http://blog.pobice.co.uk Anything to do with computer Pobice gets up to. Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:37:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just found a package for a bit of software in ubuntu called inputlirc. Ubuntu lists it as: Zeroconf LIRC daemon using input event devices This is a small LIRC-compatible daemon that reads from /dev/input/eventX devices and sends the received keycodes to connecting LIRC clients. Inputlircd needs no configuration, it uses the standardised names ... http://blog.pobice.co.uk/index/archives/2007/07/39 Well I've now got cacti pretty much sorted. Its finally running on a server with enough disk i/o to cope (it still > 3 years old, but at least it works). Its also now become important enough to be moved onto a server with support as some point. ... http://blog.pobice.co.uk/index/archives/2007/05/38 After a couple of power cuts lasting long enough for my UPS to shutdown my PC, I've been meaning to get NUTs to set my CPU to lowest speed possible when running on battery power, this week I finally got round to it. Please note these instructions are ... http://blog.pobice.co.uk/index/archives/2007/05/37 If there's one thing that really winds me up on the net is that when printing web-pages you end up with a load of crap you didn't want usually. For example with blogs you usually get a page or two with the content on the blog sidebar, which frankly ... http://blog.pobice.co.uk/index/archives/2007/05/35 I've recently upgraded from PHP4 to PHP5 to allow me to test out a couple of web apps on the same machine that runs things blog. All in all it went well, had to specify timezone in a config file for some of the code I've done myself - ... http://blog.pobice.co.uk/index/archives/2006/12/34 I've put to gather a rule for wuftp for fail2ban v0.6 (ie the version in backports for sarge - http://backports.org/). The regexp is straight from the version available in debian unstable. Seems to do the trick. [WUFTPD] # Option: enabled # Notes.: enable monitoring for this section. # Values: ... http://blog.pobice.co.uk/index/archives/2006/12/33 It appears in the Edgy Eft and Debian Etch that Syntax highlighting in gvim has been switched off by default. To add it back add the following line to /etc/vim/gvimrc " Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern. if has("syntax") && (&t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")) syntax on set ... http://blog.pobice.co.uk/index/archives/2006/11/32 It appears when when I created the first printer in ubuntu it didn't set it as default and hence nothing that used the likes of lp would print. Easy to fix - log on. Goto system > administration and set a default printer. Still you'd have though that when ... http://blog.pobice.co.uk/index/archives/2006/10/31 Well that was easy. I've just moved two tables to the type Memory/Heap and cacti runs like it used to (in fact a hell of a lot better than it has been doing recently.) The two tables moved are: snmp_counter64* and poller_output. Both these tables can afford to loose ... http://blog.pobice.co.uk/index/archives/2006/09/30 Well our age'ed Dell server has finally hit a limit with cacti. Currently it has: Hosts:354 Data-Sources:16943 RRDs Processed:8744 And has hit a limit with Disk i/o. What I plan to do is: Move it onto a temp virtual server. Completely rebuild the old dell with two RAID 1 sets ... http://blog.pobice.co.uk/index/archives/2006/09/29