LAPDOG » Linux http://www.lapdog.us Linux, Apple, Politics, Design, Observations, and Gaming Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:29:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Novell congratulates itself for selling soul to Microsoft http://www.lapdog.us/2008/01/03/novell-congratulates-itself-for-selling-soul-to-microsoft/ http://www.lapdog.us/2008/01/03/novell-congratulates-itself-for-selling-soul-to-microsoft/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:26:59 +0000 Glenn Batuyong http://www.lapdog.us/2008/01/03/novell-congratulates-itself-for-selling-soul-to-microsoft/ With a few blog posts by top execs, Novell ended out 2007 by admitting that cozying up with a monopolist, predatory company and invalidating all that is open source …was a great idea. Hey, they made off like a bandit with some sorely needed cash; who cares what the long term effects are on the community!read more | digg story

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The heads of Novell fired off an angry letter in response to Ballmer that contained:

We disagree with the recent statements made by Microsoft on the topic of Linux and patents. Importantly, our agreement with Microsoft is in no way an acknowledgment that Linux infringes upon any Microsoft intellectual property. When we entered the patent cooperation agreement with Microsoft, Novell did not agree or admit that Linux or any other Novell offering violates Microsoft patents.

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Share This ]]> http://www.lapdog.us/2006/11/20/moglen-how-well-kill-the-microsoft-novell-deal/feed/ 0 Split multiple log files and monitor them with GNU tail http://www.lapdog.us/2006/10/03/split-multiple-log-files-and-monitor-them-with-gnu-tail/ http://www.lapdog.us/2006/10/03/split-multiple-log-files-and-monitor-them-with-gnu-tail/#comments Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:01:32 +0000 Glenn Batuyong http://www.lapdog.us/2006/10/03/split-multiple-log-files-and-monitor-them-with-gnu-tail/ This may not be the most elegant way to monitor your system logs but at least you won’t need to run multiple shells. Using the GNU version of the tail command, you can view more than one log file on the screen and keep them updated in real time without interaction. Other versions of tail can only display one log at a time.

sudo tail -f /var/log/{cron,yum.log}
Password:
==> /var/log/cron < ==
Oct  3 12:48:01 titan crond[9309]: (root) CMD (/etc/webmin/sysstats/sysstats.pl)
Oct  3 12:49:01 titan crond[9366]: (root) CMD (/etc/webmin/sysstats/sysstats.pl)
Oct  3 12:50:01 titan crond[9406]: (root) CMD (/etc/webmin/sysstats/sysstats.pl)
Oct  3 12:50:01 titan crond[9409]: (root) CMD (/etc/webmin/quota/email.pl)
Oct  3 12:50:01 titan crond[9410]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --lock-file /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l --confcache-file /var/lib/mrtg/mrtg.ok)
Oct  3 12:50:01 titan crond[9411]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1)
Oct  3 12:51:01 titan crond[9469]: (root) CMD (/etc/webmin/sysstats/sysstats.pl)
Oct  3 12:52:01 titan crond[9522]: (root) CMD (/etc/webmin/sysstats/sysstats.pl)
Oct  3 12:53:02 titan crond[9572]: (root) CMD (/etc/webmin/sysstats/sysstats.pl)
Oct  3 12:54:01 titan crond[9611]: (root) CMD (/etc/webmin/sysstats/sysstats.pl)

==> /var/log/yum.log < ==
Jul 27 06:21:32 Updated: samba-client.i386 3.0.23a-1.fc4.1
Jul 27 06:21:48 Updated: samba.i386 3.0.23a-1.fc4.1
Jul 29 05:58:07 Updated: httpd.i386 2.0.54-10.4
Aug 03 05:17:40 Updated: libtiff.i386 3.7.1-6.fc4.3
Aug 03 05:17:43 Updated: rrdtool.i386 1.2.15-3.fc4
Aug 03 05:17:49 Updated: libtiff-devel.i386 3.7.1-6.fc4.3
Aug 03 05:17:55 Updated: gnupg.i386 1.4.5-1
Aug 03 05:17:55 Updated: rrdtool-devel.i386 1.2.15-3.fc4
Aug 05 04:41:34 Updated: sed.i386 4.1.5-4.fc4
Sep 16 04:22:27 Updated: perl-IO-Multiplex.noarch 1.08-5.fc4

Note that in using tail with this method you can specify some wildcards for the name. For example, if every log ends with .log then you can use the command like this:

sudo tail -f -n 10 /var/log/{system,messages,console,yum}.log
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Share This ]]> http://www.lapdog.us/2006/10/03/split-multiple-log-files-and-monitor-them-with-gnu-tail/feed/ 0 Getting AWStats to see mod_gzip data from Apache logs http://www.lapdog.us/2006/04/07/getting-awstats-to-see-mod_gzip-data-from-apache-logs/ http://www.lapdog.us/2006/04/07/getting-awstats-to-see-mod_gzip-data-from-apache-logs/#comments Sat, 08 Apr 2006 00:11:11 +0000 Glenn Batuyong http://www.lapdog.us/2006/04/07/getting-awstats-to-see-mod_gzip-data-from-apache-logs/ I'm having a hell of a time trying to get some file deflation statistsics to show up in AWStats considering I had added mod_gzip and changed my Apache log format to include such data. I must say, hacking httpd.conf and an awstats conf file is pretty arcane stuff if you don't understand the terms being thrown around. Let me also say that it appears Safari 2.0.3 is unable to view AWStats reports if you have BuildReportFormat=xhtml set. For now, use BuildReportFormat=html if you're using a Mac to administer stats. Zope.org has a good tutorial on getting mod_gzip initially installed, although the example uses the "common" format. I use "combined". Well, I hacked together

LogFormat=&quot;%host %other %logname %time1 %methodurl %code %bytesd %refererquot
%uaquot %other %other %gzipin %gzipout&quot;

in the AWStats conf file for one of my sites since my entry in httpd.conf says

LogFormat &quot;%h %l %u %t \&quot;%r\&quot; %&gt;s %b \&quot;%{Referer}i\&quot; \&quot;%{User-Agent}i\&quot;
mod_gzip: %{mod_gzip_result}n In:%{mod_gzip_input_size}n
Out:%{mod_gzip_output_size}n:%{mod_gzip_compression_ratio}npct.&quot; combined-gzip

The old addage goes, "RTFM" which I probably should have done first. And, to my chagrin, the proper syntax is found on the AWStats FAQ page. Silly me. Unfortunately, I still can't get any mod_gzip stats out my logs. It USED to work. Anyone have any ideas? Here is an example line from my Apache log:

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [07/Apr/2006:12:04:34 -0700] &quot;GET / HTTP/1.1&quot; 200 2064 &quot;-&quot;
&quot;Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Safari/417.9.2&quot; mod_gzip: OK In:4978 Out:1670:67pct.
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