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 [...]
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
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
