Category: Reliable Penguin

To disable the on-access scanning in Sophos for now with this command:

It can later be re-enabled with this command:

As for checking for what Sophos has been doing lately, the log files are located in the following path:

As for further documentation, there are man pages for most of the various Sophos binaries that you can find in /opt/sophos-av/bin so you should be able to view the man page for them with “man savdctl” or whichever binary you need to look at.

The standard unzip utility in RHFC6 was not able to handle the 2+GB zip files that I needed to uncompress. Tried the solution shown here: http://www.osde.info/HowToUnzipLargeFiles which involves changing: CF=”-O3 -Wall -I. -DASM_CRC $(LOC)”\ To: CF=”-O3 -Wall -I. -DASM_CRC -DLARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 $(LOC)”\ In the unix/Makefile This helps as it lets unzip open the >2GB archive. But some of the files in the archive were larger then 4GB and gave and error like this: need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.1) Found a page here: http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GigaUnzipping with the solution which is to use p7zip from: need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.1)

Recent problem where I needed to VNC to a host but the host was not directly routable. So I needed to send my traffic to a routable host and then tunnel it over to the final target host. SSH did the trick here:

Where “rhost” is the intermediate server and “host” is the final target server.

Here’s a quick bit of apache config that can be placed in the conf/vhost.conf file of a Plesk site to turn off the open_basedir restrictions: