+ Open Source Adventures +

Fun with Open Source Software. Technology-related projects and articles. Most articles are unix or open-source related and include ...

Last Update: Sat Sep 30 07:26:33 2006

+ Site move completed + This site will no longer be updated. It will remain online, but if you want to look at anything I've done past March 2006, you should [...] feed, then you should look at the new RSS feed instead. The new site is: www.semicomplete.com The new RSS feed is: here

+ New website up. + I've started moving most things to my new site. Expect to see only one last update to this site before I fully move over. My new ...

+ Site move soon, perhaps. + I'll be moving this site to my new domain as soon as I get things setup there. I won't bother disclosing the name at this point, [...] in the process of running this script. syzygy Nothing quite like using perl to choose a domain name for you. Yeah, I'm a dork.

+ Grok and other plans + As a sysadmin, I get the privilege of sifting through piles of logs to find anomalies. Logs are great. However, I don't have time to [...] The rest aren't really software so much as stuff that happens. Here's a pretty diagram complete with a useful description of a "b

+ logwatcher renamed to grok. Grok 1.0 release. + I've been working on a fury of new features and fixes for the now-named Grok project. I'm almost done adding new features and I [...] then give grok a shot. I guarantee it is better. If it isn't, tell me what you like about the others and I'll add those features.

+ Projects for Spring Break + The following projects stuff I'd like to put time into during spring break. These are in no particular order of preference. [...] FreeBSD -CURRENT pam_captcha code audit Whether or not I actually get around to doing any of this is still in question.

+ precedence sorting with perl's sort() + This isn't terribly complicated, but it may be useful to you. Mostly I'm putting it here for my own future reference. sort { [...] means that the return value of sort is the keys sorted by data values first, and then alphabetically when both data values are equal.

+ Logwatcher + lwrecord + It's time logwatcher takes a step towards log summarization in addition to it's already (hopefully) good match-and-react system. This [...] kind of data (hopefully) from simple data like who's ssh'ing in to entire log entries. Soon, I'll write up lwsummarize which will let

+ OpenLDAP authenticating against saslauthd + I've been doing research on the internets trying to get OpenLDAP to allow simple binds that can authenticate against Kerberos. Turns [...] will tell you that lots of people put the following in their "slapd.conf" files: pwcheck_method: saslauthd saslauthd_path: /var/run

+ statistic deltas using awk + Short shell script I call 'delta' - It is useful for groking 'vmstat -s' output (and possibly other commands) to view time-based [...] vfork() 1150 system calls 3 fork() calls 0 vfork() calls 120 pages affected by fork() 0 pages affected by vfork()