Continuation

I’ve managed to find some time to get my Cherokee server updated to 0.98.1. BTW, it took a while to have new version appear in the Gentoo portage.

Thanks to Alvaro, this update contains improved system_info module, which is now dirt easy to use in Ruby and some other scripting.

Using that opportunity I have updated my munin_cherokee plugin to utilise new functionality.

to Download latest version , follow the link in Munin Cherokee plugin post

All that festive time is gone. Finally. Craze at work is also stabilizing.

Some more of Randolph Lalonde

I’ve bought the FirstLight – Omnibus and as Spinwardfringe, it kept me glued to the screen. I really like your work, keep them coming! You can get Freeground on Amazon now.

Some more of coding

I am currently writing brand new munin plugin for Bind using stats output. I had some experience with plotting bind but none of the old ones works with my system so I am writing my own.

Some more cursing

Backup Exec and Windows server – why this shit doesn’t want to backup local resources ?!

Looked around to find out if there is one already and I couldn’t find any.

I’ve created a multifunctional plugin for Munin for monitoring Cherokee server.

DOWNLOAD HERE

It’s written in Ruby. So far I can confirm that it’s compatible with Munin 1.3.4 and Cherokee 0.11.3 on Gentoo.

It gets data from the server_info module available under /about , which has to be set to at least normal.

Plugin graphs will appear under cherokee category and I believe it allows you to monitor multiple servers from single munin-node as it uses the host field.

Plugin can monitor :

• Number of connections, Active, Open and Reusable
• Number of modules Loaded
• Data Transferred by the Server
• Data Transfer rate, but this is just a concept as it doesn’t yield usable data after a while.

How to use it

Place it in directory like

/usr/local/lib/munin/plugins

add executable bit

 chmod +x /usr/local/lib/munin/plugins/cherokee__type_.rb

link from /etc/munin/plugins

cd /etc/munin/plugins
ln -s /usr/local/lib/munin/plugins/cherokee__type_.rb cherokee_hostname_type_conn
ln -s /usr/local/lib/munin/plugins/cherokee__type_.rb cherokee_hostname_type_mod
ln -s /usr/local/lib/munin/plugins/cherokee__type_.rb cherokee_hostname_type_data
ln -s /usr/local/lib/munin/plugins/cherokee__type_.rb cherokee_hostname_type_rate

restart munin-node

/etc/init.d/munin-node restart

I have started evaluating the Cherokee Web Server. Have it installed on Gentoo. Using latest version from Ayron.

So far, I have found

• that it gives a nice secure web interface ( via the cherokee-admin ),
• has a bug with Security setting when using IPv6 addresses ( I’ve sent feedback on that ).

I’ve installed alfresco on Gentoo, used Gentoo HOWTO . Only major problem which I encountered was with not finding jdbc MySQL driver. I’ve tried to use script from the HowTo, but it wasn’t working.

My Solution was to rebuild jdbc driver ( the script broken it ) ( emerge -av jdbc-mysql ) and then I’ve done a simple find /usr -name jdbc-mysql.jar and linked the file inside tomcats lib ( ln -s `find /usr -name jdbc-mysql.jar` /usr/share/tomcat-6/lib/jdbc-mysql.jar )

I have just discovered a XRDP , which is a RDPv4 server for Linux/Unix.

I am well impressed! Especially that it saves your session  between connections.  Time to incorporate it into my systems.

After years of consideration I have acquired  a Bluetooth HeadSet – finally something what doesn’t screen rob me.

Sound quality is decent! There is one but – outdoor, music source has to really close to your headset , there is shit loads of interferences out the in world. Indoors is perfect, I can roam around whole flat without loosing signal.

I have hooked it up to my E61 which does not do stereo and it shit ( good it’s my last month of a contract ) .

I have hooked it up to my Music Player the StormBlue A9+ which I had for a while and until yesterday I was disappointed with it  – now I love it, it works with my headset perfectly.

I have also connected it to my computer at home and now I am about to connect it at home. It’s dirt easy – thanks to Audio Devices How To from BlueZ

btw headset is Motorola S9

I’ve installed Munin monitoring node on my newly rebuild server. I’ve managed to get almost everything monitored.

I had to hack bind9 plugin as original delivered name was not intended for Bind 9. I’ve downloaded bind.in and hacked it a little bit.

My bind.9 has support for IPv6 clients, views and actually works with my Gentoo installation of bind 9.

My named.conf has that logging options :

logging {
channel log_me {
syslog daemon;
severity debug;
};
category queries { log_me; };
};

If you don’t know what it is, learn Bind is the DNS

When I was performing emerge  -ud world recently on my vaptop, I have noticed that the new xorg server, which was to be installed has a new USE flag, the aiglx … quick ^C and edit on /etc/make.conf has switched that feature on.

After updating system, I’ve added compiz to my installed software collection, and started to read on how can I get my eye candy on the screen. Google for gentoo aiglx and you will get Howto which I have used to set everything up … there was one glitch which was preventing me from seeing anything except white colour and what is worst I couldn’t find any solution for that. This white colour, which appeared instead of my windows was simply due to 3D objects lacking textures.

Now when you have that kind of appearance on your desktop , look no further than MESA … quick emerge mesa fixes the issue. Enjoy this nice eye candy  working … except that after that I have broken my cube configuration and it doesn’t switch my desktops … plane is a bit too plane and I will have to reset my cubes configuration, but how? . eh

Last time I wrote that there was a problem with my GLX support. It is past now. Looked in to xorg logs and I have found that it is trying to access /usr/lib/dri/atiogl_a_dri.so library and it failing. Quick look in to /usr/lib/dri showed me that yes, this files was missing. Files which were present : r200_dri.so r300_dri.so radeon_dri.so only. So a usual quick fix by symlinking missing filename to one of the present files … worked I have linked it to radeon_dri.so. Don’t know if it is from Ati Drivers but it works fast so I will not complain.