Posted in UNIX, Web on nov 21st, 2007 2 Comments »
It wasn’t too long to upgrade cacti. Download files, patch with the plugins architecture, and there you go.
The good thing is that Cacti now knows how to bind to a LDAP directory with a user, search for your user, then authenticate. In fact, it seems they re-wrote the whole authentication system. You won’t have [...]
Posted in OS X, Video on nov 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
ffmpeg is a command line tool used to convert video format. It has so many option that most of the free video software around the place is based on it. I tried to install the Macport (port install ffmpeg) but I had an error. I finaly managed to compile it by hand.First of all, get the [...]
Posted in UNIX on nov 19th, 2007 No Comments »
The new Cacti (snmp monitoring) is out !
The new 0.8.7a was released during the week-end. It correct a few bugs and add2 new small features. The big deal is the improvements made during the 0.7.6 to 0.8.7 switch.
One good thing : the config is now in the database. No more config file (even if the [...]
Posted in Solaris, UNIX on nov 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Coolstack is a bundeled package of Opensource applications optimized for Sun’s T1 hardware. More infos on CoolToolswebsite.The last version (1.1) was born “old”, with only outdated packages.The new one, 1.2, comes with almost all latest versions :
Apache version upgraded to 2.2.6. Added mod_fcgid-2.2, mod_jk-1.2.25, mod_proxy, SMF support.
PHP version upgraded to 5.2.4. Configure and compiler options changed. [...]
Posted in Solaris, UNIX on oct 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Every time you call the Sun support, they ask for the serial number of the host you’re calling for. As usual, you go to your wiki page and all you get is the Account number. DAMN !!
Of course you can have the serial number from the ALOM/ILOM. But what if you are already logged and [...]
Posted in Solaris, UNIX on oct 10th, 2007 No Comments »
First, get a look at this site, offering a large compilation of mibs : http://www.oidview.com/mibs/detail.html
Find your equipment dealer, click on its name then chose to download the ASN.1 zip file. It will contail every mib file you choosed.
Thanks !!
Then, if you are running Solaris, copy the mibs file to /etc/sma/snmp/mibs
Then, when doing your snmpwalk, use [...]
Posted in Sybase, UNIX on sept 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Strange, I wasn’t able to find a way to get the database page size in a Sybase (12.x) server.
Digging in sp_helpdb stored procedure gave me some more informations. To do this, or any stored proc, use this SQL command :
USE sybsystemprocs
go
sp_helptext sp_space_segment
go
You will get the stored proc as text.
Finaly, the solution to get [...]
Posted in Linux, UNIX on sept 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
I’m really supprised today to see how applications uses Jack (the Linux - and other now - audio patch).
The Jack plus name is made of two parts : the application name and the “channel” name. The application name must be unique globaly, and the channel must be unique in each application.
While some seems to be [...]
Posted in Music, UNIX on sept 7th, 2007 No Comments »
I talked about Rotter in a previous post. This litte app connect to a Jack plug and record the audio to a file, in mp3, wav or other depending how you compiled it.
This app can also be told to spead files in a tree depending of the date, create a new file every X minutes [...]
Posted in Music, UNIX on sept 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
Darkice is a really good free product when talking about live encoding and streaming. It is the best friend of Icecast, which is the deflector module (ie : the link between live stream and customers).
I used to use Darkice directly from ALSA, the Linux sound layer, and encode my live audio from the soundcard to [...]