Friday, November 1, 2013

Quick tip: running nvALT after a Notational Velocity update - BrettTerpstra.com

Quick tip: running nvALT after a Notational Velocity update - BrettTerpstra.com: "If you keep your notes in the database only (you don’t write files to disk), your Notes & Settings file will be in ~/Library/Application Support/Notational Data/Notes & Settings, where the ~ is your user’s home directory."

HOWTO: Build a DMG file from the command line on Mac OS X

HOWTO: Build a DMG file from the command line on Mac OS X: "run the hdiutil utility to create a DMG file
$hdiutil create /tmp/tmp.dmg -ov -volname "RecitalInstall" -fs HFS+ -srcfolder "/tmp/macosxdist/" "

Monday, October 28, 2013

Practical SELinux for the beginner: Contexts and labels - TechRepublic

Practical SELinux for the beginner: Contexts and labels - TechRepublic: Using setenforce can be a great way of troubleshooting problems; if the problem goes away after setting the system to Permissive mode then you know it is SELinux.

If not, then it is something else.

# setenforce 0
# getenforce
Permissive

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Ugh, I hate Linux some days...

Gentoo Forums :: View topic - [SOLVED] udev update, separate lvm /usr, genkernel...:
2013-01-23-udev-upgrade
Title Upgrading udev from 171 (or older) to 197
Author Samuli Suominen
Posted 2013-01-23
Revision 1
Upgrading udev from 171 (or older) to 197 will require special attention...


And so begins the nightmare of reconfiguring my system.

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Gentoo System Monitoring with Nagios, don't forget the Define!

Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Gentoo System Monitoring with Nagios: /etc/init.d/apache2

/etc/conf.d/apache2  needed a "-D nagios" added to the APACHE_OPTS

Next I had to make sure I had .htaccess files in both the main htdocs for nagios as well as the nagios cgi dir:

# cp /usr/share/nagios/htdocs/.htaccess /usr/lib/nagios/cgi-bin/