Feb '09
23
Debian Lenny 5.0.0
Good to see Debian have released Lenny over a week ago now. Looks like Etch should upgrade to Lenny faily painlessly. The only Problems i can find are Graphics and sound card drives/firmware.
Feb '09
22
ip accounting
I’ve been using a combination of ntop, ulogd, ulog-acctd and specter for tracking ip traffic, with some success. Some recently found this post, that mentions the same sort of things i want to do, along with some of the pitfalls … Continue reading
Feb '09
20
Graphing
I’m not overly happy with the Graphing from Image_Graph, while it works OK, and Looks good (what i want for this graph anyway), its doesnt always do what i want it to. Some other options Charting Solutions – List of … Continue reading
Feb '09
17
Python and SQL references
I’ve been wanting to lern Python for a while, most projects seem to be using it as the prefered scripting language, Everything from Gimp to Samba to Blender. I’ve been researching Books and sites, Heres the short list. Python Tutorial … Continue reading
Feb '09
09
SQLite and Postgrey and SPF stats
I’ve given up on rrdtool for the mean time, i can input the data OK, but it seems to be averaging the results, even though i have specified MAX. Until i can work out why this is the case, the … Continue reading
Feb '09
09
Victoria Burns
With the High Temps on Saturday 7th Feb, large Bushfires engulfed Victoria. The temp reached 47.9ºc in Avalon (118F) our local airport. There is a Fire Map Here, and the ABC website has a number of pictures and articles. Our … Continue reading
Feb '09
08
Postgrey and SPF
Installed Postgrey and SPF at home, from etch backports apt-get install -t etch-backports postfix-policyd-spf-python python-spf add to main.cf “check_policy_service unix:private/policy-spf, check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:60000” to smtpd_recipient_restrictions add to master.cf policy-spf unix – n n – – spawn user=nobody argv=/usr/bin/policyd-spf I’m also looking … Continue reading
Feb '09
04
etckeeper
Been working on the etckeeper setup at work, found its not working as expected, seem to have problems with the nightly cron scripts that do a git pull back, seems to be a permissions problem on the git tree. Hopefully … Continue reading
