UN declares Afghanistan world's worst place to be born. That should provide some perspective on what we're up against in Afghanistan in achieving security. It is a fools errand if through military action and contractors alone. And if we don't have the money to build infrastructure at home, we certainly don't have it to build infrastructure abroad. This is a distraction to our important domestic agenda. http://ow.ly/FwEV
Lately I had the necessity to create an account and modify another one on an Ubuntu box at work. I've regularly logged on via a ssh -X shell and gave the command sudo users-admin resulting in a "blocked" window ... I mean one on which I wasn't able to unlock the command via an administrative password input.
After a little diggin' on the web I found that the solution is in giving this command:
sudo ck-launch-session users-admin &
which will ask you the administrative password and make the commands on the appearing window
Macs interact well with Windows, and with CoRD the experience is a bit smoother. Great for working on the office terminal server, administrating servers or any other time you'd like your PC to be a bit closer without leaving your Mac. CoRD allows you to view each session in its own window, or save space with all sessions in one window. Scale session windows to whatever size fits you—the screen is resized automatically. Enter full screen mode and feel like you're actually at the computer. The clipboard is automatically synchronized between CoRD and the server. For system administrators, CoRD creates a simpler workflow by allowing you to save server information, then quickly connect to that server by using HotKeys or the server drawer. This makes quickly connecting to a specific server easy, even when managing many servers.
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I've just updated my RHEL 5.3 box with the last months' updates moving it to the 5.4 release.
Just after the yum update finished I've begun to receive a LOT of messages containingOBJECT: python /usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.py BODY: libvir: QEMU error : failed to add iptables rule to allow DHCP requests from 'virbr0' : Invalid argument
The solution to that, after a yum whatprovides "*/poller.py" was to remove any instance of the rhn-virtualization-host from my machine (since I do not have any virtualization need).
Nicola
Monit is a nice tool for monitoring processes. I know it's widely used in the RoR environment to monitor Mongrel's that goes nutz and eat too much memory. It's really easy to setup and configure. You don't need to be too much in systems administration to handle it, so it's a good tool.
