Red Branch | For Future Reference …
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 for the amount of bandwidth their website used. It can also be… Read 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 the linux (kernel) line I… Read more »
The results from last Friday’s 2km-ish swim at Camlough Lake. 2013 – Position 29/148 00:39:17 2011 – Position 27/107 00:42.40
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. [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) dns proxy = no log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 syslog =… Read 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 –disablerepo=rpmforge –enablerepo=epel install httpd gdal-perl perl-CGI perl-CGI-Session… Read 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: pam_env(proftpd:setcred): Unable to open config file: /etc/security/pam_env.conf: No such file or directory Aug 15 09:51:01 servername proftpd: pam_succeed_if(proftpd:session): error retrieving information about user 0 Aug… Read 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 Fran’s download and I have uploaded the… Read 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 { AbortedCommand } Jul 19 09:35:08 hostname kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xec Looks like while installing munin-node a plugin… Read 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 around and inside that folder created a file named fabfile.py as follows:… Read more »
