2012

Getting mod_watch running with Apache 2.2

mod_watch is a now unsupported package, originally created by Anthony C. Howe. I first learned of this software, from this Cacti post, when looking to graph statistics from my various Apache virtual hosts. I want to incorporate this data into my existing cacti installations. For those suggesting I use something other than cacti: thanks, but […]

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jail: fetch: transfer timed out / protocol not supported

After recent efforts to get old jails running on a new server, I tried to upgrade some ports today. I failed. portupgrade was erroring out and reporting: protocol not supported A simple fetch http://www.google.com/ was giving me fetch: transfer timed out I tried portaudit -Fa. Nothing. fetch: transfer timed out I checked ifconfig on the

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jail: execv: /bin/sh: No such file or directory

Recently, I was moving some jails from one server to another. First, I created the jail using the -x switch, which indicates the jail already exists, don’t create it, just add entries for it: # ezjail-admin create -f bacula -x mysql41.example.org 10.35.0.100 Warning: Some services already seem to be listening on IP 10.35.0.100 This may

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Pentabarf authentication issues

I encountered this situation recently. I had consolidated two logins. One was for 2012, the other for 2011. It’s better to reuse your login from previous years instead of creating a new one each year. Why? It lets the program committee see what you’ve submitted in previous years. They can see your previous acceptances/rejections. That

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Pentabarf travel

Here is the start of a query for pulling out travel requirements for conference attendees. SELECT P.last_name, P.first_name, CPT.arrival_from, CPT.arrival_to, CPT.need_accommodation FROM conference_person_travel CPT, conference_person CP, conference C, person P WHERE CPT.need_accommodation AND CPT.conference_person_id = CP.conference_person_id AND P.person_id = CP.person_id AND CP.conference_id = C.conference_id AND C.acronym = ‘BSDCan2012’

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memtestosx

I just bought and downloaded memtestosx. Last login: Sun Jan 8 16:14:10 on ttys001 [dan@dent:~] $ /Volumes/memtest_422/memtest/memtest ; exit; Memtest version 4.22 (64-bit) Copyright (C) 2004 Charles Cazabon Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Tony Scaminaci (Macintosh port) Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 only NOTE: No command-line arguments have been specified Using defaults: Test

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