After reading some interesting articles about rxvt-unicode (often called urxvt) I wanted to try it out myself on my Archbox. Installation is quite simple via pacman and further customization can be done be modifying the .Xdefaults fine in your home directory. If you install the rxvt-unicode-256color package the TERM variable will be set to rxvt-256color [...]
If you quickly want to check which gems you’ve installed via rubygems you can start the integrated gem server by invoking hte following command: gem server After that step fire up you browser and got to http://localhost:8808 You should see something like this:
As I told on my previous post I’m currently using Archlinux here at work. Archlinux has beside it’s ‘normal’ package management system pacman (similar to apt-get) a ports-like application-repository called the ‘Arch Build System’ (ABS). In order to use the ABS software repository and to be able to install software from it, you need to [...]
Currently I’m using Arch Linux on my desktop-machine at work. As I’m still at the evaluation phase i read trough some forums, wikis and blogs about Arch Linux. One very interesting article I found was this one: http://www.cywhale.de/arch-linux-optimieren-booten-in-16-sekunden/ It describes how the booting time can be speeded up with some nice tricks. I did not [...]
As I wrote in the last post i was thinking about migrating back to wordpress. The steps are almost done. I don’t use categories anymore and the few links i had were added manually after the db-migration. What’s still left to do is to look for a nice theme and install some nifty plugins.
Here’s something I found on this webpage related to a Drupal2Wordpress database migration:
prerequisites:
Fire up the mysql cli:
use wordpress
DELETE FROM wp_posts ; DELETE FROM wp_comments
Today I received an email from the uptime daemon on my machine:
Uptimed noticed an uptime event! The uptime of www.schmalenegger.com has reached a milestone: 200 days, 00:00:00 (two hundred days) Congratulations! Wow! 200 days on a vserver is really quite okay. Thanks to my server - keep on rocking
After installing the VMWare Remote CLI on a VC-Server I was always getting the following error:
Can’t load ‘C:/Program Files/VMware/VMware VI Remote CLI/Perl/site/lib/auto/XML/LibXML/Common/Common.dll’ for module XML::LibXML::Common: load_file:The specified module could not be found at C:/Program Files/VMware/VMware VI Remote CLI/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
But all the files were there. Strange….
Running services on a virtual server sometimes causes problems. I often faced such porblems by reaching the maximum amount of open files. In that case applications like Apache or Postfix fill up their logs with lines like this:
"Too many open files in system"
I wanted to be able to monitor the amount of open files on my server (OpenVZ/ Virtuozzo) to easily see when there were and also when there might be problems. I decided to give Munin a try. Installation and basic Configuration was really simple and what I like very much is that custom plugins can be written very quickly with basic knowlegde of bash or perl.
Attached is my munin plugin. Just copy it to /etc/munin/plugins (in the default installation of munin) and rename it to vserver_open_files. Also add following lines to the file /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/munin-node, because this plugin needs to run with root privileges.
http://www.schmalenegger.com/files/vserver_open_files.sh
Since a few days ago i only used mutt directly on my server where the fully-loaded and configured postfix was running. The setup always worked and still works fine, but i wanted to use mutt also on a different machine and still be able to send mail via smtp through my postfix on the server.
As I don’t want to use postfix for this simple “mail-forwarding” job, i googled a bit through the interface and found msmtp.