Technical notes, my online memory

I just encountered Chef , which is a 'systems integration framework' like puppet that allows you to manage configuration and much m...

I followed this HOWTO to create a debian package update. With a debian watch file it is quite easy to grab a new upstream version. To run...

Sourceforge has changed their shell access procedure again. This time it is a little complicated and unintuitive. You need to create a she...

Under Admin|Media Types configure the email option as: SMTP server: localhost SMTP helo: myinternetdomain.com SMTP email: zabbix@myinternetd...

I got this error after an OS upgrade: Unsupported version control system "darcs": Can't find an appropriate component, maybe t...

I have been using Zabbix for monitoring for a while now, and have been really happy so far. Today I ran into some things that are really ...

This turned out to be really easy, but not obvious with the GUI. The GUI shows the proc.num syntax as: proc.num[ ] but the manual has the...