connecting Tomcat and Apache
Please bear with me while I engage in the following diatribe about: “Why Is It So Darn Difficult to Connect Apache and Tomcat?” Anyone who has worked with mod_jk/mod_jk2 and its ilk know that...
View Articlepublishing free/busy information in Evolution
Ximian Evolution can publish Free/Busy information by using WebDAV, but this doesn’t seem to be documented anywhere I could find. Here’s what I did to set it up: Set up a WebDAV-compliant webserver. I...
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Google for system logs
I’ve been playing around with Splunk recently, which I bill as “Google for your system logs.” It’s much more than just a simple search engine, but that’s the simplest way to describe what it does; it...
View Articlewhy has CORBA failed?
There’s a great article in this month’s ACM Queue entitled The Rise and Fall of CORBA. Since it’s authored by Michi Henning, who worked on CORBA as part of the OMG’s architecture board, and...
View Articlesend CBC.ca news alerts to your cell phone with procmail and awk
CBC.ca has a News Alerts mailing list where you can subscribe to get breaking news delivered to your e-mail inbox. Unfortunately, the news alert e-mail has a lot of extra gunge before and after the...
View Articlestatic vs. dynamic content: a footnote
My colleague Blake recently wrote an article on the occasion of the decommissioning of NewsDelivery, a dynamic content display engine that until recently ran all the news stories on CBC.ca. I can’t...
View Articlere-implementing Cacti
Earlier this year, we were forced into decommissioning our Cacti installation after the server it was hosted on suffered a catastrophic failure (it literally melted down). The server was an ancient...
View Articleadventures in configuration management with Puppet
I’ve started investigating higher-order system configuration management tools, in particular, Puppet, in order to help manage CBC‘s web infrastructure. About two years ago, the only player in this...
View Article/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl gone!
I upgraded to VMWare Workstation 6.5 recently and now /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl is gone. I only discovered this recently when I updated my kernel for a security fix, and lo and behold, the old method...
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Chef, devops, and the death of system administration
Last night, at a meeting of NYLUG, the New York City Linux Users’ Group, I watched Sean O’Meara whip through a presentation about Chef, the system configuration management (CM) tool. I was impressed....
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