Today I posted my first Ohai plugin to Github and put a link on the Opscode Community Plugins wiki page. I know not a whole lot of people use VServer, but hopefully some will find it useful. 
#opschef
This should apply to RHEL5 as well, but I haven’t verified yet.
The easiest solution I’ve found is to simply install Ruby and it’s dependencies and then install RubyGems from source.
I’ve written a small script which installs Ruby and it’s dependencies. It then grabs the RubyGems source tarball and installs Gems from source. As I wrote this to get a working Chef install, it also adds an opscode gems source.
You can get the script here.
This is simple, but I always forget how to do it when I need it and it’s hard to find on google for some reason.
echo "hi" | mail -s "My Subject" to@someone.com -- -f from@someone.com
I just stumbled across a Mozilla Labs project called Personas. It’s light-weight theming for Firefox that can be changed without restarting the browser. After you install Personas, you get a new menu entry Tools->Personas for Firefox, where you can quickly change the persona you are using. From what I can tell, Personas seem to change the your browser toolbar and menu font colors and usually add a lightweight background picture. According to the website, the project has been going since Dec 2007, so there’s a lot of Personas to choose from. I guess I’m a little slow sometimes.
One thing that is really cool is you can visit the personas gallery and see a bunch of different personas and when you hover your cursor over a persona, your browser will temporarily use that persona. If you want to use that persona now, just click on it and it’s your active persona.
Here’s a quick little clip that shows what Personas does.
Tags: extensions, firefox
I really had a hard time getting pure-ftpd 1.0.22 to compile properly witih mysql support on a RHEL5 x86_64 server. It turns out that the mysql libraries path in the configure script is incorrect. I’m not sure if this is just a problem with my particular configuration or with the way pure-ftpd tries to figure out where the mysql libraries are. In any case, I modified the configure script to use mysql_config with appropriate options to set the mysql include paths and lib paths as appropriate. Assuming mysql_config is in your path, I wouldn’t expect this to ever fail.
If anyone else has this problem, just apply the following patch to the configure script:
*** configure.orig Tue Nov 10 09:35:19 2009 --- configure Tue Nov 10 10:11:59 2009 *************** *** 11670,11685 **** # Check whether --with-mysql was given. ! if test "${with_mysql+set}" = set; then : withval=$with_mysql; if test "x$withval" != "xno" ; then if test "x$withval" != "x" && test "x$withval" != "xyes" ; then LD_RUN_PATH="${withval}/lib${LD_RUN_PATH:+:}${LD_RUN_PATH}" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L${withval}/lib -L${withval}/lib/mysql -L${withval}/mysql/lib" CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I${withval}/include -I${withval}/include/mysql -I${withval}/mysql/include" else ! LD_RUN_PATH="/usr/local/mysql/lib:/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql:/usr/lib/mysql:/usr/mysql/lib:/usr/mysql/lib/mysql:/usr/local/lib/mysql:${LD_RUN_PATH:+:}${LD_RUN_PATH}" ! LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/usr/local/mysql/lib -L/usr/lib/mysql -L/usr/mysql/lib -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -L/usr/mysql/lib/mysql" ! CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I/usr/local/mysql/include -I/usr/include/mysql -I/usr/mysql/include -I/usr/local/include/mysql -I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql -I/usr/mysql/include/mysql" fi { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for floor in -lm" >&5 $as_echo_n "checking for floor in -lm... " >&6; } --- 11670,11685 ---- # Check whether --with-mysql was given. ! if test "${with_mysql+set}" = set; then withval=$with_mysql; if test "x$withval" != "xno" ; then if test "x$withval" != "x" && test "x$withval" != "xyes" ; then LD_RUN_PATH="${withval}/lib${LD_RUN_PATH:+:}${LD_RUN_PATH}" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L${withval}/lib -L${withval}/lib/mysql -L${withval}/mysql/lib" CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I${withval}/include -I${withval}/include/mysql -I${withval}/mysql/include" else ! LD_RUN_PATH="`mysql_config --libs | egrep -o '\/[[:alnum:]\/]* ' | xargs | tr ' ' ':'`:${LD_RUN_PATH}" ! LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS `mysql_config --libs | egrep -o '\-L\/[[:alnum:]\/]* ' | xargs`" ! CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS `mysql_config --include`" fi { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for floor in -lm" >&5 $as_echo_n "checking for floor in -lm... " >&6; } |
Balance Through Extremism » Redhat perl. What a tragedy..
Wow, I wonder if any of our server have been bitten by this nasty Perl bug. It’s hard to believe that RedHat has taken so long to provide a fix for this problem.
Tags: bugs, performance, perl
Grooveshark — Listen to Free Music.
Just found this website tonight for playing music online for free. It’s a community based service where you can have friends to share music with. It’s kind of like Last.fm and Pandora, but with a much nicer interface. It seems to load very quickly and the music seems like decent quality.
Tags: free music, music
I saw a posting today on one of the Gentoo listservs about the recent lack of newsletters and website updates. Unfortunately, the lack of updates isn’t unusual, but I did pickup an interesting bit of information.
It looks like there is a new index page coming soon to the Gentoo website. It looks like it’s just a matter of when it gets committed. The new page appears to provide automated news updates with information such as:
- Latest GLSA’s
- compilation of dev blog posts from p.g.o
- latest package additions
The look of the page is pretty much the same as the old page.
