Over the past few days I have had a number of questions asking about the meanings of phrases used in AWStats. So to summarise: BW BW stands for bandwidth - the amount of megabytes/gigabytes used per month - this was important when people paid... » More
Today I had a problem booting my Ubuntu desktop - with booting stuck on the purple screen. An Alt-1 showed me that there were problems with the disk and a manual fsck should be run. So at the Grub screen I pressed 'e' to edit the current entry and on... » More
Just making a copy of a /etc/samba/smb.conf file that works for sharing a single directory within a private network. There is no security / privacy just a public share. workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) dns proxy =... » More
I am not necessarily a fan of this software as I find it a bit less than intuitive to use but I set it up on one of our CentOS servers for someone else and thought I would jot a few notes about the process. Install dependencies: yum... » More
Although it wasn't causing any problems I wanted to stop proftpd logging these lines: Aug 15 09:51:00 servername proftpd: pam_unix(proftpd:session): session opened for user joebloggs by (uid=0) Aug 15 09:51:01 servername proftpd:... » More
Following on from Fran Diéguez's post about Munin Layout I found that the layout didn't work for me - there appeared to be a few broken links - or maybe I hadn't deleted the style.css file. In any case I decided to fiddle with the template styles from... » More
Rostrevor to Warrenpoint 3.5km swim 59 mins 56 secs in choppy waters - pleased with that! 13th position and only a few minutes behind Padraig Mallon who swam the English channel a few weeks ago.
On some CentOS VMs running on VMWare I was seeing the following errors in the syslog: Jul 19 09:35:08 hostname kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Jul 19 09:35:08 hostname kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 {... » More
Hopefully this may help someone else out there who is looking for a good excuse to use Fabric in anger. I install Fabric on my local Ubuntu desktop using: sudo apt-get install fabric With Fabric installed I created a new directory for playing... » More
Over the past few days I have had a number of questions asking about the meanings of phrases used in AWStats. So to summarise: BW BW stands for bandwidth - the amount of megabytes/gigabytes used per month - this was important when people paid... » More
