2012

Getting mod_watch running with Apache 2.2

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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 switching tools is not in the scope of this problem. mod_watch is available on github where it was […]

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mailman – Group mismatch error

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Recently, I saw this log entry: Jul 19 08:00:05 nyi Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group “mailman other mail daemon”, but the system’s mail server executed the mail script as group “mailman”. Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group “mailman other mail daemon”, or re-run configure, providing the command line option `–with-mail-gid=mailman’. Searching around, it seems this is a

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jail: fetch: transfer timed out / protocol not supported

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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 jail host. There is was. I’ll show only a small part of the ifconfig output: $ ifconfig inet

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

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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 cause some confusion, here they are: root ntpd 63822 25 udp4 10.35.0.100:123 *:* Warning: Some services already seem

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Upgrading to Bacula database version 14

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After running the script which upgrades your Bacula database to version 14, there are a couple of fix-ups you may wish to run: alter table restoreobject owner to bacula; grant all on restoreobject_restoreobjectid_seq to bacula; grant all on restoreobject to bacula; You may or may not have to do this, depending on how you ran the upgrade script. Examine the following command output for your database: bacula=# \dt restoreobject List of relations Schema

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Pentabarf authentication issues

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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 is very useful, both in a negative and a positive fashion. The error upon login was: You are

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Pentabarf travel

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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

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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 all available memory, one test pass, no logfile Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74) running in multiuser mode Memory

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