I recompiled collectd some days ago, to get the latest version: 4.9.1. When I tried to restart it, I was greeted with a nice error message: # /etc/init.d/collectd start Starting statistics collect...
Samba user shares broken on Fedora 12
If you’re using Samba user shares on your system (that is, shares that users can mount without being root), you were probably greeted with the following message for the last several weeks, when try...
Apache logical OR & AND conditions with SetEnvIf
Unfortunately, the Apache SetEnvIf module doesn’t support logical conditions, like OR & AND. More specifically, it is not possible to set a variable only if condition1 AND/OR condition2 are ver...
Yum plugin to show installed package versions when upgrading
There is a feature apt-get has and yum misses: the ability to show installed packages versions, when asking confirmation about upgrading. There is a list of the about-to-be-installed packages versi...
Proxytunnel 1.9.0 enhanced
I recently discovered Proxytunnel, a great tool to build tunnels through HTTP and/or HTTPS proxies, which is even able to chain two proxies. It can seem a bit overkill at first sight, but it’s real...