g. open a terminal and type “sudo apt-get install … Continue reading →

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Bash Switch statement

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

If you have some server that need some script that control it (such as scripts found in /etc/init.d), here’s that script: open a text file and put the following in : #! /bin/shcase "$1" instart) echo "START"; ## command to … Continue reading →

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The Log Event responsible for logging user actions in Siebel

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

To add which user and what he/she was doing exactly to the log files, raise the log level for the event “EventContext”, e.g. “change evtloglvl EventContext=log_level for comp component_name“, remove the “comp” keyword if you want it for all components.

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Increase the log level for some events (based on a wildcard search) for a specific component using the Siebel CLI

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

Firstly, list them: “list evtloglvl %keyword% for comp component_name“ Finally, change the log level “change evtloglvl %keyword%=log_level for comp component_name“

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How to edit the Grub2 bootloader entries (used for some new linux distros, e.g. Ubuntu Karmic)

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

I used to edit the “/boot/grub/menu.lst”, that’s not the case in grub2: Firstly, you should edit the “/etc/default/grub” Next, run the “update-grub” command, that’s it 🙂

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