NRPE returning no output?

command[check_recent_core]=PLUGINPATH/check_recent_core.sh –file=”$ARG1″ –freshness=$ARG2$

Spot the error? I only wasted an hour of my life and another 30 minutes of co-workers trying to figure out why I kept getting a “NRPE: No output returned from plugin” error in Nagios. The issue? $ARG1 is missing a closing “$”. *slams head on desk*

Determining my most used focal length in photos with python and dcraw

For the holidays I got a new Canon 7D camera. I’ve been saving quite a few amazon gift cards over the last year that I was previously planning on using towards purchasing the camera but thankfully Santa delivered me one. My current lens collection consists of

10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 70-200mm f/4 50mm f/1.8 18-55mm . . . → Read More: Determining my most used focal length in photos with python and dcraw

Python pip on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

Lately I’ve been reading up on Django a bit in an effort to get back into programming.  It seems the preferred way of running Django is inside a virtualenv environment.  I try to stick to packages when possible for installing applications and saw that the python-virtualenv package wasn’t too far behind at version 1.4.5, . . . → Read More: Python pip on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

Configuring Varnish

At $WORK I’m currently working on deploying a pool of Varnish servers to sit in front of some Apache servers running Pressflow. On our current infrastructure we’ve been running Squid for the past few years with very good success , minus a hiccup or two along the way, one involving memory fragmentation (thank you . . . → Read More: Configuring Varnish

Thinkpad Trackpoint sensitivity on Ubuntu

A while back I found some notes on configuring the sensitivity of my trackpoint on my Thinkpad T43 and took the time to tweak the values to get it just right. The commands were

/bin/echo -n 171 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/sensitivity /bin/echo -n 119 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/speed

In order to keep those values the same on reboot, . . . → Read More: Thinkpad Trackpoint sensitivity on Ubuntu