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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/10
Really interesting stuff: ttystudio. It allows to record an apng or gif of a terminal session (so it should work on headless systems).
Anyone knowing alternatives for OpenSuSE and Mac OS X?
(Cockos Incorporated | LICEcap might cut it on Mac OS X, but not on headless systems so GNOME/byzanz doesn’t cut it either)
Sources:
Handy as well:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/07
The most recent versions of Joe don’t even build from stock in OS X any more and there are no direct installers for them.
But there are two most recent older versions that have installers, and a formula recent brew based HomeBrew installation:
- joe-3.7-0.pkg – rudix-snowleopard – JOE – Rudix: The hassle-free way to get Unix programs on Mac OS X – Google Project Hosting.
- PROJECT DETAIL for Joe’s Own Editor.
- Homebrew Formulas – Joe.
After experimenting for a while without brew preferring the first over second, I’ve installed the the third as:
- The first actually installs version 3.6, but has the syntax highlighting files installed in the correct place, so you get syntax highlighting.
- The second does install version 3.7, but since the syntax highlighting files are in the wrong place: you get no syntax highlighting.
- The brew formula has an up to date joe version 4.0 and installs the syntax highlighting in the right place: you get syntax highlighting.
Before making a choice, you might want to consider reading about joe versions in JOE – Joe’s own editor / … /NEWS.md.
Having a background partially in the Linux world, I tried building joe from source on my Mac following the steps at JOE – Joe’s own editor / Discussion / joe-editor-general:Mac binary for 3.3 does not run on OS/X 10.8. It failed because the Mercurial 3.8 branch required automake and autoconf which are not available on just a Mac + Xcode. So I’m happy that others have bit the bullet and make a good HomeBrew build.
What makes HomeBrew so great is that it is based on a fully versioned git/ruby combination, allows for multiple Python versions, allows for binaries through bintray served bottles and has zillions (well, thousands) of installable formulae, all versioned.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/05
Linux turns 25 today: Linux – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Happy birthday!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/29
I needed to script a few things on my Fritz!Box. Here are the cURL links that I used to research some Fritz!Box scripting.
My first try was wget, but that didn’t do everything I need, so cURL came to the rescue.
In the end, I didn’t need cookies (a post request with an MD5 based handshake sufficed to get a session SID which is not stored in a Cookie), but that surely will come in useful another time.
Curl man page entries:
The script is and docs are here: jpluimers/bash-fritzclient.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/26
Awesome vim cheat sheet for your consideration. Download http://vimcheatsheet.com
You can either
- buy the poster (which is now at version 2.0),
- buy the digital PDF downloads (at version 2.0 too),
- get the free small resolution PNG downloads at 1024 x 700 or 1979 x 1346.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/15
If you want to inverse the work of newaliases, you can use makemap to convert them to text:
makemap -u hash access.db
This is quite handy to see if the newaliases indeed put all information into the db file (for instance if you use a script, you can verify it ran correctly).
It works for any db, but you need to be aware of the database format: hash type or btree type.
To my knowledge only one uses the btree type format:
All others use hash type format:
- aliases.db
- aliases-maillist.db
- mailertable.db
- genericstable.db
- virtusertable.db
- access.db
- auth-info.db
- domaintable.db
–jeroen
via: Reading Sendmail .db files.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/14
The ESXi console top to show processes is not available *, the alternative is esxtop. But that can show garbage because the ESXi console has a very limited support of terminals **.
For instance, when connecting from a Mac OS X terminal through ssh, this is my terminal:
# echo $TERM
xterm-256color
The solution:
TERM=xterm esxtop
–jeroen
via: VMware KB: Output of esxtop defaults to non-interactive CSV with unknown TermInfo.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/12
Be careful with setting the timeout of sendmail to zero when trying to flush the mail queue:
sendmail -OTimeout.hoststatus=0m -q -v
Reason: a lot of target systems do rate-limiting if you retry too much in too short time, for instance gmail does that:
421-4.7.0 [###.###.###.### 15] Our system has detected an unusual rate of
421-4.7.0 unsolicited mail originating from your IP address. To protect our
421-4.7.0 users from spam, mail sent from your IP address has been temporarily
421-4.7.0 rate limited. Please visit
421-4.7.0 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126 to review our Bulk Email
421 4.7.0 Senders Guidelines. w1si28749381wju.16 - gsmtp
–jeroen
via Flush deferred messages in sendmail queue :: Stephan Paukner :: syslog.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/09
On some systems, after upgrading OpenSuSE Tumbleweed to 20160905 ntp stops working.
TL;DR
Pending the verification of snapshot 20160908 (not finished yet), if if you have updated to 20160905 or 20160907,, the bogus ntp version is, so you have to downgrade:
zypper in --oldpackage http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/ntp-4.2.8p8-1.3.x86_64.rpm
systemctl restart ntpd.service
Or wait a few hours and install snapshot 20160908.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/07
I figured this out, it turned out to be a DNS resolution issue. For some reason leaving ‘search localdomain’ in resolv.conf generates some slowness. I’m not sure if it’s because 127.0.0.1 isn’t mapped to ‘localhost.localdomain’ in /etc/hosts by default, or whatever, but taking it out fixes the performance issue.
Source: TUMBLEWEED Poor performance in VMware Fusion
–jeroen
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