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Bitfield with struct and union in C (gcc) with endianess

I have updated the union struct and bitfield in C fixing both the endianess of the bit-field and the warning message if the -Wpedantic is used with gcc (bit-field is a GCC extension).

/*
 * Copyright © 2016 Enrico Rossi <e.rossi@tecnobrain …

please see updated version: union struct bitfield and endianess in C

Typical usage of a bitfield with struct and union in C

/*
 * Copyright © 2016 Enrico Rossi <e.rossi@tecnobrain.com>
 *
 * This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
 * terms of the Do What The …

How to view the content of a .p7m file

Normally a .p7m file is what in openssl terms is a DER file ¹ (note: it work also with cms command).

openssl smime -verify -in smime.p7m -inform der -noverify -signer cert.pem -out textdata

where:

• -verify to tell openssl that …

How to configure a debian (Wheezy) rsyslog daemon to receive logs from remote system, store them in a separate directory/file and the daily rotate these files with date-like extension.

What we want:

/var/log/
 ├── alternatives.log
 ├── alternatives.log.1
 .
 .
 .
 ├── remote
 │   ├── remote1_host_IP
 │   │   ├── remote1_host.log
 │   │   ├── remote1_host.log-20141202.gz
 │   │   ├── remote1_host.log …

I have been asked to recover another lost password/bricked fonera and upload an openwrt firmware.

I generally do not spend much time in trying to recover the system using the normal network system, since I have all the tools to connect to the internal serial port and go directly …