Recently I got nullmailer working on my home server - and along with it working CRON logs filling my inbox. Tracking these issues down will often leave you in unexpected territory. I'll write up each journey one at a time.
First up is a very brief email from logrotate that greets …
Send email without sendmail server via nullmailer and a gmail account.
Took a shortcut on this one. rejigger.sh is a hacky script that has grown over the years to keep some legacy interdependent services running. It outputs all sorts of useful information that is useful when something goes wrong [and more hack needs to be input into the script]. But …
How I pushed this blog to a dockerized gogs server.
With a little help from rastro in the #logstash IRC channel I got php to to log in to json and logstash to parse out the timestamps. Like this:
{ "mem": 786432, "sec": 0.001, "cpu": 0, "why": "/test.php?test=4", "what": "/var/www/test.php", "who": "-", "when": "1454100567" }
Set …
I've had to rebuild ossec-hids with zeromq twice now on two different architechtures - Ubuntu 10.04 32bit and 14.04 64bit.
I figured I ought to at least reformat my ~/.bash_history file and call it a blog post.
apt-get install \
build-essential autoconf automake autogen \
libtool pkg …
Use reprepro to mirror 3rd party repos
Periodically mine check_mk_agent output on minions and use it for icinga/nagios checks.
pxz - Parallel LZMA compression
Reference dotfiles for working in new environments