updated list of machines

list of machines not that any of you care, this is more for my inventory purposes although i think mike might get a kick out of it.

libnetsnmp.so.15 error

after installing some cool nagios snmp plugins from nagios-snmp, i ran into a little netsnmp issues $ ./check_snmp_process ./check_snmp_process: error while loading shared libraries: libnetsnmp.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory lovely error…. so lets check what the dep’s are: $ ldd check_snmp_process linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) libnetsnmp.so.15 => not found libm.so.6 … Read More

favorite scenes from a movie

favorite scene from a movie i know it has no relevance to what i usually post but for anyone that actually likes this movie, i dont even have to tell you the name. you should just know.

deus ex machina

i am greedy…. i am slovenly….. ….but i love a new kernel lgarion@creeper2 / $ uname -a Linux creeper2 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Fri May 18 19:12:35 EDT 2007 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

mount: unknown filesystem type ‘LVM2_member’

i foobar’d a fedora 4 machine a couple of days ago and when i went to mount the disk into another machine i get this beautiful error: mount: unknown filesystem type ‘LVM2_member’ here was the syntax used: termcb:~ # mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/old/ mount: unknown filesystem type ‘LVM2_member’ and here was the drive : termcb:~ # … Read More

malloc failed – ipl 1st gen nano

for those of you that are running ipl on a 1st gen nano that get a “malloc failed” error in the little box on some songs just reboot ipl your buffer is full

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl i hate this error here is the fix: hostname:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libperl.so.5.8 libperl.so substitute 5.8 for whatever your version number is all you are doing is creating a link from /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.8 to /usr/lib/libperl.so

thunderbird access from command line (linux)

for those of you that have ever needed to access an email stored in thundirbird from the command line while away from your machine : ssh to your machine go to your home folder –> cd .thunderbird inside of .thunderbird you should see a folder with a .default extention. cd into this folder cd to … Read More

quick and dirty timestamp conversion

quick perl script to convert unix timestamp to human readable time #!/usr/bin/perl print scalar localtime(shift||time), “\n”; usage: ./script.pl <timestamp> example: ./unix_timestamp.pl 1175313600 Sat Mar 31 00:00:00 2007

sun blade 100 ubuntu smb.conf

[global] workgroup = Workgroup printing = cups printcap name = cups printcap cache time = 750 cups options = raw map to guest = Bad User domain logons = No domain master = No security = share [backup drive] browseable = Yes comment = backup folder guest ok = Yes inherit acls = Yes path … Read More